Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Violence.
Humankind isn’t always kind. In fact, we have a history of violence, murder, war, and more as far back as time goes. It was once a reason to survive. Then it became a way to grab power. It developed into an instrument of despots seeking domination. And today we sit at home and watch it on TV every night as entertainment. Yes, we are fascinated by violence. So, let’s take a SuperMind Saturday look at the subject.
- The world is a violent place. It seems we still need violence even though we live in a far more civilised and developed world than ever before. Why, then, do we continue to need and use violence so much?
- Lyrics by music legend Bob Dylan – ‘Democracy don’t rule the world. You better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence’. These lyrics from the song Union Sundown were written in 1983 but are as real and true as ever. How can we stop violence in all forms (especially everyday people against each other) ruling the world?
- Violence is the default and quick response in the modern world before any other action. You see this day in day out everywhere on the planet. Why is violence our first go-to reaction in our lives?
- Thought – violence has become an unquestioned element in our lives in 21st Century life. It rarely shocks us as it used to. From news to entertainment and even on the sporting field, there it is. It’s become part of who we are. This is not a good thing.
- Since the start of this century violence in all forms has increased across the world. In my opinion this is because of social media which has made it easier to see and to spread. What has caused the huge growth in violence and can we stop this?
That’s a wrap for this week SuperMind Thinker friends. Keep up the super thinking on all of the subjects I’ve covered on SuperMind Saturday. And don’t forget to carry on elevating your own thoughts and beliefs every day. We need the SuperThinkers of the world. Like…….badly!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Spirituality.
The world used to be a more religious place. Religion played a regular part in the majority’s lives week in week out. But that has been on the wane as spirituality has seen a huge upswing in popularity. And that’s why this week at SuperMind Thinking we’re going to take a good mental look at it.
- Religion meant followers believed in a heavenly idol that was worshiped as it saw over our lives. Spirituality though supports a different notion. We are spiritual beings who carry special gifts and came to Earth to use them. If that is true, why have we been given these abilities rather than God?
- Under the spirituality banner comes everything from the spirit world to tarot, angel therapy to past lives. Is it all becoming kooky or are there one or two key truths to focus on with spirituality?
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said, ‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience’. So this week’s big question. What experience ARE we all having in living as mortal beings?
- Thought – spirituality is a change in what we believe from years gone by, so perhaps it is really just another step in human development of our minds and psyche rather than some mystical understanding in us. What say you?
- Spirituality revolves around the belief that there are other unseen worlds beyond this mortal one and other powers we possess other than our physical ones. What if this were true? Why did we never know before? Why at this point in time are we now becoming more aware of this?
Another great SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the Saturday SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let’s work the SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – death.
If there is one thing guaranteed for all of us on this planet, it’s that we will die. No-one leaves the Earth alive. Now that should make us appreciate life. But no. It’s the very opposite as most people are bothered about, and plain scared of death. So, this week on SuperMind Saturday let’s take a mental look at the grim reaper’s end game.
- The author Mark Twain said, ‘The fear of death follows from the fear of life’. He suggests that we are scared to die because we haven’t done enough with our life. Is death, then, merely a fear of having not lived sufficiently or meaningfully?
- Thought – maybe we are not so scared of dying but HOW we will die. That the reason for our death is horrible or painful with suffering and not simply just slipping away at an old age.
- If there was no death perhaps we would all go mad as life just doesn’t stop, there is no end point. We might not be able to take situations that just go on forever. Could death actually be a means to encourage us to love, create, connect, give and the like as we only have a finite time?
- We have birthdays to mark the start of life and celebrate them every year. But the day someone dies is more sombre. Why can’t we have a yearly commemoration day on the day they passed away to equally celebrate them being in our lives and who they were? What are your thoughts?
- Death, the final curtain. And so it all ends. That is the popular view. But that view and the word death conjures up all manner of dread. As we can’t alter this ultimate outcome for all of us wouldn’t it be better to promote another word that defines when our mortal life ceases. What word would be more calming and less panicky that we could all use instead in death’s place?
That’s it this week my friends. Thank you for being here for the Saturday SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let’s work the SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – happiness.
If you ask most people what they really want in life, most will reply to be happy. But what does that mean? Happiness seems to be elusive one minute, fleeting the next. How can we create or feel more lasting happiness? This week then put your SuperMind Thinking to use about happiness and perhaps question yourself about it too.
- How do you define happiness? It’s personal from one soul to the next. Yet many people cite safety, security, health etc as chief among reasons to be happy. What 5 standards do you believe would be the best overall measures for people on the whole for happiness?
- For us to be able to ever be happy we need to consider where happiness comes from and how it starts to begin with. Where do you believe happiness starts in the first place?
- In the modern global and social media world people want to have more and more, to be like others above them, to be a somebody and look the part. So, this week’s big question. At what point in life does happiness stop and greed and need take its place?
- Quote – Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product’. I like this, happiness comes from something else, it appears. What causes happiness to show up in our lives as a result of it?
- Thought – what if happiness is simply NOT important and overrated by people in general? If you agree maybe you can work out what the main attribute in life that is and is far greater in importance than happiness. That’s got to be a big answer!
Ok, SuperMInds, thank you for being here for the Saturday SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let’s work the SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and the future. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the supermind.
This week – the high street.
The High street – what used to be everyone’s favourite regular place to visit for all our needs from food to clothes, from bread to greetings cards. The lot was there. But now almost none of it is there as we flood en masse online instead for our buying. We are watching the slow death of what was once an institution for society so is it the end of the high street? Well this week let’s put our SuperMinds to high thinking use to see if that’s really true.
- Idea – online companies were legally made to provide every shopper with a high street style voucher to use on their local high street, that could help re-balance spending patterns back from pure online to bricks and mortar. Should we enforce some action like this on online companies to protect our high streets and downtown? Or do you have a better solution?
- Shopping has become a home comfort based activity from the convenience of our sofa. Why leave the house when you can get all you need in a click or two on your computer? It’s too easy. How could we make it more difficult to shop online so that high street shops (which are often local businesses supporting their community) can get some footfall back?
- Many high street shops are empty because they are large units once occupied by huge chain stores that went bust. Trouble is landlords who own them are happy for them to remain idle awaiting larger tenants. How can we encourage them to split these into smaller units at an affordable rental to help spur growth? What win-win might work?
- Quote by Scottish actress Karen Gillan – ‘Basically I go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes’. Could the high street be turned into ‘special zones’ with such type of different shops on protected rents guaranteed by governments to boost footfall in towns and cities? What would you put there?
- Finally it’s clear we need new ideas and visions for our high streets. Current retailers can’t make a reasonable profit there anymore. You can form THE committee with the power to bring suggestions to your Government and business leaders to reshape shopping areas. Be brave, what five types of people would you have on the committee with you (children, working Mums, sports leaders with management skills…different people than the norm)? What five would be best to come up with a strong plan for the shopping future and WHY?
Ok, SuperMInds, thank you for being here for the Saturday SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let’s work the SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and the future. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the supermind.
This week – news.
If there is one place the majority of the world first turns to every day, it’s the news. It’s their ‘go to’ in search of understanding how life is and what events are occurring around the world and the people that go with them. But, in doing so they are exposing themselves to increasing amounts of negativity and shaded presentations of life. Therefore, this week I want to look at news and put our SuperMinds to good use on its presence.
- News was designed to inform us of the current affairs of the day. But that has clearly morphed into world politics, celebrity gossip, sports highlight stories, and even now opinion of what might happen next on a whole range of topics. News has changed. So, that begs the question for us all to consider. What IS, and should only be, news?
- Radical thoughts – news programmes are a dark space often fear filled featuring the worst in the world. They negatively impact people’s minds. News programmes should therefore be limited to 10 minutes only on mainstream channels permitted to share just the headlines. Any other news (such as rolling news channels) is behind age protected premium pay walls.
- Social media is the main source of fake news, of people sharing stories in an instant that they haven’t checked are true at all. This leads to misinformation gathering pace and soon the truth is buried under an avalanche of made up lies and propaganda. How would you change this so news could not be shared by individuals and only official media outlets and broadcasters?
- Quote from American writer, Peter McWilliams – ‘The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news’. How would you force/compel/ensure that the media share as much good news as they do poor news?
- Many people actually watch news all day. In essence, it has become an addiction. How can we measure the harmful effects of news on people so that their lives and society itself doesn’t suffer?
That’s Supermind Saturday for this week. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let them super sink in and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
