There is a tendency to assume that, simply because we try to have a positive, effective learning environment in schools and elsewhere, that the only learning we can do is as a result of positive experiences.
That is not so. If, as a child, I am burned, I learn that fire can be dangerous, and that is actually a useful lesson. Mind you, yes, it would be better if I had simply listened, but some people NEED to learn "the hard way". (sigh ... :) )
The other thing to keep in mind is that we do experience a form of learning or training from negative experiences in life that may be less useful - in most cases, it seems that being disappointed or hurt by others (especially in love - e.g., having a partner die on them which, despite our best attempts to be rational if the death was accidental or from illness or other causes out of direct control, can still be perceived as abandonment) can contribute to being wary or reticent about being involved with others in future. That is a form of learning. Counselling will help overcome that to an extent, but then determination and effort is required to unlearn the habits that have been set in place by the negative learning.
This also applies to negative experiences from past lives. As an example, if you had been burned to death as a witch, you may be reluctant to get involved in anything connected with Wicca/witchcraft/paganism - you may, in fact, seem to be irrationally and vehemently opposed to such matters. The perception irrationality is simply because so few of us can perceive from one lifetime to another. In this case, a past life regression will help, and is the equivalent (if properly done!) of counselling now. Having done that, however, some persistent effort is required to break the habit that was taught and ingrained by our past, negative learning experience (look up Trauma Encoded Emotional Memory, or TEEM, which I think was developed by the author of the Neanderthal Predation theory).
Personally, I look further back (see here and here), to see if I had that experience because of a wrong I had committed previously - i.e., was this a negative karmic return? If it WAS, I celebrate - because undoing karma is actually a lot easier than having to do the learning that is required if the experience was to force you to look at some part of yourself that you've been avoiding.
Of course, it could simply have been due to, in modern lingo, "randomness" ... I suppose :)
Mediocrity
I recently read a comment somewhere about the extent of training that Vikings underwent, and how, as a result, they could do things that seemed terrifyingly impossible or miraculous to militarily untrained farmers and monks they raided.
The issue of training to the extent that one seems to be almost miraculously skilled or gifted is what I want to cover here.
I've seen videos of experts with the long (two handed) sword, and they are every bit as spectacular as Samurai with katanas (especially the disarming of an opponent move ... ). In fact, the Mongols needed to use their numerical superiority to defeat highly trained knights when they started invading Europe. More recently, some people may well be looking at the coverage of the Olympics in the media and marvelling at what elite, trained athletes can do ... which depends largely on training, including an objective ("scientific") assessment of what works and what doesn't, which has been developed over several decades.
The same applies to psychic matters.
When I was learning my psychic work seriously, back in the 80s, we practised our clearing and energy work intensely, and could do what others would think miraculous - including getting by on little sleep.
Consider this: is there a skill you have, or wish to have? How well developed would that skill be, if you worked genuinely and intensely at developing and refining it:
- 10 minutes per week, for say, one month;
- 1 hour every day, for a year;
- 12 hours a day, for ten years (now you're getting close to what elite athletes and mediaeval knights worked);
- 8 - 12 hours a day, for most of three incarnations (do you work full-time? If so, think on what you spend doing for 8 - 12 hours most days ... is it just work? What are you training your mind to be or do? Complain and be unhappy much during this time?);
- 24 hours a day for 200 years.
Answer: in between lives - and think how skilled you would be when you arrived in your next life, and now think of some prodigies, like Mozart.
If you really want to excel at something, you will have to work at it - no if's, but's or maybe's. If you're already good at it, you have already put in the hours - no if's, but's or maybe's.
Now, here's the big question: what "should" you be seeking to excel at?
Basic/Underlying Concepts for this Post:
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May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
The International Labour Organisation's definition of "full employment" is wrong, useless and misleading.
Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." on one side, and perspicacity on the other.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. EDMUND BURKE
Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW
Tags: attitudes, clearing, cross-training, education, excellence, karma, learning from mistakes, learning styles, negatives, negativity, past life regression, past lives, practice,
First published: Laugardgar, 4th August, 2012
Last edited: Saturday, 4th August, 2012
