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18 Sep 2008 @ 19:41, by Martha Borders
New-Style Thinking (NST) has been a term Patricia Sun ([link]) has used for several decades to describe a new way to perceive using both the intuitive and logical sides of the brain. She believes we are a young species and are learning to mature both our right and left hemispheres of the brain to create whole brain thinking.
When we learn to mature our logical (left brain) thinking we keep accurate awareness of facts. We can make judgments but not be judgmental. As the right brain matures our intuitive mind opens to inspiration, psychic connection and creativity that is not fear or anger driven. The combination of both hemispheres working together raising human awareness and results in integrity.
As integrity grows one becomes open to many different ways to look at a problem. Kindness and good will expand because one no long needs to be right all the time. Inner peace develops, mind chatter diminishes, egos soften, and a new dimension of thinking is born. We listen closely to what others say and see issues on multiple levels. We are gentle with ourselves as we observe our old mind patterns surface. We observe them and let them go. Defensiveness and intolerance weaken. We realize that we can only change our own thinking. By our actions we might help others see in new ways and allow tolerance.
While rules are necessary they aren't as important because we know what is good. We can feel the goodness in others. We can look past their physical bodies and see the indwelling spirit. We listen to our bodies telling us to eat better or exercise more but are not bound by the rules of others. All life is respected.
Power over others drops away. Laughter comes easily in spite of all the dysfunction around us. Our spirit and body heal as our thinking heals. The mind, body, emotion and spirit connections integrate into a mature adult. The childlike curiosity we lost returns but with a mature awareness.
One realizes the educational system needs to balance both logical and intuitive thinking. In the United States our schools over emphasize the logical mind-creating imbalance. One does not have to become a vegetarian, give up material possessions, meditate, live in nature, believe in angels, or all the other ideas an immature mind wants us to believe. While meditating can help, walking in nature can help, eating healthy foods can help, none of these are absolutely necessary. Self-reflection and self-correction are helpful tools. Each person is unique so each path to a mature way of thinking will be different. Creating more rules only reflects Old-Style Thinking (OST). This is where many "new-agers" stumble. Many channeled messages I read are OST yet occasionally I do read messages that reflect mature thinking.
As one matures it becomes easier to assess what you read as OST or NST. We all make mis-takes. This is good because through our mis-takes we self correct. Perfection is an illusion of OST and can prevent maturity. Embrace your problems and learn from them. Look for new ways to solve problems with integrity and goodwill. Use common sense if someone tries to kill you, defend yourself or run. Don't just stand there. Speak up against injustice, abuse, torture, killing, and other negative energies. Create your own positive energies of love, empathy and creating new thoughts never thought before.
This is a very large topic and I am only scratching the surface. Past teachers like Buddha, Lao Tzu and Jesus pointed the way. Present teachers like Patricia Sun and Eckhart Tolle point the way. Listening to your spirit, allowing love and expansion to point the way. Having an earnestness to open to inspiration and beauty point the way. This is the new way of thinking we crave and on an unconscious level know about already. Allow it to manifest in your life and we can create heaven on earth!
Copyrighted 2008 Martha Borders ([link])
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Category: Philosophy
4 comments
20 Sep 2008 @ 23:03 by rusyn : Hi again, Martha
I enjoy your blog because it is positive and self-empowering. What a good article you wrote here showing the differences between the OST and NST and how to evolve ourselves. No gimmicks necessary here. For me, the emphasis is on how a person's perspective can change and give more understanding to them, and then they don't react from a dysfunctional place, but out of compassion and respect. It's not about THEM - it's all about US. Thanks, Martha.
21 Sep 2008 @ 23:40 by martha : No gimmicks necessary
Thank you rusyn for your positive comment. One's perspective can change in an instant if one is willing to shift thinking to Be-ing. How often our immature logical mind tries to create rules to lead us down the path of EGO and away from spirit.
For those interested here is a link to a conversation with Eckhart Tolle. He does an excellent job describing no-thinking and allowing spirit to rise.
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For those that are ready, his words will resonate. Peace within is so wonderful that words cannot describe the feeling.
We are blessed to be living NOW and able to listen/read on the internet to some of the wonderful teachers arising to help shift to heaven on earth despite the old-style thinking.
23 Sep 2008 @ 12:48 by martha : An interview with Patricia Sun
MISHLOVE: To get back to perhaps a religious level with this, it would seem to me that ultimately the willingness to be totally open regardless of the consequences must mean also fearlessness about death. It sort of reminds me of Christ, in a way, on the cross at that point -- you know, being willing to be crucified in order to really be yourself.
SUN: Absolutely true, and I believe that's exactly what the metaphor of the crucifixion is, and don't forget the resurrection. Also interestingly, on this same point, the translation of "O my God, O my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" has other translations, and one that I appreciate very much is, "O my God, O my God, why has Thou so glorified me?" It is interesting that we could confuse being released into a next level with being abandoned. And I think that is exactly part of this jump, and that when you're not trying to hide yourself because you don't believe you're good, when you know you are an innocent, learning being, and you make mistakes all the time, as is necessary in creation and creativity and essential to being alive, then they become small mistakes because you can see them. They're not hidden, which makes them grow bigger. I think we're really doing this, and it's very difficult, and it is scary, and we need to be kind to ourselves and one another, and maybe particularly to ourselves, because if we're too harsh on ourselves we stifle our own intuition, and we then have to project it out onto someone else -- whatever grief we see.
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24 Sep 2008 @ 15:29 by martha : More quotes
“We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.” Patricia Sun
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