For every problem the mind creates in our lives, there is also a simultaneous solution created by the mind. Good to know! (This is also an important distinction. The problems that we most often face on a daily basis exist nowhere but from the fertile breeding ground of the mind generating them.)
In other words, the problems “out there” already have myriad solutions. You get a flat tire, you can fix it. Your flight’s cancelled, you can book a new one. Problems in the world are different than problems in the mind. And one could also argue that it’s the mind in the first place that’s creating the problems in your world.
It’s not mind over matter. It’s mind into matter.
So when we create a problem in our mind and start freaking out, a light bulb also comes to you to show you how to fix the problem. Always.
The No. 1 way to fix any problem is to act (not on stage, in your own life).
But generally we default back into the rumination of our mind that got us stuck in the first place. So unless we make the effort, we stay in the problem.
Why?
Andrew Newberg, a leading neuroscientist, has a new book on brain science that talks about why we resist change.
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