Do we all have Conscious personalities?

I have just finished reading a book recently that was called:

It talks about the two selves, our two different mind patterns for thinking. Each self pertaining to a different type or format of thinking. The book was also extremely full of insight, into how we tend to think in different types of situations with different context and language contained. 

Our First-self being more the emotional determinate, a mind that thinks in feelings and intuitions. A quick thinker that makes, what seems like rational decisions towards numerous things that are primarily decided by our connections and experience. With avoidance of too much thinking and categorization of information to be retained.

Our Second-self concludes things with much more contemplation and recollection of logical data. Tending to think more rational and taking the time to consider, calculate and tally all intelligence of a given situation or circumstance. This mind tends to be lazier in wanting to put in the, mostly insignificant, work of drumming up that much brain power. 

Though these minds are living in the same person it sometimes campaigns against the other. Not truly taking the time to talk from both perspectives but leaving quick decisions up to the First-self in guessing based on quick relative gut feelings you could say. 

We can even tend to notice these conversations. Our one mind is saying, "go ahead, I have plenty of time, hit snooze again." another mind is saying, "I don't really have enough time to do this, I'll have to rush to get ready again and that doesn't help my day start right."

We're talking to ourselves in some literal way. It can go back and forth, creating a mode of conversation to some degree and taking moments of time deciding who we are going to be in that predicament. 

There are also moments where you have conversations to your self about what is considered bad behavior. I mean to be truthful, I always wait for lights to turn green but I have to admit that a handful of times in my life, I'd run a red when the road is empty and I've already been waiting a minute. 

I mean talking to myself, considering should I go now, no I'll wait a second longer, oh come on just go now no one is coming. 

These are decisions not just based on an answer but who we are actually deciding to be in the circumstance. Slightly different versions of ourselves acting in one manner or another based on the set of principles we determine around us. 

Maybe there are sets of language we use around one set of adults verses another. Or often we may be a little more polite to individuals when our kids are around, I mean we want to be a good example and show them how mannered we are. 

The hours and minutes tick by in a day and we have been John Hancock all day now, I mean I've looked in a mirror a few times so I'm sure. But we tend to play different parts throughout the day, the role of the co-worker, parent and/or friend. Different parts in regards to our one-self in the play of life. 

Quite often we make quick rash decisions because of the surroundings and personalities that people are also representing around us. Our emotions or experiences direct us towards a certain version of who we are that has mastered this role and can play it better than the rest. 

It is essentially a matter of comparing what one story of our lives has become good at and can hold the best version of who would make us look smartest, happiest or distinguished to the humanity in our public atmosphere. 

Do we all not contain a moderate action of multiple personality. In some form a slight degree of playing a different character while still being conscious of the other versions of us. Letting us decide who will stand and who will sit this one out for the next given amount of time. 

I would implore to think that these are generally quick subconscious decisions based on quick intuitions of who we know fits best under these type of conditions. 

We can all too often play these roles and then become quick to judge another based on what we see as their actions. Without realizing that the slightest thing, such as finding a  $5 on the sidewalk this morning, can drastically change our perceptions of not only the day but our aggregation of our entire life. Leading us to believe in a more optimistic outlook for our future as well.

I mean if something so insignificant can blast us off with a joyous attitude. Just image what little thing going wrong that could hamper our attitude and again add a negative outlook towards our circumstances on the entirety of our life and the future we perceive. 

Sometimes we must remember that this may just be a version of one of themselves. People tend to be really nice, especially towards the ones they love, like close friends and family.  We forget something is most likely to have been partaken by them during that day that altered the personality that thinks, acts and responds to. 

I believe that a society must contain people who can play particular parts or roles throughout the day, but I don't perceive this as a bad thing. But attaching who we are in one moment, or casting judgment on who someone is based on an inferior amount of interaction can cause fragmentation of experience as a whole.

Shall we not play the role we want in life to become the best versions of who we think we are? And, if this is to be true, can we come to a point where we don't create interpretation of who a person is to be when we do not understand the moments and experiences of their life? 

-RA BAR

Can We Trust Our Intuition

We've all had a feeling hunch, or some sort of gut instinct. Something steering us left or right, without necessarily a thought but most often a pull or tug towards a certain decision. 

We call this Intuition, and many of us take this information whole heartily. Even if we don't agree with that category of life and philosophy. 

Why is this strong trust ingrained in us. As people, we may doubt the thoughts and concerns of others. But we hold great truth in our own clairvoyance. 

Sometimes we are wrong, but there are as well, the all too often times we predict correctly to some degree. Being glad we didn't mute that inner voice, that deep-rooted yank towards an unanticipated outcome. 

This trust or guidance cannot usually go ignored or left alone. Even though, time and time again they have shown in studies that simple statistics can often times predict far better than the human mind. 

Persons with extensive study and years of experience in a particular field like psychology, sports, medicine, stocks, etc... Are more regularly than not taking nothing more than slightly educated guesses. Luck plays a major factor in there supposed area of dignified position. 

Statistics taken from past data, then set to some mathematical equations. Will far outweigh the accuracy of the experts predictions. I mean, you would think somebody with ten years of practice in a particular profession would make a foretelling greatly above average. With experience comes wisdom for a discerning into your category of occupation. 

But again and again this is not the case. If we can just take past facts and intelligence and define them by a set of numbers, pertain that to a distinct category of six or less dimensions, and make far more accurate forecasting and foresight than the human mind could ever do. 

We believe our knowledge of former circumstances and background can give credit to the premonitions that should occur because we have seen or done this before. But it is often our past experiences that add value to the belief in our knowledge and wisdom towards a situation. Making us all to often hold ourselves above another with less experiences or an unequal past.

Research continually demonstrates though that we are not as much of an ACE as we like to believe. We don't gain insight because we've come to understand or have spent decades educating ourselves towards a field of study. In the best circumstances we'll gain a slight to minuscule advantage to your less knowledgeable friend. 

An intuition is much different though. It's not a forethought or educated prediction into an outcome. But a jerk towards a quick and seemingly skilled decision. It comes quick with no real intention of thought or pondering. Just a conception appearing out of nowhere saying something like, "don't do that." or "We have to get there now." 

When this happens we might say that we knew or this is why we do things a certain way. Pertaining to some previous knowledge we picked up along our tracks of life. But hardly is this ever the case or even slightly true. 

This source of information or guidance can not be of our own accord. It is must come from another fountain of information other than the one placed atop our bodies. Studies showing that really, no amount of education or information gained by us can help us make even thought out answers, let alone quick bursts of data to help us make scholarly conclusions. 

So, staying informed is good and it can help you to make the best next right move, even though life has been shown to be to unpredictable to know. But sometimes we can hold grace in the feeling we are making the most educated decision for ourselves. When guidance or information comes with a swift gut feeling, I think more often than not, this unpredicted counsel does not come from some wisdom we've gained but a greater side of nature to push us along when a hasty judgment is to be made.

Are we taking the best actions to understand our future and the decisions we need to make by taking what seem to be educated movements? Or are we too often quieting the tugs, pulls and gut feelings that yield direction change before they fade away?

-RA BAR

Are Beliefs Stagnant or Can They Change

We believe in so many things that pertain to life. Different rules, thoughts, feelings, and intuitions come to us because of the way we have structured reality in our minds. 

As a whole we all agree on, what we call, factual beliefs. Things such as gravity or oxygen, and hot or cold, and up or down. And these are things we know as truths.

But there are many conflicting beliefs as well. Some believe in creation stories, others do not. Some believe in their abilities, others do not. What we perceive as good or bad, others do not. To certain groups there is a single God, to certain others there are many, or none.

These beliefs alter the way we interact with the world. We see, label and consolidate experiences with our outside environment based on structured belief patterns we have created over time.

These beliefs come from family, friends, and interactions with our environments. If we are raised in a household that does not eat animal products then we are prone to think this is the correct way of eating. Different people in different situations might eat lots of animal products because of where they live or the causing effects of their environment. 

Neither can be truly said to be right or wrong. They are really just different ways of connecting and relating to your world. Diverse ways of solidifying judgments to your nature and in turn learning how to express them outwardly.

Often times it is our childhood that cements these beliefs in to our livelihood and, to a certain degree, dictate our reactions and responses to the surroundings. Causing convinced thoughts and emotions to come to the table when particular circumstances arise. 

These ingrained beliefs can be hard to even realize are there, let alone know the causation. We believe intuitively that we need to react and behave in a specific way to create the right reply to make sure the world knows what type of person we believe ourselves to perceive. 

Once in a while though, we are brought into positions that cause us to question, doubt, or come to acknowledge a certain belief or way of thinking. Producing a restructuring of old belief patterns that now create a new definition of ourselves we will choose to live by.

These new personal constitutions can create new directions of living and organizing our behaviors in life to feel and be recognized as another person from what we once were. These can be happy and profound steps to a new you, or a questioning set of thoughts related to how things are now different.

Either way can send us in a stir of intercommunication of long or short interactions with the people around us. Revising the way they see and connect with us, while also reshaping our exchanges and interpretations with them.

Sometimes we feel obliged to voice these new expressions in an attempt to add what we might perceive as value to the people and world around us. This can help add subject matter to the new ways we think, maybe even creating new definitions and patterns for another.

This can help us deepen connections with other people. Helping us feel more harmonious with the events that are contained around us.

But other times, this can stiffen or dampen connections with other circumstances in our once natural environment. Because understanding another way of interpretation of how the world spins is often times nearly impossible, if not arduous to say the least.

It can be hard though, to not cling so tightly to the past and the form of how we have seen things work. Or to not be able to comprehend how someone doesn't now take our perspective and new understanding with truth and utter faith.

We have come to believe in life around us through experiences and interactions. We have altered beliefs because of new experiences and interactions. 

But the truth is that neither is right or wrong. They are all ways of learning and living that create a certain set of rules and clarity for that individual. 

Expressing these beliefs is our right as a civilized human species. The ways in which we express cultures, lifestyles, and language are all just interpretations of specific ways of living.

It can be hard to not understand why people, places, and things are so different from how you think or once thought. But we must realize that it is only an interpretation of the world and orders from a certain perspective and nothing is completely valid as truth and fact, everything can come into question at some point. EVERYTHING!

So let us not grasp so tightly to the way we think things are, as to not question what we may think of as truth. Causing to large of a space to be able to recognize the way we think and the patterns that once were. And shall we not subject others to one way of thinking that is true for us, without recognizing an alternate way of learning and bridging with the world and all the different versions of truth that it can contain.

Are beliefs to be agreed upon so the world can be tunnel visioned for a specific future and outcome that is more certain because of solidarity of the species? Or are we to live differently and benevolently question all rules and beliefs, trying to create new and equivalent ways of co-creating the universe? 

-RA BAR

Is It Random or The Power of The Mind

Doesn't life seem so quaintly beautiful at times. An easy stroll through a string of joyous events, all ascending from a particular moment after you woke up. The time was so eloquently perfect and the tasks of the morning seemed at ease with the universe. All was aligned.

On the other hand, doesn't life seem to hand you some over-rip lemons and you try to conjure up the tastiest glass of lemonade you can possibly make. But your out of sugar and have to hand squeeze them all. All stemming from a turn of events this morning that just made everything out of sync.

We wake up and the coffee taste just right and the sun popped out just over the glowing green grass.
Or,
We wake up, although we overslept our alarm, and the coffee maker decided to crap out and the clothes are still wet in the dryer.

Like a string of events that either lead one smooth direction or an alternate misshapen, slightly rocky direction. Often being traceable to a specific point in the beginning part of the day.

Are these random events that just so happened in our day. Do some days yield us a fair turn of events that are neither inherently good or bad but a common mixture of both. Also, creating less probable ones that have are just a direct rope of good or bad cases throughout the day. 

A statistician might say yes, this is how nature happens. It is a constant set of circumstances occurring in somewhat of a random order. Out of a jar of red and white marbles, we will sometimes grab a handful of all red or a handful of all white. But most often, we will grab a random amount of each.

I mean that is the greatest statistic in our life's. Are not most days filled with good, bad and neutrality. With every now and then being blissful days of nothing but good or lousy days filled with nothing but calamity. 

This can come down to true math, if we labeled each specific time of events 1, 2, 3, ......and so on. And this could be a true possibility, that may even innately hold some theoretical weight to it.

Because if it is just a random occurrence of affairs then we can have faith that most days are good and can be taken as such. Other days are bad and can be known they will always pass. And some days are wondrous and are to be enjoyed and cherished knowing that when they are over, the odds are we will see one again in due time.

So, it can be thought to take head in our actions and responses knowing that the universe and nature will always balance things out for us and life will overall be a grand spectacle to look back on and take pride and happiness in who you are and what you did.

But on the ladder side, do we not direct the day by a reaction or mood that sets the bar. Do we not continually frustrate and create friction, in turn creating one harsh moment to the next. Or skip down the stairs with a smile showing appreciation for the world, the people around us, and the great things we've been given. 

Or even yet, can we not change the feeling and connection to moments by changing the thoughts that are pacing around in our heads. Either disheartening us or empowering us and carrying that along with us changing the energy and course of the day. 

Can we not make a good day BAD with the turning of an emotional key?
Can we not make a bad day GREAT with the uplifting of a positive thought?

A most profound Chicken or the Egg question. Which is the cause? Which is the truth?

I would air on the side of both potentially being correct. We can affect the day with the thoughts we carry along. While there are also days that just won't go into our ideal order. 

The thoughts we think can control the events to a dramatic degree. There will be days that just go smoothly or painfully but they are both here and gone before we even know it. Its just a matter of time perception really that makes the bad seem long sometimes and the good seem short.

I think the thought that can be taken from the above portion can be summarized by saying, let us know that happiness and suffering will always pass us by, so we must enjoy the warmth of the sun and stay calm in the storms. But let us not carry the negatives with us for more than is necessary and remember to thank the positives for showing us the joys in life.  

Is there a controllable aspect to the good and bad around us? Or is life about acceptance of all the good and bad that may come our way, but knowing that nothing sticks forever and change is always to come?

-RA BAR