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Understanding the Power of the Conscious & Subconscious Mind with Bruce Lipton – Part 1

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Understanding the Power of the Conscious & Subconscious Mind with Bruce Lipton – Part 1

Our thoughts have the power to determine our reality. To understand the working of the mind, we interviewed Dr Bruce Lipton, the stem cell biologist known for promoting the idea that genes and DNA can be manipulated by a person’s beliefs.

He talks about the connection between the conscious and the subconscious mind and its significance in our daily lives. We are programmed to think and behave in certain ways from childhood, which restricts us from experiencing the life we want. According to Lipton, the majority of the time (95%), our lives are controlled by the subconscious mind.

We use our conscious mind only 5% of the time, and our conscious mind is where our desires and aspirations reside. Let’s understand more about how the conscious and the subconscious run our daily lives. (Due to word constraints, the interview is divided into three parts.)

Fractal Enlightenment Interview’s Bruce Lipton

Before answering the questions, I would like to summarize very briefly about the difference between the conscious and the subconscious mind, its very important because the answers will all relate back to this understanding.

Explaining the Difference Between the conscious and subconscious mind

The conscious & subconscious mind exist as interdependent elements meaning each is a separate mind but they can work and collaborate together. The significance of saying that is some people think the conscious mind and the subconscious mind are directly connected with each other, so if I change the conscious mind I will change the subconscious program. This is totally incorrect and actually causes a lot of problems in people because the conscious mind learns differently than the subconscious.

Lets first talk about the conscious mind, the latest evolution of the brain is due to a piece of neural tissue right behind your forehead called the pre-frontal cortex. This is the seat of the conscious mind and the conscious mind represents you as an individual, a unique entity. Its probably the connection place of your spirit and source to your biology; the conscious mind represents you.

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The conscious mind is the creative mind, this is why the conscious mind was so important in the evolution of humans. Lower forms of life are just reactive or reflexive, meaning input/output stimulus response.

The conscious mind offers something different than the subconscious, the conscious mind is creative and as a result of being creative we don’t just need to have stimulus response, we can get a stimulus and change the response each time. But a lower form gets a stimulus and repeats the same behavior over and over again.

Here’s the thing, the conscious mind being creative and connected to you is the mind that has your personal wishes, desires, and aspirations for life. In another words if I say what do you want out of your life, and all the things you tell me will come from the creative conscious mind – it really represents what you want out of life.

The conscious mind can learn in many different ways – watching a video, reading a self help book, going to a lecture, even just going “aha, I have an idea” can change the conscious mind activity. The significance of the conscious mind in its creative character is profoundly different than the significance of the subconscious mind, which is the habit mind.

Deciphering the Subconscious

Subconscious has programs in it, its not very much of a creative mind. Its creativity is more of a level of creativity of say 5-year old child. The subconscious learns in two fundamental ways in normal life – the first 7 years of our life the brain of a child is predominantly in EEG frequency called Theta.

A child’s mind in Theta is not fully in a level of consciousness, its their imaginative mind and that’s why children below 7 have great imagination. Theta is also hypnosis. The significance is during the first 7 years of a child’s brain development, the subconscious is working in Theta and downloading behavior, but its doesn’t download from itself, the subconscious mind acquires behavioral programs by observing other people like his mother, father, family or community.

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Those observations are essentially recorded just as on a video tape which is the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is not working at this time so whatever recordings are coming in during the first 7 years of life they are not being critically reviewed by the conscious mind.

Just a note, there are special neurons in the brain that offer the mechanisms of how observing something can become your behavior; these neurons are called ‘Mirror neurons.’ What they actually represent is an organism, even lower organisms, dogs, chimps, for example, can observe somebody or another individual of their own type, so a dog observing another dog, or a chimp observing another chimp, can observe their behavior and have a knowing of what’s going on in their mind.

You can look at somebody’s behavior and get a feeling of what they are feeling, one is sad and you can see the sadness in them. You can feel sadness because the mirror neurons pick up that observation and give you an opportunity to feel what they are feeling, or do what they are doing.

Very important point is the programs that come into the subconscious mind come in because the mind is in hypnosis and Theta is the predominant state of the child’s brain in activity.

When a child passes age 7, it can add new programs to the subconscious mind, but it does it through the process of habituation, which means you repeat things over and over again – repetition leads to the development of a habit.

A habit is a program in the subconscious mind, so when a stimulus comes in and there is a habit in the subconscious mind related to that stimulus, it will automatically engage into that behavior. That’s what an habit is, all it needs is a stimulus and the program will play itself out.

Conscious mind changes easily, while the subconscious mind is designed not to change very easily for a simple reason – once to learn an important behavior, lets say learning how to walk, it becomes a program. If that program changes everyday then you have to learn how to move around everyday.

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Once I learn how to walk I want to keep that program, I don’t want to change it. This is why the subconscious is resistant to change because its design is to maintain and keep the learnt program.

The conscious mind can do one special thing and that is think. It can pay attention to whats going on in the world around you, but if the conscious mind is thinking then at that moment it stops paying attention to what’s going on and goes into the thinking space where it tries to resolve what its thinking about.

All of a sudden your conscious mind is absent, because it is busy thinking, and the behavior is automatically switched to subconscious programs.

For eg – you are driving the car and you are imagining something, you don’t stop driving or miss out on what’s going on the road. The moment you have a thought the driving is taken over by the subconscious mind.

Note – the subconscious mind is one million times powerful computer than than the conscious mind.

Read Part 2 of the interview…

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Creative Detachment: The Secret to Freedom and Happiness

Gary Z McGee
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Creative Detachment: The Secret to Freedom and Happiness

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The universe is both a complicated and a simple thing. As individuals we are interdependent manifestation of the universe, and so we too are both complicated and simple beings.

We are complicated in the sense that we have a sense of self (ego), which seems at odds with our sense of connection (soul), and we are simple in the sense that we are aspects of the universe becoming aware of itself.

The key to freedom and happiness lies between these two senses and is found within the creative process. In this article we will discuss the power of healthy creative detachment and inquire as to how it can give us a healthier perception of reality.

Hungarian psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is known for the concept of the “flow” state. Csikszentmihalyi described flow as “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
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This is the power of the creative process; where we become so completely involved with our art that our ego falls away, and we reconnect with the cosmos in an authentic way, and we become aware that we were always connected to the creative forces of the universe. It’s like opening a door labeled “The Great Mystery” that was always there.

We just needed to open it and ecstasy pours in. But, and here’s the rub, we cannot force ourselves through the opening. We have to sink into it. We have to float through it. We have to allow its natural gravity to pull us through.

That’s why it’s called “surrendering.” Next to meditation, the creative process is probably the healthiest way to surrender.

When we surrender to the creative process, we are surrendering to life and the creative energies of the interconnected cosmos. Such concepts as “flow” begin to surface, and we free ourselves to become an active agent of the creative universe. A big part of surrendering is letting go of expectation. When we let go of expectation we free ourselves to go in flow with the universe.

When we are attached to an outcome, we expect things to be a certain way. And when it doesn’t happen a certain way, we suffer and we feel dejected. But when we let go of our expectations, we free ourselves to be free. We free ourselves from suffering. Letting go of our ego’s attachment to an outcome, frees us to be vulnerable. It frees us from the illusion of perfection. It frees us to be fallible. It frees us to fail.

But even failure cannot stop us once we’ve abandoned the co-dependent perception of expectation, because even failure is just a stepping stone toward being a more individuated person. Luck then becomes a subsumable concept, an energy that’s relative to our disposition. It’s the difference between being a flexible goal-maker focused on a healthy intention, and an inflexible goal-definer attached to an outcome.

When we are attached to the unfolding of a particular outcome, we cannot be grateful or feel unconditional love or enjoy peace of mind. We are so hung-up on not wanting to be stuck that we end up stuck. When we combine the act of letting go of our expectations with an act of creativity, we become creative microcosms surrendering to a greater creative macrocosm.

life_advice_10This is what it means to have a healthy creative detachment. And the result can be magical.

Like Klaus Joehle said, “The Universe is saying: Allow me to flow through you unrestricted, and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen.”

And it is amazing, euphoric even. The entire universe becomes a fountainhead, pouring through us and into our art.

Creative detachment is courageous creativity. It takes courage to surrender to the artistic process and to allow it to flow. We just have to get out of our own way, and to stiff-arm our egos if need be. To get back to a place where we are free to be like a child at play, immersed completely and totally in what we are doing without the concern of a particular result.

Like Shunryu Suzuki said, “We must have beginner’s mind, free from possessing anything, a mind that knows that everything is in flowing change.”

Detachment is more than just a mindset, it’s a lifestyle. In order to be optimally creative, whether it’s painting a portrait, writing a novel, or manifesting the life we want to live, we must be able to detach from the outcome. There’s a battle going on in our brains over logic and creativity. Detaching from the outcome seems illogical and counterintuitive, but it’s necessary to unleash an optimal creative state.

And the satisfaction gained from creating for the sheer love of creating while divorcing ourselves from the need to have it come out perfectly, is invaluable. It frees us to practice our craft more often and to be more and more creative.

Detached from an outcome, we focus less on quality and more on quantity, and our art becomes free to go through the natural trial and error process necessary to achieve true quality. The journey is the thing, even with the creative process. And especially with the creative process of manifesting the life we want to live.

At the end of the day, having a healthy creative detachment leads to freedom and happiness exactly because it frees us to be fallible. It frees us to be imperfect.

This liberation is the height of ecstasy because we’re no longer hung-up on an ideal; we are instead caught-up in the free flow state of a creative idea. We’re free to flow, in the now, perfectly imperfect with our creative juices flowing and carrying us down the cosmic river that connects us to all things.

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The Sacred Art of Self-Love

Sonali Bansal
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The Sacred Art of Self-Love

Religious. Agnostic. Skinny. Healthy. Holy. Good. Ugly. Right. Wrong. We are all of these assumptions and much more in the mirror of the world. Trying to adapt to the reflection of our perfection, suppressing our true identities, we wear a mask best suited for the occasion, a mask of ego that would help us fit in with the rest in the world of shallowness.

What we really miss out on while we are busy adjusting, is the emotion we were taught as a child – LOVE. Trying to find love outside and pacifying the ardent desire ‘to be loved’, we overlook the place where it truly resides – within us.

Greek mythology, Buddhism, Hinduism and many other religions and cults, emphasis on the profuse power of self-love and self-compassion. This fundamental form of love often goes missed and, if tapped, is declared to be wrapped in the mask of narcissism.

But the urgent need to focus on self-love, a symbol of self trust, is ignored. People are scared to believe in themselves & are rather happier to live a life of self-contempt because self-trust is too expensive to afford.

And who is to be blamed in the mad frenzy of the best? The society or ourselves? This perplexing question can have subjective answers. Greeks mythology, as we know, holds gods and goddess on a dewy rope of faith for every emotion.

From Eros, the Greek god of love and sexual desire, to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, passion & desire. There is a term for self-love in Greek mythology too, Philautia.

The idea of Philautia is not to love ourselves under the purview of narcissism, but to identify the healthier and spiritual side of self-love.

The concept is based on the idea that if we are secure inside and the power of self-love is cultivated & nurtured, the desire of approval from the outside cease to exist. Also, one who has experienced love internally will love others as well.

This form of self-love is prescribed in Buddhism as self-compassion and also laid down by Hinduism, that speaks about love for others being just an illusion & not reality. The real love lies ‘inside’ and the pure love is, love for the Divine.

Ways to self-love

What is the cost of practising the sacred art of self-love? You will have to wager your negative thoughts, the perception of others you see yourself with and the self-critical, over-analytical mind that puts you down.

1) Self-realization or self-worth is an important step

When we realize that we have a role to play in the giant scheme of the universe and without which, things might not function, a positive approach to self starts to harbor.

2) Putting yourself first

Often in our daily routine, we neglect ourselves by putting our loved ones before us. When we do so, we are suppressing our own needs.

According to the Patanjali Yoga Sutras, when we suppress our desires, it crops up in the form of a disease either physically or mentally. Consider yourself as an integral part of the universe and next time think before you choose someone else above yourself.

3) Stop the comparison game

Acknowledging that we all are born to be essentially different, stop comparing yourself with your family, friends or even foes. This comparison is the worst thing one can do. When we compare, not only do we criticize ourselves, we also question our self-worth.

4) Working on the spiritual aspect

The mindful practice of yoga and meditation, if done regularly, can reap extended benefits. When we work on our subconscious mind by way of meditation, we harness the power of oneness with the supreme energy. Gaining strength internally will ground you and balance out the insecurities hiding in our mind.

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A short guided meditation that can be practised at home for 5 minutes or more is as follows:

Lie down in Savasana (corpse pose) or sit in Sukhasana. Bring your awareness to your breath.

First, focus your attention on how the breath is flowing. Start from the nostrils, move down to the windpipe, further down to the lungs, to diaphragm and finally to abdomen. Slowly become aware of the breath flowing all the way out, do this 8-10 times. You can also place your hands in abdominal breathing position.

Gently bring your awareness now to the third eye and breathe in through the third eye area all the way back to the head and out. Now, keep breathing in and out in the eyebrow centre as you slowly drift away into a deeper level of consciousness.

Moving ahead, we shall make some resolves or some affirmations to ourselves. Remember that your subconscious mind is 6,000 times stronger than your conscious mind. Say the following to yourself loud and clear:

I love myself unconditionally & believe in myself.
I am not comparing myself to anybody.
I am an integral part of the universe.
I forgive myself for all wrong done by me and I accept myself for who I am.
I respect myself and I am proud of who I am.
I am a worthy of receiving happiness, joy, love and peace.

Repeat any 2 or 3 affirmations as your mind tells you to. Stay here for as long as you want, repeating and chanting these resolves. Remember, that a resolve or affirmation must be chanted in an accomplished form.

For example: If you want to think positively. Say it like this: I am thinking with a positive mind, and not like this: I will think with a positive mind.

In the words of William Shakespeare: “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

Tap into the power and joy of self-love and notice your inner and outer world transforming.

7 Ways to Start Being Healthier Right Now

Gary Z McGee
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7 Ways to Start Being Healthier Right Now

 “True wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

In an otherwise unhealthy world it behooves us to become healthier people. Why? Because it compels the unhealthy world to balance itself and become healthier despite itself. But also because we humans are the reason the world is unhealthy to begin with.

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We’re the problem. But we can just as easily choose to be the solution by becoming healthier people.

Here are seven ways we can start being part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

1.) Be more proactive about your problems

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” ~ C. JoyBell C.

We all have problems. Some are worse than others. And some problems can’t be controlled. But usually the problems in our life stems from the simple fact that we are living an unhealthy lifestyle.

If this is the case, start facing your problems head on. Take full accountability of your life, and the course it is taking. Focus more on what you can control, like having a healthy disposition toward life, and let go of the things you cannot.

Whether your problems are physical and you need more exercise, or your problems are spiritual and you need to get out into nature more, make it a point to discover the basic underlying factors of why problems occur in your life, and then be proactive about transforming or reconditioning those factors into a solid foundation so that you can begin to cultivate a healthier lifestyle.

2.) Be brutally honest with yourself

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“There are so many things I would rather be than good. I would rather be engaged. I would rather be humble. I would rather be genuinely provocative. I would rather be present. I would rather be interdependent. I would rather be challenged. I would rather be wise. I would rather be real. It will never be enough. It will always be worth the discomfort.” ~ Courtney E. Martin

Be engaged with who you are right now. Be fully present with what it means to be you in this moment. Feel what you like about yourself. Feel what you dislike about yourself. Feel in what ways your mind, body and soul are healthy. Feel in what ways your mind, body and soul are not healthy.

Be brutally honest with the things you feel you need to change, and then use that honesty as a starting line to dash into a new and improved life. Don’t wait for other runners to show up, they may not.

Don’t wait for a referee to sound the gun to start the race, sound your own gun. Authentically provoke yourself. Be fully involved with what makes you tick in both negative and positive ways, and then make the best of that information in order to be a healthier person right now.

3.) Be more kind to yourself

“It is beautiful to feel in a body built for feeling, and exist intensely on a planet exuding intensity.” ~ Victoria Erickson

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We have a mind, body and soul built for feeling. So do we busy it with feelings of anger, hate, sadness, jealousy, and negativity? Or do we busy it with feelings of love, kindness, happiness, compersion, and positivity?

We have a choice. We can either be a victim of the world, or we can be the world. What we feel is more important than why or how we feel it. It’s a matter of disposition.

If the world is giving us a reason to be angry, hateful, sad, and negative then we should recognize that’s the case, embrace those emotions, and then promptly and responsibly, transform them into more positive emotions. Not because we wish to deceive ourselves, but because we wish to become healthier people.

Being kind to oneself is more than just positive affirmations. It’s about being a mindful, proactive agent of change for the better, a catalyst for healthy change. Even if you have no “reason” to be kind to yourself, you should still be kind to yourself; otherwise you’ll forever be stuck as a victim of the world.

4.) Make your own happiness a priority

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The above quote seems to contradict the premise, but I argue that it actually reinforces it. Emerson is correct– the purpose of life is not to be happy. It’s everything else he said. But it just so happens that everything else he said IS what makes us happy.

That’s the beauty of it. A direct side-effect of becoming useful is that we become happy. The more honorable our intentions are, the happier we will be with the result. The more compassionate we are, the happier we will become in regard to others.

Really making a difference in the world brings about deep happiness. Living well, that is living healthy, is a profound source of happiness. So no, the purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to do things in a healthy way so that we give ourselves a chance to be happy.

Put the proverbial oxygen mask on yourself first. The oxygen mask is a metaphor for health. Making your own happiness a priority is first making your own health a priority. It’s circular. One feeds the other. And it will be a sacred cycle that will continue to feed your soul.

5.) Learn from your mistakes

Look for the silver lining in tough situations. Mistakes, if we can learn from them, can be stepping stones that lead up to a healthier version of ourselves. Remember to accept things when they are less than perfect; because, really, they will always be less than perfect. And that’s okay.

It has to be okay if we are ever going to achieve something truly worthwhile. If you’re not making mistakes from time to time, then you’re not trying hard enough and you’re not taking enough risks. Push yourself. Fail and fail often. Take calculative risks. Gamble conscientiously. Don’t be afraid of losing a battle; just be afraid of losing the war.

The only way you can lose the war is to refuse to learn from your battles, especially your failed battles. So get back up on that horse, little soldier. Appreciate that you are growing and improving more in your defeats than in your victories. Learning from your mistakes will help you to consistently become a healthier version of yourself.

6.) Appreciate what you have

“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ~ Osho

It’s easy for us to lose sight of what we already have. After all, we’ve already achieved it and we’re now focused on the next goal. We’re ready for the next step, the next rank, the next pay jump, the next bigger and better house or car. We want want want to achieve something more more more than what we already have.

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It’s all a part of being a hamster on the hamster wheel that is the modern day rat race. The stress can be a crippling thing: mind, body and soul. Before you know it, you’ve worked your entire life toward something “more” without ever taking the time to appreciate what you have. But life is not about possessions.

Life is about being possessed by the love of life itself. It’s about appreciating what we have, who we are, where we’re at, how we got here, why we’re here, and what we’re going to do about it in this moment, right now, so that we can become healthier people.

Not healthier because we accumulate possessions or titles or pay raises, but healthier because we accumulate more and more loving appreciation for the process of being a human being going through changes in an ever-changing world.

So appreciate what you have, especially your health. Take a deep breath and learn to enjoy what you’ve already achieved so that you can be in a healthier place to achieve even more.

7.) Forgive yourself

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” ~ Mark Caine

We were all of us born into a conditioned state. Our modern civilizations have raised us to believe and to behave in ways that are not conducive to healthy living. As such, we have been conditioned to behave in unhealthy ways towards each other.

But there comes a point in our growth when we become mature enough to realize that we were innocent victims of an unhealthy culture. Forgiveness is the remedy. It’s the medicine we can use to wash away the soul-crippling guilt attached to our past behaviors.

This doesn’t mean we forget or choose not to learn from our mistakes, not at all. It means we are releasing ourselves from the bondage of guilt so that we can free ourselves to be worthy of health. Forgiveness is a way of letting go of the world needing us to be a certain way (unhealthy), so that we can move toward being in the world in a more authentic way (healthy).

Indeed, it provides a platform for the reinvention of love. When we forgive ourselves, we forgive the world. And such forgiveness has the potential to change the world for the better.

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Buy Experiences, Not Things – Why Materialism Causes Unhappiness

Garima Roy
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Buy Experiences, Not Things – Why Materialism Causes Unhappiness

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” ~ Ellen Goodman

Do experiences make people happier as compared to material possessions? We live in a world of unprecedented abundance where people spend more time and money to acquire material objects than life experiences. Most believe that material goods will get them happiness, though always fleeting.

It stems from the need to either fit in the so-called society, due to peer pressure or to maintain a certain lifestyle, but scientists and researchers conclude that money can’t buy happiness.

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According to this study individuals live happier lives if they invest in experiences more than material possessions, and at the same time, communities will have happier citizens if they make available an abundance of experiences to be acquired.

Aristotle said centuries ago that “wealth as a whole consists in using things rather than in owning them.”

But the pervasive consumerism in this day and age often leads us to believe otherwise, we overvalue our possessions and undervalue our experiences.

Another research by Van Boven and Gilovich concluded that people must favor experiential purchases over material ones because experiences become a part of our individual identity, and feels more fulfilling than a good purchase.

If you think of the time you went on a holiday with your spouse or family, you would easily remember the moments like the scenic landscape or the most beautiful sunset. Whereas, material possessions are harder to think about in an abstract sense.

If the material things go out of style, we look at newer models and that initial joy of acquiring an object fades over time. But experiences continue to provide happiness through memories long after the event occurred.

Like Tyler Durden from the movie Fight Club said, “The things you own end up owning you.” a-mind-that-is

If you look at the definition of ‘Material’ as an adjective, it means “denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit.” While the definition of ‘Experience’ as a noun is “an event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone,” and as a verb it means to “encounter or undergo.”

According to another research, a lot of us consider buying an item for example car, gadget etc., rather than spending it on a vacation because we feel that it gives us a better economic value for our money.

Also, according to Social Comparison theory given by Festinger(1948) suggests that humans have a tendency to compare themselves to others and feel happy if we find ourselves in a better material condition than our peers (friends, family etc).

Society has been trapped in this stream of thinking since a long time. In ancient ages, kings used to find happiness in owning tiger’s skin. Undoubtedly, affluence and power has been inscribed in human psychology for a long time, but it is time for a change considering the current state of the world we live in.

“The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.” ~ Louis C.K

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The beauty of an experience is it alters you in ways material goods can’t. If you are unhappy, depressed or anxious, then buying a pair of shoes won’t solve the problem as much as traveling to a place that you really like will do. 121123 George CarlinMany studies support the fact that experiences will make you happier than possessions in the longer run.

Experiences, most likely, involves other people as well so it helps make connections with others and leads to better social relationships.

You should always look for ways to enhance your experiences in life. Experiences don’t have to be bought every time, it is more about seeking it. It demands you to step out of your comfort zone, and leave yourself out in the open. Going on a trek or planting a tree doesn’t require lots of money, but the memories of that experience stays with you for a lifetime!

Experiences help you expand your perceptions about your own life and the world around. You appreciate the value of different feelings as each experience is going to be different.

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~ T.S Eliot

Choose wisely, experience over material happiness is also good for our planet.

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