What's beginner's luck anyway?

Picasso

It is acting in a way such that the person isn't aware of the risks, the possibilities and the real deal. It is performance sans ego. It is acting with a certain level of ignorance, accepting and acknowledging such incompetency.

To start with the confidence that you have nothing to lose, not your time, your money or your reputation is the key object to getting luck at your side.

The time comes when a person develops status, reputation and an identity. The identity that normally an ego sides with.

As soon as you have that formed identity, the mind is occupied with certain facts from ego, and the master gets busy protecting the newly found identity, the ego.

How often do we hear about the humbleness of great minds, too good to have an ego. The saying "little person, big ego" is nothing but truth.

In biographical documentations of world's great artists, an artist is usually portrayed as suffering right before his masterpiece is delivered. Suffering to a level of self loath and hate. To a level of major depression. Until there's no ego involved in the process of producing the piece of art.

That whole gut feeling thing

Fernando Vincente (c) 2010

I hadn't felt strongly about things since almost ever. The whole gut feeling 'myth' was stuff I hear of, but never seen happening in real time.

Now I am aware of my mind signals, I am able to receive them, after a very long blockade.

It makes me happy. It's a whole different thing to be able to listen to your mind, it is not just listening and obeying, it’s a state where you have a complete faith in the feeling, Zero doubt.

Creepy, I thought it would  when having a gut feeling is so not.

One has to be prepared for the best, it is yet to come.

The different types of happiness

We usually confuse happiness with pleasure. Needs with wants. Satisfaction with settlement, and patience with power.

Happiness is long-lasting, it is a continuous state of mind. Happiness is like the ambient light of a picture, it will show even in the details. It will show despite the shortcomings. In a picture, in spite of the color blotches.

Wants are from Ego. They are pushy, high level, mostly gets you an instant sense of pleasure. It is in the details. When there's too much detail in a picture, the picture gets over-whelmed, crowded, not easy on the eye. Ugly.

To be happy is to embrace flaws, accept them. Giving up some of the details, not to mess up the whole picture.

7 things you probably didn't know about your mind

“its beautiful. Sometimes so beautiful is frightening. hasent anyone ever told you the human minddd is a dangerous place?” - Paulina Ruiz ©

1. It is significant. It is king.
2. The language it speaks is non-verbal, action-oriented.
3. Mind never sleeps, it can feel and experience a dreamer's dream.
4. Doesn't belong to the lower realms of the world
5. Communicates on a different level
6. The mind is perception
7. It is spirit, soul, the energy of the body

What is normal?

Jason Brooks (c)

Normal, in scientific terms, is belonging to the 70 percentile under the bell curve. It is call it normality. Even if it is not the right decision, people will often choose to belong to wherever majority are standing. Because it feels safe.

In pre-modern societies, it was widely accepted to treat ethnic groups alien to yours like slaves because it was a norm. Everybody did it.

Norm is also called going along with the flow. Following trends instead of questioning them.

To act mindfully is to question norms, and good questions start with a why.