WE ARE BORN HUMAN SCIENTISTS

Every Human Being is born Scientific.  Every thing we do is an Experiment and our survival from birth depends on our environment teaching us how to Learn how to create experiments that can help us understand our situation and how to use self-honesty to learn from the results of of those experiments we created.

Connie and I are not interested in convincing you to agree with us about AFFIRMATIONS.  We hope that you will choose to run your own experiments just because you are curious Human Beings.

The research of many professional Human Scientist into these areas of human psychology and family dynamics have answered our questions through their clever experimentation, documentation and analysis. See our reading list.  But we have also come to know the answers to these questions personally from observing hundreds of familys and individuals learn these skills and our own personal and family learning.  You can choose to run your own experiments and learn what you can learn unless you decide not to run the experiments.

In real families these questions answer themselves in how old conflicts are resolved into new conflicts, or are transcended into new frames of reference. These new frames of reference lead to new problems to resolve with new choices and new plans which inevitably lead to new experiences which create new sensations, leading to wonderful unimagined human possibilities.

First I notice that I feel depressed or angry or powerless or hopeless.  At some point I might notice that I am talking to myself very negatively.  When I notice negative self talk and then I choose to interrupt negative self talk and then I choose to replace negative self talk with affirmative self talk, I notice that I begin to have different feelings.  When I repeat this Noticing, Interrupting and Replacing process all day long I begin to feel less anger, less powerlessness and less hopelessness.  I realize that I have voluntarily changed my own mood.

My mood has changed because I have voluntarily moved my focus off trying to force myself and shame myself to do things differently.  Instead I have begun to focus upon encouraging myself and remembering what is possible for all humans to accomplish and remembering what I have already accomplished.  I am voluntarily choosing to remember what I am capable of doing and remembering to notice when I am doing better.  I have voluntarily changed how I am focusing upon my thinking, feeling and experimenting.

I begin to feel more powerful.  Not the power to manipulate or dominate myself or others, but the power to develop my self care skills and the moods I use when I am talking to myself or others.  Not the power to believe I can get others to do stuff but the power to move through problems. I can give myself the realization that when I take responsibility for the consequences of my own choices in terms of daily self care, I am giving myself the freedom notice power struggles and move awaay from them and from anyone (or any object or any situation) who would try to bully me.

There is something about moving through the physiological and psychological stages of development that frames new problems for us to solve as we move ahead and build our skills.  On good days I am faced with new dilemmas to reconcile, new power struggles to get stuck in and then choose to move through.

Fortunately we do not need to fully understand why a tool works in order for the tool to work.  Pencils work.  Wrenches work. Sometimes computers work. Gravity usually works.  I feel blessed when these tools work. I may need to understand much of why an airplane works in order to build one that works but I don't need to understand anything at all about how an airplane works to successfully be a passenger.  I do need some faith in order to get into the damn thing and tell them to take it up.  It is OK to need to understand the physics.   See our reading list. It is also OK to just make a prayer and then get on the airplane.  Faith in the tools of AFFIRMATION comes not from believing us but from giving the tools a good week long try out.  If a week feels too long give them a day.  If a day feels too long give them an hour.  We think it is wise to try POSITIVE AFFIRMATION long enough to counteract the effects of the very long running experiment we all have been doing by subjecting ourselves to all that negative self talk.

EXPERIMENT TITLE: If I do some well designed affirmations today will I feel any different?

It is important that the Affirmations I choose to say to myself throughout the day are well constructed and that they conform to the physics of human development. And it is important that I find the wherewithal to say them often enough to myself so that they can possibly counteract the thousands of negative statements I make to myself every day.

Life is a process of experimenting with plans and learning from outcomes.  When I choose to make experiments and plans based upon the input my body gives me right now instead of upon impulse negativity... I give myself a better chance at wisdom.  When I make an experimental plan and then I am willing to know how I feel about the outcome of the experimental plan and then I am also willing to use honest curiosity to evaluate the results of my experimental plan... I am doing what all humans can do to develop and survive.

We look at this as a logical process that leads to spiritual experience.  When I notice that I have the power to help myself by changing my focus and by using self care tools to take care of my own mood I realize that my mood is not the slave of any other person's behavior or any other person's mood.  This realization invites hope.  I can accomplish much with that hope.  First I can prove to myself that I can move through my troubles instead of staying stuck in them.  I only need to begin to make progress with my self-care to become a model for healing (for moving through difficulty) that my children or anyone who loves me will become endlessly curious about.

There is science here.

There is more than science here.