Chapter eighteen
What is miracle
thinking?
Nothing comes to your mind but by the filter of
your mindset. By virtue of what it admits or denies, it is the engine of the
self-fulfilling prophecy, for good or for ill. But it, like the future, is also
malleable. While many external factors work to mold and shape your mindset, you
do get a vote in the matter. You can question the underlying assumptions. You
can test the theses. You are not required to accept any of the default
settings. You are always free to reject one belief and replace it with another.
And when you reinforce that new belief, your outlook and your behavior will
change. Your perception really is your reality, and if you don’t like what you
see, you can change the underlying reality and your perception with it. To this
end, the mindset can be thought of as one’s “disposition to possibility.” And
its effect, like the self-fulfilling prophecy, is circular.
Jain, Naveen. Moonshots : Creating a World of
Abundance (pp. 175-176). John August Media, LLC.
What you think you see is what you get. Be
careful what you wish for or fear because you will draw those things to
yourself.
We can’t control the circumstances that occur to
us in our lives but we can control our interpretation or the meaning we make of
them. Are they good or bad, a blessing or a curse? Often times we don’t know
what to make of them until sometime later.
If a person is asked, “What makes you tick?”
most people not only respond with confusion and perplexity, they don’t even
have a way of thinking about how to answer the question. Socrates said that an
unexamined life is not worth living and not many people, unfortunately, live
examined lives. If they did, the world wouldn’t be in the mess it was in and
people wouldn’t suffer to the extent they do.
Most people don’t question their mindset until
their pain and suffering reach a point at which they say to themselves, “I
can’t take any more. There must be a better way.” When it dawns on the person
who has hit bottom that there has to be a better way to think about things and behave
in their lives, then they begin a search for that better way. It is this
dawning and the initiation of the search that Jain is suggesting leads to
entrepreneurial thinking and a “moonshot” or as it is called in A Course In
Miracles, a “miracle.”
The “miracle” is not a physical manipulation of
the natural world to create a supernatural phenomenon. That is magic. A
“miracle” is when the light bulb goes on in one’s mind and engenders a whole
new way of thinking, a whole new mindset.
When have you had the “ah ha!” moment when the
light bulb went off in your mind and your mindset was forever changed?
