You’re a tube.
Additional Content: Resist Staying Stuck: Radical Honesty and Getting Real[free book excerpt]
I had to share this excerpt from Brad Blanton PhD’s book, “Practicing Radical Honesty” with you because you’ll start to examine all your thoughts in a new way once you read this:
What is a Mind For?
“A mind is for survival. We have minds in order to survive. Human beings, biologically, are a tube-within-a-tube construction.
We have a tube of skin covering up many more tubes inside us, including our veins and arteries and capillaries, and our digestive system.
“The primary cause of human suffering is being trapped in the jail of our own mind. What keeps you trapped in the jail of your mind is LYING.”
— Brad Blanton <=== Watch Brad on YouTube
Millennia ago in our evolution, we became independent of the ocean by creating our own ocean inside called the bloodstream.
We survive now by putting water and food in one end of the tube and running it through our other tubes.
Eventually everything we put in comes out again through tubes at the other end, when we defecate and urinate, and through the little tubes that come to the surface of the skin where we sweat.
A mind is useful for our survival if it helps us be successful at assimilating food and water and running it through the tubes so that we are sustained in being.
If we continue to do it long enough and survive through pubescence, we then put a male tube inside a female tube and make another tube.
It’s a tube maintenance program.” — Brad Blanton, PhD.
Brad goes on to explain that your mind is simply the device used to keep the tube perpetuating our species.
Our mind’s focus is survival.
Our mind has three kinds of memories that primarily catalog danger.
Brad’s supposition is that we must rise above our mind and our stories to become a **conscious creator** of our own life.
We must stop lying to each other to create true intimacy.
He recommends meditation, radical honesty and yoga – all “mindfulness practices” that allow you to rise above your fearful mind and truly create the life you want.
I’m only on chapter three of this book and already know it will be one of the most potent concepts I’ll ever discover.
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With love,
Susan Bratton