THE WORLD ACCORDING TO YOU - PART 5

Here's something you can try - to evaluate your life and pick some targets. Remember, was it Socrates who said "The unexamined life is not worth living."? I don't know if I would go that far, but examining your life is one way to shift from unconscious living to conscious choice.

When you get some free time, take a sheet of paper, and tally up the world around you - your home, job, your health, your finances, family and friends, anything that is important to you. Rate each one on a scale of one to five, or one to ten, whatever you wish. Making a wheel or circle will help you see if your life is balanced or lopsided.

You will find that some aspects of your world are pretty much to your satisfaction. Others may not be. Can you accept that your thinking, your choices, are responsible - that is, able to respond to what you find?

The great psychoanalyst Karl Jung, colleague of Sigmund Freud, who recorded over 20 thousand patient cases in his Swiss clinic, wrote a book called Man and His Symbols. Yes, I know, it should have been called Woman and Her Symbols, but it's too late for that.

Jung showed that our unconscious mind uses symbols in our dreams to communicate vital truths about our own thinking. He also showed that those things we notice in the world around us are noticed because our unconscious is continually pointing them out to us. What we notice in the world around us symbolizes our innermost thinking. So what you experience in life is the direct result of what your dominant thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes are.

Remember, the more you think of what you've been thinking, the more you're going to get of what you've already got!