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Here’s a funny thing about the mind. An individual’s mind has a lot of default settings. But they’re not labeled, and so we usually have to learn what those default settings are just through experience.
That’s actually, in part, what the astrology chart. It’s a shortcut for learning some of your ‘default settings’.
Now the point of a default setting is that it’s ‘default’. Thank you. I know that’s a brilliant statement. 
But default means that ‘if no other instruction or intention is given, then the system will automatically choose this way( or this configuration/this style or approach)’.
In other words, if you do introduce another instruction or intention, you can definitely do other things. The default describes what will happen automatically or most easily.
That’s supposed to be one of the differences between ‘lower’ animals and ‘higher’ animals. The higher an animal is, the more they can introduce deliberate intentionality into their decisions and actions. The lower an animal is, the more they’re basically an ‘instinct robot’ that will usually just follow its automatic programs.
This is why you should never feel trapped by the astrology chart or any of those ‘predictions’. They’re just telling you your general parameters; not what you’ll definitely choose to do.
Anyway, most of these defaults are not labeled and we don’t even know about them. But sometimes we can learn something about a few of them. Meditation is one tool for doing that. It’s like taking your nervous system and consciousness to the auto mechanic. They put the whole thing on one of these things and raise it up.
Then you can examine your mind, test some of the parts of the performance, carry out basic maintenance, and so on.
Okay, long intro. But here’s what I wanted to mention.
One of the mental defaults we have is something that you could call ‘Future Scope’. (That’s not an official term.)
Basically, when you imagine the future, how far into the future do you imagine? What, in the past or present, is it based on?
We like to believe that our future scope is infinite. It’s not.
It’s just that if something lasts more than a certain time, we call it ‘Forever’. What ‘forever’ actually means is, “I can’t see any further than that”.
“This road goes on forever”
“This trip is taking forever”
“I’m going to have to deal with this guy forever”
Means the same thing in all of these cases.
The truth is that our (invisible) limits are often just a few minutes long. Or in some cases, a month or two.
There’s a point to all of this.
Let’s say you wanted to learn Japanese or Icelandic.
So you try to get a sense of how difficult it will be. And as you’re looking at the materials or whatever, you realize that you can’t imagine how long it will take you to learn this thing. (Remember our earlier discussion. What this actually means is that it will take longer than a few months, because we don’t really see that accurately past that point.) So what your default mind does at that point is say, “This is impossible because it would take me ‘forever’ to learn this.”
The truth is, at about 30 minutes a day, it’ll probably take you 6 to 18 months to get pretty decent at it.
That’s the trick of those invisible default settings.
The unconscious default settings make you think that achieving something is impossible, when all that is actually impossible is accurately imagining achieving it.
Not sure if I expressed all of this clearly enough.
The practical takeaway is that one really helpful goal is to change the relationship to imagination and to mind (really, ego-mind) in general. Use mind as an incredible tool. But don’t let it be the boss. It’s like a genie. It’s an awesome assistant that can accomplish great things. But it’s meant to be the assistant, not the leader.
Easier said than done. And I’ve been working on this for years and will continue working on it.
But I just wanted to throw these ideas at you, just in case.
Who knows? They could trigger something useful.
by running a deep healing program.
That’s how I discovered it. haha.