By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
All were created by Him, to do good and portray His image. Some people believe they own God, the creator, by their behaviour and words from their mouth that’s what they might be proclaiming. How can it be that those who evidently come out to earth after the creator, being made in human form would think they own the one who created them. It might be lack of understanding or knowledge but some would say, such assertions made by a living being whether explicitly or not defies common sense which ought to be common.
One of the ways people align themselves into false belief of owning God is by the way they love worldly things, condemning other people who appear to be on the right side. In most cases putting limits and denying the other people the love of God even though they may be showing a life of righteousness. The truth is that God is the creator of all and has the mandate as to who he wants to birth to this world. In fact his love has no boundaries as it is in all present for anyone and for all.
Sometimes, the words people speak can be a breaker of love and trust which is ever present for those who can catch it. Mistaken belief does make it convenient for some who in wanting to defend their smallness in the scheme of things in nature, choose to seclude themselves from being the created to wanting the powers only reserved for the Most High. It’s only through our acceptance that all things are created by the one and only God, that makes us bigger and together as one.
The quotes this week are from a book that advocates opening our minds for learning. It gives tips on how you can successfully acquire skills for synthesizing complex new knowledge. I am sure the few selected quotations from this book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons. Read and enjoy:
A MIND FOR NUMBERS by Barbara Oakley, Ph.D.
“But I began to catch on. Part of my original problem, i found was that I had been putting my effort forth in the wrong way – like trying to lift a piece of lumber when you’re standing on it. I began to pick up little tricks about not only how to study but when to quit. I learned that internalizing certain concepts and techniques could be a powerful tool. I also learned not to take on too much at once, allowing myself plenty of time to practice even if it meant my classmates would sometimes graduate ahead of me because I wasn’t taking as many courses each semester as they were.”
“Since the very beginning of the twenty-first century, neuroscientists have been making profound advances in understanding the two different types of networks that the brain switches between – highly attentive states and more relaxed resting state networks. We’ll call the thinking processes related to these two different types of networks the focused mode and diffuse mode, respectively – these modes are highly important for learning. It seems you frequently switch back and forth between these two modes in your day-to-day activities. You’re in either one mode or the other – not consciously in both at the same time. The diffuse mode does seem to be able to work quietly in the background on something you are not actively focusing on. Sometimes you may also flicker for a rapid movement to diffuse mode thinking.”
“Working memory is the part of memory that has to do with what you are immediately and consciously processing in your mind. It used to be thought that our working memory could hold around seven items, or ‘chunks,’ but it’s now widely believed that the working memory holds only about four chunks of information. (We tend to automatically group memory items into chunks, so it seems our working memory is bigger than it actually is).”
“For most people, shifting from focused to diffuse mode happens naturally if you distract yourself and then allow a little time to pass. You can go for a walk, take a nap, or go to the gym. Or you can work on something that occupies other parts of your brain: listening to music, conjugating Spanish verbs, or cleaning your gerbil cage. The key is to do something else until your brain is consciously free of any thought of the problem. Unless other tricks are brought into play, this generally takes several hours. You may say, ‘I don’t have that kind of time.’ You do, however, if you simply switch your focus to other things you need to do, and mix in a little relaxing time.”