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    New Thinking For New Possibilities
    New Thinking For New Possibilities
    New Thinking For New Possibilities
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    New Thinking For New Possibilities

    By Chris Hammond

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    If you are looking forward to something new in life, something more satisfying and exciting or a new path to tread on, you just found it. This is it: “New thinking for new possibilities.” Sit back comfortably, relax with a drink and don’t put this book down until you have finished reading it. This is a life transforming book. Read on. This book is for serious minded people who want to fulfill their-God given purpose in life. It is for those who want to succeed at all cost and would dare to act. It is also for those who want to participate fully in life and would not sit on the touch line and watch others play the game of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCHRIS HAMMOND
    Release dateNov 10, 2018
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      New Thinking For New Possibilities - Chris Hammond

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      CHAPTER 3

      THE POWER OF NEW THINKING

      Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome. Zig Ziglar.

      Welcome to a new way of thinking. Think Differently. You cannot think like everyone else and expect to be different or have great results. Do not be bound by the standards of the world: The common way of thinking. Step out of the common and do the uncommon. If you think in a common way, you have common results; if you think in an uncommon way, you will reap uncommon results. New thinking involves Global perspectives. Innovative exchanges, life-altering discoveries, inventions, creativity and new knowledge.

      Paul apostle said in Romans 2:12, Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Paul was asking us to undertake new thinking for new possibilities of positive transformation that comes from the word of God. The Power of new Thinking is about getting better at making sense of what’s going on around you so you can make positive decisions that respond to reality.

      What is new thinking?

      New thinking is a new approach or reasoning; a new philosophy.

      My reflections over the past few years concerning the onslaught of technology, media, especially social media in particular, the human brain, the power of the mind, the power of thoughts, the increase of opportunities in this new age, I wondered how this things are working in my favour and for others. I sought answers for more questions, solutions to more problems and realized by understanding that the state and level of our thinking is very important.

      Ephesians 4:23-24 says to be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], and put on the new nature…created in God’s image…. when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act. Then we can have what He wants us to have—abundant life in Christ, filled with His righteousness, peace and joy (see John 10:10 and Romans 14:17).

      Paul the apostle said in Romans 2:12, Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

      Paul was asking us to undertake new thinking for new possibilities.

      A new thinking of faith

      Faith is a Christian Mindset

      Faith is a Christian paradigm

      New thinking means a shift in paradigms and Jesus shifted paradigms with faith:

      Faith is new thinking: Believing before seeing not seeing before believing.

      Faith is a change of mind-set

      Faith is a new philosophy.

      Faith is a new idea that Jesus brought to us.

      New thinking and paradigms

      Past Paradigm :The Medieval Paradigm

      Former beliefs. However, some well-educated people still believe some of the following:

      The Earth is flat.

      The Sun revolves around the Earth.

      Elements are Fire, Air, Wood, and Water.

      Disease is a curse.

      All planets have magnetic fields.

      Force of earth gravity is constant.

      Gravity is caused by planetary rotation.

      It is not possible to escape earth gravity.

      Speed of sound may not be exceeded.

      It is not possible to split an atom.

      Current Paradigm: This is the scientific paradigm

      These are mostly misconceptions and illusions based on Newtonian Physics and still believed by many scientists. Some of them are:

      Steel is solid.

      Space is empty.

      A vacuum is totally void.

      Time is linear.

      Time is a constant.

      Electrons are particles that revolve around the nucleus of an atom.

      Particles have velocity and momentum.

      Particles have location and position.

      Future Paradigm

      Based on Modern Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory. A few enlightened beings held this paradigm hundreds, even thousands of years ago. This Paradigm is a great Consciousness that is approaching and some of them are:

      Matter is an illusion.

      Steel is not solid – it is as empty as space.

      Most of the universe is Dark Matter.

      Matter is composed of tiny strings.

      Strings are 100% vibration (I.e., music).

      Matter is a holographic projection.

      Space is an illusion – it is not void.

      A vacuum is as complex as steel.

      Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius.

      The smallest shift in thinking can create incremental changes

      Sam Walton said, "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. Such is life in the forest but that is exactly what happens in the wilderness" of the global economy.

      You must always have some greater sense of meaning, passion or excitement to keep moving on in life. You will have new connections. New adventures and new possibilities. The smallest shift in thinking or doing can create small incremental changes and open up the biggest opportunity. It is important to remember that anything is possible. Possibilities may come when we least expect them but At times they come deliberately created. The key is to have a vision, create it through action and be committed to realizing. The next chapter talks about vision.

      CHAPTER 4

      CHANGE YOUR PARADIGM

      If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. Stephen Covey.

      The previous decades have witnessed the proliferation and wanton use sometimes ignorantly of the word Paradigm. But the big question is what really does the word mean? Where did it originate from? A time comes in your life when you shift a few paradigms together, reframe some old ways of thinking, and create three new ideals for a better life. The wise man reflects upon where he has been as a measure of knowing where he is going. Some years ago some things were accepted as facts until there was a paradigm shift true knowledge:

      All of mankind once knew the earth was flat. Until they all knew it wasn’t.

      It was fact that the sun orbited the earth. Until that fact was a lie.

      Achieving flight in a man-made machine was impossible. Until it flew.

      Walking on the moon? A fairy tale; until that one small step for man.

      All these illustrate the point that life doesn’t advance smoothly or evenly from detail but that it may leap like a frog from paradigm-shifting-moment to paradigm-shifting-moment. There is the moment that triggers change – is like the tip of an iceberg. In the subconscious realm of our mind, the decision to change is already in place. All it needs is a trigger-moment or a catalyst to activate the decision.

      Defining paradigm

      According to the Business Dictionary.com., a paradigm is the Intellectual perception or view, accepted by an individual or a society as a clear example, model, or pattern of how things work in the world. A paradigm is a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model. Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.

      Paradigm shift

      In 1962, Thomas Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolution, and fathered, defined and popularized the concept of paradigm shift (p.10). Kuhn argues that scientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions, and in those revolutions one conceptual world view is replaced by another.

      For millions of years humanity have been evolving and will continue to do so. Change is difficult but inevitable. Human Beings resist change; however, the process has been set in motion long ago since the creation of the world and we will continue to co-create our own experience as long as we exist in this world. Kuhn states that awareness is prerequisite to all acceptable changes of theory (p. 67). It all begins in the mind of the person. What we perceive, whether normal or metanormal, conscious or unconscious, are subject to the limitations and distortions produced by our inherited and socially conditional nature. However, we are not restricted by this for we can change. We are moving at an accelerated rate of speed and our state of consciousness is transforming and transcending. Many are awakening as our conscious awareness expands.

      Agents of change both exogenous and endogenous are driving a new paradigm shift today. We are all surrounded by the signs and manifestations of these changes. For example, the introduction of the personal computer, laptops tablets and screen touch mobile phones and the internet have impacted both personal and business environments, and is a catalyst for a Paradigm Shift. We are shifting from a mechanistic, manufacturing, industrial society to an organic, service based, information centered society, and increases in technology will continue to impact globally. Change is inevitable. It's the only true constant.

      The various stages of change

      There are also the technological Five Ages in the history of the world.

      The Stone Age

      The Stone Age was an ancient time period when people made tools from stone, Wood, bones and other materials were also used for tools, but stone (especially a kind of stone called flint) was used to cut things. The period began with the first stone tools, about 2.7 million years ago. Some groups of people were still in the Stone Age into the 20th century. They also killed animals for food and clothing.

      The Iron Age

      The latter portion of which was called the Industrial Age. Here men begun to see use of sophisticated machines, thanks to the strength and flexibility of iron and steel. The early stages of the era are characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel for tools and cutting objects. The adoption of these materials coincided with other changes in society, including various and different agricultural practices, religious beliefs and cultural practices artistic styles. The Iron Age as an archaeological term indicates the condition as to civilization and culture of a people using iron as the material for their cutting tools and weapons.

      The Agrarian Age

      An agrarian revolution or agricultural revolution is a transitional period from the pre-agricultural stone and iron age period characterized by a diet based on the wild foods ancient ancestors might likely have eaten, such as meat, nuts, and berries, into an agricultural period with features of a diet of own grown foods; or a further transition from a living a more advanced and high-yielding form of agriculture, resulting in further social and economic

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