Author: MKW Publishing

Picture It

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Many times you have probably heard things begin with, ‘Imagine that‘, and ‘picture it’ in your mind, and sometimes you may do that when requested, or your mind finds its own way to wander and create something of its own. And create it does, for many people in many ways, and when you are bombarded with various sources of input and imagery it can be an overwhelming overload of that input. For some it lingers too, or manifests into something else, or can lay dormant until a completely random time is chosen by your brain to resurrect it and make it a thought.

It isn’t something that people can control either it seems, although you may be able to determine its path once it’s arrived, or minimise it taking over and disrupting where your mind was, where it comes from and why is still a mystery as far as I know. Being incorporated and stored by your processing centres, filed for later use or dismissed as not needed by your awareness, and then something else happens, which we aren’t aware of, because it then decides what to do with the image, information, thought or idea itself. Chucking it back at you with no prompting sometimes, or at least not a conscious one, there may well be other factors which determine why a Memory of something comes back or pops up out of the blue as they might say. But we are not privy to why that is apparently.

And an extra curveball comes our way with thoughts and memories, as they can and do interweave themselves with our subconscious and can appear in Dreams, which can then alter our perception towards it, or turn it into something entirely new. Quite an odd thing. And depending on your level of imaginings, then I guess it can be more vivid and disturbing in some minds than others, my book Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere gives an idea of what it is like to have what they would call hyper visualisation happening. And my article Hyperphantasia, A Down Side gives a brief overview of how it might affect someone, with fears, phobias and how the brain will hold onto things you might very much like to let go of.

But it is down to the individual to try as best they can, to work out the best way to keep your mind in order. To filter what goes in, to work through what does, and to try not to let it get too cluttered or crazy in there. You are the only one who has to live in there (hopefully), and you know what they say about things and people getting to live rent free in your head? So for this, imagine your mind and thoughts are your living room, or bedroom if that’s your personal space. And all the things you view, talk about and see, are things knocking on that door wanting to get it. You may well have left the door open and it’s already beyond what you would call ‘personal space’, but scale it back, make it an empty room again, starting with just you. There is a knock at the door, and it’s a horror film with terrible imagery that wants to come in and sit with you for a while. Next it’s the media knocking, they want you to sit down and read all their headlines, and all your acquaintances, family, colleagues, friends, work, movies, books, music, words and ideas you have ever been exposed too. They all work their way in, and it’s down to you to sort through it and manage it, because if left unchecked, it seems that the mind has a very curious ability to completely unravel. So, keep an eye on yourself, as you are really the only one who stands half a chance of actually knowing what is going on in your mind, unless of course, it wasn’t yours to begin with…

(c) K Wicks

Burning Your Bridges

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From two angles, firstly, how it is viewed as an analogy in life. For either severing or damaging a bond with someone or something, leaving it in tatters, or in great need of repair. And is often seen as a bad thing, but as with my Rocking the Boat article which looked at it differently, I did the same with this one following on from a review of the saying ‘it’s water under the bridge’, noting that often it is one side who just wants to move on and forget about it. Occasionally, it’s a small thing, and someone who wishes to minimise it will say it and make the other party understand it is a throwaway thing. But for the more serious matters, some try to minimise it and make it throw away. This is where it causes an issue and ties into this saying. Because when people say it, they are not sometimes comprehending the flow of said water, the path of destruction it may have taken, and if indeed a bridge was destroyed along the way, meaning there is no longer anything for it to pass under. If you catch my drift. But if you damage the pathway of the flow, or block or try to divert it, that’s usually where people have a problem, and just telling someone to move on, get over it or try and pretend it isn’t serious isn’t a good way to deal with it, on both sides.

Now to the second point, about burning your bridges as a literal act. Or collapsing them, steering ships into them, or derailing trains on them, as well as burning them down. It would seem an unfortunate accident if it was one or two, but it seems as with the food factory explosions and wildfires before them in the US, the recent incidents on bridges and necessary routes are being taken out very much on purpose. And at a time when there seems to be much instability and created issues with infrastructure, I can see why it is cause for concern. Making me think of previous calamities or economic struggles, there and here, and how they too were orchestrated like we see now. Stealing water sources, disrupting the farming and food, wiping out financial stability with loans, interest, banks, laws, and regulations.

It Seems An Attack from within is happening in many places, towards its own people and cultures. Wanting to replace, rewrite, and remove what stands in the way of their ‘progress’. And I can’t help thinking that’s what happened before to create these cultures and traditions people fight for. But what if we are just the previous lot who was moved into position, used for purpose, and given a ‘history’ to believe in and be patriotic about. With everything else being questioned and so many tricks and illusions in play, it would seem reasonable to question it. And the newcomers will just be us in ten generations or so, just as we were newcomers once. From where though, on that I’m not so sure…

(c) K Wicks