Hospitals have their own hegemony

The Hospital Visit


Hospitals have their own hegemony

They are filled with:
Patients
Visitors
The unseen staff; managers, administration
The visible staff; receptionist, cleaners, porters, canteen staff, etc.
Nurses
Doctors

The hegemony of the hospital is medicine, illness, doctors, nurses and authority.
Through this hegemony: the patients, employees and visitors; attitudes and actions are influenced upon their individual attitude and position within this authority.

There are good and bad; patients, staff and visitors, who are measured by all within the hegemony, and this is done through the self-policing of the hospital hegemony, and all hegemonies are created and exist though continuity and change.

Once the continuity of hegemony has been created it polices itself and changes through consequences, without consequences there is no order, the hegemony collapses.

The unseen staff concern themselves with the operation of the hospital. They are employees of the hospital and their job is to see that their place of employment not only runs like a hospital but also is seen to run like a hospital. Their expectation comes through their cultural perception of the hospital hegemony, their job description and their employer’s perception of the hospital hegemony.

Thus not all hospitals are the same, they all fit within one major cultural perception of hospitals, but they also change within areas, towns and even individual hospitals, and Private or National Health.

What do you do when the worries and stress get to you?

Stress and Anxiety live in the darkness of the unknown, even just one unfortunate thought will generate thousands more to give you unrest and unhappiness. They can turn a person’s attitude and flip them like a coin from positive to negative and vice versa.


The thing to do is to bring everything out into the open so you can see what is happening, it is what we don’t know that frightens us, so take out a pen and paper and write everything down and list all the possible outcomes good and bad.
Write down every bad thought and deal with it, once we see how ridiculous these thoughts are we can start to break them down and take away their power.

Belief

Belief is one of those tricky words that is difficult to explain without using an example, because it is effectively a psychological state. It is where you psychologically hold the concept in your mind that something is true. That is one accepts a specific proposition or premise to be true.

Belief can be driven through blind faith in which no scientific explanation or proof needs to be provided to prove the belief to be true.

Belief can be driven through experience in which that if something occurs with such predictability and consistency it is almost impossible to discard it as being true. Even if something does not replicate exactly on random occasions it can still be dismissed as fluke or a statistical blip, and the belief keeps its authority and its psychological essence of being true.

Belief can be driven through fact or scientific or mathematical truth, reliability and consistency. A mathematical equation such as two plus two equals four is a pretty difficult fact to deny or destroy.

The hardest beliefs in the world to destroy are those driven through fact and blind faith. These beliefs are almost cast in stone, and are the rocks on which the foundation of our social existence, religion, culture, economy and society we live in are built.

However not all beliefs are such rocks of scientific, social or psychological magnitude, it is those beliefs that are built from experience which are built upon the foundation of paper cards and can tumble and fall with even the slightest doubt.

It is these beliefs that are the hardest to learn, discover or copy. This is why just learning what one successful persons beliefs and attitudes are, does not equal an ability to reproduce their success.

This is because their specific personal beliefs were borne from their specific personal experience, which would be impossible to reproduce. To learn their beliefs and attitudes to write them down and sell them as millionaires secrets is absolutely of no use or help to anyone else except the individual them self.

Beliefs are our most important psychological assets, If there is anything that is going to protect you from conflict, opposition and obstruction it is your belief in what you want to achieve. If there is anything that can give you the courage to take the plunge and do what is necessary regardless, it is belief.

This does not mean that if you find yourself in conflict with another person because that you believe that you are in the right and the other is in the wrong that you should not back down. One should always remain both clear-headed and inwardly strong so as to be able to meet ones opponent half way. To bear out conflict with another will only have negative effects.

However you cannot simply buy and sell beliefs based on experience, that is by simply adopting one successful persons belief system and following their actions does not mean that you will end up with the same results.

You will already have your own belief system that has been built through your own personal experience and simply learning a few beliefs and imposing them piggyback style on your own belief system will not work. Just as being infected by a virus into your physical body will be defended and fought of by your immune system, your psychological system will defend and fight off your newly adopted beliefs and it will only take one small doubt in your mind for your subconscious to do this.

Thus you can start a new project with all the emotion and excitement of success and then just the smallest niggling doubt can destroy your belief in an instant leaving you deflated and feeling like giving up.

Its at this stage that you can so easily be tempted by a clever piece of marketing and the promise of more secrets of success and rush for the next best business on the internet that will make your fortunes.


This is the cycle you need to break.

Desire

Desire


Desire is critical to success, but what does it mean? It would be nice, I really need, I’d like, I have a longing, craving, yearning. Desire like all words has a semantic content and so it has different meanings to different people. Desire is a word that has an emotive content and the synthesis of success from desire will come from a wanting that has both physical and mental properties.

Its amazing what we can do through desire, it can help us look after and protect our children / loved ones. It can help even the hopeless cook prepare a great meal. When we really want to accomplish something it can help us all the way.

So why is having a desire to earn money, not sufficient to conjure up the idea of what to do and how to be successful at making money? The desire is what makes you cling to the idea of what you believe in and it will give you the sincerity that would influence even the most intractable opposition.

The biggest problem with desire is that we are naturally configured to desire what we want. This may seem strange, but it is the reason why so many people fail at achieving what they need to do to make themselves successful.

It is because they spend all their attention on what they desire, which is the end result rather than what they need to do in order to create the result they desire. The problem again is that there are a lot of people who will sell you what you desire, they’ll sell you what you want rather than what you need.

Its easy to sell people what they want and for a short time it will be very profitable, but like all dreams they come to an end and everyone is left deflated.

Then most people either give up or run to another dream, they know the problems with the last dream and now are prepared because this time they have found the dream they want. All the time, ignoring what will really take them to achieve what they need to succeed.

This is the thing you really cannot do
This is the thing you hate doing
This is the thing that you put off and put off
How do I know you have not done it?
Because, if you have not done it you can’t complete it.

You need to desire what you need and not what you want.

If what you want is money, then you will not get it by dreaming and desiring the things money will buy you.
Thinking through success is not about thinking about the results but about thinking through how you will get the results and to do that you will need a way to earn money.
There really is only two ways to make money, and what’s more it’s easy and every one can do it, from the very young to the very old

Sell a product or provide a service. That’s it

Forget everything else;
Ignore the hype, that’s for idiots – even bankers and stock brokers get caught up in hype and lose billions of pounds over night and cripple economies.
Ignore the secrets – what secrets?
The secret is desire, we desire and pay for what we want, a fantastic secret that can get us whatever we want, the magic formula that will make us rich.

A system

Poker systems
Horse racing systems
Greyhound racing systems
Dice systems
Money Making sytems
MLM systems
Matrix systems

Who really gets rich from these systems other than the people who own them and for how long before they crash?

You need to forget about systems and start making plans.
Your own plans.

You need a solid product or service, not a fad, or a whim, what you need is a business, either work for somebody else’s business or your own, but you need to provide a product or a service, that has substance and people need.

What are the most successful businesses in the High Street?
Supermarket
Banks
Hair Dressing
Mobile Phones
Clothes Shops (mainly women’s)
Café / Coffee Shop / Bookshop
Music / DVD / Computers / Electrical
Fast Food / Restaurants
Cinema

You see the same shops over and over again and often you will get four or five shops the same all next door to each other and all making profit. These companies are now growing on the internet all of them making vast profits, ferrying these products and services to peoples homes.

What do they all have in common?

They are all business and they are all about business and they were all borne from the desire to provide products and services to conduct business and grew from plans to make business.

The first step in business is the idea and you may feel that the only way to make vast profits is to be original, but really what original business is not catered for on your high street.

The fact is that what makes a business popular is not its original thought but its unique thought. The part about you that makes your business idea so unique and fits in with the social and psychological needs of your community and time frame.

You first need the DESIRE to provide a product or service
Something that is unique to you, something you can put your stamp on and make yours.

Thinking Through Success – Brings Good Fortune

Thinking Through Success – Brings Good Fortune


We have to go through all the challenges in life, that we expect to have, only then can we can realise that they were meaningless, and only then will we be ready to accept that all we need is “Belief”.

Introduction
In essence this blog is about progress, in fact everything in life is about progress, (continuity and change) we can get caught up on the idea or the concept of the goals that we wish to achieve. However all success is built from a process of lots of little steps that change and continue to result in the achievement of our goal.

Success should be fun and it usually always is when we finally achieve it, namely for the fact that success is often borne out of stress and anxiety. Progress is our auto navigator to success, we can feel when things are going right or wrong, and those thoughts and emotions can lead us into different directions. Often it will make people give up, that stress of having already spent so much money or having paid too much time and attention, to a particular aspect that makes you not want to stop and try something else. Or it may be that panic or desire can make you leap into reactions rather than stopping to think.

Progress can affect what your doing, encourage you to react and make mistakes or give up, or it can encourage you to go forth and re-double your efforts. Its progress that takes us from start to finish and as such is the master key to success.

Remaining persistent and determined; the spirit of the entrepreneur

Unfortunately for most of us remaining persistent and determined is a skill we have to learn, social conventions and schooling in western societies organised by governments that want to produce a work or labour force, are organising the school curriculum to produce a workforce that does specific tasks and are told what to do rather than think.

Western societies are producing a workforce for a society that is on the brink of great changes. In most western societies now the manufacturing industry is being replaced with the service industry, but even this is changing with the invention of the Internet and mass communication systems.

Thus the spirit of the entrepreneur is something that has to be learnt ourselves, and its something that we learn when we are ready, if that were by chance or just by the very nature of looking to find the information when we feel ready to make changes in our life.

Entrepreneur’s are pioneers and as such have to remain persistent and determined in doing new things and making changes even though mainstream society friends and family will try to bring you back into their world. The world of the safe and secure job earning a wage and being unhappy, even though the job for life is now a myth and no longer exists.

Developing freedom

Developing Freedom or the Taming power of small things; Freedom is something we all deserve its not something that requires a revolution in your mind to master. It grows within us all when we start to use our thoughts and actions to produce different results in our life.

Freedom is a sense that comes from the emotion of succeeding but also from failure providing we gave our best, pushed the limits of our comfort zone and learnt from our attempt.

If we push the boundaries of our comfort zone in attempting something then we know and even feel emotionally that we are a step closer to succeeding. All the time growing our comfort zone to be able to accomplish more and more tasks that lead us further to our goals.

Responsibility

In order for us to learn how to lead and be in charge of our own financial future as an entrepreneur we must first learn how to serve ourselves and others, and we do this simply by taking responsibility. Responsibility is our way of serving our selves and others.

Without responsibility we cannot do anything in our lives, after all why should we do anything unless we have to, why not just rely on luck, or shift the responsibility onto someone else.

Many people do shift responsibility in fact a lot of people do, but you’ll not find one successful entrepreneur who does not take responsibility for everything that happens in their life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICYEly6Mpms

Leading, Coaching, Mentoring

True leadership, rests on firmness and strength within, manifesting itself outwardly as yielding and gentle.

This generated by a modest and humble path to teach for the genuine benefit of those who would follow. Not for glory and not for the money but a genuine interest in teaching and clarifying the true nature of things.

This brings about clarity in the followers and in turn breeds success. Controlling ones followers through Intimidation without cause may achieve something momentarily, but not for all time. The hearts of men are won by friendliness, and the true hardship of gruelling tasks and persistence will be won out through the followers willingly. This is the only thing a teacher, leader or Mentor cannot bring to the table; it has to be offered willingly by the student.

Knowledge should be delivered in a refreshing and interesting manor, through stimulating intercourse with congenial like-minded people that hold discussion and practice the application of the truths of life, through persistence, learning all the time again and again.

In this way learning has more than just one mind, learning through different perspectives, having an advantage over being self taught with just one position one frame of reference.

Mental Distractions

There are many cognitive processes going on in our mind when we take a stand to create new actions using new thoughts. Our subconscious mind does not like change if it feels that it won’t benefit us and can often accept the inferior, negative forces that attempt to overcome our new superior and strong ideas, not by direct means, but by undermining our new idea gradually and imperceptibly, so that it finally collapses.

It’s not that our mind wants us to fail, but if it’s a new concept in which we have no previous experience of or if we have not seen the results first hand, then our mind has difficulty in believing something it cannot see. Thus if we don’t believe in what we are doing 100%, visualise the results, and keep our mind on track, our subconscious mind will distract us to go back to our old ways and means.

Feeling Embarrassed Making My First Video

I decided I wanted to step up my blog action a little into doing a video blog, I had no real idea what I was going to do other than making a short first video to put on You tube.

So of I went down to the sea front to show off the town in which I live and set up by the sea wall. It is a little embarrassing at first because I had to fight and push through my comfort zone a little making a video in public with passers by watching.

However I have been pushing through my comfort zone quite a bit recently doing new things as I explore my new feelings and new situations, doing new things blogging on the internet.

The video itself is awful as the first thing I learn is that the wind can make it virtually impossible to be heard. However as a benchmark at least it’s not going to be difficult to make improvements on my next video, but at least it’s a testament to me doing a video in public and pushing through any feelings of nervousness and embarrassment, and for that I think it’s a job well done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNmu63NL_gI

Feeling Victimised

There is nothing worse than when we allow ourselves to feel victimised. Especially at work, when things get hard and things get tough, it makes us think about how much we are being paid. “I just don’t get paid enough to put up with this….”.
When we allow ourselves to feel victimised we give up looking for solutions, we get angry and bitter and our mind switches off to solutions and just looks for negative reasons to give up.
Ironically this can make us feel better because we now have a reason for our failure and a reason to give up, that everyone will understand and defend us for.
Thus often instead of pushing through our comfort zone and finding something that will work, being a victim makes people actually feel better about quitting and then go looking for something else that will require learning how to something new and quit that too.

When we find ourselves thinking like a victim we have to switch that thought immediately and move on, try something new, learn ask questions get help , but ultimately just don’t give up.

Living in our Comfort Zone

As children we love nothing more than pushing up through our comfort zone, we know we are not allowed to do things because our parents will tell us off or worse punish us. However we do it any way, pushing, pushing and bursting through our comfort zone.

Unfortunately for most of us as we get older our parents, teachers and other authorities begin to win out, along with common sense, our own personal perceptions of fear, along with peer pressure, siblings, and our social environment.

The rules, regulations and social conventions that we learn to conform to inside our comfort zone, keep us safe and secure. However society tends to push out little social machines that remain confined within the work ethics of our social environment. Which being all very well for the society our grandparents lived in, doesn’t really bold well for the new social and information age that we live in now.

The very creative and social conventions that we need to learn to market well in the post-industrial information age lie just outside of most peoples comfort zone. This is why we need to take daily steps to learn new methods and things to do to push us out of our comfort zone to be successful in a new post modern age. Which means stepping out of the norm and ignoring the vibes from people in and social environment that want us to remain inside the box with them.

To be successful in our new economy and information age we need to generate emotion and energy and create a reason why, powerful enough to let us grow from seeds and push forward and upward to grow into tall strong powerful trees.

What is your why and can you improve it?

In psychiatrists and therapist terms our why is one of the most important aspects of our psyche, it feeds our flight and fight response with the emotion that will make us step forward or step backwards.
Of course our real why is intangible in conscious terms which is why it is so hard for most people to find it, instead they come up with more tangible terms, such as “well I want to be a millionaire”, or “I want a house or a car”. These are easy terms and although they seem to have a tangible outcome, they are also quite weak and meaningless.

When I work with people who want to give up smoking for example, they say the same thing, and give tangible reasons: to save money, for my health, its too expensive and ect. These are tangible reasons and they are not adequate reason to give up smoking. Do you know what is an intangible reason to smoke, as ironic as it sounds people have experienced so much pain, hardship and expense in smoking they almost resent giving it up. That pain from smoking has caused them so much pain and expense, discomfort, ill health and misery that their subconscious mind has a fit when they try to give up. The subconscious you makes you tired grouchy and irritable, it annoys your family and friends and makes you feel like such a victim that it convinces you to smoke again.
This is the same with anything that you try to change in your life, unless you figure out your why, you need to really figure out what is your why for changing and then your subconscious mind will take action to give it to you.
To rule truly is to serve and this is exactly what your subconscious does for you, It rules you by serving, and you can’t fool it with tangible goals like I want a million dollars, not unless you have already experienced the emotion of already having had a million dollars. This is why people who have had money always find a way of getting it back if they lose it, because their subconscious mind knows what it feels like.
Your why needs to be intangible and filled with emotion, it’s a feeling you get when you experience something that really resonates with you. For some people the shock and horror of coughing up blood can make them stop smoking in an instance. For others it may be the thought of carrying their shopping up a flight of stairs and not feeling out of breath. Or being able to run about and play with their children without having to sit and relax, or watch from the side while they play with somebody else’s parent.

So don’t just wish for a house, visualise and think about coming home, driving up the drive to your house, parking outside with your partner and or children there to greet you. Sitting eating a family meal or a meal with friends, laughing and joking, not feeling any pressure about bills or finances. Give your subconscious mind enough thoughts and plant seeds with daily meditation and day dreaming and your subconscious mind will drive to action.

BELIEF SYSTEMS

You got to have belief, haven’t you, its so important it’s the one thing that holds us back or pushes us forward.  Interestingly it’s the one that most people can’t fake.

We have total belief in Math don’t we, and science which are both relevantly new terms in our evolutionary existence.  Non-tangible elements in our belief system like superstition have been around since day 1, and are often borne from stories or rumours in our relevant social systems, sub cultures, family histories and the like and reinforced in many people through self-fulfilling Prophecy’s and just pure belief in what we have learnt.

However just literally choosing a new belief and going with it is almost impossible for most people.  Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists can work with people to install new beliefs, there are cognitive behaviour therapies that work pretty quickly for people suffering from drug and alcohol problems.  However for the average person of the street forming new beliefs and working with then is very much impossible.

At first when people find a new belief, something they have read or something they have been told, the emotion that comes with the excitement of what that belief  is can carry them through.  However once that emotion has worn of, as emotions have a tendency to do.  We get used to emotions and there is an equilibrium system within us all that balances out our emotions, otherwise we might get stuck in an emotion.  When someone tells a joke there is a time in which your laughter peaks and then returns to normal, when we see a person laugh for to long for example its seemed weird, unusual and that’s because we that is most of us all equalise our emotions at the same speed.

This is why even when we have a fantastic belief that could carry us forward to unlimited success, the emotion that comes with that belief won’t last for ever because we hit problems and the emotion dies away and we are often left feeling out of our depth.

This is why if we want to change our belief system we have to do it slowly, and daily, first we create the seed, and then gradually feed and nourish that seed until it grows and becomes firmly implanted in our minds, in our thoughts and in our behaviour producing the results that we desire. 

I Think Therefore I am - Who am I ?

 I have written a lot since I left University but perhaps this  is my favourite piece of work and a fitting start to my new blog, it's a little something inspired from the famous philosophical statement in Latin used by René Descartes: "Cogito urgo sum : I think therefore I am".  Its such a great statement because it begs further questions,  are we just the result of our thoughts? How do are thoughts affect who we are and what we do, and are we the result of our actions that are brought about by our thoughts? Lots of questions but isn't that just the sheer joy of philosophy.

I think therefore I am - Who am I?


I think these words using my mind
I write these words using my body.


Thus my mind and body belong to me
Therefore I am not my mind or body.

Thus If my mind and body belong to me
Then I am not the mind and body in which you see.



If my finger is part of me then my body is part of me
Thus my mind is also part of me, and as they all belong to me
Then so do I also belong to me.


Therefore I am part of myself as I belong to me
Who am I?

Once you have ruled out the impossible
What ever is left
No matter how improbable
Must be the truth.

Therefore am I my: Thoughts, Feelings, or Actions
As only these can truly belong to me.

I am not my Thoughts as they belong to my mind
I am not My Feelings as they belong to my body
Thus I am my Actions as I could not be anything else.

Who am I – I am my Actions.
By Brian Nissen, Bsc (Hons).