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Concept
Walks of Mind is an extraordinary and
ground-breaking work giving a fascinating glimpse into how the human mind
impacts our modern-day experience of life. Walks of Mind challenges the
idea that life is something that just happens to us.
Walks of Mind addresses some of the most
appropriate topics in today’s world, including anger, resentment, and
love. Walks of Mind is intended to be a popular and thought-provoking
work and stands out through its unique presentation style and the diversity and
originality of its content.
Taking a simple observational
viewpoint, Walks of Mind covers the role and nature of emotion, how our
belief systems work, why we resort to resentment, what is going on when we fall
in love or get enraged, why sometimes life itself seems to be against us, and
what opportunities we have for change.
Walks of Mind uses everyday language and a
variety of presentational approaches to appeal to a wide popular
audience. This is for anyone with a curiosity about the experience
of being human and an interest in positive personal development.
Contents
Walks of Mind builds on existing general
knowledge and presents a series of new insights and ideas about how and why we
think and behave as we do. The content addresses some key areas of
personal development.
Walks of Mind is exploratory in nature
and adopts a concept of ‘walks’, much like a guide book. Each ‘walk’
investigates one particular aspect of the mind.
These are the basic walks:
Provides a background to Walks of Mind and begins to introduce some of the
underlying ideas.
 (Foundations)
The first of two primer walks. This
walk provides a broad foundation of concepts as a preparation for the
other walks.
 (We
Define Our Self) The second primer walk.
Here we look at the role that our deeper beliefs play in guiding our behaviour
and defining our ego, our sense of self. By understanding why we take on
these largely-unconscious beliefs (and how they influence us) we can expose
ways of changing them.
The main walks that follow are individually available for a
nominal one-off fee:
 (The
Triangle of Motivation) We
explore the function of feelings and the association of these with
motivation. A view of emotion is built up that combines the influences of
feelings, thoughts, and states of mind to promote particular types of behaviour
to suit different situations. Three core emotions are identified: love to
engage with life, fear to draw back in response to threat, and anger to
re-engage in opposition to danger.
 (Ghosts
of the Mind and Boosting Capability)
By becoming more aware of what we are thinking and of our own particular way of
imagining we are able to gain a deeper appreciation of what is going on in the
deeper levels of our mind and how we can use this to boost our own
capabilities.
 (The
Challenge of Life) One belief
that many people suffer from is a belief that life is difficult, or a struggle,
or tough. This walk shows why this is such a common belief, what can hold
it in place, and why it takes root in the first place.
 (The
Many Faces of Anger) This is an
investigation of anger from first principles. Many aspects of anger are
looked at and a common thread identified. Anger may be thought of as our
attempt to deny a reality that we do not want to accept. Anger is our way
of saying “Take it away, I don’t want it”.
 (Resentment
and Blaming – The Fear Alarm) Resentment
appears in many forms in our daily lives. Here we look at what is
actually going on with resentment and identifies a key to why it exists.
It is proposed that resentment is actually a natural defence against low-level
threats, a Fear Alarm. Modern-day life triggers this alarm at the wrong
times though, leading to resentments that undermine us rather than alert us.
 (Conditional
and Unconditional Love) We
explore some common issues around romantic love and falling in love. This
gives us a deeper appreciation of the reality of unconditional love and what
gets in the way.
 (The
Evolution of God Theory) The
tongue-in-cheek last walk re-examines the principles of evolution and deduces
that the main guiding principle is not the often-quoted survival of the fittest
but actually survival of the most competitive. This leads on to an
appreciation that life will inevitably develop a simple overarching purpose and
that purpose is to evolve God. On a
more serious note, this appreciation of a key evolutionary imperative, to use
competition as a basic survival trait, also has far-reaching implications on
our personal and social lives.
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