Racial Thinking

What's this in my brain,

That keeps my mind in stain?
Why can't I praise my friend,
Who has my back to the end?
It's this racial cancer,
Cut it out, is the answer.

I'm free from the racial thought.

My friend free from my sinful plot.

Now color is a blessing not a curse.

Harmony can reign in the ‘verse.

Only you can stop the cancer in your brain.

Reject it, forsake it, become sane.

Fight through the shame.

So you can stop the pain.

EC Holm 2017

Retraining The Brain

Recently I have been impressed how natural it is for empaths to retrain their brains.  I have friends working on very deep emotional issues and yet hold it together.  They keep at it and don't give up, but monitor themselves closely.  I have the knack of training my brain for different tasks.  Incidentally, I like the repetition while other people seem to not like repetition at all.  Empaths can use this self teaching strength to cope and overcome difficulties in life.

When I had a conceptual problem understanding how a mainframe computer I maintained worked, I had to get creative.  I got into the most boring books you would ever dare to pick up, tech books.  These gave all the minute details of the functions of the mainframe down to the voltage of what constitutes a 1 and what constitutes a 0.  Now these books were quite large so I had to sift through the information to create a picture of what what going on.  I ended up making a picture.  More precisely I made a diagram of the function of the central processing unit and its co-processor.  The picture gave me an imprint in my brain so I understood how this machine worked.  So what I did is research and came up with a product that my brain could absorb and understand.  This was without anyone's help.  I learned how to teach myself.  This is just one example of training the brain.

Another example of training the brain, is when I had to change the procedure I did at work.  I would find out some information that would cause me to change my personal procedure on some task.  I would obsess about it and made sure I followed the new procedure.  Doing this over time helped my professional disposition in the sight of my employers.

Now I am faced with the daunting task of changing my thinking.  I have to come to the point where I don't panic or be anxious about things.  This is a formidable task for anybody, so I am getting help.  Even so, I am still applying my own self training methods to implement the changes required.

This self brain training is a great asset for empaths.  We can turn the experience around and help other people because we've done it ourselves.  One of the first rules in survival says to help yourself then you can help others.  I bet that it was empaths throughout history that helped people overcome difficulties.

Changing face of writing

I'm did a short lesson to my ABE students on communicating.  And it dawned on me how writing is changing.

Ebooks in the last few years has become a bigger market.  You may say you never knew ebooks existed before until Amazon came out with the Kindle.  But I've known about ebooks for many years.  Before the Kindle, the main device to read ebooks on was the Palm Pilot, and it used the file format of .pdb .

Newspapers are finding harder and harder to keep up with their expenses.  As a result some are forced to go down the online only option.  Here in St Louis, one resurrected as an online only newspaper, The St Louis Globe Democrat.

Publishing has also changed.  No longer do you have the only option of going to a publisher and pony up money to print your work.  You can self publish online.  You can get your own ISBN numbers, do the copyright registration online and sell your work as an ebook.  Who will sell these?  You can self sell on Scribd.com, but also BarnesandNoble.com and Borders.com have programs where you can submit your work.

Creative writing is changing.  The biggest change is that you can publish your creative work online via blogger, Scribd.com or maybe even facebook or some social network.  Its wonderful to have readers read your stuff you made from the heart.  These sites often have stats of reads.  And getting these stats gives you encouragement to continue.

Those are the options available today.  Who knows what will happen in the future?  Perhaps a mind meld to the frontal lobes via some contraption strapped to our heads.