Shirvington Hannays

This is an update to what has gone on to be my most downloaded podcast to date (Mental Traps – What are They – Rice and Peas for the Soul). It have been almost two years since it was published via http://smahoo.mypodcast.com (which unfortunately ended services on the 1st, December 2011).

What are mental traps? Are you currently locked in a mental trap? I explored the concept using Andre Kukla’s “Mental Traps – The Overthinker’s Guide to a happier life.

Each of us deal with Mental traps as a part of our every day life experience. This notion should not be used to be overly critical of ourselves.

Regardless of their seeming effectiveness in helping us deal with our life issues it is a fact that in reality they are injurious to us.

Usually any one of these mental handicap would be responsible for many of the things we would like to change about our life.

,,, you can listen to the audio podcast Mental Traps – What are They – Rice and Peas for the Soul via  or get a copy of this interesting book via www.randomhouse.ca. Namaste.

you too can become a Buddha

Enlightenment is available to everyone. Therefore anyone with a desire to be in oneness with the present moment regardless of what might be appearing in the now moment as a person, situation, event or experience.

Buddhism with it’s practical approach to living and co-existing with everything in the Universal lends itself easily to this. However life would have to be view and embraced with a different mindset and state of Being than the average human mindset.A new state of mind and Being that can be realized and maintained in the constant changing Now moment.

With this I have come to realize there is no final destination to arrive at when you consciously choose to embark on the road less traveled.

Buddhism speaks readily to ways to bring about the shift in your consciousness and mindset to do so but you first need to accept and embrace the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path and undertake to live by the five precepts. I now consciously explore Buddhism’s principles in my daily life because of it’s practical approach to living. I really find its emphasis on EACH person taking responsibility for their intentions, choices, actions, reactions and their consequences – be it conscious and/or unconscious.

It may not always be easy to maintain and sometimes I am caught off-guard and have a little “pity party” or re-activate my membership in the “poor me club” for a few hours, days but now at most a week.

…. I have come a long way because I was once a board member of the “poor me club”.