Dishonesty is a skill that we can become conditioned to. This means the more we lie the easier it is and the more apt we are to do it when there is a survival level advantage to be gained. For the right price, we are willing to split the difference if it means I get a bigger piece of the pie. Money, and material things can be gained to benefit self and not physically harm another individual. This is a higher permutation of dishonesty, as long as it is business and not harm of an organism or if the organism or person is a distant, non-proximal idea. This is an imperfect ideas as studies with electric shocks were controlled by students and at the urging of the confederates conducting the studies, some students were willing to shock a person to the point of lethality. No one was hurt but the conception and willingness to do this heinous action by "following orders" gives us a glimpse into our vulnerability to influence internal and external. Much to think about.

Our day to day mindset is a symptom of our patterns of behavior and is also a template of what our underlying thoughts are that drive us to do what we do. Creativity and fulfillment are things we seek but, the gravity and conceptual magnetism, our beliefs, expectations and predictions from the foundations of our life keep us in the same holding patterns. This can be frustrating. But, breaking free of the habituated mind is not impossible for does it have to be difficult. Envision the goal and resolve to move towards that even if it is small incremental steps. Time wins in all things, leverage time as it will pass anyway. So don't you want to gain something during the passing of that time that you can say is yours, gain a skill, become a better person, learn something new, have a new life? I know I do. Take care, break free and walk well.

At times we have painful events in our lives. Physical pain, mental, emotional pain and expectations of pain. Often beliefs and expectation of painful events and natural feelings of self preservation arise and often we may avoid places, people and things. The belief of pain and expectation of worsening or escalating of bad circumstances that are enough to cause an actual physical response by tension in the body in absence of actual threat of danger. The experience of pain can be altered by not engaging it in an egoic way but rather as an observer and with a good solid exhale. Take care and walk well.