Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, issue 12, I June 2019 | Page 28

Multiply this seemingly innocent plastic bag by millions, billions. An everyday behaviour that is one of the actions that are unknowingly clogging the arteries of our beloved planet.  “I cannot be made responsible for the whole world” your neighbour may think. Or can she? Maybe we can each assume one 7th billionth of responsibility and redesign our collective daily behaviours in ways that follow some kind of general rule that will allow each and all of us, and the creatures we share this planet with, and the planet itself, to thrive at a completely new level of vibrations.  How long would it take to change the behaviour of 60 million people? Probably not more than hours. Not with the interconnectedness of the internet and the language-barrier-dissolving free services of Google Translate.  So, what do we need to have happen for this team to dance together, elegantly, lovingly and with joy? We need to understand how thoughts, feelings and behaviours are created and evolve into actions. Our conscious awareness has a limited capacity for how many pieces of data it can hold and compare simultaneously. Some research says we can hold 3-7 pieces, some say 3-9. This automatically means that any system we are looking to understand with more than 5 pieces or categories of information will be a challenge, and we can greatly use a system that allows us to do so. This is what the behaviour compass is. A system with 12 placeholders for information that all interact in what is a human system, and can cast light on the interplay of every thought, feeling and action.  BEHAVIOUR The very starting point of the behaviour compass is a behaviour, an action of some sort. From this point everything interacts in every direction.  A behaviour can be an external action, as in standing up or driving a car or looking around for a cab.  A behaviour can be internal like a thought, like “I can’t stop worrying about how I will get up in time tomorrow”.  A behaviour can also be a habit, like “I keep biting my nails and I wish I didn’t, because they are developing an inflammation.”