Alienation… not feeling yourself… rigidity
One of my students sent me her collage.
A collage is an artwork where the hidden surfaces. We think one things but what is the truth, what is underneath it come out in a well-done collage.
We all feel disconnected, isolated, not quite belonging, lacking intimacy, and we think that it is from circumstances, like COVID or the other person, or maybe even you.
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It was my shopping day yesterday…
Through bad design, I have my webinars on the same day as my shopping day.
And yesterday I felt creamed by the experience.
I dragged myself through, slept like a baby, but I am still exhausted today.
The difference for me between tired and exhausted, is my breathing. If my chest is not willing to expand, I call that exhaustion…
Anyway, I went to lie down about an hour ago, and opened a new book, 10-minute mindfulness, or something like that… on my kindle.
Five minutes into it I suddenly I realized what happened, what I didn’t do…
OK, first I am going to tell you what others teach you to do to be more present in life and less swept up in the drama of the day.
Then I will tell you what works… what I normally do, and what I didn’t do yesterday. OK?
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Humans, this cunning species, want to know everything to be secure and superior
All the animals, all the plants on the planet are “fitting in with the system” we call Life.
Humans, on the other hand want to “beat the system” we call Life.
We’ve been doing it for a long time… for about 30 thousand years.
All my articles are inspired, are an answer to something that happens right now… something that asks for a new way of seeing things.
Today is not an exception. It’s early and I have read only two of my emails, but the need to write an article is already there…. lol. The “bomb” is towards the end of the email, so try to hang in there: what you will learn there will first upset you, but has a chance to set you free… But the first part prepares it… Really.
M in Germany is looking at coherence and balance… and brings the following two visuals
1. Coherence is crafting a symphony… music
2. Coherence while having a whiny 3-year old tug at your skirt in the kitchen.
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Why do I think I am on the right path?
This question comes up in people’s minds, and if it doesn’t, then it should. After all I could be a “false prophet”, a fake Messiah, or just a garden variety “guru”, a dime a dozen, been there, done that.
There are two categories of gurus:
they actually have something to offer that is valuable… or had at some point.
they never had anything to offer, they are pretenders, fake, marketeers
I will address only the first group throughout this article… why bother writing about the ones that have nothing and had nothing… ever.
Now, if you had something of value to offer: why would you live in hell? Especially if the “product” you sell is how to happy, how to be prosperous, how to be connected, well, blah blah blah.
It is starting to dawn on me that the intellectual action of seeing the forest, in spite of the individual trees is not something everyone has been able to do.
Seeing.
Some people, when they are asked to say what is the forest, in our conversations: what is the principle, what is the context, they use jargon… like integrity, or responsibility, the word.
They remember it.
But remembering hearing it doesn’t mean that they actually saw it.
Seeing the forest for the trees is 90% from the DNA capacity: Seeing the big picture, and 10% habit.
After courage, it is the second most missing capacity in humanity.
When activated, it adds 20 points to your IQ.
Humans have been living on their periphery, through their organs of perception that look outward, through their periphery, the life that we call the horizontal plane.
On the horizontal plane what you see is the other. You don’t see yourself. You may feel your body, you may feel your feelings, but you don’t see yourself.
You see your effect on others. You see the other, that may be a reflection of you… if you can recognize it as such.
Your brain is an Unused Resource
It is what most rainmakers do. Start using unused resources.
Rainmaking is a business/industry distinction.
There is a business that does so-so. A new CEO or leader comes in and restructures the company and their results go through the roof.
But the same thing can be done on any level, including the level of the person, or your own self. Your own life.
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One of the biggest challenges for me on the path is to stay in the middle. Neither left nor right…
Neither too egotistic, nor self-cheating.
Neither too buoyant nor down in the dumps.
Neither accepting nor refusing credit.
Neither too nice nor too rude to people and myself.
