An image from this day: This shot was taken in a pub garden in rural Northamptonshire, during a visit to a good friend who lived in that area. The little shell is became something of a talisman during the time in Bali before returning to the UK. We intend to manifest abundance by giving thanks for it and decided upon shells like this as a natural manifestation of energy through which to focus those intentions.
Sunday 15th March 2020
The reasons for distinguishing between the words “choice” and “option” will no doubt be revealed at some other point herein. This writing could essentially be regarded in literary terms a “stream-of-consciousness”. Having faith that anything important will be acknowledged at the best time is beneficial, for reasons that will also undoubtedly be unravelled further on; as will a discussion of the term “stream-of-consciousness”.
As explained in the entry from 10th March, one option when someone offers you energy, or when a situation arises where you perceive an energy shift and feel compelled to respond to it, is to resist the energy (push it away or push away from it). Another option is to take it, then carry around the disturbance we allow it to cause ourselves. The third option is taking it, accepting it, but letting it go.
However that works, one could reasonably insist that obvious examples of psychological awareness having beneficial outcomes for an individual’s existence provide sufficient evidence that such practices are adequate. Why stop at adequate? Adequate for what? For maintaining a functional existence in society, perhaps. But in which society? With what motivations and intentions, with how much enjoyment and happiness? Along with so much else, it’s left for us to decide all of these things.
Re-evaluating labels can help us to break the cycles that limit us to working within the confines of the systems to which we have restricted ourselves. There is nothing harmful in that, is there? It makes sense. What we can comprehend with our minds, we can explain. What we can explain, the mind can assimilate and readily accept because no questions are left unanswered. It’s logical. The human brain likes to have distinctive differentiation for the purposes of comprehending and organising information. It’s part of evolution, so we are frequently told; the reasons that humans dominate the planet are often cited as their ability to reason, interpret and interact with complex concepts, collaborate through the use of language and act compassionately as a conscious decision.
We have less certainty about what animals perceive with their equivalent biological control units than we do about how another human actually experiences reality, because animals cannot describe their existence in words. We can make assumptions based on biological evidence, but we don’t really know how any given sentient being perceives the stimulus they encounter whilst having any given experience.
What we do know is that we are capable of the things that have been cited as making us “superior” to the other living organisms on this planet, as listed so recently in today’s entry. We can view a potentially disturbing interaction with an individual or situation as “a perfect opportunity to practice mindfulness” (Eckhart Tolle).
If we’re really being mindful, we will notice what the mind does and respond differently compared to how we might if we were existing unconsciously (without awareness) in any moment. For those who find that purely biological explanations don’t resonate for them, the question becomes, “Is the mind observing itself?”
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A Track For this day: Orbital – Belfast (Green Album/Orbital 1, 1991, FFRR)
The full Sunny This Position playlist can be found on the Guerrilla Nature YouTube channel, which can be found at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/@GuerrillaNature
And on Spotify at the following link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VHLzupQ2vvR9xMfcIxyZC?si=T-SjjKOfSPiDRS31HBSeRA&utm_source=copy-link
A video for this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4g6mj9xVrc
This day’s featured creator: Conrad Smart, founder and operator of Smartway Productions, is going to be the director, producer and editor of the first music official music video to be released under one of this writer’s other pseudonyms, Guerrilla Nature. That music video will be for “Strong” with Calvin J, but Conrad has been operating under the Smartway banner for well over a decade and a has been working as a professional videographer for some of that time whilst studying for his B.A. in film production. He has worked with other Leicester hip-hop artists, having himself once been one third of T.C.T. Smartway is also responsible for lots of videography in association with HQ Familia, as well as the Middle Finger project and other collaborative ventures with Leicester-born rapper Ridlaa.
A quote from this day: “The observer is not a permanent entity. Let me caution you here. Don’t say that the observer existed first – look at it as though you have not read a single sacred book… Look at it as though you are looking for the first time, do not translate what somebody else said, that there is the original observer, the original entity, the silent watcher. You can spin a lot of words and theories, but you are missing the whole point.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti in Madras, 1966 (quote taken from the link below).
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