Guerrilla Nature

An image for this day: It was so rare to see such cloud in Bali but, when it arrived, it was usually extremely impressive!

Tuesday 17^th March 2020

Struggling to convince oneself to let go requires a lot of energy. We don’t need to direct that energy to that purpose so methodically. The way we interpret the world is to perceive “hardships” that we need to “get over”, working on the basis that dealing with things we find disagreeable requires use of finite energy resources. Really, we are all manifestations of energy and energy passes through us all the time. The disturbance we feel is actually an energetic blockage that we allow to prevent us from optimising the frequencies we are resonating. We are trying to hold onto something, not just mentally but energetically, in a way that cannot be explained using purely psychological terms. This is why breathing exercises work. This is why meditation works. Yes, the person is giving themselves a chance to slow down. The biological processes are relaxed sufficiently that physiological reactions can be observed and altered, whilst the psychological patterns can be observed and adjusted so that egoic reaction doesn’t disrupt the calm mind necessary to express measured responses. This is by definition the redirection of energy. So we know that energy is part of the equation. In fact, without energy there is no equation. So we cannot discuss interactions without acknowledging that energy is being transferred. When we enter a situation that elicits overwhelming feelings of anxiety, we are interpreting with our mind what is happening to our body. In doing so, we convince ourselves that the responsibility for the way we experience reality is temporarily out of our control. We think that we have encountered something we can blame for our suffering. We have psychological justification for fighting or fleeing in response to the trigger we have discovered. We allow the perceived anxiety to pressure us into making a decision one way or the other. But the desire to react comes from resistance within ourselves to accepting what is presented to us combined with our primitive instincts. The first decision we must make is to accept. Once we accept, there is no need to react. Better still, true acceptance leaves no room for resentment. We must accept the fight or flight function only so that we can transcend it, rendering it irrelevant in the face of our awareness. How can we then progress? We can accept all things so that nothing requires us to be in opposition to it. Given that the mind is programmed to work on constructs based on opposition and dichotomy, true acceptance of all things is almost inconceivable. Tolerance is often considered to be sufficient for social function. We can tolerate that person with whom we disagree and who we frequently find irksome because we don’t want to spend time causing ill feelings. Psychologically and morally, this would be a laudable reason. A lot of the time, if we had access to the entirety of a person’s psychological data, we might find suggestions that this apparently noble reason is used as a way to conceal ulterior motives.

This day’s featured Creator: David Mitchell

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