Links me-time and the Knowing (II)

In a little series of links I see how me-time and collective consciousness are related, now the second:

noticing changes in the part of your collective(s) that is you

This blog post is following the very same line of thought  - it is easier to see subtle changes, when you’ve been away for a while-, but now in reverse.

In the former blog post I described how you see the subtle changes in the e-scape around you, when you come back to it from your me-time.

Meanwhile, if you have regularly me-time, you’ll notice subtle changes in the patterns of your inner e-scape too.
Some of which, are harmonious in their development, simply a joy to see evolve.

However, very much like processes sometimes going ‘ off track’ outside of you, it is possible to receive early signals in your inner e-scape that something needs attention there. A process is gently moving away from being harmoniously in line with the whole.

Again, it is much easier to identify what that is if you look at it frequently and fresh... having energetically tuned into something else for a while.

Wait too long and you miss the patterns and the connections, because the e-scape is far too different from last time you looked into it.
Look constantly at it and you’ll not see the changes, because they unfold so subtly that you change with it.

When you are aware of what is the matter with you, in the world of energy, what needs some attention to go back on track, you’ll probably also have ideas on what can be done.

You can supply yourself with (probably surprisingly) many things in life, other things you might need to find around you.

If something is the matter with you, personally, you are sending signals about that out in energy to all the collectives you are a part of. If something within you, personally, is the actual  source of these distress signals  (whether subtle and tiny only in energy, or even bigger in words and deeds).....it becomes part of the collective e-scape and others are under its influence ( thanks to the auto-tuning system).
That is all right, of course, since it is very helpful to the survival of a social being.

But if you are the source of distress and there are things you could easily do yourself to harmonise the distress, it would be the done thing to do what you can, knowing that your ‘ off track’ signals are influencing and alerting others too and may (when left to fester) cause problems for more people.... or not?

If your blather is full you can just simply harmonise the distress yourself by going to the loo.
if you are travelling in a car in a collective, however, you cannot stop at will. So when there is a stop, people empty their own blathers even when there is just a vague awareness that a full-blather-alarm-may-occur-in-the-next-1,5 hours.

The child who is asked:” Do you need to go now?” who says ‘ no’, but exclaims after 10 minutes on the motorway:” I have to go now!” quickly learns that the collective is not pleased with being confronted with somebody who is not doing the necessary themselves  in time, for the whole collective process to run smoothly.

With a child, the irritation may be accompanied by a fair dose of compassion, for the adults know that the child might not have developed the blather awareness yet, in relation to travelling as a group in a car.
If it is the healthy 40 year old, who didn’t take one minute of me-time to check her blather levels, but only kept her eyes on the outside world: the sweets counter and the messages on her phone, made her ' not go'.

And now she urgently needs another loo-stop, she is the objective source of a collective problem..... compassion from the collective may not be in the top 10 of responses  in the quickly changing e-scape. .....

This very same principle applies on your emotional household, that sometimes needs ' input', 'transformation' or ' output'.
There is a lot you can do all by yourself, by sorting out your personal emotional hygiene, without having to bother anybody else with it, directly or indirectly.Without causing any trouble for the collective.

And if there is something you feel you need the help from the collective with, it helps if you can be quite clear on what you need, or if you don’t know in detail, can at least describe the difficulties you are experiencing, so a more experienced person can  recognise it and can help you out.

A car mechanic will ask:” What is the trouble?” in the physical world.
A doctor will ask:” What is the trouble?”in the physical world.
Partners, friends or even sensitive strangers may ask:" What is the trouble?" about the metaphysical world, of energy, resonding to the signals you are sending out.

Just shrugging in any of those cases and saying: ‘ I have not the vaguest idea!’ implying.....it is completely up to you to sort my troubles out here.
Implicetly conveying: I am not the source, I take no responsibility/ response ability, is odd, to say the least, if the energy, the distress signal is being emitted from your inner world! If it is your full emotional blather that needs emptying.....

All it takes is a couple of minutes of investigating what the situation is: what does work, what doesn’t and .....what can I try to solve this myself. This gives a lot of information to the other members of the collective to work with. Saves time and energy, on both sides.

Sorting yourself out, where you can, monitoring and knowing what is going on in your inner world,  is not only an investment in yourself, but also in the collective. Good to be aware of, I’d say. Good to invest in..... with regular me-time.

There is more where these listings came from... to be continued on another day.....

Links me-time and the Knowing (I)

I’ve been writing a few pieces on me-time on this blog, lately.

I realised yesterday how the link between the two may not be all that obvious.

Seeing how me-time seems to be about disconnecting from everybody else and any activities (often: directly or indirectly for others) one might not immediately see what me-time has to do with the Knowing, with the collective consciousness.

I made an inventory of links I see.
This is the first:

noticing changes in the e-scape of your collective(s)

We all know that it is easier to see subtle changes around you, when you’ve been away for a while. Gradual changes have a tendency to escape your conscious awareness, because you are changing with them, when you are in the process. ( A mother doesn’t see the changes in the face of her 5 year old son she sees every day, it is the aunt that has been away for 3 weeks that clearly notices the difference).

When you take regular disconnecting time, you are allowing  your auto-tuning system to regularly chew on something else.
When you then come back to the (collective) e-scape, your auto-tuning system picks up on the subtle differences compared to last time you where ‘ here’. Giving you a fresh view, with (often subtle) information on what has changed.

Many changes, healthy developments,  like the normal visual transformations of growth in the face of a 5 year old,  don’t need any action from your side.
Although noticing them and resonating with them, acknowledging them on an energetic level, does give a boost to positive joyful developments in your the collective. ( this topic is covered in this and this blog post).

However, catching changes that occur that are slowly but surely moving away from healthy, harmonious and desirable developments early has an enormous advantage: it is simpler to take appropriate actions to steer back, to take supportive actions. 

The sooner you realise that a process goes ‘ off track’ and why, the easier it is to intervene and do the necessary to help it back on track. Prevention.
Usually, long before any real problem manifests itself, the first signs and clues are already present.
The engine makes a slightly different sound, the exhaust is fuming a bit more and slightly bluer than normal.... The partner/child is a bit paler, seems slightly pre-occupied and is every day just a fraction later out of bed , ready to go and the twinkle in the eyes is not as sparkling as usual....

Do you need to wait until there is a definite invitation to partake in solving a clearly apparent and now fully life-disharmonising  problem in your collective, before you can do anything meaningful to contribute to the wellbeing for all involved in your community, your collective(s)?
Does the car need to fully break down first, so you nor anybody else can use it unless it gets repaired? Does your partner/child need to have an emotional outburst at work/school first, kicking the person who is bullying into hospital? Does the ‘drama’ really need to happen in its fullest, most difficult to handle form, before you consider the time has come now to give attention to what is ‘ the matter’ in your collective?

“I didn’t know this was happening. Nobody told me! It took me completely by surprise! I didn’t see a problem until this suddenly occured. It isn’t my responsibility that this happened. I couldn’t do anything before anybody asked me to shine my light on the situation........”

Really?

Focussing on what is seen in the world of form, of appearances and manifestations, you can have a point.
In the world of energy, however, you were simply not aware of the significant changes, the dysfunctional patterns in your collective e-scape(s) .

Of course, you may not be the single one person responsible for the breaking down of the car ( the active source of the problem) , or the bullying of your partner/child... but you are response able, when you are able to pick up the signals that are already floating around and respond adequately to it, contributing what you comfortable can in your position. (resourceful)

Being away from the collective with your attention regularly (me-time) and then tuning into it again seeing your response ability to  contribute to the harmony of all involved when something is moving ‘ off track’, is a very kind, loving and responsible contribution to make to your collective.

And to yourself. Less difficult to solve problems arise, because they were caught and solved in an early stage. Such an energy saver!

It is not even an effort, since your auto-tuning system is doing most of the ‘ work’ automatically. It is merely a choice: to increase your response ability, to increase your awareness.

I listed a couple more... to be continued .....

Yin, yang and yen

Minutes after writing yesterday’s blog post on play, restand more, the inspiration for today’s blog post flew in.

I noticed something fascinating about me-time and rest.

me-time, transformation time on the fly

Where resting is usually done when you have used up most of your energy, there are benefits to having me-time regularly when you are still full of energy.

I appreciate that having me-time has a re-energizing effect.
But that is for me not the main reason why I am such an ambassador for it.
It has great merits for transformation in so many different and much more creative ways  than ‘ from empty to full’.

It came with an analogy: the summersault ( as an example of air acrobatics)

Yes, you can spend your life alternating between walking/running  and standing still.
But wouldn’t it be much more fun, wouldn’t you feel much more alive and versatile, if you could do a summersault every now and then? Wouldn’t that change your perspective on the world and your view on your own capacities?

Me-time, on the fly of high energy, is like making a mental emotional summersault. Life affirming and creative.

Picture that working, as you know it, is running.

Then, at some point when you have speed, you take a break from that activity and you release yourself with a focus on what is going on in the centre of your inner world, with full attention and poise.

The impetus and you actively changing your centre of gravity are the ingredients to swirl into a different form. You are still the same you, the world is still the same you, but at high speed, a complete new take on it is created.

You land happily and confidently on your feed, having gone through a mini life affirming transformation, a bit further then where you launched yourself. With a big smile, ready for another run.

Yes, it is possible ( if you are well experienced) to do a summersault from standing still.

But it is so much easier to use the impetus, the speed, the high energy.
You can go higher and it goes so much more elegant.

And, on an energy level, you are allowing all your energies the freedom to work with you effortlessly, to lift you up, at the speed of light:

- yin (curly creative connecting energy)

- yang (straightforward disconnecting energy)

- yen ( another English word for momentus, impetus)

If you only have me-time (rest) when you are low in energy and usually only in ‘ bulk’ ( a few hours at the time) , it is not likely that you’ll be making very many elegant confident inspirational, inspiring summersaults on the fly.

It is the combination of run-up, release, transform and continuing your way that has the creative life affirming effect.

run-up ( work with focus)
stop running
realease
transform using the momentum
land
continue running (working) with a boost of creativity
having seen new angles on the fly

Alternative styles

People who deeply enjoy life, play more and rest more.

If I hadn’t read it somewhere, as conclusions from scientific research, I could have said it myself.

Does that mean that if you’d like to enjoy life deeply, playing more and resting more are helpful?

I think that is the case. I see how ‘play’ and ‘rest’ are powerful catalysts for (self-) development.
However, there may be a little bit more to it, since the words ‘ play’ and ‘rest’ have many meanings and the most common understandings among adults of it, are not the ones I refer to here.

Even the concept of ‘ more’ is multi interpretable.

Play:

I described the concept of play, as I see it, once in another piece of writing like this:

This form of play really has to be understood as a completely different phenomenon from the understanding most adults have created about play.
For a  4 – 6 year old, the aim of play is, with serious intent, to explore life (deeply, fully, without holding anything back !) and getting to understand his/her own role in it to really know (which is something different from being told by others) what and how (s)he can joyfully contribute to the wellbeing of the whole.

S(he) doesn’t play for amusement, as play is often interpreted by most adults. (Although the sense of pleasure derived from it is surely an appreciated and motivating side-effect of it)
A young child is not using play in order to relax, or lift up a mood. It is the exact opposite of desiring to escape the demands of reality for a moment! It is the most effective way to explore and shape reality and build up useful skills and expertise along the way.

You may think:” But there is nothing at stake for a child!”
Think again and you’ll appreciate, the quality of his/her life is at stake.. as well as that of the people s(he) gets involved with, now and later on in life.

Rest:

Rest, in the eyes of many people is ‘ complete relaxation’. Containing sleep, or doing calm activities like reading or watching television.
And as much as those activities contribute to unwind, in this context, it is not the type of rest I think is meant as a powerful catalyst to (self-)development.

Rest in this context,  is not meant to unwind ‘ from reality’ (as the prime objective) but to transform, with reality.

I call it me-time, those periods of time where a person disconnects from all activities and being actively in contact with other people ( and strong energy emitting devices).
This may seem ‘ semantics’. But to me, it isn’t.

In having me-time, I may be stepping actively away from the part of reality, the e-scape that surrounds me, the outside energetically influences I am tuned into (consciously and unconsciously!).
In me-time, however, I am fully allowing my inner e-scape to transform and I am not stepping away from that process with my attention at all.
I watch it, observe it, see the transformation unfold. See how the e-scape changes, shows itself to me in another formation.

Yes, a sense of relaxation, of losing tension in my system is a nice motivating and re-energising side-effect of it.

More:

Play more and rest more.

More can be viewed as: if you take the sum total of any amount at the start and then increase that.
So, if you rest 3 hours a day, 3,5 hours is more.

In this context, I would say, it is not the actual amount that is significant, it is the frequency.

If you normally rest 3 hours in 2 stints in a day. When you then rest only 2 hours, but in let's say, 10 minute stints each, then 2 hours is more then 3 (smiley),... more effective!

Alternating frequently between play and rest.

I chose to alternate consciously highly frequently between play and rest.
After 20-30 minutes of activity (relating to the e-scape outside me, by taking input in and/or giving output out), I have a break and step away from it. Rest to transform.

Yesterday I had a day where I did it religiously, mainly because I had quite some ‘play’ planned using my computer and that is a challenging e-scape to play with, in itself.

Taking a break, religiously, after 20-30 minutes of play.
When the sand rests... it is time for me to rest to.

It was fascinating to see how in each and every single me-time break, even the 5 minute ones, my inner e-scape transformed and showed me my reality change in another formation: in formation.....information.

What happens is that, all the elements that are there in my reality, seem to automatically re-arrange their positions in those ‘ breaks’ in an alternative formation once the tension of staying focussed on the task at hand is released. 

In staying present with my awareness in this transformation, feeling into that, tuning into that, I see new suitable valuable options, that are taking all my experiences and highest values up till the last stint of active play (conscious and unconscious) into account.

This alternative I see in my e-scape is usually beautiful and worth exploring in the next stint of ‘play’. Inspiration.
Often with a drive to be shared.

Different styles of ‘alternatives’

In looking around me, I find that resourceful, creative people see and actively explore alternatives more, simply because they allow themselves to be the ‘alternative’. They enjoy the transformations that take effortlessly place in their (inner) world, showing them alternatives and..... they take those alternatives actively into the outer world and shape( style) the world from that.

Although the terminology of  ‘ being alterative’ is also commonly used for a life styling strategy some people chose,  by cultivating ‘ being different from others’ ( either for its own sake, or for its outward appearance of looking interesting).

That life style is not the one I am referring to here as a catalyst for sustainable change from within in a natural way.

The people whose alternatives stem from frequently alternating  between play and rest with reality, with the flow of what is really there (and therefore with others too, taking their realities into account too), have a different source of motivation..... it is inside.
Or could that just as easily and accurately be spelled as insight.......

Insight that alternatives, in harmony with all there is, is all about creating beauty in an inspiring and empowering way, based on what IS in plain sight.
Outside follows  (flows from ) what is already seen as being present inside.

SYMYDY and collective consciousness

Anybody who has lived in my close proximity in the last three years has been exposed to one of my guiding phrases: Say ‘yes’, mean ‘yes’ and do ‘yes’.( SYMYDY).

Life runs so much smoother, I find, when people do (‘yes’) what is in line with their own true values (mean ‘yes’) and communicate about their true actions and true values (‘yes’), all openly, without adding extra tension .

Extra tension is added when observable true values that are being known in that instant, are being held back, not allowed to be openly known and taken into account.

What I notice is that most people have developed a form of collective consciousness that I can call sequential. They take one interaction at the time and manage them in sequence of appearance, depending on their perception of the collective in that instant. What is expected of me in the group that I am a part of right now, is the leading question.

They hop from collective to collective and act in line with what appears to be expected, there.

And trust me, when we are in a collective, we are wired to be in touch with what is expected and desired! Our auto-tuning system picks up on that, without fail.

Now, the last 48 hours came with an avalanche of examples where the effects of the sequential approach of collective consciousness were shown to me.

I had to apply quite a lot of (positive= joyful) wonderment to the observations in order to see beyond the various effects it had on me.
Effects that varied between slight puzzlement with an amusing element to it, to complete frustration and anger( depending on the extend I felt thwarted in my rhythm and flow as a result of somebody else’s choices and actions)

I’ll pick an example form the row of examples that was relatively mild in its effects, but also very clear.

It was changeover day in the castle the two of us are looking after.

The guests have agreed to leave at 10 o’clock, giving us enough time to swap the bedding and clean the place before the next guest can arrive, as from 16.00.
It is a vast place, everybody can see that. We need most of that time to get it all done.

As from 9.00 there was busyness, the guests where gathering their things, sticking the rubbish in the wheelie bins etcetera.

We were around and so, regularly, we exchanged a few words.

In the five conversations I had with various adult members of the party, always the process of leaving was topic:

• They asked what time they were supposed to leave and confirmed that that would happen, since they were all on the case.
• They all promised that they would say their goodbyes in person to us, just before they would leave.
• They were all showing their ‘ being busy to get ready to leave’ to us, by moving at high speed over the gravel.
• Making comments that they, the adults, were already ready, but that it was the three teenagers who needed to wake up and get ready.

Nice words, nice smiles. All very pleasant.

10 o’clock came and went.

I knew that the new guests were not likely to arrive at 4 o’clock sharp, so I looked at it with slight amusement, knowing that we’d have time to do the cleaning, even if these guests needed some more time. There was no need to try to persuade them to speed things up.
The main challenge I had to cope with was that there wasn’t much I could do meanwhile. ‘Waiting’ is not among my preferred activities in life, so I found a magazine I could read in, that I could drop easily when they would be ready to say goodbye and go.

11 o’clock came and went.

At some point we heard that they were done in the bedrooms and we could start work in there.
It was when I was carrying the laundry to the place where the washing machines are, that I found all but one sitting in their cars, ready to go.

When I came back to the car, now empty handed (easier to say goodbyes properly)  the last person said ‘ bye to me and from the car came waves and some said: ‘ say goodbye to Richard from us, will you?’

11.30 and off they went.

Nice words, nice smiles, my smile slightly bemused and puzzled, I think.

Richard was disappointed that they had left without giving him a chance to say goodbye.
I was bemused about all the ‘ acting’; that had been going on to ....... to what exactly? To convince us of something happening, that wasn’t really happening at all.
I phrased it  as : ‘say something, to please us (?)  but  do something completely different’

In the light of the theme of this blog post, I’d say that this was a beautiful example of how sequential collective consciousness is put in action.

Every time one of the guests was speaking to us, a small collective was formed. Given their words, they were well aware of our values, needs and desires, concerning their actions. Probably also willing to act accordingly.

However, every time they stepped back into the house, our little collective was forgotten about, or at least faded into the background reality of their current  group collective, a completely different field of needs, desires and expectations of everybody. An energy field, a dynamic with more influence on the behaviour of the individuals,  apparently .....observing the doing, that was a result of it.

Is this just an example of sequential collective consciousness? Farfetched even, an exception of ‘ those people’ , not worth standing still and looking at, really? Not having anything to do with your reality?

Well, let’s extrapolate on the principle, see if it rings a bell in your reality.

Do you say to your boss that you are entirely happy doing something after hours?
Do you complain with your co-workers about the work load and how unreasonable the boss is?
Do you then say to your partner that you are not happy with it but had to....when she complains that you were not in time for this special dinner, as promised?

Yes, in every situation mentioned above you may be saying the things the people in that audience desire to hear from  you and you may even mean it, in that instant and have the intention to act accordingly.(SYMYDY)

But then you step into the reality of another collective, sensing the different vibes of needs and desires, you sequentially go with that flow. Saying the things the people in that new audience desire to hear from  you and you may even mean that, in that instant and have the intention to act accordingly too.(SYMYDY again)

All is still well if those actions simply happen to coincide.... or... if the collectives never meet and the observables different truths of what you say and what you do don’t come to the light.

But your boss is likely not to be amused to find out that you say you are happy in his face, and you expressing the exact opposite to your co-workers.
Your partner is probably not amused hearing your boss cheerfully explain to her in the supermarket that you volunteered eagerly among many candidates of co-workers to work on Wednesday evening. Wasn’t that the exact same evening you promised to spend with her but cancelled last minute because you said you were almost forced to work?

Of course, you can say that the reaction of the boss and your partner to this snippet of information being revealed is completely up to them. They chose to perceive it in a certain way and therefore chose their emotional response to it. Part of the truth, I would say, you can’t be held responsible for how people perceive your behaviour.
But can you be held responsible for you actual observable actions......?
Can people inquire with you how what you say relates to what you do and inform you about the effects your choices have on them?

Yes, that may be a scary thought.
But in my experience, it is not as difficult as it may seem.
There is at least one very good reason for that.

Most people are aware, know from their own experience, that it is not always easy to juggle various roles and responsibilities. We’ve all been there, we are all under the influence of sensing the vibes of the needs and desires of the collective you are physically in right now being very strong, impacting on values in other collectives you are a part of. Doing something that has an unpleasant impact on somebody else we hold dear, is no fun, we all know that.

If and when it happens and you are open about what happened and are clearly willing to see the position of the other and the effects, the consequences your choices of actions have caused and you show you’ve learned from it, it is soon a thing of the past, solved in peace.

Things start to look less peaceful when a part of a collective is not showing willingness to work with (all of ) it, move with its dynamics, taking all relevant  parts at least most of the time into account in words as well as in observable aligned actions.....doing justice to the available talents and resources to flow abundantly and dynamically.
That has consequences for the structural integrity of the collective and the dynamics in it.

Apparently, I have a strong sense of con-sequential collective consciousness.
What consequences do my choices and action shave, not only in the (small) collective I am currently physically and energetically in contact with ( the person or the group involved in the task at hand), but for all the people I am in touch with, involved with, the whole composition I am a part of. Are all available resources in the flow, being used, allowed to freely contribute what they can?

Yes, this is a meta-physical awareness.
But not in some airy fairy explanation of the unseen that is completely inconsequential to the physical reality of our lives... (!)
Yes, indeed, it is with an awareness of the collectives I cannot see right now, I am not currently aware of, in my real-time e-scape. But being a part of those collectives is by me understood to be consequential in the endless sequences of e-scapes I’ll encounter.
I am constantly not only aware of the individual transaction I make in that instant, but also on how this transaction fits in all the transactions I make and value, also with other collectives I am a part of. From that awareness, having very little to do with any airy fairy esoteric philosophical theory, I am coordinating my choices to a coherent, harmonious composition that anybody can inquire about at any moment of any day, to contribute what I can to peace, pleasure and harmoney, for all involved.

Meta-..... ‘ beyond’ , implying ‘coordinated’ and being about itself ( meta-communication is communicating about the communication... keeping an eye on the process of communication, the patterns and structure beyond each individual expression)

You may think there is an easy way to stay out of the troubles that arise when you are not harmonising all your say ‘ yes’ to.

Some people try to make this paradox work:

They promise themselves: “ I never make a promise to anybody again.”

Apart from the obvious observation that you are breaking the only promise you apparently find useful to make, with the one person you can’t escape from no matter in what collective you are present: yourself.....
...unless you decide to live far away from all living beings...... it is something you are not able to do.

Try one day avoiding constructions as:” I am going to.....”, “ I shall........”, “ I’ll be....”

No matter how many promises you allow yourself not to make or keep, making plans is part  of your human nature, as is communicating about it. If it is not in words, than you still do it in energy and people pick up on it. They will see you act, either accordingly, in line with your own vibes, or not, but in either case, they’ll interact with your actions, your choices and your vibes.

You may think:” But in saying ‘ I am going to....” I am not making any promise to anybody. It is an inconsequential statement of a plan, I can change my mind about it anytime and do something else!”

Well, I am not stopping you from that experiment, if you think it is a fun one to conduct.

Let me know if you’ve found proof that inconsequential exist.
I am curious to see what that looks like. 

I haven’t experienced it so far in 43 years.

Definition of collective consciousness

All my blog posts are related to my here and now everyday reality.

Themes come and go , present themselves to me in the events of everyday living.
Every wave of experiences brings new angles to fly, inspiration on talking about The Collective Consciousness.

In the last 48 hours, today’s theme really leaped at me. I couldn’t turn a corner or there would be another facet of this theme, in books, magazines, dreams, events as they unfolded in my presence.
An continuous stream of examples, something else to wonder about, related to this.

This morning, on waking up, I knew how almost everything I lied my eyes on was adding indications to the pile of ‘material for this theme’. With a smile I saw that a blog about The Collective Consciousness  is not complete without talking about collective consciousness.

Sometimes, things are so obvious to you, that you really don’t give it much explicit thought.

Philosophers are knows to say:” If the fish were studying life, water would be the last thing they’d discover and talk about.”

Well, I’ve talked for over 70 blog posts now over the Source of Information that surrounds us, at all times. It supports us all. It has a natural flow we can chose to go against, or we can allow it to propel us forward in life with ease and grace.

To me, it is natural and a joy to splash around  in it, day in day out, exploring it’s characteristics and share my finds, since I consider using it such an asset to the quality of life that I can recommend it to anybody.
I also know that most people, at this point in time, would qualify it as something from the supernatural. Airy fairy, spiritual babble about ‘ energy’, not related to the reality of everyday life.
Theoretical and Metaphysical... who cares about such things if you’ve got your hands full dealing with the Practical and the Physical?

This morning I saw the bridge between the two.
Let me talk this time not about the Collective Consciousness, the Knowing, written with Capitals to indicate that I mean the Metaphysical version of it, that may seem so theoretical and so many of us don’t consider consequential to the quality of life.
Let me talk this time about collective consciousness, written in small print to indicate that I mean the practical version of it. The version we all experience, while living and working with other people.

What is collective consciousness?
It is an awareness ( consciousness) of living and working with other people ( collective(s)).
It is an awareness of cause and effect, in as much that, choices and actions of a single person, influence the group( dynamics). That means, knowing that there is always an effect for the other people playing a part in the group(s) this person is part of. Sometimes small, sometimes large.

This is my ‘ theoretical definition’. In my next post, I’ll illustrate it on a very practical level.

alternative response to distress call

It is possible to use the capacities of the auto-tuningsystem to help somebody move through some difficult emotional turbulence, in an unconventional ( as in... not widely known.....) way.

'Tune into me'

In the conventional ways two strategies are quite often used, often in combination :

1. The ‘ helper’ tunes into (listens, looks, gives attention to) the person who is experiencing the emotional turbulence and lets him or her express those emotions. Being able to express the emotions and thoughts that are involved, is a way to move through them and when all that is brought to the light, it is very well possible to find calmness and confidence from there.
2. The helper gives advice, shares ideas on what the person in turbulence can do.

These strategies both have the potential to work well and have often as a result that both are feeling better (happy, calm and confident) as a result of having dealt with the situation in a successful way: the turbulence is ‘ overcome’.

Putting these options in an analogy, they can be understood as ‘ radio air traffic control assistance’.

The pilot in turbulence is in contact with somebody who is willing to help and probably can offer good advice.
In this scenario it is clear that the assistance is, on an energetic level, somewhere else. The pilot and the assistance are not in the same e-scape.

This energetical distance can even be a great help, because sometimes looking from outside into a situation, is giving more information and clues on ‘ what is going on’ and ‘what can be done to solve it’. 

If and when these strategies work well for all involved,  I’d say that this common practise is obviously fine, ticking all the boxes for a joyful way of dealing with emotional turbulence.

However.....when these approaches to help are experienced by at least one of the people involved as not completely peaceful and harmonious, ‘ choosing another strategy’ may be  a wise thing to do.

There is a way to move closer to joy, in dealing as a team with emotional turbulence, using not much else but the (healing) power of the auto-tuning system.

It tackles two frequently occurring problems that can arise with the two conventional methods. Which issues are often experienced when somebody turn to somebody else for support in a turbulent episode?:

1. When the helper tunes into somebody else’s emotional turbulence it can quite easily kick of difficult issues in the helpers own system as a result... . When that happens, there are two people in turbulence who can’t reach out to each other anymore, but are both circling in their own vortexes of emotional storms, in themselves. The helper can even feel miserable for not being able provide the help that was requested for.
2. The person helped feels at some point overpowered by the helper, not fully understood and, as a result of that, can’t resonate with the presented advice and opinions, no matter how intrinsically good they might be. Or.... simply can't implement the advices on the fly.
   Irritation and frustration rises in an already turbulent emotional field.....

The alternative, using the power of the auto-tuning system is called ‘ tune into me’.

When a person expresses a distress call in any shape or form:” I’m in emotional turbulence, please help me.” in words and/or actions, the ‘ helper’ who picks up on this distress call, can propose this method.

Instead of an exchange mainly in words, where the person in distress needs to process all sorts of information and has to find a way to streamline that into useful actions, while being in turbulence, an exchange mainly in energy is proposed to take place.

Let me put it in the very same analogy of a pilot in distress.

Using this method, it is as if the helper offers to fly out to the place where the other actually is and all the person has to do is follow the assistance aircraft, safely back into joyful, calm territory.

Or, same idea, different analogy:

It is as with cyclists, if you are tired and have to battle to find your way against strong winds, navigating at the same time in unknown territory... it is tough!
If another person just cycles in front of you, you have many benefits following, not the least that the slipstream of his movement is lifting you, towing you, helping you and his body is calming down much of the wind force. The cycling is costing you now much less energy and you can concentrate on the essentials...keep the movement gently going, without any concern on the navigation. All by simply staying ‘ in the wheel’ for a while.

Back to emotional turbulence.

What is needed is that the helper checks with himself if he is ‘centred’, basically feeling all right, emotionally in himself. “Am I fit to take the lead in energy?”

When that is the case, he can propose:” I see you are experiencing emotional turbulence right now. I am at peace and in harmoney, you can tune into me if you want, to move through it.”

direct the mind:

If this offer is accepted, the helper takes his attention completely off the appearance of troubles in the person in distress and only focuses on the joy of taking confidently the lead. If picturing yourself on the front of a row of cyclists, or in an airplane helps to stay with vibe..... do that.
You are helping your mind to stay with it in doing so.

The person in distress puts his attention towards the assisting person and allows himself to follow and relaxes into it. If picturing yourself being behind a broad backside of another cyclist helps, or on the tail of another airplane, feeling how being in the slipstream is taking the tension of many aspects of dealing with your situation.... picture that, you are helping your mind to stay with it in doing so.

direct the body:

Also.....if you are comfortable with it, you can get your bodies involved in this process, by acting this ‘following’ out. In doing so you are, the energy in the body is also ‘ on the same case’ . The more body-mind and soul are co-operating, the more efficient (quick) it works.
The simplest way of acting it out is to position the assistant in front of the person in distress , standing/lying still or moving.

Yes, I know, turning your back to the person you are helping... is not commonly done nor advised in situations like this. But understand that you may be turning the part of your ‘form’ away from this person that is socially associated with giving attention (your face) , but you are offering your full power, the joyful slipstream of your energy! Your attention is fully with the process.. you are direction al your energy to it! If the guide dog doesn’t turn its back to the blind person, to see where they are going, he can’t do his job properly!

This whole method works on the understanding:” What gets attention...grows.”
The helper is tuning actively into the energy of joy, from an already non-( or not-too-) turbulent position. That  is not too difficult to do.
The person in distress is tuning into the energy of the other person. The assistent is steadily increasing in tuning into  joy ( peace, pleasure and harmoney). First actively  ( as a conscious decision) but then quickly followed by automatically, using the auto-tuning system( that simply tunes into all things that get full attention in your e-scape).

When the auto-tuning system of the person in distress kicks in, it makes the job for the helper also easier, because now there is more joy for him to tune into in the actual e-scape. Calmness, confidence and knowing what to do are amplified, on the fly..

The person in distress simply can’t stay in distress, the auto-tuning system following somebody in contact with joy, is pulling her out. Unless, of course, a conscious decision is made to ‘not follow’ and the attention goes to the turbulence/ misery again..... the auto-tuning system follows what gets attention in the e-scape.

Destination joy fully reached:

Once ‘ joy’ is sufficiently reached, you are both in calm more familiar territory,  the rescue-action can end.... both parties are in good spirits and confident on how to proceed.

Maybe the person in distress needs to do some repair work, look into ‘ what happened just there’ and ‘how can I avoid this from happening again, because this was no joy’.
These things can more easily be done applying hindsight, than being in the midst of the real time action, while experiencing nothing but turbulence.

Of course, both parties can agree that this investigation to learn from it can be a mutual venture too. But that is not necessary. 

The requested help to get out of the turbulence, has been given.

Advantages of this method:

You don’t have to be a professional helper, you don’t have to have had experience in what the other is going through, you don’t need opinions about it, you don’t; have to be ‘ good with words’, you don’t have to chose between various options and advices. You don’t even have to have many things in common in your respective belief systems, you don’t have to know each other well. You don’t; even have to like each other, personally. You don’t have to speak each other’s language. Nobody has to reveal anything and have the discomfort of feeling exposed and vulnerable in bringing awkward thoughts or feeling to the light.

please pay attention to a word of caution:

One word of caution if you desire to give this a try some day and help somebody move though emotional turbulence.

In the first couple of instants when you take the lead for somebody in distress, to follow you energetically, you may feel some wobbles yourself, feel some of the turbulence hitting you.
Know that it is normal.
That is the stage where the auto-tuning system of the follower is not yet sure where to tune into. In these instants , it is the job of the follower to position himself energetically to follow you, as a conscious decision. But the turbulence is still very much present and when the conscious position is not yet completely taken.....the slipstream is not yet completely in the right steady  ‘shape’.
You’ll notice that, sense that, feel that. And if you give that attention, your auto-tuning system will tune into it too.

But if you steadily stick with ‘ tuning into the joy of taking the lead happilyand confidently here and now’, your signal gets stronger and easier for the follower to pick up upon.

You’ll feel it when the other is in your slipstream and tuned in with the auto-tuning system. It gives a boost, as if you feel the wind in your back, if you have been given a set of extra wings.

following in joy

Talking about ‘ tuning into joy’ and allowing joy to take the lead and picturing your soul as a guide dog, leads inevitably to talking about the concept of ‘ following’.

But wait a second here....!

Wasn’t I a producer for Food for Thought?
Was I not inviting you to think for yourself, to make up your own mind?
Didn’t I imply that that would be beneficial to enhance the quality of your life?

How does ‘following’ fit into al that then?
How free are you if you decide to tune into joy and follow it wherever its quirky meanderings take you?

How are you supposed to shape your life, when following the lead of some ‘energy pattern’?
Where is my own creativity in this?

Such good questions (smiley)!

My take on it, is shaped in an analogy, one of my favourites: a music analogy.

What if ......you are playing your instrument as part of an orchestra...?

Would it be beneficial to play at the same speed, following the beat?
Would it be beneficial to be in tune, play in the same key as the others do, for the result  to stand any chance of being harmonious?

Any musician enjoying the interplay of playing in a group, will agree on this being not only beneficial for everybody to enjoy the process of making music together, but also quite fundamental.

Would it be beneficial to have a partition in front of you, to have clues to follow on what you are playing here?
Would it be beneficial to follow directions from the conductor, when there is one, for the finer nuances of the interpretation of the piece at hand?

Well... yes.... it is quite common practise to follow these meandering movements ( moving arms, music notes on bars on paper) in order to experience the co-creation of the performance of a piece of music. It seems to work well..... also for the individual musicians to develop  their skills on playing their own instrument.

When groups play more complex compositions, it is possible to add more depth, relief and variety to it, since various people are playing various melody-lines at the same time.
The result sounds as one coherent piece of music, but  there may be more than 10 different music patterns (partitions) being played simultaneously.
Playing as a group is adding options and possibilities to the creative pallet. The group can achieve to perform something together that none of the musicians, no matter how talented, is likely to achieve all by himself.

Are the musicians just drones, following orders then?
Ask a musician who plays in a band or orchestra to find out, if you’re curious if they perceive it like that.

But.. playing music doesn’t stop here.

By the time you are mastering your instrument to a certain extend and you’ve developed some feel for what it takes to play together, even the partitions can go.

Not simply because you know them by heart after many weeks of practise. No, it is possible to ‘improvise’,  to ‘ compose on the fly’, to play together in jam-sessions.

Either as a free part within a composition:

• an ‘ad lib’ where you can just meander at will-either following the melody or even in various ways countering it-
• 8 bars of solo for the saxophone in a jazz piece

or .............. completely jamming freely.

But the ad libs, the 8 bars of solo, as well as the jam-session are all in relation to an undercurrent, to the music that went on before and forming a bridge to what is coming next.
Also the free jamming is not completely random and the musicians need to tune into a common undercurrent to make the whole experience joyful.
They will usually not only play in the same beat and the same key, but also pick up on newly invented melody lines, repeat then in a question and answer type style, until another patterns take over. They will know, without saying a word, when its time for a solo of one of the instruments and the others will know when that ends and they’ll join in.

Where is the creativity in such a process?
Still afraid of losing your identity in following an invisible undercurrent called joy, containing peace, pleasure and harmoney?
Afraid of not being able to develop yourself, your skills using your instrument?
Afraid of missing out on possibilities to  stand out from the crowd?
Of losing your freedom?

recognising joy

When the idea of ‘ tuning into joy’ appeals, as introduced in the previous blog post, you might be interested to read more about  ‘recognising joy’.

I stated:”We have collectively removed ourselves so far from it, we hardly recognise its myriad of forms and shapes it can have.”

Please understand me right here. Of course we recognise certain forms joy can show itself in.
A radiant smile with sparkling eyes, a graceful move, a sweet caress, a happy tune whistled, a kitten playing, a summer landscape filled with flowers bathing in warm beams of sunlight, the smell of chicken soup on coming home, tired, on an empty stomach.....

But if you were to make a list of all the things you easily recognise as joy, even if it goes to the moon and back, three times around the world, in font size 5..... you’ve only identified a fairly limited summary of certain appearances joy can have.

If you then were to use that as a checklist of appearances you can give attention, to tune into joy, to resonate with, to experience this ‘ thrilling’ in harmony and its uplifting effects, you may find yourself on quite an unfulfilling chase for experiencing abundant joy.

You are on the lookout to find joy matching the items on your list , whether that’s in words or pictures. You are holding your definitions of joy somewhere in the back of your mind, so you can compare your reality with it and ‘ jump’ on it when you see one that could be a match.

Joy then seems to be a slippery piece of soap that jumps away from you when you touch it, leaving you wondering why you can’t hold onto it.

In my understanding, that  this happens when you use this approach, is no wonder.
If you hold the appearance of joy, the shape, the form it has taken to express itself , you are missing a couple of crucial characteristics of joy.
Joy is not a form, it is not an appearance... joy is the energy , the force behind it.  Joy is a vibration in the world of energy.
Joy is a state of mind, I often say, maybe more to the point, a state of Being.

Joy is not one thing, not even a list of things.
It is, in its essence, a shape shifter, forming and transforming endlessly.
The second you desire to grasp it, to hold onto it, to capture it, it changes shape, alters its current form and escapes your attention.

Not because it doesn’t like your attention. Not because it desires to run away from your focus  or hide from you. No, take it literally! Pay attention to details: joy is transforming, e-scaping your e-scape in full motion. It is not a static entity... it plays and invites you to play along.

So, yes, it jumps like a slippery piece of soap out of your hands (your attention =  the hands of your mind), when you squeeze to hard, on a desire to stop its mesmerising life affirming movements...... for you to admire and applaud while standing still too.
Trying to stop its movement is ending ( perceiving) it, because its essence is movement, constant change.

But if you were to allow it to e-scape (verb) your e-scape (noun)  and you’d be in tune with it on an energy level (! not appearance level!))...not-capturing it, not-restraining it in any way, just allowing it to lead your energy while running free wherever it wants to, showing you a myriad of appearances, you are joy with it.
You are not just following it, you are flowing with it.
Free, all you have to pay is attention.

So, throw away that list of things and events and activities that you think are the ingredient s of making you happy, would be a good start, freeing up some mental space and attention to the joy that is surrounding you at all times, in the most unexpected shapes and forms!

If you do like to have some form of check list at hand to recognise joy, I have a suggestion for a short-list, easy to remember.

Joy is a threefold being.
Present in joy are at all times abundantly:

• Peace
• Pleasure
• Harmoney

Peace is a calmness in the core, a centeredness, a sense of unity, a knowing of  ‘no conflicts’.

Pleasure is the ‘ good vibes’ in action, in motion, of satisfying needs and desires.

Harmoney is the sustainable accordance of all (highest) values in all parts involved.
Yes, it is harmony, spelled with an e, indicating value. Just a play on words for those (most of us) who recognise money as our highest value, our ticket to joy and freedom in life.

Keep in mind when you desire to interplay joyfully:

When any of the beings involved in the interplay loses contact with peace ( of mind, for instance), pleasure and/ or harmoney.... you are (all) moving away from being with joy, in joy.

Knowing this also explains why only seeking ‘ pleasure’, gratification of your own personal needs and desires isn’t giving that soul deep felt  sensation of ‘ joy’.

When you are a being in joy, in interplay with joy, you experience a sense of unity ( without losing your own-ness), a satisfaction of al needs and desires completely in line with all your highest values.

Hard work?
Not for your auto-tuning system. Start in the world of energy and the appearances, actions etcetera will follow from Being in that state of being.

Seek joy, tune into joy in whatever shape or form it has right now.
if you don’t’ see it, simply wonder at any given moment ‘ where is the joy in this’, relax into it and follow the lead of the vibes of energy (they may also be conveyed by some less appealing looking appearances in form!).
Take any actions you feel a distinct pull or joyful (peaceful, pleasurable, harmonious) inspiration for.. it is your soul (guide dog) guiding you what you can do to contribute to experiencing more joy, right here, right now.

Cross checking.....

How to cross check, really make sure if it is joyful soulful  inspiration? Have you really recognised joy, or are you engaging with something that is likely to bite you in the ass at some time, only chasing some self-gratifying desire maybe.....?

Easy!
You wouldn’t mind telling anybody about this (plan). It is allowed out in the open, right now. (You even find it difficult to not share it, it wants to go out there!)
It does no harm, causes no conflicts, is at nobody’s expense, nowhere.
Not in you, not in anybody else. It is only adding value, adding joy and more joy (peace, pleasure and harmoney) for all involved. What is not to like? It is also something you can almost effortlessly contribute, using your talents.

Yes, it may be on the edge of your comfort zone.
That’s where joy likes to (inter)play anyway. But that’s also part of why it is thrilling you!
 It holds an opportunity to grow and develop into the next better version of yourself and an opportunity for your community to develop into the next and more joyful version of itself too.

Actually, you know everybody would benefit from you taking this action, everywhere along the lines and you are confident that everybody can be freely made aware of this ( now, or at some point in the future). The stranger, the neighbour, your partner, your boss, God,  the major, the policeman, your child.......

Any doubt present if this is really joyfull?

Tune into joy. It’ll show you what needs looking into, sorting out, playing with.
Joyful guideance is only one wonderment away......

Tuning into Joy

It put a smile on your face ( hopefully) the cat and dog analogies in the two previous blog posts.

If you wonder:” How can  this food for thought be used practically in every day life?” .... in this blog post I’m going to share my ideas on how you can implements a couple of understandings in a simple way.

Let me first summarise the understandings I am sticking in the mix here. They all got introduced in earlier posts.

Summary of insights:

I gave an illustration of how being a team with your soul guides you to go out into the world of energy and enjoy yourself with it.

In the world of energy, you’ll encounter other living beings and you’ll have interactions with them. Some briefly, only once.... others more frequently and longer.

We-fields develop, you are relating and teaming up, investing energy in mutual goals and purposes, no matter how small ( exchanging 10 tomatoes for €1,50, just once) or how big ( raising a child, setting up and running  a multi millions business).

Every being: (dynamically vibrating energy pattern... DVEP)  has a soul of itself.

Coming full circle on the analogy: you could say that every we-field has its  own guide dog too, to help guide this (collective) being as a whole. (*)

Looking at the e-scape of a collective ( soul level)  a collective thrives when for all parts these three elements are present, regularly, consistently, harmoniously, dynamically:

1. Continuity of a structure to play in, work from
   (a home, a comfort zone, with recognisable characteristics like  shape, rhythm, flow)
2. Inspiration to follow
   ( new interesting influences, of a high(er) quality , more complexion, with (more) depth to it  relief variety and a reasonable amount of challenge, the instructions on the Divine Blueprint)
3. Express itself to its highest joy and be followed
   ( initiating a change, taking the lead in a dynamic system, feel the response of other beings tuning into its highest joy)

Practical option for implementation

Up to speed, now. You are interested in your practical everyday life issues being solved in a simple practical way?
Good News! That is what this blog post is about!

There is a very down to earth ( natural) way to look at this e-scaping and deal pragmatically with it. Almost no effort for you and great results for everybody involved. 80/20 thinking in full swing.

Before you get all excited... I have to warn you:
“O yeah.... by the way...... most people find this extremely difficult!”

It is called ‘ tuning into Joy’.

It is deeply founded in not only acknowledging, but also using (to the advantage of all involved), the understanding that every single being in this world has the soul need to share its highest Joy and be followed.
How can you be a part in that? Indeed, the verb here is ‘ to follow’.

Why ‘ most people’ find this sooooooo difficult, is because they think ‘following’  has to do with adopting opinions or habits  or rules into your own precious belief system and routines and has a permanent, conditional character.  And if the assessment is made that what is presented by somebody else is not 100% comfortably compatible, it should best get100% rejected.

The first step to take here is to consider if I speak of ‘ following’  here, I am talking about energy and  energy patterns in e-scapes.
That has very little to do with the “OMG ...if I follow this person, my belief system gets changed into something unknown that I am not 100% comfortable with”  interpretation of ‘ to follow’ .

I assure you, with ‘ tuning into joy’, you can very comfortably, have it all:
You can leave your belief system 100% intact if you so desire, fulfil somebody else’s soul need to share its highest joy with you following their energetically lead and meanwhile, on the fly(!),  fulfil your own soul need to be inspired too.

Where?  When?  With whom?

You can do this with anybody you encounter, but I recommend doing it especially with the people you spend regularly time with in the real world, in the here and now of your own natural reality.

In cyberspace, as much other things it has to offer, it doesn’t work, because all this ‘ tuning into Joy’ is an interplay between your real body-mind-soul and the vibes around you, your e-scape, the world of energy.
In cyberspace, the vibes around you a not playing this game... your computer is transmitting a steady beat on energy level, usually not on frequency that is in the Joyful range of possibilities.

Why?

This habit, habit of ‘ tuning into Joy’ is crucial to the happy and confident sustainable development of lively harmonious communities.

How?  

It is, in its essence, super simple...
This one line is describing the whole procedure in all detail:

When somebody is enjoying himself/ herself.... you tune in. You give open attention.

You don’t have to say a word,  just watch, listen, feel, observe, register, give atention.....

In giving this attention, your auto-tuning system will, at quite high speed, automatically (!) tune you up to the same joyfull frequencies, to be an harmony with it.

Unless of course, you are actually tuning in onto your narrating voice in your mind and its opinions about what is there and what you should be doing instead of investing time in this... If that gets more attention than the actual events... your auto-tuning system will harmonise your energy patterns with that, because your auto-tuning system harmonises it energy patterns with anything that gets your real  attention. If you catch yourself ‘ blurring’, ask yourself in your mind:” Where is the joy in this?” or “ What is the joy in this?”, simply choosing that your one desire is to tune into joy.

What happens ‘ under the bonnet’?

Under the bonnet, the other beings soul senses that its signal is being received: its joy is shared and it is being followed. In it’s e-cape it experiences that element 3 is present and that is an extra joy, adding more depth and relief to its energy landscape, right here, right now.

It’s vibration goes up a level more and since you are tune into his or her vibration, you are automatically tuning up too, also experiencing the joyful composition in energy.

Yes, there is the possibility that this being ( a puppy, a cat, a child, a spouse, a neighbour, a stranger) would like to share the activity it is involved in with you, show you things, explain you things about this great joy.

This is where ‘ most people’ think they are at a loss if they engage with this. On the short term, they’ll lose the time now spend and there are better things to do ( usually on a computer, or somewhere else, with somebody else) and on the long term, this creature is likely to  turn more frequently to them for  attention, like to grow a habit that involves this specific activity and it has to learn that .... and then a summary out of the belief system follows on what makes this being a good independent citizen.

And there is truth in that and so you may want to think about how you can confidently and harmoniously deal with that, if that would happen.
Because  at this moment in time, if anybody does fulfil the soul need in somebody to be tuned into and be followed, energetically in joy,  chances are this being will return to this person as a camel to an oasis. It is a soul need, remember, so you’ll go where you can find it fulfilled. In an energetical  desert, oasis a few and far between.

I may write another blog post as some point, to share some practical ideas on this.

Back now to looking at the positive effects of tuning into somebody else’s joy.

On the short term, you are experiencing the vibes of Joy effortlessly, surfing on your auto-tuning system, which boosts your energy system with turbo fuel. With that in your system you can get much more done, later in the day, when this interplay has ended. You’ll be far more effective.

In the long term, you are contributing to the happiness and confidence of another being that its vibes of joy are worthwhile tuning into and it will produce more of that as a result. It will also have stored energetically another example in its here and now community how easy and rewarding it is to tune into each other and that there is only joy to be increased when this is done. It’ll return the joy of it, if it isn’t to you, than it is to another. Another in the community, you might encounter one day when you are enjoying yourself and (s)he stops to tune into you for a minute.

Sounds appealing? Worth investing some of your energy in?
Be aware.....
We seem to have collectively decided that tuning into and sharing joy is a hazard to society.
Sharing misery, that is the way to go. We give collectively more attention to what is painful, than to what is joyful ( watch the news, read the newspapers, follow the average conversation in the streets where mainly ‘ problems’ get discussed, illnesses, political and economical difficulties and conflicts.)

We are actively spending more time tuning into what does NOT work very well. Hoping for the best, hoping that that makes a significant positive difference to our world. ( if there was a sign for sour indignant  irony, it would be placed in capitals)

And don’t; get me wrong here. I am not advocating to turn a blind eye to things that don’t work very well!
I am advocating to stop turning a blind eye to joy (and creating more misery in the slipstream of that).

More misery?

Apart from knowing that you are resonating in harmony with anything you lay your attention on, thanks to your auto tuning system, so you are actively down-lifting yourself in that instant, there are some longer term consequences to consider too.

For instance: how and where is an inspirational leader of a community ( a family, an enterprise, a country) ever going to find the confidence that what (s)he enjoys as worthwhile is precious to others too if nobody ever can be bothered to tune into her singing a song, telling a story, making a drawing, brushing a cat, building a Lego-construction, comb a beach, built a tree-house......

Does (s)he  learn that from ;” Not now, honey, I’m busy!”
You may think this being  doesn’t know what you are preferring to give attention to and can wait for the moment when you’ve got ‘ time’.

But this being is looking at you for guidance and input, you are one of its inspirational examples on how living in this community is done, right now. You are an energy emitting being in its e-scape.
And you may be not be aware of the interplay in the world of energy ( focussed on something else), not allowing your auto-tuning system to tune into (his/her) joy......but his/her auto tuning system detects without fails the vibrations you seem to enjoy, simply by giving you attention, because you are resonating with what you enjoy more than the joy right here, right now......lower vibes, the vibes of ...... lack of time, pain and misery.

Remember... being followed in your most joyful vibes is a soul need, not just a hobby.

If you wonder why your child/animal/partner is suddenly chewing the carpet, having tantrums, is frequently diseased, crying over nothing, rolling over the floor as if the end of the world is near....... and you know on some level the answer is: to get your attention.....

That may be s SIGNAL. You have probably missed about 100 opportunities to tune into joy in your own community, voluntarily under harmonious conditions, not costing you much time and lifting you up the process.
Now, this being in your community needs to know that it is still capable of taking the lead where somebody will have to follow in the vibes, it will create a symphony of the vibes you seem to prefer in your world: misery and pain.
And you’ll follow, because this seems important to you!

And so it is... you have fulfilled a soul need for somebody in your community. Finally, you have tuned into the vibes of this being taking the energetical lead in this e-scape.

But it could, 100 times before this ' crisis' , have been so much more joyous and uplifting with a butterfly effect on the whole community, spreading the good vibes.

Trust me, if the camel knows that there is a bucket a day to drink, it does not take more than it actually needs. It is only when the hump is emptied under a certain level, that it desperately needs an oasis to fill up, no matter how polluted the water is, in order to survive and.... it takes a lot of time to fill up again.

So, even if you only tune into somebody’s  joy 20 times out of the 100 opportunities, it gets satisfied with one small amounts of time at the time.
All it needs is to have updates on the experience that others tune into his joy, to build confidence upon that he or she is able to take the lead in providing what is needed.

What do you need more of, joy or misery. What does your community need more of, joy or misery?

Small effort, great, multiplied joy, for everybody involved.

In some other blog post I’ll zoom in too ‘recognising joy’.
We have collectively removed ourselves so far from it, we hardly recognise its myriad of forms and shapes it can have.

(*)
As interesting as I find flying and exploring the angle of tuning into the guide dog, the soul of a collective, I chose that this would not be the main topic of this blog post.

But as an afterthought, I felt the desire to share some more thought on this.

Where most people already have trouble sensing ( let alone following) the vibes from their own guide dog/soul..... the concept of a collective guide dog/ soul that is helping all involved in the community with guidance, to develop into the direction of its Divine Blueprint, if they would care to follow its lead.....may be a concept that is ‘ far fetched’
Although I realise:..... most religions and spiritual teachings seem to agree that such ethereal guiding being(s) exist ....
I also realise, most religious people wouldn’t be happily impressed with picturing the force they worship as a guide dog. It’s a good thing it is all just an analogy ( smiley face).

Guide in the world of energy

Yesterday, after posting my previous blog post, I used the sit-on mower for an hour.

It seems a great activity to let my mind wander free, because often new ideas fly in when I am doing that. 

Today’s blog post topic announced itself in my e-scape, while working on the maintenance of the landscape.

Having written about how living with (a) soul is like living with a cat as a pet, another animal related analogy came in. It is one that illustrates even more clearly the importance of the three e-scape elements:

1. Continuity of a structure to play in, work from
   (a home, a comfort zone, with recognisable characteristics like  shape, rhythm, flow)
2. Inspiration to follow
   ( new interesting influences, of a high(er) quality , more complexion, with (more) depth to it  relief variety and a reasonable amount of challenge)
3. Express itself to its highest joy and be followed
   ( initiating a change, taking the lead in a dynamic system, feel the response of other being tuning into its highest joy)

Living with soul is like having a guide dog.

The soul is like your own guide dog in the world of energy

You are not only enjoying each other’s company ( hopefully), there is also a working relationship as a team, with a defined purpose to it. The guide is serving you to go out into this world, happily and confidently, being your ‘eyes’ in a world you can’t see ( anymore).Enabling you to experience and enjoy  life ‘safely adventurous’, helping you past fixed obstacles, helping you to find your way in the flow of movements around you, for you to arrive at the various destinations of your choosing.

Let’s face it: the dog  has no need to go to the post office, to buy flowers or to drink coffee on a terrace! Nevertheless, the dog is happy to guide you there. Not only because it is told to do so. It is not a machine, programmed to do certain tasks no matter what. No, it does so because it enjoys it, it is naturally good at it and is happy to share its talents with a person ( who appreciates it).

For the guiding process to work well, a couple of elements are important. I’ll focus on the perspective of the dog with 2 and 3.

1. There is a structure.
   When working: the dog is in a special harness, with a sturdy frame for the person to hold on to. Dog and person are close together in a very recognisable ‘ shape’. The harness is the thing messages are conveyed though from the dog, through the body of the person, to his mind.
2. The dog gets instructions to follow.
   The person makes clear to the dog where he wants to go.
   The team develops, they get to know each other ever better and in that process of developing their relation as a team, they can expand the possibilities of adding more and more nuance in the instructions, based on more experience together.
3. The dog gets on with his work ( sniffing, looking, interpreting, planning, walking at a steady pace, guiding) and needs to be followed.
   There is no point in having a guide dog to guide you and ignoring its indications, is there?

Now, replace dog with soul.

See how obvious it is there? But it goes on.

Yes, when on the move, you’ve got to hold your poise, have a certain amount of tension and attention on the frame and feel what is going on inside this team-structure at all times. Calm and centered, concentrated, paying attention to what is going on.
Both not completely self-centered as in focussed on the individual self, both constantly aware of being part of the team. The dog is fine with knowing that, while working, it is 2 meters high and can walk at 4 km/h.... but naturally it is quite obvious that its own characterises are different from that.

The fascinating thing is now that everybody has a soul, a guide (dog) to guide you safely adventurous, happily and confidently through the world of energy. A world in which most of us are blind, have tunnel vision or a very blurred and distorted impression of.
(Sorry, fellow human beings, if that stings. It can be perceived as a judgement, while it is more an observation. If people in general were not so blind to what is going on in the world of energy, you wouldn’t be hurting yourself and each other on an emotional (energy in motion) level so much, bumping into each other, thwarting or discarding joy and feeling lost, of track and/or  unsure about destinations most of the time)

When presented with the understanding that we already have our own guide assigned to us, perfectly matched to our needs, we can’t see it and so we don’t believe it, really.

And when we are aware of the soul, many of us keep it as a pet, don’t use its (nor own own) full capacity.

And when we decide that we would appreciate  the Universal Guidance Services, we forget to pay attention to the frame, forget to give clear instructions of where we desire to go and most of all, we overrule the signals we get through the frame, thinking we do know how to interpret the world, using what our society explained us about it.

How safely adventurous do you think navigating on those parameters is if most people in our society are not having clear sight on the (natural) world of energy at all (anymore) and have constructed artificial (unnatural) constructions that do lots of things, but are not joyful roads to explore freely and happily.

Always working?

A guidedog-person team is obviously not always working.

The dog needs some free time to, to experiences all aspects of being a dog too, that can’t be experienced in the equipe while at work ( running at maximum speed, digging, rolling through the grass, fetching things, eating, sniffing around, play with other dogs....)

Being ‘ of the lead’ only in the house, is not enough for the dog to remain happy and healthy.

This is so equally true for the guide in the world of energy, your soul.

It is not just under two meters high and it can move at far higher speed than we can and it doesn’t have an intrinsic like for post offices, shops, drinks and sitting down for speaking in words, or typing or reading words on a computer. 

It needs what you would call me-time, to be of the lead, to recharge, to stretch its  metaphysical legs and train its metaphysical muscles.

In my experience, it is happy to spend the me-time with you too, just not harnassed.
It can run and fetch and dig, while you are sitting on a bench.

It will share its joy with you. Why not, you are sharing your joy with him.

If en when you look after its needs too, appreciate his talents and send out joyful vibes on all the lovely things you can experience now in life, you’ve got the most loyal friend in the world of energy, the natural world, you can imagine.

Yes, he wants to come with you, wherever you go.
Yes, he knows what you want, long before you express it in words.
He... it is the Golden Retriever of the Universal World of Energy!

But it doesn;t work for you, it you don;t work with it.

You have to fulfil faithfully your side of the agreement of being a team by paying attention to the three elements while ‘ on the move’ and also not-being-on-the-move all the time.

Don't only work with it on sundays, don't only turn to it hen the going gets tough and you desperately need universal guidance to get you ‘ out of a mess’, don't only use it when you have a ‘ special project’ or a new destination you like to try to reach......

Every single day for all the everyday tasks you’d like to go smoothly in the world of energy, would be my recommendation.

Whenever you are moving energy around to achieve something, physically or mentally....

Invest in being a team and trust the guidance.