Before I get started on the resolution of this triplicity of posts, I have a simple exercise for your experimenting pleasure.
After reading all the directions here,
Click on the Attentiacizer link to the right of this sentence: Attentiacizer Link Here!
Now you have that window opened up. Take a minute or two and watch the little ball make its way around the circle. While focusing your attention fiercely upon that little moving ball of light, pay close attention to the goings-on in your body. Pay some attention to all the sensations, feelings, emotions, thoughts, movements, twitches, and sense perceptions. You can include the sounds, tastes, touches, pressures, everything that is going on around you.
For now, let’s call this practice, “The News.” Why call it the News? Try it out for a few moments, and discover an answer for yourself.
Once you have tried the exercise, make note of your results, and continue reading.
Have you done the actual exercise? If so, Great! If not, why not? Go do it now. You have no reason not to. Just do the exercise now. It’s now or never. Stop putting things off. Do the exercise.
Ok, assuming you have done it, I now continue…..
What the Hell is Going on Here? is a wonderful question for directing your attention to the moment and space in which you find yourself. The News is always broadcasting, waiting for you to tune in. It is a neverending live feed of information and data for you to use to transform yourself.
Actually, the transformers provide a useful model to compare with Human Evolution.
Voltron provides an even better model in some ways:
Working Together With Yourself
If you know nothing about voltron, take a look at the picture. 5 cats make up the arms, legs, and torso/body. During the cartoon, the robotic cats had human operators. They ran around separately until increasingly difficult challenges forced the group to join together as one giant force, working seamlessly together.
The Voltron model proves useful as a model of effective group work. Over time, the group grows more cohesive and operates more smoothly as a whole, able to accomplish far more than its separate parts.
Voltron can also prove useful as a model of practical work on yourself. At first, the group of your various personalities and identities barely works together. They each move this way and that. At times, the situation grows dire enough for the separate parts of yourself to come together and work as a whole.
Whenever under the influence of any emotion or experience, step back for a moment to ask yourself, “What the Hell is Going on Here?”
Go from there.
Laugh at everything you are not supposed to laugh at.
-G
