In the last two blogs I talked about influence and offered examples. In past blogs I have mentioned several times that it is not easy to remember that you can implement an influence. I guess it makes sense for a brain to preference storing experiences that happen in physical form over some second level imagined abstraction. The brain is physical and it has protocols, maybe, identified by science. But if you wish to squeeze anything out of your short lifespan, you will need to convert imagined ideas into form. I define form as a repetition (idea adding time) to implement a concept into structure; the art of physical “growth” or what we refer to as change. My students referred to this as a “growth period” and that may be a good title.
You started out in life as imagined, both in manner and in form. Not sure those ideas were favored by all parties involved and not sure how much redundancy went into the development. It doesn’t matter if you were a grand plan or a surprise; you just became a potential unique identity in human form. Congratulations!
Post birth your time is filled with redundant activities; caring for, caring about and imagining a possible future by all parties involved, maybe even you. You learn fast what to expect and how to stay safe although you may challenge these lessons at times. The answer is always more redundant attention, care, and training (support for learning). Traditionally you learn quickly, absorb a lot of information which all seems to be stored in snippets or events. At some point the system refreshes, that data is sorted and restored by similar patterns. There are a lot of theories how and when this occurs but both vary by person. Parents, family or the tribe would train the young skilled to become an apprentice. When the trades phased out, educational institutions (at first Churches) took over with reading, writing, arithmetic and, most importantly, attention span. We may presently be in line for another change in this process when you look at the amount of people with ADD and ADHD today.
Please respect the fact that your brain operates in the dark and is expected to at least support if not generate your concept of self. Every decision and action is orchestrated by the pool of large relative data secured and reviewed most often. Now that sounds like wise decision making except no events are truly identical and as you mature (more life experience) your values alter from past real-life experiences. For example, you take a test for a job and fail. You get that you need more preparation so you initiate that task. Here is where the hidden element comes in. Some people, and you may be one, study for that test and continue to take it until they pass it no matter how long it takes. Others give up after that first try or maybe make a second attempt but post that failure abandon the idea. But do you get how redundant attempts start to swing that unconscious ledger keeping toward success? Our evaluation system depends on repetition to support a decisive change in action. Compulsion in access is another type of mental imbalance. We have to exercise compassion to balance value in recurrence and we will explore that next month.
Chriss
A question to find more questions in your meditations in July:
What causes a person to give up on attaining “real values”?
