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Being Present....and Complaint
Being Present
How much in the moment we are when we talk to each other.
As we keep saying, it is rare to experience anyone totally in the moment -
ever. We usually assign our actions, speech, thoughts to the automatic part
of our brain. We just take phrases and clichés from the data bank of our
memories, and string them together into a sentence. So rare we are really
there in a unique creative moment.
I know you may not agree, so I suggest you carry out an experiment.
For one day, or at least an hour or so, be really, really present with every
single world you utter. Every syllable would be better. Say, everything you
say. Nothing automatic. Not a single cliché.
With our children we are usually even more remiss. It is rare we actually
speak to them as a human being. We forget what it was like when we were
young. We do not treat them as equals. Yet it is very rare that children are
not more intelligent than their parents! All they really need from us is our
experience - in order to learn what not to do, the way we have done it!
Try it out. Be absolutely creatively present in everything you do, say, and
think - even for just a short while. It is exhausting to start with, then
after a while you can enter into a whole new level of living.
How much in the moment we are when we talk to each other.
As we keep saying, it is rare to experience anyone totally in the moment -
ever. We usually assign our actions, speech, thoughts to the automatic part
of our brain. We just take phrases and clichés from the data bank of our
memories, and string them together into a sentence. So rare we are really
there in a unique creative moment.
I know you may not agree, so I suggest you carry out an experiment.
For one day, or at least an hour or so, be really, really present with every
single world you utter. Every syllable would be better. Say, everything you
say. Nothing automatic. Not a single cliché.
With our children we are usually even more remiss. It is rare we actually
speak to them as a human being. We forget what it was like when we were
young. We do not treat them as equals. Yet it is very rare that children are
not more intelligent than their parents! All they really need from us is our
experience - in order to learn what not to do, the way we have done it!
Try it out. Be absolutely creatively present in everything you do, say, and
think - even for just a short while. It is exhausting to start with, then
after a while you can enter into a whole new level of living.
Complaint
Another experiment suggestion.
Again, for one day, or even just a few hours, become alert to all complaint.
Not only from yourself, but everybody. Listen. You may be shocked to find
how much complaint there is. And so little gratitude.
When I was living with my parents we did not have a phone. Not only were
they too expensive, there was a waiting list of years. And having one was of
very little use anyway - because no one we knew had one either, so we had no
one we could call!
And everyone complained - about everything.
It is a favourite British pastime - that is shared around the world.
Now, just seventy-odd years later we carry a tiny gadget with us at all
times from which we can call anyone anywhere any time.
We have prosperity and conveniences we never even dreamed of in those days.
And have we stopped complaining? Are we any happier? I don't think so - in
fact the more gadgiterised we get the more unhappy and complaining we seem
to be.
There is a whole new batch of studies with super sensitive instruments
showing things like the light, and frequencies we emit from our bodies.
Scanners are showing us that our frequencies change dramatically in varying
states of thought.
Putting is simply: Complain, and you vibrate at a lower frequency.
Gratitude takes the frequencies higher.
Complaint 'holds' an atmosphere around you - like a dark cloud - to which
other dark clouds are drawn. Gratitude is like light. Light disperses
darkness, and draws more light to itself. Both are self perpetuating.
The choice is obvious isn't it.
'All' it takes is awareness - in each moment.
Happy experimenting...
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