Good Friday homeboys... here is something practical that maybe will get you in the right frame of mind.
In order to emancipate yourself from mental slavery... or let us put it like this a little bit better... in order to give yourself more degrees of freedom, more options and avenues, you have to interrupt your reactivity patterns.
Which are mostly going to be based in fear and scarcity.
When we fear, and this happens subconsciously, we automatically limit our ability to respond to any particular phenomena.
The response is already loaded before the situation finishes arriving. You did not choose it. It fired. Fear runs faster than thought and it hands you one option, then convinces you that one option was the whole menu.
The key to the kingdom, the key to making conscious and mindful discernment, is our ability to refrain from patterned reactivity and to curiously explore our newly opened degrees of freedom.
Curiously. That word is doing real work there. Not anxiously, not defensively, not with a plan already drawn up. Curiosity is the only posture that can hold an open space long enough for something new to walk into it.
You do not have to assume the worst. You do not have to entertain that person in the same way you did before. And you do not have to perceive that problem or obstacle in your way like you have so many times before.
What you do not terribly realize is the fact that you have put limitations on yourself your entire life.
Much of this is not your fault. Most of it happened without your conscious regard and without your voluntary consent. You inherited a nervous system, a household, a set of warnings, a decade of small humiliations, and out of all that a program got written that you never once sat down and approved.
But the brutal truth of the matter is that all the excuses and reasons do not mean fuck all. They are still going to keep you down and out, foolish and in a state of mental slavery.
The origin story is real and it is also irrelevant to the work. Nobody is coming to unwind it for you. Understanding exactly why the trap was built has never once opened the door.
Whenever you are interacting with another human being, just realize you are not separate from them. They are fighting the same internal battle that you are. They are still seeking validation, significance, acceptance, and all the other things that the external world is just not going to give you.
That is not a sentimental point, it is a strategic one. The moment you actually see the fear running in the other person, your own reactivity to them loses most of its fuel. You cannot be threatened by someone in the same predicament as you.
The entire point of waking up each and every day is to transmute our own inner ignorance into the light of golden conscious conscientiousness.
To be fully present, radiating our light 360 degrees.
And we can never do this when we are asleep at the wheel, half stepping, ego tripping, or passively seeking validation from a world that can never give it to us.
So catch the pattern once today. One time. That pause between the thing happening and you responding to it is the whole kingdom, and it has been sitting there unclaimed your entire life.
As above, so below
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