This is my e-mail response to a someone wanting clarification on just exactly what we were Triple A’ing when we Triple A’ed.

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Hi [correspondent]

I like how your understanding has evolved on the Triple A. Very nice progression.

My understanding has gone through similar permutations as Kris offers more and more information about who we really are and how, in fact, we literally create ourselves and our experiences.

Out to Sea with the Triple A

Let’s look at Triple A from the perspective of the ship’s captain that Kris talked about on a recent radio show. For the purposes of our example, let’s say that an iceberg is coming towards us, and we have been ignoring the crew’s more and more insistent messages about this looming problem.

Reality Intrudes on a State of Denial

Already, even before the iceberg hits our boat, we have an opportunity to acknowledge, not the eventual catastrophe, but the messages from the crew before it happens, representing the various aspects of our neo-conscious mind alerting us to the probabilities we are entertaining for ourselves.

So the Acknowledge part of Triple A could be said to begin even before the potential problem manifests in our lives. And in fact, if we are noticing and responding to the bad feelings, premonitions, intuitions, flashes of insight, dreams, and etc., we can often neatly sidestep the actual, full-blown problem by changing course. [So acknowledging is powerful medicine, akin to noticing but more responsive somehow]

Failing this more subtle level of acknowledging, we can certainly acknowledge the problem when the ship runs into the iceberg. [although it’s amazing to me how I can go around for decades not even acknowledging that a problem exists! Sort of like ‘and the band played on’, or Nero fiddling...]

Ok, so we have acknowledged that an ‘iceberg’ has crashed into our life, and there may be some damage. At the same time we find ourselves acknowledging that we created all of it, and it has meaning. This attitude of introspection invariably produces several very fruitful lines of inquiry for us to explore.

Addressing to the issue has many, many possibilities. Often the first thing we need to do is assess any damages and make emergency repairs as needed to keep our ship afloat. A captain has certain priorities and responsibilities.

In practical terms this means looking realistically at the problem that has appeared in our life, and responding with whatever adjustments we believe will be helpful in the short term, to allow us to carry on with everyday life.

Continuing to address, we can begin to explore the nature of our situation. “What exactly happened here? Why did it happen? Are there more ‘icebergs’ bearing down on us? Could this have been prevented?”

Changing our tack, we could also ask, “What is the challenge here, and what is the loving and nurturing intent behind it? What am I opposing?”

"Where can I simply relax my energy and just accept something I have been resisting?"

There is often an issue on the front burner of our lives, where all we have to do is stop pushing and defending, and everything will resolve effortlessly in our favor.

A Tiger by the Tail

After all this, it becomes easy to Accept the reality and dynamics of our situation, now that we understand ourselves and our feelings so much better. And it becomes easy to accept our own hand in all this too. We have reverse engineered this whole process backwards from the glorious fulfillment that is now at hand. All we have to do is Allow it to unfold as we intend[ed].

When we Accept ourselves as open-ended, multi-dimensional, immortal beings, we allow the possibility of the miraculous occasionally intruding upon our lives, always with the utmost respect for our own constructions of course, often to confirm for us the deep yearning and knowing we feel within, about our true nature and capabilities. Acceptance.

To directly address your question, I think you are right at the end when you suggest that it is both. We are Acknowledging, Addressing and Accepting both the problem and ourselves as creators and interpreters of the meaning of the problem.

But it is more than that. It is a lovely counterpoint of intentions and realizations that instigates a sort of dance in consciousness, between Ourselves as the conscious ego, and ourSelves as the neo-conscious self.

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Meanwhile, let’s keep in mind that to the degree we have created a separation, the neo-conscious is almost certainly Triple A’ing us right back, on whatever issues we are dealing with. It would be silly not to assume that the Triple A in our tool box, is an outer reflection of some awesome version of it we all use at the level of essence.

Just imagine Acknowledging, Addressing and Accepting ourselves as Essence!