Action, Behavior and Habits
Kris caught my attention a couple of times this evening. He said
that it was better to cultivate habits that nurtured us and served our
intent, but also that our conscious thoughts and beliefs were not
necessarily our actual beliefs and intent.
I asked him how we could align our habits to our intent in the case
where our conscious beliefs were not, in fact, our real intent. He said
we could discover our intent by noticing our behavior. Certain actions,
behavior and habits are fun and relaxing and effortless, as well as
being joyful and expansive - these are aligned with our intent.
When we are acting out of harmony with our intent, we feel sad and confused, dispirited and perhaps even angry. [Kris has been getting a little esoteric on our ass lately, so please bear with me.]
Turns out action is a very special kind of thing. It is in the
process of taking action that we communicate most intimately with our
whole self. Action is at the junction of the 10% of us that is
conscious, and the 90% of us that is subconscious, unconscious or
neo-consious.
When we act in the world we engage our neo-conscious - our whole
being - viscerally because we are willfully choosing an action, and
simultaneously manifesting the expression and outcome of that action in
the ‘real’ world.
Remember, we are creating all of it coming and going, so the
neo-conscious can't take our number and promise to get back to us, like
it sometimes seems to do when we ask for answers, it has to respond in the now, to our every action in a wonderful dance of intent and nurturing of intent.
Actions, behavior and habits include not just physical action, of
course, but also thought, feelings, imagination and all the other
layers of ourselves where we are continuously making choices and
expressing energy.
Choosing the action is an act of our Conscious Self - the top 10% -
while manifesting the action and creating outcomes is the domain of our
neo-conscious - the bottom 90% plus.
This
illustrates beautifully why acting in the world is our primal creative
expression in this focus of awareness we call being human. Think of the
billions of tiny physical actions that are triggered when you decide to
pick up a cup of coffee. [ten to the mega-gillion and counting]
This is physical manifestation at a spectacularly rich level,
imagine every muscle, fiber, synapse and blood cell, plus all the
layers of intricate activity 'below' that at the inorganic realm of
physics and chemistry. [This is the power and depth of our
neo-conscious - it is infinitly capable of manifesting endless
realities better than we can imagine, without any conscious input!
When we use our powers as Earth gods and goddesses, the world curves
around what we have expressed, and happily joins us in the game! This
is truly an intimate dance of point and counterpoint between our
choices and our simultaneous allowance of the manifestation of these
choices.
[can it be that choice and allowance as identified here is really
the ‘opposing and allowing’ that Kris talked about so long ago...
remember he used to say that we create our lives here in the physical
within an arena we form between opposing and allowing...
but how is choice opposing... oh, I get it... by choosing
something we are in fact opposing not making that choice... We are
therefore opposing all the various possibilities of choosing something
else, anything else. A choice is as much an excluder of stuff, as it is
an includer of stuff.]
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So tonight I tried the pyramid imagery during the radio show, with
the pearl of awareness floating in the river of symbols flowing from
the Arch of the Mother... and just as he was getting ready to go Kris
looked me right in the eye and the whole room went sort of funny...
like a surge of blood pressure that affects how you see things...
things got sort of yellow and over-saturated... like a ‘buzz’ in the
neurological system.
[funny thing is it has taken real noticing and allowing to get this
thing to the surface of awareness... I was aware all right of what
happened... and noted it quite calmly at the time... but it is only
after writing several other things, and then consciously noticing the
waves of energy flowing around the event... that we started to put
ideas and then words to the experience... still very hard to focus on
it... everything sort of slides away into other things, more familiar
imagery, issues, shadows, sensory input... anything to feed the beast
and quell this curious, pungent energy of straddling my broader self as
a Speaker with my local self as a radio personality... and then there's
just me... ;-]