WEEKEND DOCBOX - Good To Know You Have Options

Every now and then you go through a strange patch, during which many or all your familiar reference points are thrown in the air, leaving you feeling disorientated and vaguely uncomfortable. The tendency is to resist it, to try and make it not strange anymore, to cling to something familiar even if it’s outworn, as if strange was something to avoid, something extraordinary. In fact, strange is the natural state and is better welcomed than resisted. Strange is a sign growth is occurring.

While growing might not be what you’re here for, it certainly comprises what happens being here. You either grow or you shrivel. What you’re here for is to enjoy it. To enjoy it you have to keep growing in order to process the all the new incoming data required for survival in an ever-changing world. To keep growing you have to pass through strange patches that seem to threaten to stop your enjoyment. At this point it is your choice whether to welcome and hence enjoy the strangeness even if it feels strange, or to resist it and stop enjoying yourself. Resistance to the flow of what is prevents enjoyment. And the other alternative, which is, in fact, also a form of resistance: distracting yourself from it through a variety of methods (self-pity, fantasy-daydreaming, rage, shopping, sex, drugs, drink, workaholism, or even bogus spirituality, for instance), only allays the strangeness momentarily, which causes it to return amplified.

Our world is undergoing exponentially accelerating transformation, some apparently benign, some apparently malign, hence on an individual level, as you necessarily grow and evolve to accommodate the information arising from external transformation, strangeness is to be expected in increasing measure now.

Strangeness is the new normal and the faster you learn to move comfortably with it, the faster you regain and retain equilibrium.

The mind likes everything to be resolved. That’s its nature. It feels uncomfortable in flux as a result and will cling to anything to speed resolution: fundamentalism, traditionalism, materialism etc. However if you override that tendency and allow yourself to grow, you’re opening yourself to the mystery and though that will inevitably lead you through some damn strange passages at times, the rewards are living your life as an adventure rather than being stultified and stuck in situations you’ve outgrown but are too afraid to leave.

It’s not that one way is necessarily better than the other. It’s simply good to know you have options.

In the weekend BAREFOOT JOURNAL, I go into how to train your mind to take optimum advantage of strange in order to propel yourself by a quantum leap along the Great Thoroughfare.

I wish you a day, night and weekend ahead rich with delightful surprises at every turn.

Love, Doc



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