Courageously choosing for this environment has done miracles for me. Pukeko birds on our driveway.
Learning to live a sustainable different lifestyle is a scary business and paying attention to the environment you are in, is imperative if you really want to learn and become the change you want to see.
Why am I saying this?
Because we all have book cases full of books with exciting content about how we can live a joyful and healthy life; so why then are many of us NOT living that promised healthy and free life?
Or when we are seriously trying to change are we having a joyful exciting ride or do we find ourselves engaged in a fearful and difficult business, often taking one step forward and going back two?
So what is going on?
To explain that let me introduce how learning works based on ‘The Biology of Belief’ by Bruce Lipton Ph.D.
Bruce explains that our environment is crucial to learning and he developed this concept from his work in cell biology.
THIS is the food nature provides for us, if we let it. Our broccoli.
Last Monday my post was about how; ‘I believe in the power of the individual, YOU‘ where I suggested that “Our current crisis was created by each of us acting independently and establishing a personal and professional lifestyle that was environmentally deaf, dumb and blind.”
Change is upon us, the Aquarius era is dawning, there is no stopping that but Erin observed;
We are in transition, yet we don’t want to be. It seems safer if everything remains the same and we know what to expect.
Evita Ochel too can see the resistance to change;
I know that our world does not support “different” – in fact it doesn’t just ignore it, it makes whoever is trying to be different and enact a change know that it is not welcome.
Learning to be a captain can be tiring.
On this Monday’s post; Allow yourself to be lovable and shine I argued the case for us to become strong basecamps and how important it is that we captain our own Life first and then we can become a leader for our family. Being captain is no longer the prerogative of men, times are changing and with that the need for everyone, women and men alike to accept the responsibility of being our own captains on our own life voyage. We need to start learning to think and act from our own inner indigenous power.
This is easy to say, but as Dorothy shared very challenging to embrace in daily life. Dorothy’s experience was one of;
Traffic in Vietnam makes you pay attention.
There was a wide range of comments to this Monday’s post; Do you Pay Attention?
My simple example of dragging the kayaks through the mud when the tide was out was to demonstrate that failing to pay attention has consequences and one of them is that we fail to see what there is to prepare for to have life work out. There are many more consequences when we fail to pay attention and although some comments touched on preparation only, it was not preparation I wanted to draw your attention to, the point of this post was about ‘pay attention to paying attention’.
Aysel could certainly see the issues when she explained how it is for her;
I don’t pay enough attention to what’s happening around me because I am too preoccupied with all the thoughts and ideas inside my head, all the ‘why?’ and “how?’ and ‘what it means?’ questions… Sometimes I get annoyed when I am distracted from this thinking process, even if it’s by son who is asking for some attention. But I switch my mind and dive into the daily routine; before I know it all those very “important” questions shed their significance, they fade away. Maybe instead of thinking too hard, I could live “harder”? I fear that a lot of precious moments are lost because I was too absorbed in my own thinking.
John paying attention to the tide.
Paying attention, being alert and performing at our best only happens when something is at stake, like in a crisis or getting safely home from a sailing trip. You too probably know the feeling, eyes see, ears hear, you are on full alert; you are awake and performing brilliantly, you are alive!
Does that mean that somehow in our daily life we do not pay attention, be alert and fully alive?
Yes, that is exactly what I mean! Marianne Williamson agrees as she keeps reminding us over and over again that we are not paying attention to the fact that we all have the ability to always perform like the brilliant, gorgeous, talented basecamps we all in principle are.
She often exasperates at how we are not taking ourselves seriously enough, how we are not working hard enough to be who we truly are, amazing capable beings who live brilliant wonderful lives and have glorious relationships.
Ouch, the halo seems to escape us . . . again!
I think she has a point and a big one at that.
When I met John I thought he was too serious. He did a lot of interesting things but everything he did, he did with intent. He paid attention to me, to what was going on around him and he always prepared whatever he did. My ego had a lot to say about that. I found him pedantic and anal and I thought I was actually more flexible and relaxed? Was I?
Learning about enough has its rewards, an afternoon swim in the river.
I certainly touched on a hot topic with my post this week on ‘When is ‘enough’ enough‘.
Especially as we are all bloggers, all wanting to get to grips with this ‘insatiable beast’, the blogosphere.
Evita, Megan, Patty and Suzen all echoed Zeenat’s sentiments when she said;
I open my computer…and i seriously don’t know what to do first…check the blog..check the email..check facebook..twitter…then reading commenting…I know its never ever enough..cause i almost always reach my favorite friends posts last!
When I was pregnant, I was totally in love with my life. It rocked.
In this week’s post Learning from experience to do things differently Wilma shared how she created a different world for herself in order to gain access to her indigenous self and to LIVE her life even though she did not initially know how to do it.
Her desire to do life another way was strong enough to propel her forward into the depths of the unknown in order to be free and LOVE life.
She has certainly achieved this.
She has arrived in style.
Wilma loves her life, it oozes from every part of her, it is in every cell in her body and she is IN love with everything that she does, from washing the dishes to writing her blog posts to spinning and knitting to dealing with the fresh produce from the veggie garden and to building her WomenLikeMe business.
She is consistent, she LOVES it all.
John, noticing that I am not where Wilma is at, asked me this question on Monday “Ann-Marie what do you love doing?”
Learning to do things differently alright on my 17 days ocean trip on this vessel.
I was in my late forties when it hit me how boring and dead end my future looked.
We had a nice freehold house, enough money to do what we liked with, I had a great job as a career consultant and yet it suddenly hit me that there was nothing left to explore, that there was nothing left to discover!
I had that horrible feeling of boredom, of having seen and heard it all and I probably had, within the confines of the life I was leading.
My job as a career consultant contributed to my awakening as well.
I so often saw that predictable career paths and work solutions were not as crash hot as they were first made out to be.
I heard a lot of work and career related stories and I noticed that people who chose a different way, people who carved out their own path were far more interesting and joyful to talk to than the ones that had gone down the what we would call ‘normal’ route.
The ones who had successful careers according to the definition of society were often pedantic, dumb, self absorbed, arrogant, not observing what was going on around them and absolutely scared of everything new.
Being made redundant for them was death, they often could not see their way out and they were hard to deal with.
Creating the Experience to Learn is where the gold lies.
The Little Voice, the ego was the topic of this week’s post as Wilma shared how a weekend of guests sent her into a mind spin of upset and how she got herself out of it.
We are all familiar with our ego; the martyr, the doormat, the manipulator, the stronghold, the unknown quantity or as Patty put it; “I like to think of her as my martyred caregiver. She gives and gives and gives, and darn it, why can’t people just see all that I’m doing for them?”
Most of us agreed that in order to be free of the ego we first must be present to it, to be aware of it, what it says and the results it causes. The Little Voice is powerful beyond measure and something not to be taken lightly, it has many ways to hide out and mask its appearance, and it is cunning and operates under the radar.
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