The apple story continues.
Here is more Food for Thought, (a meta-physical puff-pastry) containing apple.
Where a good number of previous blog posts can be viewed as being rather abstract, this one is rather practical.
It is in a very practical way describing how you can familiarize yourself with using the glue WITH for you projects , without having to let go of the more familiar glue FOR (yet), that you are taught you need (have to apply) for your physical survival.
Using the image of the multi-dimensional cross-sections of the one apple.
You may find this blog post tasty and nourishing when you've got an appetite for boosting the quality of your life.
“ Yes, ...the quality of my life could really do with a boost”
First step:
Let’s check if you are making connections in your life using the glue FOR.
How?
By asking yourself a lot of ‘why’ questions.
Why am I investing time and energy in the things I invest my time and energy in?
Do your answers fit into this format?
- I do THIS, so THAT happens/ I do THIS to avoid THAT from happening.
- If I don't do THIS, then THAT happens/ If I don’t do THIS then THAT doesn't happen...
Is that true?
Then the rest of this blog posts may be of interest to you as a simple way to improve the quality of your life.
As a side line, before getting practical, let’s have a look at what applying this format onto your life choices, says about the way you mind your palette of choice.
Implicitly it shows that:
Which is fine! Don’t get me wrong. It works well in many situations.
- You have a preference for seeing those specific EFFECTS in your world and you make the desirability of the outcome leading in your choice process.
- That you are making predominantly mental LINEAIR (either/or) connections
- That you a pretty sure (doing) THIS to be the only way, to create THAT effect.
However, if you can stay open to the possibility that this is not your whole palette of choice and other reasoning MAY also be (-come) valid (if for no better reason than that you don’t really enjoy doing the things you feel you have to do), than you can seize this as an opportunity to play with non-lineair interrelatedness.
Bewildered? Not having answers on how that can be done?
Good answers have a tendendy to come to the front on answering good questions.....
Second step:
The wonderment start here on this good question:
“ HOW ELSE could it be possible to see the EFFECT I like to appear in my world, in another way, than it is done now?”
Wonderment opens the valves of creative juices and new inspiration to flow into your world.
Let’s take the real life example brought under my attention earlier this week.
“ If I don't shop, we don't eat.”
Between the lines it clearly reads:” I don’t like doing the shopping much...but I sure like to eat something!”
Other ways of having the groceries in the house, without having to go out yourself to the shops to buy them, could for instance be found in wondering:
Whether or not these specific answers/options are workable for you, is not so relevant here in this context. They are here as examples, opening your mind for the realisation that it is possible to see things differently and to do things differently, while ( and that is important for your peace of your mind)….. still having the likeliness for creating the the same material results: groceries to eat in the home.
third step:
So, with a more open mind to seeing options for doing something a bit differently, I now go a dimension of living up. ( This is a puff-pastry ... it contains many layers ;-) )
I am connecting the dimension of the soul, the layer of your innermost being to the daily energy investments.
The practical steps, started with asking ‘WHY?’, where you would formulate your effect-related matching answera to the task you are performing.
You identify why you feel you have to do it.
You may think this routine task is limiting your freedom?
You'd rather do something else, something more fun, more creative, more rewarding……?
On your way to ‘more freedom’, I am suggestion you to add another layer/dimension of WHY, to the reason why you are performing this task and…..
I am suggesting to use consistently the very same answer, over and over again, alongside (= non-lineair) to the effect you prefer to see appearing.
"Why am I investing time/energy in this?"
They answer may look like this:
In choosing to make the connection with both FOR and WITH, you are miraculously turning a ‘have to’ into a ‘want to’, a 'like to'.
You are emotionally stepping away from a task being a 'burden', where you don't have much choice... "it just has to be done."
You are emotionally energetically stepping into the joyful territory of deciding which of your talents you are investing and developing here and now with this time/energy investment.
Producing the desired material effects almost as a side-effect of seizing an opportunity.
“ HOW ELSE could it be possible to see the EFFECT I like to appear in my world, in another way, than it is done now?”
Wonderment opens the valves of creative juices and new inspiration to flow into your world.
Let’s take the real life example brought under my attention earlier this week.
“ If I don't shop, we don't eat.”
Between the lines it clearly reads:” I don’t like doing the shopping much...but I sure like to eat something!”
Other ways of having the groceries in the house, without having to go out yourself to the shops to buy them, could for instance be found in wondering:
- Is there somebody else who simply loves to shop... who might be willing to do it for me? (For 'nothing', for money, or in exchange for something you are enjoying to give/share)
Or - Is there a way where it is indeed ME organising groceries to come to my home, but I am not leaving the house for it at all?
(online grocery delivery services…)
Whether or not these specific answers/options are workable for you, is not so relevant here in this context. They are here as examples, opening your mind for the realisation that it is possible to see things differently and to do things differently, while ( and that is important for your peace of your mind)….. still having the likeliness for creating the the same material results: groceries to eat in the home.
third step:
So, with a more open mind to seeing options for doing something a bit differently, I now go a dimension of living up. ( This is a puff-pastry ... it contains many layers ;-) )
I am connecting the dimension of the soul, the layer of your innermost being to the daily energy investments.
The practical steps, started with asking ‘WHY?’, where you would formulate your effect-related matching answera to the task you are performing.
You identify why you feel you have to do it.
You may think this routine task is limiting your freedom?
You'd rather do something else, something more fun, more creative, more rewarding……?
On your way to ‘more freedom’, I am suggestion you to add another layer/dimension of WHY, to the reason why you are performing this task and…..
I am suggesting to use consistently the very same answer, over and over again, alongside (= non-lineair) to the effect you prefer to see appearing.
"Why am I investing time/energy in this?"
They answer may look like this:
- “ FOR creating effect X (Y and Z) AND because it is an opportunity to invest and develop my strengths and talents”
A bit shorter: - “ FOR effect X ( Y and Z) WITH my talents”
In choosing to make the connection with both FOR and WITH, you are miraculously turning a ‘have to’ into a ‘want to’, a 'like to'.
You are emotionally stepping away from a task being a 'burden', where you don't have much choice... "it just has to be done."
You are emotionally energetically stepping into the joyful territory of deciding which of your talents you are investing and developing here and now with this time/energy investment.
Producing the desired material effects almost as a side-effect of seizing an opportunity.
side step to step 3:
Now you may wonder, “ What are my strengths and talents?”
If you don't already have a fair idea on that, I suggest you’d go to this website.
You've got to register ( it’s free) and then take the test called 'VIA survey of character strengths'.
So, instead of only making a vertical cross-section of the apple-eating (energy consuming) task at hand, seeing the half-heartedly, (resentfully-at-times, even) shape in your core.
Seeing “there is the task on the one hand side and the desired effect on the other and I just have to swallow it, since there is nothing else to be seen…..”
Now you may wonder, “ What are my strengths and talents?”
If you don't already have a fair idea on that, I suggest you’d go to this website.
You've got to register ( it’s free) and then take the test called 'VIA survey of character strengths'.
In about half an hour of being totally honest to yourself, about yourself (important!) , answering 240 questions, you'll be presented with the 5 natural strengths/talents of your unique being.
It is a scientifically validated psychology test, created by Martin Seligman and his ( how-to-increase-wellbeing) research team.
By filling it in, you are providing valuable data to this research on human wellbeing too.
So, instead of only making a vertical cross-section of the apple-eating (energy consuming) task at hand, seeing the half-heartedly, (resentfully-at-times, even) shape in your core.
Seeing “there is the task on the one hand side and the desired effect on the other and I just have to swallow it, since there is nothing else to be seen…..”
( the left panel in the illustration above)....
You are simultaneously making a horizontal cross-section in the very same apple.
Where, you see your unique 5 full-of-new-life-seeds you can saw into this opportunity for new developments. And a twinkle/ a star in the middel of your core.
( the right panel in the ilustration above).....
Freedom of choice, again. Hurrah!
You are free to simply pick 1 strength/talent from the 5...or combine several, stick them all in the fertile soil of this energy-investement opportunity and see what happens.
Chances are, you will be enjoying performing those tasks more, for... they become an expression of your Highest/Best Self.
The way you work, the way you shop, the way you wash laundry..... cannot be duplicated by any other person, the same way.....
In the process you get to really know and understand your own talents.
You are incorporating your soul (your being) into your doing.
In investing the best you've got to offer, to your best abilities, you are improving the quality of (your) life.
P.S.
Funny afterthought, play on words:
Some changes seem big, but are actually achieved with making small tweaks.
How can I 'apple' my (whole) self?
How can I 'apply' my (whole) self?
Apple is using an E ( Energy), it's a fruit of labour
Apply is a transformation of that energy WITH knowing why ('Y'), as a fruit of labour of .......
:-)
You are simultaneously making a horizontal cross-section in the very same apple.
Where, you see your unique 5 full-of-new-life-seeds you can saw into this opportunity for new developments. And a twinkle/ a star in the middel of your core.
( the right panel in the ilustration above).....
Freedom of choice, again. Hurrah!
You are free to simply pick 1 strength/talent from the 5...or combine several, stick them all in the fertile soil of this energy-investement opportunity and see what happens.
Chances are, you will be enjoying performing those tasks more, for... they become an expression of your Highest/Best Self.
The way you work, the way you shop, the way you wash laundry..... cannot be duplicated by any other person, the same way.....
In the process you get to really know and understand your own talents.
You are incorporating your soul (your being) into your doing.
In investing the best you've got to offer, to your best abilities, you are improving the quality of (your) life.
Not as a side-effect of obtaining the material effects at some point in time, by doing things in a half hearted way.As an instantaneous effect (authentic happiness) of being the expressed best version of Who You Really Are, right now, right here, seizing more and more opportunities to be that, to know yourself as multi-dimensionally whole-hearted….. as the whole apple.
P.S.
Funny afterthought, play on words:
Some changes seem big, but are actually achieved with making small tweaks.
How can I 'apple' my (whole) self?
How can I 'apply' my (whole) self?
Apple is using an E ( Energy), it's a fruit of labour
Apply is a transformation of that energy WITH knowing why ('Y'), as a fruit of labour of .......
mix the letters of V O E L...--Dutch for feel--.... in any meanignful order on the dots ;-)
:-)
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