Good Monday Morning!

Experience who you are with. I know in today’s world the trend is to insulate ourselves with technology from the effects of the nuances from physical experience. As a result an entire important range of human interaction is being denied. The subtle influence from exchange in the same space, whether from the Olfactory reinforcement of memory, exchange of recognition Atoms, or full body experience of another’s presence is being slowly reduced. Is it any wonder a violent response is manifesting? Is it an unconscious cry for help because deprived of an important and essential input needed for rational thought and basic survival?  

Have we reduced our life experience. Instead of a three dimensional experience, life has been reduced to two dimensions. Through technology we have breadth and height, but are missing depth. Does this limit to our perception and contribute to shallow social interactions? Even if the device displays a three dimensional image, it is a two dimensional illusion. And, the lips rarely move in sync with the image so another input, visual and sound, is out of  whack.

This may sound as if I’m raging against the machine, but what I’m really doing is setting the ground work for a shift in attitude. Our attitude toward a thing dictates how we act within the scope of experience we allow that thing to have in our life.

We’ve all heard the stories about Guru’s on a hilltop. They isolate themselves from everyone and everything in order to find God? Wisdom? Peace? I think what they are really doing is finding a way to experience themselves. When no one else is around to experience, the only person we can experience is ourselves. What if we could take this attitude and project it into our own experience, at least in part. Since machines are isolating us, limiting our personal experience with others, our only option is to experience a part of ourselves so our experience of life and people is complete. When we experience ourselves we recognize and see ourselves in our experience of others, our own reflection in their experience of us. Becoming more aware of our own experience can fill the hole left by technological self-isolation, just as Guru’s are filled with their own experience of their experience.

When you can experience yourself in the first and third person, be the experience and the experiencer, the participant and the narrator, will you then see through the mirror darkly?

Have a wonderful week.

Sincerely;

Steven Johnson

Good Monday Morning World!!! Was that quake the world shaking in fear, or shivering in anticipation?

Hope and Fear is are good topics for today, especially where it applies to business.

Many I’ve met through my years, are now or have been successful: and some are now or have been trying to succeed: and some are now and will always be resigned to their failure. That is not to say that those, probably the majority of people, who have found a comfortable niche that sustains them now and will grow with them, are failures. Far from it. They are probably happy in their comfort, even content, and less fearful. But is sustainability growth?  Or the fear of growth?

In business there are always risks. Those who succeed do so because of the “Hope Of Gain” not the “Fear Of Loss”. You’ve all seen the proverb that says something like, “the successful have failed more times than you have tried”. For this to be true, they have accepted that failure part of the process, even view failure as no more than a sign post along the path to success. Kind of like a Detour Sign around the rough patches where you might have suffered complete and catastrophic failure.

Focus on the “Fear Of Loss” and you will spend so much time preventing the inevitable failure by mistaking it as loss, that you will never recognize your successes. A narrow path fraught with peril. You will now and  always will be resigned to Fail.

Focus on the  “Hope Of Gain”.  I will not define it for you. It is too nebulous a concept, and changes with the person.  

Hope or Fear. Have Faith or lose Faith - in You.

Have a Great Week.

Happy New Year,  2016.

The Holiday Season is over. No more Giving is required or expected. Now it is okay to return to our “Scrooge-ish” ways without worrying about three ghosts? Baa Humbug can safely be said until November? Do we fill our cups with selfishness, and toast the New Year? The selfish always drink alone because they do not share anything.

During the Holidays we gave because it was expected, and felt elated because of the happiness it gave the receiver. It fulfilled a need in us to give, that lightened our load for just a few days, and we were also the happy recipients that lightened someone else’s load. Giving even when receiving. Receiving even when giving.  

An old proverb says something like“ A full Tea cup cannot hold any more Tea.” Therefore, by pouring our Tea into someone else’s cup made it possible for us to receive Tea from another. And the more we pour out, the more we can have poured in. Warmth and comfort received, warmth and comfort given.

My New Year’s Wish for all of you, is to always be Warm and Comfortable, Happy and Light.

Happiness for your New Year.

Sincerely;