Episode 48: Liberation, the Matrix, & Yoga Tights
Synopsis
Today I was getting dressed. I pulled on some athletic clothes, they didn’t fit the way they did a couple weeks ago.
I thought about how much focus the idea of appearance can consume - without us even noticing it.
This is a perfect example of the matrix effect. Attention following attention, instead of attention directing attention – like a big cat chasing its tail.
This is what I mean when I talk about helping people get inner control.
Liberation is about freedom from the spin cycle. Helping the king of the jungle orient beyond his own tail. So he can get on with his real purpose.
Truth is, life doesn’t even really begin until we step out of this spin cycle. And the possibilities for creating outcomes really just BEGIN there. That’s where the fun truly begins too.
Show Notes
Today I was getting dressed. I pulled on some athletic clothes, they didn’t fit the way they did a couple weeks ago.
I thought about my goal this late part of the year. And I thought about me within the context of many of us who want to drop a few LB’s, or tone up our bodies, or strengthen physically.
And how much focus it consumes – the idea of appearance.
How often we think about our own appearance and appraise it . Good, bad, better, worse…
Do you think that most of that focus is about what we think about our own bodies, or what we think others think about our bodies?
How much is that awareness of others’ awareness actually very similar to gazing into every mirror we pass, compulsively.
Have you ever known someone, maybe as an adult, but maybe when you were younger – who attracted some attention and made others laugh for getting distracted by their own reflection every single time?
I remembered how funny it is when someone’s enamored by their own looks. So many different directions I could go with that one.
But this “thinking about what others think about things” is so much a part of the human experience, it’s hard to separate it out and examine what it’s about. It’s a coping mechanism almost everyone learns at a young age.
This is a perfect example of the matrix effect.
Attention following attention, instead of attention directing attention – like a big cat chasing its tail.
Most people find it uncomfortable even before they see what’s really happening.
This is what I mean when I talk about helping people get inner control.
The same can happen with fear about trust. Someone’s afraid that they’ll make a decision that will be the wrong one later, and that fear makes it almost impossible to make a decision.
The same can happen with fear about money. irrational fears about resources prevent someone from solving the problem
The same can happen with fear about fear. And anxiety about anxiety. Have you ever experienced any of these first hand?
These are some of the deepest and first octaves I work with people in. It’s the first yellow brick on the road. It has to be.
When this experience is going on, nothing else is possible in the awareness. It’s attention locked in on attention. Focus instinctively or compulsively pulled and directed by fear.
First I just wanted to validate this dynamic. People think they’re alone.
It’s the most common human experience to feel survival conditioning without the danger. That’s what we call a first world problem, and it’ what people mean when they talk about a matrix.
It can feel like you’re trapped – in a very real, and visceral sense, but your mind knows you’re really not.
How do you recalibrate the experiential understanding? That’s how I help people.
The first step is awareness and knowing there’s another way of being, another experience waiting for you. It’s possible to step out of these patterns and make the needed positive changes.
Let’s give this even more context. We know fear is suffering when we’re not actually at real risk of harm, but still feel fear anyway. Example: considering spending $25k on something with a million+ in long term investment vehicles. Real estate, IRA’s, mutual funds, 401k’s, etc etc.
Can you imagine for a moment what life is like when those fears aren’t directing traffic in your life?
If we change nothing, nothing changes though.
My absolute number 1 pet peeve is that, when we search for answers and find new partial solutions, or merely what I would describe a coping mechanism, and are inspired to stop there, because it seems to be all there is, we step into a different room of mirrors. It’s just a new matrix.
Liberation is about freedom from the spin cycle. Helping the king of the jungle orient beyond his own tail. So he can get on with his real purpose.
Truth is, life doesn’t even really begin until we step out of this spin cycle. And the possibilities for creating outcomes really just BEGIN there. That’s where the fun truly begins too.