Wednesday, Nov 29 update
Thinking 101 Experiment
About 30 of us are enjoying a 13 day experiment called THINKING 101.
Substack tech support is supposed to be helping me figure out how to select these addresses and only send to them… I’m not holding my breath. It’s important we can comment and read each others comments, share insights about the writing and the audio programs, etc.
So, until they help me, I’ll post here and ask that only members comment - you know who you are. The other 400 or so on this list can just delete these posts without reading or, if what you read piques your interest read on and then, if you want to participate, visit here: https://www.openmindfitnessfoundation.org/thinking-101 and jump into the lab with us if you like.
In our zoom yesterday we discussed money. We agreed that almost every troublesome issue on the planet has a money issue attached to it. Money is our primary currency and people will do just about anything to get and keep it, including harming their fellow humans. But that’s hardly news.
“Follow the money.” How many centuries have people been saying that without anything significant being done to change the dysfunction. We’ve just grown more cynical… it’s intractable. Nothing can be done about it, it’s just human nature.
I, we, disagree. The primary currency we humans trade in - actually - is love. And it’s not negotiable. Love is freely given and received, or it’s not real love. So, our insight / lesson / practice is to begin prioritizing love in our exchanges. This is spelled “generosity.” When we give and receive with each other, not keeping track, not charging money, just being generous, it creates a sense of natural obligation.
Resource tip: Love Actually, the movie. A perennial Christmas fave. Stream here.
But this obligation is fundamentally different than “debt.” Example: You give me something with no strings attached. I’m now obligated to give back. But not necessarily to you. Imagine you just filled up my cup. Now, in order to receive more, I have to empty my cup. So, I give to someone else. Maybe back to you but much more likely in some other direction that suddenly calls for my generosity. Now my cup is empty again and I can receive more. And, on it goes.
I seem to recall this being described as: “My cup runneth over.” Maybe this was hinting at a new economic system!
Glad to share a few insights from the program and I invite comments from the registered participants, thanks! We’ll be able to read each others comments and it will sure make it easy for me to moderate.
How magnificent! Thanks so much for detailing your journey like this. The process we are experimenting with works best when we customized it for our personal make up and when we repeat often enough to tweak our way of doing it and then, on specific memories, actually shift the emotional anchors. Kind of like a teeter totter, reaching the 50% point, then tipped over to the new side and, from that moment, recalling the memory with the new anchor attached. Rock on!
That's inspiring Marilyn, thank you for doing that. I actually think it takes less that 15%. If you read Power vs Force by Dawkins he calibrates how few awake souls it takes to counter evil. See you on Saturday!