Transcedence from Person to Human

How do you go from being a reactive person to a conscious, reflective human?  That is the subject of this post.

We live in an objective world and our senses allow us to navigate around, in, and through the objects we encounter every day. This is our normal way of life as a person.  However, without subjective consciousness there is a lot we are missing.

We can tie subjectivity into the objective world because we have a choice. And that choice has to do with transcendence and moving beyond objective consciousness. Transcendence brings understanding to a person about oneself in relation to the objective order of reality. Transcendence is the act of consciously turning toward reflecting on one's thoughts, emotions, feelings, and values. It revises and recasts reality.

Vertical Transcendence

In normal life we experience events happening all the time and react according to our thoughts, values, feelings, and emotions.  An event happens and we observe it. By observing I mean we sense it in some way through our seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting. We observe an event happen and almost immediately a thought occurs. And then usually some kind of emotion is produced. For example if you see people being slaughtered, or smell rotting flesh, or hear missiles screaming overhead, the thinking process turns almost instantly into an emotion.  You can use your imagination here.

The process of event, observation, thought, and emotion is normal and there is no way to get out of it except go hide in a cave somewhere. Once an emotion is elicited the next thing usually entails some sort of action. Normally what happens is a reaction. A reaction is a reflexive act that causes one to react to a situation automatically, as in reflex action. Because there is no reflective thought in a reaction the result can be devastating to the reactor or the recipient or both. This is why people hit people, shoot people, go to war, ad infinitum.

There is a solution to this madness. It is called vertical transcendence or intrapersonal reflection.  Rather than taking the course of reacting (reflex action) to a situation unconsciously you can immediately observe your thought before the emotion manifests itself thereby short-circuiting the cascading process that leads to the devastating outcome. Whether to react or reflect is an act of conscious awareness. The ability to do this is constituted through one's own choice and results in self growth toward a higher Self.

Continued on next post.

What does it mean to be human?

To be human is more than meets the eye. We often associate "human" with Homo sapiens, the generic name of a bipedal mammal with a large brain and the capability of speech and somewhat rational thinking. However, there is a difference between being human and being a person. In Sunnie D. Kidd's 1990 thesis The Experiential Method there are three principles that preserve the person as a human rather than the raw basics of nature:

1)  What we are over what we have.
2)  Communion over alienation.
3)  Human freedom rooted in conscious.

A person is nothing more than an organism reacting without awareness. The three principles above are what make a person a human. The three principles are what maintain a proper balance between the human person and the basic nature of awareness.

How do you go from being a reactive person to a conscious human?  That's the discussion for my next post. 

The Quantum Effect

Lie on your back on a hard surface with a yoga mat.  Bring your knees to your chest and wrap your arms around your lower legs. Bring your knees as close together as possible and cross your ankles. Hug your legs so you feel like you are pretty stable in a balled-up pose. 

Slowly roll to one side a few inches and then over to the other side.  Continue to roll back and forth gently and slowly.  Focus on what is causing your body to move from side to side. Be fully aware of your entire body: back muscles, hips, belly, shoulders, head, knees, feet, as well as your breathing.  Go deep into your body and see if you can detect what causes your body to move back and forth.  Not everyone is the same.
 

A Retreat to Propell You Forward

In November there will be a retreat in Florida for those interested in learning how to go beyond their mind-body attachment and live a more rewarding life.  You can ascend to a higher level, and still live in the world enjoying everything life has to offer, and no longer be a victim of society's conditioning.

The first task at the retreat will be to focus on how to fully relax. In order to bring your mind into a peaceful mode it must be calm, relaxed, and tranquil. Relaxing the mind is one of the hardest things for most people to do. Two of the best methods for relaxing the mind as well as the body have proven to be progressive relaxation and chakra breathing.  These two methods will be explored in depth at the retreat.

Once relaxed you can then settle down for a good session of exploring your own true Self, and allow your life to manifest from that perspective.  You will learn how to go beyond the mind and the body and become the Witness. From that vantage point you can then investigate the various states of consciousness giving you the ability to rise to a higher level. You will be able to live from a higher perspective, and function to your highest potential by living in the world and enjoying all the wonderful things life as to offer.

Take this opportunity and register now at www.gobeyondmind-body.com


Or tell a friend about it.

Peggy Sue & Buddy

                                                         on the lookout for squirrels.

Be kind to yourself

A person told me the other day that he would never forgive his wife for betraying him. He said he would always hate her for what she did to him. Even though they got a divorce and probably will never see one another again he still has that festering anger inside him.

The anger he has will do nothing to her but will play havoc on him the longer he harbors that hatred.  Anger eats away at every cell of the body. Anger causes stress and that in turn causes hypertension, anxiety, depression, insomnia, premature aging, and cancer. The telomeres that hold the ends of chromosomes together get frayed and the cells get older faster.

A recent study (May 2013) done at Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Boston, MA showed that when people under stress practice progressive relaxation their bodies react almost immediately by producing life-saving chemicals that counteract the damage of stress-related hormones.

Progressive relaxation is not hard to do; anyone can do it and practically anywhere. It simply entails tensing different parts of the body for short periods of time and then relaxing those body parts until you have gone over the whole body. After tensing and relaxing all parts of the body you then use your mind to direct your breath into those parts filling them with pure, clean, healing energy. Where the breath goes the energy will follow. The whole process takes 30 minutes or so but it is a life saver.

The Nature of Reality

The nature of reality 
is what you are -
not who you are
or when you are.

You are the dust
particles
of the cosmos.

You are the thoughts
and ideas
that exist
everywhere.

You can never
never
be.

You
are.