Living Outside Boxes, Continued

In my recent blogs, I have been going into more detail on what it means to live outside the boxes in which most individuals are confined. Most people in the Western World, spend a majority of their time in literal boxes, but also in invisible boxes, due to what they have been Programmed and Indoctrinated to believe in, which have created the false values they live by.

A major way to start to live outside the invisible boxes is to live in the present, staying out of the past and future as much of the time as you can manage. "Be Here Now," is a saying arising out of Fritz Perls' Gestalt Therapy. As I have written in previous blogs, Gestalt Therapy has, essentially, been distorted and eliminated as a viable form of therapy; the primary reason for this is the Personal Power one can achieve by learning to live in the Now.

There is only the "Now"; by staying in awareness in the Now one can achieve ultimate flexibility in actions. Consciousness exists in the Now moment of time; living in the past or the possible future in one's mind is to be unconscious/asleep.

In times of crises or danger, we are forced into that moment-by-moment consciousness. Those who practice, or have attempted to practice, meditation become aware of how difficult it is to keep the mind focused on the present now moment.

Focusing on an activity of some kind, which requires, or we give, focused concentration, also brings about moment-to-moment consciousness. The more time spent in such activities gives one practice in living-in-the-Now.

During normal, day-to-day activities, however, most individuals' minds are carrying on in the background giving commentary to our activities/actions, worrying, or planning for the next moments--what we will do or say.

Worrying occupies the mind of a great many individuals, particularly female individuals, because of their essential relegation to powerlessness. Worrying keeps the mind busy with, either, potential negative future possibilities, or over past events. Worrying, by its very nature is a negative activity. Focusing on negative possibilities, brings about such possibilities. This is the reverse of, "the Secret"; by focusing on the positive: appreciation, possibilities and thoughts, one creates positive events in ones life. To change what our mind is doing in the background requires focusing on it, and can be a form of meditation.

Most would like to believe that what goes on in their minds is, "thinking." In fact, very few individuals do any "thinking" at all. Days are taken up in habitual activities requiring little conscious thought. As I have written on in previous blogs, when individuals in our Western Industrialize Society believe they are actually, "thinking" it is with their Programmed and Indoctrinated Beliefs. Any mental activity arising out of a challenge to those Beliefs, is little more than rearranging those Beliefs, eventually discarding what does not fit in.

With that, I end this blog.

Shirley Gallup