leaving the slippery slope towards collective human suffering, how do you redefine your existence? taking leisurely drives through the texas hill country from lago vista into austin around 9:30am on a weekday helps tremendously. stopping your work mid-day and enjoying your son, daughter, or loved one also furthers your leisure. eating longer than thirty minutes for lunch as well; but, most importantly, thinking deeply about your valuable importance within the collective consciousness.
humans crave love, clean water, pure food, and meaningful companionship. without these minimums, which many people even in the 0.05% lack, how can you justify living a full and nourishing life? chasing the dollar can only buy so much happiness. yes, money will always buy freedom in this manufactured reality; but, that pursuit has left a hollow vacuum filled with nihilism, polluted water, toxic food, and hate.
we have much to learn from our aboriginal ancestors. why focus your energy on obtaining a new ipad or smartphone when you cannot provide love, clean water, pure food, or relationships? aboriginal societies have shown more focus on community and spiritual development, as evidenced by its deep connection with the unknown, than modern global human society. some aboriginal societies possess uncanny community development, love, spirituality, and cosmic interconnectedness.
you always hear about young chinese girls selling their bodies for a new iphone, but let us look at the western experience. think about the miserable wretch schlepping to work and selling his human capital for a country club membership. women slitting throats for junior league membership, and both genders killing for political parties; but, going back full circle to the chinese girl, the eastern experience has become subsumed with the consumption virus and has even begun perfecting its social control. western police state regimes salivate with envy...
children emotionally and physically murdering one another due to vacuous voids in their parents' hearts. bullets flying through movie theaters, landing in the hands of latent sociopaths, and creating multimillion dollar fortunes soaked in blood. the modern human consciousness must move beyond mechanized death, the most egregious form of consumption, as a means for profit.
manufactured wars always demand fresh credit supplied by immoral financial and human capital as well as the resource capital that mains and kills innocent people. think syria and the remnants of the pyrrhic cold war, claimed as an american victory and a soviet loss!! who won? doubtful that we could argue that the 2 year old syrian eviscerated by ex-soviet / iranian military hardware came out on top. we should also ask marie colvin; yet without a doubt, your question would arrive too late.
western civilization has glorified meaningless violence and social stratification for its own sake and for a marketing dollar. does glorification via media, marketing, and fast food make us ill or better our existence on our planet? based on our current experience, we can answer unequivocally yes and no to the two questions.
pouring our resources and energy into education, healthcare, and necessary technological innovation will improve our odds against collective annihilation. how does relaxing and slowing down relate to education, healthcare, and necessary technological innovation? the three broad take time with few shortcuts and sometimes results take more than one lifetime.
what action plan can you create to relax and slow down?
a) tap the nonlocal
collective human mental energy focuses entirely way too much energy on the here and now. not only must our minds see the present, look back, and envision our future, we must articulately evaluate the unknown. aboriginal societies held shamans in great esteem, but for the most part, our modern collective mind has laughed off the unknown. clear your mind and calm your thoughts to stillness.
b) work on what you want to do
we feel that we must work to survive with some grain of truth; however, you have to buy into that reality. living and working on a farm remains incredibly different, and deep emotional experiences felt in the rural lands resonate with humanity. urban children with decaying family ties must understand this fact and also not buy into the idea that material possessions define your own worth; likewise, urban environments offer much richness in human consciousness potential.
your thoughts and language define your reality...your mindset determines your worth.
urban environments take no pity on the disenfranchised, and honestly, it does not have the means to provide a safety net. urban dwellers doing well know this fact too. your true safety net remains building your family and community ties. cultivating and nurturing those ties generally takes generations, does not happen overnight, and requires incredible work.
c) truly vacation
when you take vacation time, avoid checking business and personal email. you should in fact just put up the vacation auto-reply and check it once you get back into the office.
my lago vista trip this week remains built for quiet, solitude, quality family time, morning coffee, and wildlife viewing. our 2 year old boy insisted that he saw deer in the woods, and as it turns out, a 6 point juvenile buck sat below our back porch. he looked eerily into the glass door. to thank him, we exchanged pleasantries, and his doe and he went on their way.
enjoyed a long, hazy morning drive on ranch road 1431 from lago vista into the austin metro area for coffee and an internet connection. waited all week to pay some bills and write you. we must always remain resolute in enjoying life.
d) live over your commercial interests
why live in the suburbs when you can live above your commercial interests? granted, most zoning laws may or may not permit this practice, but it makes sense to stop the commute. the commute does not allow you to relax and slow down when you cannot control your vehicular commute pace.
imagine working with your doctor, cpa, plumber, or business advisor knowing that they live upstairs and not only maintain the commercial space but also a residential space. you could truly get to know an important person in your life and facilitate a deeper human understanding. we must end the tyranny of the suburb!
e) blueprint your perfect neighborhood
your perfect neighborhood would have not only professional services within walking distance but also independent, neighborhood run services and opportunities that allow you to:
- grow your own food
- secure your water rights and exercise judiciously
- create your own independent, integrated power grid
- recycle materials and torn clothes into building materials and other repetitive uses
- organize decentralized, community-minded maintenance systems
- protect your community's children and infirm
f) overcome socialized consumption patterns
why participate in the global past time around buying and throwing away? who says that you have to earn 100,000 by age 35 or retire by age 65? some social psychological spinster may have said so, but human experience has shown over the last 10,000 years otherwise. no one can put you in that predetermined box unless you let them do it.
g) enjoy transcendental music
this song always makes me happy...enjoy!! thank you washed out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYnfE5Cycg&feature=bf_next&list=FLXdB0Muh04EttmwtZH1JJ6A
relaxing and slowing down takes time and does not have a uniform path. start your conversation and determine your own path today! leave a message and let me know...
