Thinking, feeling, doing. Three key parts of the human experience. One is rational, using the brain. The other one you might call emotional or intuitive, using the heart. And doing is the by product of the two, the action that is taken as a response to the thoughts and feelings coursing through one’s being.

If these are the core elements to the human experience, then the question of how to improve the human experience leads me to wonder whether or not we have any control over these elements. Are we truly the captains of our ship? Can we be the masters of our own destiny, if we are subject to the whims of these processes? Or do we actually have the ability to sit back, witness the thinking, feeling and doing taking place, and transform / transmute them if we see fit?

We’re not our thoughts, or our emotions, or our actions. They are indicators of the state of our being, shaped by our perception of the world, and guided by the stories we hold about them. The same thing can happen to two different people, but each will interpret it differently based on the lens through which they see the world.

Widening our perception, and our ability to see a more beautiful story, can do wonders for our lives, but it requires an opening of our being. An accepting of that which is – all thoughts, feelings, and sensations - an allowing for all things to flow through our systems, whether desired or not.

More thoughts, emotions, and behavioral patterns will course their way through the mind, heart and body. And with this, we gain access to a wider range of human experience, as well as the ability to begin to weave the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of our being towards the experience our soul desires.

Life moves in seasons and in cycles, which contain infinite multitudes of seasons and cycles within themselves. For example, we’re living within a season, within a time of day, within a state of mind, within a period of one’s life, and so on and so forth.

I started thinking about his after listening to Tony Robbins talk about the seasons of one’s life. He pulls the concept from the thinking of Jim Rohn and his book The Seasons of Life, and in it is the idea that there is a proper time for everything. Just as the year has 4 different seasons, for each of which there are specific activities that resonate with the period or not (planting seeds in the spring, reaping harvests in the autumn, bundling up in the winter…).

They extrapolate this out to the notion that there are times in one’s life when it makes sense to pursue different sorts of things and embody different types of actions. 0-22 years old is spring time, 22 - 40 something is summer, and so on. The philosophy of numerology also dives into this from a different angle, with the thought that there is another grouping of seasons that run in 9 year cycles. Year 1 is for discovery, 2 is for community building… and on and on.

The numerology piece may be a stretch for some, but the idea of seasons is largely common sense. Yet when we zoom out and consider the anciently held hermetic principle of “As above, so below” “microcosm and the macrocosm” then we might yonder to speculate that the patterns run all the way down. That within each season is the whole spectrum of seasons… within spring there are days that are most spring like, or more summer, fall or winter like. That within each day there are moments which embody qualities of the summer (noon time) or winter (midnight). And within each moment there are states of mind that inhabit each of these seasons.

So this started to get me thinking. How do all of these layers of time interact with each other? I’m really not sure. But I think what this view indicates is that down on the quantum level, where time and space shrink down into the invisibles, that the cycles and seasons essentially collapse, into a vacuum.

There are so many of these patters overlapping and interweaving that they become so dense, that a sort of vortex is created. At our core, we live in a time and space that is so dense that it collapses in on itself… and opens into a deeper and more expansive dimension of our being.

What would be the implications for this? Perhaps that at any moment we can tap into that center, into the eye of the vortex, and step into that place of greater perspective to be able to observe many of the different layers of the place in time that we are in.

This ability wouldn’t erase the fact that I am 31 years old, or that it is 9:01 PM, that I’m living in New England and it’s 12 degrees out. But it reveals to me that I can step back, or look within, and be aware of these facts, and take on a wide enough perspective in order to better see the larger patterns that my mind and body are swirling in, and do my best to live in right harmony with these patterns, take the best actions in alignment with their flow (e.g. building my visions, getting some sleep, wearing a coat… maybe drinking some herbal teas that warm my inners :)) and ultimately leveraging the place I’m in now, and the elements I’m moving through, for the greater good.

#28 The Trifecta of Being

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