“It works... when both you and the people you hang out with are aware of the unconscious programmings that show their ugly head every now and then. Because if both partners are aware that this is programming and not you... that changes it... if both people are aware of this, then guess what? Rather than precipitating an argument, it precipitates an opportunity to change the programming when its done with a compassionate consciousness...”
“The honeymoon ends for a very simple reason. The honeymoon is created on two conscious minds engaging with each other & being self reflective of themselves. So they were monitoring their life and their relationship & doing it according to their wishes and desires.
The honeymoon ends when the subconscious mind shows up.... but the subconscious mind isn't really even you... it's your parents or something...
It ends when there are four minds involved... the two conscious minds plus the two uninvited guests called the subconscious minds. And all of a sudden, it's like.... “who is this person?!” I've never seen this behavior and now it shows up!... and all of sudden now... the adjustment of the honeymoon...
Now you have to learn to accommodate the person's subconscious beliefs, b/c they are are going to be more prominent in the relationship, and they were never there. So what started out as this honeymoon now is compromised, because the uninvited guests obviously bring in behaviors that were not intended by either of the partners in the relationship.”
-Bruce Lipton
Of course some variation of the above quote can apply to a variety of relationships... person to self, person to person, group to group, culture to culture, country to country, (world to world?), etc.
What tools exist, in simple terms, to become the conscious individual rather than the programmed individual? It has been said that simple self awareness can interrupt simple reactivity... that is to say that if we register that we are reacting, that very act can interrupt the chemical process.
In other words, when a situation arises, we often react as we always have, and the brain is said to release a neuropeptide associated with whatever emotion has been triggered. The cells receive that neuropeptide and a number of changes are triggered and 'cascade' through the body. (Candice Pert)
Most of us have witnessed another person in a rage, face transformed with choreography to match. An important distinction to make is that this isn't so much about containing the emotion... but rather observing the emotional state that we are experiencing. Thus the experiencer is brought into the picture.
If you've ever seen the movie What The Bleep Do We Know,a number of clips narrated by Candice Pert & Joe Dispenza make this exact connection.
They describe a situation where, at a cellular level, a person is bombarded over and over with the same nueropeptides, released in accordance with the same emotional reaction. The cell doesn't have enough receptor sites to accommidate the incoming nueropeptides, so when it goes to multiply, as a result, the new cell has more of these receptor sites.
This is how the point is made that one can potentially become addicted, habituated to an emotional state. As Lipton was saying above, the two uninvited guests show up when that conscious individual slips away. If the behavior isn't patterned enough to be subconscious, one has to be aware.
That awareness causes a certain interruption, which may reduce, to a point, the intensity of the emotion experienced, which means less of that neuropeptide reaching the cell, which means less sites for that neuropeptide when the cell divides... which means, potentially, less craving of those cells for something to fill the void. So the awareness has to be consistent enough to gradually come down off, what Joe Dispenza describes as, an addiction.
As a musician I may come up with a new pattern, but unless the pattern becomes muscle memory, it is easily forgotten. For this reason, it is typically easier to remember complex patterns rather than simple ones, because more time was spend cultivating the memory of them. These were the parts of pieces that were played over and eventually they became alive unto themselves... no real conscious thought is needed to bring them out... all that is needed is a trigger.
The more distracted our culture is, the less likely it is to give time to the type of awareness needed to dismantle a habit and to sculpt out a new one. How might we thrive as a people if we practiced these skills? What traits, passed down for thousands of years, might we let go the way of the dinosaurs?
With this in mind, how might the following things benefit everyone, in terms of reducing reactivity... a person's general stability with regard to shelter and food, the length of a given work day, knowledge of optimal diet and optimal posture and approaches to disease that are preventative... as dis-ease can be a distraction.
Although dis-ease can also cause one to turn inward and become an observer all the same, in general, it is interesting to contemplate a society that is free again to do nothing, to slow it down, to not have to look busy, to observe the self, to move, to work, without looking over the shoulder or feeling owned or dominated... to create conditions which make it practical to observe the self.
One thing is certain... a populous that is purely involved with base survival and the base reactive emotions we've passed down through the generations, is not going to be our best companion as we meet our potentially complicated future as a people.
A complicated world is one in which we've stepped out of a baseline framework (one with appropriate built-ins... built in proper posture, built in appropriate foods (automatically present in an individual's proper environment... like any animal... like an in-balance indigenous population, built in fertility rates to match carrying capacity of the land (preventing overpopulation), built-in harmony / relationship with the surrounding ecology, etc.)
We now have choices, many options, some detrimental. We live in a world of concentrates... concentrated sugar, extreme amounts of time in the same posture or physical position, etc. We have extreme circumstances to be reactive in. And we have many life-altering, world altering options. A mindful populous is needed to negotiate this power. A person is going to want an aware public showing up to this relationship.
Applied awareness may allow the relationship to move through its phases without hidden tangles... and essentially the weight of the past.
Imagine what we might become as conscious people interacting within a conscious society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kW0bHtY38
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