by Gary Harmon
The best way that I found to get anything done is to be tremendously interested in the topic. To be mildly curious about something is enough to cause a brief period of interest which might be enough to plant the seed of curiosity. That seed may germinate and may develop into the intense interest needed to do extremely well. But if the matter is of little interest the topic will always be drudgery, and that will make the undertaking extremely difficult. However if it is terrifically important to us, or considered a challenge of necessity whatever the price, it is more likely concluded successfully regardless of distractions and blunder along the way.
This is true regardless of the subject, whether it be fixing a car, building a business, or the ultimately nebulous yet decisively important challenge self-definition. There are two main methods that people use to solve any problems. One method is a logical approach, while the other is using intuitional insight. My way of problem solving has been principally intuitional, where a hunch or a gut feeling about something has been verified by a logical progression of events that proved the insight with fact that results in becoming.
It is vital to understand which of the two methods you favor to determine if you’re a logical person or an intuitional person. If you are logically governed you can lay out steps which will make a lot of sense, and problem solving is an orderly procedure for you. The difficulty is that if the first step or any of the key steps are erroneous, then all of the other building blocks will be in error also resulting with the ultimate abandonment of that pattern to begin anew.
The more subtle intuitional guiding principle within everyone can be heard and possibly developed, as attested by all the people in Las Vegas who believe in lady luck. In gambling you see a multitude of people that try to improve their odds by implementing a logical sequence into the illogical games of chance. Such things as logic oriented card counting do improve the odds, but is stopped if noticed by the establishment.
If you’re an intuitional person, strengthening the logical side by routinely practicing things such as mathematics and study of scientific principle is helpful to strengthen your weak areas, which I have found to be helpful. Even more useful is perfecting the intuition as much as possible, and then intuitionally waiting for the crack in the door to appear as it routinely does. When this occurs the time is right to work harder than ever, for with logic and intuition working together you will be amazed by their infallibility and your resultant insight.
Both need to play a part in any problem solving sequence, for one can check and balance the other, and is very important to implement them both the entire time. Relying too heavily on intuition can lead you astray, just as relying too heavily on logic can keep a person stuck and fearful of taking that leap that eventually becomes inevitable. Records of people who have used these techniques are worth study. Joseph Sadony, Richard Rose and Edgar Cayce are modern examples of this principles success.
The dilemma of logically laying out what ‘my way’ encompasses lays with the fact that we live in a nebulous current consisting of random thoughts that require an intuitional prerequisite to accurately sort through. Thus the logical first step is to isolate your thinking from the torrent occurring in the river of the herd mentality in order to develop the intuition. That is quite a challenge because we are a member of the human family and that should never be totally ignored, although it is always possible to step away from the herd programming long enough to simplify our own thinking.
Since we need to do several things at the same time, we must believe that we have the ability to do that, while at the same time accepting the possibility that we are a mere puppet on a string and can do nothing except that which we’ve been programmed to do. In other words–don’t rule out any possibilities, for in between logic and intuition you may realize the source of your soul.
We demand honesty from our friends and our teachers but few of us ever consider that honesty may not be possible if there are different levels of the communications happening at the same time so that honesty here is dishonesty there. If I say to you that I think or I do something, I can see myself as a liar. Why you might ask. Well the simple answer to that is: I don’t think that I do anything. Actually I don’t think that anybody does anything including the people that are self-realized. They may know that they’re not doing anything but fall back into the paradigm of acting out as if they are doing something because the people they’re talking with think that they are doing something. All individuals who are stuck inside the box have to feel that they are capable of doing things or else they just give up. Hope may be the only reason that the world exists. By giving up you are surrendering to the fact that you think that you can surrender, when in fact that may be still just part of the program that you have been given to act out. So we are left with the paradoxical hypothesis which states you’re not capable of doing anything; but at the same time if you don’t try to do something you could be lost in the herd.
I can tell the story of my life’s path and how I reacted to my programming during the life sentence I’ve been given here on earth, which may be inspirational to some people or perhaps depressing. Either way it is still a story and we are all stuck with living out our own trials and tribulations; well perhaps a better way to put that might be the life we suppose that we are living. My path may be more difficult or easier than your own but I can assure you it was quite exactly what this character needed to be motivated to look within. I have seen that we are all looking for answers, but the main difference is the degree of frankness that we are willing to accept as the final answer. In regard to the idea of doing things my way, which has come to pass because of having seen that no-one has a choice in the matter. They could not have done it any other way, and though it may sound fatalistic, it actually is not. It is just the way it is.
So to sum that up, I must say that my way was one of attrition that slowly eroded away the notion that I was a special unique individual born into a vast universe of other individuals. My way has become acceptance of the reality that I am a mere reflection of the vast singular totality of who I really am; so to know that is to really know that.
What should you do? What does your gut tell you to do? If you are troubled by not knowing your definition you are not alone and there are others who you can work with and be of assistance to for by helping you will be helped, the others are closer than you might know.
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