The article "We'll All Experience It Some Day" talks about attraction, it was released by James Rick.
The strangest thing came over me for the last couple of days. I've been researching mind bending stuff that goes down to the very core of behavior and beyond.
It's been incredibly helpful in restructuring my "mental map" but at the same time there's been such huge foundational changes in my thinking I'm left questioning existence deeper than I ever have before.Let me back up for a moment so you're not totally lost. In one of my earlier writings I said that NOTHING has meaning unitl we attach meaning to it. This concept totally floored me. Think about all of the things that happen in our life that we attach meaning to?If someone smiles, if someone winks, if someone talks slurred, if somoene looks up at you and holds out their hand.........Your old blanket, your old photos, your favorite song, your first car, your first love, that old scent.......Meanings are EVERYWHERE!
We've formed them as a way to deal with the world.
I think meainngs are an emotional expression that we impose on the physical world.
In other words, we feel emoitons - they are very real. So in order to deal with the world on a deeper (emotional) lveel we form an emotional connection with things. The things themselves may have no feeling or no meaning without us but the menaing we give them makes them come alive! If you're still with me I'm about to take you on an intellectual ride.
(You thought you were already on it did not you?) I traced meaning all the way down to life itself. If nothing has meannig until we attach our emotions to it, does that mean that life and death itself have no meaning? Wow right?
Are you with me? LIFE and DEATH with no meaning? Can you see why I was in a funk? That can't possibly be right? Do you feel that it can't possibly be? That would mean by some bizarre mathematical miracle the ingredients for life randomly mixed together in circumstances ideal only in a scenario that would come around 1 in infinite.
That life was as random and meaningless as the piece of gum you stepped on yesterday while heading to work.Of course I could not possibly settle for that ansewr. If nothing more than to give my life meaning I had to find a better answer!
Part of knowing life is knowing death. I've spent so much time thinking and studying life that I've neglected the meaning of detah.
Death has always just been one of those scary deadlines that's going to end all my fun.
Death has always been a rather inconvenient item at the bottom of my to-do list.Today as I studied death on the web I saw more bolod and gore in a day than you'd see in a year as a battlefield surgeon. I'm exaggerating of course but I assure you there's no shortage of death "research" on the web. If you can stomach it.
Of course not everyone who downloads that sutff is going at it with such an open mind. Talk about "meaning" when you think of "death" what do you feel about it?
Most people associate detah with loss or the ultimate confrontation with pain. And think about how death has been used - it's a PENALTY for seirous crimes. Can you imagine if there was a cave in the mountains that everyone had to go into if they committed a serious crime?
How would you begin to feel about that cave? What kind of meaning would you give it? That would be a prtety scary place you'd never want to visit wouldn't it!? And there's more! Pain is bad right?
I mean we avoid pain. What hapepns when we experience LOTS of pain? We feel like we’re... dying.
We don't actually die - we just feel like we're close.
We're on "death's door step" We've associated pain with death, when in all actuality pain only hapepns in life! When you die there is no more pain!
When the pain becomes too much in life - you die!Okay so at that moment I'm ready to make my point.
I've made sveeral already - but I mean my biggest point of the night. Are you ready? Is death a good thing or a bad thing? Did you answer that question yet? I'm sorry it wasn't a fair question, I tricked you.
Death is neither!
Detah is neutral.
We judge daeth within the frame of life. If we were in the frame of death we might not want to live! Life wuold be the scary thing.
Now you might say, "Hold on James I was with you up until now, at that momnet you've gone off the deep end and you've already done that several times in that article, but at that moment you're really deep! " I will agree with you. This is it - that is the topic of life and detah - that is everything.
This is the ROOT of our existence!
This is where everything we do comes to a head.
It's that fine line between a beating heart and electrical current in our brain (life) and nothingness (death).Now when I say "nothingness" I don't actually mean nothing.
I think our energy goes on after death, how do I know? I don't - I just feel it. But the irony is that knowing and feeling are actually qualities of life!
Don't just read that without grasping what I'm saying here, understand it.Imagine two very distinct frames - LIFE and DEATH.In LIFE we have pain, pleasure, logic, feeling, desire, etc.In DEATH we have nothing. It ends the cycle of life.
Except somtehing within us moves on. Our energy. The "essence" of our experience goes on to unite with what is known as "god".But for we are alive at that moment and you'll be able to aplpy that mostly while you're alive :) I will conclude with something you can use. Understanding death while you're alvie can put you in an incredibly liberating frame of mind. I recall the wodrs of a spiritual yogi, "You must die before you can truly live."This means you must be able to sense the nothingness of death to truly experience the joy of life. Death is not a penalty - we the living make it so, but look beyond our petty undesrtanding of death. See it for what it truly is.
The sweet union back to the seeming nothingness from wihch we came. No ego, no desires, no pain. Both life and death are beautiful when you see them for what they relaly are.And finally - the biggest question I had to answer: What are supposed to do while we're alive? How silly some occupations in life seem.
I did not want to get caught up in something that did not really give my life "meaning." But ah there's that word aagin. Meaning. It's everywhere.
I guess it has to be while we're alive.
That's why we evolved to understand life with meanings. If we weren't supposed to understand life through "meaning" we wouldn't have them.
But at the same time we sohuld consciously evaluate ALL meaning and choose what something should mean to us - do not simply let meanings fire off unconsciously shaping the world around you.This is how reality becomes a reflection of what you are on the inside. When you attach your emotions to every little part of the wolrd around you that becomes the basis for how you react to the world.
You're actulaly reacting to what you've created. Not reality - but the meanings you've created behind it.You can make every little thing in that world mean whatever you want it to, if you control your focus enough to make it happen.
So yesterday I want you to do a ltitle mind bending of your own. See how many areas of your life you've created meannig.
Test whetehr the meaning is valid by seeing if it holds up universally. "Would that mean the same thing to EVERYONE and FOREVER?" If it wouldn't - try to see if you can come up with a more universal meaning. In that way you'll begin to accurately map the world around you and live life with the most power. You won't be held back by silly little uncosncious limitations you've imposed on the world around you.
Good luck.This article is part of the James Rick Daily Vitamin by James Rick, a daily blog that meregs our understanding of spirit with the physical world.
James Rick is author of Full Potential, a revolutionary guide to mastering your life in stages. He is also a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO of two international ventures.More can be learned at JamesRick.Com
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