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Saturday, April 21, 2012

The myth of efforting * 4/21/12

The myth of efforting

(as this may be an effort to read!)

We all have been solicited by a phrase

like, “Put some effort into it.” It is such

a safe remark as a character promoter.

But efforting is actually dangerous and

for some, a deadly means of action. If

we looked at efforting as a process

without specific regard to the task

per se but as the means used to

accomplish this, “efforting” as in its

thought forms, its emotional input,

its mental constructs, and its physical

means, efforting, besides the apparent

displays and eventual external results,

has many internal consequences and

invokes certain hidden means used to

accomplish these external goals that

leave internal results to the contrary

of what displays to the world. Much

of efforting is reinforced by will as the

shear force of intention and

determination. What makes up those

particular components in their

concentrated forms can be

compositions of reactions,

restimulations, anger, varied forms

of emotional displacements,

constrictions or compressions of being

to produce that effort, venting of

undeclared withheldness, etc. all of

these descriptives arise from a

mindfulness of previous conclusions

and judgments that have registered

and remain unresolved somewhere

within. That pent-up-ness can be

poured into efforting in almost

unknowable ways almost as a form of

negative but self-identifying grounding.

We are all trained to some degree in

the nuisances of this and have used it

to accomplish much of what we do that

lacks passion and compelling desire to

make it so. For some people this, as a

lifestyle of habits, is below the horizon

of being noticed as such. And by its

habitual nature, proceeds to dwell

deeper into a person at the chemical

and electrical levels within them.

Their nervous systems are rigorously

enrolled, their chemistries are at

after-affect, and sometimes disease

can result without the slightest

connection being made to how they do

what they do as it contradicts them

internally but produces favorable

results in the world for others and

themselves. Efforting can take the past,

in the form of memories held as

judgments traumatic and otherwise,

and certainly as strong conclusions,

make observations of the present be

this preoccupation, and determine an

expectation set for the future and do

whatever is necessary in the now to

either avoid what happened then or

reproduce what happened then by

means of effort in the forms of

influence and control as well as action

that can fill the present with

preoccupations and very little of the

natural process of presence in the now.

Stress is a byproduct of this style but

we all claim that it is hard to avoid and

that it really exists as a given, not

knowing the depth or thoroughness of

its impact internally upon any of us

specifically. Some wear it well, some

endure and survive, and some succumb

to these unknowns in wear down wear

out ways. Many have emotional anger

or mental principledness redirected

into their method of efforting and never

see it surface to declare it in any other

way. It has become a way of life and a

suitable means for channeling it, it

seems. For it is hard to display

otherwise and more difficult to dissect

in such a conscious way as to rewire

the means so that it is not harmful to

one’s self. How we do what we do is

hardly identifiable by others who truly

benefit from the positive results they

receive. And so, each person within

their effort, has to self study and

discover if how they do what they do

truly evolves them in doing it in the

first place and certainly by those

efforting means. The basic notions

of proving your worth, sometimes

compelled by hidden low self-esteem,

as a lifetime effort or needing to merit

your life by earning it over assumed

social disapproval, are two formidable

perspectives that sanction efforting as

acceptable and are clueless to see it

otherwise. We are event driven and a

measured people and efforting seems

to be quite the necessity to accomplish

those types of goals and that sense of

upstandingness. All of this is what

humans have come to do so readily,

unto themselves and be at the private

nagging affect and suffer the

consequences without making an

association between goal and means

where by the carriage of the moment is

in the moment and not justified by the

end results so frozen as valued in time.

Our entire life is one unfolding tea

ceremony. Efforting is not a technique

that we would use towards that

procession. We fail to appreciate or

revel in the available means at our

disposal to accomplish that celebrative

journey. We are generally not the

wisdom of sentience in passage. We

are easily seduced and trained to be

fact junkies and frame junkies and for

the most part, experience intake

junkies and duly accountable as such.

Efforting, when noticed should reveal

itself as a red flag within our lifestyle.

It seems baffling without

contemplation of one’s own process.

And at some point in that process of

awareness, it becomes compelling as

a concern. And the question arises.

How to be present as a being and be

expressing oneself from where within

where it all comes from and how to

allow the passion of your spirit to find

expression as your life, given freely

and shared accordingly as in the

coming of oneness as a consciousness

through all of these diversified people

means. Thus to embrace the myth of

efforting from within . . .

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