Finding that Place Inside You
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People who are out of control internally spend a lot of time and attention controlling the world externally: they work furiously to control their environment, their relationships, the behaviors of those around them, and more. These people run highly rule-structured realities. Their rules make them believe that things should be one way or another. Because of this they fixate on whether or not people are following ‘the rules’. They are bound to thinking within the rule structure.
When a system first emerges, rules are good. Rules help people understand the new reality. Rules structure and direct people’s attention. When it was first distributed the Bible offered powerful new ways to understand reality. It expanded people’s minds, helped spread important morals and values, and inspired the imaginations of millions. The stories of that book created an entire worldview. As well, an organization with massive power and global reach arose to enforce the rules of that book. And thus a new reality was created for a staggering number of people throughout the last 21 centuries. Once a system has existed for long enough the former worldview is lost or co-opted into the new one and the updated reality becomes stable.
However, after stability comes rigidity. Almost all institutions that expand people’s abilities to think make one mistake. In addition to providing a new structure for awareness, they also dictate the content within that structure. Books are awesome – but not if you can only read what I recommend. The same thing is true with all media. But most institutions mistake their rules for reality. They mistake their content for the Truth. But reality and truth both are constantly evolving. Especially in today’s day and age, we are increasingly exposed to knowledge that becomes outdated and obsolete within a few short years. So what happens to the organizations yoked to the old structure? They update or die.
Today’s emerging rule structure is the most powerful, broadly effective, complex and flexible system we’ve ever experienced. It is a reflection of the Internet and computer technologies around us – useful and constantly updated. However, if you’re stuck in the last rule structure, be that Newtonian science, fundamentalist religion, or bureaucracy of any sort – you will see mainly threat in the now-ubiquitous technologies. A threat to your source of income, your source of power, your source of control. And while you can fight the crushing waves of change for a time, ultimately, you will lose. People who are stuck in threat are also increasingly stuck in fear, limitation, and the inability to respond effectively to their environment. In fact, they can’t even see their environment anymore because they’re stuck in outdated pictures of how things really are.
What happens to an animal that can’t cope with it’s new environment? It goes extinct. That’s how Nature goes. Life is ruthless in it’s pruning of the evolutionary bush.
On the other hand, the people who thrive in this kind of environment are the ones who have a high degree of internal stability. Internally, these people are in control and spend little to no time trying to control the world around them. Instead they remain like a cork floating atop a river awash with new information. And all they pay attention to is where they want to float next.
With the radical advance of technology this deeper kind of internal stability and awareness is the most important thing each of us can learn. It is the platform for powerful reality creation. It is from this place inside that you can bend reality most effortlessly.
Technology is forcing this gift upon us. It is demanding us to become more aware, to process more information. This in turn forces us to use new parts of our neurology. Our awareness expands and we evolve. There is a unknowable wealth arising in the knowledge economy and it’s yours for the taking. All you need to do is find that place of inner stability and float in the direction that best suits you.
Is your business spiraling out from that place inside of you?
