This human

"I guess I'm going to wrap up here and I just want to say that, for wrestlers and everybody and everyone around the world. If I could give one message to them, it would be that the best chance you have if you want to rise up to the top is to give yourself up to loneliness. Fear nothing and work hard. One thing you'll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside from the beginning." Bret Hart: 2006 Hall of Fame Speech

I'll write about what this means to me.

There is universal truth and it’s always hard to find. You just need to seek it. And make it a need to seek it. It’ll come when you’re ready because being bored with conventional responses and wanting to hear something shiny and glimmering does not qualify you for the truth. Yes you must qualify first. It gets confusing sometimes because common sense is not the truth. No one can give it to you because we all approach it from a different angle. Or sometimes, simply, you don’t appreciate it when it waltzes in on you.

You understand the difference between right and wrong, but how you respond to any given situation will depend on a number of factors apart from your conscious decision making and only through practice can you react ideally and not allow the other elements to affect your action/reaction to the situation.

The outer-you is very flexible and usually operates in comparison with the reverberations of the moment, often and regrettably, with the motivation to be a charm. This creates a rift between the two yous’ and as a result, our aims to achieve our wants or secure our values diverge with that egotistic part of us.

Ego is an influential part of the outer/attached-you as well. It’s a charm-counter and when turned on, scales the degree of your appeal. It’s a threat for those whose want for answers succeed the desire to be charismatic.

Another unconscious-developed mechanism that can be a threat to the self is the reticular activating system. Have you read the Secret? It tells on how our brain functions as universal towers that broadcast and receive information and can attract or repel any thing the mind’s eye can imagine. Like I explained in the previous post, people generally tend to focus more on what they don’t want in order to achieve what they do want and this causes those exact things that they’re constantly trying to avoid to be attracted to them in circumstance. IMHO, there is some truth to this philosophy because everything around us is a charge. Our brain’s work with electric impulses that channel through the nervous system and we’ve been able to measure that charge. A resting human’s nerve potential difference (voltage) is -65mV and an action potential, triggered by a thought or an action can have a maximum potential difference of +40mV. So whether you’re burning or simply pricked with a needle, your body will trigger the same amount of potential difference across the axons (cytoplasmic process of a nerve cell that transmits information or impulse). The difference will be in the frequency and hence, your brain will interpret this as high or low, pain.

Now, imagine yourself wanting something really bad. You think about it and even see it in your visual cortex (which processes visual information from the eyes as well). This triggers a set of emotions, be it happy or sad emotions that fuels the reticular activating system. This is a combination of organs; eyes, brain and a few other senses. When it gets activated by, for example, using the imagination, we create new reality maps that help us realize the circumstances and opportunities that help bring that picture into reality. In essence, the inner/unattached-you, with all it’s might and glory, will understand this new desire and quietly act on establishing it by filtering reality and attracting to it’s eye what we’ve been able to feed it via the imagination, whether we like it or not. Afterall, almost 80% of everyway your body function is involuntary. Did I mention the Einstein got his E=MC2 revelation in a dream? He rarely experimented in his life.

Case in point- almost half the time, you don’t see things the way they really are because of all the noise that requires filtering from the environment, there’s also the conscious shit you’ve been trained to love by society/media that requires sifting. The part of your brain with the real power is being strung-out. You can’t see the Truth.

Even without all the noise, you’re still almost one dimension away from your true motivations amidst the inner/unattached part of you. But only by deciphering it through the outer/connected-you can you reach the point where you learn to improve and grow yourself.

“…the best chance you have if you want to rise up to the top is to give yourself up to loneliness.”

We create boundaries to live with the fact that there are things we do not know, but, "A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension." - Albert Einstein.

Like the S-shaped graph of a dissociation curve, every single step that stretches your being will double your chances and that many times bring you closer to what you want. But first, it must stretch your 'being'.

“One thing you'll discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned, and much more than you think on what you have inside from the beginning."