Showing posts with label exploring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exploring. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2025

Group Thought Is Over

Group Thought Is Over

Life Tapestry Creations

Channel: Brenda Hoffman

Posted on May 5, 2025

 


 
Dear Ones,

Perhaps you feel like a child discovering new parts of yourself or relaxing enough to remember the joy you acknowledged before an activity became a must. 

New is your word of the week.  Not necessarily new activities, but renewed interest in whatever you are exploring or discovering.  A fresh feeling, like a child the first time he or she learns something.

Despite the media coverage of how terrible your life is or will be, you feel a delightful sense of the new within you.  Even though others who have not yet achieved this transition level might question your achievement or acknowledgement of joys, their doubts are of little consequence. 

You are on a mission to discover yourself.  Others have little to do with that discovery process.  Even if you are part of a team environment, the joy received will be unique to each team member.  No longer is one achievement the same or perhaps even similar to what others perceive.  The goal is completion or acknowledgment, but not complete compatibility. 

Your excitement throughout the project will differ in objectives and rewards because each of you is creating a unique path.  As you acknowledge that this piece is perfect for your path, another person in your group might feel the same about a different piece.  All creating unique paths with unique elements.

Group thought is becoming increasingly foreign to you and anyone transitioning.  Eliminating group thought also removes the need for group action or a top-down form of activities.  When you were younger, you were often given a school assignment with a single objective, such as coloring a picture. Cohesiveness was emphasized – individuality was not.  Coloring an image out of character was not acknowledged or rewarded.

ThreeD rewarded group cohesiveness and ignored or denied uniqueness, unless the masses could enjoy that uniqueness.  Your new world is the opposite.  No longer is cohesiveness necessary or interesting. Why have twenty people create the same result when twenty different results would expand everyone’s knowledge and activities?  So it is that as each of you discovers your unique path, you will be willing to share how you arrived at that path, even though very few will ask how you did it. 

Individuality is in.  Group thought or actions are no longer interesting to those exploring or observing an activity, any more than individuality was rewarded in 3D.  That concept will probably seem frightening initially, for you no longer have someone telling you what or when to do it.  But requesting that type of assistance will seem foreign to you within days if it does not already.

You are a unique individual, as is true of everyone transitioning.  Group thought might continue to feel somewhat comfortable because it is less mentally taxing than unique individuality.  But just as there was a time when you decided you had the skills to dress yourself as a youngster, group thought will feel stifling within days.

Who are you?  What do you want or need?  No longer can you drift along with limited action because others are carrying you.  Or others who are leaders telling you and the remainder of the group what to do and when to do it. 

Instead of groups of like-minded people, there might be groups working on a similar activity with no leader and not much similarity in focus or intent.

You are a unique individual with unique interests and skills.  So it is, your uniqueness is being called to action from within your being, not loudly or harshly, but softly and insistently.  You are no longer the leader or member of a group with a singular objective.  Instead, groups are focused on an objective with multiple methods of achieving single portions of that objective.

Group thought or direction is no more.  Unique individual contributions are now required.  No longer will some float along as others fulfill the objectives, nor will there be leaders telling others what to do.  Instead, there will be an interesting goal to some because it satisfies their creative needs.

In your new world, group thought is no longer a desired attribute.

It is time to be you, for no one will allow you to be anyone else in this new world.  The opposite is true in 3D.

So pull up your big girl and boy pants and allow yourself to be uniquely you.  The world is waiting, and your inner being demands that such is so.

So be it.
 
Brenda Hoffman
 
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Saturday, February 8, 2025

Exploring Gentleness

Exploring Gentleness

By Steve Beckow

Posted on February 8, 2025


On one level, it doesn’t matter what’s going on outside. I know the purpose of life is Self-Realization (1) and so I continue to observe myself, separating the transitory from the eternal, moving along the path of self-awareness and self-discovery.

I reflect on my life, at 5 in the morning, no one else being up. And I see what a prominent place anger has played in it.

Having been kicked around and swatted as a kid by my father, I eventually learned how to defend myself and then went around looking for a fight. Anger was such a valuable survival tool that I regarded it as a friend.

But it’s not a friend on the receiving end and I regret my part in the conflict.  I still get angry when triggered. And all of that has to go before Michaelangelo & Partners opens its doors.

So this delay and then hope and then delay and then hope (since 2013, in my case) has always worked for me because it allows me a dress rehearsal. I may go over my post-Reval To Do list again. I may practise describing the work of the fund to an imaginary applicant. All the time I’m learning, growing.

Anger is something that can upset the apple cart quickest so I’d prefer not to have a trace of it in me when showtime arrives.

***

Something I noticed this morning is that I can practise ways of being that increase my distance from anger.

Good example: Gentleness. There’s more distance between gentleness and anger than, say, between roughness or crudeness and anger.

Gentleness also seems like an anger-retardant. Even when it’s spurned.

Again, the further my distance from anger, theoretically, the more reaction time I have. The more time to detect anger rising and express what its message is while I’m minimally reactivated and maximally in control. These are my working hypotheses.

What does anger say? I don’t want to do that. I want to do this. I want that. I don’t want this. You can’t have it! Oh, go ahead.

This is infantile. What happened to “say no nicely”?

I’m back in kindergarten with this one.

***

My grand motif, (2) the thought that organizes other thoughts, is “you can’t trust anyone.”  Keep your dukes up. Don’t turn your back on anyone. It always comes when you least expect it.

Dad speaking. Merchant marine. WW2. Down manning the ship’s boiler. Dead duck in case of a torpedo attack. Very rough. I don’t blame him.

And I also suspect that it was designed to awaken in me a past-life memory of … a military life. It awakened a martial spirit in me. I think that has done its job now and can probably be put back on the shelf.  I know where it is, where it came from, and what its use is if needed.

But it’ll be needed less and less, perhaps as I learn more and more not to resort to anger but to resort to gentleness instead. And perhaps the rising lovelight energies – and med beds – will erase the rest.

Footnotes

(1)  See The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf

(2) “The Grand Motif,” 

Steve Beckow