Positive versus Negative
This is an essay which covers why I want to be a totally positive person, and why it takes actual effort to be so. Or, at least, that's what I'm trying to write.
First, a diagram (well, table):
However, The Mask, or the false self or Ego, could be collapsed into one
sub-section. Leaving the table looking a bit more sparse:
Layer#
Positive, Progressive, Growing, Succeeding
Negative, Destructive, Dying, Failing
13
smart: True/Cosmic Intelligence
dogma: Fixed Ideas, Death Spiral (flawed programming)
12
Mezzo: World-class (The World)
Totality: the rut, small boxes, common streams lead to obey
The Devil.
11
Macro: Big Thinking, Big Living
reaction set: smell-minded, prejudice, negative thinking
10
Micro: Partners
Others: direct social pressure. "haters"
9
Production: professional.
Image: Expression; "artist".
roles: work, home, social - obligation.
cog in a system
8
Persona: serious roleplay.
Doubtless faith: Confidence, capability.
arrogance, Denial.
false confidence. response set: Standard Operating Procedure.
7
strong actions (no hate). "Avatar"
C= Uniform. R= major possession.
6
Personality: Active. Self-discipline
bad habits, passiveness, mimicry.
-
5
Present, Mindful.
// Zen. detachment
// sensitive, adaptive self.
(restrictive) reflexive social image.
Ego: false self, and core of The Mask
(common) domesticated mind.
4
heart, Passions: Primal energies, true emotions
shadow images: dark energies, repressed emotions, FUD
3
self-love: health, tai chi flow / high auric potency(?)
Individualism: Lovers, Companionship
hateful, needy, Parasite, Dangerous, unhealthy,
self-sacrifice.
2
mind-field: mindfulness embodied (soul, mind)
Zombie: depressed mentality.
1
YOGA: strong connection ( mind <=> body )
Liverish: R=frustration. C=minor possession.
0
The Witness: subjective experience, body awareness (soulful
body)
The Gap: disconnection from body, pseudo-objective
-
Y/-1/evil: disorder - paranoia, mindless, CFIDS, CNS
disorder, etc.
X
Collective awareness: meaning of life, myth, power of
metaphor, personal actual life story
Abstract: sees life as meaningless, disconnected from
adventure, pointless, static, decaying, painful, based on suffering.
Seems a bit big, and that's the simplified version... but on the other hand, once you know what the cells stand for, it is easy to use it at a glance, which is why I put everything in a table in the first place.
The "positive" column identifies an ideal "wise" person, and the "negative" lists the common and restrictive alternatives. Even not ideal, you could be advancing towards the ideal, by trying to use the wisest approach for a particular layer.
For example, layer 3 includes health. It's obviously best to be healthy, rather than unhealthy. However, we all get sick or tired from time to time. If we push ourselves beyond reasonable limits when sick or tired, then we get sicker or move from tired to sick... that is a common mistake, lots of people do it, so it might be considered "normal", but it is still unwise.
In fact, the more common something is, the more likely it is to be unwise. That's why I say that it takes an actual effort, to build an exceptional life which embodies different attitudes than what are common. When you start to make changes which have such major effects, you might get a negative backlash... this is layer 10. "haters" provide direct social pressure, but a more subtle form of pressure, or perhaps suction, comes. from the local social group (esp. if you live in a small town or country).
So if you find that you're reacting to things, rather thank thinking carefully about them, and that everyone in your locale does this, then you're dealing with a layer 11 problem.
Anyhow, those are just a few examples... but I actually got off track a bit. In my next post, I'll explain the CRAWL mnemonic acronym more explicitly, and after that, I'll go through each layer to explain what it represents.
Err, or I might do things out of order. You know, I'm random like that. Some even say zany.
First, a diagram (well, table):
However, The Mask, or the false self or Ego, could be collapsed into one
sub-section. Leaving the table looking a bit more sparse:
Layer#
Positive, Progressive, Growing, Succeeding
Negative, Destructive, Dying, Failing
13
smart: True/Cosmic Intelligence
dogma: Fixed Ideas, Death Spiral (flawed programming)
12
Mezzo: World-class (The World)
Totality: the rut, small boxes, common streams lead to obey
The Devil.
11
Macro: Big Thinking, Big Living
reaction set: smell-minded, prejudice, negative thinking
10
Micro: Partners
Others: direct social pressure. "haters"
9
Production: professional.
Image: Expression; "artist".
roles: work, home, social - obligation.
cog in a system
8
Persona: serious roleplay.
Doubtless faith: Confidence, capability.
arrogance, Denial.
false confidence. response set: Standard Operating Procedure.
7
strong actions (no hate). "Avatar"
C= Uniform. R= major possession.
6
Personality: Active. Self-discipline
bad habits, passiveness, mimicry.
-
5
Present, Mindful.
// Zen. detachment
// sensitive, adaptive self.
(restrictive) reflexive social image.
Ego: false self, and core of The Mask
(common) domesticated mind.
4
heart, Passions: Primal energies, true emotions
shadow images: dark energies, repressed emotions, FUD
3
self-love: health, tai chi flow / high auric potency(?)
Individualism: Lovers, Companionship
hateful, needy, Parasite, Dangerous, unhealthy,
self-sacrifice.
2
mind-field: mindfulness embodied (soul, mind)
Zombie: depressed mentality.
1
YOGA: strong connection ( mind <=> body )
Liverish: R=frustration. C=minor possession.
0
The Witness: subjective experience, body awareness (soulful
body)
The Gap: disconnection from body, pseudo-objective
-
Y/-1/evil: disorder - paranoia, mindless, CFIDS, CNS
disorder, etc.
X
Collective awareness: meaning of life, myth, power of
metaphor, personal actual life story
Abstract: sees life as meaningless, disconnected from
adventure, pointless, static, decaying, painful, based on suffering.
Seems a bit big, and that's the simplified version... but on the other hand, once you know what the cells stand for, it is easy to use it at a glance, which is why I put everything in a table in the first place.
The "positive" column identifies an ideal "wise" person, and the "negative" lists the common and restrictive alternatives. Even not ideal, you could be advancing towards the ideal, by trying to use the wisest approach for a particular layer.
For example, layer 3 includes health. It's obviously best to be healthy, rather than unhealthy. However, we all get sick or tired from time to time. If we push ourselves beyond reasonable limits when sick or tired, then we get sicker or move from tired to sick... that is a common mistake, lots of people do it, so it might be considered "normal", but it is still unwise.
In fact, the more common something is, the more likely it is to be unwise. That's why I say that it takes an actual effort, to build an exceptional life which embodies different attitudes than what are common. When you start to make changes which have such major effects, you might get a negative backlash... this is layer 10. "haters" provide direct social pressure, but a more subtle form of pressure, or perhaps suction, comes. from the local social group (esp. if you live in a small town or country).
So if you find that you're reacting to things, rather thank thinking carefully about them, and that everyone in your locale does this, then you're dealing with a layer 11 problem.
Anyhow, those are just a few examples... but I actually got off track a bit. In my next post, I'll explain the CRAWL mnemonic acronym more explicitly, and after that, I'll go through each layer to explain what it represents.
Err, or I might do things out of order. You know, I'm random like that. Some even say zany.