Don’t talk about the muck and mess
Have you realized what we’ve managed to do? We’ve managed to channel most of life through a screen – we’ve actually managed to screen life. Obviously this doesn’t mean we don’t have to deal with the muck and mess of it and while it may not be the threat of saber tooth tigers triggering our adrenalin, the low-level chronic, adrenal-squeezing anxiety produced by this requisite constant screen-related activity is no less pernicious or vitality depleting. Perhaps to the contrary. And I detect/suspect many are reaching that dangerous tipping point into can’t-cope mode, causing a lessening of efficiency all round, which in turn increases screen-related anxiety for everyone as the system creaks progressively more.
Techno-seclusion sessions
Now, I don’t know about you, but I feel obliged to answer all direct messages, emails, SMS messages and voicemails – it seems hugely impolite not to – and this elicits a constant stream, often tidal flow of inbound-outbound information to process one way or another. And even though I have fairly efficient pre-screen screening methods, this can occasionally feel overwhelming.
And when it does, I’ve learned that the best way is to retreat from screen-life for 24 hours altogether – turn off all appliances with screens – maybe occasionally pop out of techno-seclusion to hoist a tweat or two up the flagpole or answer a couple of urgent emails, but otherwise remain distant from plastic buttons and the backlit world. Then on returning, if I remember to allocate a specific timeslot for processing messages, say one hour or two, I find the message-processing miraculously fits itself into that slot, rather than spill out all over the day (and night).
The urge to connect
However I rarely remember, simply because I also experience great joy connecting with others – it’s my main function on the planet as far as I’m concerned: connecting with others and simultaneously connecting with the Tao, thus instigating a circuit – and I forget myself.
How do you handle the information-barrage yourself? I’d love to know, so feel free to comment below.
Intention setting
But coming back to the supercharged theme: I also find that if, at the start of things, I choose my day/hour/minute to be easy, effortless, enjoyable, successful, satisfying, smooth, marvelous and miraculous, it invariably will be. I also find I forget and start putting pressure on myself, so I remind myself – again and again: easy, effortless, enjoyable, successful, satisfying, smooth, marvelous and miraculous, and am never upset by the result.
Riding change
Meanwhile, this quickening happening in our midst, lest we forget, is apparently continuing in its exponentially accelerating trajectory to heaven knows where and is causing an unprecedented sensation of rapid transformation at the radical level of consciousness.
It takes special training to ride this.
Hence why I’m getting rather excited about the early stages of the prelaunch for School For Warriors 1&2 beginning around now. I was just thinking while doing some hsing i boxing training out in a brief interlude of beautiful winter sun, how mastering the chi (the training you get in SFW2, having mastered the basic principles of power in SFW1), is the key to riding the force of change like a master.
At least I’m counting on it.
Toodlepip
And now, to preclude any pointless ramble, I’ll stay my typing fingers, take my leave for the moment and wish you a massive fuel-injection effect, that comes on you like a bolt from the blue and gives rise to an unprecedented level of joyous productivity.
With love, Supercharged.
Choose your day/hour/minute to be easy, effortless, enjoyable, successful, satisfying, smooth, marvelous and miraculous, and it invariably will be.
