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The Chatter

Do you know how many conversations you’ll have with yourself today?

Answer: A lot.

There are some scientist that have reported that these small, most of the time unnoticed conversations, happen in our subconscious at the rate of 3,000-4,000 words per minute. That’s a lot of chatter. And you wouldn’t believe, or maybe you would, what this dialogue consist of.

The challenge of this chatter is not to attempt to make it go away, rather it’s knowing that it’s there and learning to waltz with the opinion of the mirrored self you are communicating with.

This post is probably more worthy of a book than a blog post.

Nevertheless, here’s the would-be Cliffsnotes for such a book or manifesto: This chatter, whatever it is, will eventually define you, your music, and your days.

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Clicking ‘Enable Awareness’

In default mode we miss a lot. So we must click ‘enable awareness’ to leave our default settings.

In default mode we react. When awareness is enabled we respond.

In default mode we breathe. When awareness is enabled we breath deeply.

W.H. Auden once wrote, Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. As Ortega y Gasset said: “Tell me to what you pay attention, and I will tell you who you are.”

A payment to attention is an eternal investment with endless ramifications.

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The Further In The Game I Get…

The more I pray for awareness.

It is:

  • the inception of imagination.
  • the one who takes notice of the shadows.
  • the connection of seeing how things truly are as opposed to seeing them as I see them or want to see them.
  • the birthplace of action and her urgency.
  • the code cracker.
  • what chooses the response from a stimulus.
  • what got me here (good or bad) and what will get me to the next stop (good or bad).

Eyes wide open, I sure have missed a lot.

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