In my case and it is possible that is a shared experience for like minded people, it is not the release of thinking that matters, for one does not learn anything from just verbalizing, it is the process of learning to walk backwards, to treat ones thoughts as raw material rather than finished product. What I am addressing here is emergent discovery and it is messy and it is uncomfortable and its not about generating opinion or viewpoints, but looking at the process of how one thinks and in relationship to how others view the world.

In my case it is making a clear distinction between therapeutic passion and intelligent discovery. The difference between the two is that the first looks at life from “fixing something” whereas the latter comes from looking at life from ones strengths. The former is acknowledging a fear, the latter is acknowledging respect. In the former case IMHO a great book is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach because I think he nails what fear is and he states that all fear itself is a form of selfishness. The opposite of fear IMHO is flow and here a great book that I read is FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi. The core of flow is that doing too little creates boredom, doing too much creates anxiety but in between there is this way of life we can each find out on our own which is flow.

The act of being emergent, the challenge of thinking in a different way, the ability to see our own mistakes as gifts and our life choices as a maturation and experiential part of the journey of growing - these things we discover for ourselves is simply not at the mind level, but begins with the heart intelligence, is supported by gut intelligence and fueled by mind intelligence.

To be vulnerable to the world is to be alive to it. We can take educated guesses about what we don’t know, but the only thing we do control in this world is our own thoughts, and the easiest thing to do is avoid thinking but we each have a unique philosophy to our life (not one that is borrowed or imitated)
and it is to this Socrates replied “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The problem for us is that we live in a highly branded world and a world where attention is focused on the short-term. This then becomes a personal choice and it is something that each discoverer of life finds themselves.

What I read here is that you have chosen some of form of journey, for that feeling one gets after clicking the button is the start of the life of an explorer. The irony here is that we live in a world of creature comforts, where our entertainment, our products, our value systems are governed by taking away the fear of the unknown. So this is a brave journey when one’s journey is moving towards wisdom, it is a foolish one however if there is either no vision of a greater good to be achieved or an attitude that trusts the process, but above all develops a continuous sense of respect, from respect for the gifts that exist within us that are yet undiscovered and respect for the world which is ready to accept those gifts.

Anyway, just thinking out aloud as usual, because this is most beneficial when in the presence of intelligent people. Discovering that intelligence is a fundamental part of my own journey but who is is to say that I have found it, when such intelligence can only be found by actually living it.

M.

Excitement coupled with all of the “what if’s” that run through your mind as you try new things… butterflies maybe? Uh huh. Yep. Definitely.

Hooray! Good for you!

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