Consider three words…
natural — artificial — ego
From an emotional viewpoint, the meaning of words can hold an exceptional charge, depending wholly on what you believe them to mean.
Words are simply there to help communicate concepts, but if we each understand them in different ways then we begin to create complications for ourselves. We unwittingly begin to speak at cross-purposes, which can lead to arguments, which then descend and spiral into negative territories of body, mind and emotions, or mind-body-spirit, however we wish to phrase it. This turmoil can exist within our own self, just as much as we can see it outside of ourselves.
Usually two of these three words receive a negative press, and you can probably guess which ones I’m pointing at. It might however surprise you to learn that all these concepts have neutral origins, and it is through the beliefs we choose to hold about them in our conscious mind which colours them in — at the most basic level, putting them in a positive light, or a negative light.
There is also a middle ‘holding’ position of really not being familiar with what any or all of the three words truly mean, resulting from either not having formed any opinion as yet — as is the case when young children play joyfully — or reserving judgement until you feel comfortable moving one way or the other.
My job as a time coach is to help you become your own time coach, and in becoming your own time coach, to work with your beliefs to move all three words into a positive light, understanding their true place in the overall nature of Nature. Once you do this, you’ll then wonder what all the fuss was about?!
Let’s start then with a logical question, and hopefully from there we can begin to explore some tipping points…
If we are born NATURAL,
and we create something ARTIFICIAL,
then how is that ARTIFICIAL thing not NATURAL,
it being an extension of our NATURAL SELF?
Then follow that up with a basic statement…
When our conscious mind has an idea, it puts the EGO to work to create it as a ‘real’ thing.
In the working trades, it is said that the best tool in the box are your physical hands. A good place to start then is to think of your ego as your mental hands.
If we also think of the root or origin of the word ‘artificial’ being the word ‘art’, we start to reveal how many complexities, including longer words(!), develop from very simple natural beginnings.
Already then, we are giving value and connectivity to each word, each concept, of natural, artificial and ego, rather than seeing them as something negative and to be removed from the ‘equation’ of life.
At this point in understanding, we can now start to see it is actually in how we develop or work or process these ideas and concepts which can either enhance or diminish our overall experience of life.
This is a learning process, and one of its main lessons is to understand that when we over-develop, or over-work, or over-process our artistic life expressions, then we can turn something ‘good’ into something ‘not-so-good’.
It is all then to do with timing — to practice and learn the skill of being in the right place at the right time in everything that you do, until what you do becomes second nature. Once you reach this transition point, you no longer ‘have to think’ about it any further, except at what may be called a ‘maintenance’ level, which requires very little energy compared to the original thinking process which helped to create it.
In being ego-friendly, the mental equivalent of being eco-friendly, your ‘energy consumption’ drops significantly — first mentally as you change your ideas about reality, and then physically as the ego helps to make your changed ideas become real.