tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823729226988668499.post4915125965228199334..comments2023-08-20T08:43:30.843-07:00Comments on A Journeyman's Way Home: Free to Be CuriousPatrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11932466748852157863noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823729226988668499.post-35830907921883138952013-12-28T01:15:09.956-08:002013-12-28T01:15:09.956-08:00Resistance is designed to be a positive force that...Resistance is designed to be a positive force that slows the negative effect of whatever might be unpredictable about discovering. Or at least, that's the point of view of the habit that offers the (in your case, a lost) feeling of resistance.<br />The discovery process can leave us with a giddy feeling. Sometimes the new discovery can even become dismissed with laughter - that it's such a hilariously simple insight. The feeling of laughter or giddiness seems to be designed to have you forget what happened; as if it all must have been something "weird" or unclassified. But this is merely another ruse to ignore the rapid progress that the insight really could represent - if it were integrated.<br />But this takes as you point out not being overwhelmed by the richness of a new discovery.<br />It's quite a challenge to note, collect, sift, combine and qualify what that "funny" experiences mean for you as you do visit them again. Clarify your suspended goals, because that will help with the integration when using these different types of Direction. <br />Please keep us updated on what happens when you re-evoke and go there again!My Half Ofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02535428140881202204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823729226988668499.post-67550515726041092502013-12-27T03:44:58.041-08:002013-12-27T03:44:58.041-08:00I'm still wondering why these instances of bec...I'm still wondering why these instances of becoming lost arose. Resistance has a negative connotation related to change. Certainly this is true in general, as overriding habit energy keeps us as we are. I'm now too far removed from the experience to approach objectivity, but the loss seemed to be arising more from being overwhelmed with the richness of the experience. A little bit of too much new information coming in.<br /><br />May be time to experiment with this again. Thanks for your probing comments Franis. Patrick Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932466748852157863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823729226988668499.post-91304506596895174422013-12-20T23:07:13.764-08:002013-12-20T23:07:13.764-08:00There's a natural resistance to the unknown, b...There's a natural resistance to the unknown, because it is almost as if we have a visceral memory that dramatizes the dangers of what is unknown. Literally when we learn things, especially new movements, we're carving and creating new brain pathways. Resistance to change comes in various ways - getting spaced out is one of them. The door to the unknown opens - and we're lost. <br />A nice metaphor for this happened to me one time while I was traveling for over two months in Europe. I would tell myself that, "I am not lost." I realized that I was traveling in order to be lost and enjoy that I was in a place where I'd never been before.My Half Ofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02535428140881202204noreply@blogger.com