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We live in a chaotic universe. We don't know what will happen next. We spend a lot of time and energy trying to predict the future to thwart our fear of the unknown. We don't know what will happen next and will never know with certainty.
We can save money against a rainy day; buy car, life, property and health insurance; buy instead of rent; broaden our portfolio; widen our skill sets; change the oil in our cars; look both ways before crossing the street; exercise and eat a healthy diet. We can take precautions against common circumstance. None of which makes either safe nor secure.
What does our animal brain tell us about safety and security?
When we are on our own (hunting or gathering), our instinct tells us to run like the wind (albeit a slow and clumsy wind). When our tribe is threatened, our instinct tells us to fight. Those are our instinctual choices and choosing is deterministic.
Letting our animal selves continue to decide about our safety and security is to deny our reasoning brain. Hence, stupid.
Our cultural context demands a smarter solution to the issue of safety and security. We aren't reaching real safety or security, but, rather, the feeling of safety and security. And that feeling contributes to an overall lack of safety and security. It isn't just the 15 year old who feels invulnerable. We all have our "it can't happen to me" issues.
Rather than continuing our frantic and fruitless efforts to feel safe, we, as individuals, must redefine the parameters of the problem. Rather than run or fight, we must learn and develop our skills to deal with uncertainty.
Our fear of the unknown won't go away anytime soon (no evolutionary pressure to alter that). Our doubts will nag and hound us. So we learn to ignore their feeble, primal screams.
We look at the world through filters. We analyze and assess everything and check it against our real and imagined history. Remember being a child and having difficulty telling reality from fiction? Afraid of the monster under the bed? Nightmares about horror movies?
In the RHPS floor show, Frank and his troupe sing "Rose Tints my World Keeps Me Safe From my Trouble and Pain." How many have heard that is a bad thing? Why believe them?
The default "All things are dangerous until proven safe" is an effective filter, but it comes at a high cost. That filter costs us love, affection, connectedness. We lose our relationship with humanity. This is the filter of a cynic.
I do not advocate "All things are safe until proven dangerous" filter, either. It is not effective and costs us everything. This is the filter of a child.
I advocate the professional model Rose Tint filter. It comes with the following attachments:
The Rose Tint filter does not protect us from pain or trouble, it keeps us from being threatened by pain and trouble. We cope with our sorrows, feel our emotional and physical pains without adding the drama that causing suffering.
It comes with an instruction book titled: Feel Everything and Rejoice; the true meaning of fear.
the preceding was brought to you without the benefit of copy editing. Feel free to rip it to shreds for style.
And remember, rose tints my world.
Love, compassion, peace and justice
We can save money against a rainy day; buy car, life, property and health insurance; buy instead of rent; broaden our portfolio; widen our skill sets; change the oil in our cars; look both ways before crossing the street; exercise and eat a healthy diet. We can take precautions against common circumstance. None of which makes either safe nor secure.
What does our animal brain tell us about safety and security?
When we are on our own (hunting or gathering), our instinct tells us to run like the wind (albeit a slow and clumsy wind). When our tribe is threatened, our instinct tells us to fight. Those are our instinctual choices and choosing is deterministic.
Letting our animal selves continue to decide about our safety and security is to deny our reasoning brain. Hence, stupid.
Our cultural context demands a smarter solution to the issue of safety and security. We aren't reaching real safety or security, but, rather, the feeling of safety and security. And that feeling contributes to an overall lack of safety and security. It isn't just the 15 year old who feels invulnerable. We all have our "it can't happen to me" issues.
Rather than continuing our frantic and fruitless efforts to feel safe, we, as individuals, must redefine the parameters of the problem. Rather than run or fight, we must learn and develop our skills to deal with uncertainty.
Our fear of the unknown won't go away anytime soon (no evolutionary pressure to alter that). Our doubts will nag and hound us. So we learn to ignore their feeble, primal screams.
We look at the world through filters. We analyze and assess everything and check it against our real and imagined history. Remember being a child and having difficulty telling reality from fiction? Afraid of the monster under the bed? Nightmares about horror movies?
In the RHPS floor show, Frank and his troupe sing "Rose Tints my World Keeps Me Safe From my Trouble and Pain." How many have heard that is a bad thing? Why believe them?
The default "All things are dangerous until proven safe" is an effective filter, but it comes at a high cost. That filter costs us love, affection, connectedness. We lose our relationship with humanity. This is the filter of a cynic.
I do not advocate "All things are safe until proven dangerous" filter, either. It is not effective and costs us everything. This is the filter of a child.
I advocate the professional model Rose Tint filter. It comes with the following attachments:
- Love
- Compassion
- Tolerance
- A Sense of Wonder and Magic
- Judgment
- Vision
- A Sound Sense of Self (mind, body and spirit)
- Curiosity
- Sexuality
- Innocence (do not confuse with "inexperienced")
- Love of Art, Music, Nature
- Laughter
- Ego Alert System
The Rose Tint filter does not protect us from pain or trouble, it keeps us from being threatened by pain and trouble. We cope with our sorrows, feel our emotional and physical pains without adding the drama that causing suffering.
It comes with an instruction book titled: Feel Everything and Rejoice; the true meaning of fear.
the preceding was brought to you without the benefit of copy editing. Feel free to rip it to shreds for style.
And remember, rose tints my world.
Love, compassion, peace and justice