How can I keep it simple and not get lost in the mind again?
‘The map is not the territory.’ ~ Alfred Korzybski
‘The map is not the territory.’ ~ Alfred Korzybski
This audio answers the question: How can I keep it simple and not get lost in the mind again?
Great question! The answer has to do with your attitude in how you approach the material.
I want to differentiate between your conditioned way of studying information, and the natural process of coming in contact with yourself more fully. IntegralHumanDesign doesn't invite you to study hard. Rather it invites you to reconnect to a deeper truth in yourself, to something that's already here, in you.
So what is an attitude that works to keep it simple?
It starts with being aware of your conditioned way of learning, know that it doesn’t work here, and be open to try something new. Indeed the material we offer is quite complex on first sight. It might seem natural to you to approach it like at school, where very likely you were conditioned to approach everything from your mind, with an attitude of ‘I have to understand this!’. Your mind constantly processed difficult subject matters that were presented to you from the outside, and you thought you had to study hard in order to pick it up and make it your own.
The good news is, you don’t need to do that here. I want to remind you of Korzybski’s famous saying ‘The map is not the territory’. The material that we use in IntegralHumanDesign are just maps. All the details in the BODYGRAPH and GOLDENPATH Evaluations are just details in a map. The only purpose of the whole map is to point you to the territory - and in this case the territory is YOU, as you experience yourself in this moment.
This material opens up to you when you relax, and let your whole body participate in the process. E.g. when you work with a shadow theme, you can always find a very specific contraction somewhere in your body. When you come in touch with an essential quality of yours, you always experience a corresponding sense of release, relaxation or joy in your body. Really what we are talking about here is a tangible reality in your cells, in who you are. You experience this reality with your whole body.
You can keep it simple when you allow yourself to feel the resonance between your inner reality and the elements of the map. The words and images in the Evaluations carry certain frequencies, available to touch the right chord in you and help you open up to yourself. Can you let yourself be touched?
This journey into your essence is not one where your learn mentally, but rather one where you collect moments of spontaneous recognition and realization. In these ‘aha moments’ everything is simple. You resonate with a deeper truth inside of you, and realize an aspect of your true nature.
The way to approach IntegralHumanDesign is to briefly engage with a certain element of information, of knowledge. To briefly glimpse at an element in the BODYGRAPH or GOLDENPATH, and then really find the tangible reality of this particular Gene Key or Channel, or whatever you are looking at, in your own experience.
The approach I want to describe here is like a dance, and your best attitude is to be relaxed and listening with your whole body. It is a graceful movement where you pick up information using your eyes, using understanding and language, followed by a movement into your inside, your inner space, until you can feel the reality of each of these elements in the unity of your own integrated body-mind-soul-spirit being.
Take care!
With love,
Laura and Werner
Great question! The answer has to do with your attitude in how you approach the material.
I want to differentiate between your conditioned way of studying information, and the natural process of coming in contact with yourself more fully. IntegralHumanDesign doesn't invite you to study hard. Rather it invites you to reconnect to a deeper truth in yourself, to something that's already here, in you.
So what is an attitude that works to keep it simple?
It starts with being aware of your conditioned way of learning, know that it doesn’t work here, and be open to try something new. Indeed the material we offer is quite complex on first sight. It might seem natural to you to approach it like at school, where very likely you were conditioned to approach everything from your mind, with an attitude of ‘I have to understand this!’. Your mind constantly processed difficult subject matters that were presented to you from the outside, and you thought you had to study hard in order to pick it up and make it your own.
The good news is, you don’t need to do that here. I want to remind you of Korzybski’s famous saying ‘The map is not the territory’. The material that we use in IntegralHumanDesign are just maps. All the details in the BODYGRAPH and GOLDENPATH Evaluations are just details in a map. The only purpose of the whole map is to point you to the territory - and in this case the territory is YOU, as you experience yourself in this moment.
This material opens up to you when you relax, and let your whole body participate in the process. E.g. when you work with a shadow theme, you can always find a very specific contraction somewhere in your body. When you come in touch with an essential quality of yours, you always experience a corresponding sense of release, relaxation or joy in your body. Really what we are talking about here is a tangible reality in your cells, in who you are. You experience this reality with your whole body.
You can keep it simple when you allow yourself to feel the resonance between your inner reality and the elements of the map. The words and images in the Evaluations carry certain frequencies, available to touch the right chord in you and help you open up to yourself. Can you let yourself be touched?
This journey into your essence is not one where your learn mentally, but rather one where you collect moments of spontaneous recognition and realization. In these ‘aha moments’ everything is simple. You resonate with a deeper truth inside of you, and realize an aspect of your true nature.
The way to approach IntegralHumanDesign is to briefly engage with a certain element of information, of knowledge. To briefly glimpse at an element in the BODYGRAPH or GOLDENPATH, and then really find the tangible reality of this particular Gene Key or Channel, or whatever you are looking at, in your own experience.
The approach I want to describe here is like a dance, and your best attitude is to be relaxed and listening with your whole body. It is a graceful movement where you pick up information using your eyes, using understanding and language, followed by a movement into your inside, your inner space, until you can feel the reality of each of these elements in the unity of your own integrated body-mind-soul-spirit being.
Take care!
With love,
Laura and Werner