The myth of efforting
(as this may be an effort to read!)
We all have been solicited by a phrase
like, “Put some effort into it.” It is such
a safe remark as a character promoter.
But efforting is actually dangerous and
for some, a deadly means of action. If
we looked at efforting as a process
without specific regard to the task
per se but as the means used to
accomplish this, “efforting” as in its
thought forms, its emotional input,
its mental constructs, and its physical
means, efforting, besides the apparent
displays and eventual external results,
has many internal consequences and
invokes certain hidden means used to
accomplish these external goals that
leave internal results to the contrary
of what displays to the world. Much
of efforting is reinforced by will as the
shear force of intention and
determination. What makes up those
particular components in their
concentrated forms can be
compositions of reactions,
restimulations, anger, varied forms
of emotional displacements,
constrictions or compressions of being
to produce that effort, venting of
undeclared withheldness, etc. all of
these descriptives arise from a
mindfulness of previous conclusions
and judgments that have registered
and remain unresolved somewhere
within. That pent-up-ness can be
poured into efforting in almost
unknowable ways almost as a form of
negative but self-identifying grounding.
We are all trained to some degree in
the nuisances of this and have used it
to accomplish much of what we do that
lacks passion and compelling desire to
make it so. For some people this, as a
lifestyle of habits, is below the horizon
of being noticed as such. And by its
habitual nature, proceeds to dwell
deeper into a person at the chemical
and electrical levels within them.
Their nervous systems are rigorously
enrolled, their chemistries are at
after-affect, and sometimes disease
can result without the slightest
connection being made to how they do
what they do as it contradicts them
internally but produces favorable
results in the world for others and
themselves. Efforting can take the past,
in the form of memories held as
judgments traumatic and otherwise,
and certainly as strong conclusions,
make observations of the present be
this preoccupation, and determine an
expectation set for the future and do
whatever is necessary in the now to
either avoid what happened then or
reproduce what happened then by
means of effort in the forms of
influence and control as well as action
that can fill the present with
preoccupations and very little of the
natural process of presence in the now.
Stress is a byproduct of this style but
we all claim that it is hard to avoid and
that it really exists as a given, not
knowing the depth or thoroughness of
its impact internally upon any of us
specifically. Some wear it well, some
endure and survive, and some succumb
to these unknowns in wear down wear
out ways. Many have emotional anger
or mental principledness redirected
into their method of efforting and never
see it surface to declare it in any other
way. It has become a way of life and a
suitable means for channeling it, it
seems. For it is hard to display
otherwise and more difficult to dissect
in such a conscious way as to rewire
the means so that it is not harmful to
one’s self. How we do what we do is
hardly identifiable by others who truly
benefit from the positive results they
receive. And so, each person within
their effort, has to self study and
discover if how they do what they do
truly evolves them in doing it in the
first place and certainly by those
efforting means. The basic notions
of proving your worth, sometimes
compelled by hidden low self-esteem,
as a lifetime effort or needing to merit
your life by earning it over assumed
social disapproval, are two formidable
perspectives that sanction efforting as
acceptable and are clueless to see it
otherwise. We are event driven and a
measured people and efforting seems
to be quite the necessity to accomplish
those types of goals and that sense of
upstandingness. All of this is what
humans have come to do so readily,
unto themselves and be at the private
nagging affect and suffer the
consequences without making an
association between goal and means
where by the carriage of the moment is
in the moment and not justified by the
end results so frozen as valued in time.
Our entire life is one unfolding tea
ceremony. Efforting is not a technique
that we would use towards that
procession. We fail to appreciate or
revel in the available means at our
disposal to accomplish that celebrative
journey. We are generally not the
wisdom of sentience in passage. We
are easily seduced and trained to be
fact junkies and frame junkies and for
the most part, experience intake
junkies and duly accountable as such.
Efforting, when noticed should reveal
itself as a red flag within our lifestyle.
It seems baffling without
contemplation of one’s own process.
And at some point in that process of
awareness, it becomes compelling as
a concern. And the question arises.
How to be present as a being and be
expressing oneself from where within
where it all comes from and how to
allow the passion of your spirit to find
expression as your life, given freely
and shared accordingly as in the
coming of oneness as a consciousness
through all of these diversified people
means. Thus to embrace the myth of
efforting from within . . .
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