Exercise 1
Are you ready to let others dictate your actions for an entire week? Take this test without informing anyone. Simply explore your own reactions by jotting them down. When do you feel discontent and why? When do you agree with a given task? When do you grumble and perform it reluctantly? When do you do things with enthusiasm? Have you pushed yourself to perform everything this week under the guise of “obedience”? Have you succeeded? Why and where have you not succeeded? Are you prepared to “practice” exactly what you’ve struggled to “swallow”?
Research shows that if we engage in something for an extended period, even if it’s unpleasant initially, after a certain number of “sessions,” it becomes enjoyable, even pleasurable. This paradox applies to relationships as well. When we initially dislike someone, if we approach them with investigative curiosity and study them to uncover what we find unlikable, we may notice a shift, as they start becoming more appealing. Now, are you ready to examine those you don’t like, or do you still have reservations? Do you desire change, or do you prefer to “not deal with them or those things” and keep your distance? Then, are you being honest with yourself if you smile warmly while talking to them? Are you seeking to change your environment while evading it?
Remember who shapes your environment and your parallel reality. In 97% of our time, we think solely and exclusively about ourselves, not observing others. Even when we “conditionally” think about others, we’re essentially demonstrating self-centered thinking by attributing events, circumstances, causes, and factors (all external) to them.
Exercise 2
We observe others to identify what irritates us about them, what we comment on, without realizing that what we comment on and what irritates us is, in fact, a reflection of what we hold within ourselves. We can’t perceive what we lack within ourselves due to differing vibrational frequencies.
Exercise 3
Exercise: Observe others for a week and record everything that irritates you. The resulting list will comprise characteristics that we possess and need to change!
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Analysis (from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις – “breaking down, decomposition, separation”) is an operation of mentally or actually breaking down the whole (objects, properties, processes, or relationships between objects and phenomena) into constituent parts, for the purpose of cognition or practical experience accumulation. As a complement to synthesis, the method of analysis provides insight into the structure of the object of study. Analysis is a research method.
Synthesis (derived from the Greek σύνθεσις, meaning “combining, connecting”) is a process or method of uniting two or more separate elements or constituent parts into a whole or totality. Synthesis is the opposite of analysis (i.e., separating the whole into its components). Synthesis is a research method that unites separate elements into a whole, thereby examining the essence of phenomena.
In life’s exploration, we employ both simultaneously – we perform analyntesis. It’s the action of the whole upon the elements that compose the very whole. The small elements, forming the basis of the collective, are examined, but none of them takes precedence. Thus, the properties of the overall collective are shaped by every individuality within it. Any change in the elements leads to a change in the entirety.
