Seeing I to I
This week I have been watching the DVD I received and reading some in the books I ordered on the brain and neuroplasticity. The idea of the brain changing is not new to me. I was exploring this in the 1980's when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. At that time I did not think the brain could not change, I just accepted it could and does.
I read in the info how our mind grows in areas where there is activity and slows in areas where there is not activity. This seems a bit like physical exercise. If I focus on a muscle group it tends to grow, if I don't do any exercise for that muscle group there may be some loss of muscle. If I exercise only large muscles, other muscles will also grow as growth hormones and other body processes are stimulated. Maybe brain cross training would be good.
To play with this idea, I asked myself what area of my brain/mind/consciousness would I like to strengthen. I was going to say beef up or bulk up, but my wife says I have a big head and she does not mean this metaphorically. I just tell her that is what happens when you have gray alien DNA.
What popped into my mind was I wanted to increase the Observer consciousness, the consciousness of being aware. It did not say anywhere that I had to keep within things, like arithmetic, spelling, memory, hand dexterity or anything, so let's go with Observer consciousness. I don't know where in the brain might be, but I did not read that I needed to know that.
One of the tenets of neuroplasticity is Motivation. I have plenty of that. I am motivated to be in Observer consciousness.
The next thing that came to me was the phrase "See I to I" where I is the Observer. I am, the One that is aware of being aware. This one of those phrases, that creates pressure, until I write it up.
Seeing I to I. Yes, this is a play on words. When these plays on words come up I often feel that what I am looking for has been hidden in plain sight. I feel like it has been like not knowing if I had a back and seeing if only I can turn fast enough I will see my own back. It is like having an unknown blind spot.
What does "Seeing I to I" mean. For me, it meant me as the One aware of being aware seeing and relating to others as the One aware of being aware.
I do have this view and this relationship. It is consciously Observing myself, and everything right in the moment. The feeling and sense is a connectedness, Oneness, security, happiness and fun. There is a feeling of knowing, not in the information way, just a sense of knowing. There is a feeling of infinite possibilities. There is sense like two waves in the ocean conscious of each other and also of being part of the sea. The last part seems to be lost when not in I. It is as if we are only waves without a sea and so, each of us is alone and separate from other waves.
Relating as I to I, is relating as infinite possibilities to infinite possibilities. It relating knowing we are part of the same sea.
From this came the feeling of one body looking at two hands. If I look at my two hands, I see and know they are part of my body, not two separate things. If I could look out only from my right hand, would I know my left hand is part of the same body or would my right hand see my left hand as something separate with no connection? If this were the case would my right hand be afraid of my left hand and vice versa? Would my left hand plan to destroy my right hand in fear of being destroyed? Am I living my life with hand consciousness and so not being aware of the body?
With this in mind, I felt it good to shift into Oneness consciousness and reach out and greet, meet and "See I to I".
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