Off Line
The Sunday Morning Church of ATTENTION
Off Line
The Computer went for repairs this weekend & I had e-mail withdrawals. Thank goodness we had grandson Trent over for the weekend to keep me busy. When the computer returned I started a Church of Attention late Sunday on Managing Identities 666, (M.I.) my grad level psych class. Next week is finals week at University of Gary and I need to test me to find out what I know. Since I am student, instructor, and dean this is the class that sorts out my parts so I can test.
First term M.I. was getting acquainted with the identities that inhabit the House of Gary. All the ‘I’s that believe they are in charge. It was a challenge separating, identifying and naming them. At times is was a ‘parts party’ all of us chatting, changing our minds, making plans, excuses, being swept away by the F.A.D.S. (fear, anger, doubt, sorrow) and always wanting ‘it’ their way. I needed to make sure the professor had the test ready; that the student aced the test so ‘WE’ could make the Dean’s List. I love to compete, & win honors with the ME’s.
The WIIFM*, is sensing how we are put together. I got free of the illusion that there is just one me years ago. It was an esoteric secret for centuries, told in myths such as the many headed Hydra of Greece. Mark Twain wrote on our multiplicity, “I have met the enemy and he is me. But I underestimated the numbers.”
These identities are not just different personalities or aspects of the single self, but tyrannical rulers like the ‘inner critic’, discouragers like the ‘fearful doubter,’ ‘poor self-pity-ers’ and ‘enthusiastic speakers’, ‘grateful remember-ers’, and the ‘happy-to-be-me’ among my masses.
Being off line a new ID emerged with fear of being separated from my growing network of you. It was the first new ID I created in a while. It had relatives, an old one from when I was 6 years old ‘the Indian giver’. I once gave a toy away I couldn’t use and wanted it back when my friend figured out a new fun use. The new ID is related to those abandoned ID’s like when I quit bowling, baseball, track, being a salon owner, Sage trainer, those loves of my life that age, health & evolution had to let go.
The motto, ‘raison d’etre at the University is WHO ARE YOU?
Well thanks to the University of Gary I am gathering a roster of the “Who’s, What, When, Where and even Why they are & do ME.
Interested in more information on the University of You?
*WIIFM, What’s in It For Me.*
We are all angels, both inside and outside.