• Don't Ask Why: It's Overrated

    edited by Alexander Becker

    How doesn't help either, try whether instead.

    Why instead of what. Why not. Perceiving instead of judging.

    You asked before: Why? Because I can, maybe because I have to but it doesn't get any better than that.

    As for the why, well, I prefer to not always ask. If ever, it is best answered with "why not" -- describing instead of interpreting, perceiving instead of analyzing, yet please note that, and that's the key, all of this is beyond analysis. We're not stopping short of thorough analysis here, instead, we're transcending the analytical interpretation to make our informed perception on top of that.

    Why? Because I can. Isn't that enough?

    You don't ask why and I don't ask how... maybe we change that to you don't ask how and I don't ask why. What do you think?

    What about how? What's the problem with how anyway?

    Conceptionally, how represents doubts. Either you want to achieve your goal or you don't. How is not relevant and will ultimately be solved. Much more pressing is whether you really want it. If the answer is yes, the how doesn't really matter just as the why is long done and is not going to help anymore.

    Whether is about the difference it makes. Does it make a difference? To you? Maybe it makes one for me.

    Please note that obviously, how does solve specific tangible, practical problems, however, more often than not, decisions are diluted when how is asked. Ignore the details when conceiving.

    Don't get me wrong, details are important, it's just a matter of the right timing for the details and the big picture respectively.

    Perceiving instead of judging is an elaborate concept and it surely helps effectivity, efficiency and productivity of all sorts. On the other hand, there will be a time where judging does have its legitimate place. Once you know exactly where you stand, you are more than capable, you are competent enough to judge.

    When judging becomes knowing, when knowing is judging, then and only then will why matter again: Because I know.

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  • Subjective Reality: Create an Atmosphere

    edited by Alexander Becker

    This essay is part of The Subjective Reality Series.

    Do you ever wonder what your vast, unused mental potential is busy doing at any given moment? An obviously significant part of it is creating atmospheres out of your sensory input, it combines previously stored patterns and expectations and judgements into your very own subjective perception of intangible and often indescribable qualities.

    Atmospheres are objective environments which are subjectively created by your thoughts and emotions. An atmosphere is the pervading tone of a place or situation. The very same place, when perceived at different times under different or even similar circumstances may be experienced as if it was a completely different location.

    Note how time and circumstances are shaped and suddenly change at your fingertips when lived through a slightly changed context.

    Take your current environment as an example. Look around and consciously scan the setting which surrounds you right now. How does it feel? And back. What is there to evoke that particular feeling? If it is hard to describe it is because there is obviously some more to a situation than the sum of quantifiable and thus tangible parts.

    Develop and create an environment, your environment and make it your personal, your branded space. Take your environment and make it yours. You will be amazed by the unlimited options you encounter when it comes to configuring and fine-tuning your setting.

    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 (King James Version)

    Create your atmosphere to your own and complete satisfaction. Recreate yourself in and through your environment and shape the resulting atmosphere until it is yours. Take special care of the more subtle elements, an air, think appearances and manners of objects and circumstances.

    Ultimately, the sequence is your mind creating an environment; you, perceiving that environment, perceiving it consciously; and finally shaping it through active and creative perception. If, for any reason, you are not absolutely, positively content with the atmosphere you created in the first place, go no further than your very own mind and -- if not working on the manifestation itself, at least improve your perception -- the rest, reality that is, will take care of itself.

    Your creations develop a life of their own. Try to always make sure that your intention perfectly matches the atmosphere that comes along with the manifestation. And vice versa.

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