Sunday, March 18, 2012

Being Rewired means...

Human nature, fully activated through the right kind of stimulation and support, can move each one of us into unabashed and unbridled REWIREMENT.


BEING REWIRED encourages thought and action designed to better stimulate and support individual development of internal resources from the inside out.

We are emerging from a model of thought, action, and social system many of us have outgrown in our personal lives.  Our public lives however haven't yet caught up.  This common denominator -one size fits all thinking - shows up through an artifact called bureaucracy.  The bureaucracy, institutionalized  around us, rears its horrid head through the games too many people still play "at-large" ... in the courts, six o'clock news, political hacks, marketplaces,  and through administrative offices of all sorts.

Industrial age-fostered bureaucracy is manufactured... and man-made machines only do what they are designed to do.  Social machines are no different.  Machines by design limit. We see the unfortunate proliferation of manufactured social machines all around.  We must keep in mind and in our forums together They do not allow for the diversity, the richness of human intelligence, human ingenuity.  Machines are limited, and thus limit.   Machines work supurbly for manufacturing identical products,  brass instruments for instance, but machines, even large complex ones called "institutions," wreck havoc when controlling/shaping human potential from the outside in! 

Unenlightened (or underenlightened, early stage) stewarding of our human potential  led to the proliferation of institutions (e.g. schools, government branches and prestigious positions) that now derive continuation through ever-expansion of powers to legislate our growth and development.  Asking institutions to generate self-reliance and responsible expansion is no more reasonable than to ask a rock to spring water.   Pushing and pulling growth and development from intelligent individual human beings requires significant systems of coersion through a punisment and external reward system.  Here's true progressivism:  Intelligent, creative development (along with reliable internal regulation of impulses) is inspired ... and generated from the inside out!

Bureaucratic stimulation operates in opposition to health-raised human nature.  That is,  bureaucratic imposition operates on people from the outside in.  Over the past fifty years, we've experienced a viral-like spread of government-sourced bureaucracy in our marketplaces: farming and food agencies, schools and education, information distributiion and media, small and corporate businesses, conservation of natural and human resources, and now healthcare.

On the other hand, LOCAL generated stimulation and support for individuals sustains authentic human generativity and responsiblity because the more local the stimulus and support the more closely it matches the strengths and addresses the needs of each individual.   Nothing is more local than each individual growing from the inside out! This is why in the marketplace (schools included) coaching and mentoring brings about the greatest and most reliable achievement ...in students of all ages, as well as teachers, administrators, and yes ... parents!

Being Rewired is a model of thought and action based upon the growing support and direction from neuropsychology: the human brain with the right stimulation and support rewires itself to creatively meet challenges old thinking never thought possible. bureacracies grew out of control in the era of Father Knows Best.  Institutions ultimately, like giant egos, strive to expand their own livelihood.  They grow top heavy among the "elite."  They strive to expand their control over the masses emplyed in their service others because the institution operates as if it knows what is best for everyone.  Bureacracies kill the inherent good available through diversity and abundance.    Bureacracies harness and limit, drive and ultimately discourage.

Being Rewired means we can come home to human nature and generate new ways from our origin, making better use of all we have learned from witnessing history and its results bureacratic expansion  has  accrued.  Then we vision a way that would work much better ... and begin from scratch.  Bureacracies are the best industrial age man-power push-and-pull cart stage of  social living could make back then and there from available knowledge of human nature technology.

The problem currently is that once we peopled institutions  with layered and systematized man-power we also created appetites for keeping power and place easily simply through mastering that system.  More and more succumb to expecting and becoming dependent upon having particular resources derived from the ever-expanding corruptive nooks and cranies of layered bureaucracies.  Those at the top and those on their way up become lazy to learning new ways of being.  They become externally motivated ...and greedy for the goods "due" them.   And by hook or by crook, they want an ever more liberal slice of the pie lying at the end of the tunnel.

Staying in a repetitive system too long is like engaging repetitive action too long...its distorts muscle and capacity, it leads to no good.  Instead of enjoying the generative  thrill of "Carpe Dium,"  those stuck in repetivie systems suffer the plague of carpal tunnell.  The seduced refuse to adapt and adjust when the cheese gets moved (book reference)! Refusal turns into outright mean and nasty and multiple  ways of "locking arms," locking hearts & minds, ... and locking the gates to the top.  Remember, the top is simply another externally imposed ceiling on our true potential!  Striving for "the top," keeps us stuck in the illusion of striving, of progressing.  We entertain the illusion of  being "progressive."

More legislation, more "locking," more "outside" control is not the antidote! War doesn't end war, no more than hating curbs hatred, or shouting brings peace. Hateful thoughts and back-biting does not reduce aggression (it sharpens our anti-social teeth).  Nor does victim-identification free our bodies, minds and spirits to overcome hurdles and obstacles inwardly first, then in the world around us.   Authentic union  is never achieved through divisive talk, thought, behaving.  Old wiring just gets thicker, more brittle.  It becomes the line, the story by which we all suffer further the ultimate loss of contributions that were never made to our community together through each individual exercsing his/her own ingenuity and generativity.

The antidote to old, out-dated, worn-out thinking and being is simple really.  It's easier than jerry-rigging a broken artifact to generate something innovative never intended.  It's easier than starting from scratch! Start from our seasoned experience now updated and reinforced  and rewired ...the new scratch!

How?  Return to our origins ...our updated knowledge of human nature and how systems of people do and can work, then construct anew from the currency of all we have witnesed, learned, envisioned.  Why not fix the old? Imagine the costs to human and natural resources if the socialist Greek  state were to jerry-rig the Parthenon so it could serve as an apartment house for all those loosing government subsidies in bankrupt Greece. Imagine installing air-conditioning and internet in an ancient structure designed for life of an entirely more primitive era!   So it is when we waste our time fixing a lost cause.  

Instead, return to nature and work from principles.  (Name the principles you will work by ... and match the integrity of each effort to the principle, which can be modified to match reality.)  Try this simple approach with something small you desire in your day right now.  Simply affirm the characteristics of human nature within and around you, name the principle(s)  you believe work reliably, and put into action what you think to be true.  Engage Being Rewired.
And remember...it's a dynamic process..nothing will stay the  same if it's living according to nature! 

Monday, January 23, 2012

The Psychology of Achievement Classic by Brian Tracy

The Psychology of Achievement Classic by Brian Tracy

Palladio International Enterprise begins our first global study of achievement on Valentine's Day 2012! We are thrilled to share this opportunity of world-wide study among all our small and large communities planet-wise. This first-time concerted effort to nourish and develop common ground knowledge is initiated by our recently-founded Utica Campus (UC) in the Mohawk Valley of central New York.

Founders of Palladio International Enterprise (our Rev. & Dr. Palladio) joined this pioneering pod of students, global families, and representative adults (formerly of Manhattan's Central Park ground-breakers) one year post-migration. Monitoring UC's rates of accomplishment in key arenas drew the founding team to plan a six month residency in Utica, interviewing, recording, working side by side with the pioneers as they continued their efforts to establish roots, secure Global Family Homes, activate Academies, and sustain Market Place Connections. The UC pioneers' attributed their rates of successful engagement to their community consensus (to adhere in all communications and personal thought) to guidance and direction of Brian's interpersonal wisdom. Throughout their first year pioneers allowed their focus and interactions to be guided by Brian's 6 part workshop on discs. Visit the Utica Campus On-line to further explore recorded artifacts (videos, data, documents, and blogposts).

The Utica team, at the encouragement of our founders in residence along with members of the International Development Council (also now "in-residence") approach readiness to lead campuses throughout the world in what they have identified as their best practices. All parents, teachers, administrators, advisers, developers, researchers, and council guides prepare to integrate contents of achievement thinking into our diverse curricula over the next three weeks. This "Winter" focus on content and dialogue will be followed this Summer by a series of "know-how development" mentorships, internships, on-site theatre groups, as well as electronic streaming and modeling opportunities.

All adults and high school students may preview achievement thinking content by streaming UC's introduction to Brian's beginning workshop: The Roots of Self-Esteem
(Click link: www.UCPIE.org/achievementthinkingnow)

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Which human qualities do our "helping" programs actually support?

As a veteran teacher/professor of humanity (preschool through graduate school in the United States) across my career span of forty-five years, I continue to dig deeper discovering gems of truth hidden within richly layered human experiences.  My quest is  to decipher, to deconstruct then reconstruct the myriad facets of this most important question of structuring human learning for success.

Our constitution serves us by offering a lofty definition of success here ... capacity for life, liberty and the persuit of happiness.  So how can we better structure our thinking and supports of each other, particularly across the youth years, in oder to generate adults who are self-reliant and generous in  sharing, contributing ther natural talents and resources for the good of all?Unless we persist in deepening our engagement in this quest, we run the risk of being distracted, side-tracked, losing attention.

After persisting for twenty years in a field that includes diverse populations,  truth becomes strikingly clear: The apparent intentions of program designers do not always match the results expected, planned, and/or obtained.  


Judge Judy offers the viewing public a very important sociological lesson. Click the link that follows:
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915


Any learning that does not stimulate change in our thinking first, then in our actions becomes wasted learning.  To use this learning experience wisely, let us unpack some concepts buried within the Judge Judy exchange:  
What we attend to unfailingly grows more palpable and pliable.  It looms larger and reveals more layers.  As in the field of physics, so to sociologically: what is observed also "changes" through the process  of being observed!  Both the observed and the observer have immense power.  Both behold the other. In the eye of each beholder is a projection of his/her thoughts of reality.

Their thoughts may be in actuality opposing, in conflict, or simply misaligned in a million and one ways ...or just one essential life or death way.  When the focus of observation is alive (thus harboring capabilities), careful observation of the observed at their best, most satisfying, and most productive must precede outside intervention. Any intervention must align with nature at its best.  If these are mismatched, misaligned, we make a mess of the resources within each human being, each environment, each out-sourcing of generous supports.

When the gaze of the observer projects a human being who needs to be given to (instead of activated, encouraged, guided to generate their own good), much becomes amiss, "deliverance"jobs are created unnecessarily (wasting resources), and those "given to" are deprived of generating their own deliverance, their own self-respect, their own self-reliance.  We all thus miss the mark in cultivating our individual and collective sense of worthiness.  We all get side-tracked.  We deprive ourselves of long-term goods and resources yet to be experienced ...resources we may likely need in a relatively  unpredictable future.

Fathoming that which underlies each apparent layer of a societal conundrum, requires  seekers to stay on track, remain focused, sustain attention on the prize.   It behooves us to move pieces of confounding problems apart, search beneath any given pile of distracting factors sitting atop of any heap, just layers of the perennial onion.

After some study, we can sense many "sources" of this conundrum.  After further thought, conversation paired  with extensive on-site experience (and relevant research), causative factors become not only identifiable, but recognizable. With reformed intention and sustained effort, changes aligning causes and effects become sustainable.

Change just one principle operative thought, and perceptible changes naturally occur in actuality.  Causes bring consequences.  All consequences have causes that are traceable...we simply need knowledge, know-how, will, and courage.  Ignore these operative laws and consequences unfold at great peril to human health and prosperity. 

 Implicit in our cultural miasma is the thought that we all want a piece of the pie.  But nothing is without cost.  And some costs incur great peril to true prosperity and peace among people kind.


Why is this so?, we may ask ourselves, stymied by the actual exchange between Judge Judy and the plaintiff-defendant witnessed in her court of law. The YouTube link below is an eye opener for those who really want to help humanity develop the internal strength of character   and corresponding thinking required for reaching levels of self-care, self-reliance, and self-respect expected in any civilization of merit.

Watch the video once, just to get a sense of content.  The second time, have a paper and pen handy to make note of Judge Judy's line of reasoning. The third time round, make note of the defendant's attitudinal and behavioral responses ... and finally, those of the plaintiff.

Connecting the dots:
From observations gathered, do some backwards problem solving to answer this positive position question:
Which "supports" or "help" (principles, initiatives, expectations = PIE) actually work together to generate a society in which 90% of children become adults who in actuality reach levels of self-care, self-reliance, and self-respect that create a  civilization of merit.


There are many questions you will come to ask in this process. List these questions in the comment box below.  Grab  someone at home, call a friend or relative, and together watch the Judge Judy exchange, list the questions that flow from witnessing actual results of programs intended to "help" ...what kind of helping actually supports the development of generative capacities???  


How do societies (families, schools, institutions, free markets) cultivate reasonable to high levels of psychosocial  characteristics identified by Erik Erickson (or any self-motivated adult) as necessary and sufficient to generate a viable and satisfying life ...and the capacity to care to contribute to those around him/her?

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Syracuse Airport: News to Rewire...

so what's happening with
... primary candidates (with good to offer everyone and real national/government issues to address).  How does media-prompted DEBATES and public demand for certainty invite a collective descending to "common denominator behaviors"  (i.e. tearing at and thinking of each other as "opponents")... distracting from the good each has accomplished -and is capable of accomplishing to make our national state of being better in the future? Instead, we invite them to wallow in the land of distorting what the other did or said so as to cast him in lesser light?
...(and we all know this happens with the other "party" as well ... this behavior is not partisan, it is going to the least common behavioral denominator of the people who live, school, work, and retire in this nation of many cultures. The integrity of each person who breathes and behaves in this nation is reflected in the competitive style of our leaders and celebrities.
... a woman who says her dead toddler may have been the result of a ruffie rape ...does this excuse or mitigate murder of our child?  What factors in our legal system, our dating system, our chid-rearing system make desecrating behavior excusable?


What else is in our face in the news each day that brings YOU back to your senses?

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tolle on "Enjoyment"

A New Earth poses this thought...

Full surrender to, full  engagement in the act of enjoying what we are doing becomes in reality, an "awakened doing." (p.297)

He further notes that in this state the "peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness."

He explains his thinking this way: enjoyment becomes the "second modality of awakened doing. On  the new earth, enjoyment will replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions." (ibid)

Eckhart clarifies that the sense of wanting comes from the ego's delusional belief that  we are separated, disconnected , from the power that fuels and sustains all creation.

The good news?
When we choose to enter and re-enter, choose to maintain and sustain our state of enjoyment, then we directly experience "universal creative power itself." (ibid)
Focusing on our present moment then enhances our capacity to enjoy what we do and dramatically increases the quality of our life.


And how does Tolle define joy?
"... the dynamic aspect of Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself, it manifests as joy.  You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need." (ibid)

Tolle goes on... "If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do ---stop."

"Otherwise, you are not taking  responsibility for the only thing you can really take responsibility for, which happens to be the one thing that really matters: your state of consciousness." (p.296-7)

Tolle concludes "Acceptance" by reminding us that  when we take responsibility for our state of consciousness that we are in fact  taking responsibility for the life we are living. 

A NEW EARTH ... an exerpt to guide any today or tomorrow as we go about "doing"

Last night we melted into our cushy chocolate brown recliners with a book of choice before bedtime.  The bright copper-colored cover of Eckhart Tolle's New Earth filled my field of vision.  I allowed chance to lead me ... and opened to page 296, "Acceptance."

Here, I found bits of brilliance all human beings can connect with, no matter our changeable circumstances, variable climates and seasons, progressive stages of life:

"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
(...for in the greater scheme of intention, life, and living...this is what has become present to me)
(...perhaps precisely in such situations it suits us to recall reference to "not my will, but Thy will be done." These words remind us that there are times when it behooves us to lend our support willingly to a wisdom superseding our own ... A WISDOM far greater, more encompassing than our own current myopia.)
(...and perhaps Tolle's earlier phrase "have to do" connotes not so much that there is something we must do, as it signals we have been given this to do ...we have it so that we may do something good with it)

Tolle proceeds to note that he had already addressed the importance of "inner acceptance
of what happens, and acceptance of what you have to do is just another aspect of it." He goes on to say that, "Performing an action in  the state of acceptance means you are at peace while you do it.  That peace is a subtle energy vibration which then flows into what you do.  On the surface, acceptance  looks like a passive state, but in reality it is active and creative because it brings something entirely new into this world."