Action and reaction

A practical way to start with becoming aware of the role of your personality is by asking yourself regularly what you could learn from a specific situation. However, a very common reaction of your personality is that someone else is to blame, and therefore he does not have to look within.

Let's assume for a start that when you create an activity or reaction to the intent of your personality, you always put "energy" in a situation, energy that you will label as positive or negative. When you put energy into anything, it will be of no surprise that something will happen with it. People around you can react to it immediately in the form of a positive or negative reaction. You should not be surprised when that equals the intensity of the energy you have put into the situation.

If the other person is somehow limited in the freedom of his response, meaning that he will not react directly, then he or she will be stuck with that energy (read: tension) and will find a way to get rid of it. So you will not always receive a direct response with equal intensity from the person to whom you directed your energy to. This reminds me of an office toy where six or seven metal balls are hanging from strings in a frame. When you let the ball most to the left bounce onto the other balls, the middle balls will not move, and only the ball most on the right will. Simply because that is the place where the energy can express itself freely.

You can apply this principle also on a top-down approach. You may prevent the levels in between from reacting, but that does not mean that the energy will not be passed on to a place where it will be released. It simply has to express itself somehow, somewhere. When you find a lot of problems in your organization, start looking at your own input. Maybe you’ll remember that as the right ball returned it hit the second one leaving it seemingly motionless but ultimately giving the energy back to the very ball that started the process.

What is your choice here? Whether you are the "left ball" or the "right ball" or one in the middle: if you do not add any energy to the original movement, the motion will slow down and the process will come to a halt in the end. Actively choosing to "be" could be seen as a way of absorbing the "energy". By not reflecting or passing through either positive nor negative labeled input, you will make a difference: like a tennis ball falling in the sand you will absorb the energy and free the way for everybody involved to Be and let action be inspired by your inner Self.