Learning to play the human game, tool #2: Understanding actions

Part of the series: Learning to play the human game.

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Learning to play the human game, tool #1: Understanding emotions

Another tool to keep in your toolbox, that relates to emotions:

Try to continuously be aware of what emotion you are feeling when you are performing a certain action. Even if the action is walking on the street, talking, eating, making love, painting, working.. remember: actions multiply the emotions they are done with.

In this reality here, and in many others, we write the story of our reality by the use of our emotions, through the use of our actions. Acting in the exterior reality, is our concrete way of writing our emotional story.

Thoughts and emotions might make up the inner material with which we create our story – the gas, the spark, the idea – yet actions make those inner realities come to life.

And make zero mistakes: even if an action appears mundane, by the laws of the nature of this game, that action reinforces your emotional reality, independent on how that action looks to you or others. Even if you might feel “yea, but I’m only walking on the street, how is that creating reality?“ take a moment to actualise that each physical action you do is like baking a physical representation of the emotions you feel inside. You will soon start smelling that “cake” in your exterior reality, and then you will soon be seeing it and eating from it.

If you inside feel fear, whatever action you do – especially actions meant to hide, destroy or deny that fear – will only multiply that fear, creating a reality in which you eventually end up living more and more of that fear, even if for your mind it will seem un-explainable as you “did all the right things”.

Remember: if you use exterior material to create your exterior reality, like.. exterior agreed emotions (eg: this thing should feel good, this other thing should feel bad, as this is what others say), agreed concepts, agreed thoughts or patterns of behaviours, agreed causality or agreed possible outcomes, you might be in for constant disappointment. You might build your reality using some exterior values of right and wrong, only to find out those values didn’t delivered what they were advertising or they did delivered yet also had hidden other aspects they also brought with them. You might find yourself building your house with advertised premium materials.. doing all the required actions a la carte, feeling optimistic, only to find out those materials were faulty and the house doesn’t last.

This is one trick this reality plays: it makes one really need to take ownership of its own creations and of its own inner world. You need to be able to asses for yourself: what am I actually feeling, what is my real will in this project, what do I feel towards this person in the core of myself? Stop thinking your reality needs to unfold the way you see it unfolding in others who do those same actions.

Stop doing actions unknowingly of your emotions, only because you saw those actions performed by others, and it seemed to work for them. Imitating an action, do you also imitate how those beings felt inside? How do you know what emotional material they have put inside their actions, to make those actions result in what they resulted? Go back to your emotions. Evaluate your core feelings. What is you inner material in this moment? What are you creating with?

Clear yourself, find out what you really feel – outside of what you should be supposed to feel, outside of what others feel, outside of what the world feels. What do you feel?

That is what you create with. You are your own material for creation. Learn to tap into your feelings to generate more aware and conscious creations, that would have less of a surprising outcome. As much as you know yourself, you know your core feelings, you know the truth of your real will in a certain situation, project, relation .. you not only can foresee the future, you already “know” the outcome. Know “yourself” to better stabilise your own creations.

Ask yourself: if I feel pain right now, is it wise to make this action? What will this action create, independent of how “good” or “wise” it seems?