Connecting the Dots
As a kid we used to get these books with lots of dots with numbers
and when you connect the dots in sequence of the numbers, like
magic, a picture appears. This makes me think that it is so much
like what we are supposed to do in life – Connecting the Dots.
What do I mean by this?
Every experience we have in life leaves a DOT in our subconscious,
every experience is meant for us to learn from, everything
happens for a reason, there are no coincidences.
If you check back in a previous rambling of mine you will find
something on the 7th Sense. (Nonsense)
Connecting the dots starts with living in the moment. You have to
experience everything going on around you. Some people think
they cannot multi task but that is not true! At the same time we
are seeing, we hear, we feel, we taste and we smell. You cannot
help it. It is how we are created. The problem comes with our
minds. We don’t register these things that we are experiencing.
What a waste!
Why don’t we register these experiences if we know that we need
them? The simple answer is that we tend to not live in moment or
in the present and that is where these things are happening. We
operate on autopilot. Now this is not a bad thing per se.
Sometimes we have to go somewhere and shut the conscious off
so our subconscious can get a chance to “Connect the dots".
Connecting the dots in life comes from adding every experience
consciously into our brain. You cannot overload it. It is said that
people in general only utilize about 10% of their brainpower. So
don’t be shy, there is an abundance of storage space in your brain,
load it up with what is happening right at this moment.
Think about smells for a moment and lets think about the good
ones for now. You walk past a bakery and you can smell the fresh
bread and it makes your mouth water. What would have happened
if you never connected the dots between the smell of freshly baked
bread and the taste of it? At thecsame time we also experience the feeling
of being with mom in the kitchen or having a great family meal
and experience the love we felt then and you can visualize your
folks and siblings and friends. Wow, just by smelling freshly baked
bread! What if we have never experienced or even taken note of bread being baked? Then we would walk right past the bakery and it will mean nothing to me.
If you knew that the things that are happening within your sphere
of influence right now would shape your future in one way or
another, would you still ignore it?
Now lets think about the people that we meet. Do we meet them
by chance? I don’t think so. Everyone we meet has a purpose,
either we are making a contribution to his or her lives or they are
making one to ours. There is no neutral ground. This may mean a
long friendship or a moment. Sometimes when we smile at another
person, it may just be what he or she wanted at that moment. I
would not even know his name but I have made someone’s life
better. Other times we meet someone and it becomes a long
friendship or partnership and we are sharing ideas and
experiences (connecting the dots between our lives).
In Sanskrit there is a word “seva” which means “voluntary action”
or “selfless service” This could mean you see a kid in a dangerous
situation and you react without thinking to get the kid out of
trouble – voluntary action or you see someone that looks as
though they are lost and you offer to take them to their
destination – selfless service.
To be able to live up to “seva” you have to somehow connect the
dots, be in the present to see the danger for the kid, having a dot
in your subconscious that tells you what the danger is, or notice
the behavior (connect the dots) of someone that needs direction.
Maybe because you know how you act or feel when you are lost
and would have loved someone to offer you help.
By taking notice of your experiences when you live in the moment,
you are giving numbers to your dots, just like in the game. By not
paying attention to what is going on round you in the present is
still leaving a dot but with no number! If you didn’t get the
numbers on the dots, you will not know which dots to connect to
each other. Then you really get into the 7th Sense of “Nonsense”
and never into the ultimate sense called “Common Sense”
Then you venture into meta physics where you get 3 types of
matter
“Matter”, “ Anti Matter” and if you don’t pay attention to your
experiences “Doesn’t matter”
