YES! to all three questions. Looking forward to the book club.
Organic shift
In my experience (of over 2 decades) organic shifts can be nurtured and cultivated, like an 'inner garden'.
Controlled shift
In my experience “controlled shifts” (as defined here) can potentially trigger a ‘pseudo mindset shift’. Things may look and feel ‘shifted’ for a certain period, and snap back into the old mode (usually deeper or worse)
'control' can be helpful, if it follows the lead of the organic process.
Postponed shift
“... mindset shifts that genuinely what to happen….”
(typo: ‘what’ ›› wait or want?)
In my experience "postponed" means 'I am not yet ready for that shift,' for whatever reason (always related to trauma, which feeds and sustains the attachment).
Mindset shifting (in my understanding) is a natural growing process. Growth spurts are great, and memorable. Growth plateaus are valuable and play an important role in the process too.
This is so great Veronika. I love your idea of an inner garden and a pseudo mindset shift.
One quote that has guided my work in this area comes from David Herbert Lawrence: "It is a question, practically of relationship. We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe... For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs, we are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal, sources which flow eternally in the universe. Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe."
When we are planted in the present moment, mindset shifts occur naturally. If we become uprooted for any reason, it leads to a postponement in our natural capacity to shift. Of course, we can also control mindset shifts. This is like growing a plantation full of trees to produce timber. It works, but this growth is not the same thing as planting ourself in the universe and allowing mindset shifts to unfold naturally without control.
When I was doing some research on 'mindset', searching for definitions of 'mindset' and 'growth' (and finding an astonishing lack in the work of authors who use these terms a lot) it occurred to me that the concept called 'mindset' might be more of a 'mind-field'.
You can imagine my delight, when in response to this fleeting insight, presumably blown in from across the universe of collective consciousness, I found your thesis with a 'mindset diagram' showing a field!
I absolutely agree. Growing a plantation is a far cry from planting ourselves in the universe...
YES! to all three questions. Looking forward to the book club.
Organic shift
In my experience (of over 2 decades) organic shifts can be nurtured and cultivated, like an 'inner garden'.
Controlled shift
In my experience “controlled shifts” (as defined here) can potentially trigger a ‘pseudo mindset shift’. Things may look and feel ‘shifted’ for a certain period, and snap back into the old mode (usually deeper or worse)
'control' can be helpful, if it follows the lead of the organic process.
Postponed shift
“... mindset shifts that genuinely what to happen….”
(typo: ‘what’ ›› wait or want?)
In my experience "postponed" means 'I am not yet ready for that shift,' for whatever reason (always related to trauma, which feeds and sustains the attachment).
Mindset shifting (in my understanding) is a natural growing process. Growth spurts are great, and memorable. Growth plateaus are valuable and play an important role in the process too.
This is so great Veronika. I love your idea of an inner garden and a pseudo mindset shift.
One quote that has guided my work in this area comes from David Herbert Lawrence: "It is a question, practically of relationship. We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe... For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs, we are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal, sources which flow eternally in the universe. Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe."
When we are planted in the present moment, mindset shifts occur naturally. If we become uprooted for any reason, it leads to a postponement in our natural capacity to shift. Of course, we can also control mindset shifts. This is like growing a plantation full of trees to produce timber. It works, but this growth is not the same thing as planting ourself in the universe and allowing mindset shifts to unfold naturally without control.
Great quote by DH Lawrence!
When I was doing some research on 'mindset', searching for definitions of 'mindset' and 'growth' (and finding an astonishing lack in the work of authors who use these terms a lot) it occurred to me that the concept called 'mindset' might be more of a 'mind-field'.
You can imagine my delight, when in response to this fleeting insight, presumably blown in from across the universe of collective consciousness, I found your thesis with a 'mindset diagram' showing a field!
I absolutely agree. Growing a plantation is a far cry from planting ourselves in the universe...