Enter The Mad Scientist’s Lab…
I love experimenting and tinkering with my own wiring. Trying new things. Laying in bed, starting to wake up. The question that ran through my mind: "What is the greatest joy I'm looking forward to today? What is the greatest service I can provide?"
Greatest Joy? Maybe playing VR minigolf with the family. Hey, Walkabout has a new course open as of last Thursday: Atlantis. Has sharks. Nicki's gonna love it!
Greatest Service? Recording Tananarive's segment for ADHD TO A'S. I'll interview her, and tomorrow she'll interview me. She will give her thoughts and impressions on the whole process. I don't expect it to be organized. But it will be whip-smart and deep. We've put thousands of hours into thinking about this over the years. I'll trust her to boil things down to a usable form.
Tomorrow, she will turn around and interview me. So…after she records hers, I'll look at what she did, and figure out what's needed now. I'll use the Hero's Journey and the Chakras as basic structure, and then go sideways when needed.
We'll relate everything to the Morning Ritual. That's the key:
Each parent individually
The parents together
The family meeting
The child's ritual (done with a parent at first, but solo asap)
The best metaphor I can come up with is that you look into yourself, and find the analogies for any quality you wish to inspire, or develop, within your child, looking at all three arenas. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT. YOU JUST HAVE TO BE GENUINELY ENGAGED.
Anyway…Joy and service. Now…run through my Chakras. How is today, or this week, contributing to each level?
Survival. Wonderful career opportunities. This solidifies my health care. That could save my life, or my family's.
Sex. Joy and reduced stress definitely make this aspect of life better. Seeing Tananarive's genius, appreciating anew just how far she was willing to go to help Jason turns me on like CRAZY.
Power. So many ways. Self-control, family safety and security, community service--the power to help others. Money. The most flexible form of power in the world. NOTHING works like money in the arenas in which money works. Handled properly, this year is the beginning of the next level of my life.
Emotion. I love myself, and deserve joy. I love others, and they deserve service. I love my family, friends, community. The better I am, the more I can serve.
Communication. Creating fiction, television, courses, shaping Jason's behavior, teaching Tananarive martial arts (Body Action System today!). Connecting and learning from my community.
Intellect. I am constructing a map of the territory we traversed in helping Jason believe in himself and find his OWN approach to problem solving. But make no mistake: he must find his own answers to the same basic questions every human and animal faces in life. I 100% believe in him: the brain has stupendous redundancy even if there is damage. And I don't believe there is: I think he is a hunter-warrior in a world filled with farmers and teachers. A round peg hammered into a square hole. I will teach him EXACTLY how we worked with him so that he can test every piece of the process scientifically, and PUBLISHING our methodology will allow countless parents to experiment: first on themselves, and then, carefully, with their precious children. And this should, of course, be done with the support of a circle of highly trained professionals. Smartest people you can find, with expertise on this specific issue.
Spirit. I am working with things larger than I am. Purposes beyond my own life. Building for the future, speaking with friends I've never met, treating all humanity as my family. Teaching the things I wish my own mother had known, so she wouldn't have been so frightened for me. Seeking to answer the question "what was the shape of your face before your parents were born?" and always living in the awareness of death, and remembering that "the only things we keep are what we give away."
It took me a couple of minutes to run through this, top to bottom. I was then awake and filled with purpose, energy, and motivation. COULD have done this with just the three centers: "body, heart, head." That is hella more than most people do. That's all I'm demanding that Jason learn, and yes I DO demand it. Don't you demand your children learn basic math and reading?
Yes, its that basic. And I believe that the awakening of all three has been essential.
Anyway…just morning thoughts as I prepare for what could reasonably be considered candidate for the most important week of my life. I'm gonna turn fear into fun, people. Just watch me.
Namaste
