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This week I saw the movie 2 Days in the Valley, which I talked about in Rants and Raves.
It got me thinking about the story-telling technique it used that I could write about for On Writing. The movie showed several disparate groups of people, revealed the connections between them as they crossed paths and then brought them together for all kinds of exciting consequences.
That led me to think about how combining people from various parts of our social networks opens us to new things. Everyone can grow from the experience. I wrote about that in On Business.
Taking the concept another step further, On the Path, I see that when there’s a confluence of energies, we end up with a lot more than what we bargained for. Fusing these energies, we expand our collective vision. Viewing situations from varied angles, different perspectives, separate personalities, new clarity can be reached. Illuminating more understanding and creating more refractions to see life in a new light.
It’s fusion! It’s kismet! It’s magic! Brilliant discoveries come from seeing the connections and putting our collective heads together. Great things happen when people’s energies are fused.
Look at all the refractions from one simple, every-day Hollywood movie from1996 in plain English! My seemingly unrelated Blogs have a common thread running through them this week.
There are new ways to see life everywhere, all around us, everyday, ready to reveal themselves to us. All we have to do is look.
From the book that never was ~
In this section we go into the lab. We’re going to be taking the emotions we discovered in the first section on the Table of Emotions and playing with them, mixing them and seeing what happens when we combine certain elemental emotions.
One of the things about Emotions is that they rarely travel alone. They are most often accompanied by at least one, but maybe many more. Combine the wrong emotions and you can have a real mess on your hands.
Mix any two fear-based feelings, like Closed and Insecure, Stress and Pressure, or Hunger and Anxiety. Your potion might start to hiss, boil and then explode all over you, as sure as if you’d opened a pressure cooker at the wrong time!
The same is true for positive emotions. Just imagine what great things can come forth from combining Abundance and Generosity! How about someone who feels Peaceful and Caring? Love and Joy; Confident and Excited, are also pleasant Love-Based mixtures.
Some things to note:
* Choosing emotions from different families on the Table of Emotions can produce a more tempered potion.
* Adding Doubt or Gratitude can instantaneously change the color of your potion.
* Combing Love and Fear emotions does not always produce a guaranteed result.
Emotions can arise in you or come out of others. Blending these two can be especially powerful. Emotions are contagious. Have you ever noticed how a happy person can walk into a room and change everyone’s mood? Lift all the other spirits?
Homework for this section is to observe the myriad of emotion combinations possible. See if you can tell which feelings are going on at the same time within you and without you.
The Positive Slant On the Path 