When you power up the television set every newscast features the hottest story of the week, from fires and earthquakes in California to a shop-a-holic Wall Street falling off the wagon again. What’s happened to the Swine Flu? Oh wait, they changed it to H1N1…have they located a cure? Three weeks ago, it was like becoming a full fledged cast member of the movie 28 Days…an incurable disease sweeps the UK turning everyone into Zombies. It must be happening, I keep bumping into the numb bobble heads everywhere I go.
Winston Churchill couldn’t have been more correct when he said, “Life is nothing more than one damn thing after another.”
People magazine is blanketed with couples locked in bitter divorces, people most don’t recognize because it’s not our television show of choice. Rollingstone Magazine praises the presence of Adam Lambert jokenly questioning where his incredible ability has been. It’s as if he’s been dumped out of a spaceship. President Obama spoke at a major college where protesters were waiting while the world waited for Korea’s next step in their passion to put another missile up in the sky.
British author Eckhart Tolle isn’t being crass when exposing our current situation, think of it as being brutally honest, “Our reality is currently being blocked by object consciousness.”
There’s so much taking place in our daily lives that available space to put everything has hit an incredibly dangerous low. Without space consciousness insanity becomes the destiny.
We were once told to count to ten when confronted with work day and family stress…who has the time? No wonder we keep losing our car keys…its our subconscious mind reprimanding us, “Until you learn to better focus, you’re grounded for two weeks from your car, cell phone, laptop computer, Nintendo video games and CNN!”
It doesn’t last long because we learned as a teenagers the best way to get out of being grounded is to toss a seriously way out of this world king size fit that completely drives parents six steps closer to that secret place with white coats at the hospital.
Perception, thoughts and emotions require a single engine to keep them pumped up and moving forward: Awareness. Without it you can’t see objects, all things connected pushes your little engine up that giant mountain. By being aware you’re able to see and feel how much room you’ve created for space consciousness. How can you expect to further your career or family living style if you no longer have the room to dream?
Tolle asks, “Can you feel your presence?”
We depend on cable television companies to deliver four hundred channels of great programming. We depend on drug companies to quickly get us through the sniffles while giving our hearts and eyes plenty of paparazzi junk to read while waiting for the get fixed quick drugs to be handed to us. We depend on car companies to give us speed, protection and better gas mileage. We demand our fast food to taste great and be good for the body. We demand every Hollywood movie to totally blow us away. We demand our parents quit babying us at thirty eight.
Can you feel your own presence?
We’ve become so dependent on the world taking care of us that American Idol reminded viewers three times last night that their two hour show would probably go over the limit so we better reprogram our DVR’s and Tivo’s. I pictured nearly 100 million people grabbing that remote control at the same time. Ryan Seacrest became the single voice that moved the entire planet.
When someone at work, home or while driving down the highway upsets you…interrupt your reaction by sipping on the spill proof cup, tell yourself that the real cause of the event has nothing to do with the event, person or situation. Being unaware by means of object consciousness presented a situation you’ve now become trapped in.
Repeat after me, “I am never upset for the reason I think.”
Walking through your company hallway, your arms ache from doing so much work, your fingers beg to be pulled off while your brain lags like a jogger running into a swift wind…then you take note of a fellow coworker sitting at their desk, their feet up while talking on a cell phone, laughing like they’ve just heard the best joke since last nights Leno show.
If you react the damage continues. There’s not enough space in your quality of breathing to include what other people do. Repeat after me, “I am never upset for the reason I think.”
From the kids demanding to be heard to your neighbor accidentally mowing over your prize rose bush to the daily jump in gas prices sending your thoughts back to four bucks a gallon…what you’re doing is providing space for something unwilling to pay rent. It’s time for a little deprivation.
My daughter no longer gets the newspaper and has completely disconnected all shapes of TV. Although she once worked for the photographers who took those famous pictures in Hollywood, not one magazine can be seen on the coffee table or bathroom rack. Her two kids play outside in a neighborhood where everybody knows your name. Each yard features a garden brimming with leaves that’ll soon bring cucumbers and other veggies to their plates. They talk to their neighbors like they know them rather than just feel as if they’ve been thrown into a district.
Why didn’t I see this side of her in the years before she got married? Openly I admit, I didn’t have the space.
Don’t steal my art…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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