Why are ideas important for us?
Ideas are the basics, the beginning, the creation. Ideas come one step before reality, one step before materialization or nowadays best known: manifestation.
An idea is an image or representation of an object, person or place that is allowed inside our minds; it can come from before; family, generations,costumes or something you recently caught up, learned.
Us, humans, have lot of ideas, our lives are actually a composition of various ideas, ideas at every area of us; ideas about life, love, friendship, food, technology, nature,money, colors, everything that is surrounding us, everything that we enter in contact with.
And if you want to go further with me, ideas are made of perspectives, too, and at its time, perspectives have levels, and levels have hues, so on…
But let’s focus on ideas, by now.
Then, imagine if in the world there are 8 million humans (2023 data, source: INEGI / ONU – habitat) and each one of this humans has an idea or conception of love… Come with me to take a closer look.
Idea: Love
Perspective: Where are you looking at love from. -from sweetness, care, anger or joy?
Level: Lets choose sweetness as perspective and then rate it (-sweetness- from 1 to 10, how sweet do you believe love can be?)
Hue: Sweet like honey, sweet like chocolate, sweet like roses smell…etc
So how many related answers are coexisting about love? Crazy.
With ideas, we can judge, determinate, evaluate.
We started “judging” since we are born. And it’s natural having the ability to qualify a situation. It may keep us alive… you see, if we go millions of years ago; noticing , qualifying and judging, would determinate if we still alive or die -a lion close and around someone who can potentially turn into a little snack-.
We got ideas from everything that was in our surroundings: mom, dad, friends, cousins, brothers, sisters, tv, music, strange people that somehow through a conversation left an impact on you, something you randomly saw on the street.
Basically, our reality is a huge construction of the ideas we conceive as truth. And at the same time, there are multiple realities coexisting; sometimes they touch each other, sometimes they share in between, sometimes they ignore one another, sometimes they build another reality together, as a new one…
A change of idea would represent a part of your reality breaking down, a portion of your life fading. Chaos, destruction, new order.
Destruction appears with the demolition of our first beliefs; then, there comes chaos where we often don’t know what is going on, since its unknown; and new order arrives when we identify the “emptiness” that should be filled. When we observe thoughts, feelings, and actions that will be transformed. And we work towards it.
It is important for you to know that changing an idea can create a sensation of emptiness, hopelessness and other related emotions.
And it is important for you to remember that, despite these are sensations that regularly we look forward to avoid because they generate us a kind of an ache, it’s THE REWARD, going through it.
GETTING, LIVING AND ENJOYING THE LIFE YOU’VE BEEN DREAMING OF, how does it sound like? I know, pretty utopic from time to time. But it is also SO real. From another perspective.
Turning ideas it’s so easy, and at the same time, it’s complicated.
I know you are about to start, or you already started. -thinking about it, counts as a first step, your doing it great.-
Avoid trying to change your ideas all -or many- at once, because this may create a collapse.
I am preparing exercises so you can start to identify your ideas, and same as it, the ideas of yourself you agree to, and which ones definitely not, despite there are yours. And believe me, there are some.
Why is it so hard to change an idea?
See you on the next post!
Ayn 