I see people who don’t make their life into a series of performances as truly privileged. Folks who have allowed themselves to treat their own lens as primary on their activities and their way of being. To be honest, some of us don’t even have a sense of what our lens feels like, so we continue to do what we have always done - borrow the lenses of people we meet and then perform for what we believe will get us the desired reception. And, when that doesn’t come through, we tweak our performances, keeping one eye on the subtle cues we can get from our audience, like a scientist running a controlled experiment in her lab.
I felt this so much. It’s crazy how we can go into auto-mode of acting/performing for the greater good - without even knowing it. Are we allowed to act in accordance with what we want? Are allowed to act that might be contrary to what someone else wants? Of course the answer is yes, but the conditioning and subconscious programming tells our brain something different.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Mika. I'm glad this resonated with you. I feel that merely recognising our present way of functioning is quite potent in itself and dropping the performance, at least in our internal world is a massive shift.
I felt this so much. It’s crazy how we can go into auto-mode of acting/performing for the greater good - without even knowing it. Are we allowed to act in accordance with what we want? Are allowed to act that might be contrary to what someone else wants? Of course the answer is yes, but the conditioning and subconscious programming tells our brain something different.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Mika. I'm glad this resonated with you. I feel that merely recognising our present way of functioning is quite potent in itself and dropping the performance, at least in our internal world is a massive shift.
A very refined writeup on something so real.
Keep it up 💪🏻💯