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JUXTAPOSITIONS

2015, BELIEF, COMPARISONS

MAY 18, 2015

When comparing two or more circumstances, reality sets, or objects, side-by-side, what is learned is entirely dependent on the Juxtaposition of your beliefs, and how your life energy is divided and distributed across the different categories that affect your interpretive skills.  Should this job or that job better suit you?  The jobs considered are now Juxtaposed in your mind.

In considering these jobs, your beliefs, fears, biases, experiences, goals, drives, needs, desires, capabilities, skill sets, perceived obligations, self-esteem, self-faith, and self-denials are also in Juxtaposition.  This stew of considerations makes for an intricate and sometimes disturbing puzzle—when we are unclear or our own Self-beliefs, Self-worth, and Self-delusions.  How can we become clear enough to study Juxtaposed comparatives to obtain confident and faithful outcomes?

Extrapolation.  Stripping away—first—what is Not True, however difficult this may first seem, is a helpful exercise in reaching the infrastructure of what remains:  what we expect to be most True.  How do we begin?

The gross structures require little help.  Let us say you have eliminated all job opportunities but for two.  The two remaining are equidistant from your home, offer similar pay, and seemingly similar challenge and authority.  How now do you determine the remaining factors in these Juxtaposed opportunities?

Let us say that one job requires travel and one does not.  In your fear cache, you have stored horrible memories of a near-fatal car accident—and job A requires you to travel in a large city, on busy highways with a low safety record.  Will you ignore this job’s greater freedom and higher creative opportunities to feed an old fear?  Will you heed the motto of once-lucky, twice-doomed, and avoid the risk of increased highway-driving exposure, or will you reflect on future authenticity, and possibilities, creating an infrastructure for joy and success?

Job B seems to be a job of lower demands.  More in-house and with less frills, it might offer less glamour on the surface; it might also require less of your personal hours spent in work-related matters.  Listing all of the components you can confidently gather about job A and job B, you have made a 2-column list by which to Juxtapose your ideas for new employment.  You have a category for all things positive and a category for all things negative.

Now:  apply your Self-knowledge to these negative and positive ideas.  Why did you thusly categorize each of these ideas?  By what personality traits, beliefs, and experiences were you driven to find Truth in these outcomes?  Can you track these ideas back to their sources?  For instance:  do you have residual fear for driving on crowded highways due to a past experience, or is Spirit whispering to you in its small still voice, “Be Care-Full”?

Will job A actually take less of your personal time, or is it your own habits, stemming from low self-worth, a competitive nature, disorganization, time mismanagement, or some other condition(s), that will actually rob you—whether you take job A or job B?  Is job B more creative, in actuality, or is it that you are more easily seeing how you could creatively entail yourself at that job?  Could it be that job A has creative opportunities just as significant, but your perceived notions of working “under the yoke” in a small office affects your perceived abilities to perform independently?

Do you see how your beliefs, in your Self and in the world, affects every decision that you make?  Pros and cons are only the beginning of Juxtaposing any comparative factors.  And the formulae for the decision-making stew, in coming to the most beneficial conclusions for each unique individual, are as unique as the individual making the decision.

Inside you there are Legions. Do not try to rule your Self and your Life by autocracy. Know Thy Self. Know your Self in Its largeness, and know your self in its smallness. Be the leader of your Legions. When making Juxtapositions, come to the table. Debate.  Speak.  Become Wise.



Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

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