Whole System Ecology
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By: Shlomo Vaknin, C.Ht
“Even the mighty and ferocious cannot conquer the small but secure; Thus a man-eating tiger cannot swallow a single porcupine.” – Liu Ji (14th century general)
You have already started thinking about your personal ecology. There are other individuals and systems as well. By systems, we mean families, schools, regulatory government agencies, businesses and so on.
Does your outcome, as defined so far, impair your relationship with any other individuals or systems?
What can you do about it?
Ask the helpful question, “If I could have it now, would I take it?”
Maybe the answer is obvious, but this question really gets you thinking about possible downsides or imperfections in your outcome. The question, “If I could have it now, would I take it?” can inspire you to evolve your outcome. Of course, nobody wants paralysis by analysis, but don’t under-think your outcome.
Put your mind into that outcome as if you have achieved it, and open your thinking to means of improving that outcome. The time to rework your outcomes comes before you start investing a lot of resources.
The way to align with your highest goals is to stay flexible about your outcome; to rework the outcome as needed; to shape the outcome into something even better. Now you are developing one of the hallmarks of NLP: ecology; where all parts of you agree with the outcome; where your desires, your values, and your needs are all aligned into one powerful direction.
This comes in under what we call “Beyond Identity – The Wider World” others call it Spirituality in the (Neuro)Logical Levels. Nice neat article here.
Thank you
Is this the equivalent of,
“Be careful what you wish for, you might get it?”
@richie perl.
Yes, i think it is.
Most times we wish for something,
but every change, is still a Change.
So, actually, it’s one,(or more) part of us
that wishes for something, but another, or other parts may not be aligned with that outcome. So, when you make a wish, you future pace that wish, and experience it, that’s when unaligned parts may kick in
to throw Objections.
You then do a parts negotiation, whereby it is also important that you keep your desired
outcome flexible to achieve best results.
Without doing this, you may get your wish
fulfilled, but be disappointed with other
things that accompany that wish.
being a rekhi practicioner the basic rule is that one is only a channel for the greater good.
Makes you aware that maybe you are just a small cog in the mighty machine of life and that we are all connected….and maybe you are meant to be an ass so that others may model themselves not to be…..:)