During a PhotoReading workshop I attended several years ago, different ways of taking notes were suggested. We are familiar with the standard one, taking notes on lined paper as the presenter is speaking.
Another way is to divide the lined paper in half, from top to bottom. On the right side, you take notes of what the speaker is saying. On the left side, you take notes of what is going on in your mind at the time. Thinking about lunch? Write it down. Thinking about a bill to pay? Write it down. Thinking about a phone call you should make? Write it down. As you re-read your notes, it will put you back to the state of mind you were in during the presentation and will trigger memories of what has been said during that time. It falls under "state dependent memory".
Yet another way to take notes was by mind mapping the presentation, also called a spider web. You put the title of the talk in the middle of the page, and add items of interest around it during the presentation, which you can link and color later on.
There are so many ways to take notes... Another one, which I really liked, needed some advance preparation. Using an unlined piece of paper, you would draw the outline of twelve squares or other shapes to fit on the paper, with brightly colored markers. During the presentation, you would write a brief note, a snapshot of an idea, in these shapes. We were told it was the way the brain worked... with snapshots. I enjoyed practicing this way of note-taking.
The most interesting note taking exercise was to write down what the speaker was GOING to say! Quite interesting and enlightening. I noticed on several occasions that I already knew. I remember listening to a series of motivational tapes, already knowing what was on the next one, even though I had not been exposed to the subject consciously.
It happened to me again these past several weeks. During my morning meditation, usually in the alpha state, I was starting to ponder on a way the world could be working. I would get snapshots of ideas and develop images, linking our cells with our bodies, with the Earth and with the Universe.
Our bodies work amazingly well, some 50-trillion cells cooperating to keep us healthy and strong, in most cases. What if the world was a "body" of some kind? What if we, as individuals, were "cells" in that body? It has been shown that the Earth is a living entity, expanding and contracting (breathing?), with a powerful magnetic field to which we can attune and connect to. If we were to consider that we are cells of one body, shouldn't we learn to work together? What if countries were like organs, each having its own specific purpose?
What if we go further? What if the Earth is itself just a "cell", a small part of a vast living body called the universe?
When I was getting my certification in InterActive Guided Imagery, I learned to listen and talk to cells, Yes, they do have a mind of their own, and yes, they do communicate with us... if we only were to listen. Cells are very intelligent, if somewhat immature in their thinking. They will tell you why you are not feeling well and what you can do about it. Close and personal. My role as a guide is to open up the "discussion" and bring the subconscious language of the cells to the conscious mind. I love InterActive Imagery. We can learn so much about ourselves; it's fun, eye opening and potentially healing.
Since the microcosm is a picture of the macrocosm and vice versa, can we extrapolate? If our cells can communicate with us, and we can communicate with them... we, as cells in a greater "body", can also communicate with the universe (God?). Would that be prayer and meditation? What if we truly were listening to what the universe or God is trying to communicate with us as we should be listening to our cells?
While I was pondering on the subject above, I received Bruce Lipton's new book Spontaneous Evolution, which I had ordered. Lo and behold, Bruce has the same "idea", which he explains in terms of fractal geometry. I highly recommend his book, which develops the concepts in easy to understand scientifc explanations. He also mentions that we never heard of liver cells deciding to take over the Pancreas' Islets of Langerhans. Cells cooperate! Couldn't we, as intelligent beings, do the same?
I believe we all realize that we cannot continue to run our lives the way we have been; we are destroying ourselves. Thankfully, we are on the verge of some tremendous upheavals in the scientific world, which will spill over into our day to day lives and into politic and business. Although we are still operating under some wrong assumptions from Descartes, Darwin, Newton, Pasteur and other "great" scientists, which shaped our culture, some of their fundamental theories are now being challenged, disproven. and relegated to the domain of myths. The "scientific" beliefs which shape our culture are mostly myths, not reality!
Make place for quantum mechanics and a world of cooperation. We are powerful. If our thoughts trigger our genes and dis-eases, and collectively the state of our society, shouldn't we think about what we are thinking about? What are your cells thinking about? Can they teach us how to cooperate? They are 50-trillion strong... they know how to work together. We are 7 billion... we should be able to emulate their system.
Allow yourself to tap into the thoughts of the universe and see if you can anticipate what the next speaker you listen to is going to say... You may just know it already!
Examine your life, your thoughts... Socrates said, "An unexamined life is not worth living..." An unexamined life is lived in mindless reaction. We can do so much better.
Let's DO IT!
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