Day 853 An overuse of the imagination, a sense of loss and giving myself permission to be simple

I have noticed lately some back chat and imaginations increasing within myself. It is a movement where I suddenly find myself IN-volved in an inner imaginative playout of .. mostly working with what I perceive within myself as “ injustice” like situations. I have recognized this more rapidly and simply stopped. I can remember when I first started this process how difficult it appeared to be to stop such “ worm-hole” like DISTRACTIONS from focusing all of me, as the life that is me here, to living here, in this moment, equal to a consideration of all things, this place where I can realize that there are no problems and ONLY solutions. 

I stand back and look at the overall emotional tenure of what is existing within me as a resonant construction. I notice lately two things, and these have to do with consequential changes in my life. One is that my children are basically a much smaller part of my life, and hence a sense of being alone. Another, is some friction within expectations in relation to what I bring forward into this reality. Within this I realize that what I share is basically a very very simple thing that can have a huge impact in a person’s life. The conflict is the difference between an over-use of my imagination and the contrast of realizing the simplicity of something and relating that to its impact in allowing another to process and recognize what they are realizing and living within them selves and the greater reality around them as this physical existence. It is to say that I continue to polarize values and that itself is a distraction from realizing the simple being a means to correct that very thing I find myself once again being caught within. Another way to say this is a sense that being simple is somehow not allowed. I have to give myself permission to realize an old adage that “ if someone cannot explain something to a child, then one does not really know that of which they speak! 

It is in allowing the simple that I find I am more able to play and be patient and direct with greater effect. This, overall, a contradiction to beliefs that something must involve pain to grow, or that realizing solutions involves fighting for something, when in effect it is the opposite. I mean, the statement that realizes if someone cannot explain something to a third grader, for example, means that they really do not know that of which they speak, is an equation that reveals that real solutions are actually simple. If we contrast that to our present hyper-emotional and polarized doom and gloom generating media, we might just realize the difference and find our way back to our own innocence! 

It is as though being emotional is “ not having enough information,” and that being emotional is being in a polarized alternate imaginary inner resonant storm that is a storm in a tea-cup that has been “

 normalized” when within well known adages, the opposite of what is promulgated as normal is that which is abnormal! This would be difficult to process conceptually is one is running in an inner energetic storm of good and bad, right and wrong, less than and more than. Remember, we humans are happy when we are doing and unhappy when we are not. Doing, involves being focused on the practical. That means realizing each simple step by step movement that actually gets things done. That moves with a greater ease as the nature of real doing involves a focus that lacks distraction and tension. 

Everything is a math, even a system of distraction. Overall, nothing can define who and what we are but by acceptance and allowance. That is a huge gift in itself. 

Thus, back to myself, I realize that I am feeling, and as such distracted from being present, that I am suddenly more alone. And two, that this over-blown  imagination and state of value judgement which is a fear, is limiting a sense of realizing the simple in another area of my life. And, within that, that I give myself permission to realize the simple, which by extension opens up a realization that I am able to have fun within what I do because in effect, it is something that can be explained to a child. And, within that, I have explained this to many children and they tend to get it right away! 

The difference is like using a sextant on a ship. When one practices a correct and careful word recognition ability, one’s sextant use will more than likely bring them into a port of their choice, whereas an incorrect inner GPS building will lead their course way off of the port their choice! 

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to exist within and as me, as my beingness, as a belief that I am alone.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to feel that I am suddenly alone as my children have become independent of me.

I forgive myself for not allowing and accepting myself, as my beingness, to see realize and understand that I am the life that is here as this earth, a life that is a creation that is physical in form and function revealing itself as creation manifest, evident in a system that is constructed and allowed by all of mankind, within and as the development of religions that distract from being in consideration of all things, and of behaviors such as my own, of living in a resonant storm of charged beliefs of a more than and a less than, this in itself a distraction from being focused and in consideration of all things, as being in regard of all things here.

I forgive myself for not allowing and accepting myself to see, realize and understand that as life, situations grow and change, morph and move into different forms of interaction and communication, and as such, within and as my own life, at the moment, I am moving into a situation where I have time and space to consider what I like, what perspectives and insights as the life of me, can be and share and develop which is a gift in and of itself here.

I forgive myself for not allowing and accepting myself to see, realize and understand that I am always, in all ways, all one here.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself as my beingness, to believe that things must be complicated when in fact, solutions are by nature usually the next simple step, and that the accumulation of simple steps leads to being able to process more complex forms, which is a simple and really cool ways and means to and towards self improvement and development.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to be and come to an overuse of my imagination, within and as allowing “ righteous” and justice seeking payouts within and as my imagination, which are really a reflection of an inner fear, where in this moment i see a relationship within this to and towards a fear of being left out, and a fear of ineffective communication where I have these inner imaginative play-outs spinning in a desire to blame and spite resistances I imagine will automatically exist within and as my immediate environment, when in effect, I have walked and faced many such resistances, and brought common sense into the picture thus my own fears and reactions as such fears within myself are simply an absence of living in thought, word and deed that which is simple and most often fun and playful in relation to understanding how this physical state of being actually works.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to exist within and as my inner focus as a distraction of and as fear.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to be distracted within and as worrying and imagining worst case scenarios in separation from myself as life, as my beingness, being focused here, realizing the simple and having fun and being playful within and as that, to realize in thought, word and deed that which is in consideration of all things to regard with awe, the magnificence of creation that is life as this physical expression of form and function that us earth here.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to exist within and as an idea of what is right and an expectation of what is right being accepted, when in effect, this is a focus of distraction instead of remaining here, breathing, slowing down and playing with focus, as the physical body in its expression here, when this is visible and can be felt, where what is really huge is the physical creation of life that is here in all ways always, as this is in plain sight here.

I forgive myself for not allowing and accepting myself as my beingness to see, realize and understand that I am life and that as this life, I determine the physical state of this life within and as the very fabric of my physical body, in and as the very focus of me here, where tensions and frictions within and as my body, reveal my acceptances and allowances, played out within my over-used imagination, that is something I as the life that is me, can direct, and as such I give myself permission to life being present and focused here, to realize the simple and to have fun as inherent in being focused and present is real discovery and the living of solutions that are what is best for all, here.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself as my beingness, to focus myself within a narrow field of charged value judgements and as such to live within a survival suit as a belief instead of remaining focused and in respect of this living breathing creation that is physical, and here in plain sight.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to fear the mind.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to resist and suppress seeing the mind, a mind as an overuse of the imagination, that has not real constancy and sustainability, and therefor has a nature of being intense and insistent and then suddenly ending, where in my state of resisting and running from this and being in my own gloom and doom fear mode, not seeing realizing and understanding the patterns within and as the nature of this, to the extent I can able to stand equal to such states-of-separation realizing that nothing can define me,  but what I accept and allow, and as such am able to realize patterns and process form and function and movement, to define and realize the space and then to play and reform and ground in ways that allow self discovery as within this, there need be no self validation as the real value is realizingin thought, word and deed,  that which beings insight into who and what we really are as creation that is expressed in physical form, to realize the only choice is to exist within and as heaven on earth here, where all life is considered and respected as being the real value here. 

I forgive myself for not seeing realizing and understanding how my physical body, to a greater extent, is gifting me as life the means to understand this reality as that being who and what I am here, as I am life here.

I forgive myself for allowing and accepting myself to become engrossed in a resonant bubble of information, and instead of being focused here, realizing that nothing can define who and what i am, and yet as that I am able to stand equal and one with what is here for a moment without fear to process what consider and REFLECT consideration of all things as the who and what I am here, as I am life which is physical and in plain sight - the opposite of an overuse of the imagination that causes a separation from a practice of cross referencing all things as life, as the physical as this earth, here.

I commit myself to allowing and accepting myself, as my beingness, to focus here, to realize nothing can define me but who and what i am as life, which is physical, and here in plain sight, that what is constant and consistent is eternal, and grounded and sound.

I commit myself to seeing realizing and understanding that just as my imagination is changeable, and protean-like, so is the ability of myself as the heart of me, able to define terms for a moment and consider all things, regard all things and process a lack of information, with care and reflection in ways that build in a process of sharing what has a more eternal quality and is of equal consideration of all things here.

I commit myself to Slowing down and breathing, and realizing the small movements into an overuse of the imagination and myself existing within and as an idea of fear of loss and fear of standing equal and one to the simple to realize that the simple can be brought forward in thought, word and deed in every moment here, as life is always in all ways in plain sight here, as this earth in form and function.

I commit myself to seeing realizing and standing as that which grounds one’s focus into and as the innate ability of the life that is in each and everyone, to come forward and live in joy of the awe of creation that is always, in all ways in plain  sight here. 

Day 832 Mirroring

There was a moment this week where I realized the movement of myself as a mirroring of what is around me. Meaning, it is so visible how we mirror, as we speak that which we are allowing within ourselves in relation to a captive audience as the object of that which we stand and mirror our self to and towards. It is this tangible thing, a presence, a projection. The person mirroring themselves, as a quality in their stance of a lack of awareness of their projections. The quality is vacuous, meaning, there is a somewhat vacant look to the person mirroring what is being processed within them. Within this the listener can hide in plain sight. This could be used, to the extent one is protected from this consuming mirroring process. 

I could see where this may trigger anger, like an indignant anger and a restlessness as a fear of being pulled into the vortex of that mirroring action because it may define one and upset one’s self definition. That mirroring movement has an insistence to it. It wants validation when in reality it is the one being in that self projected mirror processing where they are at, like someone banging their head against a wall attempting to see outside of their own self definitions.

Overall, this is a state of separation from being present, because if one is in a state of self validation, which has an element of processing where one is at, or referencing what one has lived, one cannot have a focus on that which is around one, and/or there is an element of self justification within this which in itself is a form of self justification in isolation from the living reality around us. It could go both ways, where one realizes what one is doing and opens this up to process that movement within and the reality the living reality that is what and who we are in this life. Such a state can be something that stagnates, or something that can open a window into the choices one has made, to realize in a moment the degree to which one has lived within limiting self definitions at the expense of being in respect of this living physical reality.

I experienced this this week. I could see my own reactions and feel that sticky sense that I notice when that insistence in recognition for the mirroring of experience. That action of seeking both validation and on some level a reference of experience wanting some kind of closure. That closure from perpetual seeking which is ultimately to become one and equal to the living reality that is who and what we are here. That ease, that which can move through the eye-of-the-needle, or have the ability to process in the moment, to never tell a lie, and therefore, carry nothing around with one, or remember anything because the reference is always, in all ways, equal and one to the moment. The “ here”, as creation, as the physical. 

In this experience of looking at someone expressing themselves to me,I was resisting and becoming irritated, yet in that moment, I was listening to someone basically processing where they were at, building understanding within themselves. 

It pulled up another memory of this. I was in an interview. Yet, I was not speaking. The interviewee was doing all the talking. They were telling me their life story - lol, perhaps they were mirroring me in some way, as though they felt by what and who I am, that they could tell their life story! As the interviewee chatted away, I had the thought that they were doing all the talking, most probably had already hired a person for the position, and that I was basically a captive audience, and that that interviewee would continue to look disheveled even if a tailored suit was made for them! lol. I was not aware of the extent of this process, still having reactions myself. Yet, to some degree, around the edges of my own personalities, there were those cracks in the fabric of the situation where I was safe because the interviewee was mirroring ( as I call it here) and that I could basically hide. What if I had looked deeper? What if I had been calmer and perhaps seen through the veil of the mind projections humans are living within to protect self definitions at the expense of being present and in respect of the living physical reality that is life in expression?  

In other words, mirroring reveals that resonant constructions within us, as ego, that is a state of separation from reality. It is why so many children do not yet have memory, have not YET separated from being present in this reality. It is why they have no heaviness, which we could call a state of innocence. Our information as what we define ourselves as, does not fit into reality, and it becomes a weight that we carry around, consuming the body until it is ashy white and bent. What will leave the body at death, is what remains of one’s purity or innocence. What is that 21 grams that every body loses in weight at the moment of death? 

In moving as this that I call a mirroring experience, what is recognizable is that one is seeking. In being a seeker one is separated from being here, from being in a focus that is a living relationship to all life. All life being the physical, which is life in expression. One would no longer have to remember what one did yesterday or a year ago because the living story is always here, as the physical. As things are systems, with patterns, one need only reference the physical reality that is here, and understand how things are built and composed because the structures would be in plain sight. This in itself reveals creation of which we are, unless we are caught in a resonant storm of ideas, beliefs and opinions, separating us from ourselves. When we use another to mirror ourselves we are acknowledging that we are a construction that is resonant within that we are reviewing to define and to place onto this reality. We know that somehow we are not in sync with what is here. It is also why there is really one principle; to do what is best for all. This is so because with every action we take, it means to reference all things around us before taking an action. It means to realize the one choice of and as “ to do no harm.” Collateral damage, just as the term “ anti” placed before some qualifier are the present industry labels used to seed fear and doubt. It is the game of you are with us or against us. If we are busy mirroring our experiences and self validations, we are already unstable because we are seeking closure, we are seeking stability. And yet that mirroring can perhaps be a right use of imagination to assess before taking action when used in respect of all things.

We basically have a system, we participate within a system that has normalized harm. This is the side of mirroring where what is being moved within as the self, is self justification for choices made that lacked regard and respect for the reality around us as this earth. Just this week I heard in the news feed a comment that suggested the present system is doing everything possible to remove awareness of biology. We have become an anti-biology system. Yet we are biology! 

Our media systems are basically a mirroring system showing that same action. One fears one’s survival which means that there is a loss of real presence - the real normal. A normal that would lead to a life, as opposed to living in a shadow world where one is scattered into projections that require constant support. What if we recognized this and equalized to creation that is this earth and this life. Even the pop music that is a constant in the stores has a weight to it. It is of constant lament, pushing down, like a force, seemingly normal as though one is not alive unless one is living in some form of longing and lament. Meanwhile, we humans are so capable we become our parents! That requires great sensitivity to absorb a form and enact that expression! We take on forms. That means we are creative. Why not do this in relation to the living reality around us, considering all things? Would we need to self validate if we retained a natural presence? 

Given the increasing inequality in financial terms in this world today, how many are living their potential? And I do not mean the “ potential” promoted by the present systems - where one is labeled and placed into a delineation that suits a hierarchy of financial means. The present system simply mirrors what we are mirroring within us, that by degree indicates the extent to which a state of separation from the living biology that is who and what we are here exists as - that which is the means of being here. Hold your breath, and see what will remain! 

Have a look at our movies. Everything happens in the space of a couple of hours. That is not a timing in sync with reality. As we absorb everything, our children would build an inner template that has nothing to do with practical living. And we wonder why we have so many attention disorders and cognitive problems, relationships problems and violence.  The media feeds on violence and harm - it mirrors the degree of our separation from ourselves and yet it shows us how we can take in the most subtle of things and use that information to direct the self! . 

This overall, has become normalized. Meanwhile, the resources from resource rich countries flows with expediency and certainty.  A few have captured the earth, which is all of us, for a false creation that cannot and will not stand because it is not equal to creation. It exists through participation because the real power is in the numbers. It is held in place because it is accepted as a norm, when is it not normal. There are people realizing this, but like a child facing a parent, that “ parent” is so loud and such a bully, an imposition, that it appears to be something one cannot pass, when in reality, it is simply a projection. One that is visible. We know it because we hide from it in plain sight! It has no real power unless one allows one’s self to become hypnotized by it. One is facing a mirror of mis-information and believing that only that exists.  Meanwhile the living earth is being abused, the animals, that plants the waters. The earth is becoming polluted. And by extension, so are we. When we drink the alcohol ( normalized) and we eat the refined sugars ( normalized) we are poisoning ourselves! We have been sold that health comes from a needle, instead of realizing that what supports the body are the living building blocks of this earth all around us! There is an attempt to normalize health through a needle. How does that make any sense? 

I mean, we can all realize the extent of what I call mirroring here, because we have all had a moment where we realized someone was talking at us, and not really seeing us. In that moment, we would manipulate the narrative to hide our own hiding of ourselves! Thus, that same ability to absorb and learn, should we stop self validating, has that ability to see our own states of separation when we are being talked at instead of being present. We are not swayed into self protection and defense, our own self validation, in response to another self validating! We choose that movement in the moment!  We are so able to process what is moving within us, and moving around us as this life that is physical.

It is noted that thoughts move at something like 1000 to 3000 thousand words per minute. Most of us, as the average, read at about 250 words per minute. We are capable of mastering and reading many words per minute! If we caught up with ourselves, and mastered the small enough to recognize it and call it out by name, would we need to mirror our experiences as a state of hypnotic forcing of story if we were present and at ease with recognizing the living, moving environment around us? Have we lost sync with that innocence that is in children where the children do not yet have the means to express in ways that recognize what is happening within and around them and yet do not have a busy-ness with projections of likes and dislikes called personalities? It is all a math, a geometry,  and yet,  that life directing that projected mirror has become a master of something we could call deceit. That is done through practice! It means we can change, we can take that apart and come back to ourselves as life, and move to remain present in this living reality to become the creators we are meant to be because that is the nature of the essence of life within and as us. 

For myself, I must forgive my own reactions to the projected personalities because in effect, it was simply this that I call the mirroring effect of self validation, or self cross reference.  It is like a mirror that is a mirage, and like a mirage, one can slow way down and actually see it! It is not something that one can necessarily see with the eyes - which as this overuse of one sense, we humans  have overused imagination! Yet that means of separation is simply an imbalance of the tools that are life tools as that same ability that allows a child to become just like their parents! In effect, we are life, and thus we are amazing. It is why Christ ( supposedly) said, “ You can do what I do and more.” 

Day 646 I may ground myself here, into equality and oneness with the physical to stand equal and one to life.

If I carry around my past, as all the experiences I have that are charged with fear, I cannot see the potential of what is here as the physical as life in expression. My reptilian brain stands with the weight of that charge, slowing me down, and all I see is threat and possibility of what I fear happening, which is a fear of being called a name that was my fear. So, I run from a fear of being called something. Which means I feel quilty about something I did or did not do. Do I think of correction within my actions or have I allowed the fear to become greater than the rate of correction?

I can only be here in this moment, moving equal to the physical, thus I can only address my fear in practical application, I can in essence only give myself to the moment and forgive any name I may or may not be called. I can slow way down, assess and correct. The principle of doing what is best for all, in every moment , in small detail, is always right in front of me. A shadow of fear, is the illusion.

Acting in self interest only, is fear because we live on a symbiotic physical planet,  meaning the means of being is physical, so cross referencing physical reality, is what grounds us. If I reference my fear, my past directed by this fear, I cannot see this physical means, and I separate myself from my own natural spatial awareness of this physical world. I then slowly age, no longer being present and equal to life, and I notice this in how when I walk, I begin to lose sense of that step before that door, or can no longer drive my car. I have separated myself from life and become a mind consciousness only. 

 I have become the limited knowledge and information that directs in associative ways only, very linear ways, so much so that I can not envision beyond a certain consequence of understanding, I can no longer see the whole and the parts, as was the gift of life as me as a child. As I child, I had not yet learned to communicate in words what I could see, and the way words were used, was not equal and one with the physical world. I learned to use words in fear, in a limited game of association only, each word charged up with reference to the world of fear, of inferiority, as a mind consciousness system only. 

I can only , in every breath, step outside of my comfort zone, and live in each moment, within the principle of what is best for all, and be thankful for every limitation I believe comes before me, because every limitation I accept is the shadow of my belief, opinion and idea based on fear and not the real presence of myself. My potential is so much more than the limited measure of and as fear, as my own constructed and accepted mind consciousness. 

I may allow the presence of myself as life, that was and is always here, to breath, and to live in the moment. And I may give as I am as life, and receive  the potential of life that is here all around me. I may be the absolute purpose of life, and become equal and one with and as life here. 

The means are in every moment, as I can address and be the small measure in every moment because what is real, as the physical is here right in front of me in every moment.

In every moment, the choice is to stand as solution, as what life really is. Life is physical, the physical is life information. Thus I reference the physical, with every breath, in gratitude, to realize there is nothing to fear, as life is right here, as the physical, to reveal in practice the way and the means of living. 

Any resistance means I have fallen into my mind consciousness , a valley of smoke and mirrors, of judgement, of values all charged up with emotion in self interest, that becomes an end game of a death for a false god composed of beliefs, opinions and ideas, that suck the substance of life from me, until I am a whitened wick of limited knowledge and information, moving by association manifest as telling the same limited and justifying story again and again, never having accepted life, and equalized my within to the without, my above to the ground that is the means of me as the physical world below my feet. 

 I stand here, equal and one, to and with the physical world, in support of myself as I am life. I take that which is good, which allows the full potential of life to stand as life, equal and one, in oneness and equality as all things here, as what is here, as the physical is life inFORMation. The scream of limitation as my reptilian brain can only be a large as I accept and allow it, what is real is life, as the physical world here. I stand here, equal and one to the physical, and I ground all time into referencing the physical world around me to bring an accepted and allowed mind consciousness into equality and oneness with and as life, as the physical, as this is real life, this is heaven on earth. I focus here, as this is what allows me to act in accord with life and since i can only move here in this moment, in small steps, the way is always before me. I accept and allow myself to be here. I practice physical living = life.

Day 637 I am the Self Directive Principle of Me.

I noticed this week that in not reacting to the words of another, as the very measure of value and/or understanding about being here, that the emotional reactions as I see them manifest - as justifications based on good and bad, as a fear of ‘ what if’- quickly passed. The momentum into concept understanding moved to a greater degree, being more fun than the reactions based on belief that sometimes voiced itself within me as words moving through my mind.

I would let things go and look to the construction and reform. It is a very creative process, and one that takes focus. When I look at this, as having done this more often, it is really quite fun!

In all, this is simply sharing being creative, meaning to look at what is present and realizing it cannot define unless it is accepted as such, which if allowed to define, the means is of self interest instead of being present in the moment, because in all reality, we can only be here.

At one point something was said to me, and I caught myself fearing that this statement would become something for which I would be blamed. Like, there was a fear within me that because I was in the very presence of such a thought, I was  going to bear the brunt of its existence- meaning the very formation of what was being said was the fault of me. It did not matter that perhaps I had not said it.

At this point I began to move into an inferior position, a doom and gloom scenario that this might be found out and that I would lose something if this should be found out. Overall, it makes no sense, it is just a belief that what was stated could be pinned on me- this being a thought that is taken as an end game, completely illogical.

This is complete paranoia, a fear. This fear is stagnant. This fear shares nothing. It is an act of self interest.  It is an act of not accepting life. It is an act of rejecting common sense, an act of self rejection. 

I mean, I can be this in a moment, and then move, becoming creative and looking at what is formed, and transform . Nothing is stagnant unless it is accepted and allowed to be so. 

What defines me is what I allow to define me. No one else can do this for me, unless I allow this. In all common sense, no one can decide what I am within, because no other human can really come within me.  I am the one who creates the very volume of myself. I am the one who builds the neurons within and as me, in reflection of the measure of what I accept and allow. Not even television can decide what I am unless I accept it!This means that ultimately, I cannot blame anyone for what it is that I am! No one. I decide.

Thus, I commit to becoming the self directive principle of myself. I realize that everything I allow myself to be, is by my own volition and no one else. Just as I cannot be responsible for another, no one can be responsible for me. I am responsible for myself. What I accept and allow can change, simply by using my own common sense, the very gift of myself as what I am, here. 

I can share what I am doing, I can ask questions and re-solve formations. I can choose to direct in ways that do no harm. I can become the directive principle of life, to investigate, and consider all things, taking that which is good and does no harm. I can then become constant, even building momentum within this, to find solutions and move into them, in thought, word and deed, to rebuild a world that is best for all, inch by inch, measure by measure. The ground is beneath my feet, I need only connect and feel its ever supporting presence. 

Day 636 Culture, Tradition, and Nutella. Emotional bonds and reality.

Culture, Tradition and Nutella. Emotional bonds and reality.

http://www.wired.com/2010/07/0707chocolate-introduced-europe/   Europe Discovers Chocolate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louise-mirrer/how-world-war-ii-changed-_b_2024730.html How the War Changed Everything, Even Our Taste For Candy

http://www.nutellausa.com/history.htm  The Origins of Nutella

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web1/kcoveleskie.html Chocolate on the Brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella A History of Nutella

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-did-palm-oil-become-such-problem-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

Nutella was an answer to a war induced chocolate scarcity.  Using Hazelnut butter extended the volume of chocolate. Chocolate came from South America, where the beans were known to sustain energy levels and reduce feelings of stress. This benefit of chocolate aided the soldiers. The chemical effects on the body helped soldiers face the stresses of war. So, available chocolate went to the pawns fighting resource wars for profiteers who voiced their desires under the guise of development. This development, over time, lead to the monopolizing of resources into monocultures that erode forests and the environment. The starting point was of profit before life.  The story of Nutella, overall, is the story of changes made in organizing this world in ways that are not beneficial and sustaining for earth, and by extension ourselves.

Emotionally, we tie Nutella to cultural definitions, without investigating and understanding where and how and why this product exists. In the history of mankind, Nutella has not been around for very long. In essence, eating fresh unprocessed hazelnut butter would probably be a healthier choice then the acquired-taste-building-turned-national-icon - Nutella. Thus, that cultural tie, that is by association an emotional tie, is really an illusion. Investigating the history reveals this, and within this, can give the space to see more directly what is happening in this world. If we realize that our emotional ties are illusory, and lacking in any depth in man’s practice in living on earth, could we realize how little we use our depth perception? Why do we get lost in some idea made HUGE, as huge as our advertising makes a product appear in the space of our landscapes? We are lead by icons, tied to false positives manifest as a ‘ feel good’ moment, made history. A very limited history. And a happiness that needs to be perpetually fed to exist.

Behind that cultural identity that has no real history, there are animals and the biodiversity in the forests, a real history, dying to serve a lesser god that supposedly makes one feel less stressed and more energetic. Somehow, this is addiction over what is best for all. Is this separation from the real history of earth the cause of that stress and consequential need for something to sustain energy levels? Are we doing the same things again and again and expecting change without really looking and investigating reality- the very cause of the effects we want to seek solace from?!

Our game of association composed of emotional values brought forward using dimensions of the forms and functions of practical reality,  are the chaos separating us from practical actions that respect and support real living.  And this game is stressful.

Boredom and stress are similar, they are both a consequence of lack of practical FOCUS on reality. The story of Nutella, and the havoc this product imposes on the physical world is the story of our separation from reality, and the story of our disquiet state of beingness. 

Meanwhile, to segue out of this systemic structural violence there are solutions that lessen resource abuse in many ways. One suggestion is to use the oils from algae. This can be grown anywhere, lessening the use of shipping- which lessens the use of fossil fuels. At one time, the vegetable oils in Nutella, which was not directly stated, yet implied, was the cocoa butter. Somewhere, other vegetables oils were used to create, or maintain at lesser production costs, that smooth spreadability of Nutella, this hazelnut butter and chocolate paste. If we withstood that change, could we not withstand another?  And, do we really need Nutella? Do we need men working in a factory all day to make this stuff? What order on this earth could we build that gives men the space and time to discover and respect all aspects of this earth? We can use the resources in ways that do no harm, we are ingenious when we use our common sense. We can find ways to live that are stress-free, no longer needing a chemical motivation because we are happy in a constant way, because we self direct in being aware of, in being focused on the value being life.