Aligning Your Multitudes Within: The Art of And
Life doesn’t happen one event, one emotion, or one idea at a time.
We live in a complex world of simultaneity.
I’ve been noticing a trend in the personal development realm toward monotasking rather than multitasking. And while the sentiment feels refreshing and ecstatically liberating, even if we are choosing to complete one task at a time our consciousness is always in a state of simultaneity.
Consciousness design requires us to engage the whole of us: the cognitive, the emotional, the physical, and the energetic.
As Walt Whitman poetically offered in the delightfully obscene and profane Song of Myself:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
So those of us who acknowledge our vastness and the cacophonous crowds within us, find ourselves in a constant state of choice.
Often we approach this choice as one of duality: either-or, this or that, right or wrong, yes or no. While this stance can be practically useful to keep us moving along the path of time, what do we do then with the contradictions within?
How do we countenance this complex world of simultaneity without silencing the…
