APPLIED SAMURAI WISDOM
By, Dr. Grant Kruhly, Sensei and Founder
THE CHALLENGE
To really appreciate what the 7 vital keys I am sharing are, and what they do, it is important to first understand some of challenges we all face. These acute challenges are fundamental to this age and culture and are becoming more intense with each passing month and year. I’m going to refer to 3 things, (1) time, (2) event density, and (3) consciousness. Allow me to explain. Would you agree that we are all very, very busy? Whether we are single, or parents, our daily agendas are packed with errands, responsibilities, multitasking at work, emails, calls, social life, and the list goes on and on. In fact, it never ends, does it? Most people don’t notice; they were born in it, and simply accept it without question. Most of us have heard or read time management specialists who tell us that in today’s high tech world, we have to schedule everything, literally everything, even sex, or it just won’t happen. This new millennium will almost certainly be worse in this regard, it certainly won’t be better.
So the first part of the challenge is the fact that our day is scheduled, and personal time is all but gone. There are exceptions of course, but for most people, they fit their existence into imposed schedules. Conformity has always been easier, so it is the norm. The second part of the challenge concerns the tasks and goals of these schedules. More than ever before, they define our lives and it is important to understand that, as directives, they are all future-based. Then, we add the event density in our lives. This refers to all of the information that comes at us from multiple sources, every day, all day, each demanding our attention. Remember, each shift of attention is accompanied by emotional shifts as well. Finally, it is important to understand where consciousness fits in. Why? Because our future-based task and goal agendas keep our minds in the future, so time speeds up, stress and imagination are engaged and we never catch up. Why? Because the next task pulls us forward each time. Thus our life, which only exits in the present, goes unnoticed. Did you know that our brain’s ability to multitask is zero. Yes, zero. Science is quite clear on the subject, and has been for some years. It all works like memory in a computer; we simply shut down once we reach memory capacity and saturation. At that point, we have so little mental attention left to address our life; we may literally be unable to rise from our chairs. Yet the world where we make our living constantly increases the load. Actually, it is quite typical really; the System ignores all kinds of proven science, working tirelessly to keep old myths in place to control the masses.
To review then, our daily life is an endless round of tasks and goals (some our own, most someone else’s) called agendas, which controls all our time. Even our down time is contingent on our schedule. Our mind is thrust into the future and kept there by the agendas, so we miss the present moment and our lives. Time seems short, and we rush, rush, rush. As new information is constantly impacting us every day, we have to constantly adjust our frame of mind, and emotion to accommodate it. Each shift requires our energy and drains us. As Hobbit Bilbo Baggins said, the result is that we are “like butter spread thin over too much bread.” We won’t even mention money right now. Do you like living this way? I don’t.
THE ANSWER
Since the System is in place and running with unstoppable momentum, we need to find a solution within ourselves. Let me say that again, we need to find a solution within ourselves, not in some new software or some other fancy gimmick, and certainly not in some government nonsense, but from within our truly immense human capacity. The great teacher Eckhart Tolle said that the answer is in the Power of Now. That is totally true, and the 7 vital keys or “Dignities” as they are referred to in samurai culture, allow you to access the Power of Now, every day, all day, if you so wish. I know I do. I the next post I will address the first of the 7. I hope you will join in and send me your comments. Let me know if you have any problems or concerns; I will do my best to help. Also, please check out my YouTube videos of the 7 vital keys as well. Additionally, please let your friends and contacts know of my blog at http://www.AppliedSamuraiWisdom.blogspot.com, I’d love to help them too and hear their input. Thank you and I look forward to helping you thrive in the present moment.
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She has a excellent blog and website, highly recommend it. Sensei
Dr. Grant Kruhly, Sensei & Founder
