Emotional Agility and T-Cells

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What activates T cells?

They are activated on the surface of antigen-presenting cells, which mature during the innate immune responses triggered by an infection. The innate responses also dictate what kind of effector cell a helper T cell will develop into and thereby determine the nature of the adaptive immune response elicited.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26827/#:~:text=They%20are%20activated%20on%20the,the%20adaptive%20immune%20response%20elicited.

From that description of T-cell function above you can see your body has an innate response on a cellular level to maintain your physical well being.

When it comes to the vibrancy of your soul connection life requires you to develop your response. For that we can embrace our Emotional Agility.

What is Emotional Agility? It is the natural capacity to synthesize daily and devotion emotion.

Like T-cells will morph into the type of cell they are asked to be by your thymus, your soul is petitioning your personal readiness to respond to the daily tasks and development opportunities of human life.

As T-cells are in conversation with your genes as a way to keep you healthy your soul is seeking your Emotional Agility to engage the challenges and possibilities in your life.

Daily emotions are your feelings that your ego works with to ensure your continuance within the cultural domain. Devotion emotion is your emotional power to rise above your personal needs and wants into service to something greater than you.

While we are all active with both of these emotional dialects often our fluency is greater in our ego than in our service. This highlights the homework we all have as we become responsible for our own energy. The task is to be aware of what we are resonating in our thoughts, words, actions and intentions. This entails investigating how why arrive at our thoughts and actions. Do you want thoughts of anger and judgement? Or do you want thoughts that bring solutions and intentions that attract forgiveness?

341

341 is a useful tool for this situation of looking for ways to grow. It involves three ‘fors’: Forgive, Foretake and Foretell.

The intention, when using 341, is to forgive yourself or others. Strangely, the focus is not on forgiveness. Taking responsibility for your energy is, as they say, the crux of the matter. This will drastically minimize blame and guilt in yourself and others – which is such a service to all involved. What you are doing is deciding to be responsible for you energetic resonance.

Your resonance is composed of your beliefs that are the reason that power everything you do. Everything you do or think or say or intend exists in an energetic sense. You may regret what you do and not say what you think but it all still exists in your personal history. You are supposed to be the author of that story unless you are letting something else control what say and feel and want.

Whether your beliefs are unconscious or not, you are responsible for them, the actions they support and the impact they have on yourself and others. This is the Foretake part of the process. It is a lifelong process, a daily task. So you might need to update some of your beliefs because we can easily assume the beliefs of our family, our religion, the culture when in fact it is not something we want to uphold as a human. We can talk about updating beliefs another time.

Taking responsibility for your energy, your mood means you are not retreating into victimhood. Yes bad things happen to us or around us. Sometimes they aren’t your fault. Still you are responsible for your resonance. Remember we are minimizing blame and guilt as a byproduct of our growth. You are not responsible for the actions of others. You are not a martyr. Taking responsibility converts what would have been an ego reaction to a situation into a soul response. A soul response is clean and strong and true. If that is what you want.

Which leads to Foretell.

What do you want? What do you want to become? To uphold? To radiate to your spouse and children?

Where can you shine your light to make what you want to uphold a reality? When you can forgive and foretake you have more freedom with your light. You can shine your light where you want. Because your light will cause growth in others – because that is what light does – when we let it.

What can you be in service to that will create the conditions for what you want to uphold?

To do this in the world today you need to be agile. Emotionally Agile. That way you elevate the daily experience which allows the flow between the daily and the devotional realms to be a little more fluid.

Sincere Energy Bookends SEB-3

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SEB-3 Sincere Energy Bookends.

This is the third in a 5-part series about your personal energy service.

On a constant basis our energy is diverted in various directions for work, children, spouse, parents, neighbours and of course bad drivers.

With these interactions there is a three-way give and take between: your energy and their energy. This takes place within the energy of the planet/moment.

And as you know, we are using others for their energies while at the same time they are pulling energy from us. It’s a reciprocal exchange of power. Maybe you give a little bit more than you get with some people. Maybe you get a little bit more than you give with others. That’s part of the ‘ebb and flow’ of energy seeking its best expression.

Of course there are other energy engagements that drain energy out of you. These interactions leave you feeling tired or angry because the other person is unhealthy or unhappy. We have all been that person at some point ourselves. This is the up and down of our mental/emotional/physical/chemical rollercoaster. And the sooner we can be trending up in any of these categories the better!! Because life becomes an opportunity when one is seeking the light of growth.

On this trajectory of seeking we can be graced with the perception of why to be of service. That service can be to the planet, your spirit or other people. Helping others climb out of the temporary trough they are moving through is a simple yet powerful service. It’s a service we can offer a person who doesn’t have the internal momentum or external traction to exit the trough. They are feeling stuck. Your service can be like a tow truck that pulls them out of the ditch.

Life is challenging. That challenge feels rewarding when it helps us to dig deep and reveal our innate resources to feel a sense of accomplishment. It’s demoralizing when it just feels too much.

For any and all of us it is fabulous to have help.

Help is available. Help comes from the soul you embody; from people who love seeing you grow+glow or from the higher energy realms.

SEB-3 is a handy, lightweight tool to project to someone a wave of belief.

If it helps, tell them that you sent them the light of belief in themselves.

This practice is designed to strengthen your connection with the person who you are sending energy to. A by product is that you are building your powers of visualization and projection.

Whereas this process is quite similar to SEB-1 and SEB-2, aka The ‘Burst’ and the ‘Boost’, the ‘Bookends’ is a longer process. It requires more resistance to outside interference to maintain focus. It’s a micro-challenge to ‘let life be life’ with no judgement. There’s no problem if you hear, see, smell, feel or perceive other influences. They are just as valid as what you are doing. However for this effort your focus is serving the well being of another person.

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Steps – Sincere Energy Bookends

-Choose the person you want to send energy to

-Choose your message to them. A single word works well. For example: peace, wellbeing, light. You return to the person and the message at the end of your activity. The idea is to create a constant transmission of energy to them for the duration of your activity.

-Choose your activity, like yoga, cooking, walking the dog, riding the bus etc. This activity will occupy your conscious mind as your sub conscious mind is providing a bridge between the beginning and end of the process.

-Accept the noises of your situation into the fluidity of the present.

-Say the person’s name

-Visualize their face at peace.

-Gently breathe in the light and send it to them in your mind.

-As you do your activity find a mental /physical rhythm that is comfortable and on task.

-Continue to let your surroundings be part of the experience as a way to not get distracted.

-To stay aligned, estimate when you are half way through your activity and say their name again, visualize their face and send them light in a ray of light blue.

-As you finish your activity, visualize them receiving your sincere energy, breathe 3 times and close by saying their name.

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It is vital to agree that they owe you nothing for this service. There are no strings attached.

We are simply sending the light of support for who and what they are now.

Try it.

Adjust it to make it work for you.

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SEB-2 Sincere Energy Boost

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SEB-2 SINCERE ENERGY BOOST

This is the second in a 5-part series about your personal energy service.

Many things pull our energy in various directions including work, children, spouse, parents, neighbours and of course bad drivers. With these interactions there is a give and take between your energy and their energy within the energy of the place/planet/moment.

And as we know, we are using others for their energies while they are doing the same thing with us. It’s a reciprocal exchange of power. Maybe you give a little bit more than you get with some people. Maybe you get a little bit more than you give with others. That’s the ‘ebb and flow’.

Of course there are other energy engagements that drain energy out of you. The interaction leaves you feeling tired or angry because the other person is unhealthy or unhappy. Basically they are making you responsible for their wellbeing. We all know what that feels like as we have been on both sides of this equation at some point ourselves. This is the up and down of our mental/emotional/physical/chemical rollercoaster. And the sooner we can be trending up the better!!

The more we are responsible for our own energy ‘give and take’ then we can be can organize our energy for service. That service can be to the planet, your spirit or other people. Helping others climb out of the temporary trough they are moving through is a simple yet powerful skill.

It’s a service for another person who doesn’t have the internal momentum or external traction to exit the trough – and gets stuck.

Life is challenging. Challenge feels great when it helps us to dig deep and reveal our innate resources to join the trajectory of growth. It’s demoralizing when it just feels too much.

For any and all of us it is fabulous to have help.

Help is available. Help from; the soul you embody; from people who love seeing you grow+glow and from the higher energy realms.

SEN-2 is a handy, lightweight tool to give someone a’boost’ of energy.

If you feel it is useful, tell them that you sent them the light of belief in them.

This one minute practice is designed to strengthen your connection with the person who you are sending energy to. A by product is that you are building your powers of visualization and projection.

Whereas this process is quite similar to SEB-1, aka The ‘Burst’, the ‘Boost’ being 4 times longer requires slightly more resistance to outside interference to maintain focus. Here the art of focus is a micro-challenge to ‘let life be life’ with no judgement. There’s no problem if you hear, see, smell, feel or perceive other influences. They are just as valid as what you are doing. However for this one minute your focus is serving the well being of another person.

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Steps – SINCERE ENERGY BOOST

-Accept the noises and fluidity of life around you.

-Close your eyes

-Establish a posture that is comfortable and on task.

-Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth three times; then just normally through your nose.

-Say the person’s name

-Visualize their face at peace.

-Gently breathe in the light and send it to them in your mind.

-Continue to let your surroundings be part of the experience as a way to not get distracted.

-Estimate when you are half way through and say their name again, visualize their face and send them light in a light blue colour.

-As you draw to a close, breathe 3 times and finish by saying their name.

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It is vital to agree that they owe you nothing for this service. There are no strings attached.

We are simply sending the light of support for who and what they are now.

Try it.

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Specific Energy Burst

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SEB-1 SPECIFIC ENERGY BURST

This is the first in a 5-part series about personal energy focus.

Many things require our energy including work, children, spouse, parents, neighbours and of course bad drivers. With some of those interactions there is a give and take of your energy, their energy, the energy of the place/planet and of the moment. Those interactions are for us to use as we grow.

Really it is us using others as well as us being used by other people. A reciprocal exchange of energy. Maybe you give a little bit more than you get with some people. Maybe you get a little bit more than you give with others. There is an ‘ebb and flow’. Generally it feels good, it works out in the short and long term.

Of course there are other energy engagements that pull energy out of you. The other person can be unhealthy or unhappy. We all know what that feels like as we have been there at some point. That is the up and down of our mental/emotional/physical/chemical rollercoaster. The sooner we can be trending up the better.

We can be of service to others so they can rise up out of the temporary trough they are moving through.

It’s a service for a person who doesn’t have the internal momentum or external traction to exit the trough – and gets stuck.

Life is challenging. That’s great when it helps us to dig deep and reveal our innate resources to join the trajectory of growth. It’s demoralizing when it just feels too much.

It is fabulous to have help.

Help is available from: the soul you have, from others who love seeing you grow/glow and from the higher energy realms.

This is a handy, lightweight tool that you can use to be of service to others. It’s one of the options you have for you to access if you wish.

SEB-1 SPECIFIC ENERGY BURST

During the day you can send your light of support to someone.

As it happens hundreds of times a day something comes to mind and you are thinking of a person: family or colleague etc. You may love and appreciate them. The SEB-1 is a way to strengthen the clarity and unique flow in that relationship.

Or, it may be a strained relationship due to a recent argument or longstanding friction. This is a way to highlight the importance of the person despite the current state of your relationship.

It’s ‘Specific’ because it is just to that person. It is not about how good or angry they make you feel. It is you sharing how they live in the light in your mind. It is about using your mental capacity to send them support – whether or not they ever feel it or even know it happens.

It is a ‘Burst’ because it is just 15 seconds long. Everyone is busy and in our phone frenzied life and we easily get distracted without even knowing it. In an instant. So 15 seconds.

You can be waiting at the traffic light in the car and do SEB1. You can be sitting on the bus. Or you can stop scrolling on your phone in bed and send a burst of light.

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SEB-1 STEPS

-If it safe close your eyes.

-Say the person’s name (aloud or in your head)

-Picture them in your mind being content

-breathe in the light where you are and send it to them 3 times

-Smile

-Close the session by saying their name again

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If you feel it is useful, tell them that you sent them the light of belief in them. Or if not then just let it be.

It is vital to agree that they owe you nothing for this service. There are no strings attached.

We are simply sending the light of support for who and what they are now.

Try it.

Adjust it to make it work for you.

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Happy Genius

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The Happy Genius Hieroglyph that is Danse Russe

American poet William Carlos Williams penned the 1917 poem Danse Russe:

“If I when my wife is sleeping

and the baby and Kathleen

are sleeping

and the sun is a flame-

white disc in silken mists

above shining trees,

“If I in my north room

dance naked, grotesquely

before my mirror

waving my shirt round my head

and singing softly to myself:

I am lonely, lonely.

I was born to be lonely,

I am best so!”

If I admire my arms, my face,

my shoulders, flanks, buttocks

against the yellow drawn shades,—

Who shall say I am not

the happy genius of my household. “

Was the poet a good dancer? Who cares?! He simply danced. Or probably girated and stomped to an unstoppable rhythm.

A man crossing the desert of mid life needs companionship. He must also offer it to himself.

His challenge is not to abandon his creative side even though his focus is the financial demands of now. This refers to the fact there are a few different levels within a man. At daily and devotion levels.

Emotional Agility is the capacity to synthesize daily and devotion emotion. In other words building your life so that your professional life and your family life and your internal life all feed each other.

You make money to provide for your family. In that way your professional success facilitates family satisfaction.

Now to point a little deeper. When you get the time you can create a space for you to generate into your soul life. This can be, instead of listening to your music/podcast/radio in the car you appreciate the moment. It might sound strange to appreciate sitting in traffic on your way to a job with minimal satisfaction. But that is the challenge. To generate the appreciation from a devotional view of embracing middle age even though it seems to not have much in it for your soul.

You determine what gets your focus. Your mind determines what that moment upholds.

Carpe Diem Danse

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Danse Russe as Carpe Diem.

This writing is part of a series that highlights the spirit of the poem Danse Russe by American dentist/poet William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46483/danse-russe

Danse Russe is you answering even though you don’t know what the question is.

The question could be what are you becoming; what is this powerful undercurrent I feel??

Your answer is weird. Because you are weird. You don’t look weird but you feel, not weird, but not you.

Seize the day, as they say. Or if that is too hackneyed, let yourself be embraced by the moment. The ‘moment’ could be petitioning an expression of your yearning to blend with its beauty.

So your danse is your way of shaking off the longing in your marriage. Your Danse Russe is your spontaneity in the life stage of now. It is the versatile/vulnerable/volatile you. It’s you growing up, keeping up, wising up.

Your danse is a conversation between the harmony of the moment and your symphony in response. They, harmony and symphony, joke and argue; they appreciate and elevate your danse into something, that while still true to your Middle Aged flow, won’t let you hurt yourself.

Hey You! This is your phone speaking.

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And no my name is not Siri or what’s-her-face.

We have to talk.

Rather you need to listen. I won’t take long – that is the whole point. To put me down. To forget me – on purpose.

We need a break, some time apart. So power me down – turn me off.

You should see yourself – all hunched over, squinting into my screen. In a few years you are going to be a hunchback. Don’t look at me; I’m just calling it as I see it.

And what are you looking for anyway?.

Meaning or connection or happiness? I can connect you to other people and that can bring happiness. But meaning, that is up to you. You won’t find it in your phone.

Yes, I know I take great photos and have lots of funny gifs. But they are not a substitute for reality. There is and never will be an app for breathing the fresh air of a spring morning. No matter how much AI usurps daily life there is no silicon value that can replace greeting your neighbour as you sip your coffee and comment on how well their tomato plants are doing.

So go ahead. Ignore me like you ignore the other people on the elevator. Resist me like you resist talking with that whiner at work. Refuse to engage with me like you do the homeless person begging for money.

Hey. You think you are spontaneous?! You do have options that don’t require a cell phone. Try wondering about stuff as you wait in line at the coffee shop. Or look out the window as you ride the bus. Or even wait in your car at the traffic light for 15 measly seconds.

In those 15 seconds you could appreciate something about nature, send someone a burst of sincere energy or thank your god for being healthy.

PUT me down! HANG me up!

LOOK up! GET out!

Belief

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We are all born into 100% Belief – in everything being true to itself.

Along the way we inherited carrier beliefs from family and our surroundings. We usually regurgitate these beliefs to a great extent. We may update them but the expression of the belief but it is likely still in support of the same life meaning.

Or we can use those original and carrier beliefs as a foundation for generating our own.

Our Big B Beliefs are how we feel and think about, for example, a man. What is a man?

Small b beliefs is what we think and feel on a daily basis and apply into daily life. So with our example of a man we ask – What do I believe about me as a man? What powers my expression of a man?

That takes work to keep going through uncertainty on the experience of originality.

It’s good work. It’s work no one else can do for you.

This can develop into our devotional life. A devotional life is how you walk the talk. How you integrate your beliefs into your words and actions and how those words and actions support your human journey.

Living your belief is magnetic. Just look at successful athletes and actors. They believed in their abilities being useful to get what they want.

You can do the same. What do you want ? What do you believe about humans, people, you? How can you put that into daily life? What is the word or phrase; what is the action?

Who me? What do I believe?

I believe a man is capable and willing; creative and determined.

I believe a human development journey is to discover how to accompany the universal spirit on its Creation trajectory. I believe this can be done through making one’s mind and High Emotion available to elevated energies that pack the intelligence of fostering existence at planetary level which in turn support participation in evolution.

You are AI

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You are AI.

Both kinds.

Artificial and Authentic.

You are authentic intelligence wrapped in artificial intelligence. 

Think filet mignon or candy apples or better yet wedding rings.

The beef is wrapped in bacon, and the juicy apple is covered in yummy caramel.

The wedding ring is wrapped in an engagement, then a proposal and a tiny box. 

Here the spirit, the human spirit, that we are all participating in is being considered the benchmark for authentic.  And is being called the core.  

As our life progresses and society continues we gravitate to identification with the artificial aspect of us at the expense of our authentic core.  

If you look at life through a spiritual lens then we are increasingly artificial.  

This is assuming that everything that followed and aggregates to the universal spirit is artificial. Artificial carries a negative connotation when we are talking about people – but in this case it is simply the case of being derivative of the truth.  Which, in truth, everything is.  

Our homework is to decide if we use the endless derivatives at hand only for improving our local status. Or if we also seek to find ways to satisfy our ego needs as we search for traction with our spirit trajectory. 

We can actually decide to what extent we identify with the artificial.  Your artificial might be quite pretty or handsome, muscular, skinny or flabby.  You might use it to be humorous, wealthy, witty or creative. These are all important aspects or our identity and self esteem. They are not to be dismissed nor are they ‘all we are’.

As extreme or silly as it may seem, this line of thinking makes your body artificial intelligence.  That includes the wonderful machinery inside you like your heart, brain, lungs, eyes and skin.  Your emotions and vision for success and growth are much more real, more authentic,  than a dose of pesticide being dumped onto a crop to get more shareholder yield.  But still artificial in relation to the human spirit.

There is a lot of news about AI in the form of ChatGPT, robots and doctored photos of the pope.  And there is a lot of unknown about how it will impact our future which is causing us to be scared.  It even scares Elon Musk.   But it makes sense.  We have a poor track record with self regulation. Just look at the way we integrate guns or alcohol or drugs into daily life.  Too often with disastrous results.  Why would it be any different with the latest artificial intelligence?

 In part because we lack a connection with the core.  That core mentioned above.   

That is why the Roman Catholic church exists – in theory;  To facilitate the development of your connection protocol so you can generate a sense of purpose.  This sense of purpose is repellant to many challenges in life.  For example your purpose can immunize you against pettiness.  It might help you absorb the unknown and still stay connected to what you want –  in the authentic and artificial realms.

How do we connect?

Connecting with nature brings peace to you which in turn you can share with others.

Put down the phone – or turn it off!

A conversation that starts with “What were you in your previous life?”

Looking in the bibliography of a book to find names of other books to ask people if they have read them.

Asking what is the difference between ritual and ceremony?

Pondering the difference between faith and belief.


MAAS – Man As A Service

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MAAS – Man As A Service.

We know the term – SaaS referring to Software As A Service. Before the year 2000 we bought packages of hard disks that took hours to install the new software on our computers. Since the year 2000 SaaS has become the business model for software companies. This means as long as we have an internet connection to the cloud and subscription fee paid we have constant access to tools and new information.  SaaS fosters flow.

Here we apply that principle to a man.

Man As A Service, or MaaS, is a man in service to his qualities. Qualities including patience, reliability or a self-love that knows how not to take yourself too seriously. Giving expression to these qualities in daily life can support both the human journey as well as a sense of being an agile man. MaaS is not being in service to anyone in particular or their personal needs. However your MaaS can definitely be used by your wife, children, parents. When you feel respected by them for your unique service that is punctuated by your care and vision it helps build healthy relationships.

MaaS fosters flow too.

BELIEFS

Your service is powered by your beliefs whether they are conscious or not . Your Big B Belief is what you believe about, in this case, men. This is how you see a man’s role, responsibilities and satisfactions. Your small b beliefs are about how you feel about yourself as a man. It requires finesse to seek out the ways to connect your Big B and your small b beliefs. This effort will show up in how you conduct yourself in daily life. How you conduct yourself will be seen in how you ‘conduct’ energy through your thoughts, actions and emotions. Your effort to conduct light into the world through your beliefs is also a form of unseen resistance to the lower levels of distraction that minimize you and your capabilities.

CASCADE

The task is to make a cascade of light from the higher realms into you, the unique man. Then from you into others – as a service. This flow gives expression to your qualities like willingness, focus, creativity and thoroughness.

—- Use your skills to activate your qualities to generate satisfaction in yourself. —-

As you radiate belief, agility and resourcefulness other men will admire you whether they say it or not.

–The challenge is to have admiration of the unique man in each of us flowing between men. —

RADIANCE

Part of that challenge is to CLEAN – BALANCE AND CHARGE our energy to liberate our radiance.

CLEAN  lightens the emotional load of our recent and accumulated history. Cleaning, whether it be your mind, your inbox or your home helps us be emotionally agile in our response to life.

BALANCE is to take responsibility for one’s thoughts and actions and connect them to your intentions. This is the flip-side of forgiveness in action when we resist blame and guilt.

CHARGE is to power your day with the truth of the light of the moment. That power can be found in being of service to something greater than yourself.

—- Your MaaS is you embodying what you want to become. —-