The "inspiration" that follows in red font , from TUT's UNIVERSE, deconstructs long-researched principles of human thought and behavior:
Haven't all the years you've spent being Santa Claus, heidi, been more fun than all the years you spent waiting for Santa Claus?And not just for the joy you've helped place on your favorite faces, but for your ability to act instead of wait. Acting makes the suspense bearable. It gives you a starring role. Time passes more quickly. And best of all, it makes possible your dance with life as you network and mingle with other dancers.
And so it is in all things, heidi, especially those dreams that have placed their trust in you... act, don't wait.
Happy Hallelujah, Santa Claus!
The Universe
I post this now because it illumines our understanding of why we (children through adults) feel the " impulse to act" ... of course immediately satisfying because acting reduces growing tension produced by mounting emotion (specifically designed to "move" us into action).
A crisis causes our fight or flight response. Personally experienced and immediate danger, or vicariously witnessed (even visually/verbally shared). The more advanced our social circles, the more likely we learn (from modeling and explicit instruction) to consciously exercise efforts that expand well-being overall... to act cautiously, wisely. To act overtime in the variety of ways that meet deep and long-term needs.
In the meanwhile, we can discern changes to make in our personal relationships, families, neighborhoods. Discerning What can I do right here and now? in fact helps "regulate" our delicate balance between emotion and response to experienced crisis, perceived crisis, vicarious crisis.
Why moderate, regulate, pause and reflect? Time allows emotion to subside and reason to rise (our higher nature) thus allowing us to monitor, regulate our raw animal instincts (lower nature). After we've experienced a significant life-changing event, e.g. death of loved one, divorce, relocation and job loss, the Well-Being field cautions us to rest and restore rather than making additional significant changes for at least one year.
Why? Because time allows us to be in touch with deeper meaning and pervasive resources guiding our greater release ...mourning our loss, making internal adjustments, generating new habits, activating renewed sense of self, and updating our connection to social circles. this increases our capacity make real peace with change...re-engage with the fuller world (which has also continued to change) around us in wholesome, further-empowering ways.
"Regulate" is a fancy word representing effort: monitoring, assessing, restraining, quelling, self-soothing, consciously tempering our mounting store of impulses to act when faced with imminent danger, or witnessing others in danger. Once immediate danger has passed, authentic solutions that prevent, contain, reduce such danger in the future are derived through tempered thinking, research & reflection, collaboration, and logic.
Regulating our emotional responses to internal need to act or external pressure allows us the time to engage opportunities to think together, to assess and plan sufficiently enough to make sustainable plans that are life-giving, plans that do not embroil us further down the road in heretofore unforeseen dangers...as has happened with ways and means that frittered away moneys that had initially and purposely allocated to social security, medicare, stewarding national resources.
So, the ever more maturing adult must keep in mind levels of human nature when tragedy strikes around us. We are always prompted to do something, tempted to act immediately to reduce feelings of helplessness.Our higher nature, our greater intelligence cautions us to quell fearfulness, be fully present to what is needed now.
Only when we meet the needs at hand are we free to assess ever more thoroughly in order to engage plans both sustainable and preserving true liberty. This mindful, thoughtful approach, accrued from the trials and errors of civilization advancing, truly increases our chances to activate the best of our God-given powers on Earth.
Blessing the BEST among US,
Heidi
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