Written by Mathew Naismith
Being in the zone, to me, refers to an
enlightened state where your focus allows you to perform physical and mental
tasks way beyond your normal boundaries. Simply, your awareness has focus in
this state on a particular task, not on many tasks at the same time. Boundaries
by the way are a creation of the controlling ego, a separation of energy into
negatives and positive, good and bad, wrong and right. How often are these
separation thought of when in the zone? There simply not for all energy within
this state becomes neutral, as if you are one with all the energy around you
without separation. Imagine being at one with all the energy of the universe or
even all of creation as a whole, this is the zone.
Focus on your awareness has focus, meaning
that your awareness has focus on one thing instead of being partially focused
on many things. Too often our awareness, when controlled by a controlling ego,
will only partially focus on one thing, or, focus all energy, for example, on
materialism or of what we desire. How many people put all their focus on their
income and their job to fulfil their desires? When people focus like this, this
is not the zone for energy used in this way is simply being abused. Often this
kind of focus will create a destructive reality, not a constructive reality. If
you feel at one with the energy around you, this is the zone, a state where you
work in unison with energy without abusing energy. The zone isn't about
fulfilling a desire; it's simply about working in unison with energy.
Do the people who experience the zone focus
at anytime on their desires while experiencing the zone? Your focus isn't on
positives and negatives, rights and wrongs, bad and good; your focus is simply
on energy as a whole, there is simply no perception of separation of energy
within this state. Be aware though, the ego in control will most often use this
state to serve its own desires. This is often the case when the zone is
perceived to be of a positive or is only obtained through positive thinking.
Let's be honest here, this is the same mentality in that white people are more
of a positive entity than black people. Never perceive that the zone is of and
only gained through positive thinking, all this is a sign of is the abuse of
energy, usually created by ignorance than awareness!!
Consider this, perceptions of negatives and
positives, wrong and rights, bad and good, black and white, are simply
perceptions where the zone is an actual state of consciousness and oneness.
This is where energy is used harmoniously. You at no time have to be of a
positive mind to experience this state; just don't be negative or even
positive. Imagine not having to be positive because there were no perceived
negatives!! Remember, positives and negatives are simply perceptions. How often
is an occurrence perceived to be negative but then turns out to be a positive?
Also, what is positive or negative to one person isn't to another.
I have had to do a lot of focusing in my
life because of my predicament, at times outperforming people with no disabling
abilities. I always remember a time when working at a National Park, barrowing
wet gravel stone up a steep narrow hillside. A semi-professional footballer had
a hard time keeping up with me. He never knew that I had a fully dislocated
elbow and that my shoulder was weaker than my dislocated elbow. Simply, my ego never took control of me
because of my focus. Yes, pain can also teach us to focus but only if the ego
in control is not in control of you.
There are a number of spiritual practices
that condition us to focus better as well, meditation, singing hymns, chanting,
praying and many other practices teach us to condition our mind to focus
without abusing energy. Yes, playing a musical instrument or singing can also
help us to focus in this way, often have performers gone into the zone. In
actuality, anywhere where we are focusing, while working at one with energy
around us, can lead us to experience this state called the zone. How many
people have experienced enlightening experiences while going through some kind
of trauma? What is no doubt perceived to be a negative experience by some
people, can be one of our most enlightening experiences in our lives.
You will find the following actually refers
to being in the zone to our alter ego, an alternate personality to your normal
everyday self. It would certainly seem
that being in the zone can be used by the controlling ego to gain more control
and self-satisfaction, even though while being in the zone itself isn't about a
controlling ego. The zone is simply neutral and a natural state of existence. I
don't actually concur with the findings of the following two inserted articles
but some people might find them interesting.
Even though I rely on psychology to give me
some of the answers to life, in the case of the zone, psychology for me really
doesn't have the answers or the answers that are true to me. I instead agree
with the following.
Happiness (enlightenment) isn't something
you seek. You instead allow happiness to seek you, however, the act of seeking
happiness (enlightenment) creates motion that leads one to the light when of
the perception of being of the dark. The ego, when detaching itself from the
control of the ego, will need to seek to then find out it must no longer seek
what the ego seeks. You are simply seeking not to seek happiness, a state where
the zone (enlightenment) is common place......
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