Orienting by Desire: Inevitability Thinking

As sensitivity to the concept of emergence develops, so can new ways of thinking about your Visions and turning them into realities. In a sense, you can begin to think about an effect or outcome first and then backtrack, looking for the conditions that would make this outcome inevitable starting now. In doing this, we engage with one of the most non-natural things that humans are capable of thinking about that which does not exist and then set about to make that a new reality. 

Thinking about conditions and working to create conditions congruent with your Visions is a powerful use for the small but potent quantities of awareness and willpower you have. Rather than trying to use brute force efforts to achieve your Visions, you can apply small efforts to critical points of leverage that aid in allowing your Vision to come into being indirectly. This is not done through single-time “heroic” effort but through gradual and varied efforts that might seem unrelated to outsiders. 

Creating conditions for making your Visions inevitable will demand actions that include accountability. If you want to overcome social anxieties, an excellent strategy is not simply forcing yourself out there and talking to strangers. Instead, consider joining a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training group and signing up for Social Dancing classes. These two skills, one related to resolving interpersonal conflict and the other about learning how to send and receive subtle messages about movement and grace, will obliterate your anxieties more in six months than a decade of “just putting yourself out there.” The skills you build through these direct efforts will yield the indirect result of making you inevitably better in social situations of all kinds. 

What is interesting is that once the initial habit gravity is overcome for these new activities, the rest takes care of itself. What you are doing requires less willpower through its regularity and indirect focus. It creates situations where what you Visions will come into being as a result of your transformations and will become effortless parts of your being. 

Look at the most recent iteration of your Visions in all six dimensions. What conditions could you place your efforts into that would indirectly make your Visions inevitable? This can be a bit tricky, so feel free to use the comments as a way of gaining feedback and help in crafting your conditions.

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