What to Right?

Although I meant to title this, "What to write?"as I wrote it out, the word became “right” because that is perhaps what I really wanted to say.  As I've often stated, I use such words interchangeably and sometimes I even wonder why we even bother to spell such words differently.

When I write the words, I right myself. Or should I say, when I right myself, I write the words? Or how about, when I right/write the words, I write/right myself. And how could I forget the Wright brothers - especially when, as I was writing or righting the previous sentence, I spelled the word, wright instead of write or right. For me, the spelling is different, yet as it sounds’ the same, so too must its meaning be basically the same. Which brings me to another point that I so enjoy staying over and over again to so many students: don’t worry about your grammar or spelling; just write the words as they come out; for as you write the words, so too will you right yourself. What is point in all of this? I’m sure yet; however, I am certain of why I am writing - to write myself.

This morning before awakening, I had a dream that I was a teacher. Actually, it was more that I was a teacher in training. I was talking to one of my teachers, explaining to her that, while I was learning, I was also already teaching. Then, a student of mine appeared in a wheelchair with a breathing device attached to it to essentially keep the young man alive by breathing for him. The scene changed and I noticed that the young man had disconnected the breathing device to disconnect himself from this life. Although I knew that this choice was ultimately his to make, I also knew that it would be a mistake. So I began to speak to him of why he should reconnect his breathing device, push through the hardships and stay connected to this life. Although it is hard, I said and there is not yet any light to be seen at the end of the tunnel, as you push through, things will change, the technology will get better and eventually you will be through. It is just a matter of pushing and pushing until you are through.

The dream ended and as I awoke, I knew that I was the one in the wheelchair, connected to the breathing device as well as the teacher teaching and also the one giving me advice. It also appears that I am still defining myself as wheelchair bound and on life support. Furthermore, in looking at the word “through,” I see that it has always been within and as me a word that I utilize to support myself to keep on walking. No matter how difficult the path may appear, it is always only a matter of taking the next step to eventually walk on through. And this is the message I will take with me from the dream.

On a related topic, yesterday, as I walk through the park with my partner, I noticed her becoming irritated, a point that I immediately brought back to myself to take responsibility for who I was in that moment. In shifting to observer/participant, looking into internal reality while also participating in the external reality, I could see that my view from within had darkened and was becoming physically painful. In backtracking from the tonality of the words that I could hear myself speaking, I was also able to see that my starting point as the directive principle was being consumed and diminished increasingly by emotion in reaction to my partner. The tonality of my words, the nature of my thoughts and let’s not forget the blame and projection that were starting to come through from the nature of such thoughts. These are points that I’ve learned to flag and to push myself through to live the principle of what is best for all, which equals doing unto others as I would have others do unto me if they were standing in my shoes and I in theirs. From that point, I knew that I had to reconnect with my life support as my self-directedness in order to push through and return to self-directedness.

For me, one of the most difficult aspects of living of in real time the principle of what is best for all is that of pushing through my energetic illusion of righteousness. In looking back into my mind at some of the times that I’ve faced this point, it’s as if I am surrounded by a  dense wall of a thick, dark substance embedded with the noise of pictures, emotions and sentences of blame as justification for me to stand my ground and fight for my right to have a harmonious external reality. When in the reality (of what is physically here), all I actually require to do is push through the dark, slimy, nasty, irritating black goo (of myself) until I am through to see the physically reality as one with me, not good or bad - simply what is here. Strange as it may sound,  pushing through the illusion of the dark, slimy, nasty, irritating goo (blinding us from seeing what is actually here) is simply a matter of pushing through the illusion of the virtual-reality of our own minds.

Accordingly, the problem is not the physical reality in and of itself, but the energetic definitions that we  create in our minds and then attempt to walk through our days dealing with  what is here, without realizing that we’re looking through virtual reality goggles of our own minds. Once we realize that and determine to change our views, it then becomes a matter of pushing through the goo. However, as pushing through the goo does not in and of itself ever seem to get easier, the solution, as I see it, is to eliminate the goo altogether and never allow myself to create such a mess ever again.

Redefining the Word, Spontaneity

Spontaneity: I don’t know what the hell it means; I wasn’t even able to spell it without the help of google AI; however, I have come to realize that I am able to create for myself a new definition of any word, specifically tailoring it to me, from which I am then able to live as a point of self creation. So where do I start?

Each sentence I type is automatically crossed checked in my AI (read mind) and from this point, I see that my writing is not an act of spontaneity. However, it is an outflow of my self-directed intention - with the aid of my mind. Even the learning to spell this word, that I do in my mind is of a design. It’s called human intelligence, but it’s really just another form of AI called consciousness that we humans have adapted to and now claim to be, even though I am certain that we are able to be so much more. Jeepers creepers, when and if the time comes to begin plugging people into the Matrix to power a so-called new race of machines, there need not even be a war, because people will be lining up to swallow that blue pill - just dying to remain asleep within the dream of living. But that’s another story; unfortunately, one that I guess, too, has already been written, pre programmed within and as the design of this physical reality and dare I say, even the interdimensional one going way, way back, which interestingly is both inside and outside our little domes as the within and the without.

Is what I just wrote spontaneous? It is, at least a little bit with just a little help of the preprogrammed design of my mind. Furthermore, the part of myself that is directing the course of this writing, which keeps pushing  to stay on topic here rather than let myself go down a tangent branch of which there are so many. Like a huge tree with strong branches spreading upwords and outwords into and as innumerable side branches of roads leading off to oblivion, I stand ready to expand within and as the process of self creation. The key is to use what I am now, mind, being and body to change/create myself into and as something new that stand equally as one of what is best for all = the new.

As I have no reference for this word, spontaneity in terms of how to really live it, perhaps I will instead begin by recognizing what it is not, while keeping in mind (to an extent) that to participate as a human being in this reality requires a certain amount of compromise in recognition of the design of the structure of the system that keeps everyone and everything together in one place. “One place,” that is another huge branch of tangents that I would just live or love to go off on. My guess is that our globe is not even a globe, but a dome with a sun and a moon inside and enclosed into and as an “almost” separate reality, certainly a dimension of dimensions, which we define as physicality. I will talk more about this for sure because, as human awareness humans expands, I pick it up, too, and tend to investigate it. Nothing really spontaneous about this point though. In fact, I don’t see anything spontaneous about me at all; however, I did for the first time just learn how to spell spontaneous, which is an example of self direction. Herein, once again I see (in the small) that I am able to direct myself to learn new things and right now, I am focusing on designing into and as myself a new definition for living the word, spontaneous.

Spontaneous is not-moving within and as the pre programmed designs of myself, yet this is also not to say that I may not use such designs to imagine and create newly designed structures in consideration of the parameters that I’ve already established within and as myself in relation to existing here as a human equally as one with what is best for all within and as this physical reality. Thus, the possibilities and potential remain unlimited because that which is best or beneficial to all is also best or beneficial to myself and vise versa. In short, I now see that there’s no way I’m going to list all of what spontaneity is not, nor all of what it is. Therefore, perhaps I’m better off keeping it simple for now and taking baby steps into and beyond the waters that I am familiar with, to branch out, find and/or creating new pathways.

Yep, it is a lot said just to find myself staring once again at the same question, what is my new definition of spontaneity? The funny thing is that, whereas I always used to insist on the right to choose, I now see that not only does this right and ability seem to add complexity to my living, but it also definitely comes with  more responsibility. For example, I have a new espresso machine, but that doesn't mean that I can overdo it on the coffee without consequences. I have a car, a motorcycle and enough money to do something new, e.g., live the word spontaneity, yet this, too requires some responsible planning/designing how I am going to do this in consideration of the overall structure of the physical reality.  Hell, let’s just see what Google has to say. Spontaneity: the condition of being spontaneous; spontaneous behavior or action.: "she occasionally tore up her usual schedule in favor of spontaneity". See, even the AI (by itself) isn’t always going to have the answers and this here realization is my entry point of self-creation, wherein I utilize what I am right now as mind, being and body standing together as one from a starting-point intention to create myself in ways that are best for all parts of me. Which is to say definitively that, I come not to destroy the AI mind, but unite all parts of us in cooperating movements designed to benefit all equally as one, which is mathematically, logically, definitively and so on what is best for all.

Getting back to the topic at hand, usually on Sundays, I would get up and write as I am doing now and then go for a swim or a walk. However, while I enjoy these parts of my day, as they are both beneficial and fulfilling, they only fill about half of the day. After that, it’s almost like I usually go into a waiting mode wherein I’ll sometimes cook, have some wine and/or beer and entertain myself via the internet in the search for “more” information. Herein, I realize that this kind of behavior is neither beneficial nor “fun” as per my new design of fun which now requires benefit overall for me to live and express this word.

In short, fun, as I now define it is physical movement in ways that are beneficial to myself and my environment which are one in the same. Therefore, what is truly beneficial to myself is also going to be truly beneficial to my environment and vise versa. The reason I redefined this word in such a way is to improve the chances of remaining physically in this reality, kind of like realigning myself to a more healthy lifestyle so as to enjoy physically walking my process. See, I learn from my mind as a reflection of myself, while the my mind as myself learns from me as a being, while the physical body stands as an example and an  opportunity to understand how to live equally as one I stand of integrity.

Let’s look again at Google’s definition of spontaneous:
performed or occurring as a result of a sudden inner impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus.: "the audience broke into spontaneous applause" "a spontaneous display of affection". synonyms: unplanned, unpremeditated, unrehearsed, impulsive, impetuous, unstudied, impromptu, spur-of-the-moment, extempore, extemporaneous, unforced, voluntary, unconstrained, unprompted, unbidden, unsolicited, off-the-cuff.


That sounds like ecstasy to me, which reminds me of what someone once told me, that everything is by design. In the past, I interpreted this to mean that everything was already preprogrammed to play out. What I didn’t realize though was that, everything being of and by design also indicates that I/we are able to create  “by design”, new things or designs to be included within and as everything. Wow! I always thought “by design” referred to a past tense doing and done things that we were all tied and limited to. Now I see that, “everything is by design” indicates simply that, whatever I care to have included into and as the design of everything, requires simply that I design it as part of everything and live it into creation, creator creating creation.

I realize that I’ve written a lot about designing and creating before; however, I always did so from a somewhat corrupted viewpoint of feeling that I was being infringed upon by the current design, as though I were trapped by something out there rather than seeing, realizing and understanding that, as past, present and future, I/we are in all ways the creators creating creation. These words that I write may not make sense to some; however, when I look at the tree or three of me, I see that wherever I go I will always remain the same tree of life. Herein, the question is not what I will be, but who I will be as a design of life as a matter of the relationships that I create myself as. Thus it is for me to either remain as “I am” or to grow and expand beyond where I currently am to understand new possibilities and live to my potential.

Alright, let’s put this into actionable words as a design or definition that I am able to walk and live into self creation so I can move on to the swimming or walking part of the day.

My New definition of Spontaneous (a work in progress): unplanned ways that I move myself physically from a starting point intention to benefit myself as well as my environment by participating in new (to me) activities  for the purpose of expanding myself awareness and living expression. Haha! That was simple enough.

Herein, I forgive  myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to limit the definitions of what I do to that of what I’ve already done and considered to be fun, instead of gifting myself opportunities to expand to new expressions by way of living spontaneously (in consideration of the structure of this reality) wherever and whenever I am able.
Furthermore, I commit to practice living spontaneous/spontaneity/spontaneously from the starting-point intention to expand into and as the unknown to better understand my potential.

Redefining and Living the Word Responsibility - In Class Blog Writing

When it comes to taking responsibility, I have not usually appreciated or enjoyed the idea. Even though, I realized that by taking responsibility for something like getting a project done or working with people, that I would also be gaining opportunity to learn, I also felt pressure having to do something. It’s like, one day I would look at my future and think, I’m free to do as I please. Then the next day (having to be responsible for something), I would experience myself as tied down, pressured and no longer free to do as I please. For example, earlier this week I received an email from my boss indicating that he wanted me to (take responsibility) for writing some more online classes, MOOCS. Immediately, I started feeling as though I were under pressure. I agreed to do the writing and now it’s my responsibility to get it done by early next month. I will; however, I would like to change myself in relation to the word responsibility - from an experience of being pressured and tied down to a living expression making the best of this opportunity by doing the best I am able, herein living to my fullest potential.

Dictionary definition of responsibility:
Responsibility: the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone.
My redefined or new definition of responsibility:
An opportunity to deal with, do for or do unto something or someone as best I am able in consideration of what is best for me and others.
How I plan to live my definition of responsibility
Firstly, in terms of writing these online lessons, I no longer view it as a burden or something that ties me down. Instead, I recognize being asked to write these new online lessons (and getting paid to do it) as an opportunity to do something I enjoy doing, writing, while also inputting a message into the world system. My message (in terms of artificial intelligence, the first MOOCS) is that … I will write about that. Furthermore, whenever the point or question of taking responsibility comes up, I commit to consider the opportunity associated with it. Herein, instead of experiencing myself as being tied down or having to do something, I will see myself as fulfilling that opportunity, which is a part of living to utmost potential.

Redefining the Words Outgoingly Friendly_Global Citizenship and Cultural Literacy

Introduction (How do you usually experience yourself in terms of this word?)

Throughout my life, I’ve usually been friendly, but not overly friendly and certainly not outgoingly friendly. In other words, I’ve always been happy enough to talk for a while (usually a short while) with people that approached me, but I would rarely be so outgoing as to approach people to start a friendly conversation with them.  Therefore, I would to change myself by strengthening my friendliness by becoming more outgoing = outgoingly friendly.

Dictionary definition:

Outgoing - friendly and socially confident

Friendly - kind and pleasant

My definition (redefining the word):

Relating to others in ways that show I am friendly, kind, pleasant and interested in who they are.

How do I plan to live (specifically) the words, outgoingly friendly in relation to other people?

When and as I am buying something at 7-11 or another store, I commit to greet the clerk with a friendly smile and a Hi! Or Hello! Additionally, when someone approaches me and wants to talk, I commit (if I have the time to spare) to stop, listen and converse = friendly communicate.

When and as a student or students want to talk to me, I commit to speak with them in a friendly way that clearly shows that I have time to listen to them and that I care about what they have to say.

Sometimes when I know other people would like me to say hi and talk to me. Therefore, I commit to say hi to them and make an effort be familiar with them = making an effort to be more outgoing and friendly.

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Redefining and Living Words in the Classroom

Although I regularly get up in the morning and pick a word a word to express for that day, I have yet to expand my living-word vocabulary beyond 5 or six words. Let’s see, there’s joyful, joyfully interacting, excitedly engaged, interested and maybe one or two that just aren’t coming to me at this moment. Or perhaps it’s just four words and in looking at these words, I notice they’re pretty closely related, meaning there’s not much difference in how I actually live these words, i.e., their definitions are all grouped within my idea of joyful expression.

There is also the word, care, which I guess I have in word and deed embodied as a part of me or signature of who I am, how I relate to others, wherein it’s no longer required for me to constantly remind myself be caring. I have become that word and I am and I really thankful that I chose this word as my first word to embrace, understand and live as a doing in relation to people, animals that things.

So I guess it’s now time to expand my living word vocabulary. The only problem is, I’m not really an expert at redefining and living words. Furthermore, I’m not even that  motivated to do so. My solution (considering the position I’m filling in the world system), if you’re not really sure about how something works and you want to motivate yourself to be better at it, why not teach it others and learn it together? Thus begins my journey to teach while I learn, specifying myself while expanding my living-word vocabulary for the purpose of seeing, realizing and understanding my potential.

As I’ve said to myself many times before, I’m not here to redesign the wheel. It’s already been done and if there is a better design to be created, there are others out there who are probably in a better position to do so. Or maybe I will come up with some suggestions on how to streamline the process. Either way, I’m thankful there are already solutions, examples and lessons on redefining and living words which are available on the internet at SOUL, the School Of Ultimate Living on Facebook, Youtube and a soon to be created Homepage on the Web. Now, it’s simply a matter of deciding how to proceed in the classroom, introducing the process, teaching and learning while I teach. This where some experimentation comes in.

In the first week’s lesson (two weeks ago), “How do we create ourselves and our reality?” I talked about how we create ourselves and our reality as the words we think, speak and write. Then we watched the first twenty-five minutes of Introduction to the School of Ultimate Living. Then in the second hour of class, we all wrote blogs on the topic of What is the meaning of Life and What is my Purpose? Originally, I had only planned to do this with three of my classes. However, since students seemed more interested than usual (lol), I ended up expanding the lesson to six different classes during the week.

In the second week, last week I decided to present students with some scientific background in relation to the importance of words. Even though the Bible says, in the beginning was the word and the word was god (or something like that) and the Koran says in the beginning was the word and the word was creation (or something like that), I still felt that it was useful/important for me to also present students with a scientific basis for going into this topic. Thus for the second week of lessons, I explained my interpretation of the discovery that Russian scientists have made in relation to words and DNA. Then we read some of an article titled, Scientists Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies. After discussing the article, I asked students to do the following:

In pairs:

1. Choose one word that you would like to be more a part of your living. For example, if you often find yourself getting impatient with others, perhaps you could choose the word, patience. Or if you often find yourself feeling disinterested, you might choose the word interested or engaged.
2. Use your smartphones to define the words and then add sentences to the definitions to fit into your life, friends, relations, etc.
3. Note! Be as specific as possible in describing how you plan to live these words.
4. Share your results in groups and with the class

Next week, I plan on watching another SOUL video. I’m not sure yet which one I’ll use; however, in consideration of attention spans, I’ll probably choose one that is not more than around sixteen minutes. Then after discussing the video, we will write blogs expanding on the words we’ve chosen. Specifically, in the introduction or first paragraph, we will look at and explain how we often experiences ourselves other than how we would like to be and then how each we would prefer to experience ourselves. Then in the next one or two paragraphs, I will ask the students to present their redefined word or words and specify how they plan to live and express that in relation to others for a whole week starting with sounding that word when they wake up each day.  

Interestingly, even though very few of my students bring laptop computers to class, we still hardly ever use any paper. These days, instead of opposing the smartphone in the classroom, I embrace it as a useful tool (but not for playing video games in the classroom, lol) and students seem to enjoy writing so much more when they’re holding onto their smart phones.

So this is my plan so far for introducing students to redefining and living words as a way not only to create themselves, but also to practice English and become better writers in the process. Overall, I would say it’s a win win situation/process for all involved. Plus, whenever students write and post blogs in the classroom, I also write and post as an example.

Living Words: How many do I actually need?

Of all of the points and considerations of process, the living word is the one that baffles me the most. It has been said that we should redefine and live words. A word a day, a word a week, I am not sure how many words I am supposed to be redefining and living. I guess, what Jesus said about becoming the living word refers to living the words we speak – as in living words. However, in terms of communication, I do not understand the sense in having two or more people stand in relation to one another, living words defined of different understandings. How are we to communicate if the words we have defined have different meanings? For example, consider the word, mean.

When I look a sentences, such as those above that I just wrote, I see confusion, miscommunication and misunderstandings of varying definitions of possible interpretations of sounds and symbols. This not because of the words themselves, but because of the lack of specificity with which I have used them. Why do we use words such as “mean” when, “infer” or “translate to” would be just as useful without carrying the sound of “mean,” which also carries the connotation of being offensive? Why does one say, I know you, which sounds as though I am not you? I guess we could just say, I recognize you, but that is just another way of saying, I rethink (of) you.  The problem is not in/as the words we speak, but within and as how we infer and interpret them. For example, the English language is often spoken one way as sound, but interpreted in the opposite way in meaning. Thus, it has become the language of humanity = of separation, disharmony and disunity. To add a little spice to all the confusion: as I write, I sometimes laugh at the innuendos I sometimes place in sentences. This time, I laugh at myself, because once again it occurs to me that, as I am probably the only who will get it, I am still just communicating with myself.

Which brings me back to the point of redefining and living words. For now, I would like to choose three or four to understand from which to expand. I choose stable/stability, patience, calm, self-honesty, care and consideration. :)