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Why I love working with inner techs
As I mentioned in the last post, I like working with inner tech because of it’s pervasiveness in life. I wanted to expand more on that in this post. Our inner world creates the outer world. This may sound a little “out there” for you, but is none-the-less quite true. Anyone can tell you that the lens through which you look at reality will determine how and what you see, but there is more. Since you are real and you are conscious (and you must be, if you are reading this post), you create the world around you based on what is inside. I plan to expand on that theme a little bit later, so I won’t go into it anymore right now. For the moment, I just want to explain why I am so passionate on this topic in the first place. Inner technologies or techniques (they come from the same root) are applicable to your life no matter where you are or what you are doing. From work, to leisure, to interactions with loved ones, to figuring out your purpose in life and what you really, truly want.
Inner techs can also be developed for little or no time and money investment in many cases. Quite often, simply being deliberately aware of something as you go throughout your day alone will bring powerful change. It doesn’t cost anything, and you will have spent a few seconds here and there pondering and exploring your inner world. Not a bad investment in my book. Lastly, we have probably one
of my favorite aspects of this, and a relatively recent discovery for me: Acceleration. You might refer to it as Leverage or Momentum; it all means the same thing. As you develop yourself more on the inside, you find more and more tools with which to push it further. I like to call it “existential compound
interest” because for me that encapsulates it so very well.
Inner Techs pervade your life
I will use two examples to explain what I mean. While I am by no definition some kind of (reverb) Ascended Master (/reverb), I have learned a thing or two and continue to do so. My most recent big “installation” of tech is PhotoReading. I’d always been an avid reader. I loved getting into books and
just devouring them as a child. In the last few years, I’d seen a decrease in the number of books I’d read, and the “to be read” list getting longer and longer. I’d had my eye on PhotoReading by Learning
Strategies, but had not had the determination to put down the money to learn it. I finally did and am very happy and grateful I did. The phrase “worth every penny” comes to mind. PhotoReading is a reading system by which you can move through and grasp written material in about 1/3 of the time (less for more advanced photoreaders).
With this tool my life and my work have improved considerably. I work as a technical support rep in a rather fast-changing field. Systems, policies, and procedures can and do change on a daily basis, and the
hundreds of e-mails I get on a daily basis have to be dealt with in addition to the actual work of supporting the people who contact us. Using the system, I am much better able to cope with this influx of information, and have also noticed some excellent fringe benefits of having picked up PhotoReading: I notice that I have better recall of information, and also greater focus when I need it.
Obviously this is a huge advantage in my line of work. Probably for yours too, if you stop and think about it. To be able to pick up and grasp new information can help just about anywhere. With new information comes adaptability, and adaptability is important in any endeavor. If you can’t process anything new,
then odds are you won’t be doing anything new, and so you won’t have or be anything new.
The rest of my life is benefiting from this new influx of information. With my skills in PhotoReading, I’ve been running through my “to be read” list faster than I would previously have thought possible. I no longer look at a book and think guiltily of the long line it would have to suffer through before I could read it. I have even started picking up information in areas that I hadn’t even considered yet. With new information, I can try out new techs, and with new techs, I can make my inner world better, and in so doing improve the world in general.
Let’s take another example. On the other side of the coin I have an acquaintance, let us call her “Lily”. Her world is not a very happy one right now. Her thoughts run in circles of despair, lost hope, and isolation. That is what she produces in the world. From this inner world, she unknowingly locks herself into situations that make her life very difficult and causes her friends and family to keep her at arm’s length, lest her negativity infect them. She knows, dimly, of her problem but does not have the “system requirements” to make the changes that she wants to make. Looking from the outside, I would say that
she needs to find the courage to face herself. That in so doing, she would find the patterns that are holding her back and in her awareness of them comes the first part of the power to break them. Once those patterns are broken, she could start deliberately creating her world as she truly wants it to be. She could open her eyes to the opportunities all around her. Having shed the negativity eating at her would make good communication with her loved ones possible again. She has but to find that first piece of leverage. That first loose brick in the wall. If she finds it and recognizes it for what it is, she can claim her right to a good and happy life.
Inner Techs are Portable and Low-Cost (Mostly)
Anybody who looked at the PhotoReading course’s cost is laughing pretty hard right now. Low cost? Well, most of them are. Aside from specific things that you want to learn for which you will have to pay someone (and isn’t a chance at an improved life worth a reasonable expenditure?) most of the latest
inner techs can be read for free and practiced as you go about your life. It isn’t necessary to cloister yourself in a religious order and devote yourself to studying your navel lint. Still an option, but not necessary. Blogs such as this one and the ones on my blogroll are examples of people sharing what they’ve learned in the areas of personal growth, spirituality, and deliberate living and creating. All they cost is internet access. If you happen to be reading this in a library, they don’t even cost that. And if you do happen to be in a library, or live near one, odds are that you are overlooking a massive resource at your disposal. Most metropolitan libraries these days are networked. That means that you can take your pick of the books in every library in your area. Need to figure out how to find the courage to do something? Pull up the book search. How about time management? Personal relationships? Problem solving? Professional Communication? In all probability, if you check out your library, I believe you
will find a rich resource to fuel your evolution. So how about new techs that DO take time? Classes, perhaps? Regular reading, a workout, or meditation? Should you try to do them all at once? Take my advice: Don’t try it. Unless you have the ability to boost your perseverance to previously unseen levels in a big hurry, don’t do it. I’ve tried on multiple occasions, and I always felt bad about it when I burnt out. Think back to my analogy of the brick wall: What happens if you fling yourself at the wall at full speed? You get the idea.
So what do you do? Start small. Set up a commitment to a small goal and make sure that it is something that will drive you to keep going. Of supreme importance is that it is do-able. Without that, you are setting up a scenario where you will give it your best, get flattened against the wall, and
then decide that the wall is too strong. No, what we are going to do is to loosen and eventually punch out that one brick. Keep it small and do-able. Keep with it to conclusion. If it is a class, then finish the class. If the task does not have a definite ending, then keep it until after it has become habit. Then you can intelligently decide whether to keep investing your time in that direction, or if you want to reinvest somewhere else. At that point, you could probably get into something else, and not have to clear away any more time. Without having to scrape for time the difficulty in keeping with the new time investment would be
much less. If you want to keep the current time investment and pick up another, then feel free to do so. Now you’ve seen and made it work, you know how to do it again.
Existential Compound Interest
I really do love that expression because it is so apt. When working on inner techs, quite often it can
feel like you are doing what you should be doing but you’re not going anywhere. What you do not see is that your minute changes accumulate. As you work on your courage, your awareness improves. As your awareness improves, so does your health, etc. Going back to the brick wall analogy: it’s hard to loosen and remove the first brick. The next one is easier, but still tough. But as you remove the bricks, you have more room to move and more leverage. As you improve within, you have greater resources at your command to craft the life you truly want to live. As you move beyond living in fear, you will find that in fact there is nothing to be afraid of. As you bring forth your gifts to the world, the world will reciprocate and shower you with blessings, tangible and not. It is the mastery of oneself and one’s inner world that will bring forth the life you desire.
