Liberating Ourselves From Our Slavemasters

In my newsletter this month, I wrote about liberating ourselves from the unwanted influences of all the systems in which we find ourselves - family, industry, schools, friends, work, location, race, nationality, religion, etc. Perhaps hundreds of systems find their way of influencing what we do and how we think and we are mostly unaware of theses forces.

New Dimensions Radio's Justine Toms emailed me after reading my editorial and asked:

You point out that emancipation "from insidious systems cannot take place until 1. we learn to recognize systems dysfunction and 2. we become more aware of the various systems affecting us. . . "

Good advice . . now, how do we do this? . . . after all, we are swimming in the sea of this dysfunction and, like fish in water, we are not aware of the very sea we are in.   To begin to actually name the various dysfunctions, and then to hear many points of view as to how others are going about dismantling them in their business and in their lives would be of interest to me.

Prompted by Justine's question I thought this month's blog subject could be sharing experiences others have had in breaking free of multiple insidious system influences.

I invite you to share your experiences or yoru challenges.

I also want to share this very inspriting video with you all: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 .

Comments

[Deborah J. Boyd]

Accepting the fact that there is a problem is the first step. I would make the second step one of priority. We are born with some priorities pre-set. We have a biological drive for water, food, sex, sleep, shelter, contact with other emotional beings. I think what most people need to do is think about income rather than paychecks. As far as I can see, the salary is disappearing. Global competition is making it too competetive to carry thousands of people on a payroll. Many of us will be making a living from several sources in our future which is what consulting is all about. In the beginning I advise job sharing. Take a part time job with a fixed income and invest the surplus time you have in your own business. Get in touch with what you really want to do - what makes you passionate.