{"id":327,"date":"2020-12-21T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2020-12-23T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:47:56","slug":"how-not-to-make-anything-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Make Anything Important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[from Marsha: Through the years I and fellow students have asked that very question.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell how can I make something unimportant?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often I used Dr. Bob\u2019s idea of \u201cbeing free to experience\u201d which worked much of the time for me; and I\u2019ve also adopted the idea of \u201cthis is an adventure\u201d. First of all I need to recognize that I\u2019m anxious and see just what I\u2019m making important.\u00a0 My behavior is a give-a-way because I\u2019ll pace the floor, not be in the present moment, be unable to remember what I just did. Sometimes I just have to laugh at watching myself. I remind me of a \u201cdoodle bug\u201d that runs around in circles and isn\u2019t going anywhere.\u00a0 And so this excerpt from John B. came at a wonderful time \u2013 Christmas, pandemic, election, economy, race riots, sequestered, and on and on.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you make it not important?  You set your state of being against that. You’re not making it important. I heard somebody say here a while ago, that they were \u2018making it important\u201d to \u201cnot make it important\u201d so they could do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You take the importance out of things because you \u201cturn it a-loose\u201d. It really doesn’t matter what’s going to happen. Does it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you ever try \u201cturning whatever your making important a-loose\u201d and seeing what would happen?  You are just curious and interested to see what will happen.  You have no control over all the other people that have \u201ca finger in the pie\u201d; and you don\u2019t have control over circumstances or the physical body. So you can make a little contribution with your good mood and see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you need to do is \u201cturn it a-loose\u201d, it doesn’t matter — so what! And you really mean that, you don’t just say the words. And when you cease to make things important, you find that you can function quite well. You function on top of the world like that, okay? You now have all the ability to do it — that’s in third brain; but you’ve got to let it get quiet. You can’t get quiet while you’re making things important. You get it quiet by listening. Just stop to listen for ten minutes instead of keep pounding away of making it important and criticizing yourself because you\u2019re making it important — it would have been \u201cover with.\u201d So let’s do it the easy way.  Everything that works is simple<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It really doesn’t matter, does it? — whether I feel \u201ctop of the world right now\u201d, or whether I’m tired right now. It doesn’t make any difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anything works when you do it, but just to know about it doesn’t make it work. You see, you have to do it. So you say, \u201cso what\u2019, I’m not going to fret over this today; and you \u201cturn it a-loose\u201d down here, and you feeL wonderful. You keep your mood up a little bit and you’re doing fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 When we make something “important”, we have placed a “false” importance to it from the “conditioned frame of reference.”  We have made it to do the “right thing”, the “best thing”; and can you answer what the “best thing” to do is? Can you ever answer what the “right thing” to do is?  There is no right thing to do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are generally two kinds of men in the world \u2014 one that makes about anything he meets important.  Everything that comes upon him, he makes important.  That\u2019s one kind of a man.  Somebody tells him that it\u2019s \u201cimportant\u201d that he eats properly and immediately he becomes all concerned about how he eats and he becomes a health food faddist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another one comes along and says, \u201cYou should get 8 hours sleep.\u201d And so he makes it important to get 8 hours of sleep and promptly stays awake all night \u2014 he can\u2019t get to sleep worrying about getting the 8 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another one says you should eat three meals a day, and so he does that.  Shortly he hears another one say, \u201cYou should only eat one meal a day, and so now what\u2019s he supposed to do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, everything that comes along is believed and made important.  Making things important is thought to be really great.  People talk about being dead serious.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I make anything important, I feel anxious which binds me and makes me miserable.  Let it go.   It\u2019s an experiment in well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[from Marsha:\u00a0 I love Dr. Bob\u2019s parable of food and have been caught up in the \u201cchase\u201d of what is \u201cbest\u201d and \u201cright\u201d to eat and not eat. Wonderful to observe in self and others and apply to other such \u201cimportances\u201d in our lives.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to read more about a quiet mind, check out \u201cThe Three Brains\u201d on the website<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you would like to read before and after around this excerpt, go to: Port Orange, Florida 4\/21\/91 – Page 2 on the website.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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