What happens to clarity when subconscious fear mixes into conscious thought?
The mind, acting like an unorganized whole, resembles a whirling mixmaster, stuck on high.
And as a result of misperceived, tightly masked angst, which remains unresolved, a thought process, meant to solve problems, pops out of the oven half baked.
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season, let's say I set out to bake you a cake.
Let's say that while trying to recall which flavor you favor, vanilla or chocolate, an old, subconscious fear of failure blocks my channel with anxious static, and rather than opening a door to clarity, my mind robotically propelled into a self-conflicted maze ...
As successful baking requires the ability to read a recipe, step-by-step, inner conflict does not portend well for our cake. So, let's name the cake: Vanilla. No. Let's name the cake Chocolate. No ... Oh! How I hate the anxiety aroused by inner conflict, at those times when feelings of insecure indecision leave everyone hanging in limbo, neither here nor there ... No defining punctuation to be found, anywhere
I know! Let's name the cake Marbled; throw everything in the mixmaster; turn it on high. No low. No. Oh, good grief, Charlie Brown, can't you get anything right? For goodness sake, toss the mess in a pan; push it into the oven; forget about turning on the timer; hope for the best, and be done with trying to figure out what's really going on!
Now, forgetting that timing, like attitude, is everything, let's take an impatient stab at readiness; pull the pan out of the oven; turn it upside down and call upon Goldilocks to see if our concoction pours out—plops out like a brick—or comes out, just right.
Are you getting the picture, Kemosabe?
Successful cake baking takes a plan ...
No-plan-at-all is not how successful problem solving is achieved.
Though it's a great idea to color out of the lines while creating a crazy salad, baking, like stratigic problem solving, requires clear-headed cooks who follow recipes until confidence inspires one to improve upon past success. And ... Oh yes ... It helps to learn which customers turn away from what.
Though some friendships prefer the taste of vanilla while others crave the richness of chocolate, family relationships tend to be marbled. Think Lucy, barking orders at Charlie Brown, while Linus, clutching his blankee, sucks his thumb, and Snoopy, offering commentary, which no one understands, watches a little birdy, that flits around, without getting anything done. In short, this group makes up a family of short order cooks, who sincerely long to create a delicious marbled cake but have no clue as to why they pull so many fruit cakes out of the oven, half baked ...
On the other hand, perhaps we're all Lone Rangers and Tontos and Charlie Brown characters, to some extent or another, in need of discerning which of our own strengths are half baked.
As for me.
No question about it ... I've never met a cake I didn't like!
And as you can imagine, that can lead to problems.
Not just with my scale.
But in whom to place my trust.
What if being too trustful, I'd misperceived of some as being Tontos until I came to see that my friends' mixmasters were just as jammed as mine?
How often did I need to turn my mask into a blindfold in order to fool myself that all was well when nothing could be less true?
What fear might have caused me to need to cook up a wall of denial?
What half baked, self perceptions might I have needed to hide from?
What might we discover upon examining the powers of *Déjà vu ?
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