The orchestra

A way of viewing the psyche….

Your psysche is like an orchestra, the best place to be is the conductor, he/she gets to see the music of the composer and all the instruments and sections and make choices about how the music is played at what tempo and so on.

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But say the conductor is late or takes a break to go to the loo, and gets waylaid by the theatre staff. there can be battles between sections or virtuoso instrumentalists about how things should go on, which parts get the most emphasis and you can find yourself in what you though was a piano concerto hearing just violins.

This is the internal battle when thing go wrong in your life as you try to re centre your self. The violins will swear they are the conductor, but they aren’t, you have to find your own internal conductor, your true self or centre what I would call the I that exists in us all.

Exercises that help with that is to consider how often we say things like ‘one does this’ instead of I do this” or I want this…or the blame game ‘because of you’, ‘I feel xyz’ instead of taking responsibility and saying ‘i have allowed you to effect my feelings’

In a way the orchestra analogy is saying (to mix metaphors) that you are like a many faceted jewel and you turn different facets to the light to suit differnt situations, this choice is made by someone or something that exists either at the centre of the jewel or just outside it (that perhaps has a spiritual nature)…Think of how people when they go to see the bank manager might dress and behave in a certain way, or when the go on a date, or see a childs teacher, or speak to a child, each of these is a facet of who we are chosen consciously or unconsciously to suit a particular occasion. The art of changing is to choose those facets consciously, unstead of allowing people to press your buttons, to upset you or irritate you, you make a conscious choice about how you react. You still might react the same but you have chosen, you have taken responsibility…so rather than saying i am a great procrastinator, you can take repsonsiility by saying i have chosen to put that off for now.

Related posts:

Related posts:

1. Consideration, awareness and waking up
2. Am I depressed?
3. Another view of healing
4. Critical Flaws or Projection
5. Ordinary or Extraordinary

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