Notice. Realign. Go. NRG {energy}
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The systematized way of thinking: “N.R.G.” gives power to a point of reflection we live in our daily lives. When there is a framework for categorizing topics to reflect on, and grow in, we can further understand how to learn and teach ourselves how to build a better life. As children, we’ve learned from our teachers, our parents, from community members, coaches, and professors. Learning should not stop when we leave school, as should should give us the tools to learn outside of it. Learning happens everyday, and when we create a system for learning within our habits, life’s “ups and downs,” become the lessons and triumphs we continue to strive for. It becomes a part of our journey, and ultimately, a conscious life we have confidence to move through. When learning is the regenerative action that keeps us involved in our own life, we should enjoy it, and do more of it everyday.
A system of Notice. Realign. Go. {energy}
NRG is a system to give meaning to the process of slowing down in life to choose our actions, and allow other actions to flow into focus to help guide our selves to the life we want to live. This system is to serve as an opportunity to co-create who we are, discover who we’re meant to be, and then activate the strengths and skills already within us. Here, we can find control within ourself to choose which sensations to pay more attention to, and which ones you can let pass into our past of no longer influencing us. Understanding that our senses are systems of our body that tell our mind what is going on around us, can help us further expand into each moment.
In a “mature” brain we can recognize that there is a decision making model of acting based on how we feel. Within the deepest levels, our actions are programmed into a cycle of:
Being. Receiving.
Processing. Deciding.
Action. Within our body and environment.
Influence more change into our environment.
Repeat~
Using this model of sensation-action, not only brings our identity first, we also see that we have choice in our actions, and can recognize that we have influence to our environment. Through our evolution, we have grown to learn what behaviors we can and should do through a dopamine cycle that rewards our actions based on continual feedback senses. In plain terms, when we do something that we enjoy, or even tell ourselves that we enjoy it, our brain will remember that action as something enjoyable. In opposition, our brain will remind us that we don’t like something. To add even more dimension to this, when we do certain things that “alter our mind,” like caffeine, sex, and eat chocolate, but also use substances like alcohol or cocaine, these activities create a false sense of “likability,” to our memory and we perceive the action as something more enjoyable than it actually is. This is where behaviors like addiction can stem from; this is also where they can be healed.
Within this cycle of being, and doing, we also have to recognize our influence. Something awesome about our human self, is we’ve discovered that we actually need each other; we benefit from finding peace among our kind. It psychologically feels good to care for others. Despite the wars that are evident around our world, most people know that fighting doesn't bring flow and growth, fighting carries resistance and builds power imbalances. It is our responsibility to break the cycle of victim and aggressor, and recognize that we should be in experience and teaching cycles. We benefit from the honest truth from others.
With truth, we gain more confidence to act in ways aligned with our higher path.
Breaking cycles is uncomfortable because it’s different than the norm, it’s just something we have to get used to, and knowing this gives us confidence. With this confidence, radical change can begin to alter the path of our future. It is in our actions that we create our character and ultimately, our legacy.
Our sense of Self, is our core driving factor for doing good. Read again, we are good to our core, and we have to work to find it, through the muck of life we’ve collected. It uses the character concepts, or values, to force us into change. Representing this truth in science, we settle into Newton's Laws of Action:
An object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it.
View this in your life as you start by laying in your bed. You stay laying there until the alarm goes off and your sense of Self tells you, it’s time to start getting ready for the day. Our Self, uses the force of knowing being on time to my job is important.
A force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. F = M x A
We see this in our life when we reflect on how quickly and eagerly we are able to get out of bed for the day. The Force applied from our Self is the “Mass,” or “weight,” we place on the importance of getting ready for work on time, and the “acceleration,” is the rate in which your are able to apply a positive or negative mood to getting up and ready.
When two objects interact, they apply forces of equal magnitude and opposite direction.
If your path towards success in getting ready for the day is in motion, this is one Force. Another force is the obstacles that come at us. Spilled coffee, low gas tank, or an angry spouse or roommate. By carrying resilience and mindsets, your force towards your goal makes you stronger than the opposing forces in your way. You get to carry on without being set back.
Through observing my life as a series of actions that leads me one moment to the next, I’ve seen the power of positivity as an umbrella ideology for a peaceful life. The system of Notice, Realign, Go, gives the power back to ourselves in a society that seems wild and uncontrolled. A series of sensations and actions gives alignment to our collective consciousness to create healthful cycles to our minds.
An example is finding gratitude. It’s rooted in truth, and brings peace to our Self. It slows us down, gives power to the intangible, and recognizes the amazing paths of the tangible. Gratitude is also great because it can bring us further into moments, connection with others, validate who we are, and bring beauty into all that is. Taking a moment for a note of gratitude is an example of a habit to practice that requires a little work, no money, and we receive and give a great deal of love in the moment that we can carry into the next. This type of energy is a Force within us that is regenerative and positive.
On the contrary, one of the first and biggest common faults I’ve observed when in conversation with people, students and adults, is a closed mind. Thinking “it has to stay this way,” “this will always be my truth,” “this is the way it is.” “I can’t be open to this conversation.” So remember, even paved roads get taken out by mudslides, rebuilt for expansion of population, and updated with new asphalt and paint from the daily wear and tear. Our neural-network within our minds is too similar in the sense that one path can lead to a “usual” action, but as we grow from day-to-day, these paths get updated, and with new experiences, possibly even swept away with new understandings.
To ease the mind open:
let’s recognize that growing and learning is hard. Change is inherently uncomfortable. We have a “comfort zone,” for the reason of rest and recovery, and with the right mindsets extensions and “new” feels even better than comfort because you are aware of the work it took to get there. I know that we all have dreams and desires of being this ideal person who feels good in their skin, their sense of self that has a direction in life, a person who can help others, and a person who creates for fun because they have the freedom to. As we continue to connect, let it be a reflection of the relentless hope for an awakened era. See the overzealous positivity I use as my truth shining onto you because there is seriously not enough genuine encouragement from one human to the next.
Where there’s life, there’s:
Movement
Connection
Expansion
Nutrients
Opportunity
Joy
Appreciation
Flow
A path through.
Where there’s life there’s ENERGY. It’s the “quantitative property” of OUR physical systems that can be transferred to an object to perform work, or cause change. It’s what we can measure within our life as functional and efficient, or disordered and awry. Either way, we are constantly moving, so it’s up to ourself to guide the energy within us into action routes we feel good in.
