Expo Basics

This ‘ apple painting’ analogy, is still with me.

Today, I am using the paintings again, but… like I love doing… I flip them around.

Why?
To explain something (rather obvious to me, apparently not to evident to everyone) basics on what works well in presenting your true colours and lively image in the exposition of ‘life’ we all form together.

For this thought experiment, picture yourself to be this work of art created by the Master Creator, in the original frame (of mind).

And let’s say you’ve been selected by the museum of life to be visible to the public.

a.k.a. you are alive.. paintings that are ‘dead’ are not gone forever,  simply stored in the central archives of the museum of life, to come back another day, in another setting, for another exposition

Then, there are a couple of pointers on ‘what works best’,  in no matter what context you are in:

• Regardless of how many other paintings are mounted on your current wall,
• Regardless of how publicly accessible your current wall is,
• Regardless of how many people look at you….
• Regardless of if you understand why you are part of this exposition-space, what the theme here is and if you see the beauty in this overall setup…..
• Regardless of if you know yourself to be a small painting or a large one……

BE PRESENT IN YOUR FRAME

BE ON YOUR INTENDED LEVEL

FACE FORWARD

With physical paintings it is soooooo obvious, that if the panel comes loose of the frame, or is set in a frame that doesn’t fit,  TLC is needed to fix that first.

Then the painting is put on a wall, on a level that works for it to be seen. Not too low, not too high and in an ecstatically pleasing composition with the other paintings on the wall… in such a way that they can all be seen in this context.

The picture side is facing the inside of the room, the backside is facing the wall.

As an advisor in  what works best to enjoy life, personally and collectively, I see that many people look to solve their enormous problems with life anywhere … except, in these three basics. 

This is where I transfer this very image to the meta-physical world, the world of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

Mark: I know none of us is flat, or static. Most of us are hanging on various walls on the very same day (at home, at work, in social gatherings…etc) Despite those differences, the analogy works well.

Simply observe:

AM I PRESENT IN MY OWN  FRAME ?

Am I standing straight, feeling centred, at peace in my mind?
If not….. TLC: to the body, to the mind….. do what is needed (to yourself!) to fit, without tension in your own frame.

AM I ON MY INTENDED LEVEL?

Am I feeling levelled, at the right emotional height in this context?
This is a little bit more complicated to discern… for you can be on your intended level, and another painting on the same wall may have shifted, so the relative position isn’t as intended anymore.

Check first if you feel sad/angry in yourself, about yourself:

• Feeling angry: you strings are too tights, you moved higher than you are intended to be.
• Feeling sad: you strings are too loose, you fell lower than you are intended to be.

Still sad/angry, but now about some other paintings position in relation to you:

• Communicate about the interrelation, within this context.

FACE FORWARD

Last but surely not least.
The wall, in my meta-physical understanding within this analogy, can be understood as ‘the past’.
It is solid and… it doesn’t move or change.
It is what is behind you, the accumulation of what mattered in your experience, that is holding your hook of the here and now in the right indented position, in this context.
Your frame of mind, should best, with it’s string at the backside, under the right tension, be on that hook.

You are in the here and now, gently strung to your past, facing forward., into this here and now situation, showing your real deal artwork to whomever is laying an eye on you.

In my experience, most people experiencing problems with life, put their picture out there, facing the wrong way, looking constantly at the past. 

Showing what?
Their real colours or the reproduction of their real artwork? Who knows….. ?
Becasue what is visible in the only real exposition room of life, the here and now, is the energetical back side of this work of art of life.

The painting/person is out of order: “ Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause”

The person is either twisting his string into strange high tension bends, in order to succeed hanging there in reverse.

Or, like in the illustration above, the string has broken and the painting is simply standing there, facing the back wall, wondering why life was so good in the exposition halls in the past and has turned so dark now.

It hasn’t, apply some basics and you'll see.

Turn your attention to the here and now, the context of the exposition hall you are in now, relating to the people who are curious to see what stories life has to tell with your presence in this context.

No painting next to you on the very same wall, looking at the very same here and now context, at the moment? He, you may be the first to be put out on this wall, in a new exhibition area.... or..... the only master piece to admire on this wall, for telling an important aspect of life all by yourself?

And yes, you are right if you observe something to be a bit odd here.
This is where the paradoxes of life start to give an interesting dynamics within itself….. .
Every person is intened to be simultaneously both the work of art, on the wall and the visitor walking past. Both the observer and the creation, moving constantly the walls of the exposition, in the process.

Mindboggling? Amazing? Fascinating?

In any case, both work of art, or visitor..... not by staring at the walls.

Simply allow them to form your here and now context, in which you are all aspects, observer, creation, creator.

Just start (and keep regularly an eye) on the basics on being a part of an interesting lively exposition.

BE PRESENT IN YOUR FRAME

BE ON YOUR INTENDED LEVEL

FACE FORWARD

For the same goes for being an actively involved visitor ;-)

For the same goes for being an actively involved co-creator ;-)

And: if you do want to apply for a co-creator function in life's expo-hall, being trusted with the responsibility to (co-) decide what is happening.....ask yourself:

Would you hire yourself for that task if you are not showing that at least you are able of putting your own authenitic painting up 'comme il faut':

• straight, horizontally and vertically alligned

• fitting a suitable frame,  

• the string attached, with the appropriate tension, 

• (actively) facing the here-and-now

• on a level that works well, given the context you are in?