Performance Anxiety--Another Valentine's Day
Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!
Valentine's Day. Actually, this day is not very different from any other day that you might create. Though the marketers and purveyors of diamonds, chocolate, fine dining and flowers have "front loaded" certain expectations about how this day should go for us. Have you seen the commercials? There's one that plays here from KMart, I think. It's a restaurant scene and couples are dining. One fellow gives his date a velvet box and she exclaims, "Oh, diamonds!" The guy at the next table throws in the towel (napkin) and echoes "Diamonds!" He leaves in disgust because he didn't come up with THE expected gift and has disappointed his date. What a loser! We're to think about this guy, because after all, he KNOWS he's failed to perform, failed to bestow a KMart diamond on his true love.
Other commercials and cards constantly hammer away at images that become embedded within us and become our expectation of what the day should be for us. It's a completely created "story", a fiction, if you will, by others who expect to gain from our desiring their products. It has little to do with love or caring, but the archetypical images that are used to sell us connect directly with our subconscious and move us with emotionalism in the direction the sellers want us to go.
I even got an Valentine e-card from my domain host. Red satin, romantic music, candles, champagne, etc. All romantic, traditional Valentine's Day images from a giant internet company. Why would they send me a romantic valentine? Because they know that deep in my subconscious I "get" those images. They're betting that the images in my subconscious are connected with good feelings. So I consciously process the message (images) and suddenly feel a little more kindly or open to the company sending me the message, though there seems to be no apparent "romantic" connection between us. This company is hoping to influence me, create my day, as it were.
I sent an e-card to friends today that has none of the traditional Valentine's Day images, but jungle images that are sensual, sultry and interesting. And it's created right before your eyes, drawing you in, taking you to a different place, shifting your perspective. The message urges you to enjoy a day of your own (conscious) creating, rather than let someone else create your day their way.
There is a documentary film that was recommended to me by students and clients, What the Bleep Do We Know? (www.whatthebleep.com) I watch the film often and learn something new each time about the blending of science and spirituality that is quantum physics. One interview is most interesting and you might enjoy going to www.whatthebleep.com and clicking on the interview I Create My Day (Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?TM)
Tomorrow I'll let you know how the DH and I created our V-Day our way.
Ciao, ciao, mmmmmmmmmmelinda
Valentine's Day. Actually, this day is not very different from any other day that you might create. Though the marketers and purveyors of diamonds, chocolate, fine dining and flowers have "front loaded" certain expectations about how this day should go for us. Have you seen the commercials? There's one that plays here from KMart, I think. It's a restaurant scene and couples are dining. One fellow gives his date a velvet box and she exclaims, "Oh, diamonds!" The guy at the next table throws in the towel (napkin) and echoes "Diamonds!" He leaves in disgust because he didn't come up with THE expected gift and has disappointed his date. What a loser! We're to think about this guy, because after all, he KNOWS he's failed to perform, failed to bestow a KMart diamond on his true love.
Other commercials and cards constantly hammer away at images that become embedded within us and become our expectation of what the day should be for us. It's a completely created "story", a fiction, if you will, by others who expect to gain from our desiring their products. It has little to do with love or caring, but the archetypical images that are used to sell us connect directly with our subconscious and move us with emotionalism in the direction the sellers want us to go.
I even got an Valentine e-card from my domain host. Red satin, romantic music, candles, champagne, etc. All romantic, traditional Valentine's Day images from a giant internet company. Why would they send me a romantic valentine? Because they know that deep in my subconscious I "get" those images. They're betting that the images in my subconscious are connected with good feelings. So I consciously process the message (images) and suddenly feel a little more kindly or open to the company sending me the message, though there seems to be no apparent "romantic" connection between us. This company is hoping to influence me, create my day, as it were.
I sent an e-card to friends today that has none of the traditional Valentine's Day images, but jungle images that are sensual, sultry and interesting. And it's created right before your eyes, drawing you in, taking you to a different place, shifting your perspective. The message urges you to enjoy a day of your own (conscious) creating, rather than let someone else create your day their way.
There is a documentary film that was recommended to me by students and clients, What the Bleep Do We Know? (www.whatthebleep.com) I watch the film often and learn something new each time about the blending of science and spirituality that is quantum physics. One interview is most interesting and you might enjoy going to www.whatthebleep.com and clicking on the interview I Create My Day (Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?TM)
Tomorrow I'll let you know how the DH and I created our V-Day our way.
Ciao, ciao, mmmmmmmmmmelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 9:23 AM
