GWCC-free update (Rick waxes philosophic)

As I have moved through the first month of GWCC-free life, or the intent of moving to a GWCC-free life, I have learned lots. Some of the things I have learned were expected, and some whacked me upside the head when I least was ready.

Today is Day 33 since beginning this practice. [aside--simply click the badge on the right with the big red "1" in the middle if what I am talking about is foreign to you] In those weeks, I have come to refer to GWCC-free no longer as "breaking old patterns" because the old patterns are long gone. Now, GWCC-free is simply reinforcing the new patterns now in place.

It is now a proven aspect of brain function that thought patterns are reflected in the way our brains are wired. As we develop and repeat a new pattern, the path through our brain which is traversed as we perform that pattern of thinking becomes easier and easier to travel. Think of it as breaking trail, or clearing brush from an old trail. Likewise, as we abandon old patterns of thought, over time, those patterns become more difficult to repeat. The electrical path through our billions of neurons which represented that pattern, weakens. It is a trail which disappears into the forest as it is reclaimed and overgrown.

Part of my motivation to write today is to declare myself not only seeking to be GWCC-free, but as of today, freed from the counting of days, as well. I will no longer discuss how many days I have been GWCC-free (for the record, today is Day One, just as it was 33 days ago), nor will I track them. It has gotten to the point that the counting was no longer adding to the experience. I'm engulfed in it, so a reminder to become engulfed in it is now superfluous.

Happily, I have reached a stage in my life where I no longer fear the consequences of discarding what I find superfluous. Well...I fear them less often and to a lesser extent...let's go with that.

Make no mistake: I am not abandoning my GWCC-free cohorts or the practice. On the contrary! I will still visit with the friends who are on their own GWCC-free adventures, I will root them on, and I will be doing all I can to grow into the practice and reinforce even more the new pathways through my brain which are indicative of my GWCC-free ways.

An update on where I find myself today: while I never made it all the way through Day Six while counting consecutive GWCC-free days, I learned that, the better care and attention paid to my own accumulation of junk (as I referred to it in an earlier post, what my ego had stuffed in its back pocket to reveal with a flourish later), the easier it was to avoid those unfortunate, out-of-proportion explosions ("What do you mean, you are out of fennel?? Don't you realize how critical it is that I bring home fennel today??!??").

Several of us exchanged comments on an earlier post around what can be done to address this issue. Olivia, with her beautiful new art journal, proved that she could transmute that energy into art. I mentioned my wife's system, which includes the practically famous (in our home, anyway) "number 3" which provides for transmuting via emotional release. Kelly and Sylvain are able to talk their way through the gunk by shining the light of love on it. I enjoy reading their pair of blogs a great deal, as they show the two viewpoints of one love.

My own techniques are several, but the one I rely on the most is my time to myself. It may be meditative time, or conscious, work-through-the-experiences time, or time to "waste" by wandering the web as my subconscious self reorganizes the furniture. I know that I will be guided in the moment, and that the time will be spent in service to the clearing of my own conduit, and returning to my real job while I am here on the planet: being the radiator of Love.

Love, in the sense of its universal meaning, not the boyfriend/girlfriend kind, is the context within which everything is created. Life exists because of Love. Love is energy, and it must flow to do its job. We're conduits, and we're designed to take Love in and send it out via infinite paths we can never know in detail.

In a way, we are each no different than the brain neurons I wrote about earlier: we are connected to many other people, and by the flow of Love, we determine our own reflection of the truth of the universe, of its "thoughts." Most importantly, we as individuals are not of much use. It is our myriad paths of energy flow, of Love, with billions of others on the planet which are precious, which make us each important.

Yes, I have come to think of the living things on this planet as Earth's brain. The beauty of GWCC-free is that it not only helps us as individuals, it also helps us clear the pathways between ourselves and others, which allows those paths to carry the information and energy of Love without resistance.

Back here on the ground, it is time to get ready for work! Have yourself a merry little GWCC-free Friday, and I'll be back Sunday with my next post.