Between absurdity and mystery

To re-organise life, having let go of an unhelpful way of organising chaos, there are basically three ways in which to explore focusing your attention on new possibilities:

You can look at physical aspects of life (such as body-fitness, home-making, gardening, cooking, crafts, and so on.)

You can look at psychological aspects of life (such as learning new subjects or skills, changing habits, altering your priorities, developing relaxation-prayer-meditation, and so on.)

You can look at social aspects of life (such as choosing to spend more time with certain people, joining clubs or societies, resolving difficulties with some people, commiting time to charitable activity with others, and so on.)

Each of these can be pushed and explored to an extreme, where they are no longer satisfying something in your inmost being. There is a longing in most people for inner integration balanced with a sense of true belonging with other people. So having pushed any area of exploration to a limit of absurdity, for example, physcial body-building, the time  comes to re-integrate what you have discovered with the way life looks from the other two perspectives, in this example the mental and social aspects.

THAT PROCESS OF RE-INTEGRATION CAN LEAD once again TO EMOTIONAL CHAOS! Certain things may not fit! Choices and priorities need to be re-made, relationships re-valued, other physical aspects of life re-assessed. The resulting mixture of ideas, values and relationsips is UNPREDICTABLE, but it might be good! There is a certain MYSTERY about what may emerge from this re-integration. It is true personal development. It is, in the terms of Emotional Chaos Theory, the spiritual dimension to personal life.

There is no need to postulate a non-material life force. That is not what is meant by 'spirit' in Emotional Logic or Emotional Chaos Theory. I'll write more on this later. The point to be made here is this: Suspended somewhere between mystery and absurdity, we each are trying to make sense of our lived experience, and that process of making sense is deeply emotional becuase emotion is our personal energy on the move to make adjustments in life.

E-motion = energy in motion.

In emotional Chaos Theory terms, personal energy emerges within, not from some external impersonal force, but rather by joining-into organised patterns of living. It is synergy.