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Reaction Patterns: Auto-pilot.
Resolving, or, extending the conflict.
The brain stem, Paleomammalian Brain, Reptilian Brain, and Unconscious are all synonyms for the most influential part of the human brain responsible for physical survival. It is habit focused. It seeks to perceive, construct, and "remember" associations as repeating sequences. When we are born, it comes with many 'default" automatic patterns we could refer to as "instinct."
Our Reptilian Brain keeps us alive!
It keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing, our blood pressure and body temperature within separate relevant ranges, and provides us with cycles for sleeping, digestion, elimination. These are just a few of the thousands of processes it takes care of spontaneously every minute and all in optimum interaction one with the other. To all of this our conscious mind is largely oblivious and accepting, without discrimination or judgement. We use this part of our brain to learn skills. We repeat a pattern of movement, behavior or attitude until we "remember" it automatically. What we often forget is that these patterns can be selected consciously by our will, or unconsciously through routine, repetition, and ritual.
Traumatic conditions often form Energy Block unconscious patterns.
These can be brought into existence through an attachment of spiritual weakness response to a challenge. If we don't have a coping pattern for the distress producing experience by way of cultural, family, or mentor, or, the patience to develop one ourselves, the Reptilian brain imposes a best bet response and sanctions it as a future automatic response. A problem with this procedure is that it is meant as an emergency measure. The more often it is chosen, the more times we limit our choice of responses to ones which have been automatic. Fewer choices equals more choices which are irrelevant or less-than-optimum, and the more real errors we will enact.
Imprinting occurs when those around us consistently demonstrate behavioral patterns to us. This can be on a one-to-one basis, a parenting outcome, a cultural set of norms ("normal" expectations and assumptions), or a social method of interacting. We "absorb" these reactive responses through observation. Their automatic nature removes a high potential for anxiety and confusion from our conscious brain and allows us to focus better on our duties, responsibilities, and needs. Thus we "socially inherit" a degree of politeness, language vocabulary, methods of walking, perceptual biases, moral correctness, dependency or self-sufficiency.
"Education" is often based on learning a pattern sanctioned by one's culture, or, personally and consciously selecting skills and behaviors we want to learn. Motivation is often for acceptance but can also be sourced in felt or perceived weaknesses or strengths: insecurity, fear, loss, difficulty with something, expectations of or for any of many factors, needs, and, injustices. Choice may be of our own freedom yet we often defer our choices to others who we have been encouraged to recognize and acknowledge as authorities or experts. Education is like a synthesis of self-directed or socially-directed imprinting to which the experience of trauma is sometimes routinely introduced to provide inflexible racial, national, or family character traits.
Cultural indoctrination in ideals, described as absolute truths and expectations produces myths which form a strong base of uniformity for the members of the society. As long as personal experience does not challenge these myths, they are believed to be part of reality and form a basis for group identity and group attitudes of superiority. So strong are the myths that if they should prove inaccurate in one's personal experience, one often feels responsible for the error. It must be correct for everyone seems to believe it. So, any error I find must originate within me. If the authority established is consistently correct, following it provides social harmony. Many religions, academic subjects, and political policies seek to provide this form of personal acknowledgement and security. Increasingly, they are failing to do this.
Law is added to the cultural broth to stabilize a reality of justice and limit unjustness. This is done in acceptance of the fact that injustice creates apathy, frustration, anxiety, poor self-esteem, anger, violence, and, more injustice. A society without justice is a society in anarchy. Without orderliness, expectations and assumptions tend towards error. Unintentional and accidental error become reinterpreted in an environment of uncertainty through fear and paranoia into distrust and guilt. To the degree that the insecure and weakened individual projects their feelings onto instances of error to perceive them as intentional --- vengeance, vigilantism, and violence are rationalized as justifiable to bring a mathematical scale of rights and wrongs back into balance.
The PATTERN of performance of the LAWS of a nation determine the moral health of the citizens of that nation. Law can encourage harmony through its consistent application, delivery of verdict and penalty, and use of compassion and empathy to support a constructive relevancy of such penalties. When law fails to be relevant and enforceable, citizens lose faith in the cultural myths of freedom, equality, and orderliness. Political distrust empowers the infantile Ego forces of the individual to react in unlawful and disorderly manners. If everyone makes choices only for the benefit of themselves, society collapses around a base of lies, slander, gossip, suspicion, doubt, personal greed (need), apathy, fear.
Can one TRUST the LAW?
What of our two EXAMPLES?
While the examples are from a Canadian Province, the legal complexity, detail, structure, formality, and injustice ... is common to most legal systems.
- Tenancy Rights (Ontario);
- Defamation and Libel (Ontario).
TENANCY RIGHTS:
Complexity of the law and an attempt to unify all of the variations under one Act has left the Ontario Tenant Protection Act beyond the awareness of most of the individuals it was designed to protect. Those requiring the greatest protection are provided with none. There are a number of PATTERNS by which the law and its degree of enforcement convey to and influence the citizens.
The Patterns of Ontario Law concerning tenancy is to deny the roomer rights, encourage conflict between landlord and roomer, protect those who rent apartments and fully self-contained living quarters, encourage over-indebtedness, encourage moral crime. As long as no one speaks out and no one listens, the situation will worsen.
The more intense any situation becomes the more costly and dramatic the remedy becomes. We choose our level of pain (abuse, despair, apathy, fear, anxiety, loss, distrust) according to our level of involvement (courage, faith, trust, optimism). Every day you live, you plant seeds to grow. Choose your variety and nourish it carefully for its health will either diminish or enhance your own.
In my own experience, I requested openness and honesty from my landlord. I expressed myself in writing by giving her honest updates of my progress towards finding new accommodation and the possibility of moving early. Assertively, I also defined, several times, the difficulties I was experiencing in completing that goal, asked for her assistance in the smallest of ways, and requested that she discontinue her interference in my carrying out the actions she increasingly demanded. I received no acknowledgement, only more demands and threats.
My expectations about my Rights regarding tenancy proved to be wrong as did hers regarding her Rights as a landlord. These were encouraged by the availability, completion, and recording of forms for the Rent Tribunal which later proved to be worthless. As a roomer, I had no Rights except through the Small Claims Court, AFTER showing and documenting that I had taken the case before the Tribunal and they had rejected it as not relevant to their authority!
The landlord did not have the Rights she thought she had.
AFTER I moved, I received an
Order under Section 76
Tenant Protection Act, 1997
File Number: SOL-24235
It stated that the landlord had "applied for an order to terminate the tenancy and evict (me) because I had given notice to terminate tenancy. It noted that I was to move out on the 31st of the month and that eviction could be enforced AFTER the 1st of the next month. It was dated on the 16th of the month. With the coercion of the landlord, I was effectively moved out on the 14th! In other words, it confirmed that I had possession until the 31st. It asserted that the landlord could use the power of the law after the 31st.
The reality of the arrival of this document suggested that I had the Rights that it inferred. Accordingly, I was Guided to obtain the forms from the Rental Housing Tribunal website with an aim of resolving the abuse against myself. The Form, T2, Application About Tenant Rights, seemed straightforward in its "Reasons" for application, spaces allowed for explanations, "Remedies" in terms of expenses incurred. I completed the form ticking off the 4 out of the 5 possible reasons and providing an explanation of each.
Attempting once again to resolve a conflict I knew of no reason for, a conflict further aggravated by the aggressive and abusive actions of the landlord and her friends, I sent a copy of the Application to the landlord and requested a resolution of the problem on a personal basis so that neither we nor the government need become involved in what would then be a "recorded" institutional setting. What was proving to be true to PATTERN, I received no acknowledgement. I had stipulated a week or so for her to reply. After that passed, as I had asserted, I submitted the forms to the Tribunal.
I sent the Application in expectation of being given a Tribunal Hearing date and time. I received a Hearing date, time and location a short time later. As there had been no difficulties mentioned in the processing of the form, and, as I assumed that I was a "Tenant", I understood the receipt of this news as a confirmation of the legitimacy of the legal process. This was an error of perception and bureaucracy, often present in the application of Laws.
Two days before the scheduled hearing, I received a call from a Rental Tribunal Mediator. Unfamiliar with the procedures of a Tribunal hearing, I asked for her feedback. Her call was focused on whether I would be willing to participate in mediation before the Hearing with the intent of resolving the issues without the formal hearing. I replied that I would but from the PATTERN established by the landlord, I held little expectation that she would agree.
I explained to the Mediator of my attempts to avoid the issue in the first place, and to resolve it after the abuse. The Mediator affirmed that she had been trying to reach the landlord for several days herself, without any success. This simply confirmed the landlord's choice of aggressiveness, pride, and inability to be open and honest --- to the Mediator.
Further feedback from both the Mediator and a court Duty Counsel confirmed the REALITY of the law, and the Rights involved. Under the stipulations of the Act, I was NOT a "tenant." While my complaints may have been entirely valid and provable, the law would NOT address them. I was in the "Exceptions" part of the Act. If the law applied to everyone, the courts would be clogged!
The best that I could look for from the Housing Rental Tribunal would be an "Order of No Force" statement with a "Review or Set Aside" explanation. The landlord had obviously not responded to the Mediator as mediation was no longer spoken of. As the procedures stood, I could meet with the landlord in front of the Tribunal Adjudicator (a kind of judge) and it would be decided, formally, that the "Application" was not in the authority of the Adjudicator to hear. I would have no opportunity to express my complaint, nor would the landlord have any opportunity to defend against it.
A written document would later be released by the Tribunal noting the legal conflict and administrative mixup. Without this form or letter, the Small Claims Court, it was thought by my two professionals, would send the landlord and I back to the Tribunal. The Letter would confirm to the Small Claims Court that it "Should" be their jurisdiction to rule on. Does this mean that the Small Claims Court does not know their authority until it is told!
Spiritual Guidance throughout this short period of discussion and feedback from the legal professionals kept toggling back and forth between "Go to the Hearing" and "Don't Go to the Hearing." This was easy to understand as the feedback kept changing the awareness and the options involved. In the end, the Mediator stated that I could not now cancel or terminate the Hearing as it was too close. If I showed up, I would get my Letter. If I did not, the case would be "dismissed." Guidance was not to go. I had activities to do which were more spiritually positive ... like preparing and helping others through Balancing Sessions, adding to the Health Balance Package, and revising the Earthtym.net website, plus a new part-time job.
Where is the Justice?
The landlord had the opportunity to make a fool of herself. She made the effort to get a document which she believed would give her power to coerce but in the end the document providing for a later eviction could have been used AGAINST her to confirm my Right to residency until the 31st of the month, and, as I was not legally a "tenant", the document was useless --- obtained by fraud or ignorance, and had the occasion arisen she would NOT have been able to get an eviction notice.
In addition, the abusive landlord had to cope with the copies of the Application I sent to her and prepare for what could only be assumed to be a Hearing in which she would have to try and defend herself against the facts. Perhaps a little anxiety and distraction during that 3 or 4 week period. And, she turned up for the Hearing so she would have had to wait for over 30 minutes until it was cancelled, not knowing if --- I would arrive, if she would defend, if she would win.
Justice for me?
I had the opportunity to do what pleasures me greatly.
I found a problem and worked it through with Guidance to abolish myths
and deceptions which I still held about the Tenancy Rights of persons in Ontario. The conclusions were not surprising to me as I have done much research in the general area of politics, bureaucracy, justice, and trends (patterns) over the past number of years. The eventual result of this set of pages is further boosting my growth along by revealing to me the "intelligence" behind the actions I was Guided to take. Being able to share that with others and provide them with an awareness and opportunities for positive change is also a big plus for me.
The practical application of a Spiritual Perspective in an intensely negative situation, has also further strengthening me by demonstrating to me and others its power to safeguard and to turn a usually disastrous experience into a creative outcome. Yes, I had to leave my residency more quickly than I would have liked to at the time, yet the result was more positive than had I done as I felt was capable. The faster move left nothing more to be arranged in terms of transportation. It validated my Guidance to discard the contents of more than 15 file crates and use most of those for reorganizing what I had for easier storage and future transfer and use. It was a lot to do. It demonstrated that I had the stamina to do it, and, I much appreciated the process not dragging on.
Not pursuing the desire for justice through the legal system also provided a number of positives for me. I don't have to go to court to know if I was virtuous in what I did or not. Actions speak louder than court judgements. I don't lust after money so I never did lose any sleep over the financial losses involved. I have had sound and undisturbed sleep every day since the move. As the legal attachments are finished, I have no requirement, after completing this document, of every devoting any more time or energy to the experience or the memory. Indeed, little of my time has been given to it in the interim. Continuing would have been health diminishing --- would be a case of slow spiritual death. I've always chosen Living over dying. No time to change now.
The legal system "educates" those exposed to it.
Here we are concerned with the Province of Ontario, Canada, Housing Tenancy Act. Laws dealing with different issues and in different jurisdictions usually share parallels in terms of their detail, administration, delays, confusion, and injustice. Had I remained involved in the legal process, I would have exposed myself to the daily reminder of injustices including abuse, betrayal, abandonment, coerciveness, rejection, deception, manipulation, moral evil. That daily reliving would have encouraged emotions of depression, anxiety, frustration, distrust, and hatred. I chose to avoid those and work with the Love of God a long time ago. I have no need to return to a negative lifestyle and the state of being a loser. I leave that to my persecutors. I'm a winner!
My concern and my grief was over the tragedy of the lives not improved through the services which I had prepared to deliver and were denied. That grief has been resolved with the knowledge that I did what I was responsible for: offered therapy, prepared sessions, scheduled appointments, requested feedback, maintained my centeredness, paced myself with Spiritual Guidance, accomplished things I thought impossible of me physically. The rest was the choice of the other parties, as it should be --- it is THEIR life. Each of us has to live with our choices and the result.
What of our second EXAMPLE?
While the examples are from a Canadian Province, the legal complexity, detail, structure, formality, and injustice ... is common to most legal systems.
- Tenancy Rights (Ontario);
- Defamation and Libel (Ontario).
DEFAMATION and LIBEL:
By allowing others to be spiritually abused, we sanction malicious gossip, lies, and defamation. If you so encourage the act, do not complain when it becomes used against you.
I have won by NOT reacting to the negativity of my protagonists and becoming more like them. In any conversations I have had with others about them and the normally traumatic experiences they have imposed on me, I have spoken of them with compassion and empathy. The other pages on the Earthtym.net site which define some of the problems and challenges they brought to me and that were partly or wholly resolved are described without personal reference. None of their names appears in the text of any of the articles.
My focus is on the dynamics of the Energy Blocks, the functioning of the brain, the use of Balancing Therapy, the structure of one's personality, health enhancing skills to develop, and, many cautions. I concentrate on the problem and its solution, not the symptoms and the carrier. That is why I am successful. That is how you can also be successful. Revenge and judgemental and authoritarian, OR, Understanding and compassionate and humble --- a choice of style. I choose the latter. The Quality-of-Life which goes with it is beyond words in the positive.
Our laws reflect the patterns we choose to live by, and, allow others to force us to live by. You either work to improve yourself and the state on a daily basis as part of Life, or, you allow life to decline, wither, and die. Elect your government representative on the basis that they will speak for YOU, not simply for themselves. Interact. Discuss with others. Write letters and articles. Participate in action groups. Live your beliefs as you would have them returned upon you.
"We gain freedom through obedience to law. But the Law is incapable of giving ultimate security because of two things: It is an authority outside of us, imposed on us; and, it lacks dynamic to fulfil its demands. No authority is real authority unless it gets within us and becomes identified with us, becomes us. Nothing holds you unless it holds you from within. But there must be something more than a Law within --- there must be Life. Divine Life working as dynamic in the depths of us.
The Way to Power and Poise,
E. Stanley Jones, page 11, 1949
Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, Nashville.
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