03-14-2011, 12:00 AM
Nu Lang wrote:
Sedna, you are stalking me right now. What you are doing is one form of stalking. YOu don;t like what I'm saying about stalking and so you are stalking that....
Nu lang, if we see soemthing we don't like and stalk that, we should be stalking that within us which doesn't like the thing, we are stalking ourself, not the other to find out why we feel the way we do.
I had a convo this morning with a well respected Toltec Leader. He had this to say:
The first causation is 'know thyself'. You do this by increasing
self-awareness. A powerful tool to facilitate this is stalking self. As
you increase self-awareness, your awareness in general increases and you
are able to 'see' others more clearly.
It is always easier to see other people's patterns than it is to see our own. But, it always begins and ends with self.
There
are Toltec stalking exercises where we stalk other people. For example,
if you are sitting in a restaurant and mimic as exactly as you can the
facial expressions and body posture of another person in the restaurant,
you will begin to 'read' their thoughts. But, these exercises are
secondary to stalking self.
You can't force or make another
person heal. They must choose to heal first. You can't make or force
another person to embark on a growth path. It must come from within them
first. In the same way, self awareness always begins and ends with
self.So there are specific exercises wherein we do stalk others, mimicry, in order to see other people better, to enhance our own seeing. But as I understand it, stalking is not typically (in Toltec terms) done to help another person see.
Sedna, you are stalking me right now. What you are doing is one form of stalking. YOu don;t like what I'm saying about stalking and so you are stalking that....
Nu lang, if we see soemthing we don't like and stalk that, we should be stalking that within us which doesn't like the thing, we are stalking ourself, not the other to find out why we feel the way we do.
I had a convo this morning with a well respected Toltec Leader. He had this to say:
The first causation is 'know thyself'. You do this by increasing
self-awareness. A powerful tool to facilitate this is stalking self. As
you increase self-awareness, your awareness in general increases and you
are able to 'see' others more clearly.
It is always easier to see other people's patterns than it is to see our own. But, it always begins and ends with self.
There
are Toltec stalking exercises where we stalk other people. For example,
if you are sitting in a restaurant and mimic as exactly as you can the
facial expressions and body posture of another person in the restaurant,
you will begin to 'read' their thoughts. But, these exercises are
secondary to stalking self.
You can't force or make another
person heal. They must choose to heal first. You can't make or force
another person to embark on a growth path. It must come from within them
first. In the same way, self awareness always begins and ends with
self.So there are specific exercises wherein we do stalk others, mimicry, in order to see other people better, to enhance our own seeing. But as I understand it, stalking is not typically (in Toltec terms) done to help another person see.