Things have been going smoothly as expected. I am doing what i need to do every day consistently, taking small but crucial action and feeling great about life. However, just like a random Karen hellbent on ruining your day, Recon pulls up. My current level of awareness and dealing with this recon will be the subject for this post. Pay close attention now! I will be dropping hard-earned game!
Recon from a technical standpoint! Recon has different shapes and works differently for different people however it is universally felt as Negative. It comes with varying degrees and the degree felt consistently determines how well one is dealing with it as well as reaping it’s subtle benefits. The difference in those degrees is the level of Identification with it
Identification will be different for different people but mostly about things you struggle and or have struggled with such as: Action Taking, Consistency, Overthinking, Reliving negative experiences, Guilt, Shame, Blame, Overindulgence, Reaction to criticism, Impatience, Boredom, Reliving trauma, Frustration about something etc… the list is goes on and on
Stage 1 is Strange: Imagine a crazy person calling you a stinky potato… It feels ridicules to even entertain and you simply go about your day
Stage 2 is Uncomfortable: Why do i think / feel this? Huh makes no sense that isn’t me.
Stage 3 is Annoying: I’m i really thinking about this / feeling this? I should relax and let it go.
Stage 4 is Infuriating: You feel on edge being consumed by overthinking or a negative feeling you are unable to let go but you retain enough awareness to know this isn’t serving you while feeling hopeless.
Stage 5 is Full inhibition: ( Insert a really bad day here. Everything goes wrong, the world is out to F""K with you and that’s that seems to be happening regardless of what you do. You may oscillate between stage 5,4 and sometimes lower but you feel hopeless at best, An unlucky victim at worst )
Now remember one of the things that might bug you on and off. It could be about romance on how men, women are this and that… how you give and never take back. How nobody seems to appreciates you… Notice that at times this thought has different power over you. In your worst days you don’t believe in love etc. and in your best you believe that the right one will find you/ or has found you etc. Why is it that this topics or something else that bugs you NEVER seems to have a permanent resolution? Why is it that when you finally believe you figured it out… it still effects you beyond your control? trapping you into more overthinking and trying to " out hustle " the problem
The answer is quite simple. Because it was never the issue to begin with. Whatever seems to bug is no more than a placeholder, the episode for the day with a singular goal to get you to identify with it. It could be resolved today, tomorrow you have something else and next month you could have it again. It’s a trap that baits you into believing more overthinking, more frustration and more anger " will lead you towards that permanent resolution you seek regardless if its positive or negative. It’s a symbiote that needs your energy and identification to survive and it knows you far better than you or anyone ever could and will always be able to push the right buttons to get what it wants… And if you are aware of your patterns, how certain things in life seem to repeat and you feel stuck then it has the power to EVEN manifest situations as a last resort that gets you to re align with it through fierce emotional identification.
This is why some people always seem to attract more the same type of toxic people relationship wise and how some always remain poor despite how hard they hustle or put in the work. After all if the universe itself, supposedly, decided your fate then what hope do you have?
The answer here is not to let go, StAy POsiTive or whatever redundant methods people use to cope with it which gives them the illusion of control. The only answer i personally found is courage and awareness. If you are aware of the game being played and are brave enough to believe that this too will pass then might make it to the next stage which will be entirely personal to you.
Recon from a spiritual standpoint! Recon could be explained through the lenses of 7 hermetic principles. Some are redundant though or i don’t fully understand them yet.
Mentalism: It’s all in your head. There is no force trying to save or damn you. Everything simply IS
Correspondence: Recon is a physical expression of what’s inside you expressed and felt on the outside. This is a valuable nugget which suggests that… Example: I am using a EoG, and my recon looks like feeling like making money is hard. It will require sacrifices, luck and David Goggins level of discipline. This is a clear indication that, in this example, EoG is telling that it’s easy, luck is abundant and you don’t really need all that hard work. Just start small, build on it, have faith and enjoy the freedom on the other side. When you feel like you need to stress, then it’s the opposite. If your recon is telling you nobody deserves your love then you are disagreeing with the fact that there are many who would appreciate and reciprocate your love etc… More on this on Polarity
Vibration: Nothing rests, everything moves, everything vibrates… and currently you are beginning to vibrate on a higher level which is being met by the fear of the new and seemingly uncomfortable. As creatures of habit and comfort, most humans subconsciously choose the devil the are familiar with over an angel who could give them the world but is unfamiliar… ( Insert your relevant self sabotage experience here ) nuff said
Polarity: Here is where things get fun. Everything has an equal and opposite pole. This is the essence of what i have learned using Alchemist: Singularity… Everything is one and the same. Every expression, emotion and state… There is no objective good or bad. Its all one and the same… It’s all equal
Example: Rich and poor! They have the exact same levels of comfort to discomfort ratio, generally speaking. The perpetually poor or paycheck to paycheck has the comfort of not trying hard enough and the discomfort of the life this will lead to.
The rich has the comfort of a luxurious life and the discomfort of facing failure, fear and the discipline of resisting temptations as well as doing what it takes regardless of how they feel. Another aspect is realizing that money is not everything, wealth is not the end all be all as well as feeling life becoming boring unless they cope by flexing that wealth, their ego or needing to make more and more and more to feel something again… Which is a different kind of discomfort.
Another example: The man with no game has the comfort of not approaching, not dealing with rejection as well as the risk of meeting a new person… Being single, having 0 action and obsessing and settling with whoever gives him little attention is the discomfort…
The man with game has the comfort of enjoying frequent action, options, the luxury of picking those that match his standards as well as never needing to settle or put up with less than he can get. The discomfort is facing his fears each time, dealing with frequent rejection as well as the occasional crazy here and there as well as needing to remain firm in the other things that ground him as well as maintaining his value.
All things considered nobody is objectively better off. Sure we could look at 5 people at 80. ranking from homeless, poor, paycheck to paycheck, rich and lastly filthy rich and we would all agree that it’s better to be in the upper part. However that is a mere moment, not considering all the comfort/discomfort each one had at different stages. The 40 year old tech millionaire was a nerd/loser at high school and college being called " lucky " by the average jock who had the time of his life partying and being the center of the world in high school and college.
There is a certain level of comfort for staying the same, wallowing in ones misery. Feeling like nothing changes while having the excuse for blaming the outer world or even themselves. Yes, even blaming ones self is a luxurious comfort because you now get to enjoy the comfort of not facing your fears and inner demons. Things most successful and happy people had to endure and work with over and over and over and over until one day they become magically " lucky " by those with lesser understanding.
Don’t even get me started with " what about those who inherited money, won the lottery etc. "… Yeah just check the statistics for where most lottery winners end up… And tell me how happy " Rich with Daddy’s money " really are. At worst they are riddled with insecurities and at worst they get an overdose of, use your imagination,. that got dark… on to the next
Rhythm: “Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything ; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”
Recon is a form of the pendulum swing. There is no dark without light, hot without cold, happiness without sadness etc… Things will go bad sometimes and it is what it is. Things will go great in equal measure. Why then can we all universally agree that " Pain is far more frequent than joy " and way harder to obtain. Again it’s all about preception
If we played a cointoss where the odds are 50/50 for 100 dollars. Most people will say no even we were to say " I win i get 100 dollar you win you get 120 dollars ". Most people would still say no even if they were to win more than lose. Why is that? Because in human nature we fear losing more than we want to win. I fear the love of my life leaving me over being happy for an opportunity to find a better one. Creatures of habit yada yada we are risk averse and most would agree that whenever they get sick, they appreciate all the times the were healthy… even if the sickness in question is a simple 3-7 days cold with an obnoxious runny nose.
If so then this law helps us realize that pain, as well as recon are inevitable and frees us from burdens of worrying about them and re shifts our focus on developing a healthier perspective and greater awareness. If i feel neutral 50% of the time, hurt 40% and happy just as little as 10% then by re shifting my focus and actions. I have the ability to change those numbers by choosing the appropriate reaction instead of always trying to outhustle and control the world so it fits my particular ego and its needs.
Doing so, as well as handling recon with lesser identification as well as taking action will not only do that but will even help me open up the door ways to manifestation in the subliminals which makes me feel blessed and lucky.
cause and effect I see this as another form for the law of correspondence. For both the relevance for this post as well as my limited understanding of it.
Gender: I see it as irrelevant and redundant here. Could also be due to my limited understanding of it.