Heads up. Or down. :: Draft

Are you heads up. Or are you heads down.

In a black and white world, you can be only one of those at a given time. This duality is an interesting one and allows for you to have a simple automatic check in your mind:

“Right now, am I heads up? Or heads down? Should I change it?”

Paradoxically, that sentence require you to go heads up enough to be able to ask it. And here external help in the form of some automatic trigger can become useful.

Other phrases that could mean the same thing:

• Am I thinking or doing?
• Am I reflecting or executing?
• Am I observing or feeling?
• Am I seeing the forest or the trees?
• Am I being general or specific?

Evidence suggests TK that the brain can really only function in these two modes: Associated, or dissociated. And when it’s acting in a dissociated mode it can have thoughts about thoughts, which gets pretty heady.

Picture seeing the trees, then the forest, then the earth, then the universe. This is the power of the dissociated mode. When you have the time, find a metaphor that works for you. Something that allows you to associate into the moment and then dissociate enough to make sense of it.