Meaningful Pairs

We give everything  the meaning it has for us. Quoted from “A Course in Miracles”

Every little thing from a chair to a marriage has personal meaning. But it’s sometimes it’s really hard to know exactly what you think. What do you think about a chair for instance….H’mm?  Something to sit on perhaps…anything else?

But try this…Drag that soft low slung lazy boy wing backed chair to the kitchen table, and all of a sudden it means a lot more than that. Wrong chair, that’s for sure. Perhaps wrong in many odd mismatched ways. It talks of design and personal preference. What about inviting someone like the boss to the table with the wrong chair there and maybe there is embarrassment or anger or laughter, or even a sense of cool or maybe shame, who knows?

This matching pair exercise though, will tell you a lot about what you think about chairs. Mostly about stuff you didn’t even know you cared about. And this is just about chairs!

Now you can decide if the many things you have had thoughts about for years, are just old worn out records in need of replacing .

Here are some more meanings to explore. No more chairs though!

How about Money.

Do Aggression and money work together

Does Peace and money

Does Business and money work together

And does Philosophy and business

Yet again another “For instance”.  if I asked you what aging meant to you, you’d think you’d know wouldn’t you. But do you?

It would be interesting to do the exercise of matching age and a wheelchair, Age and sex, Age and business, Age and aggression, Age and politics…and so on.  Do you think what Age means, might come out different?

These examples are but the tip of a very large submerged iceberg. A personally made hidden iceberg of meanings about how life works.

Most of what we think remains hidden through most of our lives. Sometimes our most deeply felt experiences come as a complete surprise to us. Without any element of control. The Meaningful Pairs

exercise can open you up to your personal  pile of prejudice, choice, beliefs, preferences and reactions. Could be a good thing…no?

Paul