99 steps to reclaiming your individuality Step #4

 Approaching the onion:

Systematic ideology can tend to make individuals apprehensive of participation, for after-all aren't we attempting to break-away from the machine, not become entwined in it? Not so. Every awakened individual needs a baseline, a reference point, a standard for evident normalcy regarding their position; what ever it may be at the time. What we must avoid at all cost during our journey to self awareness or self reclamation is the errant ubiquitous human compulsion to pendulum logic and pendulum reaction. In grasping this alone we can break free from the clandestine cycle of conditioned reaction and compliant participation.

How do we establish a baseline that is truly an expression of individual choice? We do this by first investigating the matrix of the many selves that make up the self, the individual that is you. Once we have a clearer grasp of what constitutes individuality, we can then easily throttle many of the emotional, physical, and psychological roadblocks that we circumvent unknowingly during the course of any-one day.

Many scholarly individuals have produced models of the make-up of the individual. Some through religion, some through discipline, and many through philosophical, literary or poetic discourses. All have their intrinsic truths. The key to valued application of these principles in our lives is to nourish ourselves with the truisms contained therein, and not enamor ourselves with the prestige with which these writings meet with the approval of society at large. Truth is truth however packaged, discerning that truth is your obligation and your path to individual freedom.

Today's exercise is a simple introduction, but yet critical to the awareness of the individual we would wish to re-unite. It was never lost just un-managed. Like a poorly run event, organization or community, for all intents and purposes operating and functioning on a daily basis autonomously, but when the chaos of rush hour ensues, or the photo-copier jams, or an event is seemingly beyond our control or grasp, the many selves scramble to offer there retributive courses of action, and we are left at the mercy of which ever one screams loudest. Understanding that, and working to peel away the many layers of self, not to purge, not to abandon, not to scold or condemn, but simply to introduce yourself and then introduce your authority.