Let's start with the definition of "holding pattern";
| Noun | 1. | holding pattern - a state of inaction with no progress and no change; "you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment" |
| 2. | holding pattern - the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land
air lane, skyway, airway, flight path - a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
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I will continue with a a story (it may be apocryphal but it’s a great story anyway)
about a frog being put in a beaker of boiling water. Not surprisingly,
he jumps out instantly and survives. When that same frog was placed in a
beaker of room temperature water in which the temperature was slowly
increased over time, he stayed in the beaker as the temperature slowly
rose to the boiling point and he was cooked to death.
We are not much smarter than frogs in many aspects of our lives since we have have remarkable powers of adaptation. And this is a good thing. We can adapt to an incredibly wide range of conditions as the circumstances of our environment change, as they often do. If these changes come about gradually, our powers of adaptation can work much more effectively than if the changes are more sudden. There is, however, a downside to this ability to adjust to changing circumstances, and that is that we may inadvertently adapt to conditions that are dangerous and even life-threatening when the changes are so subtle that we don’t realize that we’re being overcooked. It’s better after all to avoid or jump out of some things rather than to tolerate them.
How do we make the paradigm shift to identify holding patterns? I believe it's a matter of awareness and to do that we need to acquire new set of tools in our tool belts. We need to be able to look at ourselves, our relations, our work, our community, our society and the world we live in from different perspectives and not to be scared of what we eventually find, discover. Sometimes the things we discover are annoying, harsh, ugly and we have no idea how we ended up here.
Let me be more specific, we all want to be able to keep our health and be fitter. We all understand the fact that keeping your body fit is essential to be able enjoy all aspects of life, and somehow that notion is not always transferred into actions. Many, including myself, from time to time take on habits which are not so good for our bodies, even harmful ones.
In our relationships, whether with someone we care, like a family member or someone we dearly love so that it from time to time hurts, we seem to manage to get our relations in to undesirable states. We slowly but surely stop doing small things in our everyday lives and we are than surprised when the reality finally hits us.
At work, we work hard to get to positions and/or assignments and from the beginning we know that we need to work hard to show everyone that we deserve those positions and assignments. I am not saying that it's so with everyone, but every so often we find ourselves feeling mistreated at work because we didn't get the raise we thought we deserve, we were not asked for the position we simply think we so deserve, and so it goes.
In our community and society, we find ourselves complaining about things which we think happened over night, when in reality small changes in politics have resulted in for us unimaginable human perceptions. We have hard time to finding ourselves a standing point for our opinions and it's always someone else who needs to do things. How often do we go and demonstrate for or against an idea and/or ideology? Slowly but surely we accept, with our lack of initiative and inaction, to live in a colder, inhuman community, society and world.
Am I smarter than the frog? Will I be able to make the paradigm shift which requires me to seek for and dig deep to find out my own "holding pattern(-s)"? I don't know about you, I know I have had a few and I am sure I still do. No matter how hard the truth is I am willing to do what I need to do to find my holding patterns. Therefore I am asking you next time we meet feel free to bring up your point of view on things which you think are my holding pattern(-s).
I want to live a happy, healthy and rewarding life. I am willing to challenge myself to do and to be better, whatever that may mean and whatever that may be. I want to be helpful to others and I want to learn to be helped. Am I asking too much? That may be? How about totally the opposite? What if I am asking too little? What if I and we all achieve more and we can do that everyday?
Cya around! Take good care and be safe. I hope you take time to make comments, either here in text or directly to my face, and why not at work, at home and on the mirror.
We are not much smarter than frogs in many aspects of our lives since we have have remarkable powers of adaptation. And this is a good thing. We can adapt to an incredibly wide range of conditions as the circumstances of our environment change, as they often do. If these changes come about gradually, our powers of adaptation can work much more effectively than if the changes are more sudden. There is, however, a downside to this ability to adjust to changing circumstances, and that is that we may inadvertently adapt to conditions that are dangerous and even life-threatening when the changes are so subtle that we don’t realize that we’re being overcooked. It’s better after all to avoid or jump out of some things rather than to tolerate them.
How do we make the paradigm shift to identify holding patterns? I believe it's a matter of awareness and to do that we need to acquire new set of tools in our tool belts. We need to be able to look at ourselves, our relations, our work, our community, our society and the world we live in from different perspectives and not to be scared of what we eventually find, discover. Sometimes the things we discover are annoying, harsh, ugly and we have no idea how we ended up here.
Let me be more specific, we all want to be able to keep our health and be fitter. We all understand the fact that keeping your body fit is essential to be able enjoy all aspects of life, and somehow that notion is not always transferred into actions. Many, including myself, from time to time take on habits which are not so good for our bodies, even harmful ones.
In our relationships, whether with someone we care, like a family member or someone we dearly love so that it from time to time hurts, we seem to manage to get our relations in to undesirable states. We slowly but surely stop doing small things in our everyday lives and we are than surprised when the reality finally hits us.
At work, we work hard to get to positions and/or assignments and from the beginning we know that we need to work hard to show everyone that we deserve those positions and assignments. I am not saying that it's so with everyone, but every so often we find ourselves feeling mistreated at work because we didn't get the raise we thought we deserve, we were not asked for the position we simply think we so deserve, and so it goes.
In our community and society, we find ourselves complaining about things which we think happened over night, when in reality small changes in politics have resulted in for us unimaginable human perceptions. We have hard time to finding ourselves a standing point for our opinions and it's always someone else who needs to do things. How often do we go and demonstrate for or against an idea and/or ideology? Slowly but surely we accept, with our lack of initiative and inaction, to live in a colder, inhuman community, society and world.
Am I smarter than the frog? Will I be able to make the paradigm shift which requires me to seek for and dig deep to find out my own "holding pattern(-s)"? I don't know about you, I know I have had a few and I am sure I still do. No matter how hard the truth is I am willing to do what I need to do to find my holding patterns. Therefore I am asking you next time we meet feel free to bring up your point of view on things which you think are my holding pattern(-s).
I want to live a happy, healthy and rewarding life. I am willing to challenge myself to do and to be better, whatever that may mean and whatever that may be. I want to be helpful to others and I want to learn to be helped. Am I asking too much? That may be? How about totally the opposite? What if I am asking too little? What if I and we all achieve more and we can do that everyday?
Cya around! Take good care and be safe. I hope you take time to make comments, either here in text or directly to my face, and why not at work, at home and on the mirror.
