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Here, we will look at the livelihood development phase of the psychology of lifespan performance and perceptual control model. Livelihood development is an ascending movement of self-research for self-development. It is contained in a dynamic systemic ascending and descending negative feedback control real-time living process.
Expanding self-understanding through ongoing inquiry
allows one to consciously upgrade rational decision-making, actions, and
physical creations by aligning with an ancient Greek teaching based on a
working hypothesis that reveals where and when of humanity and who we are as
relating to the cosmos.
From my research, I can tell you where we are: We are in a solar system, and the worlds of Mankind are visible-physical, physical-etheric, emotional, and mental-casual. Who we are, at a minimum: Incarnate evolving organisms with inherent self-consciousness centered in the visible-physical world. And when we appeared, well, it is more complex, let’s say, a really long time ago.
This pragmatic guide details practices to help one build efficient self-research for self-development across four interconnected dimensions of self-consciousness evolution.
The visible-physical dimension comprises organic beings attuned to external material reality. The human organism incarnates in this world. This body provides a crucial foundation for stability as we ascend to causality. Common challenges arise when the visible-physical body is neglected or abused, progressively impairing the evolution of self-consciousness. Integrating the physical body and higher dimensions of Humanity is essential.
The physical-etheric world comprises our patterns of
energetic flow, cycles of wakefulness, focus, fatigue, or distraction.
Observing inner conflict, we reclaim authority over faculties like will,
motivation, and attention. Common challenges arise when energy becomes chained
to lower impulses. The addictive lure of entertainment, technology, or
stimulants can override growth.
The emotional world contains our personality
characteristics of assumption and pressure. Investigating here with sustained
attention replenishes the capacity for choice amidst reactive patterns.
Becoming trapped in negative emotional cycles impedes stability and access to
the mental-causal world. Blind reactivity inhibits self-authorization.
The mental-causal world governs perceptions, emotions,
and conflicts that form our interpreted experience of all that happens to us.
Observing perceptual inputs, conflict comparisons, and action, we control
intended perceptions by working through disturbances to maintain intentions.
Cultivating mental-causal self-consciousness means relieving identification
with compulsive emotional fake mentalizing. Here, self-research and
self-development are most important. Developing mental-causal
self-consciousness is only possible if one can find resources beyond the
exoteric mystics, spiritualists, and others centered in the emotional world. It
is imperative that we free awareness from attachment to emotional thought
structures.
By ascending (self-research) these interconnected worlds, we systematically unlock self-consciousness in each subsequent world (self-development). Each following perspective awaits our resolve to question inward without limit. This self-research for self-development is the livelihood development phase of the psychology of lifespan performance and perceptual control, a dynamic systemic ascending and descending negative feedback control real-time living process.
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