Oscillating in and out of vitality

Last week, Neil referenced a chart that I had shown him which made me curious to dig it up.  It addresses the basic concept that it is unrealistic to strive to expressing vitality all the time; we are all going to experience moments when we get co-opted by emotion or are simply not feeling connected with one's vitality.

But, by becoming aware of our own sense of vitality, we can begin to keep a mental record of our own state of being.  The Mental Pilates skills are designed to address our ability to deal with a unit of life experience, a transaction, if you will.  What we focus upon is our reaction skills.  How we react to life's events will determine the frequency, the duration and the intensity with which we "go down the rabbit hole" of being emotionally co-opted.

The reddish line in the diagram represents one path of charted vitality where one's natural flow of vitality becomes increasingly restricted, over a long period of time.  The blue line illustrates the concept of achieving significant level of vitality and then developing skills for reacting that enable them to briefly oscillate out of a state of vitality and then return.

We all go down our own rabbit holes, from time to time; the question is how often, for how long and how deep do we want to go?  Mental Pilates develops skills for maintaining control of our emotions, or at least not losing control for as long.

Andy