I have never prescribed to the "it could be worse" mentality. It doesn't occur to me to tell my children at dinnertime when they refuse to eat that there are children starving in China. Most obviously, because China has long since lost its poster child for hunger status but also because there is no logical connection between these items in my own mind. This is, for me, the ultimate challenge in parenting. The ideas I was raised with never made much sense at the time. The only sense they make now is in their potential ability to make my child stare at me blankly and wonder what in the hell I might be talking about. At least it stops what they are doing. But I have trouble incorporating that into a parenting style. My parenting style consists of endless loops of trial and error, guilt, overcompensating for my own childhood scarring, rinse, repeat...
The lack of logic in parenting is really only reinforced the more I look around at other moms and dads and kids. It's a slippery endeavor to be sure. There is only one thing I feel fairly confident about. That is when someone seems to know THE way or THE answer then I know they are full of misinformation and likely an insecurity more painful than mine. I silently hum yankee doodle in my own head to drown out anything they are saying. I take an extra long shower once home just to ensure none of the residue of their self purported wisdom adheres to any part of me.
Here are some of my favorite parental faux pas:
-when I scream at my children at the top of my lungs, "Do not yell at me! It is disrespectful and unkind. It makes you seem like a complete maniac!" and on my really self aware days I add, "if you aren't sure what I mean please take a video of me right now as a reference."
-the well meaning "dont worry about what others think" while I tell them to pull up their sagging pants, comb their hair, and wear clean underwear. No one is fooled here. Least of all our children.They witness me on weekend mornings wearing 10 year old pj's with holes in the them, hair unkempt, teeth unbrushed for hours. When they ask me if I'm gonna comb my hair I reply, "no one is gonna see me." In this situation I think parenting needs an infusion of honesty. Something along the lines of "please know that people are watching and judging all the time and so in order to not be picked on please do everything possible to seem normal when in the presence of other humans."
-buying everything they want because you feel guilty or you are maybe thinking they need it. There's no hard, fast rule here. I say buy it if you can just to be sure. Forget the guilt.
The funny thing about this whole parenting thing is no one knows the answers. No, not you. You really don't. It doesn't matter what you think. You don't.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Zero Point Field
For those of you unfamiliar with zero point field I am grateful because I know I can offer a simplified if not inaccurate explanation as I understand it and you will question not. You won't fact check. You will not cross reference. You will simply check one of three mental boxes: buy it, don't buy it, or huh. No matter because I write mostly to transfer these cumbersome thoughts in my own head to yours. But of course any writer knows that's a lie because I could just as easily journal somewhere private if that's what I really wanted. I want an audience. I want to be liked. I want to be at least deemed funny-ish. And sometimes I get a little off track. And contrary to what high school english attempted to teach me I am not afraid to start a sentence with and, but or because nor am I skiddish about ending a sentence with a preposition. Full disclosure.
Zero Point Field(ZPF) is a place of endless, regenerating energy. I understand it to be like the paddle in the old video game Pong. It is that thing which makes the ball go. It is not always certain which direction or speed the ball will travel but we know the paddle is making things happen. ZPF is like that but different in that the paddle is huge and it's wavy and it's kind of everywhere at once. And the ball or the speck of energy, electron, is also everywhere and in constant movement. And the little balls of energy keep coming back to the ZPF and then keep on keeping on after that. It never stops. Essentially the space around us is filled with infinite motion and energy all powered by the pong paddle or ZPF.
This is an exciting find for quantum physicists because, well, really who else could get excited about that? The potential in the ZPF for all of us commoners though lies in the theories and ideas that suggest if we could find a way to tap into that unending supply of energy the implications for what is possible on our planet are pretty vast. Maybe we can power trips all over the galaxy. Power cars, machinery, and of course eventually power ourselves. This last potential is what interests me most.
In the spiritual and perhaps new age realm where my brain tends to spend a lot of its time there is often scientific theory poached from the quantum physics field of study. There are interesting parallels that can be surmised. In terms of the zero point field and the use of the energy source it suggests a connection among things not seemingly connected. It has implications for a potential harnessing of those mental energies. Basically it is you who can create your life. If we become aware of these energies we could, for example, maybe use thoughts and mental energies to create events. Thoughts have energy and power and if we can learn to direct that power we can be...powerful. I'm not talking about world domination or tricking people. I'm talking about using the power we've used all along but purposefully this time. For example, we tend to believe events happen and then we react. In reality, it is probably something closer to we are helping at least in part along with other human agents to create this reality or these events. If we become more aware of how that happens we could possibly avoid things like war or famine or obesity or tabloid magazines. Okay it's just a thought and perhaps not nearly a cohesive one but I'm gonna do some mental experiments to see if I can use some of this energy in my own life. I will keep you posted on that. In the meantime, remember we are not victims but rather agents in a vast sea of energy. Learn to swim.
Zero Point Field(ZPF) is a place of endless, regenerating energy. I understand it to be like the paddle in the old video game Pong. It is that thing which makes the ball go. It is not always certain which direction or speed the ball will travel but we know the paddle is making things happen. ZPF is like that but different in that the paddle is huge and it's wavy and it's kind of everywhere at once. And the ball or the speck of energy, electron, is also everywhere and in constant movement. And the little balls of energy keep coming back to the ZPF and then keep on keeping on after that. It never stops. Essentially the space around us is filled with infinite motion and energy all powered by the pong paddle or ZPF.
This is an exciting find for quantum physicists because, well, really who else could get excited about that? The potential in the ZPF for all of us commoners though lies in the theories and ideas that suggest if we could find a way to tap into that unending supply of energy the implications for what is possible on our planet are pretty vast. Maybe we can power trips all over the galaxy. Power cars, machinery, and of course eventually power ourselves. This last potential is what interests me most.
In the spiritual and perhaps new age realm where my brain tends to spend a lot of its time there is often scientific theory poached from the quantum physics field of study. There are interesting parallels that can be surmised. In terms of the zero point field and the use of the energy source it suggests a connection among things not seemingly connected. It has implications for a potential harnessing of those mental energies. Basically it is you who can create your life. If we become aware of these energies we could, for example, maybe use thoughts and mental energies to create events. Thoughts have energy and power and if we can learn to direct that power we can be...powerful. I'm not talking about world domination or tricking people. I'm talking about using the power we've used all along but purposefully this time. For example, we tend to believe events happen and then we react. In reality, it is probably something closer to we are helping at least in part along with other human agents to create this reality or these events. If we become more aware of how that happens we could possibly avoid things like war or famine or obesity or tabloid magazines. Okay it's just a thought and perhaps not nearly a cohesive one but I'm gonna do some mental experiments to see if I can use some of this energy in my own life. I will keep you posted on that. In the meantime, remember we are not victims but rather agents in a vast sea of energy. Learn to swim.
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