This is fictional story about Arrogance! It explains why we need Landscaping. You get to Save the World in the end!

We will get to Landscaping by the end.

Lets start from somewhere.

Who are we?

Do we seek the understanding of the world that surrounds us?

How hard do we fight for it?

What is it we really believe in?

What do we want to achieve in life?

Can we honestly say we feel happy all the time?

Or right now?

What actions and decisions made right now would lead to improving of personal well-being and happiness?

This are all the basic questions that will determine the quality of ones life.

PART 1 - OK, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

Do important questions get any time in your daily routine?

In today's fast living society many people tend to be focused on short term goals, which becomes the extreme case if our short term planning drops from days to hours. Than life becomes chaos. In that chaos, we call hedonism, we can't focus on long term goals. We require gratification every few hours. And what we do at the end is set a short term goal to enjoy as much as possible at any moment possible. Than there is another problem. The debt.

Hedonism

We focus on pleasing as much of our receptors as possible and experience as much as possible. To get most from the life, by experiencing the most. yet, there is another side of hedonism story. Our wills become corrupted by the need for gratification. By chasing pleasures we loose integrity and ourselves. We move the decision making from our goals towards mindlessly chasing pleasures. Long term component is obviously missing. We can feel this from inside as 'stress', 'depression'... We can't understand the reasons for stress exactly. But it can be simplified to: you know you are lost in short term that has no perspective for growth, but you become addicted on pleasures and require gratification on daily basis as your strength of will is corrupted by constant need for gratification. Somewhere in your sub-awareness you know all this but you don't want to think about it. This realization is becoming your worst fear, and you are running away from it, your corrupted strength of will means you don't have the strength to break out of the cycle. You are lost in meaningless short-term with no hope of truly living your life free. When you realize this, what to do next?

Lets slow down and just sync in few ideas first:

How do we even look for true happiness?

By finding out what exactly is making us tick and focusing energy on it? It is an individual thing. We make decisions from experience. We need to be sure we are on the right course. Believe in it. Find time to explore ourselves and determine what we really stand for! We need to 'create' new content inline with our beliefs. But yeah, first we need to decide who we are and what is inline with our views.

Let not use word happiness but well-being now and put in the center, build around it.

First we need to have long term idea of our well-being, then need to consider how to get there. What short term decisions would lead to our long term goals. That's after you define goals, the most important part. When you start focusing on short term goals that have long term components, you are braking the everyday routing of chasing pleasures and you are building back your Force of Will by delaying instant gratifications and focusing on long-term. You are growing stronger.

Know yourself

Well, you started the process but it is just the beginning. This is somehow connected to famous sentence: Know yourself. What makes you sad. What moves you. What makes you happy. What makes you motivated. Why? To understand your moods and reasons for them. By understanding to be able to control them. And to adjust your surroundings to better suit your needs, making you more relaxed and happy. You get to those questions only if you take the time to be really imaginative with what you could actually do with your time. And than make decisions about what you will do. Experiences shape us, and choices determine experience. Experience determines choices. So in time, You can really change. Your choices can in future expose you to different experience and that different experiences will in time change your way of thinking. Change like make better. When you are exposed to a new experience and reach a level of complete understanding, then you connect this new experience to most of the previous experiences. You gain a new perspective. So every time you shift your interests and expose yourself to new experiences and ideas, you can gain another perspective (to consider while thinking about stuff, planning stuff). You gain a broader understanding of the world within your own belief system based on personal experience. The center point of all considerations is becoming only your conscientious mind. And your conscientious mind is starting to reject old Authorities. Your mind fully becoming alive can't happen before you discard old Authorities, maybe still accept some ideals like 'Love and Justice for all'. Mind needs to Judge the old Authorities, accept or discard them. That is the First Change.

Abstract ideas

We can argue that what we see can be an illusion, or what we feel might play tricks on us. There is new theory suggesting that we live in a simulation. That's all cool in theory. But man wants to believe in something. Wants to have and express his opinions. Or we can choose non-acting. Not making decisions. Not exploring possibilities. Not growing.

Acting is growing. Volume and intensity of interaction while 'acting'='being' affects growing. Abstract ideas are good for growth.

Intensity of interaction, thought process (single or dialogue), awareness

If 'being' is measured by intensity of interaction (feeling, seeing, interacting with others or self - thought process), and lets say it can be measured in that way, than perception of time is not linear (inside that perspective system it has variations). Some people get more volume of interaction, and some get less volume of interaction, during the same periods. Volume of interaction is limited by slower part in communication so most of the volume is with Self or other fast individuals. Those individuals that get more volume in interaction gain more experience compared to those individuals that get less interaction volume (in the same time). Average volume of information processing is measure for our current awareness level. Could it reach a braking point that alters understanding of reality if it constantly increases over time? Could this be exponential process? Is evolution an exponential process? If we look at the data we have about human evolution, we can say that rate of change has accelerated as we approach today. So yes, we might say evolution is exponential process, and new breaking points in evolution might be coming soon.

Relativity of time: With rate of interaction intensity, also the perception of time changes

Moments seem to take ages as we are fully focused and aware. We get more experience. We buy time. We have experience ahead of age expected experience. Really I might dare to say that we could reach immortality in extreme case, only by increasing the speed of interactions to the point where time will stop, for all observers and you will be in a time-bubble of infinite interactions. Once you start to increase the rate of communication (with self or others) your perception of time changes. Day still lasts for 24 hours. You just feel that you have more time than you had before. And that you have better quality of your time.

PART 2 - OK, ANY IDEAS WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALL THIS?

Set of core values determines character.

Before you started to Change, your beliefs were based on set of Ideals you accepted during childhood or later. Now is the time when your Mind is starting to question the Ideals, you will accept some of them and reject the rest. Accepted Ideals will become your set of core values.

Emerging Character is built on a set of a core values, restructured old Authorities, Ideals. And other stuff... I will not get deep into psychology here. It is a complex and fragile system but it can be worked on. Strength of the character is defined by the trust you have in your core set of your values. Anchors. Yes, by now you are Confident and you trust your Judgement. That is why you are sure about new set of core rules. You did not accept them. You made them for yourself. You are in control. You are free. This needs to come after honest know-yourself phase of life. Set of core values need to be on the solid ground in logic and science, not just the crazy stuff from dreamers know-yourself phase. No place for self-deceptions. Only objectivity. When you have decent set of core rules, you will have integrity. You can get there only by questioning every decision and confirming it was good or bad later. Analysis of past experiences is the key needed for growth. Also this leads to constant updating your core values and your decision making process after every interaction. You are learning.

How does awareness grow?

Brain needs a sample of new experience to analyze and then process. After we reach understanding of new experience and connect that new experience with past experiences, then we will become aware of the new perspectives and update our set of core rules. By updating set of core rules we are growing. We are aware of more things. When thinking about ideas we take into account more perspectives. Brain process increases. Problem with hedonism is that, while you do experience a lot, you don't have time to analyze so you don't get much out of experiences. Not while you do not take time to process it. And memory is a fragile thing. Less disciplined mind, more so. Process experiences while they are still fresh! Be aware of the timetables and connections. Work on establishing connections in your experience. That is how the mind grows.

There comes the obvious problem: Processing of information takes time and effort

At this point I will stop using terminology 'set of core rules'. By now character is formed out of those core rules but is still growing with new ideas. We will now call it wisdom. Formed characters continue to increase wisdom by adapting new ideas. As the character grows, it takes time to connect (sync) new experiences with old experiences and gain further understanding and further conformation of your beliefs. It needs to take time for new experiences to sync-in.

Force of Will

Our personalities are reaching a point where processing power of our rational mind limits the further growth. We can't handle to take everything we know in account when making a decision. It takes too much time and effort as our experience is already vast. We can't remember all of the things when we need them. We loose sight of things. And our Mind is starting to collapse under the weight of its own complexity. We are loosing ourselves in this complexity, ready to surrender. Surrender and get back to hedonism utopia. Is there another option, or the utopia is the only final solution? The last stand of defense of integrity is the sheer power of the will. Never yield. Never surrender. Every compromise you make with your system of beliefs is a little death. Compromises you do with others, but not with yourself. Not one step back from what you represent. No weakness of integrity. This is the only force that can bring us over this threshold where our character is collapsing, not able to deal with complexity of life. In this moments you will need to show no compromise and deal with the situation. Premise: 'My will is absolute', could give you the strength you need to deal with the problem. This are the moments of awakening of deeper levels of awareness. When you push yourself over the 'normal' thresholds by extreme dedication and unrelenting power of will.

Birth of deeper awareness

So you are pushing yourself over the edge of what seams to be possible by putting more effort than is expected from a normal human. You bend normality by the amount of energy you put in your work. Thought processes are taking decent amount of your time by now. You want to limit them, but instead of limiting them, they are sometimes taking all of your time. You want to get out of that closed loop, but you don't have the Strength of Will to push out. You want continuance, not closure. This is the part where you can loose yourself on this path, disconnect from reality and exist only in your own imaginative mind, if you can't let go and pressure becomes too much. That is why it is important we start from quality set of core rules and by now have wisdom. As we might be just a crazy person, with just a slightly different beliefs. You by now probably were wandering if you are crazy and you are not quite sure yet. Thought processes are taking too much time. World around you is again collapsing and you are not able to keep up the pace. You start to panic and don't know what to do. In this moments of desperation, you actually have the greatest potential. There is only one question still left. Will you yield and choose depression and non-existence? Or your Force of the Will will push you over this edge?! Will you loose yourself in denial or you will choose to move forward no matter what. In this moment, you have the opportunity to choose the right Path. This is the moment you start to really face your fears instead of avoiding them. You don't want though process to be limited by the areas you don't want to explore. By your fears and things you feel uncomfortable to think about. If you limit your perspectives, you can't see the whole picture. You are not aware. Only by facing last of your fears you can be aware and free. Last of your fears could easily be: What is freedom really, am I free? Can I be wrong in my beliefs? What if I am wrong about a million things already but always have been so rigid and wanted to be right? Am I wrong for insisting on my beliefs? Surrender or move forward with renewed fate. Always question everything. When you always question everything, you have no more fears. Than you can start to have objectivity and respectability. This is where your set of core values really gets a boost as you will refine them before you cross this edge. And then you start to get very sensible. Sensible in a way that you are in touch with your emotions. You know what you are feeling and what caused these feeling. You observe your feelings through time and learn about them. You learn emotions can be very intense or just mild. If your emotions are really intense you feel more alive. When you are comfortable with your own emotions, than you start to feel the emotions of others in your surrounding. You have some experience with emotions by now, your personal emotions and observed emotions from others. When you hear something in conversation that is causing your emotional reaction, you should by now know why is it so. Why exactly you feel this. And instead acting on emotion you analyze it. Find the source. You have detected a problem. Maybe you haven't noticed it in logical part of the conversation but negative emotion warned you that there is a problem and now a rational mind is looking for it. Rational mind already has knowledge about emotions. Rational mind looks for patterns that could trigger such emotion within memory. Rational mind connects the emotion with the conversation at hand, cross-references with similar patterns in experience (cause of emotion- emotion felt - imaginary purpose of the other guy in conversation). This process doesn't need to take long. Rational mind is cooperating with the emotional part to deal with problems more efficiently. Rational mind can relax in interactions and surrender focus to the keen emotional sensors that will detect any emotional changes. Depends how subtle you really are.

Rational mind can then analyse all emotional changes during interaction to be sure they fit in and there is no deception. Cross-referencing with our memory (it is like fast filtering of data), you compare the situation with similar situations you had before, and filter differences. That is how you quickly form a structure of situation without a need to build it from the start. And this is efficient. However, if you do feel deception, you have a way to be sure. Look for the cause of it in conversation. Lead the conversation so it touches those sensitive questions. When you get close to the source of deception, reaction from the guy your talking to will become fear. When you smell fear you don't let go. Like a Pitbull you press on with questions before you cleared if the fear you feel from is connected to you and how. Than you will know the Truth and Learn.

If we look at relationships with other people as series of interactions, you learn from each interaction the most if you can compare emotional markers with the flow of the interaction. Find connections, analyse them. Then you are really learning from the interactions. And somewhere in this process of increasing understanding of the world around you we could say there is a point you have awakened into deeper state of awareness.

OK, but why do you need landscaping?

If you haven't noticed by now, the Path is not easy. Loosing yourself in Beauty can refill energy much faster than sleep. While your visual receptors are overwhelmed by Beauty, you are renewed with a new vigor and zest instantly. You need to build your 'temple' where you can be relaxed. You need to have plants and things that are alive in your 'temple'. You will want to feel more connected with nature to feel less alone, more unity than singularity, ultimate surrender. And surrendering to the Beauty of the Nature in your temple will be enough surrender for your growing Force of Will. You will never question the idea to surrender your ideals. You only surrender to the beauty of the Nature, the last Authority. And that is why you need landscape designer, to set up your temple. You will spend time here, and you want to enjoy this place. Spending time in nice garden can't be a bad idea. We can all really use nice colorfull spot with green as base to relax and enjoy.

To put everything said so far aside, if you are planing to have garden works you could really get landscapers and gardeners to help you! Call us!

Saving the world

If enough people would follow the Path, what would happen?

We would all spend more time thinking and enjoying time in our gardens. We would spend less energy as we wouldn't be mindlessly running around all the time. And we would definitely plan future better, and would for that case spend even less overall energy. We would develop the love for the green things that grow again and gardens and forests would flourish again. Earths ecosystem would start to recover. So remember, you are not taking care of your garden, you are saving the world! World that is bleeding under our merciless exploitation and needs our consumer society to slow down. Earth needs more green and more loving inhabitants than will take care for it.

To simplify I think that hedonism is killing the world and mother Nature needs saving. Earth is dying. Or at least it will not be able to support human life soon. Maybe not in our lifetime. But this can be stopped in our lifetime. Really, gardeners will save the world. But you need to call us first! 🙂

To be honest with Self one must ask: How we could consider ourselves to evolve deeper awareness if we can't figure out that planet we live on is dying. And that we ourselves could erase human (our) race in near future. Civilization, effort lost forever. Yes, it's easier not to consider extreme options and hide in short term pleasures, but that is no way to save the world! Right Path is to call the Gardeners and plant Green!

That is the Golden path that will ensure the survival of the human race. Survival will give us time to evolve further. And next story is prediction about further evolution of human race. Fiction.

Deeper awareness

Yes, this is the story of evolution. I predict that we will evolve when we distance Self further from our primordial instincts and replace them with profound set of rules, our Evolved personalities with full understanding of emotions and build in emotional sensors. Cooperation of IQ with EQ in interactions as described in 'Birth of deeper awareness' could mean high information processing volumes, thus increase in brain activity. Increased activity will force brain to evolve further and do better sync cooperation of IQ and EQ with constant optimizations on their interactions which will become our new instincts. That is how the next step in evolution will happen. This is the topic for the next story!