The so needed solution to a seemingly insoluble problem, is not to be found in book knowledge. Whatever applicable “way out” is not an answer given by experience either.
Verily, expertise can be totally counterproductive in many cases.
What is required, is a readiness to stop relying on your “knowledge” and activate other cognitive levels within, which, from a rational point of view seem queer and unfounded.
And yet…Life puts you most often in situations which are anything but recorded.
We miss incredible chances, we spoil promising and unwonted encounters, because we expect things to follow the foreseeable course of what we have learned.
Bad news – nothing truthfully great does.
If you were attacked by a hungry bear in the woods, you would have to immediately find a way to handle the threatening situation. There is no textbook to teach you cope with the inherent challenges of living.
It is obvious:
Life invariably baffles Reason. We fail to recognize that Nothing obeys any regularly logical pattern. Life doesn´t meet your expectations, unless you learn to act out from your inner center of spontaneous intuition, and not from what is usually proclaimed as experience.
After all, it is here that most people fall through: they rely solely on the “reasonable”,
forgetting that LIFE IS NEVER REASONABLE.
The truly successful knows this and takes his expertise into account, but acts from the inspiration of the moment, while the “specialists” do things “right” relying solely on experience…
To only reinforce logic always doing things “right” is the best recipe for failure!
In anything.
To illustrate my point:
C. G. Jung had once a woman sent to his practice by a colleague. She suffered terribly from insomnia. He had only one session, as she lived far off in the countryside.
To make it short, wondering how to alleviate her condition, he tried different rational approaches with her. To no avail. She didn´t hear the words. Then out of the blue, remembering his mother, he found himself humming a lullaby for her. Imagine this scene: Jung singing a lullaby…Quite extraordinary.
However, as the woman heard him, she kind of smiled happily sinking into herself, in a
state of deep rest.
He did not hear from the woman again.
But years after, his colleague who had sent her to this wizard Jung asked him:
What did you do to that woman? – you managed to heal her…
Jung was totally astounded yet very embarrassed – he improvised some academic gibberish for an answer, which seemed accepted… – how could he ever tell his colleague that he cured the woman singing her a lullaby?…
