Last
week, we played with tuning in to messages from your deep unconscious mind.
This week we’re going to explore what I call “Symbolic Loading & Unloading”.
If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to achieve goals in the areas of
money, health, success, happiness, relationships or mastery, what I’m going
to reveal today may fascinate you.
My mum
used to tell the following Christmas-cracker joke:
Question:
“When is a door not a door?”
Answer:
“When it’s ajar.”
I
didn’t say it was a good joke! But there’s a serious point, which I’ll
demonstrate by asking these questions:
Question:
When is money not money?
Question:
When is health & fitness not health & fitness?
Question:
When is your ideal partner not your ideal
partner?
Answer:
When they’re heavily symbolised.
You
may already be familiar with the phrase “The map is not the territory”,
relating to the idea that our maps & models are not the things they
represent. Well, in Western society, there are certain “goals” which are
highly symbolised – they are heavily symbolically loaded.
What
do I mean by “symbolically loaded”?
I mean
that they carry a bunch of “meaning” that isn’t evident in the word itself.
Here
are some examples:
|
Situation |
Things that are
likely to be Symbolically Loaded |
Things that are
less likely to be Symbolically Loaded
|
|
A person in the
UK
who is struggling to make ends meet so they can feed their family.
|
·
Money & Wealth
·
Holidays
|
·
Oxygen
·
Blinking
·
Newspapers |
|
An entrepreneur
who’s trying to build their first business after leaving their job |
·
Success
·
Jobs
·
Money |
·
Sandwiches
·
Notepads
·
Doing the laundry |
|
A woman who’s
trying to find a new partner |
·
Men
·
Women
·
Relationships
|
·
Toast
·
Teachers
·
Bricks |
Here’s
a fun way to find out how semantically loaded your goal is:
1) Brainstorm your
ideas about your goal, people who have already achieved your goal, & the
process of getting your goal. Don’t think about it – just answer off the top
of your head, with the first thing that comes into your mind:
Your
answers might look something like this.
·
Becoming
wealthy will make me happy.
·
People who
have money are mean.
·
Whenever I
think about money I feel stressed.
·
People who
are fit & healthy are boring
·
Getting fit &
healthy is painful
·
If I was fit
then I’d have more fun.
·
The problem
with men / women is that they only want one thing
·
People in
relationships have dull lives
2) For any of the
statements which feel “negative”, replace your “goal-word(s)” with something
that is not symbolically loaded (see examples below).
|
Category |
Things that are
less likely to be Symbolically Loaded
|
|
Static Things &
Objects |
Spoons, tables,
wheelbarrows |
|
Flowing things &
objects |
Air, water |
|
Behaviours |
Blinking, walking,
|
|
People |
Engineers, Pen
Manufacturers |
|
Human qualities |
Tanned, brown-eyed |
For
instance:
·
People who
have spoons are mean.
·
Whenever I
think about spoons I feel stressed.
·
People who
have brown eyes are boring
·
Getting
tanned is painful
·
If I was
tanned then I’d have more fun.
·
The problem
with engineers is that they only want one thing
·
Pen manufacturers have dull lives
Have
fun with this (I got the idea from Paul McKenna’s adaptation of Patricia
Remele’s exercise from her book Money Freedom).
3)
Compare your two lists, & notice any shifts in your
thoughts or feelings.
Of
course, there are reasons why certain concepts (money & sexuality for
instance) get given so much attention by society, as they relate so directly
to issues of survival and replication. But people often attach a bunch of
meaning to them that they don’t even have. For instance:
·
I’ll be happy
when I get money / health / relationship / success etc
When
we “unload” these symbols (because that’s what a given goal is – a symbol),
you may find that you start to notice an increasing sense of freedom to go
for what you want.
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