{"id":1302,"date":"2014-01-21T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2014-01-21T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:31:56","slug":"poem-near-life-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/poem-near-life-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Near Life Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years back he had a near life experience<\/span>
\nIt might as well have been<\/span>
\nA disaster movie<\/span>
\nStream of consciousness meets tsunami of denial<\/span><\/p>\n

This funny little poem addresses a sort of reverse polarity of near death experiences.\u00a0 People that are alive and have a near death experience are typically glad to return to life and are often powerfully reinvigorated by the experience.\u00a0 On the other hand, people who are just cruising on autopilot, barely alive, may find a true life experience overwhelming or threatening.\u00a0 Seeded by a minimum of real life experiences, some people may find denial the best coping mechanism to extinct such pesky life experiences, never really allowing them to take root or lead them to places anew.\u00a0 Of course, most of us live somewhere in the middle of the spectrum of full consciousness.\u00a0 Paying attention takes energy and focus.\u00a0 Most of us are lazy enough to travel in well-worn grooves that demand less mindfulness.\u00a0 Certainly, even habitual behaviors can be experienced mindfully, but the energy and focus needed to see seemingly familiar situations with a high degree of freshness and openness can be daunting.\u00a0 If you had a thousand people go through the motions of a “regular” day of yours, they would each experience it differently.\u00a0 This is because any situation can be viewed from a vast array of perspectives.\u00a0 So, what would be the different perspective of your experiences from the point of view of the other people with whom you interact?\u00a0 What of people from a different country or culture?\u00a0 a different planet?!\u00a0 Our built-in egocentricity makes looking at everything only from our own perspective a default mode.\u00a0 Of course, the care-taking of our own selfish interests reinforces this tendency.\u00a0 It is no surprise that I am more interested in my own desires and interests than others.\u00a0 Nonetheless, a key characteristic of life is change and growth.\u00a0 To grow, to evolve, we must develop competencies to view our life and the life of others from an ever-growing array of perspectives. To be a competent human being we must be able to see life from a variety of perspectives.\u00a0 May you experience the vast richness of perspectives, seeing the depth of your own experiences and the depth of others’ experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years back he had a near life experience It might as well have been A disaster movie Stream of consciousness meets tsunami of denial This funny little poem addresses a sort of reverse polarity of near death experiences.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[397,435,167,516,385,363,428,10,505,359,438,168,354,658,94,517,53],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-change","tag-character","tag-consciousness","tag-culture","tag-death","tag-denial","tag-experience","tag-funny","tag-lazy","tag-life","tag-mind","tag-mindfulness","tag-perspective","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-selfish","tag-short-poems"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: Near Life Experience | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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