[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflection #18

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From: L. Michael Hall

2008 Meta Reflections #18

April 23, 2008

[I just wrote this Reflection and 

didn't want to wait till next Monday!]



UNLEASHED BY YODA


One of our local cable channels has been playing the entire series of Star Wars. And of course, as a closet Star Wars fan, I just had to see the whole series! Well, as many of them as I could. Recently I got to enjoy watching the classic scene where Luke Skywalker took off to the Delta System to find a Jedi Master by the name of Yoda. There he met Yoda for the first time and began his Jedi training.

Now as I viewed those scenes this time, I did so through the eyes of self-actualization. And why not? Luke went there to be mentored and trained by Yoda so that he could access and actualize his potentials, especially his potential of learning how to use the bright side of the force.

Of course, Yoda doesn't look like or talks like or acts like a Jedi Mastery. He looked and acted and talked as if he was a little mischievous elf! And like the Oracle in the Matrix Movie, he not only did not look the part, the way he interacted with the apprentice involved a lot of teasing and hinting. [Maybe that's why I like him so much!] He teased Luke in order to open his mind and to get him to think out of the box. But after the shock of recognition and after some training, the experiences that Yoda sets up enabled Luke to get in touch with his powers and potentials. Interesting enough, he had to learn to quiet himself, be present to the now, and become aware of his senses to a new depth and degree.

But Luke had some personal qualities that worked against his development, mainly, his impatience. Young and impetuous, he just wanted to get on with things. And when he learned how to sense the future, he wanted to stop the training and go save his friends.

One of my favorite scenes was the one where Yoda encouraged Luke to use the power of the Force to lift his spacecraft out of the bog of the swamp. And Luke tried. But he could not. And he said so with a tone of resignation and defeat, "It can't be done."

That's when Yoda began a pretty fierce conversation with Luke Skywalker confronting his attitude.

        Yoda: "Always with you what cannot be done.

                    You must unlearn what you have learned."

Then still with a tone of resignation, Luke said: "Okay, I'll give it a try."

    Yoda now shouting: "No! . . . no try, only do. There is no try. [Then a pause] ... 

                    Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter." [pinching Luke's skin]



As a Coach working to unleash Luke's potential to be a powerful Jedi Master, coach Yoda teased and provoked. He trained and questioned; he taught and set up experiential experiments for Luke. All of this was done to identity, understand, and access his powers and resources, as well as to expand his sense of self and his mission.

In the Star Trek sage, Yoda mentioned that Luke's father had been trained by Obee-Konebi [I'm not sure how to spell that name], but that the training had been inadequate and that's why Luke's father, Anakim Skywalker, had turned to the dark side and become Darth Vader.

That got me thinking. Who trained me? Who unleashed me? Who trained, coached, or unleashed you? Luke Skywalker could have had a little branding statement sewed to the inside of his coat or sleeve, "Unleashed by Yoda." Anakim Skywalker's would have been, "Unleashed by Obee-Konebi." Who's your personal executive coach? Who has been among your trainers? What Jedi Master have you been coached by?

In my reverie I thought:

"It's really an honor and privilege to facilitate through coaching, training, consulting, etc. the unleashing of another's potentials. It's also an awesome responsibility! How am I doing? Has my facilitation of someone's self-actualization potentials ever been so incomplete, on my part, that it left them susceptible to the Dark Side? What do I need to do to be more skilled and effective at facilitating the full unleashing to the Bright Side of the force of human nature?"

I then wondered,

"And what about myself? Am I unleashing the bright side possibilities for creativity and full human development in myself? Are the being-values of beauty, excellence, order, justice, equality, democracy, love, contribution, meaningfulness, etc. being fully unleashed in myself? Are there any dark side potentials of destructiveness, bitterness, hatefulness, etc. being unleashed?"

If there are human potentials yet to be unleashed in you, if the bright side of your human nature has incredible possibilities in it for good-then find, evoking, and unleashing those potentials is one of the most important decisions you will ever make, if not the most important. So, here's to the unleashing of the very best of the bright side of your nature - your highest values and visions and your very best states and resources!



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L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
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