[Neurons] 2024 Neurons #25 WHY YOU NEED TO READ "INSIDE--OUT"

Sun Jun 16 19:42:14 EDT 2024

From: L. Michael Hall

2024 Neurons #25

June 17, 2024

A Summer Reading List #1

WHY YOU NEED TO READ

INSIDE-OUT

Two worlds-one world inside, the other world outside. The inside world is
the world of being- person, spirit, self, the other the world of
things-doing, using, possessing, having.  Inside is the world of mind,
imagination, and communication.  Outside is the world of objectives,
activity, and people.  Because everything human functions in an inside-out
way and because everything socio-cultural is outside-in, we all experience a
built-in tension between these two worlds.  If your socio-cultural is too
dominant, then your inside life suffers. It is actually diminished. You then
become to some extent-domesticated. That's not good!  If the inside-out is
too dominant, then your social and relational life could become diminished
to your detriment.

Now here's the thing-it is the inside-out orientation that is the secret for
becoming fully alive/ fully human.  It is the secret for stepping up as the
CEO of your own life.  It is the secret of taking charge of yourself-your
thinking, feeling, speaking, and acting.  Yet learning the inside-out life
is a challenge in today's outside-in culture.

All of the very best of living humanly is uniquely inside-out.  Thinking is
inside-out, learning is inside-out.  So also are all of the highly desired
experiences of-love, joy, serenity, understanding, productivity,
communication, persuasion, well-being, humor, resilience, etc.  While all of
these, and many more, operate from the inside to the outside, society is
structured outside-in.  We are also trained from childhood for the opposite,
for outside-in living, yet outside-in reduces things to living like animals
in a deterministic stimulus-response world.  And that undermines the human
way of life.

The solution is to get to your center, to what Maslow called the being life,
and to live inside-out.  It is the foundation for personal empowerment,
proactivity, and productivity.  It is the secret to the joy of flow and the
meaningfulness of everyday life. With the inside-out orientation, you have
an inner aliveness and vitality that enables you to take charge of your
life, an inner gyroscope for stability and mindfulness.  This orientation is
a rich life since you live out of your own inner abundance.

How do you learn to live inside-out in a healthy and productive way?  How
does a person make the shift from outside-in to inside-out?  In the book,
Inside-Out: Empowered from Within you can learn, step by step, how to make
the transition.

The Preface

Your life is inside-out.  It may not seem that way.  You may think and feel
that your life is the result of a thousand outside influences and factors
and that you don't have much control over it.  But that's a lie.  It is not
only a lie, it is a dark deception that presents a destructive hallucination
that will do you great harm if you don't turn it around.

Life as outside-in makes a lot of sense given that you were born without a
developed inside.  While you were not a blank slate, you did have all sorts
of predispositions, talents, and possibilities clamoring within-you were
also without any information about how to live.  You were deprived of any
skills to do anything.  Then the adventure of life began-you started to
think, to experience, and to learn.  Today your life is a result of what you
thought, experienced, and learned.

Do you live inside-out?  Have you reversed the original outside-in
orientation and pattern of childhood?  Have you become the author of your
life so that you "write the script?"  Or, do you live as the victim of your
circumstances?  These are the questions I address in this book.

What you will discover in Inside-Out will richly empower you to live your
life on your terms.  Inside-Out will hold up a mirror to give you a view of
how you are currently living your life.  You could be living it inside-out
from your own meanings, values, visions, and passions.  Or you could be
living outside-in.  If outside-in then you are living a life that has been
given you-by family, school, religion, culture, etc.  If so, to that extent,
it is not truly yours, not genuinely authentic.

Because culture is an outside-in phenomenon, we all begin life in the
outside-in mode (chapter 6).  To become fully alive / fully human this has
to change.  To live your highest meanings with integrity and passion, you
have to shift to the inside-out mode.  When you do, you move from merely
"having" to being, and you then live with an energizing vitality and zest
toward becoming -becoming your best self.  As your motivation shifts from
extrinsic to intrinsic, you experience a never-ending rejuvenating
motivation. 

I've written Inside-out to serve as a blueprint for building a
self-actualizing life-style, one in which you become more authentic, more
integrated, and more whole.  The design is that as you read through the
chapters, you will become much more aware of the Inside-Out Principle.  When
you can do that, you will be able to catch yourself-when you're living
inside-out and when you are living outside-in.  To catch those moments then
propels you to a critical choice point: 

What shall I do?  What is best for me, and for those I care about, in this
moment?

Living inside-out empowers you to be the author of your life, the architect
of your future, and the spiritual core of your self.  It vanishes all of the
victimhood games and emotions and enables you to step up to being and
becoming the best version of you. 

With the inside-out orientation, you have an inner aliveness and vitality
that enables you to take charge of your life, an inner gyroscope for
stability and mindfulness.  This orientation is a rich life since you live
out of your own inner abundance.  Without this orientation, you live in a
world of human domestication-being domesticated by the outside world of
culture and events.

When you live inside-out, you are more alive and more awake to yourself, to
others, to the world, and to the possibilities before you.  You can no
longer be a victim of others or a zombie of despair.  And when you set up
the continuous loop of inside-out-inside, all of life becomes a marvelous
adventure of discovery.

Inside-Out: Empowered from Within is on the Shop as a PDF file.

              https://www.neurosemantics.com/shop/page/4/ 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

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