The Contraction and The Haka'ring Moari

You're relaxed it’s early morning and you’re shlumping bleary eyed down your apartment passage, coffee in hand when the beyond incomprehensible happens. Something resembling a half naked heavily tattooed Maori dude doing the Haka LEAPS OUT in front of you ... and yells AAARGGG ... veins throbbing, tongue extended and eyes bulging.

And in those nano-seconds before you scream, before you have a heart-attack, before you throw your coffee in the air ... you freeze, you contract ... And in the milli-seconds following that shock a response, from deep within begins to rise, and which according to an infinite number of mindset variables will display itself as behaviour differing from occasion to occasion and from culture to culture.

But no matter what the response, the common unifying factor would be the overpowering feeling that what was happening should not be happening, that something was dreadfully wrong. And every response, no matter what it may be, would be motivated by a dramatic sense of push-back, pushing away from and resistance to what was happening. To what in that moment you where experiencing as, desperately and fundamentally wrong.

... CLICK ...

And we’ve captured the completely spontaneous and natural psychological tendency to contract, resist and push-back in the face of the unknown, the unexpected and the threatening (being the unknown Maori dude Haka’ring in your passage, even before your first cup of Java).

Freeze ...

... the feeling and continue with time where the feeling never leaves you, and all your responses, to a slightly deeper or lesser degree, emerge from within that psychological contraction, resistance and push-back.

In an Evolutionary Context 

Track back 100,00 years when we primitive humans, slumbering peacefully and tranquilly in unconsciousness in the proverbial garden of Eden, where dramatically and irreversibly awoken by that same Maori Haka’ring dude, which in fact was nothing more than the contextually relevant evolution of our own psyche on it's own journey from unconsciousness to self-consciousness.

And from that day to this, the contraction and that dreadful feeling of something being radically wrong, which we rationally presume relaxes over time, has only deepened and galvanised into what we today experience as our somewhat dysfunctional politico, socio-economic systems and structures.

All Teachings of Enlightenment Both East and West ...

... and this means the heart of all religions, have at their core this one deceptively simple and yet so profoundly materially relevant, message.

Relax that self-contraction because that and that alone, is the source of all of your suffering, which we experience as stress, anxiety, pressure, isolation, anger, depression frustration ...etc

No, it’s not the secret to living a successful life and building a successful business, but it’s the critical first step, because without relaxing the self-contraction we find ourselves unavoidably trapped in a universe defined and governed by the laws of scarcity and limitation and confined to the use of a logic very specifically designed to prove those laws true.

And after 100,000 years we can’t feel that contraction anymore. We can’t feel that feeling that there is something dreadfully wrong. We’ve grown so accustomed to it, we don’t even notice it. But it’s there and deep down we feel it, and it drives us crazy, and we suffer and we are trapped.

And we were all born into that universe and there is nothing we can possibly do to escape it, and everything we do to escape only makes it and its laws of scarcity and limitation more real, and more deeply entrenches the very logic of our behaviour, which serves only to validate the assumptions, associations and laws from which they emerge.

All cos of that damn Haka'ing Maori dude