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Excerpts from

How to Eat an Elephant

      A Guide Book for Playing  the Game Called Life      ®

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Section Thirty-Three

Context

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           What is a Context? 
                        Why Are They Important?  
                                         How do I Create One?

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Page Content

A Context Defined

An Example of a Societal Context

An Example of a Co-created Personal Context

An Example of a Self-Created Personal Context

Your Most Important Contexts

All Activities Occur within a Context

Commitment

The Forces of Creation Are Derived form Context

Resistance

Getting Derailed or Sidetracked

Blocks Along The Way

Summary of the Creative Process

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A Context Defined

Webster’s Dictionary defines a context as,  "The whole situation, the background or the environment relevant to a particular event, personality, creation, etc."   

A context is the environment in which something is or occurs.   Contexts are vitally important because they control/influence/affect everything within them.   There are three major types of contexts.   First, there's the grand, all- inclusive context of who and what we are as human beings living on planet Earth.

Second, is the environmental context which has been collectively created by humans.   This is the social, political, technological, religious, and physical environment that we see when we look outside of ourselves.

Third, is our internal, invisible, personal context.   It's the belief system within which each of us live our lives.  It's how we mentally hold and view things.   It's our ground of being, our mental condition, our  mind pattern, our mode of functionality.    It's our way of being who and what we believe ourselves to be.  It's the mental creation, a mental box, if you will, within which we create our own experiences.

Although at times it may seem impossible, if we so choose, we can have complete control over our personal contexts.   To do so, we must first distinguish between the experiences we are having and the contexts within which we created our experiences.

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A  Classic  Example of a Societal Context:

The classic public example of creating a context occurred on May 25, 1961 when President John F. Kennedy told Congress:  "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth."   In spite of the fact that, in 1961, such a goal was clearly impossible, by 1969 the goal had been accomplished.   Why?   Because a context was created within which everything else became content.   Even it's impossible became a part of making it happen.

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An Example of a C0-created Personal Context:

If you are like most people, you  grew up in what is called a family.   Terms like  mom, dad, children, siblings, parents, etc.  refer to members of the family.   Where did this family unit come from?  Your parents created it.   On their wedding day, they formally declared its existence, and later created children as a portion of the content within their self-declared context.   Before your parents  declared it into being, what you refer to as "my family" did not exist.

Your family unit is an example of a personally created context.   In this example the context was created by two people together.  Your parents created that context, and you, your sibling, your mom, and your dad are all content within that context.  This is just one example.  Every relationship you have is a co-created context.   

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An Example of a Self-Created Personal Context:

Your life is filled with contexts.   Your relationship to your physical body is a personal context.   Your relationship to your home is a context.  Everything you do is within several contexts.  Most of these contexts were originally created when you were a very young child.   Remember, a personal context is a mind set, a mental attitude, a way of being.   Here are some more examples of contexts.

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A few of  Your Most Important Contexts:

The main and most common ones are listed below.

contexts that are not changeable  ...  

Social and Environmental Contexts:
    
(Contexts that are Fixed and Unchangeable)

        You are a divine being;  
            (some will argue against this assertion)

        You live on planet Earth;

        You live in a masculine or feminine human body;

            (some will also argue against this assertion)

        You live at a specific time in human history;

        You live within the presently existing, economic, 
           technical; religious, social structures;

        You grew up in a specific social, religious, economic, 
           and family structure;

        The age of your body is whatever it is;

        Your past is whatever it is;

contexts that are changeable   ...

Personal contexts:
    
(Contexts that are changeable)

        Your personal religious and philosophical belief system;

        Your beliefs about yourself;

        Your attitudes and opinions;

        Your emotions and feelings;

        Your expectations;

        What you will or will not allow into your life.

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Doing — All Activities Occur Within a Context:

Within a context, things are not done for reason or as a result of content.   One neither sits back and waits nor does he rush out and do.   One continues to live his/her life and does so in the space of positive, joyous expectancy.   One does, or allows to occur, whatever feels appropriate, whenever it feels appropriate and all the while, continues to hold the context in mind as though it were already a physical reality.

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Commitment:

Making a commitment to something is creating a context.   Creating a context sets the forces of the universe into action.  The following is probably the most famous quote regarding commitment:

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.   Concerning all acts of initiative [and creation] there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans. 

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.   All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.   A whole stream of events issue from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

                                             W. H. Murray

                                           The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

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"Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it.   Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.   Begin it now."

                                             Goethe

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The  Forces of Creation  Are  Derived  from  Context:

The forces of creation are derived from the context within which things are done and have nothing to do with the doing.   Goals manifest in accordance with that belief system, the mental mindset, the context in which they are held.   A belief system is a filter through which all thoughts must pass on their way to being manifested.

A context must be continually recreated.   It can be likened to creating balance while riding a bicycle.   Contexts have contents but contents do not create contexts.   First a context is created and then all of its contents fit inside.   Being precedes action because being is the context and action is the content.   A context is a way of being.   It is not something to do.

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Resistance:

When something becomes a context, it has room for its opposite within it as content.   Within a context there’s even room for it's impossible.   A context allows space for all positions and beliefs.   A context allows space for all contents.   There is no need to resist any contrary ideas.   There is no need to defend anything.   There is no need to hold any ideas as positions. (i.e. “This is why such and such is happening.”   “This is how to solve the problem.”   “This is what to do about that.” Etc.)   Whatever is done within a context is done by choice and is not done for reason in response to content.

Avoid being stopped by what is logical and reasonable.   Intentions often get overwhelmed by the intellect and by reasonableness.   For example, if Einstein had been reasonable, he would have never come up with theory of relativity.   Become aware that when we get our limited personalities and egos out of the way, we make room for the intuitive and inspirational aspect of self to work through us.

Become aware that what is a context (a ground of being) in one area of life is often also a context, and a controlling factor in other areas of life.   For example, if you believe that suffering here on Earth is the only way to get to heaven, that belief, that context, affects not only your religious behavior, it also affects everything else you do in every other area of your life.

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Getting Derailed or Sidetracked:

People lose sight of their contexts when they stop: 

     (1)   to deal with things that give the illusions of being negative or
              counter to the context, 

      (2)   to deal with things that are totally irrelevant to the contexts,
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      (3)   to praise those things that appear to support the context.   

With our limited amount of knowledge we often have no way of knowing whether outside events are positive, negative or neutral.   Avoid being at the effect of those self-created, seemingly outside-created events.   Observe them and keep on going to the goal.

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Blocks Along The Way:

When a barrier comes up, just be with it.   Avoid resisting it, trying to dominate it, trying to control it or trying to change it.   Instead, include it in and make it part of the context you have created.   Rather than challenging it, make space for it, simply allow it to be as it is.   Shift your focus on your intended outcome.   This focus directs your creative energy toward your goal rather than wasting it on that which is not wanted.

Be in charge, but do not attempt to dominate or control.   Press on to completion by staying in the ground of being that knows: "I am the cause."   And remember, there is no room for victims at the “Inn of Success.”

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We must accept the contexts that are not changeable; however, even with the fixed contexts being as they are, you can still alter and re-create your own personal reality by examining, and then altering the contexts that are changeable.   Remember, thoughts act as building blocks, emotions act as the power plant that energizes your thoughts into physical form, and beliefs, attitudes, etc. are the molds (the contexts) within which our thoughts must fit if they are to become physical reality.

An excellent example of how to create a context can be found by reading the thirty page booklet entitled, The End of Starvation: Creating an Idea Whose Time Has Come, by Werner Erhard.   For a copy of the booklet contact:  The Hunger Project, 15 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010.     <http://www.thp.org>     <info@thp.org>     

Read it for its humanitarian value.   Read it as an example of how to create a context.

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Here’s the Creative Process Summary:  

1)   Acknowledge and accept the contexts in which you find yourself. For example, you live in a masculine of feminine body that is whatever age you are.  (See the list above.)   These contexts are not changeable; however, within these grand contexts you can create your own personal reality (e.g. create your own personal context)

2)    Declare your intention to be, do, have, express or experience
         anything you choose.   (By your declaration you create
         a context.)  Avoid trying.  Either do or don't do.

2)   Hold your goal in your mind as if it already exists.   (By holding
        the goal in mind you are continually re-creating the context).  

3)   Take whatever steps are necessary to make it a physical reality.   The intricacies and details of this process are covered in considerable detail in the section titled, How to Eat an Elephant ©  

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A Guide Book for Playing the Game Called Life"

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