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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.   

Everything occurs within  a context.  Each context is unique.   A context dominates its content.    In accomplishing any and all goals, understanding the three element of a context are critical:  a)  What is a context?   b)  Why are contexts important?    and c)   How  do I intentionally create a context.   

Before we get into our discussion, let me share a personal experience that may assist you to see more clearly what contexts are and  how they interrelate with each other.

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Four Major Types of Contexts.   

Universal Context:  The largest context, the ultimate context is the sum total  of all creation.   From our present, human perspective, the Universal Context is unknown and unknowable.  We don't know what it is, or where it came form, or what its true nature is, or how it functions.

Christian theology refers to the universe as the product of an superhuman being sitting on a cloud in some distant place called heaven.    Science offers no answer to the question of who or what created the the sum total of all that is.   In relation to the entirety of Creation,  scientists see Earth as an infinitely small speck of dust.   

While confined in a human body, we approach this context only from guess work, from speculation, and/or from belief in fairytale stories made up by our distant ancestors.   Humans have no control over this context.

Human life on Earth:   The next largest context is human life on Earth.   It is both content within and controlled by the larger, above-mentioned, Universal Context.   Still, in human terms, life on Earth a grand and all-inclusive context.   It's  who and what we are as human beings.   Everything we do is done within that framework.

Humans have developed religions which attempt to answer the unaswerable questions about this context -- questions  such as:  "What is life?"   "Where does it come from?"   "What is the nature of its creator?"  They are able to offer only faith-based answers.   Science offers theories using logic, reason, experiment, and experience.   Humans have no control over this context.

External Environmental Context:   The next largest context is the external, human-created environment.    It exists within and is controlled by the two larger contexts mentioned above.  It is made up of the social, political, technological, religious, and physical environment that we as humans, have collectively created.   It's what we see when we look outside of ourselves.   

Internal, Personal Context:   Fourth, is our internal, invisible, personal context.   It exists within each one of us.   It is content within and controlled by the three  larger contexts mentioned above.    We cannot control the grandest context we call God.   We cannot control the Earthly context -- the fact that we live in human bodies on Earth.   Although we influence them, we cannot control the environmental context -- the technology, politics, or social structures in which we live.   The only place were we have any real potential for control is in our personal contexts.  

For each of us, our personal context consists of the belief system within which we 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,  (a belief box)°  within which we create our own experiences.

Although at times, it may seem impossible, we can control our personal lives.    If we so choose to actively participate in directing our lives, we must do so within the grander contexts mentioned above,   To do so, we must not only understand the contexts within which we create these experiences,  we must also understand how we create our personal experiences. 

Because they control our personal contexts, we will offer what the evidence tells us are some of the most probable characteristics  of the two grandest contexts°  mentioned above.   We will refer to our answers as "the most probably reality."   We'll also offer what the evidence tells us is the most likely way that we create  our personal reality.°   

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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 siblings, 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.   Below 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:

To intentionally create within a context, things are not done for reason or as a result of content.   One neither stops and waits for things to happen nor does he rush out and take action.   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 goal 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.   Remember that a context is created in your mind.   It's an intention and a commitment to accomplish a goal.   What you do, your physical activity: 1) is content and 2) is done within that context.   Your goals manifest in accordance with your belief system, your mental mindset, the context in which you hold them.    Your personal  belief system is your filter through which all your 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  (a commitment to accomplish a goal)  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:

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Getting Derailed or Sidetracked:

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Blocks Along The Way:

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Summary:

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.   Think of yourself as a ship in a multi-dimensional ocean.   Your thoughts are your steering mechanism and your emotions are your engine.   

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

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