The New Reality of Consistency – What it Is and What It's Not

The New Reality of Consistency What it Is and What It's Not

"One of the strongest forces in the human organism is the need for consistency." Anthony Robbins

We need consistency to establish some certainty and order in our world. What we don't need is rigid consistency where everything becomes so familiar and so automatic that we go through life half asleep, half hypnotized and simply reacting to outside stimulus or the time of day.

Consistency is a power tool and like powerful tool it can be used to enhance the quality of our life as it can be used to stifle it. When consistency is used with discernment, it can be most helpful however when it turns into rigidity, it becomes one of our worst nightmares.

Gerald Burrill said, "The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth." It could also be said that the difference between living and existing is awareness. Living is proactively interacting with a diversity of events and situations; it is seeking personal growth while chasing dreams, enjoying successes and learning from failure.

A Zombie's existence where outside influences dictate the course of our responses and actions is not living; it is surviving. Going automatically through the same patterns over and over again half asleep is far from savoring the joys of living. It is simply a prelude to burial time.

The more refined a machine or a living being is, the more options it has. The dinosaurs, in term of machines or humans, had very few options. With growth come more refinements, which in turn provide greater flexibility. Flexibility then provides more options available to taste a larger spectrum of life's experiences. Something that is rendered moot by rigid consistency.

The only constant in life is changes. Nothing stands still, nothing stands forever. As technology and the sciences advance at an ever-increasing rate, man needs to adapt or fall by the wayside.

Consistency is getting to be more and more obsolete. Time marches on and so must we.

Even our core values and fundamental beliefs have to be questioned. Those are not dogmas fixed for eternity. What was true yesterday no longer stands. A new reality is being created every instant. To stand in, witness and participate in that ever-changing reality we must evolve, change and grow.

For many, changes are scary. This is especially true, as people get older. Children love changes. They are always ready to experiment and try something new. It is said that getting old is a matter of rigidity... the ultimate rigidity being rigor mortis. So if consistency is on the way out and changes become the order of the day, we must rekindle that acceptance and love of changes that we had as children.

We still need consistency to establish some stability and certainty in our world and in our life. However that consistency will have to be dynamic and not static. As the Eagle can maintain consistency in flight and nature can have consistency in its eternal change, man has to find his consistency in his potential to adapt and change.

Just as a rock used to be a rock and a drop of water used to be water and now both are nothing but energy, man's needed and wanted consistency is no longer stable and static but changing, flowing and adapting. There are no longer other realities but this also will change.

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