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Rules, Illusions, Frameworks,
and GamePlay
By Kristen N. Fox
Becoming “dis-illusioned”,
while it sounds undesirable, is actually one of the hallmark’s of the
shift in consciousness. In other words, where we used to believe
wholeheartedly that the props, scenes, and players were simply REAL or
LIFE, we’re now opening our awareness to the very framework within which
this play is taking place, and we’re the directors!
Within this ‘play’ of
physical reality, one of the grandest illusions we have tended to believe
is that, to put it bluntly, we are all playing by the same rules.
But what happens when you are, for instance, patiently waiting in line
at the bank, and someone cuts in at the front of the line, takes care
of their business, and leaves, seemingly with no concern for “the rules”?
Perhaps we judge them as wrong or at the very least, scowl at them and
mutter about them with the person next to you. But here we have an example
of a person who is NOT following the same rules as you, and ‘getting away’
with it.
What does this mean?
In conscious creation terms, this person is sharing SOME of your beliefs
in that apparently they also believe in banks, but this person has
obviously different
beliefs about how things are done. However, the most important aspect
here isn’t that this other person has cut in line and broken major
societal faux pas.
The important part is that you have created a person who is NOT playing
by the rules while you are, and you are experiencing, even if slight,
feelings of anger about it.
Why be angry? In
this case, anger can be telling you that if YOU have to follow the rules,
EVERYONE should have to. But who made these rules to begin with?
And why are they RULES at all? The only effective answer is that
these rules are rules YOU have internalized as your own. To change
your interaction, you must change your beliefs and expectations and release
judgment about your choices.
“But the ‘rules’ are a
part of society,” you might say. “Didn’t I agree to these rules
when I decided to come here? Isn’t that why I chose the parents
and birth situation that I did?” Well, yes, but as the famous saying
goes, “That was then, this is now.” Whatever rules you agree to
NOW are just that, those you agree to NOW. The past has no jurisdiction
over you unless you allow it to.
“But,” you add with a
question in your eyes, “wouldn’t that be like changing the game rules
in the middle of play?” Yes, again. Kids do it all the time.
In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin (a small boy) and his stuffed
tiger Hobbes play their own version of baseball, and each of them is continually
making up new rules to benefit their own play. The difference here
is that we don’t have to end up scuffling with each other, fighting for
rules or what beliefs are best. While Calvin and Hobbes compete
to win OVER each other, changing our beliefs and working in harmony with
our inner beings opens the door of opportunity for EVERYONE in your reality.
Here’s another analogy.
You are playing checkers, deep in your game with your opponent, so deep
that you are unaware of anything else going on in your reality. But little
by little you start to hear shouts, or cheering, and you start to look
up from your
checkerboard between plays. Suddenly you realize that you’ve been
playing checkers in the bleachers of a baseball game! You also realize
that while you’ve gotten really good at checkers, the game play has become
a bit predictable and boring for you. (Which is why your attention
started to drift in the first place.)
Your checkers opponent,
however, is still deeply immersed in the game and wants only to play a
good game of checkers. You may feel a bit guilty to say that you
feel like you’ve mastered checkers to the extent you wanted to and are
ready to move on because you’ve come to like and respect your opponent.
You barely have to THINK about what moves to make - this is no longer
fun or a challenge for you. You may feel like you’re supposed to finish
the game before you stop playing. This is all YOUR choice, of course,
and you must do what you feel is best, but also remember, there is ALWAYS
another game of checkers to play - completion in YOUR new sense of self
doesn’t always conform to the game rules of the game you are leaving behind.
And leaving that game of checkers actually opens up the board for someone
else who really WANTS to play.
So, you step away from
the game board. Your opponent may give you nasty looks, just as
you may have given that person who cut in line at the bank. What
is being illustrated here though, is not simply a breach of rules or etiquette,
but a NEW WAY of doing or approaching or believing in something.
Now back to our line breaker
at the bank. While you were perceiving them as cutting in line,
THEY may have created a situation where the person at the front of the
line, for whatever reason, told THEM to go first. That line breaker’s
beliefs may
simply be those that support their FLOW in the moment. Since they
found no fulfillment in waiting in line, they created an alternate situation
where they could do exactly what they wanted to do, without having to
do everything that you believed people were “supposed” to do.
Is this “cheating”?
If you believe in rules for the sake of rules, then any breaking would
be considered cheating. But, if you believe that rules, or beliefs,
or even frameworks of interaction exist because we choose them to achieve
certain experiences, then “cheating” suddenly becomes a flexibility in
focus. You aren’t cheating as much as you are simply stepping away
from the checkerboard and onto a baseball diamond.
And of course, you are
the one who created the rules for checkers AND for baseball in the first
place, even if it seems like they just ARE, and despite the illusions,
we each play our own game. Why not choose the game that brings
you the most
joy?
[Originally published
in The Edge, December 1999.]
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