Brain twists and turns in circles, zig zags and curves examining the problem, labelling it difficult, impossible, the task ahead is set and that is the breaking of the object of fixation. It grows in size, becomes more solid, a bulls eye appears on it to make sure it gains fullest attention. Then the mind takes over, it dances around the object keeping it in full view, not taking the eye off it for even a moment, playing up to its false identity, knowing that now a wall has been built it must come down. Then it happens, the stress increases, irritation ensues and before long the object of our attention takes a solid form in the centre of our thinking, until its owner successfully ignores it or rather buries until it rises up again wanting to be resolved.
This need not be the case, assess the object again, make friends with it and know that it night represent what is is we want to address but it is an ally, not our enemy. Now look around this object, what is its true nature, and what is our relationship to it. It comes into our realisation that whatever we are faced with is build upon our perception of it. If another was to be faced with the same object would it necessarily take the same form. So in as much as the object if open to infinite interpretations from infinite observers it is also unreal, it does not in a sense, exist. If the goal of seeing the object in the first place is so that we can manipulate it, then is it actually necessary to see it as a physical fixture before us in the first place. Surely it serves us better to have in mind the outcome in front of us, and a sense of peace, or accomplishment instead of fear or frustration. You can not fight something that is not there, and something that is not there can not stand in your way. So you see it is easier to bend yourself than the object you are confronted with.
What defines your reality? Is it the accumulative product of your senses working together to build an idea of the world around you? If this is the case then all we can be is a biological organism responding to sensory stimuli. We are indeed beings of the earth, here to experience the sights, sounds, tastes and textures, is that really as simple as all that? The clip shows a child speaking to Neo, advising him on reality. The child effortlessly manipulates a spoon in front of Neo's eyes and then returning it back to its original shape. Are we to take his message as a metaphor for living life consciously? In the clip the spoon can be taken as any object that we wish to fixate on, as an image that we wish to manipulate. This could be an exam grade we wish to achieve or a habit we wish to break. Or even a goal we would like to accomplish. If you set your mind on something you might as well be setting against it, go with the flow and visualise completion, you are master of your own reality, and own destiny.
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