{"id":8213,"date":"2015-02-20T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2015-02-20T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:33:36","slug":"fixed-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2015\/02\/20\/fixed-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed In Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/reel-dreams\/4341073250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fixed.png\" alt=\"photo credit Sam Simpson\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fixed.png 640w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fixed-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My lower mind is the part of my mental construct that demands for me to be a fixed thing. It desires definition and certainty. It desires to pin ME down. Whereas my higher mind understands the freedom I receive from being <em>nobody<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My higher mind sees the value of having no sense of self that is fixed. It has no desire to define ME. When I am free from this burden of desire, I am more wholly me. I am who I AM. Whereas my lower mind needs to attach to certain attributes; fortifying and grounding me \u2014 in my expertise, in my knowledgability, and in my desirability. It relishes defining me as a real <em>somebody<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What value does tying myself down hold? Where can I go when I hold myself in place? I know I need not fix myself in place. I know I need not define ME. What I need is to practice letting go of the desire to be desirable. What I need is to accept ignorance is the path to my freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In my desperation to be seen as special, may I find my wisdom and my power to be the <em>nobody <\/em>I truly am.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"photo credit Sam Simpson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/reel-dreams\/4341073250\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Simpson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lower mind is the part of my mental construct that demands for me to be a fixed thing. It desires definition and certainty. It desires to pin ME down. Whereas my higher mind understands the freedom I receive from being nobody. My higher mind sees the value of having no sense of self that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,6],"tags":[438,60,436,364,433,434,437,435],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-branding-2","category-growing","tag-desire","tag-ego","tag-fixed","tag-freedom","tag-mindset","tag-nobody","tag-openness","tag-somebody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}