Clarity
An aspect of the processes of analysis is the creation of a clear and free mind, unhindered and unclouded by confusion, unnecessary concerns, like in this case the belief in various kinds of needs such as fashion, electronic toys, status of every kind, expensive entertainment or having what everyone else may have. An analogy of an unclear mind might be like trying to drive a speed boat across a lake, where the water is full of various kinds of debris, as logs, trees or furniture, and the driver must proceed very slowly zigzagging through the maze, and cannot proceed in a straight line or get up to any speed. In the interest of a clarity of mind as pertains to the processes of Analysis, an aid may be the knowledge by real experience, of exactly what material things are necessary to the individual and what can be done without. This is accomplished by reducing things to the bare essentials, as practiced by things like living in one room, out of a backpack, car or tent. A reduction to the necessities of a bag each, of clothes, food, shelter, sleeping and accessories, makes clear exactly what is needed and what is not. This is important in terms of a greater freedom, in knowing what is necessary to spend one's life supporting, and what is not.
If one finds oneself in untenable situations, such that change is needed like to quit a job, leave a town, or go abroad, but feels one is trapped by the necessity to support material commodities, this trapped state of mind can be oppressive. One may wish to accumulate or maintain material surplus, but even the choice as opposed to the assumed necessity, can be the absence of a continuous mental grousing, since one has made one's own bed. A free mind is the absence of inconsequentials cluttering up one's consciousness, like the difference between a carpenter who must constantly be figuring with measurements, as compared to a janitor, where all is automatic and one is free to think whatever one wants whenever.
In another vein of External Analysis, one may discover things in the processes of the study of oneself, that one does not want to admit even to the self. These sorts of things are suppressed memories, thoughts and feelings such as homo sexual or transgender tendencies, selfishness, fear and cowardliness, or things one has done in the past that are not very exemplary. Suppressed memories are like dead weights on the mind that restrict free being. They are shadows that unconsciously produce negative thinking and feelings that affect the general temperament. They are like the activity of worrying, as a preoccupation of thought and feeling, that are a check on the direct thinking of the mind, of feeling great all the time. It is to one's advantage to grab a hold of this kind of submerged negativity and drag it out of the lake and say this is me. This may be very difficult to do. However, one will get used to the admission over time and the admission revealed can now be examined and dealt with. But still, until one freely admits it to others, one cannot get completely free of it. One has to be careful of, avoid and tip toe around it, while in conversation and interaction with others. In these modern times, it is common for people to use psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, confession and encounter group programs as a means of dealing with suppression.
If all of these forms of therapy are inconvenient, too expensive, even dangerous relative to the quality of the therapist, one can simply admit things to strangers in a proper manner, by casually slipping it into the conversation, as if it were something one says every day, and so that it is not apparent such that it may cause a non-objective response or put the person in an awkward position. One may find that what one thought was so horrible, was considered as no consequence to this stranger, who may themselves have far darker matters than oneself. On the other hand, the opposite reaction can occur in which the stranger is horrified, meaning that the admission, may become more of a problem than it already was. Thus, one should be careful how one approaches it. An advantage of strangers is that one can admit things about foibles of the self, that one would not admit to loved ones, friends and acquaintances. In certain circumstances, professional help may be the proper the avenue.
In the vein of travel as the movement between cultures, or as is often the case with young people who create eccentric and outrageous identity appearances, that provoke negative reactions of strangers, this provocation can give insight into the tolerance of others. If one provokes the hostility of those one passes among by exterior appearance, one may learn what it is like to be of a minority that is forever encountering prejudice. One may learn, that though others may profess a tolerance and believe it, if one is like them it may be a long acquaintanceship before one discovers prejudice if ever. By acting the eccentric, depending upon how outrageous or how despised the characterization might be, the individual may discover that they can read or feel this hostility in a New York second, without having the bother of a long investment in friendship. In traversing between cultures, the individual may discover how tolerant a culture is in general or as a whole, that can be compared with others.
The change of identities as exterior appearance, change of name, circumstance, geography and location or economic means, is often used as separation and removal from one's past conditioning and the remaking of the personality. This is probably most evident and prevalent in military and some cult organizations. Travel and relocation can be the creation of a division, so to speak, between one's past conditioning and one's future decision making. To be completely free, the individual does not want to be controlled by unconscious conditioning, wherein in essence they are influenced by the conditioning of past circumstance unbeknownst to them. This complete removal and separation from one's past may or may not be necessary, depending upon the degree to which the conditioning is to be purged, or the degree to which one has been ingrained.
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