Balance, the role of Mr.Do and Dragon, why we have both

Mr/Ms Do ( the 'I') controls, the body (the 'myself').  Mr/Ms Do has to decide what the body should do.  So Mr/Ms Do listens to the widgets ( the 'me').

The upper nature widgets tend to become socialized by society.  Geru ( part of the 'me' or widgets) has the plans, the beliefs, and will try and shape up the other widgets to see, feel, think and do the 'right' things for the moment.

But Mr/Ms Do (I) gets feedback from the body (myself), such as pleasure or pain, and from the upper nature widgets (me) and the the lower nature widgets and Dragon (the other half of 'I'). They tend to want instant pleasure and all of it.

A struggle will occur over what to do in any situation, the body, Dragon and lower nature wants instant pleasure and Mr/Ms Do, and the upper nature wants what is best for (my)self and others, past, present, and future.

Who wins depends on the strength of different widgets (upper and lower), which gives strength to Mr/Ms Do or Dragon.  The strength of the widgets depends on the biological or genetics, family and other emotional upbringing, beliefs, and habits, the four different personalities.

Mr/Ms Do and crew, upper nature widgets strive to do what works for the good of self and others. Dragon and crew, the lower nature widgets, is pure survival.  The body is an entity unto it's self that the others can use to their advantage.  It tends to be the robotic, not so bright, follower or adventurer.  It strives for survival but is not sure how or what to do.  This leaves lots of open space for drama as they all interact.

The Lower Nature and Personality

Lets sum this up quickly.  When the Upper Nature is not yet mature, for what ever reason, age, lack of socializing, or needed for necessity we get personalities that are like one of the widgets or a combination.  There are liars, thieves, odd beliefs, and aggressive people or liars that steal, or thieves that lie and hurt others that try and justify what they do.  You could say they are little kids in adult bodies or adults who are just plain psychopathic.

Psychopathic is basically someone who has no fear, so are impulsive, and no love so have no morals.  They do what they want, when they want, when they think they will get away with it or do not care if they get caught.  Maybe they think they can wiggle out of it or they want to be punished.  When there is enjoyment at being a psychopath and being chased we can say perhaps it was learned or certainly not unlearned.  Without love there is an emptiness that can be haunting or unbearable.  Drugs and alcohol can enter the picture to numb the bad feelings.  Or the adrenaline of the chase, the cops and robbers game can become the fireworks, the take note, the false pleasure that tells us we are doing the right thing.

That takes us to addictions, the Next Post.

Actions speak louder than words.

We sense a lot, fear and love a lot, even think a lot.  But our actions can rule over our better judgement.  Habits and addictions can lead us into temptation, into trouble or save us from evil.  We are creatures of habit.  It is the way of live.  When an animal tromps all over the woods for hours hunting food and finds the mother load the widgets do a dance, fireworks go off, and note is taken of the location.  The next day the animal will go directly to the same spot without wasting time and effort.  That is the most efficient way to go.  If the food is there day after day, the animal will automatically go back at certain intervals without much effort or thought.  He has a habit that is efficient and fruitful.

We get into habits of the senses, feelings, thoughts and actions that have lost their usefulness but we do not realize it.  This can be from biological shortcomings, as attention deficit, anxiety, lovelessness,  thoughtlessness, tiredness, mischiefs, self involvement, justifications, or rages.  It can also be from personality problems that we learned, to be careless, cold hearted, thoughtless, lazy, deceptive, greedy, judgmental, and vicious.

We may also have never been taught to think or perhaps taught to over think.  We read too much into it.  What ever the reason our actions will not be advantages for us and others in a particular situation.

Next Post: The Lower Nature and Personality

Geru and Maturity.

Maturity is the process of understanding the widgets, their possibilities of harm or helpfulness to self and others and the art of balancing them to the benefit of self and others.  It is the ability to take memories of the senses, of fears from the depths of the past, empathy, to take wisdom from books, elders, science, religion, and literature of the ages, the skills and possible actions, deceptions, hoarding, defenses, and anger and shape them all the benefit of self and others in the now and future from glimpses of the past.

The other blogs address some of these issues.  This blog will eventually address how to increase the senses to the benefit of the logic, of science and living.  The blog on the family address emotions. The blog on battle of the sexes expands logic between the sexes.  Jobs looks at situations in the work places. Other blogs will ensue as time goes on.

Some people just have an inability to think ahead, or deeply.  The may be slow at everything or just slow at seeing things in depth.  We call the shallow.  It can be a biological weakness in the Geru or the under or over reaction of the other widgets.  Too inattentive, too anxious to think (Histrionic), slow, too tired or too active to stop and think, too deceptive, greedy, weird thinking from biological (psychotic) or beliefs (astrology or other beliefs that we know are not very reliable but we like them or really do believe them as we never really tested them), or we are too rebellious to care.

In general, the widgets need to be balanced with each other, not over dominate unless the situation calls for it.  In most situations the upper nature should rule more than the lower.

Next Post: Actions speak louder than words.

Logic, a blessing or a curse.

Geru is the most versatile and varied widget.  Environment affects its more than the others to small or great heights of thought.  From foolish to wisdom logic can glorify or discredit you and the other widgets.  It is the one widget that out strips the animals.  Instincts have shrunken in importance as thought has grown.  It gives us the agility to overcome situations, change them, to build and destroy beyond the ability of other animals or creatures and plants.  We have the ability to understand beyond our place in the scheme of things or to have less understanding than simple insects, germs, plants as we loose tough with nature and our other widgets.

As with the other widgets it can increase or decrease the influence and acuity of the other widgets.  Science sees beyond our senses or fantasy ignores them, we fear or love beyond reason with false beliefs and imagination, we walk on the moon or lay and do nothing with the proper or missing information.

The lower nature can soar above our upper nature to the detriment of all other widgets, deceive beyond need, horde beyond benefit, fool us into wasting our time and life or that of others, destroy ourselves.

Personality can change with the knowledge of how to arrange the widgets to overcome our limits of perception, fears, loves, thought, action, deception, greed, rationalizing, or anger.

Next Post: How

When love is too great.

By now you have noticed that when a widget is in excess it can increase or decrease the other widget's power, love can make the Mr. Do take better notice of things or stop him/her by turning away to stop harm.  If love rules over Geru we can have the love of logic or less logic so that logic does not hurt.  If loves rules over fear, we can love scary things or protect others or self from scary things.  Love action or love to disappear into one's shell.  Love to deceive, horde, be illogical, or be aggressive.  That is not love in relation to others but to things or actions.

One very debilitating problem can be the over powering love of love, to the point that one does not know how to live without it.  Cuddles like Ant, Bee, and Macho need each other and Geru and Rabbit and Turtle to understand the situation and adjust herself to fit in. Without the other widgets love can be very helpless to adjust to a situation.  A person becomes dependent on another to make those choices and decisions.

Cuddles' love can be a guide when dealing with others, empathy tells us if we are helping or hurting them and, if it's hurt, adjust things to live and let live.

Next Post: Logic, too little or too much.

Widgets Need a Car

Our minds are like a car on a journey.  We are driven to seek out the next helpful task or journey.  Our minds need to be headed somewhere or boredom sets in.  We can think of Mr Do as the Driver.  Ant and Bee are the windshield, they let you see and hear what is going around.

The gas is the Cuddles widget, love is a great motivation.  The breaks would be macho, the fear factor.
We could make Geru the GPS system that tells you where you are and where you need to turn to get to your destination.

We can call Rabbit the engine and Turtle the key to turn the car on or off.  Mr. Do ultimately applies the breaks but Ant and Bee show you the road, Macho yells danger, Geru confirms it and tells Macho to slow us down so Turtle can stop Rabbit or at least put him in idling.

Spiedy is the dirt on the windshield or the little voice that says go for the gusto without discernment, say pass someone when there is no time to make it because of an oncoming car.  Raccoon says its ok to be a road hog and disregard other cars, the road belongs to you.  Crow throws out the map or disables the GPS and says you are controlled by Luck so why not do what you want and drink and drive.  Coyote is now the engine that is going at high speed and Dragon, the driver, is at war with the other drivers.