Ambiguity: Facing the fear of uncertainty

We’re on a journey of understanding our relationship to time, and how we respond to it. Last month I talked about Permeability third in my ve-part series.

is month, let’s look at what happens when you move from Permeability into Ambiguity.

Ambiguity takes hold when you have a number of possibilities of equal interest or magnitude in your life. What starts to happen is, you tend to lose interest, become apathetic, and become indi erent to those options. Your own passions seem to move away and outside yourself, and the world around you goes a little dim. You nd it almost impossible to grasp onto anything meaningful.

Concepts like ambiguity are a

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To subscribe call 303-566-4100 curiosity for people, because most of us prefer to live in the more secure world of black and white, this or that, causes and e ects. We feel stable when an outcome is predictable and we have a grip on our emotional response to a particular set of circumstances.

It’s when our choices are too numerous and all have a degree of potential success, that our forward momentum can become unclear — you review them all until they take on a veneer of sameness.

While we all value options and choices, when you have so many

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Here are a few tools I use with my clients to help them move out of what often looks and feels like apathy, or the “whatever” mood we can get lost in:

Explore putting the spark back into your life: Try something you’ve always heard was delicious to eat. Go to a new part of town, walk an unfamiliar trail (bring someone along with you).

Get curious about uncovering the unexpected: When was the last time you were truly surprised? How did it feel? What is a mystery in your life you’d like to know more about? Try it!

Seek friends who are drawn to novelty: Get a friend to try a new Meetup with you. Volunteer at a charity event, look for new cuisine to try.

Play, nd humor and have fun: Get the game Twister, turn the sound o on a movie you’re watching and do the dialogue out loud together. e next time you feel like getting o ended, try laughing instead.

Christine Kahane, NBC-HWC, MCHWC – is a Nationally BoardCerti ed Health & Wellness Coach, and owner of KAHANE COACHING (www.kahanecoaching.com), located at 30792 Southview Drive/Suite 206 in Evergreen, CO. For more information about coaching, or to write-in a question for UNlearn it! send your inquiries to christine@kahanecoaching.com.

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Hey buddy, ya got a dime?

One of the keys to a civilization is currency. It’s the ability to exchange goods and services on a more convenient time relationship. However, few people truly comprehend what money really is. e ONLY true “money” is calories. All the rest either actually represents it or falsely pretends to. e latter is called FIAT. (Money, where a government only states that is valuable. A.K.A. the current dollar) Simply put, the universe has a nite amount of calories. It is the conversion of it into energy that creates the movement of services done or products created.

e human body is a calorie conversion machine. e sun gives energy to the earth which in-turn helps plants convert it to calories that the consuming human then converts to work. So a human is the only true civilization “bank.” Calories can also be stored in forms like oil or animals. While humans use them to leverage their work e orts, there is still no more or less of it. It can only be converted and then released back into the universe for its next cycle.

To better leverage the o set timing between provider and consumer, money — in the agreed upon form of gold and silver — was used to represent it. ey took calories to

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obtain, were hard to nd — thus nite, were practically indestructible and universally recognized. However, soon things went wrong as usual. Paper was eventually used to represent gold, that in-turn represented calories. Paper can be easily made and thus counterfeited even by governments. It was soon quietly disconnected from the metals and produced in amounts far exceeding any calorie reality whatsoever, as is now being done.

e dollar is basically now worthless. is process has been repeated with almost every major civilization, with the same ending, in ation and nally lack of all con dence in it. America is now at this point. By forcing the oil producing nations after WWII to trade only in U.S. dollars, the stage was set for the biggest, illegal and unethical transfer of wealth in history. e US. has now produced the most worthless and most massive currency ever made, and forced the world to use it. In parallel with numerous other schemes, the rich and powerful have cemented their positions for the next change of global humanity. is change is in process and most of the world’s citizens are not invited to it.

Mark Kline, Idaho Springs

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