Developing Sensitivity

The Neothink Society · Consciousness and Self-Leadership · May 2009

A leap in consciousness rarely announces itself with noise. It arrives in small internal shifts, the minute movements of the core self as it begins to reorganize. Most of these movements pass unnoticed, dismissed as moods or fatigue. The Neothink mind notices them. Sensitivity to one's own inner change is a trainable capacity, and members who develop it gain early access to their own growth instead of meeting it only after the fact.

Trainable capacity Sensitivity to one's own inner change can be developed by attention, not waited on as a gift.

The same sensitivity extends outward. People share common denominators that connect them, and the person attuned to their own essence reads those signals in others with the same clarity. Self-awareness and awareness of others rise together.

Creative expression is one place this becomes visible. Writers and artists often describe their best work as something that moves through them rather than from them, drawing on real feeling and real experience but arranging it in a way the ordinary planning mind could not produce. It is the conscious self giving form to the deeper self, the blooming of consciousness within the person who has stopped resisting it.

Sensitivity to one's own inner change is a trainable capacity that gives a person early access to their own growth instead of meeting it only after the fact.

What follows is one such expression, a personal metaphor written at a moment of internal change. Recognition is personal; every person expresses their own essence uniquely. It stands here as an example of what becomes available when a person stops fighting their own rebirth and turns toward it with attention instead.

Fanchen

(A Changeover Sky)

Streaks of pale, gray white light Strike blindly through cold naked limbs, striated in bold brush strokes across the sky of early morning rising, Seeking to ask questions at different levels. Dawn is creating a wash of mystery. A new sky, a changeover sky, a time of revolution and a beginning of life in as yet unknown ways.

A stirring of the depths, as they shift and sway, As if a slumbering giantess of unbelievable dimensions were awakening at the bottom of the sea bed, groping in great ponderous movements as she lifts her heavy weight from the deep. She is mindless as yet, has great strength, and goes by the name of Accomplishment.

A sea change, a time of year when All that is at bottom rises to the surface, Bringing all the deep sea wanderers Pale in the light, used to the dark, To be marveled at and picked over As at the beach after an extraordinary storm.

The sky blushes the delicate pinks of a newborn infant's cheeks after the first flush of inspired shock subsides, Showing only the blemish of a purple swirl high up on the face of the borning. A reminder of an instrument which helped new Life in its scramble from its place of forming.

A tight squeeze necessitating harsh methods Not understandable at times to the recipient, but Accomplishing Fanchen!

(From the manuscript: Diary of a Human Soul Singing to Itself)

Already underway Growth begins before it is noticed, and sensitivity is what lets it be seen and named.

The growth was already underway when the poem was written. Sensitivity is what let it be seen and named. That capacity belongs to anyone who develops it, and the Neothink mind develops it as a matter of course. The work of self-leadership begins with the attention to register the change happening inside, and continues with the steadiness to move with it rather than against it.

Common Questions

What is inner sensitivity in the Neothink sense? It is the developed capacity to notice the small internal shifts of the core self as consciousness reorganizes. Rather than a feeling or a temperament, it is an attention skill that registers change while it is still subtle.

How does inner sensitivity differ from ordinary moods or fatigue? Moods and fatigue are surface states that come and go. The shifts inner sensitivity detects are movements of the core self reorganizing itself. The difference is that one passes and the other marks genuine development, and trained attention learns to tell them apart.

Why does early detection of internal change matter? Noticing growth as it begins gives a person early access to their own development instead of recognizing it only after the fact. That head start lets them move with the change deliberately rather than being carried by it.

How does sensitivity to oneself extend to awareness of others? People share common denominators that connect them. The person attuned to their own essence reads the same signals in others with the same clarity, so self-awareness and awareness of others rise together.

What does creative expression have to do with developing sensitivity? Creative work often surfaces real feeling and experience in a form the ordinary planning mind could not produce. It is the conscious self giving form to the deeper self, which makes internal change visible and available to be named.

How does developing sensitivity connect to self-leadership? Self-leadership begins with the attention to register the change happening inside and continues with the steadiness to move with it rather than against it. Sensitivity supplies the first half of that work.

Further Reading

• Core self: the deeper self whose minute movements inner sensitivity learns to register.
• Consciousness: the reorganizing awareness whose leaps arrive as small internal shifts.
• Self-leadership: the practice of registering internal change and moving with it deliberately.
• Common denominators: the shared signals that let self-awareness extend into awareness of others.
• Creative expression: the conscious self giving form to the deeper self and surfacing growth.

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