(IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not do this Experiment while driving.)

Every time you make a choice that is not your usual kind of choice, you open up a new future for yourself, and possibly also for others. However, making new kinds of choices requires consciously cleaning away your resistances to such powerful change experiences. Some resistances are obvious, the fear of change, for example, the fear of not meeting other people's expectations, for another example. One resistance is especially difficult: 'Blinkers', which are the pieces of black leather or plastic sometimes put over horses eyes so they lose their side vision.

It is difficult to refuse to make a choice about something that you cannot see you could have a choice about. However, this is exactly what you do when you take a Position. Taking a Position (about an opinion, a belief, a 'need', a demand, etc.) is the equivalent of putting on Blinkers.

'Positionality' is when you commit to a hard stand for, or against, something, and wall yourself into a non-negotiable rigidity.

Your Positionality tells the world that your defenses would have to be utterly compromised before you would change your mind. This is a 'life or death' matter, probably from the perspective of your Box and Gremlin.

Sometimes the Universe takes you up on your challenge and destroys you (financially, health-wise, relationship-wise, etc.) Many times the Universe leaves you to the karmic consequences of your Positionality and you learn about it the long, hard, slow, painful way.

Unconsciously you are intentionally ignoring so many choices that you could make due to your Unconscious Positionality. You are probably unconsciously but intentionally ignoring your choice:

• to run for Mayor of your town.
• to stop paying taxes to the government.
• to participate in Expand The Box training and 10 Possibility Labs during the next three years.
• to stop everything inauthentic in your life and to StartOver.xyz, for example, by walking from Vancouver to Cabo San Lucas.
• etc.

This Experiment is for the next 3 days, to CONSCIOUSLY take a position about NOT Choosing something so as to experience how the mechanism looks and feels from the inside. For example, when someone asks if you would like a glass of water, you take the Position to NOT CHOOSE about this. You say something like, "I absolutely refuse to choose whether to have a glass of water or not!" (If they ask you about the insanity of this, tell them you have become an Experimenter and you are doing an Experiment to learn about Positionality.) Or if the choice is about putting your shoes on or not, or what to buy at the market, or when to wash the dishes, or which shirt to wear, take the Position NOT to Choose, and follow the rigid sensations back to their source of stubbornness to find out what is going on in there. Write what you learn in your Experiments down in your Beep! Book.

This Experiment is to use your Beep! Book to document in writing the procedure you use to make 5 different Choices today.

Start by titling a new Beep! Book page: MY PRESENT CHOOSING TECHNOLOGY.

You will not know which choices you will be Choosing to document, whether it is choosing when to get out of bed, what you will say in a meeting today, who to call at what time or in what order, how to re-negotiate a previous agreement, etc.

Keep your Beep! Book at the ready. In the instant you are faced with needing to Choose, Split off 30% of Your Attention for Self Observation and write down all the particulars of your Choice making procedure as possible, while using the rest of your Attention to do the Choosing.

REMEMBER: Self Observation is only Self Observation if it is RADICALLY NEUTRAL.

'Radically Neutral' means there is no meaning attached to what you observe. No criticism, no self-hatred, no self-assessment, no self-judgement, no embarrassment, no self-abusive stories about how sly or stupid you are being.

Self Observation is about noting ALL the levels and purposes and details of what matters to you and what you ignore, in this case, when you make a Choice. For example, are you using:

• Logic or silliness (Whose logic? Whose silliness?)
• Fantasy worlds? (From how old? What Purpose do they serve?)
• Beliefs? (Whose beliefs? Parents? Religion? Corporations?)
• Fears and Emotions? (Whose fears?)
• Reasons and excuses? (Whose reasons? Excuses to please who?)
• Are you fuzzing yourself out? (With perhaps a Mind Machine or a Brain Split?)
• Are you being Linear or Nonlinear?
• Are you serving a conscious or unconscious Purpose?

Write your Self Observations completely down for 5 different Choices you make, no matter how 'important' or 'pointless' your Choices are. What is relevant, is to slow down your Choosing procedure enough that you can Observe it and write down each step.

At the end of the day, or even the next day, review your 5 Choosing Experiments to see what is similar about them and what is different.

Distill your Choice Making Technology down into one simple sentence.

Be amazed about it.

So few people are aware of the factors involved in their daily Choices.

Now you are.

Choosing to lower your Numbness Bar is Choosing to cause an internal behavior shift that could have impactful ramifications in your daily life, possibly even for the rest of your life. Choose wisely...

Keeping your Numbness Bar raised high is one of the ways you figured out how to ignore the literally millions of feelings and emotional impulses you have received from literally everything and everyone around you for your whole life.

Perhaps you copied the behavior of your father or your mother to keep your Numbness Bar raised high to block your emotional body sensations from your awareness.

Regardless of how or why you kept a high Numbness Bar, keeping it raised high blocks off both internal intelligence and energy resources that you need for making Choices.

The internal resources are the Feelings and Emotions themselves that arise from 1% intensity to 100% intensity and shift organically and abundantly around in you from moment to moment.

The external resources are the Feelings and Emotions of other people around you (and also animals, birds, insects, even plants) that you can sense with your calibrated Feelings Detector, giving you multiple dimensions and perspectives from the living world to support you to ongoingly make clear, powerful, easeful, Choices in your daily life.

This Experiment is during 3 days this week to begin and end each day with a Lowered Numbness Bar and use the incoming onslaught of energy and information to empower your Choosing.

Do not hurt yourself. Do not hurt anyone else.

You may need to carry around a packet of tissues for tears of sadness or fear, or a hand towel to strangle with two hands clenching from emerging anger.

Yes, it would definitely be useful to set a chime to ring each hour to remind yourself to check in with your busy self... or the day will be gone and you will have forgotten completely, for some reason...

Write into your Beep! Book anything you Notice about the difference in Choices you make using your Emotional Body Resources as compared to your life before of keeping yourself numb.

Then make it yourself.

To make it you may need to negotiate. You will know that your negotiation was successful when you get what you want with a person who has gotten what they want. This is called 'Winning Happening' which is a Bright Principle. It is NOT based on compromise, or Win-Lose.

There is more than one answer to every question. One standard method to block having more possible answers is to stop asking, thinking, and feeling after you get your first answer. Then the only choice you have is whether or not you follow your 'one and only' answer.

But if you continue thinking, continue asking, and listening for a bit longer you will get more possible answers, especially if you are a Possibilitator and can Speak From The Unknown. Then you will receive an almost endless stream of answers. Now you have a bigger problem. Which answer will you Choose?

Asking is self-invocation. What this means is that both the quality and purpose of the questions you ask (or avoid asking...) and the answers you have shaped your listening to be able to hear, determine much of the quality of your life.

This Experiment is to Team up and ignite the transformational questioner in each other. Grab one or two fellow adventurers and head out on a Question Asking Quest. Especially ask your Questions:

• Even if the answers might be scary.
• Even if the answers might be unimaginable to imagine.
• Even if the answers might offend people.

Hints:

• Keep your Sword Of Clarity out because it helps pop fantasy worlds made from Assumptions, Expectations, Beliefs, Judgements, Prejudices, Conclusions, etc.
• Keep your Grounding Cord locked to the center of Gaia because your Grounding Cord conducts energy and information in both directions (from you to Gaia and from Gaia to you) and Gaia may have some interesting answers for you.
• Keep Your Attention full on and Split so that you can Notice what you are trying to create and what you actually create.

Procedure:

You breathe, you ask (making sure your Question lands in all 4 corners of the Space), and you listen, with all 5 Bodies.

Question-asking is an art-form. For example, you can navigate what is possible by asking questions the answers to which do not exist in the current space

Document your Question path so others can make use of your good fortune. Possibility Management is the kind of treasure that grows by giving it away. Ask yourselves:

• How proficient are we at giving away valuable treasure?
• How could we improve that?

When you wrestle with a question it changes your shape. You become the question you wrestle with. The Universe responds to your new shape. But when a question gets answered, the answer kills the question. Your quest suddenly changes into finding your next good question to wrestle with.