In this episode, Phoebus explores the profound concept of the “power of emergence” and how it shapes our journey through life. He discusses how being present and open to what naturally unfolds can lead to unexpected growth and opportunities. Tune in to learn how to embrace the unknown and witness the magic of emergence in your everyday life.
Phoebus dives into the concept of emergence, emphasising the power of presence and conscious choice. He explains how being open to the unfolding of life can lead to unexpected growth, new opportunities, and deeper connection with yourself. Listen as he shares practical insights on how to cultivate stillness and embrace the natural flow of life.
00:00 – Power of emergence
00:30 – Intro
00:43 – Emergence in nature
01:32 – How is emergence useful to you?
01:49 – Open up possibilities
02:25 – The Law of Emergence
03:14 – Enjoy the process
03:57 – Key: Conscious choice and action
04:33 – Use emergence for growth and change
05:04 – Form your own trail
05:53 – Power of presence
07:25 – Don’t miss out
07:38 – Insert finding stillness ad
09:43 – Be devoted to the process
10:21 – Being humble
11:00 – Accept and Respond
12:04 – Practice witnessing
12:52 – Notice the change
13:36 – Be graceful in your practice
00:01 In the last year or so, I have noticed that I keep coming back into
a concept. A concept I like to call the power of emergence. The
power of emergence is about the things that emerge, right? It’s a
simple concept. It’s what emerges, what comes up, what gets to be
revealed, what appears that wasn’t before there.
00:23 Why do I like this concept about the power of emergence is because
it’s part of life. Welcome, my friend, to another episode from
Inside Treasures. My name is Phoebus, and I love to challenge myself
and those around me for the purpose of growth.
00:40 I am here to help you heal, change, and grow. Emergence is part of
life. It’s something that always happens.
00:48 It happens out in nature. Things just emerge. Things that weren’t
there all of a sudden.
00:54 Are there a seed that gave birth to a tree or a plant or a bush? A
life, a child, an animal that comes that didn’t exist and all of a
sudden exists. It’s something that we can’t see and then we see.
It’s something that literally did not exist and then it exists.
01:20 It’s the journey of life is emergence. Right? It’s things that get
created, things that get manifested, things that happen. Now, how is
that idea useful to your journey? The reason I keep coming back to
this idea of emergence is because it’s useful to understand it
before you start a journey towards any direction.
01:50 Knowing that when you choosing a goal, when you’re choosing a
direction, when you start to open up possibilities, the power of
emergence is about opening up possibilities and in which way you do
it, it doesn’t really matter. It’s very easy to speak about it
through, like, the lens of goal, but it happens with everything in
life. For example, if you’re choosing to move city, if you’re
choosing to move school, if you’re choosing to move jobs, if you’re
choosing to all these, we won’t call them goals specifically, but
they are opening up possibilities.
02:25 The law of emergence, the power of emergence that I like to see,
say, is that it’s something that wouldn’t have happened if I stayed
with where I’m at. So if I stay where I’m at, things will emerge for
sure. But that doesn’t mean things will emerge towards the thing
that I’m looking to create, the thing that I want my life to be
like.
02:51 Oftentimes when we choose a direction, we get too fixated into the
end result that we miss the power of emergence because as we take
that course, as we walk that path, the different paths that start to
deviate from our original idea through the power of emergence.
There’s a big boulder here. Something’s not working out.
03:11 This actually looks more attractive than I didn’t know before. So
through the power of emergence, we can see in the process as we
enjoy the process rather than looking for that end goal. And again,
open it up.
03:24 It doesn’t have to be specific. Oh, my goal is to lose 20 pounds.
Like it can be more open.
03:28 Right. But you have that power and ability and possibility to see
what’s going on, what emerges, and you witness the process. You are
part of the process, you’re feeding the process.
03:40 But in order for the law of emergence to start in a way thats
beneficial for you, in a way that it can help you change and grow,
in order for you to be able to do that, you have to make a
distinction. At some point, my life has been taking me that way. Ive
been wanting to go this way.
03:57 So Im making a conscious choice right now, not only intellectually,
but Im taking action towards things. So I sign up for a marathon, I
sign up for this, I change job, I make an application, I speak to
this girl. It doesn’t matter.
04:09 The scenarios are infinite. But the minute that you do that and then
you take that step, all of a sudden you’re on a different track.
That’s the big thing that needs to happen.
04:20 Your life track is already have a trajectory, it’s already having a
specific direction. Through the momentum, through all the ideas,
through the things you’ve been doing, through all your habits,
through the people, through the environment, through the society,
you get the idea, right? But for the law of emergence to come into
play in a beneficial way, it needs to be in an area that you want to
grow, in an area that you want to change. Right.
04:43 So you change track, you set the direction. It has to be things that
they begin to unfold in an essence, the way of the avalanche. It
starts small.
04:54 So that’s the small decision. Is that changing from this way to
walking that way? Right. And when you do that, it’s that first
beginning of the avenues.
05:05 But then you do another thing and another thing and you start
forming the trail. That’s part of what we forget. The trails gets
formed as we walk.
05:13 We think the trail is fixed towards the direction we’re going.
That’s not true. That’s not true in life.
05:21 It might be true for when you walk in the mountain, that you take a
specific trail and then there can be unexpected things as you’re
hiking, right? But for this, every time you walk, every time you
take a step, the trail gets formed. And that is the power of
emergence. And then as an avalanche keeps growing and growing and
building up and building up, it has this momentum, right, that will
lead you to where you need to be, that it just builds up.
05:50 But as of the power of emergence comes into play. Notice how it is a
conscious, intentional change in direction followed by action, and
most of all, led by presence, by witnessing, by seeing what’s going
on, what’s happening around you. Because oftentimes we get so
fixated to the end result and how you get it or Jane did it this
way, so if I do it this way, I’m going to get there.
06:22 Success does leave clues, but also be open. Have your eyes open,
take your blinders down just so you can observe and see. And that
doesn’t only happen about what I’m talking about.
06:35 Presence is about day to day. The things that show up in your life
and in my life and in everyone’s life, that sometimes we’re just not
present to witness that just happened. We didn’t even recognize it.
06:52 We didn’t. Weren’t even aware. When you start to build this,
cultivating this as a skill to notice what emerges, to be more
aware, to be more present.
07:05 For that there’s a level of stillness that you need, a level of
devotion to your experience, to yourself, a level of devotion to the
world. I want to notice the world. I don’t want to be on my phone
all day long.
07:17 I want to notice the person next to me. I want to notice my kids, I
want to notice my wife. Because when I don’t, I’m missing out.
07:28 The problem is I’m missing out because I’m not here. When I’m here,
I can be present, I can be more still, and I can notice what
emerges. A quick I’ve been working behind the scenes for the past
few months around a course called finding stillness.
07:47 Finding stillness is about helping you to create that space in your
life, to create deeper connection, primarily with yourself, but then
as a result, with the people around you. It has to do with
cultivating more self love, more understanding, more acceptance
towards yourself, your thoughts, your emotions. Finding stillness is
something that I personally find it very important and crucial.
08:11 If you’re interested, go to my website, insidetreasures.com and look
for the course. Finding stones finding stillness is about pressing
pause in life, about you finding the time and the space and
cultivating that and create that in order for you to experience a
moment of bliss, which you get to create a moment of space a moment
for you where you can sit back and actually see your life for what
it is. It’s about presencing yourself in what is going on every
single day, in every single moment.
08:51 That doesn’t mean this is what you will do, because in a way that
can also sound tedious, but it’s about improving the quality of your
life by presencing yourself more and more and more. And there’s so
much abundance of gifts that comes as a result of you being able to
do that. So if you’re interested, go to insidetreasers.com.
09:14 look for finding stillness and I will see you at the course. Thank
you, my friend. Interactions embeds with people life is a dance.
09:23 Things show up as a result of what you’ve done. Things show up and
things are happening and you’re part of that. And you take the next
step and then something else emerges.
09:37 And you learn to dance and be more agile and to take different turns
and to leap towards the unknown because you’re devoted to the
process, not the end result. And you’re seeking to see what happens.
And sometimes what you do will lead you where you want to be,
sometimes it won’t, but it forms your character and that is far more
important.
09:58 It’s not about acquiring, getting things, getting to places. A power
of emergence is very powerful. It’s very powerful because there are
things that come up that you were never aware when you first began
your journey.
10:14 We kind of thing, we set milestones. We’re like, yeah, this will
happen, that will happen. But the truth is you have no idea.
10:21 And that is the humbleness to come from as well. Because in life we
get fixated, take things for granted that everything’s going to be
that way. Thought we’re going to live to like 120 and everything’s
going to be fine and this will happen, that will happen.
10:34 That will happen. How do you know? How do you know? You don’t. You
assume, we all assume.
10:44 It’s human nature. Be optimistic and pro from being optimistic or be
pessimistic. But again, how do you know? The power of emergence is a
place that you become neutral and allow things to come as they are,
accepting them, as they are responding with ability, responding to
what is happening, and then also reengaging and taking conscious
action.
11:15 And sometimes that conscious action is the lack of action. So stop
doing that. Start doing more of that, that work.
11:22 This didn’t work. But Peter said, let me do this. It’s not working
for you, it’s not working for you.
11:31 And this is something I’ve done in my life, adopting other people’s
ideas and things, how I should be doing, how I should be living my
life. And actually, yeah, they did this. That’s great.
11:39 Not power of emergence. Could I do it still? Possibly? Yeah,
absolutely. Habits, right.
11:47 But it’s taking that choice, becoming more, still more intentional,
more present, selecting a direction and then also being able to
dance with it. Yeah. The power of emergence for the next week come
from that place.
12:10 Come from that place that I would love to witness and be present in
what emerges. I want to see what comes up that I often don’t see. I
want to be able to make a choice that puts me in a different track
and see where that track leads me.
12:30 I think I want to go there, but the weather changes. What is
happening there? To notice when you’re obstinate about where you
need to be heading and you’re not allowing things to emerge and we
stamp them down, we’re like, I don’t want this. I want that.
12:46 Observe the thing that comes up, see it, experience it, understand
it, and notice what changes, what changes in you and when you’re
coming from that attitude, what changes outside of you, because the
world will mirror you. And the things that you miss is because
they’re not in there for you. And the things that you get to see are
the things that actually you need to see.
13:14 And sometimes the things that we need to see, just not them down, we
don’t want to see them. That is emergence in its fullness. Emergence
conveys information to you.
13:27 So you can take it in, change things around and respond and take
that next step. Otherwise, we remain in the same step for the next
week. Keep that in your mind.
13:40 Enjoy your life. We don’t have to be all stressed out. It’s about
presence, graciousness, gracefulness.
13:49 Gracefully observe what emerges in your day to day, how things
emerge in your own mind, the kinds of thoughts that pop up, that
actually light up your world, come from that place and witness,
enjoy, adapt, move, change, grow. Thank you, my friend, for tuning
in to another episode from inside treasures. My name is Phoebus, and
until next time, my friend, let peace guide your life.
14:19 Let love guide your heart and reason guide your thoughts.
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