You have a Box. You are not your Box. Neither are they their Box.
Your Box
A COMPLEX CONSTRUCT
The ‘Box’ is the complex assemblage of the thoughtware that we use to interact with the world. Our thoughtware is what we use to think with. Our thoughtware is our belief system, our assumptions, our conclusions, our stories, our thinking patterns, our assumptions and expectations, our decisions and so on. Other work would call it the Ego, our psychology, our character, our personality. In Possibility Management, we call that the Box. We are mostly not aware of our thoughtware. We have not been trained to think about what we are thinking with. Modern western education does not educate us in looking at what we look at the world with. Investigating our Box is using a magnifying glass to examine the glasses that we use to look at and get impressions from the world.
A 360 DEGREE FILTER
We create our Box as children. As children we come up with the best solution to survive when faced with a given problem. As it works, we integrate that particular response as our ‘normal’ way of being. The ego is created. Some children identify the best solution as being the nice girl/nice boy that always pleases their parents. Others realize that playing small, being invisible, disappearing is the best solution to face authority figures. Others again classify that being a rebellious child gives them some form of attention - better negative attention than no attention at all. Over the years of working with people we have come to recognize about eighteen standard Box defense strategies. All of them are effective. Please find the list at 18 Boxes Bubble (http://18boxes.mystrikingly.com/). The list is not intended to be systematic or all inclusive. The value of this list is reading through it to recognize which defense strategies your Box uses. You may also recognize a number of your friends in this list.
AN EGGSHELL
A bird’s eggshell is designed to protect the baby bird until it can stand on its own two feet. A chrysalis is designed to protect a caterpillar’s transformation into something that can fly. Likewise, the Box is designed to defend us until we are ready to shift from childhood to our life as a free and natural adult human being.
The transition from childhood to adulthood is intended to take place at around fifteen years of age. We are not structurally capable of taking responsibility before fifteen. But, tragically, our culture does not provide a rite of passage for us. If we do not go through the process that changes the purpose of our Box from its originally defensive and purely survival-based purpose to a mature, expansive, self-development, evolutionary purpose, then our Box, which once protected us, then becomes our prison.
THE PURPOSE
If your Box is dedicated to defending itself, then the purpose of your actions will be to protect your positions, blame or attack others, compete for resources, justify yourself, regard yourself as “right” and others as “wrong,” feel resentment, and as a last resort destroy or isolate. These strategies are the foundation for creating ordinary gameworlds serving shadow principles. If you change the purpose of your Box from defending itself to expanding itself, then your actions will have a completely different quality. A Box dedicated to expanding itself directs your actions toward exploring new territory, going beyond restrictive limits, self-development, discovery, trying new things, learning, growth, welcoming surprises, experimenting, and so on. Reading a book such as this and practicing with the suggested experiments is a Box-expanding action.
Our Box long ago concluded that if it can survive, then we can survive. That ancient decision still holds dominance until we radically change the game we are playing. Our Box is extremely resilient, fast, clever, subtle, and justified in its self-defense. Without us making intelligent conscious efforts to create alternative options, our Box will minimize chances to play a different game and will control the way we show up in the world for the rest of our days. A defensive Box does let anyone get in closer to you than the limit of itself. It does not even let you go to the edge and explore what is beyond. If you attempt to move towards the edge, your Box screams “What are you doing? What are you doing? If you go there, we will die! Die! Do you hear me? Die! Go back inside! Now!” Without the possibility of traveling to the edge of yourself, new games are never revealed to you.
You And Your Box
WARNING!
You will encounter unavoidable Liquid States plus authentic Healing and Transformation during 'Box Expansion' experiences!
This is not a joke. Changing a solid object - such as the many Parts of your Survival Strategy Box - from one shape into another shape, occurs through a fluidic transition period known as the 'Liquid State'.
During a Liquid State, many things once believed to be solid, true, or real, melt down and rearrange themselves with each other, both within you and around you. In addition to that, some things fall away, and some completely new and probably unexpected things may suddenly appear.
Please choose wisely to proceed with reading these StartOver.xyz websites or engaging in these Experiments, including the Expand The Box (ETB) Training.
The thing is, this stuff actually unfolds your potentials and creates a new future for you to step into as an Adult.
If you love the life that you have and the ways that you are, if you love what is happening now in your relationships and in the world around you: DO NOT PROCEED!
Stop right here and return to watching TV series for your entertainment.
Initiation, Healing, and Transformation is not for everyone.
Perhaps it is not for you.
The choice is yours, and YOU are responsible for your choices. Irresponsibility is a Fantasy World.
To understand further what we mean by the term 'Liquid State', and what it might mean for you personally, please explore the Liquid State website.
Thank you for your cooperation...
BOX BASICS
A Talk by Clinton Callahan
Expand Your Box
'Expanding your Box' means to acquire real behavior possibilities that were not available before.
Two methods have been discovered to effectively expand the Box, a 'push' method and a 'pull' method.
The 'Push Method' comes from Werner Heisenberg.
The 'Pull Method' comes from Santa Claus.
THE 'PUSH' METHOD OF EXPANDING YOUR BOX
Werner Heisenberg (died 1976) was a world-class Scientist who formulated many of the original mathematical models for quantum physics.
The 'Push Method' of Box Expansion derives from what has come to be known as 'The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle'. In layman’s terminology, the 'Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle' says that details of a situation cannot be known without interfering in the situation.
In other words, the closer you look at something, the more you change it.
This effect is terrible in quantum physics, but is fantastic for expanding the Box.
This means, the closer you observe and investigate the structure, purpose and technology of your Box, the more it unfolds in expanding fluidity founded in clarity, love, possibility and evolution. Voila! Box Expansion!
THE 'PULL METHOD OF EXPANDING YOUR BOX
Santa Clause (still living...) is a world-class Wizard who - from time-to-time - swings by your place on his sleigh, pops down the chimney, and opens up his endlessly big bag of gifts, inviting you to reach inside and take anything you want for free.
The 'Pull Method' of Box Expansion is derived from what has come to be known as 'Gifts Of Unknown Things Principle' (the title of a recommended book by Lyall Watson, Matrix Code BOOK0165.00 for StartOver.xyz). In layman's terminology, The 'Gifts Of Unknown Things Principle' says that receiving a surprise gift with seemingly magical powers will induce you to do whatever it takes to learn how to use it.
In other words, to learn to make use of the magical gifts, you will are tempted to enter new territory.
Fear of the unknown is usually what stops people from undertaking their own Hero's Journey Quest, but it is the the most attractive catalyst in real-life Transformation.
This means, the open toolbox of transformational tools, thoughtmaps, distinctions and processes we offer you at Expand The Box training is inspiring enough for you to try new behaviors. Since the tools actually work, you keep going! Voila! Box expansion!
Box Experiments
To get to know your own Box
Which Box Have You Build For Yourself?
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.01:
Write down in your Beep! Book which one of the 18 standard boxes you are, it could be that you are a mix of 2 or 3 boxes, usually not more than that.
Box Technology And Your Parts
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.04
Box Technology And Your Survival Strategy
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Box Technology And Your Assumptions
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.05
Box Technology And Your Positionality
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Box Technology And Your Prejudices
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Box Technology And Your Projections
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.07
Box Technology And Your Fantasy Worlds
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Box Technology And Your Roles
Matrix Code SPARK187.00
SPARK187 You do not have roles. You have a life.
Read together at a Possibility Team and do the experiments.
Box Technology And The Design Of Your Box
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Draw your Box in excruciatingly precise detail.
Get out your Beep!Book and draw a picture of your Box with the different shapes, characteristics, regions, domains of interest, and all the things and spaces that your Box has control of your life.
Box Technology And The Comparison With Other Boxes
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.13
List the differences between your Box and other people's Box.
In comparison to other people. Make a list of 150 differences and similarities between your Box and the Box of someone else you are living with or see on a regular basis.
Notice that this is your Box and their Box.
Example. My desk has to be full of papers, and notes, and cables, their desk has to be neat and tidy.
Hello, this is my Box.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Obtain a cardboard box and carry it around for 24 hours. This is your Box. Every time you find a button, you write it or draw it on the Box. Examples: "I have to be on time", "I am vegan. "; "my shirt has to match my socks"; "if somebody is late I get to hate them."
Box Technology And Your Possibility Team
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
In pairs in a Possibility Team every time you are having a conversation, one sentence is about making your Box more comfortable. "could you turn the music down?", It's about staying in your marshmallow zone of your Box. The next offer is to go to the edge of your Box. And then you go back to the marshmallow, and then back to edge. Keep doing that to have the experience
Agree with the Boxes.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
During a whole day, every time you are having a conversation, just agree with their reactions, conclusions, and projections. Do this in the same day with 10 different Boxes.
Who is speaking?
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Get in pairs or groups of 3, with one or two coaches. For one hour, take turns. Let something besides your Box speak. Coach says "that's your Box, I want to hear something from your Being", or "something besides your box, like your Pearl, Archetypal Lineage, your anger, your child ego state".
Speed of your Box.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
For a week, 3 times a day, change the speed of your speaking either uncomfortably faster or slower, and speak with another person for 10 minutes.
Change your speaking.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
For a week, 3 times a day, change your speaking. Speak from a different character, from a different country or time, from with a different religion than yours, sexual orientation, from a differently abled person, with a speech impediment, from someone who is missing something, or is a teacher, or doctor, or president, and speak for 10 minutes.
Imitate Boxes.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Imitate the neurotic small subtle behaviours of your friend. Tell your friend that you are doing an experiment and learning to be more flexible in yourself.
Tell their Box.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
In pairs, tell the person in front of you about their Box. Example: "I see you think you are a women, I see that you think you are from Paris, I see that you have the story that you like orange juice". Ask them to tell you about yours.
Ambidextrous.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Use your less dextrous hand and do the things you would use your dextrous hand to do.
Box not changing.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Call up your mother, brother, sister or someone who knows you since a very long time. Tell them "I think that I changed. I think there are a few things that I didn't change. Please tell me about all the ways that I have not changed". Write them all down.
Natural products.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Go to the store and buy 10 different natural products that your box doesn't want you to use: charcoal toothpaste, skin cream and that is only made of aloe vera, placenta healing salve, etc. Use it and notice you Box reactions. Write down in beep!book the exact reaction, how your Box tries to control, what commments it creates in your head to defend itself.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Clothing.
Go to the store and buy 10 differnt natural products that your box doesn't want you to yuse, charcoal toothpaste, skincream and that is only aloa vera, placenta healing cream, and use it, and notice in your wirte down in notebook your reactions the extac reaction, and how your Box tries to control, what commments it has to defend itself.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Food
Go to the restaurant, pick the thing that you want and then order the second down from that and order that instead.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Go to the restaurant order what you want and don't eat it.
Matrix Code BOXTECHN.12
Put on lipstick and smear the side, guy put a ribbon and mascara on and go out to work like. Tie your tie badly and leave some grandma ladies underwear out of your pocktets. put a crack in your boxes perfectionism.
The Nothing Box
NOTE: This website is a Bubble in the Bubble Map of the free-to-play, massively-multiplayer, online-and-offline, thoughtware-upgrade, matrix-building, personal-transformation, adventure-game called StartOver.xyz. It is a doorway to experiments that upgrade your thoughtware so you can create more possibility. Your knowledge is what you think about. Your thoughtware is what you use to think with. When you change your thoughtware, you go through a liquid state as your mind reorganizes itself. Liquid states can bring up transformational feelings and emotions. By upgrading your thoughtware you build matrix to hold more consciousness and leave behind a life of reactivity. No one can upgrade your thoughtware for you. No one can stop you from upgrading your thoughtware. Our theory is that when we collectively build 1,000,000 new Matrix Points we will change the morphogenetic field of the human race for the better. Please choose responsibly to read this website. Reading this whole website is worth 1 Matrix Point. Doing any of the experiments earns you additional Matrix Points. Please use Matrix Code BOXTECHN.00 to log your Matrix Point for reading this website on StartOver.xyz. Thank you for playing full out!