The more I observe the bird behaviours, the more I sense the mystery of details they reveal about the way they process and respond to each situation.
How the Bulbul proceeded to feed at the feeding station gave me a sense of the details ingrained in its behaviour. The orderly behaviour and preciseness of each step indicate the aesthetic sense it has developed to be the style of its behaviour! The birds inherit a lot of this as a species specific behaviour.
The science of epigenetic, which conditions gene expression and function that happen without altering the DNA sequence is now a field of investigation extensively.
A retired woman army officer who is in the social media as a motivational speaker referred to her years in the army as a young woman, who was greatly influenced by the 'discipline' of conduct, and behaviour instilled in her during here training years. She talked about internalising them as values which subsequently helped her to be what she is in influencing others to live with regard and appreciation of one's potential.
I was involved in preparing a protocol for appreciative appraisal by each staff in an organisation and a fraternal appraisal by the colleagues. It was during that exercise of defining seven domains of self appraisal, I realised how much a person has the opportunity to 'become' what one envisages for oneself. I felt encouraged to suggest that a 'personal vision statement' can be a pathfinder for this becoming process. Carl Jung elaborated on the process of 'individuation' when a person moves out of his or 'persona' to become an authentic ' Self' each person is endowed to be!
I had time to reflect on this 'becoming journey', which ought to become a conscious personal journey for each person. It is when 'becoming' is a decisive personal pursuit, we transcend our 'shadows' of beliefs, hurts, grief, disappointments or aspirations, to see the prospect of who one is in the interior, born with the gift of love to receive and share.
When a three year girl returned home with the chocolate bar from the birthday party she went to attend, her parents were surprised by her desire to share it with her younger brother at home! That is the genuine human nature each of us gifted with. It is in our DNA. The epigenetic influence of greed, acquisition, possession, success or personal prosperity have made us prisoners within with self absorption.
The becoming process is for finding freedom from this habituation to return to a way of living mindfully, by 'loving our neighbour as ourself' !
The human character is endowed with goodness and thoughtfulness! We need that journey of restoration to begin at each home for this to spill over to become the ethos in our society!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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