Communication

by Joseph Fedorowsky

In the context of personal development, the subject of communication generally brings to mind the transfer of information from one person to another.  The idea being that you can learn many different ways and methods to more efficiently share information between one another. 

And that, of course, is certainly an important aspect of communication. 

The topical area of communication as it is discussed here, however, has more to do with a focus on communication as it relates to you -- that is, information from yourself to yourself -- in the context of your own personal power. 

In this way, communication, like the time element, can be seen as a component of your own personal power.

From this viewpoint, the subject of communication has a great deal to do with your own awareness of yourself, where and how you place your attention, and the extent to which you acknowledge yourself within that awareness.   

Internal communication has historically been seen as fairly simplistic.  You get data from your surroundings, your environment, through your senses, you then process that data through your brain, which is influenced by your past experiences and how you are wired, and presto! out comes some pertinent, and hopefully significant, thoughts about the particular situation at hand, which you then either accept or reject.  

Viewing communication as essentially the cognitive processing of information and the transfer of data between individuals is not exactly invalid.  It is a way of looking at things.  It’s just that it’s a rather one dimensional way of looking at what is, in actuality, a complex, multi-dimensional reality with you at the center. 

Understanding communication as it relates to your own personal power, therefore, is much different and much expanded, as it is based on a much broader context. 

As you no doubt already intuitively know, there’s a whole lot more going on within yourself than simply the processing and transferring of information and data. 

In fact, the rich, complex streams of communication which you have access to within yourself (but about which you may not be fully, objectively aware) offers layers-upon-layers of information to you within literally every moment and within every state of consciousness. 

For example, information you directly present to yourself in the form of emotion or feeling or impulse, whether during waking or dreaming, opens the door into an entire world of communication beyond the scope of mere cognitive processing.

To really grasp and get a handle or overview on the incredible complexity within your own world of internal communication, then, it would be helpful to objectively understand what exactly the various streams of communication are, how that functions within your broader reality and how you go about fully tapping into those streams of communication to your immediate advantage. 

In being able to objectively, consciously, tap into your own internal communications, and in understanding the vast amount and variety of information you share with yourself literally within every moment, whether awake or asleep, you effectively broaden access to your own personal power.  And this is the point. 

You can’t realistically expect to tap into your own wealth of personal power without being in a position to access your own internal communications any more than you can realistically expect to operate complex machinery without being in a position to view the full instrumentation panel. 
   
Understanding your own personal, internal communication as a component of your own personal power will naturally lead to more freedom of movement.  This is your way to personal power and freedom.