Let’s imagine that your life is a form of a game, where you are free to use specific skills, resources but also have obstacles and limitations. Some rules and initial data in the game are explained and given, while other factors can appear unexpectedly or are yet to be discovered.
So, what is the point of this game? The answer is simple, to influence, have an impact on other systems within your action field and beyond. Let’s view it as the butterfly effect, where even a small change within one system can have a sizable and unpredictable/spiraling effects elsewhere.
Let’s use a simple example. We know that too much junk food is bad for us but keep indulging on it until the body starts to warn us that something is wrong and it’s not ok to go on like this. So we stop or don’t stop eating it, making healthier choices or risking the consequences. Depending on the decision we made, our further fate and influence on other systems will be determined. With this example, it’s at least somewhat clear what contributed to the problem, and it has slightly limited effects.
Let’s take a broader example: our recycling efforts or lack thereof and the whole environmental problem. If in the first example, we may just pollute our body, this one has other long term effects, which we may not immediately see or personally experience. However, it doesn’t cancel our influence and/or contribution to the problem.
Now let’s look at where we can start having a real impact on our game. Thoughts influence emotions and vice versa. Those interrelations, as well as behavioral patterns, and reactions that became habitual and have tremendous effects on our decisions, choices, actions and overall way of life, aren’t as easily understood as the effects of food on our bodies. How can we utilize our resources and the knowns to uncover the unexpected and the hidden?
The transformational games I facilitate help understand those unknowns and how you operate in different aspects of your life as well as find out what you can do about it to change your usual way of thinking, perceiving and making an impact. The good news is that I also make it easy and fun.
Care to find out how the butterfly effect happens in your head with the help of a game?
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