”Yes You Can” & “No You Can't” DualityPhase OneUnity Consciousness #1105

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(Part 9d of 11)

Understanding duality helps us understand reality and illusion. It helps us understand what's going on in the world and with ourselves. For instance, within me and you is the duality of “Yes, you can” and “No, you can't. This is why both of these thoughts will “pop up” in the mind sooner or later.
We call it second-guessing ourselves. It's not a guess, it's the truth.

The first thing that comes to mind is sometimes the thought we should leave behind.
On second thought sometimes catches a mistake before behavior takes off.

We are in a period where logic is mixed-up and incomplete, usually in a one-sided way.
There are two types of “yes you can.” First there is yes you can using optimal thinking and behavior, then there's yes you can using suboptimal thinking and behavior.
Same is true for no you can't.

When a thought first comes to mind, which context is it? Which context is your second thought? Which context are other people or the culture using who are either telling you yes, you can or no you can't?
Don't just compare the words you and other people are saying, also compare the context (what you and other people are not saying).

There are 16 first thought/second thought combinations of yes you can and no you can't using optimal and suboptimal contexts:
1. optimal yes, optimal yes
2. optimal yes, optimal no
3. optimal no, optimal yes
4. optimal no, optimal no

5. suboptimal yes, suboptimal yes
6. suboptimal yes, suboptimal no
7. suboptimal no, suboptimal yes
8. suboptimal no, suboptimal no

9. optimal yes, suboptimal yes
10. optimal yes, suboptimal no
11. optimal no, suboptimal yes
12. optimal no, suboptimal no

13. suboptimal yes, optimal yes
14. suboptimal yes, optimal no
15. suboptimal no, optimal yes
16. suboptimal no, optimal no

Once you understand the context, then compare the texts and then compare the reasoning details behind first thought logic and second thought logic, you will know better which direction to go because you will understand where the logic is coming from.

Study optimal and suboptimal in general along with optimal theory and suboptimal theory specifically.

Ask questions of your first thought, ask why, why not, ask more questions such as where did you get that idea, why do you think that, and so on. Ask the same questions of others and voluntarily provide the same information to others when you are being their first thought. Yes, it's possible to be someone's first thought. You: “You can do this.” Them: “You think I can?”
Treat your second thought the same as your first, not as self-doubt, an inconvenience or an invader trying to push you forward or hold you back. Ask the same questions of others and voluntarily provide the same information to others when you are being their second thought.

Yes you can and no you can't is a start, but neither of these two statements are the beginning or end of the thought process of deciding what to think or what to do.
When we don't understand the context of first thought and second thought, it's easy to get reality and illusion mixed up also.

Both the first thought and second thought are the truth.
Both the optimal context and suboptimal context are the truth.
Once you understand this, you will know how to stay aware of which is which and which one is manifesting itself, and then you will know how to adjust in order to still maintain health and beingness.