The Four Zones of Beingness and Ten Enriching Connections

By Tom Russell (please feel free to repost this article)

Like magnets, a useable spiritual concept creates a structure that attracts insights.  Consider the existence of four zones of Beingness:  red, yellow, green and blue.
 

The Zones Described

RED:  The red zone is made up of memories, tendencies and reactions based on worry, blame, hostility, self-condemnation, painful demands and lingering regret.  

YELLOW: In the yellow zone positive influences converge toward one’s wish to break free of the red zone and regain one’s spiritual purpose.  The yellow zone is the domain of books, classes, teachers comprising a library of information and techniques  – some discovered (by your personal experimentation) to be of greater usefulness than others. 

GREEN: Spontaneity, flexibility, empathy and happiness blossom in the green zone.  Life lives itself directly and not through the filter of techniques and influences.  The color green connects with the season of spring and its budding new life.

BLUE:  Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the blue zone this way:  “The soul’s communication of truth is the highest event in nature, and this communication is an influx of the Divine Mind into our mind. Every moment when the individual feels invaded by it is memorable…”  The blue zone is the sudden and unplanned entrance (usually brief) of the Cosmos of Ideas into the receptive space of a clear, playful and unfettered mind.   

Ten Profitable Connections

1. Yellow zone techniques serve to bring the green zone into view. From the green zone of contentment and unfiltered perception, the blue zone may occasionally appear.

2.  Yellow zone techniques get stale if overused. No one technique works indefinitely, though after setting it aside for awhile one can profitably cycle back.  To perceive the limits of techniques, while working to develop mastery in their use, facilitates one’s approach to the green zone.  The blue zone touches the green zone, not the yellow zone. 

3. One naturally oscillates on this scale. For example, some people have driven themselves frantic trying to recreate a blue zone experience.  Something happened, yes, but the harder one tried with yellow zone techniques and red zone demands, the further the blue zone seemed to recede.

4. The red zone reacts with every touch of the blue zone. The immense power of the blue zone stirs up the red zone, making the patient and persistent use of yellow zone techniques profitable and necessary. 

5.  When possible, associate with yellow/green zone incliners and avoid chronic red zoners.  Red zoners sometimes pose as false positives, pretending interest in yellow zone influences with the aim of keeping you corralled. You often see them as “loyal fixtures” at spiritual groups!  They tend to gravitate towards positions of influence and power in organizations, sometimes even being skilled speakers and writers.  Also be leery of the hypnotic power of television – the primary dissemination tool of the red zone!  Yes, there are some great movies out there but they are few and far between. 

6.  Time slows in the green zone. The simplest acts, like a breath, a walk or drink of water reveal depths of pleasure and connection previously unperceived.  What two words best describe the green zone?  Engaging and fun! 

7. Let’s highlight once again the importance of oscillation and movement on this scale. One allows himself to float, giving up the tense battle to maintain a position.  Occasional blue zone visits alternate with the green zone, a plunge into the yellow zone when warranted, and perhaps even the red zone, though the red zone now taste like leather, devitalized, and one harbors no desire to linger there. 

8. Increasingly unattached to the red zone, your lifetrons (sparks of awareness and vitality) move throughout your system to free more lifetrons. Speaking in spiritual symbolism the Bible declares, “The rich get richer.”  For example, lifetrons wrapped around early childhood and family memories free up.  One’s yellow zone associations with particular teachers and programs release with great relief. This release grants respect and gratitude to one’s teachers instead of unhealthy reverence that can deteriorate into red zone agonies.  Only the blue zone warrants reverence.   

9.  A vast and expanding inner life country of lifetrons now honors your intentions. You find yourself much more resilient and able. Lifetrons can even leap forward in time to prepare the space around your upcoming events and encounters.  People sink into low energy discouragement and apathy because of few available lifetrons. Where’s the energy?  Okay, vitamins can help a tiny bit perhaps. But the real reason is spiritually based – lifetrons caught up in false and flimsy patterns yet to be detected and dissolved, some your own creations and others imposed on you through stealth or abuse.

10.  You exist in the blue zone as an Idea. Christ, Buddha, Rabia, Lao Tzu, and the super wise woman running the local grocery store in 1832 that no seeker ever knew about, all discovered the idea within the mind of God/Truth/Reality that is themselves.   Like snowflakes, each one expresses pure originality. What you discover in the blue zone has never been found before, since no one else can find YOU. 

Attaching color to a field of activity can facilitate connections and differentiation. Remembering a color can help bring back into consciousness all one has learned about that field.  

Invitation

* Join us for a live webcast discussion on the Four Zones of Beingness. It’s free and you’re invited.  Mark your calendar for 8:AM Pacific time on Saturday, August 7^th.  Feel free to invite friends. 

* I gave a talk to an audience recently on this topic. You can listen here. 

(SuperWisdom Foundation www.SuperWisdom.com – Resources to develop spiritual self-reliance and penetrating inquiry, including the popular  Time Out for Truth Podcast.)