See you in a future past life, Chapter 16

       See you in a future past life

                  Chapter 16

   A almost daily journal / journey.


Team work, groups and forming the traveling group.

Team work and groups. A team is a unified

group, the group is unified in to a team

through a plan. Ideally, the plan is the reason 

each individual joined the group.

Interestingly enough, the outward reasoning

for the forming of any group, “the plan“, is

not the most influential reason for the group

forming. People are drawn together for

much more primal reasons.

I believe the list of universal human needs is

A insight to those primal reasons groups

form and crowds gather.


On the internet I located a list of universal

human needs. The list I found has about

sixty five universal human needs. I see these

needs for what they are, primal switches,

not in absolute terms as in on and off.

Hum. To know, is to experience.

The experience.

The list is extensive and is admittedly

incomplete . Below is a list of universal

human needs. Please, If you would, reflect

on each word and consider what it means to

you. Consider, how often you engage in

each human need? What universal human

needs where you unaware of?

Think of an activity, How many universal

human needs dose that activity have the

potential to stimulate/ satisfy?

Most activities, stimulate, satisfy, engage or

energize multiple universal human needs at

once.


Reflection.

 Marriage, a bundled experience of universal

human needs, the commitment to form a life

long team. Ideally, marriage  sets in motion

a life time exploration and practice of

universal human needs, doing so, keeps the

marriage/ the team in balance with its self as

it matures.


Please consider.


A list of universal human needs.

LEARNING        PLAY           FUN

INSPIRATION           CREATIVITY     

                    INITIATIVE

RESPECT            LOVE        HUMOR

          SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION   

 INDEPENDENCE     TO MATTER

MEANING         PURPOSE      JOY

PEACE  COMPASSION   FREEDOM

        INTEGRITY        CHOICE  

CONTRIBUTION    APPRECIATION 

     MOURNING               BEAUTY


AUTHENTICITY       PEACE OF MIND

INTEGRATION           HARMONY

    SPACE       EASE            ACCEPTANCE

INCLUSION    EMPATHY     PRESENCE

SUPPORT    SHELTER       HEALTH

WATER              PHYSICAL SAFETY

FOOD       SUSTENANCE      REST

PHYSICAL MOVEMENT     TOUCH

SEXUAL EXPRESSION    MUTUALITY

DIVERSITY     TRUST        EQUALITY 

CONSIDERATION        CONNECTION


COMMUNITY               BELONGING

NURTURANCE                WARMTH 

EXPRESSION          WELL-BEING

UNDERSTANDING      CLARITY
 
SECURITY     STABILITY      ORDER

AUTONOMY       INDEPENDENCE.

I believe, that being familiar with these

words and there definitions and searching

out the experience behind these words can

develop a balanced full human experience.

Obviously, if people live in a tyrannical

country, some of these experiences are

beyond their grasp. (Freedom, It is of the

greatest human importance.)

 Please consider these possibilities into your

life.


Reflection.

I imagine, a healthy person, unaware of the

list of universal  human needs, but

practicing them through primal intuition,

would feel a sense of balance as well.

Many paths lead to the same destination.



How dose the list of universal human needs 

relate to a group or team?

I believe that the universal list of human

needs should be one of the first discussions

a newly forming group should consider as a

regularly scheduled conversation.

I believe the list of universal human needs

can increase the continuity and effectiveness

of a group.



More about teams and groups.

I love the radio. I listen to NPR and the

BBC. I hear a lot of interesting bits of trivia.

Several month’s ago I heard a snippet that

fascinated me pertaining to groups.

 “ A group retains its continuity until it

exceeds seven people, then its continuity

and its efficiency, begins to break down.”


Team work.

Lets say there is a football field and at one

end of the field there is a stack of  one

thousand bricks. For some reason a person is

charged with the task of  moving all of the

bricks from one end of the field to the other.

What are some of the feelings that could go

through that persons mind while considering

and moving the stack of bricks? First I

imagine, a feeling of dread, followed by a

slight depression. If  the person is not in

shape it may even feel hopeless. Carrying as

many as four bricks it would take two

hundred and fifty trips, that person would

walk one hundred fifty thousand feet. All of

these negative emotions make that person

less efficient and resistant, not to mention

exhausted from physical activity and stress.


If that person was able to recruit some help,

say seven of his friends, and he asked them

to recruit seven of their friends, their would

be three hundred forty three people. Now to

move the bricks from one side of the field to

the other would only take three trips per

person to complete the brick moving task.

It would be done in less than a half hour.

Because of the large number of people that

showed up to move the bricks, the

individual peoples efficiency increased

because of the lack of resistant emotions.


So, when a group of people forms around a

shared interest to perform a singular strait

forward task, the forming and presence of

the group empowers the individual

amplifying the potential of the group.


About forming a group of travelers.

This book has evolved from a fictional story,

to a journal and a plan. As the plan has

evolved, it went from me on my own, to a

search for a female companion to share the

trip with, to a invitation for other folks to

participate in the journey.


I and led to believe, from what I understand

of groups, to keep the traveling group to

around seven. The question is, what rolls

will each of the seven play on the journey?


Some ideas.

1) Writer

2) Computer genius

3) Cinematographer/ Filmmaker

4) Yoga instructor / Dietitian

5) Motor cycle mechanic 

6) visual artist / painter

7) me/ writer

Do any of these rolls appeal to you the

reader?

If so, please contact me through my profile

Page on my blog.


Have a great day.

I thank you for your readership.

Seth Galli