Alan Watts had a technique he used in lectures
that exposed something most people spend their
entire lives missing.
He called it following the desire chain.
Once you run it on yourself you cannot unsee what
it shows you.
And it changes what you think you are actually working
toward:
Every chain of desire eventually leads to the same
destination: a feeling.
Not the house... The feeling of security the house
represents.
Not the relationship…The feeling of being known and
chosen.
Not the money... The feeling of ease and freedom.
The objects were never the actual desire. They were
the delivery mechanism people assumed would carry it.
Watts said this is where the most people make the
fundamental error.
They spend their entire lives acquiring the delivery
mechanisms and never go directly for the thing the
mechanisms were supposed to deliver.
They collect the envelopes and wonder why they do
not feel full.
The letter was Always what mattered.
Nobody told them to open it.
The practical application is direct.
Before you pursue anyhting, follow your own desire chain.
"I want X."
And if you had X what would that give you. Keep asking until
you reach the feeling at the end.
Then ask whether there is a way to access that feeling that
does not require the entire acquisition chain first.
Often there is. Often it is much shorter.
Watts was not saying do not pursue things.
He was saying know what you are actually pursuing.
Because someone who knows they are chasing the feeling
of freedom makes different decisions than someone who
thinks they are chasing a number in a bank account.
The first person recognises freedom when it arrives
in unexpected forms.
The second person often misses it entirely.
He also thaught that the desire chain reveals
something important about identity.
The feeling you keep reaching for across every
different desire is the feeling you believe you
currently lack.
That belief of lack is the source.
The desires are the symptoms.
Address the source and the desires eiter resolve
or become much easier to fulfil.
Run your own desire chain today.
Take your biggest current desire.
Ask "and if I had that, what would that give me"
five times in a row.
Write each answer down.
The feeling at the end of the chain is your actual target.
Everything before it was the address you assumed it lived at.
The feeling can be accessed directly… Right now.
Without the full chain complete.
Vibrational Alignment protocol.
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