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# Variability is the key
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/variability-is-the-key/
- Published: 2024-07-02T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-13T21:08:35.000Z
- Description: You have an idea of ‘how you are’ but it's got nothing to do with who you *really* are. 💝
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Psychology, Principles, Comics, Presence, Thought realisation, MECHANICS

Have a look at these popular memes. What do you see?

In both, the same statement is seen in two very different ways: 

  - One tight, constricted, limited, alone
  - The other open, light, free, connected

I’m going to go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that your thought system 📦 is saying something like,

> *‘Some people are like this, and other people are like that.’*

It may have even have gone as far as placing these labels onto someone you know.

Or even your self.

Classic mind activity! 📦

It’s all **black and white**, to the mind, isn’t it?

  - One way or the other.
  - My way or the highway.
  - Fixed.
  - How it is.

But what if that’s not what this meme is about?

🤔

What if it’s pointing to the fact that ****we are all** ***both** **these people**, at one time or another?

What if these memes are in fact the exact same picture as my little stick man, with ‘Thought Realisation’ written across the head (📦) and ‘Innate Health’ at the heart of our being (❤️)?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/12/GPC-stick-man---Thought-realization---Innate-health_small.jpg)

Sorry not sorry that it's almost the same size here, as it is in real life.

In one state of mind/mood/level of consciousness we are identifying with thought (📦), everything looks like it’s about us, and we’re feeling tight, constricted, limited and alone.

And in another state of mind/mood/level of consciousness we are in life (❤️), not paying attention to the mind’s jibber-jabber and feeling open, light, free and connected.

Once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Because it’s how life works.

Just saying’

😘

Giles

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This is kinda ***it.**