How to leave Orange behind and go full Green?

[Monkey-man]

Although I didn't nail Orange stage in spiral dynamic, but I was there for a long time and I'm quite fed up with it.

My values are already Green, I already have deep understanding that I don't really need Orange values because of their current and eventual dissatisfactory nature.

But my plans and thought-patterns are still Orange, coz self-image has a bit of 'hope' to get some goodies. 

Ego's attachments I still cannot leave behind:

Thoughts about dream-job

Thoughts about success, fame

Strategising, thinking about future

Need for acceptance from others

Need for love and finding future spouse

 

So I've no wish to act upon Orange, its just subtle resisting ideas and dreams about future.

Green assumes being in the moment and connecting with surroundings. Green has no manipulative, goal-oriented, ever-strategising and calculating behaviour as Orange.

So how do we leave Orange behind? These cravings are VERY small now, but they don't let to be fully present. I really wanna leave all desires behind and make quantum leap towards green and yellow.

 

 

Edited January 15, 2018 by Monkey-man

[jjer94]

Your eagerness to leave stage orange is ironically a feature of stage orange. So first off, eager beaver, relax. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

In Integral Spirituality, Ken Wilber says that a daily meditation practice can help you move an average of one stage every two years. If you don't meditate, I suggest you start as soon as possible. 

He also says, the more you experience different states of consciousness, the faster you progress through the stages. States are fleeting glimpses of higher stages. A few ways to induce higher states include: psychedelic usage, long periods of uninterrupted meditation, self-enquiry, breathing exercises (e.g. shamanic, holotropic), and cold exposure. 

In the meantime, realize that Spiral Dynamics is just a map. It's not black and white. We often inhabit many different stages at once. By participating on this forum and following Actualized.org, you probably have some stage green or yellow in you already. And by continuing to stick around here, the higher stages will rub off on you automatically.

 

[Monkey-man]

@jjer94 i meditate, had many glimpses of higher stages, its just orange dreams prevent me to fully relax

[Monkey-man]

@Mighty Mouse i think green is sort of be in the moment thing, is it not?

listed things might come back, its just right now i don't wanna deal with them, but instead focus on spirituality

[Monkey-man]

@Mighty Mouse how to address things without pursuing them? i don't wanna pursue them at all

hopes are for full yellow, but i think i can't be yellow until i don't become green in-the-moment.

[Monkey-man]

@Mighty Mouse my concern is that my orange dreams prevent me from awakening from ego

so i use SD as a map where yellow is sort of first self-realization/awakening from ego.