Are you in your own life or somewhere else?

Let us play a Subject versus Object game

Lisa Patrell
6 min readFeb 20, 2024

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This is an exploration of an Energy Codes® concept: Subject versus Object.

Here are the playing pieces. Subject is a full-length mirror and Object is a pair of binoculars.

On the game board, we move the mirror when we are self-aware at the present time and in the present space we occupy. In other words, we show up and view life as happening for us.

We move binoculars when we are interpreting an event, situation, or interaction as life is happening to us. Here, we are spending time reconciling why so-and-so said something, why things are unfair, and other kinds of ruminations after the fact.

The game begins. The first card is pulled, which reports the following facts.

A professional arrives at the client destination to present a pitch. The professional knows the material fluently and enjoys delivering information to audiences.

There is equipment to carry: the computer with all the gear; a packable expandable signage in a tube; one box of literature; personal business accessories.

It is a Spring Day and the rain from morning stopped during the drive to the destination. The pavement is still wet and the new grass sodden.

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Lisa Patrell

I am too old to be new, but not so worn that I cannot regard life anew in poetry. Other hours I hold space for people transforming & do things for our planet.