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He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
I am re-learning to walk. It’s slow going, but muscletest said it would work, so I am practicing.
This morning I got this encouraging email
Hello, It’s Jonathan, just checking in to see how things are proceeding with your new ways of being.
Do you think it looks funny?
Does standing up feel like you’re leaning forward?
Continue reading “Conditioned patterns can be stubborn”
Do you get hooked? People pushing your buttons?Ultimately, every time you encounter something you don’t want, don’t like, don’t agree with, your first reaction is resistance, i.e. not allowing what you don’t like to be. Continue reading “What to do with what you don’t want, don’t agree with?”
It’s even obvious to you that allowing is missing… But how do you activate the capacity of allowing, and then how do you make the capacity a working skill?
Allowing is what’s between you and serenity. I don’t mean happiness, because happiness has its roller coaster nature: happiness has unhappiness as its shadow. You can only get happiness if you are willing to have unhappiness.
Allowing is letting it be. And although you may feel the urge to change it, fix it, kill it, hide it, hide from it, allowing is authentically allowing something to be, and gain your own beingness.
Continue reading “Are you a match to life? If not: Allowing is missing.”
Before I created the Unconditional Love Activator in 2011, my vibration was 300. Even 300 placed me into the top 0.1 percent of human population.
Over time, using the Unconditional Love Activator, my vibration is now reliably above 900.
So, what does the Unconditional Love Activator do, that you’d want for yourself?
Good question, right?
Well, here you go:
If you are “normal”, then you hate yourself, or you hate aspects of yourself.
Continue reading “Customer favorite #3 Unconditional Love Activator”
I am a lot like you, except not always. I am forceful with the best of them, except I am not always forceful. I can be limp and resigned, like you, except that I am not always limp and resigned.
I have mastered to a large degree the capacity “allowing.”
One of the readers says in a comment: I have been practicing dropping the pen, and yet I find no change in my attitude towards anger that I don’t want.
Dropping is forceful. Surrendering is forceful. Changing is forceful.
Continue reading “What is the capacity that is like a linchpin… if you have it you can enter the kingdom”
What did Genghis Khan, the greatest conqueror in history do to raise his people’s IQ?
I have been reading about the Mongols, the nomadic people that occupied lands and people in the 13th century, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, in the 13th Century under Genghis Khan.
99% of those Mongols didn’t read, didn’t write. Their average IQ (my measurement) was the same as college educated people’s today. Their available IQ was 90%, as opposed to today’s college educated people, whose available IQ is less than 80%. Which means, those Mongols were more intelligent than you. Ugh, that hurts.
Here are my insights that I hope will be useful for you today:
Continue reading “What did Genghis Khan do to raise his people’s IQ?”
About this video:
Published on Jul 9, 2015
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
This is an interesting video. But…
Continue reading “Addiction vs. connection”
The anxiety attacks you experienceThere are two types of anxiety attacks, as far as I can see:
Continue reading “The ‘you can do anything’ myth is a source of your anxiety”
Wherever you look, whatever you hear, whatever you read, seems to make your theories right. Men are bastards, the boss favors someone else, the weather is horrid in your area, and you’ll always be the way you are.
No matter how much “data” is in reality to say otherwise, you’ll only validate the “data” that agrees with your worldview.
Somewhere is better than here.
Continue reading “Bits and pieces on misery and happiness”
I have had problems with my hip for the past 16 years. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on chiropractors, and the hip just got worse and worse.
This year I had a recurring flash of desire of being a person who travels from country to country, while doing the work I am doing now.
The only thing standing in my way is the pain to walk, or even stand longer than a minute.
I have given up public speaking because of it. I have given up going out, because I limp. And because it hurts.
The recurring flashes of desire to become mobile again started a process of looking for a solution, if there is a solution.
Continue reading “How to make a commitment you’ll keep”
