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I sleep poorly the night before every Playground session. It takes me hours to fall asleep, and I have trouble-filled dreams.
So when I got up this past Saturday, it was freezing cold, in the single digits outside… single digits in Fahrenheit is very cold… double digits in the minus in Celsius.
So I pondered what I had to look forward that day. Continue reading “Define what is success for you, to become successful”
…poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau said.
Continue reading “People don’t care how much you know… really”
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Kabbalists say: the bible is code. They, of course, mean: the Old Testament, the 5 books of Moses.
If the Bible is code, then it is not a story… or if there is a story there, it is itself code: meaning an illustration of a principle.
Egypt stands for slavery. Slavery to whatever people are a slave to: riches, significance, sex, entertainment, desire to receive for the self alone, their racket, the racket with which they extort goodies from others, justify their nastiness, their domination, their haplessness.
Extorting sympathy, or whatever they extort.
So what did Moses do with this bunch of slaves? Continue reading “Kabbalists say: the bible is code. They, of course, mean: the Old Testament, the 5 books of Moses”
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I just read an excerpt of Mark Manson’s (vibration: 260) book, about the path to growing… The art of not giving a f*ck
Even the brief is worth reading…
Some people write better than me. Some people find solutions faster than me. Some people can teach ME things… Baah, right?
What Manson says is the essence of the Michelangelo Method of growing.
You remove everything that doesn’t work, everything that is not you, everything that doesn’t support you in living life you love and living it powerfully.
But the sticky part of this process is telling the truth about having been wrong. Continue reading “Removing Barriers to you being all-you-can-be”
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So you want to be important… liked… relevant… belonging.
This issue is coming to the forefront… This expectation of be made important, liked, relevant, belonging by other people, or by some job, of by association, or by some success.
Or to be liked by behaving in a certain way, be liked by other people because of something you do or don’t do.
It is an aspect of being an effect… not a cause. Little explored by anyone.
Continue reading “So you want to be important… liked… relevant… belonging.”
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Last night I spent a lot of time looking at a deluge of memories of things I’ve done that I am ashamed of
I just slashed my finger for the third time this morning. I will have a hard time muscletesting for a bit… Here is what happened:
Last night in bed I spent a lot of time looking at a deluge of memories of things I did that I am ashamed of.
They came, vividly, fast and furious, things I have long forgotten, things I am not proud of.
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What is the difference between ‘I am’ and ‘I have been’? They both create yourself… but which is the right you?
I wrote this article almost two years ago, and suddenly it became as current as anything…
It is a great companion piece to my article for today: Continue reading “What is the difference between ‘I am’ and ‘I have been’?”
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The walls of the trench hide what the trench is really about.
I have two students with the same soul correction, both want attention. What they don’t see, what they will have a difficulty seeing is that attention is the wall of the trench… not the cause: an effect. The effect that prevents them from seeing the cause, and prevents them from living a full life.
Let’s look what could be missing? Continue reading “It is hard to see outside of the trench you dug yourself…”
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I participated with Landmark Education in all kinds of positions, participant, coach, trainee, leader. After 26 years I quit.
I quit for the same reason I quit Emotions Anonymous, and ACOA, Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families.
I quit because they were stuck. Stuck in the ordinary world. Stuck in the ordinary mindset. The participants, the leaders… they never moved out of the deep misery… so they were going back, year after year, “sharing” the same stories with the exact same words, with the exact same emotions they shared the year before. Continue reading “When you go beyond the horizontal plane…”
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Sometimes people get an idea of activating a capacity that is so alien to their culture, it takes a good 5-10 minutes for the history channel, the ancestors backwards, to build.
No one in your ancestry possessed that capacity… so it has been non-existent for you even culturally.
It is so unfamiliar that ego doesn’t even know to protest. It is like a way of being that is totally unfamiliar… you can’t see other than special people, like kung fu fighters, or shaolin monks to demonstrate it. And, of course, Aikido. I have a book, Aikido in everyday life… illustrates how this principle looks in real life… brilliant.
Flexibility is also the capacity to be able to keep your balance even though the world is pushing you hither and thither… Continue reading “More about flexibility… What is it? How you get it?”
