Become all you can become with SophieHe that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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Life is like a spiral staircase… Every problem, every issue will come back to be addressed on a hopefully higher level…
Like getting unstuck.
I once read a story about Gandhi. A woman came to him with his child. He asked Gandhi to tell the child that eating sugar is bad for him. Continue reading “My first ever webinar in 2009 on getting unstuck”
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A Healthy Man Wants a Thousand Things; a Sick Man Only Wants One
If you feel imprisoned, you want freedom…
But if you don’t feel it, even though you are imprisoned, you’ll want many things. And won’t even think of wanting freedom. Continue reading “A Healthy Man Wants a Thousand Things, a sick man…”
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Everyone, even the most shallow people, wonder who they are. Really.
By the time you are out of high school you have a constructed identity, but it is neither you, nor it makes you happy. But it may make it bearable to be with other people who don’t know who they are, who live out a script that is either compatible with yours or not. Continue reading “What is your real self? Where is your real self?”
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If you give it enough time, the ugly, the ugly in people will feel safe and it will come out to show itself.I spent some time this morning looking at the British royals and their soul correction.
Why them? They are highly visible. And as such, I can check some of the earlier analyses of dominant behaviors and urges of different soul corrections. Continue reading “Ugly is rising. Retain your good in this new environment?”
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One of my teachers, Sean teaches that instead of starting a business is start a project, not a business.
But most people don’t know diddly squat about building, creating a project.
They know goal setting… daydreaming… wishing, wanting, etc.
But projects? Continue reading “Life is best lead as a series of projects. Like a cheetah”
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What do your predatory genes do? judging from what happens when some are turned off, and some are turned on?
Some things in reality are outside of our direct knowledge. but we can still glean an insight by observing what happens when we tweak them, turn them off, turn them on.
One of the most memorable things I have ever read was in a book The Terminal Man. In the beginning, scientists want to find out what area of the brain is responsible for certain behaviors, certain memories… Continue reading “What do your human predatory genes do? Make you do…”
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An interesting result from the ‘one emotion to rule them all‘ article is this:
when you use your energy, when you downgrade your drive to be satisfied with instant gratification, what is easy, it is like you feed it junk food.
An aside: Most of what you eat is junk food, by the way. Unless the food leaves you energized, not hungry for at least four hours, it was junk food. Probably the least junky food is your breakfast… Continue reading “How wanting is the root of misery, not hate, money, or wars”
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I got an email yesterday with the subject line: One Emotion to Rule them All
I had to know what it is. But the dude who sent that email buried the answer into a long interactive video I wasn’t willing to go through.
So I went to Mr. Google, and put that whole sentence into the search box. Only one dude used that exact sentence, a pastor. Continue reading “One emotion to rule them all… What is it?”
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On the other side of pain, on the other side of unpleasant… How firewalking is an analogy to life… Or how to innovate yourself out of a bad situationFirewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones.
Firewalking has been practiced by many people and cultures in all parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating back to Iron Age India – c. 1200 BC. It is often used as a rite of passage, as a test of an individual’s strength and courage, or in religion as a test of one’s faith.
One of the buzz-words Tai uses in several of his steps is ‘innovate yourself out of’ the trouble you are in… the stuck states, the problem, etc. It’s Jeff Bezos’ favorite method of growth… Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame…
I have never met a person, I have never met a student who even remotely could imagine this accurately, including Tai. Continue reading “How to innovate yourself out of a bad situation”
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One of the hardest things I have ever encountered is hard because of my weakness of mental representation.
I do have the capacity open, but I have never used it consciously. I have been looking at myself as if the only path to any place is the path of the bumbling idiot, the meandering path. The path I’ve always taken. I even bragged about it… ugh.
And no matter how many courses, workshops, programs, I have done before, it has taken three decades to where I am now. Continue reading “Why isn’t Gordon Ramsey’s Pad Thai a Pad Thai?”
