Depending on your level of thinking, you can use this amazing empowering statement to make yourself stuck and miserable.
WTF, EH?
What would make you stuck? If your cone of vision is too narrow, if your ability to see the forest for the trees is weak, then you’ll get stuck.
If you live life like you are an island… and many of you do!, then you WILL GET STUCK.
I have quite a few examples, because this kind of inability to use your brain usefully is quite frequent.
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I am lucky. Life always offers me plenty to write about.
People say I am prolific, and if you look at my results: I write a lot. But… but if you asked me what I want to be acknowledged for, I wouldn’t say: for the number of articles. The number of articles only shows the tip of the iceberg.
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You can be very happy with your life and grateful for its many blessings while simultaneously desiring more.
The quote is from a book by Rabbi Daniel Lapin: Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money (p. 3). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
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I am on my eighth round of the 67 steps.
Obviously I am following what I learned when I was nine: you can spend a whole vacation reading a book, or a lifetime listening and working with 67 audios and not get bored with it.
Or the way Bruce Lee says the same thing: I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
I have grown more in these 19 months than in any similar period in my life.
But…
Most people I watch are not present to what they are doing: it is habitual, which means mindless, stuck, plateaued.
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We all want to be intelligent, and we are never satisfied…
How come? How come we are never happy with ourselves, never happy with our results, our lives?
I have found, yesterday and today, that what we consider intelligence is wildly different from what it is, and having intelligence, intelligent behavior so misunderstood, is a big cause of us not being happy with ourselves.
Here is what I found… let’s see if I can articulate it in a way that it can make a difference for you.
Should you trust yourself and only yourself? This is the question that keeps coming up… demanding an answer.
But the answer, of course, is not a simple yes or no.
So let’s look what could be the factors that decide if, for you, trusting yourself would be a yes or a no.
I got curious and queried google with the exact phrase ‘should you trust yourself?’
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Let me correct that: I consider most decisions I make a test. Experiment. Rough draft.
Huh?
Yeah, I thought so. I thought it will sound foreign… But you will learn something, through this article, that is not common knowledge… and it is even new to me!
Decisions are an expensive activity for the brain. Any choice is. Important choices and unimportant choices equally use up a renewable resource, for ease of language, I’ll call glycogen, although it may not be that.
You wake up with more of that glycogen… it replenished itself during the night… If your sleep is restless, then you won’t have your full stores of glycogen: ever since that nurse moved to the next house, my sleep is restless. Even with the audios… Mind you, I have tried to sleep without the audio, and slept a total of 58 minutes that night. With the audio I wake up a few times, and dream or solve puzzles, or write articles in my mind, but I sleep and wake up rested. So…
And yet, I have less glycogen than if I slept through the night without working in my sleep…
But I digress… What I really want to teach you is…
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You Can’t Avoid But Connect If You Do It With The Video… I don’t mean ‘watch the video and then try to remember what to do.’ I don’t mean, ‘take notes and try to do it your way.’ I don’t mean “with the principles or knowledge or method shown in the video”, I mean “do it together with me, you do it where you are, and I do it in the video, at the same time. We connect together.
Why to do it with me? Because as a beginner you will not feel anything, and the lack of feedback of the feeling will discourage you and you’ll quit.
In the exercise, “what do you want to be acknowledged for?” you have a chance to discover what is special about you.
To be able to love life, to do fulfilling work, you need to know and organize your life around what is special about you.
I just acknowledged a woman for what she wanted to be acknowledged for.
I have known her for some time, but it turns out: I didn’t know her at all. The organizing principle was missing, so I added my opinion to organize her around in my mind: scared.
But it turns out that she moved from one country to another to start a new life, away from a husband she no longer wanted. Start a new life without a support network, from scratch.
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The first Osho book I have ever read, was Maturity. I started to read it in the store, and fell in love with it.
It echoed one of my favorite Landmark courses, the Wisdom Course.
In that course, maturity was a state (they call it possibility, just a Landmark word!): where you were using adult capacities to live your life.
One would think that when you are an adult you use your adult capacities, but that is not the case.
