Can the much maligned ego be the answer to your prayers? Praying to get unstuck?
Ego is a strong driving force… if it is encouraged to be so.
It is also a strong anchoring force.
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Category Archives: Get unstuck
Feel your way out of the Matrix, out of the limbo
When I say ‘feeling’, I often include the other perception organs…
The most obviously not ‘mind’ feeling is the physical sensation of pressure, heat, blockage, itches, tickles, nausea, headaches, pain, burning sensation, orgasm, warmth, butterflies in your stomach. When I say ‘feeling’, I don’t mean emotion, even though emotions have feeling-components. For example all 48 Bach Feelings feel in a certain way in a certain part of the body.
But what I mean: the uninterpreted raw sensation, that either comes from the outside or from the body itself.
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If your life isn’t working as well as you think it should…
Thinking that your social status, your finances are a reflection of your value is a myth that can render you, your status, your finances low, if you are not born privileged.
I just read an article about the myth of meritocracy and how it hurts kids of color, in The Atlantic, and I found an answer to my question: why my Black students don’t do as well in life as one would expect of them, based on their abilities. Or women. Or other minorities… Or just regular people brought up mainly by women.
This post will get at this issue from different vantage points, so hold onto your hat… or you’ll lose it.
You may remember the principle that made T. Harv Eker a millionaire?
If things are not going well, it is a sign that something you don’t know.
Now, what he doesn’t say is that the thing that you don’t see is profound. It is a principle. Or a distinction. Something big.
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What if getting unstuck is a formula? or How to be a Houdini?
You are nearly always stuck. You may not notice, because you are not rocking the boat, shaking the tree, you are not trying for more, better or different, you are sleepwalking.
When I say “you” I mean, you, me, everyone.
And I am sleepwalking too, but at least some of the time I am conscious of it.
Now… where is this going… right? Do you have to say something, Sophie? yes, I do.
Yesterday was one of those “trouble comes in three’s…” day.
My landlord said something that scared the bejesus out of me… it looks he wants me to move, or else. One of my students got mad at me and quit. And it looked I was on my own getting groceries… the store is far… and the groceries are heavy.
So I saw that regardless of my normally quiet mind, sleep was largely out of question. So I read thill 12:30, and got up at five. And sat down to work.
It, life, my life, looked hopeless. I felt stuck. It felt real.
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You hope you have high vibration… but what if you don’t know what high vibration is?
I am getting hundreds of requests for Starting Point Measurements. That includes me measuring your vibration… human vibration, vibrational frequency, whatever you call it…
Ultimately there is one thing in common among the emotional responses: disappointment.
A lot of people think that their numbers, their vibration should be higher. Why? Because they are good people. Because they are charitable, kind, nice, don’t kill puppies, and volunteer… whatever b.s. is considered high vibration nowadays.
But the vibration number shows one thing and one thing only: how much your behavior is informed by reality and how much is informed by b.s., rules, myths, ideas, that ignore reality.
And your vibration number is low.
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What do people love when they say they love you?
Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Why? because love, real love has nothing to do with worthiness. Or deserving.
You either love or you don’t love.
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From filing clerk of information, to glorious human being
Mind says: the important thing is to have the answer.
Life says: the important thing is to have the question.
Thinking, the proper use of the thinking part of the brain, is to ask questions. Questions allow you to penetrate things deeply, to see new connections, to see what’s below the surface.
The mind, also a part of the brain, isn’t interested in that, the mind really isn’t interested in anything. Maybe gossip, but that is it.
Discover what is special about you, what makes you you?
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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How do you think of yourself less? What does that mean? Thinking of others? Becoming a do-gooder?
OK, I am going to clarify something that myself don’t quite know how it works, and why it works that way.
So it may come out incomprehensible, botched up, and useless. But, in my view, it is worth to try…
Note: if you only read one example, make it #5!
OK, the issue: one of the measurements is to what degree your life is about you and your life… the words I use I borrowed from someone else… and the words are “to what degree you think of yourself”… as a measure of humility i.e. how much room you have to learn and grow, how much room you have for the world, for work, for life… for others.
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You Suck. And it sucks. But unless you are willing to…
I wrote this email 12 years ago… It is a great reminder for me, and it is quite apropos for you. Even though you may not be in marketing, you may not have a sales letter… but you have me, and I could be your Big Kahuna… So here is the email:
You Suck
Some people get lucky.
Most people I know want to avoid a situation where they can look bad. I know I do.
These are the ones that stagnate.
Then some of those people get lucky and get a mentor who pushes them… pushes them to be more, do more, have more…
Sounds good, right? Let me tell you, it sucks. It sucks big time.