Most people get fat because of indigestion or poor digestion.
When you have indigestion, the discomfort mimics hunger, and you eat more.
Hunger is essentially a discomfort signal by the stomach…telling you to get some food. Other need signals are the need to drink water, the need to rest, the need to fornicate, the need to eliminate… Valid needs… So obviously, unless you are really clear it is not hunger, you’ll just eat… right?
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Why are all the measures in the Starting Point Measurements important?
Why would, for example, someone with more words have an advantage over someone who has fewer words?
I am going to explain it here… But judging from my core group’s response, I am warning you, it will sound Greek to you. Unless, of course, if you are Greek… lol.
Incomprehensible.
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There are very few emails I actually read unless they are from readers or clients.
I go by subject line… and today I opened an email that was talking about reading, saying that being a slow reader AND being a picky reader is a good thing.
I don’t like the dude who sent it. Why? I don’t think you have any control over who you like and who you don’t.
Just because you should like someone… please don’t try to like them. It is like trying to have a bowel movement when you have nothing to give… really.
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The most important questions to ask: what, how, why, when, who not… What not to do, how not to do/be, why not, when not, who not, what not to pay attention to. What’s not important. Which teachings are b.s. and a good idea to invalidate or just ignore. The no-list.
Without those questions asked in that particular way, that unusual way, your life cannot be like an arrow, cannot have a punch, cannot have a purpose.
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Knowing yourself well is vitally important when you want to interact with reality powerfully.
What’s in the way of you knowing yourself well?
Illusions, delusions, flattery, comparison, arrogance, I could continue this list for a whole page.
So given that so many things are in the way, blocking or distorting your view, how do you get to know yourself?
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Just so you know, when I wrote that title I had suddenly a sharp reaction in my gut… Fear…
I’ll spend the rest of the day looking at that… very interesting. The word that set it off was the word ‘everything’… So if you reacted the same way… let’s look together!
Your relationship to money, revealed, will shed light to everything in every area of your life.
But it is harder to see them in other areas of life, while in the area of money it, they are easier to see and catch.
The movie Trading Places was funny but wholly and totally psychologically unfounded… Its authenticity ended just after the scene where the Black dude (played by Eddie Murphy) shoves expensive stuff in his pocket to make them his. That was both believable and authentic.
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I don’t really care about the mating habits of water buffalo… but I can’t look away…
I heard that little ditty yesterday on Amazon Prime Video. And I laughed for quite a few minutes.
And I think it describes some people’s relationship to my articles, to my teachings. I think people are fascinated or can’t look away… But that doesn’t mean they care about what I teach. Or doing anything with it.
The rare specimen that does makes it all worthwhile…
I don’t cater to the lowest common denominator… the easily titillated… so I have only a few people who read my articles. When I look at everyone else, TV, Social Media, websites… I see that they do cater to the low… otherwise they would not stay in business, I think.
Everyone blames social media, but the media is just the medium: the low vibration comes from people. And no one takes personal responsibility for their own vibration, for how they see the world, and for how they spread darkness.
And most people do. Spread darkness.
The ones that are sure they aren’t are part of the evil by doing nothing.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (British statesman) didn’t say this. What he said is this:
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
And later another British philosopher said:
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
So this is the age (again?) where we live… and maybe, just maybe, people who subscribe to my site are ‘good men’ or at least fancy themselves good… but they definitely do nothing.
So what is there to do? Fight the bad men? Futile. Wasted energy.
So what can a good man do that would matter?
This is a real question and I am pondering.
I have one student who, I think, is doing what a good Man is to do to balance out the bad, who is doing what you would do if you considered yourself with a fire that unless it’s attended to, will burn out.
Because Life, intelligent life is on its way out… unless…
Unless you do what the philosophers of old said: your job is to make the most of yourself.
Isn’t that selfish? It is Self-ish. And it is noble. It is generous. It is grand… especially in times where the world is rooting for fun and games. For the orgy.
Will those, can those turn the tide around?
I don’t think so. But there is joy, their is fulfillment, there is self-love when you do it. For you. Because you matter.
I read that one student’s reports to me, and I learn more about what it was like for her before she started to awaken herself… and embark on this work of becoming all she can become.
The ones that are in the middle of it have very little to say. But given that she has climbed, at least partially, out of the pool of ‘water’ that she used to sit in, she can look and compare.
The students that have never been outside
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When I teach you, do you learn? How would I know?
No preamble, no hello, no niceties: Unless you do life the way I taught you to do it, you didn’t learn.
Unless you understand that the power of knowledge is in what it enables you to do… because only action matters. Only action will get you what you want..
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I keep on explaining people that the only way to get to a good result is through bad results, failures, but I don’t think I am heard.
It is true for everyone… it is definitely true for me… and I don’t have to like it.
Yesterday we worked on distinguishing misdirecting our power vs leaking our power.
Power is what you have to get things done, to accomplish things.
It is a finite amount, although you can grow it over time… but in any moment what you have available to you is finite.
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Mental Bandwidth and what to do to increase it
If you ordered a large pizza but you had to share it with everyone in your neighborhood, then even after ordering a hundred of those, you would barely get a slice, right? Some teenagers can eat half of a large pizza themselves, so unless you protect your pizza, you’ll remain hungry.
If an internet company sells you service, but they have all their thousands of customers want to watch a movie, you’ll get a spotty connection and miss half the movie.
That is bandwidth… it is limited and the more people use it, the less remains for you.
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