If the caterpillar planned to become a butterfly, there would be no more butterflies.
What does that mean?
Planning to become, having a goal is counter productive. It takes your eyes off the here and now, and fixates them on some future pie-in-the -sky idea…
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The lotus is the symbol of coherence… it grows from mud… incoherent… and turns it into beautiful coherence.
If you lotus could speak it would say: ‘I want the world to be the way the world is’.
OK, so what is coherence and what is incoherence?
Oh… and why should you care?
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In the famous marshmallow experiment by Walter Mischel. He said that the 30% of the kids that didn’t eat the marshmallow, didn’t even look at the marshmallow. They kept doing other things, keeping their eyes off the marshmallow. Consciously, intentionally, and purposefully.
The marshmallow is ‘the thing’, the goal people want… and it is what actually causes them to jump the gun, to quit pursuing it prematurely.
I have read a lot about that experiment, I have even written about it, but I didn’t know that the ‘winners’ avoided looking at the marshmallow. that piece was missing for me, until now.
One of the challenges I face with my students and clients is their high desire number, and the Desire Trap…
This discovery I stumbled on, by accident, is the missing piece in helping my students with that challenge.
Watching that TED talk yesterday opened up something inside, that is still full of swirling fog, ethereal figures, and yet, I know that something from the invisible has been released.
I was getting busy going down the rabbit hole about the marshmallow test which is as much of a principle as any principle, although its portability is hard to see…
All principles are portable, just like fractals. That is the nature of reality: as above so is below, or was that the other way around?
If it is true, a real principle, not just a made up rule, it is true everywhere, but to recognize it you need to be able to connect the dots.
Connecting the dots requires you to have a wide cone of vision, so you can compare the two phenomenon in the same glance, or alternatively, have enough long term memory to store an image that you can compare with.
Most people never committed anything to long term memory, and even the capacity for storing something for long term has atrophied.
Another way to look at long term memory is looking an measuring how many things you can hold in your brain at any one time.
For most people (8 billion) that is one thing…
That means that when they change what they look at, what they looked at disappears. So they cannot compare two things that are not inside the same cone of vision.
The size of your long term memory, interestingly, will decide what size box you live in.
It takes me just one short interaction to know that… what you talk about indicates the size of your box.
What’s wrong with a small box, you ask? Nothing WRONG, but it is limiting. You cannot dance, you cannot have adventure, you have locked yourself in with the few people who are probably wretched and no fun.
Your love of animals, interestingly, shows that you are not fulfilled in your small box… But it only indicates, it doesn’t remedy… the size of the box you live in will not grow without serious effort.
Pain.
While I was an architect, my box got smaller… uncomfortable. While I was in Landmark Education, my box got smaller… very limiting.
Breaking out of those small boxes was painful, scary, and
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At any moment you are either growing or you are dying… but how do you go from dying into growing again?
You can plan for survival, and you can plan for growth
The most important difference, from your point of view is this:
When you plan for survival, every setback threatens you with death, or poverty, lack, illness or shame.
When you plan for growth, every setback is a new opportunity to use your skills to now grow from this new level.
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Summary: Now that I have lost my main source of income, I am back to the planning stage. I am back to finding out how to reach people who want what I have to offer: Energy remedies for peace of mind, freedom, power, and are willing to work for it at the same time, instead of waiting for a miracle or a pill or a magic bullet.
I am not often confronted. Being confronted always means that something or someone has breached the separation between your hidden self and your fake self.
You hide the stuff that you don’t think will work in the world, that will not buy you the image or goodies you want, the affection, appreciation, the job, the friends, the money.
There is a certain order in the Universe.
I know it looks random and capricious, but it looks that way because of your lack of respect, lack of looking again.
Human nature is to think that what you do in one area, like fixing what you think is wrong, doesn’t effect the whole, and it will be OK.
But human interference in the order of things forces a kind of phenomenon that is a lot like wounds in war… Some are mortal.
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Inner Peace is elusive. It’s elusive like health.
What do you call peace? The lack of war? What do you call health? Lack of illness?
Imagine that you are walking in a forest, on a footpath on a beautiful summer day. The birds are chirping. There is a slight breeze. There is peace. And you may know that animals are hunting, eating another, and yet there is peace.
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The Sideways Glance is The Key To Raising Your Consciousness Raising Your Vibration
I watched a movie last night. Stayed up watching it till 1:30 am. Way past my bedtime, because it was urgent for me to watch it. lol.
I knew there was something very important in it for me to get. but what?
I had seen this movie, back in Hungary, 50 years ago.
The movie is called ‘The Lawyer’
You’d rather be right than happy, you’d rather be right than rich… Your microexpressions will give you away
I had a few remarkable experiences the past few days.
The conclusions from these experiences make me mad, angry, bitter, and hopeless… but that should not surprise you: the condition of humanity is hopeless.
How do you raise your vibration? Why would it go down after you raised it? How does it work?
I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Charlie this afternoon. We were discussing the vibrational frequency of the people in the Training Program I have been running since September 27. (The Daily Connection)
Some people’s vibration has dropped, including his. Others’ have gone up.
He mostly wanted to know why his vibration dropped so dramatically.
