Rose Colored Glasses, Hope, and other stuff that take you out of the present moment

The purveyors of hope
When “picking” a state of being, an attitude, a mindset, conventional wisdom can be detrimental to our well-being.

Unless you are a prisoner in a concentration camp, and what’s predictable is that you will not make it out alive, hope is a very bad-for-you state to pick. But even there, unless it gives you actions that keep you alive longer, that make you take care of yourself, hope as a being, hopeful is the right word, will be just a feeling… and you know how it is with feelings: they come and go at their own accord: you can’t control feelings. Hope and hopeless are the two sides of the same coin. Being doesn’t have a flip side.
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The holographic learning method in action

The best method of learning is not linear. It is holographic. Your picture always contains the whole picture… even if it is still fuzzy… so the context is already set. You know where and how things fit in the big picture.

Miko brings up a topic that can lead us to some useful learning practices, a more useful knowledge base, a life with direction, and maybe even to a life worth living.
Sophie, what I got from this article is that persistent hammering on a task is a way to raise my TLB score, and that it’s natural that it’s going to be fuzzy at the beginning, but that’s no reason to quit.

I’ve been studying philosophy, as an experiment of sorts, and I recently got a text to work with as a homework, where my experience is a bit like what you described here — I don’t understand half the words. But I’m starting to see that as I look some of them up, and re-read the paragraphs, some of the things are getting a little clearer.

So the thing for me to do is to go through the whole text again… and again, if I must.

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Comparison Of The Different Healing Modalities, Hypnosis, Visualization, Affirmations, Brain Entrainment, Energy, And Activation

Comparison Of The Different Healing Modalities, Hypnosis, Visualization, Affirmations, Brain Entrainment, Energy, And Activation

What is the difference between modalities that try to implant new thoughts, new beliefs or change existing ones?

Let me look what are these modalities:

1. Hypnosis
2. Visualization
3. Affirmations, overt or covert (subliminal included)
4. Subliminal of any medium, including visuals
5. Brain entrainment of any kind
6. Energy alignment, reconnecting, Healing Codes, sound entrainment, network chiropractic, tapping, etc.
7. Activation
Did I miss any category?

The first six modalities are narrow-band modalities. They try to effect the areas they know are responsible for certain kinds of behavior, that store the beliefs.

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On Procrastination: part 2: the hold-back forces.

Now that we have seen that what is underneath procrastination is the fact that we are still more, much more interested in avoiding unpleasantness, humiliation, etc. than moving towards some purpose.

And avoiding unpleasantness, will, at best, keep you the same… no movement.

From the pdf of the last procrastination article, we saw, that unless you can invent a yummy enough goal, something important enough to go for, you will not be able to move from dead center. Bottom line: procrastination is not a behavioral issue, it is a perfect illustration of physics: if the energies on a body are in balance, the body will not move, unless it was already in movement before the balance.

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The answer is not within, the truth is not within… and it is not without either

One of the most important things one can learn from the 67 steps is this: the truth is not within. It takes a sea of knowledge to even start to make out the outlines of the truth… And that knowledge needs to be learned… We live in a world of uneducated, ignorant fools… almost no one is an exception.

That doesn’t mean the truth is without either.
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Double your reading speed… would that be really good for you?

One famous marketer is filling my mail box with emails to double the speed of my reading. I used to jump on offers like that, I have taken three different speed reading classes, one even back in Hungary.

It seemed to me, like it probably seems to you, that getting the knowledge out of the written word faster would double your knowledge, and maybe double your success.

It makes sense, doesn’t it?

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Do you still live in a 20-30-40-50 year old story? Drama? Tragedy? Then you haven’t lived yet!

I was just sent this story on Medium. 13 thousand people clapped. No place to show negative clap… hm. interesting.

The writing is from a woman who had her ass grabbed by Nobel Prize winning author, Elie Wiesel 28 years ago.

She, now, 28 years later, writes a looong article, and people are clapping.

She jumped on the bandwagon of sexual harassment finger pointers.
But, Sophie, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? Everything.

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Fear Of Failure… Another Possible Bottom Belief

Failure, the big deterrent

I had a dream most of my life to live in a school and be a perpetual student.

I knew it was weird, but I also knew that the best time I have ever had was studying hard in school: being at home was really horrible for me.

In 1987 I did The Forum, (Now it is called The Landmark Forum) and there was an exercise in it. The question was: Who are you that you are? Weird question, right? I thought so too, but yet, I somehow knew the answer immediately. Weirdly worded questions do that to you, whether you know it or not.

My answer to that question was: “Who I am is that I can’t make a commitment to anything. I’d rather continue studying than go out and choose one direction to go to and risk hating it.”

I was so proud of my answer that I bravely stuck my hand up… and I was called on.

When I finished what I wanted to say, the Forum Leader said: “Oh, I see, you are a failure!”

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Updated: When The Monster Comes Out And Starts Doing Monster Stuff: What Will You Do? How will you raise your vibration back up again?

When The Monster Comes Out And Starts Doing Monster Stuff: What Will You Do? How will you raise your vibration back up?
This is a five years old article… but for some reason it came up on my screen today… and it is apropos…
A client was yelling at me. The article about the ass grabbing famous man…
Please be aware that the monster doesn’t sleep.
The wife who has since calmed down… but for a few weeks carried on daily… If you are reading this: I am OK, but it’s not useful for me to deal with this… I appreciate how you got the point…
Not everyone gets the point.
The long time student who left, in anger. Has canceled everything, including her facebook account. Must be really angry… the monster came out.

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