I was just watching how easily people get upset – in their different ways. A lot of creativity in the ways we do get distressed. Contraction. Some outward, some inward. And even in the in and out, variants. Usually however, there is punishment involved, and quite often, revenge. (Guilt just being the mirror of anger.) …
Getting upset. Conflict. If you would like take the time to check, you will amazed how often you contract. I mean, really amazed. Usually, for most people, more often contracted than expanded. Not so? Check it out. Our programmed computer is designed to go on alert whenever anything, and I mean absolutely anything, is not …
Sounds simple. It is simple – and it ain’t easy. Our whole subversive programming is based on competition and survival – which is based on looking to the past to supposidly keep us safe in the future. Being Here Now. Just here, just now. In this very moment. It includes the thoughts that may go …
Dear Friend, you say: >I am trying to free myself from years of addictions, First, thank you for your lovely e-mail. Next. We are all addicted to something. In fact, we are all addicted to almost everything! Practically every single action word and thought comes from an addicted space in the mind – in an …
Just chatted with someone who ‘got it’ – then – lost it. The memory remains, but ‘The State’ is no longer a moment to moment reality for them. After such an experience, and losing it, it sometimes it feels worse than before, – because of the memory of how fantastic it was. And the more …
“I think, therefore I am” – Rene Descartes or…? I think, therefore, I think I am. Around here people automatically greet with: “How are you.” In theory it is a question – in fact it is an automatic cliché. They don’t listen for the reply, they are so focussed on themselves, even if you don’t …
We are programmed to complain. If things are not the way our mind has been programmed to see them, it complains. Even though it seems so obvious that each of us are programmed differently, we still do it – and feel justified. We are addicted to complaint. There are now many research results, and if …
A friend wrote: >just read your last post. once again something resonated a lot in me and >the big rest of me stays some sort of dead. not capable to really deal >with it. not wanting to deal with it and really let it in. >some sort of protection mode, fear of being completely overwhelmed. …