What are the requirements for healing?

I think it was Hippocrates who said: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"

He didn"t know that what we call food in the 21st Century isn"t. That there are more chemicals in what we call food than in actual medicine. That we now have access to "food" that our body does not recognize as food... Plants and animals from far away lands, or designer plants and designer animals, that no other living creature recognizes as food.

Cows", sheep", even pigs" body doesn"t recognize corn as food. It gets sick from it.
Same with genetically modified alfalfa, soy and soy bean, and beets.

If you looked before you say "food", you would know that.
If you were interested in what really matters: you would know that.

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If you follow my instructions and don"t feel fantastic...

If you eat all/most of the foods on your food list in the right proportion,
don"t eat any of the foods that are not on your food list
eat only when you have an appetite
don"t eat more than what your stomach can handle at a time
sleep right at regular hours
drink only fully energized water
take your vitamins and minerals that you have discussed with me...
drink your Energized Water®

...and you don"t feel fantastic, and your numbers are not up to par...

then you are doing something wrong.
When something isn"t working, there is something that you don"t know
So what can be the hidden reason?
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What is under the hood? being stuck... the real core issue

It"s worth it... Is it worth it? It"s not worth it... It is all about whether it is worth it for you or not...

If you are supposed to have it already, then working for it doesn"t look like it"s worth it.

And this is the problem, an epidemic, of today. I have students in all the time zones of the world... and they all share this problem.

Memes, thought forms, prevalent teachings suggest that

1. you are already happy, worthy, successful, precious, special, blah blah blah
2. that you already have everything or supposed to to be who you want to be
3. that you should look within for all the answers
4. that the Universe is friendly to you
and on and on and on, endless flow of half-truth, endless flow of deceptive "inspiring" statements and quotes.

Now, depending on where you are, depending on what you have, depending on how you feel about yourself, depending on your history, on your vibration, on your clarity, you"ll hear all those memes differently.

The lower you are in your starting numbers on my seven essential measurements, the bigger the gap seems to be between what you have, who you are, what you feel, and what those statements, memes, say you should already have, be, and feel.

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Why you are unhappy when you are unhappy

This is a brilliant article... except one thing: I see this same thing across the board, across all ages. 20 to 70...

So this article is probably written about you, accurately, if you are not happy when you are not happy.
Why Generation Y Yuppies, and you! Are Unhappy ((By Tim Urban))
Say hi to Lucy.

Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s.  She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y.

I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs.  A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story.

So Lucy’s enjoying her GYPSY life, and she’s very pleased to be Lucy.  Only issue is this one thing:

Lucy’s kind of unhappy.

To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place.


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The how of life... the school that you haven"t graduated from

Remember T. Harv Eker and his famous saying: How you do anything is how you do everything!?

This article is about that "how"... the all important, life defining, success defining how.

In this article, you and your life is considered a "business"... thriving or failing or stagnating.


If you are human your mind suggests that you already know everything...

If you think you know everything... and I bet you do... consider that in the "how" department, how you know, how you do, how you react, you are a babe in the woods... You know next to nothing.

Why is this?
Because, for some misguided reason, you consider learning a "what" activity... whereas most learning is a "how: activity. Learning how...

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Unflinchingly

It took quite a bit for me to learn that trying to outwardly act like a Buddha won’t make me a Buddha.

The above line is from one of my students.

Really smart guy, isn"t he?

And I bet you can see that the next step he would take after making this really smart statement is to start... start what?

You see, most of what sounds smart is not that smart. Most of what sounds smart is smoke screen, to hide something.

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I have been in a special place where words are not...

I have been in a special place where words are not...

I remember in Landmark I heard "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."~Wittgenstein

I had no idea what it meant... I felt it. I felt it solemn, I felt it exuberant, I felt it exhilarating, I felt it divine.

And then 20 years passed... lots of talking... words and more words.

And today I was transported back there...

I have been watching a lot of foreign movies, and pondering, almost wordlessly evil... I even wrote an article about it.

And then I found a quote... I followed it down the rabbit hole, listened to a lecture by Abraham Joshua Herschel... and I am in that space... where one must be silent...

Why "must"?

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The ability to be in awe... how will it matter for your life?

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine~Alan Turing

I watched yet another movie about Alan Turing and how his machine won the war against Nazi Germany.

I would not be around without him. And you would live a totally different life... The book (and the Amazon series) The Man in the High Castle approximates...

I am in awe. With what he did, with who he was, with genius winning, with goodness winning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QyVZrV3d3o

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Do you have opportunities to break out from your routine?

For me holidays are important, because they are not routine. And because it is so easy to be in a routine, and not consider it a rut... even I need something outside to change to take a different look at my own life, at my own business.

This time around I finally was willing to admit that my site needs redesigning.

I am not willing to overhaul it completely, but I am willing to make it completely compatible with mobile devices: already more than 50% of all visits are from mobile devices. I have been acting in concert with the 5% tweak principle I learned from Tai...

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There are millions of ways to be stuck: people who move are all alike

This is paraphrasing the famous Leo Tolstoy quote: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This is the Anna Karenina principle... As all principles do, it applies to many, maybe even all areas of life. A principle is the same as a distinction... I say.

But truth is, if you know distinctions, if you know patterns, there are only about 50 different ways to get stuck... and your way is just one or two of those.

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The fake world you live in...

I meant to say: the fake you who lives in the world of other fakes...

Thanksgiving is an excellent opportunity for me to see it... you won"t see it... it is too close to you, and it would be too harsh for you to see it.

But I am going to write as if I cared whether you get it or not... that is how I do my thinking. Writing or talking it out...

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The hardest pull to resist is the pull of your "how" nature. Or what type of activity do you rush into... headfirst...

The hardest pull to resist is the pull of your "how" nature. Or what type of activity do you rush into... headfirst... That activity can be four kinds... four conative types, four types of conative actions... reading, planning, action, and execution.

Scientific name for your "how" is Conation. It is innate, and it is NOT changeable.

Regardless... I have been looking at taming my own... I find that it is not tamable. It is what it is.

But I have come to suspect that what you do after you do what your Conation makes you do is when the magic happens.

You see, all people belong to three types. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what happened. But all three types will, if you ask them, explain why they did what they did... and it will be all a lie. A big fat lie.
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Increase your cell hydration is the first step I recommend you take to raise your vibration?

When people want to raise their vibration, when people want to improve their lives, ultimately I recommend that they start with increasing their cell hydration.

The cell, when it is struggling to perform the functions the cell is designed to do, has a real hard time to give you energy for life.

The life that you want to live needs you to have a lot more energy than you have, physical energy, emotional energy, intellectual energy, spiritual energy. And when your cells are dehydrated they can"t give it to you.

I don"t know if it is true that death is when enough of your cells die because of dehydration, but it makes a lot of sense.
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The "and" game... What your resistance says about you

I got lucky today. I got to see something I haven"t seen in a long time.

It"s been many years that I "shared" with anyone.

Sharing is a Landmark Education distinction: you talk about some gain in your life, in a particular way, and if you did it well, the other person gets a tiny bit more than just a whiff of what you are "sharing"; they get a taste of it. A taste of your gain...As if you"ve given them a bite of your triple chocolate fudge cake... lol.

We were both early for the exercise class, and she was really relieved that she wasn"t going to be the only student...

As I was changing to shorts, and gym shoes, I asked if it would be OK with her if I bragged... And she said yes.

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How is living is like writing a book? Good writing is re-writing...

Let"s see how you write... and then we"ll see how you live your life.

Most people first-draft-people... they never re-write. Others carefully craft the format, but don"t touch what they said... the content. And then others wait until they think they have something profound to say... and that is rarely.

All good writing is re-writing. Both writing literature and "writing", crafting your life, your story. ((Most people never re-write. They present their first draft in everything. A real good secret of how not to amount to anything or much)) If you are not willing to write badly you are not willing to write well either. And if you can"t see that your first draft is bad, you will never look at it again.

In this article I"ll focus on the category who is afraid to take actions that would re-write their life... they stick with the first draft.

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The story. Your story. It is either inspiring or it is depressing...

The story. Your story. It is either inspiring or it is depressing... either way it"s the context of your life

Your story can be your personal story. Telling what happened from your personal point of view. No creativity is required: it"s already applied generously.

Why? How? Anything that happened is turned into words... and words, whenever applied, create a story, a story line, an interpretation. Filters added creatively... Skewed.

Your story can be the story of your heritage. No matter how you tell this story: it is filtered through opinions, beliefs, and other filters.

You think a story tells something about the past.

But a story tells your future: reliably.
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What is the typical reason people don"t do anything with their lives?

What is the typical reason people don"t do anything with their lives?

That"s a loaded question, but it"s a valid question.

I have done a lot of observation and thinking on this.

I have come to the conclusion that the core issue is stinginess that results in scarcity thinking and scarcity behavior.

I will list a few variations: I am sure that you"ll find yourself...

This is how it goes:

You don"t quite know what you want from your life. So you postpone doing anything until you know... which is never.

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A spiritual practice to restore your Intrinsic Self as the captain of your ship

The most important thing I never learned in Landmark... that allowed me to grow

In 1967 I applied to participate in a 6-day on site advanced program in Landmark... it was still called Werner Erhard and Associates at the time.

I was denied. The staff member for admittance told me: Until you learn the difference between thinking and doing, you can"t do the course.

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The biggest stumbling block you have to growth that will fail you

Parents are not trained educators. They don"t allow you to be a child: they only care about themselves... not you, no matter how much they pretend, even to themselves. You, as a parent, are the same way...

You would be better off living in a children"s home where everyone is trained in personal growth.

Because parents are much like those fraudulent personal growth, get rich, get well and thin, "take a tablet and become forever young/pain free/etc." marketers.

Why? I guess a stupid person cannot teach another to be smart.

What is smart? It is smart to Learn from Life. Life has been around, successfully, way longer than you and me.

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Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something

With some movies I ponder for years why I liked it.

One of these movies is The Princess Bride. Why do I love The Princess Bride? Why do I watch it a few times a year, especially when my energy level is low?

Because, for me, the movie is about persistence. It"s about working towards something remote and maybe even impossible, and yet...

There are a ton of amazing quotable sayings in that movie... here is one:

Buttercup: You mock my pain!
Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVY2zpVTNg

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Can you turn life into a party?

I experienced a few weeks ago that I can bring party to life. It was at my weekly exercise class. The teacher has 600 songs on his tablet... and we do everything to the music and the rhythm of the songs.

You can use that to do the movements normally, or the way I do it: like a crazy breakdancer... not the moves, just the temperament... I am getting old. But I used to dance like a breakdancer... no kidding.

How you dance expresses who you are the most accurately... of course within the boundaries of your physical intelligence.


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I thought I had the beginnings of Parkinson"s Disease

I intended to write a different article today, but this is too important to wait...

I had neurological issues this past few weeks. I started to be wobbly, words weren"t coming easily, easy words, and then to top it off, I was dropping an egg or two: they just slipped from my hand. Four eggs in one week... NEVER in 69 years. ((Parkinson"s Disease))

I started to muscle-test myself to find out what was the cause of this sudden onset of neurological issues.

The problem with "diagnosing" issues, nearly any health issue, is this: the process is linear.

Linear means that you ask a question and depending on what you get, you continue on a single path.

But... but the question depends on your insights and on your knowledge.
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The quality of your life boils down to actions... and each and every action is a result of a choice

The current state of human intelligence... and I mean the overall intelligence, can be easily tracked on detective movies... British ones are more honest than American movies.

As you may know, I like to watch those... I learn from them as much as from any course, while I am entertained as well.

The quality of a person"s life, your life, boils down to actions... and each and every action is a result of a choice.

The accuracy of your actions is a function of how many patterns you recognize in the world.
If nothing changes about you, your future is quite predictable... it is downhill from here...

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You"ve Answered Some Tough Questions... But These Are Tougher Yet, Leading To An Examined Life

The feedback has been great on the tough questions. So here is another bunch.
Asking questions for the examined life... Great stuff.


Do I listen to others? What do they have to say about that? Am I listening to how what they say fit? Am I listening to what they are up to this time? Am I listening if I agree or not? Am I really listening or just waiting for them to finish so I can speak?
Do I pray only when I want something? Do I see people only when I need or what something? Do I think only of myself? Do I think of prayer as a food order at McDonald"s?



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More Tough Questions for Self-Examination. Promised Results? Awakening? Quickening?

Do I care about others? Do I pretend to care about others? Do I consider them human beings with the same rights as myself?
Do I care what others think about me? Do I care too much what others think about me? Did I lose my sense of what I want because I care about what others think about me? Do others, in spite of me catering to what I think they want me to do, be, or have, ignore me, mistreat me, dump on me, criticize me?
Do I complain? Sometimes? Or all the times? Do I think that if I complain enough life will change? People will change? I will change?

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More questions for self-reflection

Here are more questions. Don"t do them as a quiz... Pick the question that feels the most confronting, the one that makes your belly dance... The purpose of the questions, the purpose of your "inquiry" is to know yourself, not to impress someone else!


Do I share myself, my real self? Or do I withhold myself, protect myself, be aloof? When I do share: do I share to share, or do I share to complain, to get sympathy?
Do I tweet posts, if I do, because I want to share them, because I am generous, or because I want to prove to someone that what I read about people fits them like a glove? I feel vindicated because I agree that they are creeps... lol, not that funny
Do I care about others? Do I pretend to care about others? Do I consider them human beings with the same rights as myself? Or do I think that their feelings don"t really matter...?



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The Unexamined Life Begins With The Unwillingness To Ask Tough Questions... Do You Know How To Ask Tough Questions?

Here are 15 questions. They are not easy questions. It will take a little looking, a little pondering to answer them. Maybe even asking others... when the question asks for that.

I have some 50 more where these came from... at a later date I"ll publish those too.


Am I aware that someone always has it worse than me? Or do I keep my attention on what I don"t have? Can I turn this around?
Am I cheap? As in "cheap bastard." Who am I cheap with? Am I cheap with myself?



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Casting errors in movies and what you can learn from them for your life

What is wrong with movies, TV series, that I can"t stomach... or barely?

I am talking about good stories. I am talking about shows with good or passable actors, good directing... And yet the show is scarcely enjoyable because the character doesn"t fit. the inner world of the character is off... tells a different story.

Like the serial killer in The Fall... more about it later.

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How can I tell whether you likely voted for Trump?

What is the difference between someone who votes for the Republican nominee and the Democratic Party nominee

This is not the whole truth, there are lots of shades of gray, and yet, especially in the current elections, this is what I have observed on the people I had an opportunity to observe.

1. The less distinctions someone had the more likely they voted for Trump.Distinctions are the patterns smart, intelligent people use to navigate life, to produce results, to tell truth from falsehood.Trump voters are almost blank in this regard. No distinctions... black and white.
2. The less someone was willing, able or trust themselves to do anything for themselves other than scream bloody murder, the more likely they voted for Trump.

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You are trying to eat soup with a fork...

It"s perplexing to watch humans trying to eat soup with a fork.

Because while industry, science have advanced, humans, the race, has gone backwards.

As a race.

Backwards in intelligence... intellect, emotional, social, relationship, etc.

And obviously in vibration.

Pam Ragland"s theory was (is?) that it is negativity that is doing it.

But I watched the 26 people in her course, where she wiped the negativity, and people"s behavior, their affinity to learning new tricks, growing, did not change.

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Fat burning body... what is they benefit... how do you do it?

I got this question yesterday: How do I turn my body into a fat burning, fat fueled metabolism?

I"ve done it, and I think most everybody can... but...

Fat people think it means adding something to what they already eat, do, and it"s not so.

Burning fat as body fuel is overhauling the whole body...

Imagine changing your car to burn ethanol, aka alcohol for fuel, instead of gas (benzin in Europe, I think).

You cannot just tweak it a little... it is an overhaul.
The body loves burning fat. It allows the organs to do what they do best...
The liver to process out toxins, the brain to make you win in life...

But in most developed countries the body is trained and used to burning carbs...

1. When you have a carb burning metabolism, every gram of fat needs to be turned into sugar by the liver, to have sugar as fuel to burn.Every gram of fat your body doesn"t need to convert, will be stored as fat. Around your waist, mostly. Sugar belly...You know this too intimately. Even thin people carry a pouch... this is the sign that their body stores the extra fuel as fat.
2. In a fat burning metabolism the extra fat gets flushed out. And surprisingly the body also burns its stored fat, even though it looks cheaper to use the fat in the food... and yet it does.Why? I don"t know. I don"t care. I love that it does.


When becoming a fat burning machine is hard or impossible?
If you are a vegan, or a vegetarian, your chances to be a fat burning machine are slim.

You are already deprived of protein... because there is very little protein in plants. Cows use the bacteria in their fourth stomach for protein source...

I have a vegan client who has lost weight (with the foods he is allowed to eat... and refuses to eat animal food,) but some of that weight loss is muscle-loss.

Vegan means eating only plant based food... not even animal products, like milk and eggs.

Before he came to me, he used to eat peanuts all day to keep his energy up, but he is allergic to peanuts...

I am having a call with him this coming week... we"ll brain storm how to expand his diet so he doesn"t burn his hard earned muscle... Not a good sign. When you burn muscle it means you use protein for fuel... and you pay the price for it.

Vegetarians and vegans have a tough time giving their bodies enough fat.

Plants have the fat only in their seeds, nuts, and those are either expensive, or hard to eat, too much work for most lazy people who prefer comfort over well-being.

Vegetable oils are not good for anyone, for any ancestry: they are not natural. The oils prevent many nutrients from being absorbed in the intestines... so cooking with oils is not a solution for a mostly vegetable based diet eater. So the choice is: nuts, sickness, or muscle loss...

Coconuts are good for people whose ancestry ate coconuts... mine didn"t.

I get my fat from butter, from lamb, and from nuts: almonds and walnuts.

I have pine nuts on my allowed food list as
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Turn your Metabolism into a Fat-Burning Machine

Metabolism is a process within the human body that occurs as the food a person eats is converted into energy. Some people’s metabolisms operate more efficiently than others’.

Generally, you want the food that you eat to burn as energy instead of being stored as a fat cell.

Some factors that help to regulate metabolism are beyond our control – such as age, genetics, and gender.

However, other metabolic factors are within our control, such as muscle-to-fat ratio and the overall health of our bodies.

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Your accuracy, your comprehension, and other topics, including the Fat Burning Brain

Some of us, some of you deal with issues that step from physical issues.

for example, if your mother got pregnant while undernourished, especially in the 90 essentials, you may have developed a number of so-called genetic diseases... that are not genetic at all. Including dyslexia or some form of cognitive displacement issues.

Dyslexia is a brain issue, where certain specialized brain cells went to the wrong place.

Easier to see with an example: had your hand cells went to the wrong place, you would have a hand grown in the middle of your arm, not at the end of it.

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The fourth category of teachability

Quite a few of my students sent me a request to measure whether they are teachable, whether they are coachable.

And that is where I had an insight:

The reason the 67 steps coaching is so effective is this:

People make the changes, the tiny, near invisible changes in what they see, what they do, how they do it, because it is their choice. ((In health, wealth, love, and fulfillment.))

What does this mean?

When you make a change because you saw that you needed to, then that change can become permanent. It becomes part of who you are.

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The Wise, the Foolish, and the Evil test

https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=43777476
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On fools and wise people... the fool never learns...

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."

I am old. And pretty much alone in the world. Not lonely. Alone.

How I do is entirely up to me. No support system, no cushion, flying without a net.

The notion has different effect on people. The effect is on their actions... or more precisely, on the attitude with which they take the actions.


Most people become cautious. Cautious means you divide your attention, you divide your power to do the action, and to look around. Ineffectiveness.

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Never practice surgery on your family and other lessons for life...

Developing the habit to look before you leap
You have habits, thought patterns, beliefs, practices that guarantee that your life will not change, especially won"t change for the better.

When you do a course, read a book, or talk to a coach, you want to do and change the most important thing about your life: drop 30 pounds, start a new business, or leave your husband.

You are unprepared.

You are like a medical student: you need to practice surgery on cadavers before you cut open your mother or father... translating for those that can"t see the forest for the trees: you need to develop the practices that are building blocks for a good life.

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A day after the election, regardless of who won, your job is to return to what is YOUR job

It was time for self-reflection today. I am almost done with it.

I have come to the conclusion that it is time to pay attention to what I can control, what is within my control, and give little or no attention to what I can"t... where emotions would run high, fear, anger, concern... for me.

I noticed something today about some of the most successful people I know... which might help you…

Can you guess at how they might have responded to the election?

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Want the good life? Use the Edge effect. Finding your niche where you can win. living life creatively

You want the good life... Creating the good life, health, wealth, love and happiness, will require creativity from you... ((This is the biggest difference between the age of The American Dream and today... then some work was enough... today just work is not enough.))

The opposite of creativity is timidness. ((And cowardice, and complacency, and having your hand out, and hoping that other people will do it for you. Am I describing you?))

Creativity is living at risk... Existential courage. ((Existential Courage
The antidote to the comfortable coma

The other day I stumbled across an ad for a workshop helping you to release your intuition. It used the standard approach to selling these sort of New Age ideas: quotes from Einstein and Steve Jobs on the importance of intuition, vague promises of revealing secrets known only to the most successful and powerful, and an invitation to “let your life be easier.”

It reminded me of a quote from Barbara Ehrenreich in Bright-sided, her critique of the positive thinking craze. She says “positive thinking is not the same as existential courage.” This might be the most important distinction we can make these days. We are constantly bombarded with messages from advertisers trying to sell us on the idea that our lives should be comfortable and easy. Eventually, we start to believe them. We start to see hard work as a sign of failure and discomfort as a psychological illness. Even our understanding of spirituality is being corrupted by misconceptions of enlightenment as some sort of personal accomplishment marked by perpetual bliss.

As a result, we have become unbalanced, individually and as a society. Sure, comfort and ease play a role in a life well-lived: we need hedonic pleasure and moments of pure enjoyment. But focusing almost exclusively on this kind of comfort addiction leaves us with a sort of existential hangover and a void that’s impossible to fill - a void that advertisers promise to fill with anything they can sell you.

Existential courage is absolutely necessary if we are ever to find a way out of this addictive cycle. The roots of the word courage actually come from the French coeur, or heart. It was believed that acts of valor and bravery could only be inspired by connecting to something larger than oneself. And here’s the twist, because that connection, rather than comforting, often confronts. It highlights our fragility. It points out how small and insignificant we are. That thing that we connect to calls into question the ego-self and creates what Pema Chodron calls the vulnerable heart. It forces us to confront our own demons and ask if “I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? ”

Existential courage is about connecting to life with a profound love and compassion that moves beyond Hallmark greeting cards and hollow Hollywood formula movies. It sees that oneness with the whole of creation also means oneness with the suffering and the shadow. It’s a love that sees everything with open eyes – the beauty and the self-imposed pain, the brilliant sparks and the enduring insanity of the beloved. It stands on the edge of mortality, never forgetting our fragility, but chooses to act in the here and now.

And it is this paradox that is at the core of existential courage – letting our vulnerability make us strong, letting our incompleteness make us whole, letting the impossibility of the task inspire action. It knows, as Gandhi said, that “what you can do is insignificant yet it is vitally important that you do it.” Acts of existential courage are rarely grandiose - that’s the ego’s idea of courage. Usually, they are small, humble things – things that require practically no real effort beyond the courage to actually do them.

So what is that one crazy little thing that you can do today? What makes you a little uncomfortable and threatens your belief that you’re in control? What is that awesome thing you can connect with that makes you aware of how small and incomplete you are? What is that one thing that probably won’t make a difference anyhow but feels vitally important?

Source: https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/existential-courage-7b25c9358764#.3igjzf2sn))

You want to color inside the lines... and get the good life. No chance.

Unless you are willing to shuffle and stir things up, you are among the dead, you are among those timid souls that never know defeat, but never know success either.

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Awareness... it"s seeing and knowing what you are looking at... Accurately.

I have been in this inquiry since February when I first heard Tai say: the strongest predictor of your success, in any area of life, is the level of your awareness.

So what is this awareness that is so important.

Nine months... it"s taken me till today to get complete clarity of what this "thing" awareness is.

Six million Jews perished in the gas chambers and mass graves during the holocaust, because they were not aware.

Tens of millions of people were ashamed of themselves and their association with Germany, people who elected Hitler and the Nazi party... because they weren"t aware.

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Back to square one... How to grow from where you are begins with...

I"ve been quiet.

I am working through some stuff... nothing personal, it"s about you. It"s about what to teach you. How to teach you. It"s about seeing, in more detail, and more precisely what is the truth about you, so I can talk to you the way you can hear me.

The more precisely I can "diagnose" what is the situation with you, the more effective my message and my teaching can be.

But, it seems no matter how precise my teaching, it is not really up to me, or my teaching, what will happen to you or your life.

http://evp-50116959de4b9-dd521b5ed563ee25508422182c681a30.s3.amazonaws.com/your-genius-1.mp4

It is up to you. Your actions, your attitude, your "undeclared commitment" in life. (( Undeclared commitment is an insidious energy that is like a stream... it is underwater, can"t be seen, but takes every ship off path, until they are discovered, mapped, and compensated for.

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korozott or Liptauer

I lost a lot of my dental work as a result of an irresponsible dentist. He thought that I had a lot of money, mistakenly, so he broke and cut and sawed my dental work... and finally they pulled the teeth that were holding them... bridges and such.

So now I am working with only a handful of teeth, and chewing is an issue.

I love my "korozott", Liptauer in German, a cheese spread. I make it with what I can buy here: goat cheese, butter, ground Hungarian pepper, butter, finely chopped yellow onions, and some yellow mustard. I liked it as a dip, but now I am having a hard time chewing carrot sticks, or radish...

I had a bright idea. My Ninja Master Prep with two containers, the smaller container, is a chopping machine. I tested it today. The bigger is for smoothies... and I have never used it. I don"t do smoothies.

I put two handfuls of red radish and shopped them and mixed them well with the "korozott". The result: something as good as dipping, that doesn"t need chewing.

Refreshing, tasty, and makes me feel whole again, not deprived.

Liptauer comes from Lipto, and for Hungarians, that word means sheep"s cheese. Soft sheep"s cheese.

So if you don"t like vegetables, or can"t chew raw vegetables, this is a great solution for you.

 
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A posthumus case study: Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo?ole of Hawaii

Brother Iz

I just listened to Over the Rainbow by Brother Iz... Hawaiian genius entertainer, now dead.

Cause of death: complications from morbid obesity.

I am most interested to know what made him so obese... And so many people in the mourning crowd...

This is a posthumus case study... Something you can learn from... for yourself.

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Muscle Testing Your Own Vibration

Muscle Testing Your Own Vibration

You want to know. Or if I want to be more precise, your EGO wants to know. It"s a curiosity thing. It doesn"t have anything to do with anything else. Novelty, exciting, fleeting.

And you should want to know. Knowing where you are is mandatory if you want to get anywhere else. No map will do you any good unless you know where to put the big X on the map: here I am. Or sometimes: "Darn... here I am. I thought I was somewhere else..."



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I cried it was so inspiring

https://player.vimeo.com/video/189955079
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Create a taproot to anchor your existence and start being a person

I have run out of good shows to watch on Netflix.

I began to watch and abandoned four shows, fast.

And I just had an insight:

Most TV/Netflix customers are like most people: they have no foundation from which to watch, see, read anything.

Even when it"s a well designed, well executed show: these people don"t know why. Or the reason it is good for them is different from person to person.

For me a good show is a show well planned out. A show that decides, ahead of time, what it thrives to accomplish. That is the context inside which they develop the characters, the story line, and direct the actors to act in.
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I expect you to hate me from time to time. It is part of the process.

Some people come around at some point. Some sooner than others.

The ones that come around tell me that after a while they actually could see what I pointed out. I respect them for that.

Ever since I embraced being stupid, integrated it into my personality, stupid became a phase rather than a conclusion.

What do I mean? Listen up, this is important!
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How to Learn Many Things at Once... very useful if you are in my coaching program

There"s so much you want to learn, need to learn, should learn... so much, in fact, that you don"t know where to start.

Most people get inspired for some goal, sprint at max effort for 1-2 weeks, burn out, push the goal into the back of their mind, and never touch it again. New Year"s resolutions are a classic example. Campaigning.

Let"s look at how to improve your chances of success.


First things first—check your bases.

The first thing you should do is touch base with yourself. Ask: "Is what I want what I want?"

I know that is a funky question... of course... but ask it anyway! It may not be necessarily so!

Sometimes, we lie to ourselves about what we want. Other times, we are being deceived and we don"t even know it. We might want to do something because of vanity, because our neighbors are doing it, because of our self-identity, or because of some long-held "dream" from childhood.

Begin by doubting yourself. Find the things you actually want – not the things you say you want. It will save a lot of time on the long run.

Reflect and make space.

Next, you need to make space. Before you decided to change, your day is already full. You slept, ate, work and did stuff — 24 hours a day, every day. To make room for new things, something else will have to go. There is always a sacrifice.

In an ideal world, we would surgically remove bad habits, activities, people that are least in line with our goals and add in only those things most in line with the goals. Sadly, behavioral change isn"t quite that precise. But that doesn"t mean we can"t be systematic about it.

Here"s how I"d do make space for the new:


1. Track. Figure out what your typical day looks like: when you woke up, when you went to work, how many hours you spent on task A, B, C, etc. and what time you went to sleep.


2. Dissect. Figure out what you can sacrifice. Are you wasting time on the Internet? Are there low-quality people in your life? What are the 10-20% of activities that are making up 80%+ of your empty, meaningless time reducing your productivity to 20%? Remember the Pareto principle?


3. Replace. Notice I didn"t say add. Adding is hard — you are already using all 24 hours, remember? the basic protocol is: (1) identify the trigger for the activity or habit you want to replace, (2) spend 1-2 weeks "re-programming" that trigger to your new, more beneficial activity.




Again, remember that making space is hard. You will only be able to do one new thing, two at most.

Choose the most important thing, spend 1-2 weeks making that practice into a habit, then repeat the above process for new changes you want to make.

How to choose the "most important thing?" By choosing the lead domino.

Choose the lead domino.

I heard of this concept from Tim Ferriss. When you have a lot of interesting things ahead of you and you don"t know what to choose, choose the thing that makes everything easier. If you want to run a m
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Learn awareness, the strongest indicator of a health, wealth, love, and happiness

Changeability, adaptability is the secret of living a consistently good life... but changeability and adaptability depend on awareness. As your awareness grows in the four pillars of the good life, so your success and the quality of your life...

By the way, did you notice I didn"t say "learn about awareness..." but that is what you read? Right?

In the old Forum program, the Forum Leader came in, screaming at us, poor unsuspecting brand new participants: For you everything is the same as everything else.

It took me years to decipher that and see that it is true.

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What is in common, what is a shared characteristic among people who become worth a damn?

There is not much in common. It is not talent. It is not ethnicity. Not personality. Not schooling. Not religious affiliation.

The one common characteristic I have found is books. People who become worth a damn are readers.

Even more importantly than being a reader: the most important commonality is when they started to read.

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