Cancer: The unexpected results of positive thinking

Whoever thought that the well-meaning positive thinking will become a prison and a sentence to a "no joy life" for most who become a "practitioner" of it, about 80% of humanity at this time.

Whether you know it or not, your powers of comprehension depend on your powers of distinguishing.

In the old est training, the trainers came to the room on the first day blasting: "for you Everything is the same as everything else ... except not always" and they were as accurate as accurate they would be today: you can"t tell your ass from your elbow.

This is true for everybody, including yours truly... the difference is only in degrees. No one is exempt from it.

The capacity to see differences clearly is called astuteness. The capacity to tell apart similar things, to name them and claim them.

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When it comes to thinking positive or being positive, 99.99% of you thought that what it meant is to suppress the negative, both thoughts and feelings.

It seems so clear, doesn"t it? If you suppress those, then what you are left with is positive...

But reality isn"t as simple as your simplistic thinking.

One of the most fundamental facts about the human brain and about Life is that they are ambivalent.

Ambivalent means that each feeling comes with an opposing feeling. Love and hate. Frustration and joyful expectation. Life and Death.

Always. It is the nature of the human brain. Everything and its opposite.

Maddening. I remember dealing with that in psychoanalysis some 35 years ago. I wanted it to stop.

Psychoanalysis is a weird beast: the therapist doesn"t say anything. In fact they are not allowed to give you any feedback... if the two therapist I had over the seven years are any indication.

So you are on your own. And you can either distinguish or not, you are either astute or not... and if you are not... bummer.

I was astute, I inherited the spiritual capacity of astuteness from my father. I saw that the two feelings are seemingly always together, inseparable, like the front of your hand and the back of your hand. You suppress one, the other one get suppressed with it.

So I decided to leave it alone, and look at other issues.

Example of ambivalence: different or same as everyone else

One other issue was, not surprisingly also ambivalent, is wanting to be different and wanting to belong. Mutually exclusive futures... You can either have one or the other.

I obviously chose being different, and grieve what I lost: belonging.

Human genes make you accepted when you are similar, rejected if you are different... including being better.

The moment you see how reality is, including the reality of the human brain, you have a chance to have it all, and moreover enjoy it all.

Enjoyment is another ambivalent issue.

The world, your world, is full of pleasures. Feeling your body, your muscles, breathing. Your first cup of tea or coffee in the morning.

The coolness of the water as it passes through your throat. Stretching. Reading. Writing. Speaking. Being heard. Meeting someone"s eyes and feeling that you are seen.

All unforbidden pleasures... available to all, ignored by most.

The same suppression phenomenon applies here: you have forbidden pleasure desires. You suppress them. And now you can"t feel any pleasure...

The two wolves that fight for dominance need you to want to suppress one of them. When you allow both to live, there is no struggle: you just feed the one you want to feed, and you have peace.

Having an urge doesn"t mean you have to act on it. Even if it is the machine-like urge of your genes. Or the machine-like urge of your soul correction.

Example: Judgment and assessment are very similar, but also very different.

Of course ask anyone, and they don"t know the difference.

You say something in both. But the context is vastly different.

In judgment it is all about you. Your motivator is "desire for the self alone". You say what you say to make yourself look better.

In assessment there is no you. You see and you say. It has no reflection on you.

My vibrational reviews are assessments, not judgments.

My vibrational reviews are assessments. You or your guru being low vibration doesn"t make me feel better about myself, doesn"t make me look better. It is just what is so.

Same in my workshops.

If you can"t tell the difference between judgment and assessment, you"ll be mortified by the things I say about the participants. Sounds even nasty. But nasty is judgment. It intends to put the other down... nasty is all about the speaker.

I am not nasty. I am compassionate. I tell you the things I tell you so you can calm down and stop hiding it. So you can take a deep breath and look at it and say... "ugh. ugly."

Once you do that, without self-judgment, you are on your way to power. Power is impossible when you suppress. Suppression is force. Violence.

No power. No enjoyment. No flow. No abundance. Only death. Only violence.

If you take the time to observe the inner dynamic, if you learn, little by little, that you are not a ticking bomb... you may become someone who I can work with, who can start living an invented life.

Where all the unforbidden pleasures more than make up for everything.

Where work, learning, solving puzzles, breaking through barriers is pleasure.

Really.

Ambivalence, the feeling of the opposites, is like alternating current.

If you slowed down a video showing a lit light bulb, you"d see that the bulb being "on" is an optical illusion, the light bulb goes through on and off, sixty times a second. And it goes through positive and negative, sixty times a second.

If it stayed on all the time, it would burn out in minutes. If it stayed with the positive only, it would burn out in minutes.

That is why Edison had to do a thousand experiments... because he wasn"t the smartest and most astute person: Tesla was a lot brighter: he saw the nature of reality, that it is ambivalent. And therefore our power source needs to be ambivalent also.

Life and death, always happening, every moment of every minute.

That is life. The one you think would work better is deadly. It is like cancer.

The way you practice positive thinking is cancer-like. Kill everything else and only grow the cancer cells.

Congratulations. You"ve found the opposite of the Philosopher"s Stone. [note]The Philosopher"s Stone is said to cause living forever[/note]

Human culture is known to favor one side of ambivalence and vilify the other.

The book Pendulum says, this goes in cycles, predictable cycles.

We live in the phase of WE cycle. Forcing and favoring the "we are one", cooperation, giving back part of the ambivalence.

Being selfish and wanting to be part of a community are the two sides of this ambivalence.

But both are part of human nature: "no man is an island" is true... "you need to be who you are or you"ll be unhappy" is also true.

While all of humanity cycles through suppressing one side or the other, you can say: "heck with it, I"ll embrace all of life, and all of my nature."

And you"ll be the winner of the prize: a fully enjoyed, fully lived life, where nothing is suppressed, nothing is denied, you choose on a moment to moment basis, by what seems appropriate. In the moment.

That is balance. Heavenly. [note]

‘I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING BUT THIS:
WHENEVER I FELT MYSELF TOPPLING OVER TO ONE SIDE,
I LEANED TO THE OTHER.’Read More https://www.yourvibration.com/osho/walking-the-tightrope/[/note]

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Why do Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger read books on physics, the ice ages, the shorelines of our planet?

There are many ways to deal with the Universe, with reality, and most of them are ineffective.

The Anna Karenina Principle applies here. That is what a principle is: it applies everywhere.

A principle is a pattern. Big pattern, small pattern, it is a pattern.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." By that, Tolstoy meant that for a marriage to be happy, it had to succeed in several key aspects. Failure on even one of these aspects, and the marriage is doomed . . . the Anna Karenina principle also applies to ecological risk assessments involving multiple stressors.

One of my students suggested that the linchpin capacity that humanity isn"t exercising is allowing. The 12-step programs say: Let go - Let god...

I have been pondering this ever since I got the email with the suggestion. At first I didn"t see the beauty of it, but it is growing on me.

Yeah, if you could let life be life, the Universe be the Universe, spring be spring, the weather be the weather, if you stopped fighting it, trying to fix it, tame it, control it, then you would be able to fall into a rhythm, a harmony, a flow.

Aikido, a form of martial art, uses this principle to live a spectacularly joyful life.

What blocks joy is efforting. Resisting. Pushing.

• All agenda is pushing.

• All tiredness comes from resistance.

I read the books Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger read.

And although I felt a sense of rightness... until this morning I didn"t see what one can learn from the richest men of our times, who have been able to sustain their riches for fifty years, maybe more.

There is something to be said about time tested success... it is probably not a fluke. It is worth examining, learning from.

How did I get to the insight?

One of the questions I have been pondering is why mouth-taping may effect your life... in addition to not snoring, in addition to sleeping better.

I started mouth taping on October 27 of last year. That is seven months... long enough experiment to see some result.

I can see three things that were unpredictable, or maybe even impossible before:

• 1. I have been measurably less jumpy, less reactive, less resistant to what is. Measured with muscle test: I used to be 20% on a 1-100 scale, and now I am 7% on that same scale.

That, compared to your 100% reactivity...

But I can tell you: my joy level, my ability to have fun, have doubled... and my relationship to being attacked (for example) is a lot more harmonious than it was. I go with the punches.

• 2. I am able to see patterns a lot faster than before... in fact, I am looking for patterns, where I used to look for fixing before.

• 3. I am starting to see my skeletal/muscular system becoming more on the side of life... less rigid. I look, act, and feel younger than my 70 years. About 20 years...

My calves still hurt when I walk, but that"s that. No other pains.

I watched a two-hour video ((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74F22bjBmqE
)) before I started. The person, the doctor, in the video has some theories... the truth value of the video is 10%. With what I am sharing here, it is raised to 60%... we have further penetrate the mysteries of Life... with this single insight:

Here is the insight: when you tape your mouth, you are suddenly in a position to connect to your higher self, to your brain, and potentially also to All-Knowledge, aka Source.

How?

The axis, the connecting line between your tongue and Source is reestablished when you tape your mouth. When you sleep with your mouth open, this connection is missing.

When your mouth is taped shut, the tongue is pressed against the roof of your mouth, changing your physiology, especially your brain waves.

Some of us would do better to have our mouths taped 24/7. Why? Because when your mouth is not taped... you are automatically in your mind... the mind is a physical location at a different angle... vertical instead of a slight backwards angle... My hunch is that the angle is the same as the Earth"s wobble... but that is just a hunch.

And now, answering the question in the title: the secret of making accurate decisions, the secret of being in sync, being in harmony with the universe, is to be able to see patterns inside patterns inside patterns, and use them like Aikido uses the opponent"s energy... flow with it.

In everything, winners see patterns, losers force their way.

Most of humanity act in the losers" way, the exceptions are rare. And they are billionaires.

And actively working over 90 years of age.

They can distinguish more patterns that nearly anyone on the Planet.

Distinguish has a lot to do with awareness, but distinguishing depends even more on being able to see what you see, not the way mind-dwelling people do: "everything is the same as everything else, except that not always".

The Anna Karenina Principle, if nothing else, put into use, starts to create distinctions but pointing out what isn"t inside the strait and narrow.

By the way, strait is not an alternative way to spell straight... Strait is a different word. Look it up...

Without being able to use your attention at will, none of these will make any difference, these are just words.

What makes it work is attention...

I will teach how to activate it and how to use it to finally turn you into a high functioning human, in the twin courses: Reading and Sleeping.

You don"t want to read? I got it... Did YOU?

What is the connection between respect and appreciation?

What is the connection between respect and appreciation? Both respect and appreciation are spiritual capacities... states of being.

I am having a lot of insights lately. Of course, it was predictable: I am running an experimental workshop: it is driving up the questions.

When you have questions, relevant questions, you are going to get insights. Irrelevant questions? no insights.

Anyway, the circumstance this morning is this: I accidentally double-paid for the Tai Lopez course. Sent a support request to get a refund, and they answered that their policy was to talk to me, to make sure I was who I said I was.

I have been fuming about this. I mean my lower parts are fuming, and I, the Self, have been observing it with curiosity. Very strong emotions, by the way...

What is it that is offending my lower self?

I have found that the Tai Lopez company is inconsistent in its dealings with people... Say they are for me... but... I paid for their product. Accidentally I double paid. They accepted both payments. But now, they are making me jump through hoops for them to transfer the money back to the same card it came from. Feels inconsistent with who they said they were.

No trust. It hurts. It feels like disrespect. So it seems that respect is very important to the lower self... I mean my team (ego, soul, emotions) just wasted more than half an hour in this muck and mire: anger, disappointment, being put out, etc.

So that is respect... or at least respect when it"s missing.

So what is appreciation?

The way I teach appreciation, the capacity, it is different from how you have had it. I teach that appreciation is being able to look at something, anything, and value it accurately, on a minus 100-plus 100 scale. But value it nevertheless... instead of fighting it, saying it"s wrong. The usual crap you do... Yes or no. Binary. Rejection.

But as I was pondering this, it occurred to me, that your knee-jerk reaction to things won"t allow you to appreciate anything.

Given that we are now working on the Knowledge/Strategy/Execution model, your lack of ability to place a value, a non-binary value on something will make you do another jump: jump into the middle of execution, without knowledge, without strategy... smack into the middle.

Much like jumping into the deep pool without learning to swim, without having rescue people present, without a floating belt.

You"ll sink. And that is exactly what happens when you have no appreciation for models, for others" hard work, for what other people did who went before you. Or for swimming... the depth of the water, learning and strategy.

You are looking at the reflection of yourself, and you think: what do they know? because you yourself don"t know anything... or not much of any value.

And your lack of respect to the person who was willing to go through a process, so he can teach you... oh no, you know better, and you"ll cut corners. Or oh no... why bother creating a strategy, or learning what there is to learn, I"ll just wing it.

Or in case of a spiritual capacity: why bother spending the time learning about the being the capacity allows, why create a strategy to make it grow roots in your being, and why do the steps that are needed?

In the worst case you"ll just ask me to activate it again.

You are stupid, and all you can see is stupid around you. You can"t have respect for something you see, or even pay money for... because your lack of respect for yourself will decide who and what you respect.

Catch 22, if I have even seen one.

Can you get out of this Catch 22? We shall see...

Some 20 people are still in the game... and all I hear back is silence. Dead silence.

Are people waiting for me to do it for them?