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| 27 May 2009 01:10:54 am |
 Strang Music Dancing Us |
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Strange Music Dancing Us
Is it not some
Strange music
That dances us to and fro?
What tide of Heaven
Or Hell, compels us so?
Tis not some God
Who wills it So..
But Life Dancing Itself
With Us!
Yield or Yell
That Too
The Notes
Of it's Song..
With our Voices
Our Flesh,
Our Tears,
Our Smiles..
Without This Song
Death Do Come
And Soon!
S.Alari
December 11, 2000 |
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Category : All of it is making me up
| Posted By : Stanley |  Comments[201] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 13 May 2009 03:12:18 pm |
| Everything We Tried Died |
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EVERYTHING WE TRIED
DIED…
EVERYTHING WE TRIED
DIED..
I HAD YOUR NUMBER
AND YOU HAD MINE
I DON’T KNOW WHY
I NEVER DID
YET, SOMEHOW
WE NEW LIFE TRUE!
SOME MAD SEASON
HELD US FAST!
EVERY CHAPTER OF US
ANOTHER LOSS
THE CHAOS OF IT
CRIED US LOUD
AND CRIED US LOW
YET, BETWEEN
THE PAGES AND THE PAIN
EVERYTHING MAN AND WOMAN
CAN GAIN
I’D COME AGAIN AND AGAIN
TO DO IT AGAIN!!
IT BURNED US WELL
WHIST HERE WE DWELL
THE LIFE OF FIRE
THAT BIRTHS EVERYTHING
THAT COMES AND DIES..
AND NONE CAN TELL
THIS TALE’S WHY…
FOR WHO CAN KNOW
GOD’S NAME AND WHY?
Stanley Alari
1990 |
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Category : All of it is making me up
| Posted By : Stanley | Comments[211] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 27 Apr 2009 01:10:01 am |
| My Mind |
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My Mind
My mind , my essence
And my compass!
Always with one foot in heaven
And one in these Human minutes
Out of control
Like everyone else!!
My mind, open and speaking
Incessantly, never shutting up
With some new folly or fun!
My mind, my constant companion
My teacher, my leader in frivolities!
My Mind, my master
Director of every step
And without a careful pause!
My mind I will follow, it's counsel
Without an oar, without a rudder,
But sailing on anyway!!
Down every pathway it shall choose
Forget Me! I'm in chains!
Watching the show and astonished!
For Every one, a different course
Plotted by unlimitted Minds!!
My mind, my dearest friend
And trusted risk taker!
Mind, You take me everywhere
I could not care to go..
And yet I, so gratefull, so helpless and
embedded and melded in You.
My mind, my savior
And you would burn me to bits
For your own merriment, just to
watch me twisting in the seat,
That I may live and be truly Alive!!
Oh pray lead me on
In this reckless way!
Don't change a degree of this
Crazy mad course!
My mind, plunge on, till oblivion comes!
I sit here chained in the seat of it
And wonder where am I going, who am I being
and yet thrilled to death at it's unchartedness!
My mind, I love what you have
done to me, for me, at me!!
If I could plot the course
How I would fall asleep in boredom!
So carry me away!
I trust you to give me a life!!
My mind, now lead me to Love
I would plunge off it's certain cliff!
Lets Go! Let's Go!
For Love is the greatest folly
Of them all! But oh it's heights it's falls!
Nothing as excruiating and exquisite
as it's knives at it's plunging screaming falls!!
For there at the bottom of Love's precipice,
their I rest in my twisted remains...
full of Dreams and rememberances.. to last lifetimes!!
At the End..my Mind will deliver me,
well lived, well used up..Farewell ..Dear Mind..
and I thank Thee thrice Fold!!
For a Hell of a Ride!!
S.Alari
Spain April 09 |
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Category : All of it is making me up
| Posted By : Stanley | Comments[150] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 24 Apr 2009 04:27:22 am |
| Chinese Lament, Can I Love Again? |
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Can I love again?
What would it be like, to fall in love again
So much time has passed without it..
How would I know if it came again?
What clues of the heart would call me?
Would I know when it called me?
Could I even answer the call..
I’m so afraid of this life I know
Its calmness, its tranquilit
Am I ready to be torn apart again
Am I ready to fail and fail and fail again
To do what it bids me without fear
Of losing my way of losing my mind
I throw open my heart in reckless abandon!
Love me please, abandon me please
I would be smashed to pieces in its throes
I would love to know its woes…again
Is it too late to sob, is it to late to die again and again!
Awake and night, empty and afraid
Because she is not here!
Could I bear the pain
The knife edge of its goodbyes!
Oh, come you quick before I change my mind!!
I would know its thralls again
Before the shade calls me home!
April 24, 2009
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| 18 May 2008 12:26:53 am |
| The Brain Game |
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Hello Everyone! I ran across this article that appears below here and thought it was so powerful and great, I decided to place it here for you. I found the article at a link called “Jewish self help and growth.” I was so impressed I kind of rewrote some of it in my own words and it is here for you. If you decide to do what it suggests, please drop me a line at my email address and tell me how it has served you. If you come up with new and different ways to use the Brain Game please let me know and I will find some way, perhaps a blog so that others can share and improve their lives as well. What I’ve read here has already helped me in really terrific ways. I hope you find real value for you too! Thank You!
Stan Alari
Human Being For Magical Lives
My email address is www.stantheradarman@gmail.com
The Brain Game
(A summary)
The Brain Game
You can take charge of your Brain. Few do. Watch us just blow up and act like were nuts. That is not being in control.
We can think freely, independently and it requires mindfulness about how the Brain works, and what it is. Our Mind as it were.
We can develop brain management skills. We can play a new game, the only game in town! We can play the Brain Game rather than it playing us!
What we need to know
Here are seven things we know about the brain. These seven facts give us a description of how brains work.
These seven facts also give us an understanding of the Brain Game of running our own brains.
This understanding leads us to the Rules of the Game.
First Brain Fact
BRAINS FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
Our Brain takes the directions we give it and follows them. Just say anything and the brain responds with some image or idea, just like that!
LETS TALK ABOUT THE DIRECTIONS WE GIVE THE BRAIN
1. What directions are you giving your brain?
2. What are the default instructions that you’ve learned to give your brain?
3. What instructions did your parents or teachers provide you about yourself,
life, others. Etc?
4. How useful, ecological, healthy, balanced, valuable, true, etc. are those
Instructions?
5. Do those instructions create empowering states for you?
6. Would you want to give those instructions to your children?
7. Do they map out an exciting and loving life?
The quality of our lives is a function of the quality of the information processed by our brain.
The quality of that information flows from the quality of its instructions.
The most important thing I do in life are the instructions I give my brain.
Do my instructions to my brain give rise to a world class movie? Life?
Whatever instructions I am giving my brain creates my life experience. How am I doing? Can I do better?
I can begin anytime creating a wondrous, fulfilling life, full of love and full of meaning by giving wonderful, fulfilling meaningful instructions to my brain.
My brain uses words pictures sounds tones volumes smells tastes feelings sights every kind of thing to swish me anywhere, anytime!
By brain’s activities are a creation of my learning history, my experiences, my memories, my imaginations my hopes, my fantasy’s.. If I can dream it I can life it now, anytime. Imagine living in the daytime with the same wonder as in my dream life!!
My brain is just fantastic in linking things immediately. My brain is so fast and so vast I could not even comprehend it but I can use it to do and feel anything anytime, anywhere. I am as free as all the birds of the world!!
Name something, anything and there it is! I am indeed to vast for concepts!
Much of what I have learned is simply not true...its just that my brain causes me to believe they are true just because the thought is there!!
My brain never rests, it cannot rest, it is the life force of creation itself! It is a creation instrument, it must and can only always be creating something..what is mine creating? Lets take charge of that and change the landscape of my life into my personal dream and wish. My mind is like my God machine that can and will do anything its creation impulses dictate and now I want to start dictating this God thing that I live in and am...I actually am this dreaming living God entity!
Even at night the dreaming living God entity is going gang busters going everywhere doing everything that often leaves me gasping in its wake of wonder!!
I can help my brain by joining in the wonder of new things to keep it flying along rather than dropping into the shadow world and making mischief in my life because it needs to be doing something!!
BRAINS EXTERNALIZE INSTRUCTIONS
We are so easy to read, really, all we have to do is watch the external games we play in the world to know what is going on internally, inside us.. What kind of external games do others see me playing? I want to know that!! I find as a general proposition that it is not easy to see what the self is doing...I am just so occupied doing it, I really have no objective platform to watch my self as I externalize my interior life activities.. I will immediately start asking others to tell me what they observe me doing as external behaviors. In this way, I can see and make changes so that I externalize a fabulous internal scene of intentions!! I want to know!! How can I grow without that vision of my brains intentions, its desires, its tendencies..Its life!! I want to know what my brain is up to!!
I want my internal frames of mind to be exciting, vibrant, dramatic and powerfully human and god like as possible!! I will devote my life to enhancing my internal frames of mind!! Here are some internal frames of mind:
Full of wonder Full of inspiration full of love for mankind full of energy
Full of desire Full of expectation of good full of love of family
Full of hope full of anticipation Full of peace Full of fulfillment
Full of gratitude full of the joy of work Full of the love of music
full of the love of books full of the love of travel
Full of the love of good cooking full of the love of helping others
full of compassion full of delight at being alive full of youth
Full of the golden times full of appreciation of my body full of appreciation of my good health full of appreciation of the contributions of others full of the love of the law full of the love for my clients full of love for my children full of love for all children full of love for all the other Devine monkeys I see and greet
I am decorating my brain’s internal mind sets with every manner of good thing, every manner and aspect of all of lives marvelous miracles
I am always running great movies in my internal minds landscape!
I am the interior decoration of my minds internal states!!
BRAINS RUN ON REPRESENTATIONS
The neuro sciences tell us that our brain will create a representation of our external sensed experiences. In other words, our brain will give us a complete picture of the external scene including sensory impressions. It appears that internally we have a movie like projection of that scene. We call this the phenomena of Consciousness. This is how we experience thoughts and aware nesses.
This is pretty amazing when you think about it! Our brain is telling us what it thinks is going on! We accept that as the truth, unless there is obviously some chicanery the brain senses. “We” don’t do this, it is done for us!!
Our brain uses different parts of itself to create these impressions of external experience. For example, the visual cortex, the auditory cortex and so on.
The brain is creating a “map of the world for us”, like a language of the Mind so we can understand what is probably going on in the world around us!
The Mind uses the brain to create any picture we want and voila! There it is!!
Can you see how this is like a “language”, or a picture of the world? That is what this marvelous brain-mind does for us..get that? For us! “I” am not doing it, it is done for me!
Once the brain mind has created a scene there are all the feelings that come along to color the experience, the feelings are the clone like equivalent of the created scene...the wonderful emotional colors of this life!!
Do you want more wonderful emotional experiences? Then start giving the brain-mind instructions to create more great internal scenes!! Then all those wonderful emotional colors will just pour into us and thrill us!!
You can really appreciate the way the brain-mind is working for us.. The idea here my friends is for you to get the mind-brain to work in the way YOU want!! The brain is just like this fantastic god like instrumentality that is “just waiting for you to show up and ask for what you want!” Like the Genie in the bottle, waiting for your commands!! How about it? Shall we jump in and start changing the direction and the quality of our own lives??? I say a profound “Yes!”
Our brains will play a mental screen on the mind and we can fill in the emotional details of that movie! Remember, it is the fantastic brain that will creat all these details and even more that we cannot evens sense! Our senses our limited but our brain is not!!
So, since you are the movie director of your brain, be a Cecile B. DeMille, create a fabulous movie! Why settle for finger sandwiches when the brain can bring you the very richest banquet of life!! You can make your life into a classic movie of your dreams without any limitation! Why settle for the comparatively dull movie you have going on now??
#4 BRAINS TRANSITION IN AND OUT OF THE PRESENT MOMENT
We humans can do what no other animal can do. We can simply by thinking about it, go anywhere, anytime! Where would you like to go? Tahiti? Easy enough, just picture it in your mind and there you are! Want to see you Mom? Whether Mom is still her or in heaven, it does not matter, you can see her right now, smiling at you!! Just by “thinking” or creating a living representation of her in your mind!!
Isn’t that amazing? We do this all day long, every day of our lives. We are constantly day dreaming, fantasizing, inventing, conceptualizing, theorizing, etc. We take this for granted. Yet, think about it. Isn’t it obvious that you can leave your present circumstances anytime you want?
I remember a phone conversation I had with a federal prisoner some years ago.
I asked him where he was. He said he was at the federal prison down near the ocean where I lived. I asked him if he was free. He said no, he was in a prison cell. I asked him if he could hear the sea and he said yes. I asked him if he could fly out over the ocean in his mind and he said yes. I then asked him “Isn’t it true that your body is in that cell but your mind was free to go anywhere he wanted, and he said “yes”.
It is so great to be newly considering the powers of our brain mind to give us a remembered freedom to change our circumstances anytime we want. What a gift this God like machine our brain is!! There is nothing like it in this world! You have this special ability to go anywhere, anytime, enjoy and revel in using this ability every day to create a magical carpet to whisk you away anywhere in this universe, anywhere at all, there is no limit to where the mind can go!! Try it right now, think of the most far away place to go to and then go there! Pretty wild isn’t it???!!
You can represent not only things and places not here right now, but impossible places as well...there is no limit to your ability to imagine! Can you see that we spend a great deal of our time in trance states going elsewhere, doing other things just by thinking about them? We do this so often when we are driving our cars. Oh, we are driving that is true, but in our minds we go everywhere at the same time!
We all hallucinate all the time. So, go for it! Go places that create feelings in you that empower you, make you feel wonderful, thrill yourself all you want!!
People who do not use the magical powers of the mind to imagine and create a wonderful time for themselves are just short changing themselves and living very dull lives when they could be giants having a ball in this life...
#5 BRAINS INDUCE MENTAL STATES
Our brains put us into different neurological states, into mental states of mind.
These mental states our brains put us into are just automatic if we don’t control and decide which mental states serve us. The mental states affect our breathing, our feelings, our movement and our internal chemistry. These are all very important mental states that affect our health and the very quality of our experience.
You must remember that in this live, all we really have are “experiences” We don’t actually “have” relationships, homes, cars, things..we just have experiences about them. Can you see that you can be the author, the Master that chooses which experiences to have? Can you see that it is “you” who can create healthful and joyous experiences? Why would you want to just wait for the brain to get around to creating a empowering, joyful experience? Let’s do it all the time and whenever we want! You can do that.
I want you to experiment with your ability to create empowering experiences. Say this to yourself: “I am wonderful.” I am the dearest friend I have. I can do so many wonderful things. I can think of anything I want. I can go anywhere I want, in my mind. See how simple and amazing this is.
If you are in a bad mood, change it. Just start thinking thoughts that will change how you feel, give it 3 minutes and watch it shift. Or, just run in place for one minute, that’s it, and your brain will create new endorfins that will wash over those brain receptor sites that are responsible for feeling bad...it will shift away just like that!
Try if you don’t believe it! Then don’t forget it in the future. You are the master of your brain and the external experiences it is projecting onto your internal movie screen..You are the great movie director in your life. You may want to go out and buy a Director’s Chair so you can sit in it and start directing the new thrilling movie of your life!!
Our brain sits on top of our spinal cord gathering all the input from the whole body and it is this multi-layered brain of ours that gives rise to “Mind”. That sense we have of ourselves. Right now, you can sense it, looking out of your eyes, drinking it all in, that is your Mind. Brain and Mind, the go together and they are there for you to command with new powerful empowering, joy creating abilities!
Use them or be used hap hazardly by them!
Usually we think ourselves into different mental states. However, we can act our way into the mental states we want! Let’s start “acting” our way into the mental states for our internal movie that we want!
There are at least TWO ROYAL ROADS into our mental states. There is the automatic unconscious road into sadness, anger, or there is there “I control my mental states of love, joy , gratitude , and confidence. You can choose which royal road you want. Start right now in taking the royal road to a happier more satisfying road of life!
What mental state do you go into when some unpleasant disagreeable life stimulus is projected into your external mental state? Do you automatically fly off the handle and get mad? Do you control yourself with a powerful empowering tempering response that treats the input as “mere information” rather than a reason to lose control of yourself by getting mad or sad? This will take lots of new empowering work to change your responses but you are the master of your brain!! You can do it. You must do it if you are to have the life you only dreamed of...
Give yourself new instructions to change your behavior. Don’t wait for the negative stimuli to arrive. Sit down somewhere quiet and starting giving yourself new instructions right now. “Brain, I am commanding you to take deep breaths the next time a negative stimuli arrives! Brain I am commanding you to be quiet, powerful, patient and never to get automatically mad again! That it is brain, you must do what I command!
#6 A BRAIN OPERATES IN META STATES
Our brains go everywhere and in any time, future, past present and do it instantly. The brain is huge and is limitless, it is not a linear rational machine, it is awesomley all over the place all the time. It is positive and then negative then is imaginative, intuitive, then it worries, then rejoices...it is amazing! Have you noticed??
#7 BRAINS FRAME THINGS
The brain links ideas, images, feelings, words, and creates meaning out of them, it “frames” its activities into meanings we react to. The brain uses this stimulus response system to create scenes and frames for us and then reacts to them!!! It does all this automatically without any leadership by you! However, you can jump in and change its choices!!! You must do this to have an independent life!! Otherwise you are a dummy on its strings!! You can tell when someone else is being silly or unrealistic, but if those same stimuli responses occur in you, you think its true!!! Baloney!! Get it?? You must learn to direct its choices and you can!! Get started now!! You hear every idea your brain comes up with, choose again if its nonsense or does not serve you!!
So now you know that the greatest Authority Figure in your life is your own brain suggesting you do this and that..That’s right, there is some strange phenomena in your brain that is always coming up with ideas and most of them are negative!! You simply must start taking charge of your brain!! Listen to it!! The damn thing is auto thinking every moment!! Don’t follow its advice, carefully evaluate its suggestions and then do what serves your life!! Remember, 80 percent of its counsel is negative!! What a crummy life those negative ideas can cause you!! Change its programming into positive, empowering choices!!
The way the brain works is that it links up ideas it is producing and sets a frame idea. “The brain then takes that information and forms a concept. It then suggests what we do with that concept...and we will do what it dictates to us, unless, we consciously and carefully take a look at that concept and then choose to reject it as a bad choice or implement it if it’s a good empowering thing to do!! If we do not make conscious choices, we are just dummies, automatons!!
If we hear a harsh, or loud tone a voice from someone, the brain links up, creates a frame of reference and instantly a concept loaded with emotions presents it to us and does so instantly! That is when we will have a powerful negative reaction and we then strike out or withdraw from the event! This is an instant reaction, so fast you cant stop it!! But we can learn to take a deep breath and make a healthy choice in the matter, we do not have to explode in rage! I can say “Take it easy Now!” Take a deep breath...and ask “Does this serve me??” “Should I blow up at this stimuli???”
We can learn to say “Oh, that’s just information, I thought at first that it was Criticism!”
As we categorize a thing that’s what it is for us. In our neurology, in our brain. Keep in mind that as our brain “frames” so we become!!! Be careful! Take notice!! Make a new empowering serving response!!!
As we frame, so we play the frame games that do us!!! Choose again!!!
Now that we know about the brains (minds) what they do and how they work, we are ready to play the Brain Game. This is the “Running Your Own Brain Game”, one of the original visions of the science of Neuro Linguistic Programming. With these insights we can take Neuro Semantics even further to run our own brain at the highest empowering levels of the Mind!! See the Book “The Secrets of Personal Mastery 02000"
RULE ONE :QUALITY CONTROL
DON’T BE ABSURD!!
Only chose the Best Ideas! The Best Language! The Best Deeds! The best Thoughts!
Anything that isn’t the best, choose again! Choose only the Best Experiences to have!!
You see, while the brain is a fantastic creative Machine, It is very very stupid when it comes to what it processes. Garbage in, Garbage out, REALLY!! Even the stomach will vomit garbage, but the BRAIN WILL NOT! The brain will entertain any information, any thought, any idea, any deed without any filter!!
That is your job!!!
To the brain, it dosent matter if the information is accurate, useful, true, productive, hurtful, stupid, etc, IT DOESN’T SEEM TO MATTER!!
We have to take charge of the quality control of the information we feed it or hear from it. We can call this “running an ecology check”. Empowering Reality tests the value, health, and balance of information we get from our brains.
It is “your” whole system of your body, your relationships, your energy, your desires that matter. It is from this ecology check that you can create that wonderful movie that is your life, the one “you” want, not the garbage
your stupid brain will create as your crummy life!!
Here is the test “ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT CREAT PERSONAL POWER, HEALTH, BALANCE, JOY, COMPASSION, WEALTH, LOVE, ETC. IS JUST ABSURD!! DON’T BE ABSURD!!
Consider anything that your brain produces in your body, emotions, speech, behavior, relationships that puts you in constant conflict, that keeps repeating patterns that don’t work, that creates ineffectiveness, unresourcefulness, etc. as absurd. Then stop it!!
If you follow this first rule, your life will radically change and transform in a matter of weeks, of days!
THIS MUST BE YOUR SPOKEN INTENTION! YOU WILL SAY THIS TO YOUR BRAIN!! YOU MUST GIVE IT NEW EMPOWERING INSTRUCTIONS. SIT DOWN AND WRITE OUT THE NEW INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUR BRAIN. REMEMBER, ITS STUPID, IT WILL USE WHAT YOU SAY!!! ITS CAN’T HELP ITSELF!! IT’S A DUMB MACHINE, GET IT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE INTO THAT GREAT CLASSIC MOVIE YOU WANT TO LIVE!
You have been repeating dumb patterns for way too long! It is absolutely ludicrous to keep doing and saying things that don’t work! It is so simple to work changes that do work. Really simple. “YOU Just give new instructions to your brain and retire those tired of defeating patterns, they will just STOP when you put in new instructions, new information for the brain to auto feed you and you will love it! So will all your relationships, at home at work, in the world. They will say “What the hell happened to him????” What is he smoking???? God, I wish I could be like that!!!
Here are the transforming questions you will ask yourself all day long.
Does this enhance my life over the long run?
Does this empower me as a person?
Does this make life a party?
Does this empower the other person?
Does this enhance my health?
This rule will stop all your whining over childhood aches and pains. This will stop all your whining about your work. You will stop blaming everything and everyone for the quality of your life. They have nothing to do with it! It is you, you are the poison in your life! So, stop it!! You are the one who has been screwing up your life because you have let your poor stupid brain give you information that is garbage and does not work!! OK, so, lets change that, what do you say? Or just continue along in your unconscious way relying on garbage and blaming everyone and everything for the information YOU RELY ON!!
OK, You say your life is alright. IS THAT ALL YOU WANT FROM IT!!
RULE # 2 RISE UP AND CHANGE THE GAME!
If you haven’t read this material. Your brain has been running you. Sorry folks, but that is the absolute truth and you know it. You are now aware of what you have not been doing. You have not been running your own brain, you are and have been its victim. That is such a shocking revelation!! However, aren’t you glad you know now?? Now you can change your whole life!!! This is like getting to really be “born again!!” Wow, now you get to ask yourself, what kind of life do I really want? This is like being a kid again and asking yourself,
“What do I want to be when I grow up?” Now you get to choose that life. There are no limits to what you can get the brain to go for!! Remember, its stupid, it will believe anything!! So put some fabulous things in it and you will get fabulous experiences back!! Your brain does not know the difference, if you want to be a mighty hero in life that’s ok. If you want to be a whining victim, that’s ok too. Get it? Do you really get this???
“OK , Brain, from now on, I am instructing you to tell me what a wonderful powerful happy guy I am. I want you to tell me that all day long!! That is an order Brain!! Pretty simple and easy thing to do. The brain will believe it and say it to you from now on. If it forgets, then tell it again and again and again, till it learns what you want!! How many times do you think your brain heard some of the negative comments about you? Thirty times? Way back when you were a litle person? That’s what happened and that’s why it talks that way to you. That is the only reason it happened, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS TRUE!!! OK, now its your turn to put all the things in it you want to hear in your life, and your stupid order following brain will simply do it.. That is all there is too it...
Do you know how many of the others know this? One out of 50 million would be my guess..pretty frightening that so many of us don’t know how to run our brains. But now you do. You can’t go back now...oh sure you can fall back into your stupid story, and I do mean stupid story. Tell your brain another stupid story only this time it will be a magical, wonderful, happy, empowering, stupid story!!!
Does this story scare the hell out of you? It should!! Unconsciousness means that you are not mindful of what’s going on in your brain. Most people are like most lower animals and birds and small children, they only have a “first level” awareness. They are not aware of the awareness!!
When you are aware of the awareness (what the brain is doing) you are now on a “second level” awareness or some call it Meta Awareness. Let’s just move onto the second level, why not have a great magical life? You are the only one who can do it for you. That’s right, you can forget about anyone coming to rescue you, no relationship can ever do that for you.
Why? Because all the others are in first level awareness and are clueless...You are the one who can come and save your life. They say that we come into this existence alone and we leave it alone, that is true. What is also true is that only you can fill this life with wonder, with love, with great humor, with great work and relationships.
Only you can find the love you can give yourself by saying “Brain, I want you to tell me all day long how much you love me, really love me, really are just so madly in love with me!” Guess what? That is exactly what you will hear and feel from now on, all day long! You must keep reinforcing all the things you want to hear..
Just like all that negative crap you heard about yourself perhaps thirty times....now you reverse it by saying all the great things you want to hear, feel and “know” about yourself. Remember, the damn thing is stupid!! And will repeat whatever you put in there yourself!!!
Get this, you only get to run your own brain when you develop this second level awareness, this Meta Awareness. You must be aware of what the brain is saying and doing! Listen, you hear every word your brain says. Listen to what it is saying and you are at the second level!! The brain says things one thing at a time and you hear every single word!! You and the one who hears the words. You are not the one who is speaking them!! The brain is doing that!! It is your Mind that hears the words the brain is saying. That’s right, there is The Brain and there is The Mind. They are two different things!! They are related, that’s for sure, but they are different things.
To get to second level awareness or meta awareness you will start remembering to use your mind to listen to what the brain is saying and suggesting. You will use your Mind to choose what you will approve or of disapprove of from the brain. You will use your Mind to create a happy magical empowering life. You will use your Mind to control and run your brain!
You want the personal mastery of second level awareness to create the life you want. Your “ok life” is over. Putting up with all the crap you have been honoring is over. You will be a victim of your self no longer. You will be the master of your own brain. You will run your own brain.
What we know is that an experience is built on the structure of its ideas, its words, its concepts. ‘Whatever the structure is made of will create that particular experience. If you want a new and different great experience, you must build a new structure with new ideas, words, pictures, etc. As soon as the structure changes, the experience will change. Right? This “A”structure =That “A1" Experience. This “B” structure= That “B1" Experience. Pretty simple.
RULE #3 BE AWARE OF YOUR FRAME REFERENCING
Whatever frame your brain creates that will be the game it plays. Simple and devastating. Think about it. When you frame your brain around some tragedy, Misfortune or injustice. That will be the game you play! What the hell are you doing to yourself!!! Those events are not doing it to you, you are choosing to do it to yourself by constantly yielding to those terrible negative frames!! You must stop doing that and you will not at first level awareness (the level of lower animals), all you must do is raise your awareness to the second level meta awareness, so you are aware of what you are allowing the brain to do it to you!! By sitting on your ass and ignoring what you are yielding to, you are building that structure and that is what you are getting!!
Decide instead to build your life around great events. Find or invent wonderful frames you can center your life around. Remember, the brain is stupid, it will believe what you tell it!! Ok , so you need to invent some great events, go ahead and invent them!! The brain does not care if they are true or not!!! OK Brain remember back in high school when I was so very popular!! I was the greatest!! Say this one thirty times over and over again and voila! You were this very popular and of course still are!! Remember, you must instruct the brain plenty of times till it really embeds it as its reality..
New Structures to Build
1. What wonderful event could I build my life around?
2. What inspiring experience real or imagined would I like to have at the
center of my attention and belief?
3. If I did , what else would have to change (then change that too!!)
4.. What other supporting ideas and beliefs would frame this new event?
(Remember the brain is stupid and will believe anything!)
Just look at all the terrible crap you have believed so far!!! Just because you brain said those things to you does not mean they are true.. In fact they were never true!! You just heard it and thought, gee, that must be true!! Hell, you were just a kid, what the hell did you know??? You thought those adults knew what they were talking about!! The truth is every one of those adults was operating at lower animal first levels!! They didn’t know what the hell they were talking about and were just parroting things they heard about themselves!!!
Look carefully at the frame reverencing and design a more empowering one!
RULE # HAVE LOTS OF FUN WITH YOUR STUPID BRAIN!
All this information about first and second level awareness is really useful, but you don’t want to take yourself too seriously! Listen, we are all human and this story of the brain and mind is just that it’s a story that is here to bring mirth, joy and fun into your life as well! OK , so I’ve said the brain is stupid but I am really saying that in a jestful way too, In fact, life is not only a mystery, it is a joke too. A joke played on all of us and on each other. Don’t forget that! We must be able to laugh at our vunerability our human fallibility!!
We want to approach this whole idea of changing our lives into a magical wonderful experience and that is a good thing. We also want to remember that we are all subject to love and loss, to the ups and downs of this incredible experience we call life. Be able to laugh at your seriousity!! What the hell do we actually know about ultimate reality and what life is all about..none of us has the answers to the great mysteries and we never will, but that does not mean we shouldnt have a fun time here...and the best fun is to not take ourselves so seriously...
The whole idea of brain and mind and all that are just ideas we made up trying to have good, fun filled life along with all the other powerful feelings we get to have as humans. Lets hear it for frail humanity!! We are funny creatures, we humans, we also wonderful, kind, rotten, mean, glorious, loving, hating..all the true colors of this our fantastic experience we get to have while we are still her. So, while we are still here, lets remember to lighten up and laugh like hell at the whole damn process!!
When we are happy, when we are laughing they are both great gifts of this life, let us remember to rejoice and laugh a lot..even as we work on changing our lives into great magical movies...for remember, just around the corner are all the other emotions that make us human..that cause us great grief and fountains of tears to shed when someone we love has to leave us...that love for another is another gift of this live as well...so, lighten up and enjoy the whole process and be grateful that we can love so greatly and miss another so powerfully.
RULE 5 TEACHING YOUR BRAIN NEW TRICKS
The brain has been playing tricks on us all of our lives and it’s doing it as a stupid machine. Now its our turn to teach it new tricks. Here’s a great idea, make a list of all the things you have been doing that don’t work. That’s right, you can peform this inventory of lousy life patterns you have unconsciously followed. We all have them you know. I remember when I first read this article, this one, the one I’ve been paraphrasing and rewriting it so I understand it in some of my own words..
I decided that I would inventory some of the things I find myself doing that don’t work, in fact they are rotten things I just reflexively do! One of these things is getting mad at my clients when they say things that offend me. For example, lets say I’m talking to a client and he asks me if my work is guaranteed to work. That is a question that I just blow up hearing!! I come unglued and start raving and ranting at the client for just asking it!! That is a good example of one of the relationship behaviors that I want to change. How did I do it? What have I done to stop doing it? Well, I sat down and wrote these new instructions to my brain, that’s right, that’s what occurred to me to do. In fact, that’s what my brain suggested I do!! So I did it! Here are some of the instructions I wrote down.
“Brain, from now on whenever a client asks me if I guarantee my work, I wan to to tell me that the question as just information the client is giving me.”
Brain, whenever a client asks me that question I want you to tell him that I don’t give guarantee because I cannot predict what is going to happen and that all I can do is do the very best job I know how, but I cannot give a guarantee
Brain, you will tell me to tell the client that I am going to fight will all my legal might for the client but sometimes I get a judge who is having a bad day or one who unbeknownst to me is going to belive the cop not me and I have no power over that..
` Brain, tell me to tell the client that if a judge finds my client guilty that we can always file an appeal to reverse his decision if he commits a judicial error.
Those are some examples of instructions I give my client. So far what has occurred to me to do is to sit down and actually write out new instructions for my brain to follow.
Here’s another example. I have never liked to exercise. I just avoid doing it. I recently gave my brain instructions to want to take a 30 minute walk every morning. It has worked, I have been walking every day except sundays for three weeks now. That is the power of my giving myself instructions. I actually wrote out the specific instructions to my brain. I am so grateful that it works!!
Now I am asking my friends to tell me when I do something that does not work. I do that, because it seems difficult to know when I am doing something wrong! Why? I don’t know, but if I did know I would say that the bad behavior has become like a habit and I don’t notice it’s a habit...
So, I invite you to think about your behaviors that create conflict in your relationships. Think about the basic needs we have, for example maintaining our good health. Are there things I am doing that don’t foster good health? In my personal relationships what do I do that creates conflicts with others? Am I arogant? Am I over bearing? Do I interrupt people who are talking to me? Do I nag people about their behaviors? Do I act superior in some situations? Which situations. Am I a negative person? Do I speak negatively about others? Are there things I say about myself that are put downs? Do I listen to my children or just talk at them? Those are just a few examples. Make that inventory for yourself and watch you life change for the better when you give your brain new empowering instructions! |
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