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Escaping Control
My own spiritual path is based not on abstaining from passion, but on embracing it. When you truly embrace it and let it consume you, you learn something surprising. This you it consumed is not “you”. Not the all encompassing thing. Some have described me as having strong self control. I don’t actually. I don’t…
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Idea of Control
Control is human obsession and human nature. The idea of control that most people embrace is also a delusion. We control to keep things static. We control in denial of what is available to us. We abstain from embracing the now because it would deny us control. In denying the reality of our perception, we deny…
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Releasing Control
Control is a good topic. Are you dealing with control issues? Yours or another’s? I’m trying to shed it in this life. I have controlled all feelings so I wouldn’t get hurt. It’s time to free it. Ah, so working on ending self suppression? A deeper realisation of control can help. Knowing what you want…
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Control The Flue
Everyone familiar at least in passing with biofeedback? It’s using the mind to alter the body functions. People think things happen to them, like sustaining a paper cut. That is something that happened to them, but our mental body dictates what our physical body tells us. They are even training people to use the hologram…
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Retain Control of Attention
I think imagining a violent murder is sort of healthy. It puts reality into perspective. It is sort of healthy, yes, and then the reflexively screening of it or putting it aside is also healthy. We have to retain control not of our imaginations. We don’t have what you might call true control of that. We…
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You Aren’t in Control
Your inner consciousness, your subconscious mind, cannot make distinctions between concepts of want and need. If a feeling moves you, especially if it disturbs you, it’s just a need. The only difference it knows is urgency. Now here is something that may surprise you. Do you feel you are in control of pursuing your desires?…
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Gain Control of Desire and Thought
People are not conscious of their conscious minds. Their conscious minds move like a restless sleeper in bed, and their conscious thought really in no functional way differs from dream. Different medium, same content. Where one can gain control of desire and thought is in the understanding of what thought is, imagination. You live in…
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Human Control of Human Evolution
Is anyone familiar with transhumanism? Are you familiar with humanism? It’s a comparatively modern school of thought, created and supported based on the opinion that old models of human society and values have grown outmoded, or perhaps never actually had much worth to begin with. “Presume not God to scan; the proper study of mankind…
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Control Through Fear
I ponder Behaviour- ist Psychology and B.F. Skinner. And yes, even right now a form of behaviourism is being advocated as the primary way to treat autism in young children. Using “aversives” as well as other behaviour we would see as grossly coercive if it were used on us. Aversives = physical and emotional punishment,…
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How to Control
So how to control rather than be controlled? It’s a simple matter of context and again would seem crazy until you practice it. It involves interrupting your internal dialogue, not just the words in your head, but the entire pattern of visual search, internal narrative, the whole mess, and how you do that is either…
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Control Your Perception
Today’s topic is going to be a bit weird, but hopefully enlightening as well. I have some strange questions to start with. Can you decide to not feel pain? Can you decide that anger makes you happy? Or that fear makes you calm? You can decide your reaction to these things, but I think the…
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Control Your Battle Trance
Want to control your battle trance? I’m not sure. It is such a boon to survival, you know. Want to be controlled by it? Nope. If you don’t want to control it, you do indeed want to be controlled by it. You have always gotten exactly what you really wanted. Your fear and your love…
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Notion of Control
Everybody these days dabbles in some self improvement reading, or almost everybody, and what do these books (or texts as the case may be) usually say to hook us? “You will become a better person — because we’ll help you to get rich”? Oh, that’s quite common, yes. Live the life you dream. Find the…
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Control
If I could give you everything, right now, literally everything, would you want it? What would you do with it? Where would you put it? Keep it in my pocket. How would you keep me from taking any of it? How would you keep me from taking all of it? It’s an awfully heavy burden.…
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Desperate for Control
They have recently identified a reflex in the brain that when stimulated triggers a drive to persist. It’s located in a space roughly between the frontal lobe and the upper part of the amygdala which means it’s directly linked to our conscious thinking and our emotions at the same time, and it’s on a circuit…
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Can We Live Without Violence?
Can You Describe Violence? What is violence? Violence is doing harm to others.Violence is upset of balance.Violence is an act driven by hate.It is a negative feeling. So a surgeon is committing violence? If a surgeon stopped mid way, yes.He is fixing what is wrong.Or if the surgeon were doing it for sadistic pleasure. They…