(05-20-2016, 07:11 PM)RTBoss Wrote:(05-20-2016, 07:17 AM)LionKing Wrote: I've had this though "should I aim to be happy, or to be alpha" running in my head when thinking about the programs. Seems if you're really happy you don't need all that other crap, at which point it becomes possible from a more positive mindset.
I think the Transcendent Alpha that Shannon's program aims to instill into the subconscious is geared toward healing, self-awareness, self-sufficiency, etc. Quite different from the traditional alpha, in the sense of being the big dude who's alpha out of fear mongering, or being "better" than everyone. I see the Transcendent Alpha as an alpha that empowers everyone around him, yet able to establish barriers that people won't cross so you don't get walked all over.
Aiming to be truly happy, in my opinion, is interesting - and I'm right with you. I happen to have an example in my life - my sister. I've mentioned her before. She thought if she got the best degree from the best school and had a high value job with lots of money she'd be happy. Far from it. She would see her husband 3 hours per week, but hey - she had a high-rise apartment with a superb view of the Hudson River and saw celebrities in the hallways.
But...if you're not happy, what's any of it matter? She's only now beginning to understand. Some people have some kind of internal drive that pushes them to the highest heights - it's in their nature. Maybe it makes them happy. But that's the cool thing about E2 - it pushes you toward the life that actually WILL make you happy. I think that will be different for a lot of people. Me, I am getting excited about seeing where I'm at by September.
People, and especially women, who do that are doing it because society has told them that they're not good enough unless they do. Women these days, at least in the US - I can't speak for other countries - have been told for a few generations now that they're not good enough unless they can do, and do, everything that "a man can do", and do it "better than he can".
What they fail to realize is that just because a woman can do whatever a man can do, and possibly even do it better than he can, doesn't mean that's what is the best thing for her to be doing with her time. Especially when it comes to the women who want to be on the front lines in war. At that point, it's not about being good enough anymore, it's about being as stupid as. War is stupid - and it can always be stopped by one person or group having awareness and compassion concerning those around them. Even faster if we shut down the greed that feeds the military industrial complex, which is the real engine of war...
Women have basically come to be told, and believe, that they're not good enough unless they do X, but X isn't making them happy. And if they understood that the whole mess is based on feeling insecure about being good enough as a woman, regardless of what she does that actually makes her genuinely happy, they could just drop the stupid shit and get on with doing whatever it is that genuinely makes them happy!
Keeping up with the Joneses isn't it.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!