Mystic Life - LTU 5

[Mystic Pymp]

Day 43 (3)

First point: It is false that ;"that which does not kill you only makes you stronger", at least in some cases. What makes you stronger in response to adversity is your reaction to it being the right reaction to make you stronger.

For example, let's say you get your leg bitten off by a shark and survive. You can choose to be a "shark bite victim", never walk again and go on some sort of social security to support you because you gave up; or you can go get a prosthetic leg, learn to use it and go about your life and even grow stronger in the face of the challenge.  It's your choice.

Second point: pain doesn't make you stronger unless you respond to it that way, and it isn't always a reasonable response or even possible. It is how you respond to a challenge that can make you stronger, no matter what that challenge is or how you grow in strength.

I agree and I think my post was clear enough. At any rate good points Shannon.

I finally finished reading the book on arcane stuff. I was very interesting and possibly the first book on the topic which didn't give me any red lights while reading it. Good, thoughtful read. As it should be. However, to feel now present void I looked through my collection of PDFs I've collected over the years and started reading another random title. It's not stellar to say the least, however it made me think about visualization.

When you read about visualizations from the "gurus" you hear that everything is possible if you thought hard enough and long enough about it. That's BS. Then you hear you have to make visualization as powerful as possible, to make it your reality and whatever you wish will manifest. I find it's somewhat true, but it's prone to "be careful what you wish, you just might get it" syndrome, at least in my case.

At the same time I find that I do a lot of ... let's say subconscious visualizations. And I think this is the secret. Let me give you an example.

My greatest fear is not being provided for. By that I mean going hungry, without warm bed, things like that. It's such a great fear for me that it is the main, if not sole, reason I fear travel. What if I get there and my hotel cancelled reservation? What if I don't make it for the train connection and I'm stranded on the train station? Things like that never come true for me, but the fear is real. Now, when I look at my life I see how I was ALWAYS able to provide everything I needed for myself, either in person or through my parents, friends etc. I am always prepared, never went hungry, never slept on a cold ground.

The secret is I have very powerful will not to experience such conditions. And this just might be secret to visualizations - to modify your own will, so that things which seem impossible now become every day occurrence. The problem is modification of will is not an easy task. I wanted to lose weight all my life and only now, due to LTU, do I have will to do so.

I might play with visualizations in not too distant future. However to do this I need first to meditate very, very hard on the topic of "what I really, truly want". Because there are things I think I want, but it's not the case in reality. Finding a girlfriend is possibly the best case and point. Finding what I want AND have will to find it will not be simple, but it seems like a worthwhile endeavour.

EDIT

While on the topic, I've just read Shannon's post about "becoming method". Link -> https://subliminal-talk.com/Thread-Shann...#pid221557

I don't like theory behind this method. I think method is quite sound and might be more than useful, idea of the "multiverse" provides way too many metaphysical problems for me that, if these problems are not addressed, make the theory unconvincing for me.