@Darkness Thanks.
I felt a little rocky at the gym today. A few different women who were working out near me (and clearly attracted to me) made me self-conscious. I get into this mode where it's as if I'm standing outside of myself and watching and judging my every move. It makes it difficult to be grounded and present. I started doing this when I was a kid and grossly overweight. There's one guy at the gym who intimidates me. He seems a little crazy and is probably on steroids. Historically I've been uncomfortable with confident, masculine men because I've never identified with them. He commands presence, and is unapologetically loud. He has this vibe like he will fight anybody. I don't hold eye contact with him. Now I don't know him personally but I'm pretty good at reading people, and what I see is an alpha—not the type I need to become, but one I want to feel equally substantial in the presence of.
On the drive home I asked myself what criteria I'm not meeting that's making me feel like less of a man in the presence of men and women. I wanted to identify my programming and surely enough there's some garbage. I'm not a small guy in terms of height or muscle, but I have this idea in my head that I'm less of a man because I'm not a 6'2+ cover/fitness model with a huge dick. I also have a persistent belief that I need to be as attractive or more attractive than any woman I'm attracted to in order to be deserving of her. This is based on the assumption that women have the same tunnel-vision-focus on looks that men do, which is simply not true. It's twisted to recognize that I am disqualifying myself from another person because I don't meet the criteria that I so firmly assume they have. And even if a 10 came up to me and said you are extremely attractive and I want you, it wouldn't change anything on the inside. It's actually perverted just how much I sabotage my happiness and success internally.
As for being a giant among men, I am neither towering nor hulking therefore I must adopt a giant's mindset and when I have felt most confident on AM6, it wasn't that I was bigger than everyone else, or felt that I could fight anybody, or my erection was four inches longer than usual, it's because all the rivers of my mind were pouring into the same ocean: I felt content with and empowered by what I am and what I'm capable of rather than what I am not and cannot change. This is the confidence that I'm chasing because I believe it should be my natural state of being.
I felt a little rocky at the gym today. A few different women who were working out near me (and clearly attracted to me) made me self-conscious. I get into this mode where it's as if I'm standing outside of myself and watching and judging my every move. It makes it difficult to be grounded and present. I started doing this when I was a kid and grossly overweight. There's one guy at the gym who intimidates me. He seems a little crazy and is probably on steroids. Historically I've been uncomfortable with confident, masculine men because I've never identified with them. He commands presence, and is unapologetically loud. He has this vibe like he will fight anybody. I don't hold eye contact with him. Now I don't know him personally but I'm pretty good at reading people, and what I see is an alpha—not the type I need to become, but one I want to feel equally substantial in the presence of.
On the drive home I asked myself what criteria I'm not meeting that's making me feel like less of a man in the presence of men and women. I wanted to identify my programming and surely enough there's some garbage. I'm not a small guy in terms of height or muscle, but I have this idea in my head that I'm less of a man because I'm not a 6'2+ cover/fitness model with a huge dick. I also have a persistent belief that I need to be as attractive or more attractive than any woman I'm attracted to in order to be deserving of her. This is based on the assumption that women have the same tunnel-vision-focus on looks that men do, which is simply not true. It's twisted to recognize that I am disqualifying myself from another person because I don't meet the criteria that I so firmly assume they have. And even if a 10 came up to me and said you are extremely attractive and I want you, it wouldn't change anything on the inside. It's actually perverted just how much I sabotage my happiness and success internally.
As for being a giant among men, I am neither towering nor hulking therefore I must adopt a giant's mindset and when I have felt most confident on AM6, it wasn't that I was bigger than everyone else, or felt that I could fight anybody, or my erection was four inches longer than usual, it's because all the rivers of my mind were pouring into the same ocean: I felt content with and empowered by what I am and what I'm capable of rather than what I am not and cannot change. This is the confidence that I'm chasing because I believe it should be my natural state of being.
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.