(09-10-2016, 03:09 PM)ffaux Wrote: [ -> ] (01-31-2016, 03:45 PM)ffaux Wrote: [ -> ]Respect. What I'm hearing Alpha360 is that at first she respected you but then later she didn't. Your story is a cautionary tale for me because similar to your girl, the girl I'm sleeping with right now treats me like a king but treats her close friends a little bit shit. One thing I learned from watching Cesar Millan was the importance of respect to be accepted by your dog as the pack leader (alpha male). With your dog, respect comes from consistency in enforcing your rules and boundaries. I think this is similar to humans and I think humans (women and children in particular) will go to great length to challenge your rules and boundaries to test if you hold firm.
Another thing which may be related is your status relative to hers in her eyes. Historically I've always tried to make my woman feel good by trying to raise her status. Now I try to make my women feel good by raising my own status. She must truly be exceptional if she's managed to catch and hold on to a man of my status. My status is what gives her status. My status is a gift to her. What I didn't realise in the past is that her own status is relatively fixed in her own mind--when I try to raise her status the only thing I'm doing is diminishing my own status in her eyes.
All of this is courtesy of AM6 of course.
Raising each other's status. Interesting point. For myself, I raised up other women's status; Most were Entrepreneurs or basically, 'big shots' in the Business World. I was so supportive, maybe to much. I always thought in hindsight, that men 'should' help and assist a woman; The false belief that women are helpless. So, it was basically, 'co-dependency.' How can a woman 'big shot' be helpless.

I have been dealing with the hurt of losing the first girl I've had feelings for in years. Shit like this used to destroy me—it would take me years to recover. I had closed my heart off completely to protect myself and then this girl showed up and pried it right open. I cried and I cried when she made me face the pain that I had been running from all this time but it was the best thing that's happened to me in years. I have never felt so authentic as I do now being myself and not trying to hide that I have feelings. I have no doubt that she was a manifestation of AM6 or Stress Relief. But now she's leaving and I'm hurting anew.
Shannon, I can't be grateful enough to you for the help AM6 has provided me in dealing with this pain and hurt. This is where and why this journey started for me 10 years ago when my heart was broken. The pain and hurt was unbearable and at the time my life and I was in ruins. I don't think I can quite express in words just what a change I see in myself. It still hurts but I have never dealt with the pain and hurt so well, so quickly and so maturely. From the bottom of my heart I thank you. This is why I'm here, this is why I'm listening to AM6. Thank you for helping me live a normal life.
Pride has been holding me back in life. I've been too proud to admit to my own insecurities. I've been using pride to compensate for and mask my insecurity. I've been too proud to make myself vulnerable. I've been too proud to face rejection. I've been too proud to listen. I've been too proud to follow.
I think this is where the majority of my resistance comes from. I've been too proud to be told what to do and too proud to admit to my flaws. I'm only now starting to understand how low my sense of self-worth has been my whole life.
I hypothesise that my greatest resistance to AM6 so far has been a resistance towards the ego balancer which I understand is telling me to humbly release my false pride and consider myself honestly as I actually am. Last night I felt the tension of pride in myself and decided to let it go to a torrent of relief as it released.
Update:
This almost deserves its own post. I just discovered
relationship-contingent self-esteem. This describes me and the past 3 girls I've formed some kind of relationship with. This explains why it has been so crushing for me to lose a girl I've had feelings for. To think all this time this whole journey has been about my low self-esteem...
(09-28-2016, 03:24 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ]Swisston, you have a tendency to be stubborn, don't you. And if you look back on your life, you probably have a tendency to being stubborn in response to what you perceived as being told what to do. And I'm guessing a lot of it could be chalked up to resisting for the sake of resistance, too. How accurate would that be? Because that's the instinctual response of your personality type. Resisting just to resist as a way of having control. Even when it's self destructive or expensive in some other way.
The more enlightened version of that is a realization that instinctual resistance for the sake of resistance is [useful] if it gains you control, but is self destructive or prevents you from accomplishing your own goals.
(09-29-2016, 04:10 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ]And you understand that you have control, because you can resist the program, right? Which means that by executing it, you are doing so by choice, right? Which means you still are in control... right?
I started consciously letting go of wanting control and submitting myself to the program which allowed it to work.
Very relevant quote. What weighs more a man who does what he wants when he wants or one that self developes? It's obvious the one that has higher value but there's one that also has an attractive lifestyle. I think Shannon is referring to a type of person who is more extreme with the validation seeking than was meant to perceive. The AM program focuses on self development which shows in many areas of life