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UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 05-11-2025
"The question is, which is to be master—that's all." - Humpty Dumpty, Alice in Wonderland
Ancient wisdom tells us that money is either our servant, or our master. This, for me, is a key part of my definition of Ultimate Monetary Success - to answer the question quoted above with "I am the Master of money. All money that comes in to my life, I direct to the best of my ability according to my measure at that time."
Stage 1 of UMS v3.1 is, according to the product description, designed for:
"clearing out false, faulty, failure based and limiting beliefs that uselessly hold you back from achieving whatever you consider to be ultimate monetary success. Then we work to replace them with powerful positive success based beliefs that will result in you achieving your idea of ultimate monetary success.
This stage also introduces the beginnings of the work to actually achieve ultimate monetary success and gets you started doing what it takes to make progress in that direction as soon as possible as well."
And:
"as you use this subliminal and it begins to untangle the conscious and subconscious fears and limitations you have accepted and or set for yourself, your definitions – and goals – will probably change. "
Stage 1 has its work cut out for it with me. I am consciously aware of the following:
1. Growing up, my family suffered from both a lack of income and poor money management.
2. I am very risk averse when it comes to money, both because of that and because of other experiences trying to escape from and avoid that.
3. I have to grasp and embrace that the next six months of UMS v3.1 can be financially transformative for me and mine, and for everyone else I will be able to help.
I will check in after each cycle of 7 days on, one day off for Stage 1, and similarly after each cycle for the following stages. I do not plan to journal possibles and potentials, because the universe is a busy place these days. This may be a sign of skepticism on my part - which Stage 1 will have to address as well.
It's time - past time - to overcome my history and financially secure my legacy.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 05-19-2025
Stage 1
Cycle 1 of 4
A few other thoughts came to my mind early in the week. Thoughts about money that I have had before.
First:
There are two kinds of problems in life. The ones that money can solve, if enough is available, and the ones money can't solve, no matter how much is available. The second kind happen regardless. I want to have enough money to deal with the first kind. With UMS, "without harming others" is a specific criteria. I am glad that is the case.
Second:
This one comes from deep in my childhood. So deep, I cannot recall who said it or when I heard it. It goes like this: "Don't get above your raising." The meaning, of course, is that we should accept the limitations of our family history and cultural context and not pursue financial increase, etc. I consciously reject this idea, but given that it was said so early in my life, and that I remember it, it is likely a deeper subconscious obstacle.
Progress? I think so. Knowing what one general money objective is, and knowing a likely deep obstacle, is laying out the workspace for future stages.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 05-21-2025
Stage 1
Cycle 2 (in progress)
I want to journal this now, while it is still fresh in my mind.
I ran across one of those pithy comments while browsing online, which read: "Until death, all defeat is psychological."
That statement was like a hammer blow. Not in a painful way, but in a profound, "break down a door I didn't know was there" way.
As I've mentioned in previous journals, several years ago a long term goal that I had been pursuing full time was denied to me. The way it happened felt like a major breach of trust and rejection, all at the same time. That had two major effects on my life. First, the "fire in my belly" to strive and achieve was snuffed out and has not been rekindled. Second, I haven't had a major life goal since then; all my goals have been short to medium term and of moderate size.
While EHPRA v5 was hugely effective in helping me get past the pain, I have been struggling with the effects of that event before and after using EHPRA. And the insights I've gotten, especially recently, into older life events that have affected me have shown me that there are even older things that I have been carrying. (Thanks OSC!)
What that online comment triggered today is that, while I have been consciously rejecting the picture of who I am which those events seem to paint and which those who rejected me tried to portray, my subconscious has accepted that input uncritically. Which means that I have been struggling with myself for all these years, recently and longer; I consciously recognize the lie in the worthlessness implied by that input, but my subconscious has accepted those lies as true. I was assisted in this understanding from reading Shannon's post "What is a Subliminal" - which I only noticed yesterday.
This realization ties in precisely with what Stage 1 is supposed to be doing: "clearing out false, faulty, failure based and limiting beliefs that uselessly hold you back from achieving whatever you consider to be ultimate monetary success." I have a lifetime of such limiting beliefs filling my subconscious. That shell has been cracked and, like Humpty Dumpty, cannot be put back together again. All those lies will be addressed. And the result will be that I will have a more accurate understanding of my measure. From there, goals to achieve UMS and the drive to achieve them will come through the later stages.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 05-28-2025
Stage 1
Cycle 2 of 4
A day late - busy day yesterday
Over the last few days or so I've had three related thoughts about emotional scars.
1. "Our scars define us" - there is more to who we are than our scars, but those scars are from the experiences that have shaped us into who we are today.
2. "Not all scars are necessary" - who we are today was never inevitable, nor were the experiences that left those scars. "Who I am today" does not justify those experiences.
3. "Some scars can be repaired" - this is the big one. We can recover from unnecessary experiences, even long after the fact, and reshape ourselves away from the effects of those experiences toward a healthier self.
What does all this mean?
It means that the trajectory of our lives from now forward is not inevitable. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results". We start where we are, as who we are. But we can continue to change, to heal and grow. And that means better outcomes than our past might indicate.
Wow. 6G digs deep.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 06-03-2025
Stage 1
Cycle 3 of 4
Quiet. Over the last couple of weeks I've had occasional reflux issues - either at the beginning or at the end of the loop. Mild in each case, but noticeable. Which has been a sign of subconscious resistance with past subs, as more severe reflux incidents have disrupted my listening. So there's definitely something deeper that UMS is working on.
One cycle left, then Stage 2 begins. And I will be the master of money in my life.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 06-12-2025
Stage 1
Cycle 4 of 4
Stage 1 complete.
Interesting item a couple of days ago. I spontaneously remembered a song from my younger days, one that I never bothered to put on any of my current playlists. The song is "Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)", the sole hit from the band Timbuk 3. I looked the song up and watched the original video. From the video, the song appears to be a mockery of the ideas in the lyrics. The lyrics themselves, however, uphold the idea of an optimistic and unlimited future. Specific lines that originally came to me when I recalled the song:
"Things are going great, and they're only getting better..."
"I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise..."
And of course, the chorus and title:
"My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."
All coming unbidden to my conscious mind at the end of Stage 1 of UMS. This bodes well. Very well.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ncbeareatingman - 06-12-2025
(06-12-2025, 01:56 PM)ReconGunner Wrote: Stage 1
Cycle 4 of 4
Stage 1 complete.
Interesting item a couple of days ago. I spontaneously remembered a song from my younger days, one that I never bothered to put on any of my current playlists. The song is "Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)", the sole hit from the band Timbuk 3. I looked the song up and watched the original video. From the video, the song appears to be a mockery of the ideas in the lyrics. The lyrics themselves, however, uphold the idea of an optimistic and unlimited future. Specific lines that originally came to me when I recalled the song:
"Things are going great, and they're only getting better..."
"I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise..."
And of course, the chorus and title:
"My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."
All coming unbidden to my conscious mind at the end of Stage 1 of UMS. This bodes well. Very well.
Interesting indeed. As a tenacious tciousoptimist BY CHOICE, Two of MY favorites ,from that time period,are "Walking on Sunshine" BY Katrina & the Waves, as well as Steely Dan's "What a Beautiful world this will be" (I.G.Y.) For the young'un's that werent born yet.... here ya go... this is what Im "tawkin' " 'Bout..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmdiaQM43bk
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 06-13-2025
(06-12-2025, 05:04 PM)ncbeareatingman Wrote:(06-12-2025, 01:56 PM)ReconGunner Wrote: Stage 1
Cycle 4 of 4
Stage 1 complete.
Interesting item a couple of days ago. I spontaneously remembered a song from my younger days, one that I never bothered to put on any of my current playlists. The song is "Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)", the sole hit from the band Timbuk 3. I looked the song up and watched the original video. From the video, the song appears to be a mockery of the ideas in the lyrics. The lyrics themselves, however, uphold the idea of an optimistic and unlimited future. Specific lines that originally came to me when I recalled the song:
"Things are going great, and they're only getting better..."
"I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise..."
And of course, the chorus and title:
"My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."
All coming unbidden to my conscious mind at the end of Stage 1 of UMS. This bodes well. Very well.
Interesting indeed. As a tenacious tciousoptimist BY CHOICE, Two of MY favorites ,from that time period,are "Walking on Sunshine" BY Katrina & the Waves, as well as Steely Dan's "What a Beautiful world this will be" (I.G.Y.) For the young'un's that werent born yet.... here ya go... this is what Im "tawkin' " 'Bout..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmdiaQM43bk
"Walking on Sunshine" *is* on my playlists, and has been for a long time.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 06-20-2025
Stage 2
Cycle 1 of 4
Quiet week. Some financial-related opportunities failed to occur. External circumstances are unfavorable but not insurmountable.
Looking forward to having a better idea and clearer opportunities to gain UMS.
More positive music from my younger years has re-entered my conscious mind; some already on my playlists that I haven't paid as much attention to, some I haven't put on the playlists yet.
Also, reinforcing thoughts about money. The saying "money can't buy happiness" is usually misapplied as "wealthy people are miserable; only poor people can be happy". Its most accurate use is as I noted at the beginning of Stage 1: some problems can't be solved by money. Wealthy people aren't less happy then others because they are wealthy. Poor people aren't happier because they have no money. Happiness is unrelated to how much money you have or how much stuff you bought with it. Debt is the biggest money-related cause of unhappiness that I see; you can be overloaded with debt at any level of wealth.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 06-29-2025
Stage 2
Cycle 2 of 4
Fun stuff. Some minor, some major.
The major:
The financial opportunities I mentioned last week turned 180 degrees to the good. Nothing is final, but there's movement in a good direction.
The minor stuff:
Another song lyric.
This one is out of context of the original song. "I'm a fighter, I'm a poet, I'm a preacher.
I've been a schoolboy; baby, I've been the teacher."
Each of those has applied to me at some point in my life. And rather than a melancholy "that was then", it hit me as "I am multitalented and capable".
Got a fortune cookie from a Chinese dinner. "Take small, consistent steps toward your goals." Good conventional wisdom that applies except when it doesn't. There are exceptional times when "gradually" needs to become "suddenly", and it's the "gradually" that positions you to act when "suddenly" is needed.
Where am I? Am I still in, or even need to start, "gradually"? Or have I been in "gradually", being prepared for "suddenly"? Wherever I am, the way forward goes to UMS.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 07-06-2025
Stage 2
Cycle 3 of 4
Quiet on the UMS front. Even that is encouraging. Work that needs to be done can be done without conscious signs. Stage 2 finishes up in a week, then on to stage 3.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 07-14-2025
Stage 2
Cycle 4 of 4
Stage 2 complete.
Favorable progress continues on the immediate financial opportunity. Should be final within the next 10 days.
Stage 3 starts tonight. I reviewed the instructions - listen one day and rest three! That's a quick cycle. 7 or 8 cycles for a month. Think I'll do 8 unless directed otherwise.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ReconGunner - 07-18-2025
Stage 3
Cycle 1 of 7-8
Feeling quite irritable these last few days. Very dissatisfied with my current situation. Reminded of a meme I saw. The caption read:
"The cost of your new life is your old one. Stop negotiating."
Talk about hitting the subconscious fear of death... losing the old life to gain the new is the "death" of the old life. There's some Rule 4 stuff in that idea as well.
I think I need to reach this point of dissatisfaction to be consciously willing to "stop negotiating". And maybe my subconscious is leading the way.
RE: UMS v3.1 - Which Is to Be the Master - ncbeareatingman - 07-18-2025
(07-18-2025, 03:55 PM)ReconGunner Wrote: Stage 3
Cycle 1 of 7-8
Feeling quite irritable these last few days. Very dissatisfied with my current situation. Reminded of a meme I saw. The caption read:
"The cost of your new life is your old one. Stop negotiating."
Talk about hitting the subconscious fear of death... losing the old life to gain the new is the "death" of the old life. There's some Rule 4 stuff in that idea as well.
I think I need to reach this point of dissatisfaction to be consciously willing to "stop negotiating". And maybe my subconscious is leading the way.
Profound and I agree 100% !!
Try this one out !! I found this one ,while search for the Meme you spoke of...
Brianna Wiest > Quotes > Quotable Quote
“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.
It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense
of direction.
It’s going to cost you relationships and friends.
It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.
It doesn’t matter.
The people who are meant for you are going to meet you
on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort
zone around the things that actually move you forward.
Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of
being understood, you’re going to be seen.
All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you
no longer are.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
BTW I found a great Meme pic" to go with the saying. thanks for the tip Recon. Appreciated.