That, without question is happening. I'm cautious about false attribution, and there are a number of things happening which I'm finding it hard to even believe, but without question I'm mentally feeling much tougher and rested...almost like I'm renewing.
Water is a definite must, I've been finding myself getting extremely thirsty, and have switched from downing coffee to drinking water and herbal tea - the coffee doesn't seem necessary (I'm feeling nicely awake) and the water does.
A concrete result I can definitely pin down - I do a lot of analysis in my day to day, though ironically am normally crap with short term memory and numbers - right now I'm creating models and able to just straight up recall short strings of numbers and cell references when writing formulae, which I simply didn't have the capacity for a couple of days ago.
Zane, to answer your question posted in Chaos' Journal, about 'where is this wisdom coming from'.
My comment on being a spectator came directly from my experience these last couple of weeks and taking the painful step of acknowledging, without self flagellating, the many ways in which I was staying safe and way from risk with 'feel good' but unfortunately not growth/life giving actions.
There's nothing wrong per se about being a spectator but it has undesirable consequences. I noted that for myself, I had become fragile and unwilling to take reality as it is, because I was unwilling to consciously acknowledge that I wasn't really doing anything I wanted to do.
If I were pursuing a Zen path for example I would be busy meditating, working on confronting my demons by focussing inward and there would be no time for judging others or opining on things which were unrelated or on other peoples pursuits. But that wasn't the case, I found myself still smugly talking about things I wasn't directly 'on the field' with.
I took the ego bruises dished out by people like my coach, my boss, and some people who I started whinging at as a clear sign that that more was required from me. Extremely hard to do, but I did some mental exercises to get over that butt hurtedness. Which I will be happy to share via PM if anyone is interested.
Water is a definite must, I've been finding myself getting extremely thirsty, and have switched from downing coffee to drinking water and herbal tea - the coffee doesn't seem necessary (I'm feeling nicely awake) and the water does.
A concrete result I can definitely pin down - I do a lot of analysis in my day to day, though ironically am normally crap with short term memory and numbers - right now I'm creating models and able to just straight up recall short strings of numbers and cell references when writing formulae, which I simply didn't have the capacity for a couple of days ago.
Zane, to answer your question posted in Chaos' Journal, about 'where is this wisdom coming from'.
My comment on being a spectator came directly from my experience these last couple of weeks and taking the painful step of acknowledging, without self flagellating, the many ways in which I was staying safe and way from risk with 'feel good' but unfortunately not growth/life giving actions.
There's nothing wrong per se about being a spectator but it has undesirable consequences. I noted that for myself, I had become fragile and unwilling to take reality as it is, because I was unwilling to consciously acknowledge that I wasn't really doing anything I wanted to do.
If I were pursuing a Zen path for example I would be busy meditating, working on confronting my demons by focussing inward and there would be no time for judging others or opining on things which were unrelated or on other peoples pursuits. But that wasn't the case, I found myself still smugly talking about things I wasn't directly 'on the field' with.
I took the ego bruises dished out by people like my coach, my boss, and some people who I started whinging at as a clear sign that that more was required from me. Extremely hard to do, but I did some mental exercises to get over that butt hurtedness. Which I will be happy to share via PM if anyone is interested.
Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
