DMSI

[Shannon]

Hey Shannon, I have no idea how you know about these cycles or if they really occur every seven years and must certainly reappear. I have to tell you though that I feel DMSI is closer than ever to succeeding. So even though you are in a bad cycle (or believe your are (believe/exoecation forms reality?!?)) I feel you are making great progress with DMSI and maybe this version of DMSI is already the one that will allow me to execute with enough exposure. Anyway keep it up. Still Id like to know more about these cycles and how you know about them if you care to explain them in more detail (how can you be certain another cycle will come in exactly 7 years how can anyone be certain of anything for that matter (so you see where I am coming from).

The idea that beliefs form reality is misunderstood.  It's a lot more complex than that, and there are external factors that influence us regardless.  In some cases, this can have a dramatic effect.  It's been years I have been listening to people tell me that it's just me overreacting, making it happen because of my beliefs or expectations that it will happen, etc.  It's also been decades I have been observing this happen regardless of whether or not I pay attention to the cycles and regardless of what I do about them.  Literally the only thing I can do about them that I have found so far is slow down (or stop altogether) and try to use something that keeps my spirits up enough to keep going.  That is largely why USLM got so much attention.  It is what kept me going the last time this happened, and even that was only good for "making it a little easier".

Beliefs do form your reality, but you do not exist in a vacuum.  There are external forces that influence you, regardless of what you do or choose or believe, and sometimes they can be very negative and/or destructive.

I know about all this because I noticed that I would have "everything I did go wrong" for a period of a few days to a couple weeks every so often back in HS and college, but it never lasted long enough for me to care about trying to find any correlations.  Then I had something like that happen in either 2006 or 2008, can't remember which, where it lasted longer than ever before - months.  That motivated me to start looking for correlations, and I found one.  What I found was described in a book I have in such a specific way that I was able to see that the description fit what I was going through pretty much nail-on-the-head.  That got me curious, so I started watching it.  Looking back, it started exactly when the book said it would, and then it ended exactly when the book said it would.  I was able to trace the cycle forward and make several major predictions with it, which I told my girlfriend about as a warning (since one of them was a period of time during which we would be likely to break up).  She laughed at me, and both of those predictions (my mother dying, right after I lost my girlfriend) happened, right on time.  Years in advance, and the predictions happened within about a 2 week window of when I figured they would.  In fact I lost my girlfriend because I was trying to avoid fighting with her, which I thought would be why we broke up... 

As with any cycle, once you know the period and sub-periods, it is easy to know when the next time it will be in the state where it creates (or correlates) to whatever you're talking about.

I have since observed the cycle that hit me and caused the whole "forum debacle" for more than 10 years and I have noted that it always starts on time ends on time, takes a break when it should and always does what is predicted, as long as I understand what the influences are.  It is not the only cycle I have to deal with, either, as this one makes apparent.  Before this, I thought it was.

Certainty comes from repeatability and reliability.  I can tell you with a great deal of certainty, for example, that January 11th is going to be a bad day for me, because that specific circumstance has been observed by me many times before and it always results in a bad day.  Again, regardless of what I try to do, or not do, and what attitude or point of view I try to take.

Sooner or later you just have to go with what's happening.  Especially when it is not only predictable, but accurate.

I will keep working on DMSI.  Just not sure how best to move things forward right now.