There is mre pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly that your own imagination.
Pain in the body is the sense of heightened awareness at a point. When a part of the body is damaged, a mental alarm is turned on, called pain. If the mind answers the alarm fully, the pain turns off immediately, and the body mechanics go to work at that point to rapidly repair it. Because of past unpleasant experiences, we have developed a fear of pain and mentally try to flee from it, to escape it. This is not fully answering the alarm; it causes the pain to linger, and the body mechanics to slow down. If one knows this, he/she can eliminate pain and effect a rapid healing of the body. It not being easy to understand what "feeling the pain" means, try increasing the pain. This mentally places one in the pain and makes one feel it. On really feeling the pain it will immediately disappear and the body will rapidly heal.
Mental pain likewise can be eliminated by recognizing it and facing it. A mental problem when faced fully and squarely, will resolve. Because of its unpleasantness, one tries to flee from it and escape it. This holds it in mind rather than resolves it and thereby holds onto the pain.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Winners and Losers by Vernon Howard
"An individual sadly and badly injures himself by calling himself
a winner, when in fact he is a loser. We have our ideas and opinions
as to what constitutes winning and according to those false standards
and values think thereby that it is legitimate to call ourselves a
winner. For example, you have certain prides, certain vanities and
you have certain accomplishments and possessions in your home, in
your garage, in your bank. These - to a sleeping human being - are
called evidences of having won, of having succeeded at what you
were supposed to succeed at as a human being.
Very seldom does a man or a woman challenge this disastrous
self-concept of what it means to win.
If you even need to win anything, including the argument,
including getting your way, the very fact that you have a
compulsive need to win means that there is a loser there
trying to win, which means that the winning must be losing
in actuality.
It is so essential for you to listen to yourself talk to
yourself and catch instantly all such definitions of you
being right, being the winner."
a winner, when in fact he is a loser. We have our ideas and opinions
as to what constitutes winning and according to those false standards
and values think thereby that it is legitimate to call ourselves a
winner. For example, you have certain prides, certain vanities and
you have certain accomplishments and possessions in your home, in
your garage, in your bank. These - to a sleeping human being - are
called evidences of having won, of having succeeded at what you
were supposed to succeed at as a human being.
Very seldom does a man or a woman challenge this disastrous
self-concept of what it means to win.
If you even need to win anything, including the argument,
including getting your way, the very fact that you have a
compulsive need to win means that there is a loser there
trying to win, which means that the winning must be losing
in actuality.
It is so essential for you to listen to yourself talk to
yourself and catch instantly all such definitions of you
being right, being the winner."
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