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  • February 25, 2016 at 2:52 pm #97244
    dfh
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    Accepting what is is a good way of going. I’ve always had the idea of always working towards something better, striving for improving my life, moving forward-that sort of thing, though. So I feel it would be a challenge to just sit on it for a week and not try to change.

    February 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm #97245
    Anonymous
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    Dear dfh;

    I am doing the same thing: accepting my life as is.

    Notice: where did it get you “always… working toward something better, striving to improving (your) life…” ?

    Might as well try something different…!

    anita

    February 25, 2016 at 10:52 pm #97298
    dfh
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    Striving for something better hasn’t really gotten me anywhere. Just stressed and feeling like I can’t do much with my life, but it’s what we hear others tell us, and told to us from a young age that perseverance is what matters, always move forward, etc.
    As with everything, I’m guessing doing it in moderation is key.

    February 26, 2016 at 8:34 am #97332
    Anonymous
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    Dear dfh:

    What people say is often enough simply not true. One clear example is what marketing says: buy! buy and buy more and you will be happy. Not true, buying more does not bring happiness, well being, peace of mind. So you have to examine everything you hear and read for truth. Including what I write here to you. Experiment with this and that, find out for yourself. Have a “Beginner’s Mind” one you have after you empty it from what people have told you…You close your ears, figuratively and let everything others said out of your brain and then start hearing again, from the beginning. What is true? What is not true?

    You let your senses (see, hear..) and your own logic determine what is true.

    anita

    February 26, 2016 at 11:52 am #97348
    dfh
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    We were taught in university that marketing is to make people want something before they know it exists. You make the want/need for it. And they use psychology to do that, too. I think that’s why I didn’t really care for that class too much. It was deceiving people to buy products that they didn’t necessarily need using the mind.

    You bring up an interesting idea though, to clear our past out of our minds and sort of reset it. I can see how things can be different using this technique and how it would change one’s life.

    February 26, 2016 at 12:13 pm #97351
    Anonymous
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    Dear dfh:

    I too strongly dislike deceiving people, hate it really: when it is done globally by marketing of products, people included as products and when done between people otherwise, a lot of the time.

    I don’t think we can let the past out of our brains, the connections we have in our brains were made in the past and we can’t disconnect those connections (as in between let’s say spiders and fear, just an example) by an act of will. What I am suggesting is to let out what other people tell us we should think, how others tell us we should interpret the past, and the present and see each as it really was and as it really is.

    anita

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