There are two aspects to every problem or challenge we run into. There is the problem itself and there is our response to it. For example we have to decide the color of the curtains. This discussion becomes an argument. We might finally agree about the color but the argument lingers on in our minds. It has awoken some of our fears, questioned some of our beliefs, taking away any black-and-white certainty, shatters some idealistic hope, and questioned our assumptions. For example if we are the man around the house who are used to being the unquestioned authority, we might find having authority challenged a little challenging. If we are used to our wife making such choices, and unusually she consults us, because it is in fact it is our room where the curtains will be, then it puts us into uncertain territory.
You could say that in the process of discussing the color of the curtains, we had a little mind storm stirred up within us, which took us away from the more peaceful calm within.
If we look at this peaceful calm, it is that our true nature is a deep calm peaceful awareness. At some moments we can be deeply in touch with it, like suddenly we can see the beauty of everything in this moment, and other moments like when discussing the color of the curtains, we lose it altogether. We can say that our true state is inner peace, that the events of life frequently disturbed. If it gets disturbed a lot, and continuously can we find it really hard to calm down, stop inside, and get back to neutral.
Every little mind storm reinforces our ability to have mind storms which in turn seeds the next ones. So it's very easy to get into a state in the mind which becomes self perpetuating mind storms and like the surface of a pond into which you are keep throwing stones non-stop. Yet you want the surface to be calm.
As I sometimes experience it, the mind does nothing until some significant event occurs which we need to respond to or choose to respond to and then we respond. And the response has a certain process which then stops naturally as it come to an end. And my mind returns to a peaceful state. So in my understanding the healthy mind resides in the state of peaceful calm, and a very healthy mind resides in a place of deep undisturbable peace.
There is a Chinese proverb which goes something like this
that the birds of worry and care
circle above your head
this you cannot prevent
but that they nest in your hair
this you can prevent
This about summarizes it.
This is the reason when it comes to our new technology of PPDs, we recommend the awareness PPD HERE first for most people, because they need to calm down their mind first rather than process the unfinished business in their mind which seed the mind storms. Increased awareness comes before calming down the mind, and this allows some separation between the ritual mind storms and the actual events, a gap of awareness. As Deepak Chopra says we are the gap between our thoughts, though maybe I am slightly misquoting him.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Water
About Water
We run out of water fairly often. For example every time the electricity fails, which is also fairly often maybe once a month, then the pump in the well doesn’t work, so we don’t have water. The electricity failure is usually only for a few hours so it is not a big problem.
But yesterday the pump failed completely after an electrical failure of an hour or two. Because it came after an electrical failure we didn’t know what the problem was, is simply didn’t make sense. We checked all the electrics, which meant getting to understand exactly how the well system works, the regulator, the backup storage cylinder, the fuses and cabling. Is not that complicated but when you cant read anything in the local language in the instruction books etc. it’s more difficult. My wife is also incapable of translating technical manuals so that doesn’t work either.
So while we were figuring out what was wrong we had no water for 24 hours. This means we can’t wash, except maybe our hands and our teeth, from cans of water we have for emergencies. The problem with this water came from the well and doesn’t have a long shelf life as it has no chlorine in it or anything like that.
It also means no dishwasher and no washing machine and no washing up and no water for cooking, no flushing the toilet etc. What effectively it means is the of the whole house grinds to a halt rather quickly. There is nothing to eat with for example.
This is one of the great advantage is of living in the mountains. We realize what is essential to life. Water is one such thing.
True it’s also a problem of living remotely and without piped regular water supply. But it makes you realize just how dependent on water you are when you don’t have it.
I pull the pump out of the well, which is a backbreaking task, because it weighs 10 + kilos plus the weight of the water in the hose, etc. and is 18 metres of cable, rope, hose, as well as the pump to pull out. Finally I discover a by testing all the options in the pouring rain (water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink) that the electric motor of the pump isn’t working properly. I have to dismantle the pump without being able to read the instructions because it’s in Czech, as far as I can dismantle it to check it’s not blocked or congested. In theory I could call out somebody to fix it but that could take days. When you don’t have any water and no alternative supply, and no alternative place to live, you don’t have days.
So we take the pump to the shop where we bought it and fortunately it’s just within its two year guarantee period. That’s great, but the fact is it will take a month to be repaired. So we have to buy a new pump, Anyway while I was refitting the new pump, connecting it all up, roping it altogether, it was a beautiful sunny day. And in this beautiful sunny moment, I thought or didn’t think, this is such a beautiful moment, such a beautiful light, such perfect weather, what better thing to do than just to be here reinstalling this new water pump. So everything has its blessings.
We run out of water fairly often. For example every time the electricity fails, which is also fairly often maybe once a month, then the pump in the well doesn’t work, so we don’t have water. The electricity failure is usually only for a few hours so it is not a big problem.
But yesterday the pump failed completely after an electrical failure of an hour or two. Because it came after an electrical failure we didn’t know what the problem was, is simply didn’t make sense. We checked all the electrics, which meant getting to understand exactly how the well system works, the regulator, the backup storage cylinder, the fuses and cabling. Is not that complicated but when you cant read anything in the local language in the instruction books etc. it’s more difficult. My wife is also incapable of translating technical manuals so that doesn’t work either.
So while we were figuring out what was wrong we had no water for 24 hours. This means we can’t wash, except maybe our hands and our teeth, from cans of water we have for emergencies. The problem with this water came from the well and doesn’t have a long shelf life as it has no chlorine in it or anything like that.
It also means no dishwasher and no washing machine and no washing up and no water for cooking, no flushing the toilet etc. What effectively it means is the of the whole house grinds to a halt rather quickly. There is nothing to eat with for example.
This is one of the great advantage is of living in the mountains. We realize what is essential to life. Water is one such thing.
True it’s also a problem of living remotely and without piped regular water supply. But it makes you realize just how dependent on water you are when you don’t have it.
I pull the pump out of the well, which is a backbreaking task, because it weighs 10 + kilos plus the weight of the water in the hose, etc. and is 18 metres of cable, rope, hose, as well as the pump to pull out. Finally I discover a by testing all the options in the pouring rain (water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink) that the electric motor of the pump isn’t working properly. I have to dismantle the pump without being able to read the instructions because it’s in Czech, as far as I can dismantle it to check it’s not blocked or congested. In theory I could call out somebody to fix it but that could take days. When you don’t have any water and no alternative supply, and no alternative place to live, you don’t have days.
So we take the pump to the shop where we bought it and fortunately it’s just within its two year guarantee period. That’s great, but the fact is it will take a month to be repaired. So we have to buy a new pump, Anyway while I was refitting the new pump, connecting it all up, roping it altogether, it was a beautiful sunny day. And in this beautiful sunny moment, I thought or didn’t think, this is such a beautiful moment, such a beautiful light, such perfect weather, what better thing to do than just to be here reinstalling this new water pump. So everything has its blessings.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
In a recently published study Norwegian researchers found that use of
paracetamol in the first trimester doubled the risk of development of
allergic rhinitis at the age of 10 for both boys and girls, and in girls
it increased the risk of allergy and asthma if used until the age of 6
months.
The main author, Bakkeheim, states that the effect of Paracetamol is the
opposite of the effect of antioxydants, and that it therefore weakens
the body's ability to defend itself against oxydative stress.
International studies have shown that the risk of developing asthma,
hayfeverand eczema by the age of 6-7 years is tripled if children are
given paracetamol before they are one years of age. (Abcnyheter
http://www.abcnyheter.no/node/116292).
I thought this needed diseminating.
Also the freeze survival instinct leads to lower levels of actual breathing.
These two together form a powerful negative duo.
paracetamol in the first trimester doubled the risk of development of
allergic rhinitis at the age of 10 for both boys and girls, and in girls
it increased the risk of allergy and asthma if used until the age of 6
months.
The main author, Bakkeheim, states that the effect of Paracetamol is the
opposite of the effect of antioxydants, and that it therefore weakens
the body's ability to defend itself against oxydative stress.
International studies have shown that the risk of developing asthma,
hayfeverand eczema by the age of 6-7 years is tripled if children are
given paracetamol before they are one years of age. (Abcnyheter
http://www.abcnyheter.no/node/116292).
I thought this needed diseminating.
Also the freeze survival instinct leads to lower levels of actual breathing.
These two together form a powerful negative duo.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
10,000 hours is not enough
Yesterday was a difficult day. It started out with appalling summer weather. It was wet, raining, windy and cold. A day to do battle with, not easy to enjoy. I settled as I often do in bad weather, to try and write or to rewrite the subject I am working on. I decided that the book I am writing it in fact two books, and that is easier to abstract one from the other. It makes both projects possible is my intuitive guess.
What is interesting is that having separated out the two books, it is starting to become clear what the new book is really about, and even more important than that this has a total impact on the way and direction I am imagining into being my life at the moment. I see now that we, the team I work with, have imagined into being some very concrete tools for personal and spiritual development. I say personal and spiritual but these are the same thing. If you develop yourself personally, whether in dance, sport, or science, you are turning yourself into the present moment being that you are. I try not to use the word spiritual because I think is out of date and a projection away from reality just as god is.
The problem of our PPDs is to put them into context so that people can use them. This is no small task and requires a deep understanding of the human being. It's the PPDs are about consciousness and since this is an unfamiliar context, it seems that we have to create the context to go with the product. Otherwise it's a bit like selling sky diving equipment without anybody running courses in how to use the equipment. It's all very well creating a new system of skydiving, and trying it out and seeing that it works but then to making a useful product you have to provide the manual and/or the expertise.
So now I see that the second book, the one I have separated out, is really the manual for PPDs and for personal development using PPDs. And that the manual is a key item in use of the PPDs. They put them in context. Getting this amount of clarity has taken me far too long in my opinion, but then I don't like thinking first and acting second. I am of the type who acts first, finds a new way forward, invents a new technology, and then had to figure out the context in which to use it. This could take the rest of my life! Clearly I have bitten off more than I expected to chew.
Later in the afternoon as the weather clears up I go back to cement again. I'm trying to patch some external tiles that fell off the wall, primarily because the roof above them was badly built. I find in my life I'm always repairing buildings. In this cottage there are many building defects coming from the time from when it was modernized without intelligent supervision of an intelligent architect.
The builder carried out his own style of work including a completely flat roof. Not being an expert on buildings I've only recently come to understand the problem. The roof simply should not be flat, it should run at least 1 cm per meter and secondly it needs to be sealed properly. These things seem obvious to me now, but when the tiles first started falling off the outside wall, I didn't know this. And worse than this, while we did ask an architect, I didn't get this information. I didn't inquire deeper, and I wasn't conscious enough to see that the tiles only fell off the walls only under the flat roof. The rest stayed secure. This should've triggered in me a question. So I was a building amnesiac, in other words I lack building intelligence, because although I have been rebuilding houses all my life, it has not been my focus, I have not put in the 10,000 hours, and I'm not an expert at it.
By comparison when I was ask to treat my neighbour’s dog yesterday, the situation was very clear, the homeopathic remedy obvious, and my 30,000 hours of expertise became useful! Such is the nature of life.
There just aren't enough hours in life to become experts at everything. We live about 700,000 hours of which maybe we can use 100,000 of things that we personally apply ourselves to and become expert at (we sleep at least 200,000 hours, we eat for a least 100,000 hours, we grow up for at least 200,000 hours, so if we live in a long life this leaves 100,000 hours to become great things). This means on the 10,000 hour rule, we could be good at 10 different subjects, but in my experience I've needed at least 30,000 hours in to become really good at homeopathy. Our piano teacher needed 20,000 hours to get to concert level playing. So in reality, we have the opportunity in life to become really good at maybe three things, or more if we really apply ourselves. But how many people really do that?
If I analyzed my life, I've spent at least 20,000 hours on a whole range of activities which I have squandered. Probably a lot more. So I wonder how much use I have made of my opportunity of having a life?
Is in that the world's number one personal problem? Not applying ourselves to anything with sufficient vigour and intensity? Or do we all apply ourselves with vigour and intensity towards making ourselves dysfunctional and incompetent? Is it a choice? Do we either apply ourselves with positive direction and become functional, or otherwise automatically we specialize in becoming dysfunctional?
That is today's blog.
What is interesting is that having separated out the two books, it is starting to become clear what the new book is really about, and even more important than that this has a total impact on the way and direction I am imagining into being my life at the moment. I see now that we, the team I work with, have imagined into being some very concrete tools for personal and spiritual development. I say personal and spiritual but these are the same thing. If you develop yourself personally, whether in dance, sport, or science, you are turning yourself into the present moment being that you are. I try not to use the word spiritual because I think is out of date and a projection away from reality just as god is.
The problem of our PPDs is to put them into context so that people can use them. This is no small task and requires a deep understanding of the human being. It's the PPDs are about consciousness and since this is an unfamiliar context, it seems that we have to create the context to go with the product. Otherwise it's a bit like selling sky diving equipment without anybody running courses in how to use the equipment. It's all very well creating a new system of skydiving, and trying it out and seeing that it works but then to making a useful product you have to provide the manual and/or the expertise.
So now I see that the second book, the one I have separated out, is really the manual for PPDs and for personal development using PPDs. And that the manual is a key item in use of the PPDs. They put them in context. Getting this amount of clarity has taken me far too long in my opinion, but then I don't like thinking first and acting second. I am of the type who acts first, finds a new way forward, invents a new technology, and then had to figure out the context in which to use it. This could take the rest of my life! Clearly I have bitten off more than I expected to chew.
Later in the afternoon as the weather clears up I go back to cement again. I'm trying to patch some external tiles that fell off the wall, primarily because the roof above them was badly built. I find in my life I'm always repairing buildings. In this cottage there are many building defects coming from the time from when it was modernized without intelligent supervision of an intelligent architect.
The builder carried out his own style of work including a completely flat roof. Not being an expert on buildings I've only recently come to understand the problem. The roof simply should not be flat, it should run at least 1 cm per meter and secondly it needs to be sealed properly. These things seem obvious to me now, but when the tiles first started falling off the outside wall, I didn't know this. And worse than this, while we did ask an architect, I didn't get this information. I didn't inquire deeper, and I wasn't conscious enough to see that the tiles only fell off the walls only under the flat roof. The rest stayed secure. This should've triggered in me a question. So I was a building amnesiac, in other words I lack building intelligence, because although I have been rebuilding houses all my life, it has not been my focus, I have not put in the 10,000 hours, and I'm not an expert at it.
By comparison when I was ask to treat my neighbour’s dog yesterday, the situation was very clear, the homeopathic remedy obvious, and my 30,000 hours of expertise became useful! Such is the nature of life.
There just aren't enough hours in life to become experts at everything. We live about 700,000 hours of which maybe we can use 100,000 of things that we personally apply ourselves to and become expert at (we sleep at least 200,000 hours, we eat for a least 100,000 hours, we grow up for at least 200,000 hours, so if we live in a long life this leaves 100,000 hours to become great things). This means on the 10,000 hour rule, we could be good at 10 different subjects, but in my experience I've needed at least 30,000 hours in to become really good at homeopathy. Our piano teacher needed 20,000 hours to get to concert level playing. So in reality, we have the opportunity in life to become really good at maybe three things, or more if we really apply ourselves. But how many people really do that?
If I analyzed my life, I've spent at least 20,000 hours on a whole range of activities which I have squandered. Probably a lot more. So I wonder how much use I have made of my opportunity of having a life?
Is in that the world's number one personal problem? Not applying ourselves to anything with sufficient vigour and intensity? Or do we all apply ourselves with vigour and intensity towards making ourselves dysfunctional and incompetent? Is it a choice? Do we either apply ourselves with positive direction and become functional, or otherwise automatically we specialize in becoming dysfunctional?
That is today's blog.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
My first real personal blog
My blog August the 26th 26 2010
I have decided to write a daily diary about a journey I am on and have been on all my life. Because I am only starting this blog now I will talk about today and reflect about the past. As a way of catching up on the 69 years I have almost completed. I have decided on my soon to be 69th birthday to start counting backwards so then I will be 68 and so on and if I live long enough I can be born again.
Yesterday I was helping Bohdana, the CEO of greaterpeople.com to create the soil for her lawn. She is sieving the topsoil to the depth of about 6 cm before she plants the grass seed. Given she has two young children called Nikoka, who has won a hand, and that at the age of 4 1/2 could cut the fingernails of the one hand herself, and Kristoff, who is just 4 now who is a very energetic young boy trying to grow an ego 5 miles high, they have chosen football field grass seed, wisely I think. The lawn is going to be magnificent, is being prepared in the way that only the most expensive lawns are prepared. It is a lesson to me in preparation. I have never made a lawn like this yet I have made many lawns in my life.
I also wrote a chapter of the book I am preparing with my very close colleague and friend Harry van der Zee. I wrote the chapter about the intelligence of diseases. It's a chapter that has taken me 10 years in gestation. Just like this book has taken me and Harry two lifetimes to put together. It's very satisfying when writing comes together and happens spontaneously out of our invisible consciousness, through my speaking machine which never works as well as I would like, but which the list is really good at spelling, even if it dictates the wrong words. Reading this blog you should be aware there are no typos but instead there are the typos of the molten dictating software, like the word molten that has just been written and should have been modern. The molten typos you have to read phonetically to get the idea and sometimes you can get it.
The problem with writing some of the chapters later, as our consciousness advances with the writing of the book and the other things we are doing in parallel, like building greaterpeople.com is that then we have to go back and update other parts of the book. Like other books I have written, making it a coherent whole is not so easy. And when you have two authors both struggling for consciousness, it's more effort. Especially when we live 1000 miles and 12 hours traveling apart. We have to rely on the modern conveniences of Skype to keep us in contact. Harry chooses to live in the remote woods in an isolated part of the overpopulated Netherlands, and I choose to live in a remote part of the not so populated Czech Republic, in the mountains with a view over five valleys with mountains to either side, and a million or more trees in the sight line.
I watched a great film last night, Julie and Julie starring Meryl Streep and I really enjoyed this film about food and cooking. It was also interesting watching the extras, and especially inspiring was the fact that it was partly made by 365 blogs and two true stories. This is what has inspired me to restart my blog. Thank you Amelia, who is currently touring Scotland on a new powerful motorbike with her boyfriend, who has a Harley-Davidson, for lending us the film, and for teaching my wife Hana, to speak French.
It’s now 8.39 am.
I just went for a great shit, one of the great pleasures of my day, followed by my bowl full of porridge, my other faithful friend in the morning. My porridge is my staple diet, with added fruit – today plums- and seeds and nuts and preserved fruits like sultanas, dates and prunes.
I have decided to write a daily diary about a journey I am on and have been on all my life. Because I am only starting this blog now I will talk about today and reflect about the past. As a way of catching up on the 69 years I have almost completed. I have decided on my soon to be 69th birthday to start counting backwards so then I will be 68 and so on and if I live long enough I can be born again.
Yesterday I was helping Bohdana, the CEO of greaterpeople.com to create the soil for her lawn. She is sieving the topsoil to the depth of about 6 cm before she plants the grass seed. Given she has two young children called Nikoka, who has won a hand, and that at the age of 4 1/2 could cut the fingernails of the one hand herself, and Kristoff, who is just 4 now who is a very energetic young boy trying to grow an ego 5 miles high, they have chosen football field grass seed, wisely I think. The lawn is going to be magnificent, is being prepared in the way that only the most expensive lawns are prepared. It is a lesson to me in preparation. I have never made a lawn like this yet I have made many lawns in my life.
I also wrote a chapter of the book I am preparing with my very close colleague and friend Harry van der Zee. I wrote the chapter about the intelligence of diseases. It's a chapter that has taken me 10 years in gestation. Just like this book has taken me and Harry two lifetimes to put together. It's very satisfying when writing comes together and happens spontaneously out of our invisible consciousness, through my speaking machine which never works as well as I would like, but which the list is really good at spelling, even if it dictates the wrong words. Reading this blog you should be aware there are no typos but instead there are the typos of the molten dictating software, like the word molten that has just been written and should have been modern. The molten typos you have to read phonetically to get the idea and sometimes you can get it.
The problem with writing some of the chapters later, as our consciousness advances with the writing of the book and the other things we are doing in parallel, like building greaterpeople.com is that then we have to go back and update other parts of the book. Like other books I have written, making it a coherent whole is not so easy. And when you have two authors both struggling for consciousness, it's more effort. Especially when we live 1000 miles and 12 hours traveling apart. We have to rely on the modern conveniences of Skype to keep us in contact. Harry chooses to live in the remote woods in an isolated part of the overpopulated Netherlands, and I choose to live in a remote part of the not so populated Czech Republic, in the mountains with a view over five valleys with mountains to either side, and a million or more trees in the sight line.
I watched a great film last night, Julie and Julie starring Meryl Streep and I really enjoyed this film about food and cooking. It was also interesting watching the extras, and especially inspiring was the fact that it was partly made by 365 blogs and two true stories. This is what has inspired me to restart my blog. Thank you Amelia, who is currently touring Scotland on a new powerful motorbike with her boyfriend, who has a Harley-Davidson, for lending us the film, and for teaching my wife Hana, to speak French.
It’s now 8.39 am.
I just went for a great shit, one of the great pleasures of my day, followed by my bowl full of porridge, my other faithful friend in the morning. My porridge is my staple diet, with added fruit – today plums- and seeds and nuts and preserved fruits like sultanas, dates and prunes.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Speed of Response and What is Responding
An amazing thing about survival instincts, residing in the reptilian brain, is that they are so fast and so powerful. The thinking brain and the survival brain get the same information from our senses at exactly the same time. However, because of our need to act fast in the time of real danger, which is far more important than our thinking processes, it's natural that the reptilian survival brain responds much faster. Not only is it quicker, the response is also overwhelmingly stronger -literally before we can even think we are in survival mode. Our foot is on the brake before we can think.
The reptilian brain responds in approximately 100th of a second while the thinking brain responds three times slower. In real danger, before we can think about anything, our endocrine system floods the blood stream with chemicals to create the emergency response. We get lots of adrenaline for example.
There is no problem with this, in an actual emergency, except there are very few actual emergencies in our daily lives.
However, we have already hyperactive survival instincts due to the overwhelming and often unrealized incredible violence of the last century. Hundreds of millions were killed and billions were traumatized and intimidated in the process.
We have inherited this violence as unconscious memories and as hyperactive survival instincts because we still think unconsciously we're living in a war zone or something like that.
In practice this means that when we are having a conversation with anybody which is a bit unsafe or threatening or in any way difficult, such as over the washing up, or loading up the dishwasher, or someone forgetting to switch it on, and such like trivia, we overreact. The conversation can easily get heated or in other ways dysfunctional. The overload of the past impinges into everyday life on a minuscule yet impactful level.
A key point I'm trying to make today is how fast this process is. I've often noticed how quick these difficult emotions are and how quickly they occur, compared to my thinking. Until I understood the survival instincts, it didn't make sense to me. It happened and it was outside my control.
It still is out of my control because the thinking mind has very little leverage on the reptilian mind due to the speed and the strength of the reptilian mind. The reptilian brain is also preverbal and much older (the odd billion years older) so we cannot talk to it directly and have no real control over it.
This is why the anger management people say 'Count to 10 when you're losing it'. Counting to 10 lets the reptilian overload in your blood stream calm down a little bit so the thinking mind can assert itself. My friend goes upstairs and locks herself in the toilet until she calms down in this situation. A better method is probably to run around the block because that burns up the surge of adrenaline. The purpose of the surge of adrenaline is to get us out of danger fast. It’s so we can run fast from the perceived danger. Sitting on the loo is not really an effective strategy. Storming out of the house is more intelligent.
Knowing how this process works is very useful, because it gives us a perspective, and once we understand it, we have more choices.
The reptilian brain responds in approximately 100th of a second while the thinking brain responds three times slower. In real danger, before we can think about anything, our endocrine system floods the blood stream with chemicals to create the emergency response. We get lots of adrenaline for example.
There is no problem with this, in an actual emergency, except there are very few actual emergencies in our daily lives.
However, we have already hyperactive survival instincts due to the overwhelming and often unrealized incredible violence of the last century. Hundreds of millions were killed and billions were traumatized and intimidated in the process.
We have inherited this violence as unconscious memories and as hyperactive survival instincts because we still think unconsciously we're living in a war zone or something like that.
In practice this means that when we are having a conversation with anybody which is a bit unsafe or threatening or in any way difficult, such as over the washing up, or loading up the dishwasher, or someone forgetting to switch it on, and such like trivia, we overreact. The conversation can easily get heated or in other ways dysfunctional. The overload of the past impinges into everyday life on a minuscule yet impactful level.
A key point I'm trying to make today is how fast this process is. I've often noticed how quick these difficult emotions are and how quickly they occur, compared to my thinking. Until I understood the survival instincts, it didn't make sense to me. It happened and it was outside my control.
It still is out of my control because the thinking mind has very little leverage on the reptilian mind due to the speed and the strength of the reptilian mind. The reptilian brain is also preverbal and much older (the odd billion years older) so we cannot talk to it directly and have no real control over it.
This is why the anger management people say 'Count to 10 when you're losing it'. Counting to 10 lets the reptilian overload in your blood stream calm down a little bit so the thinking mind can assert itself. My friend goes upstairs and locks herself in the toilet until she calms down in this situation. A better method is probably to run around the block because that burns up the surge of adrenaline. The purpose of the surge of adrenaline is to get us out of danger fast. It’s so we can run fast from the perceived danger. Sitting on the loo is not really an effective strategy. Storming out of the house is more intelligent.
Knowing how this process works is very useful, because it gives us a perspective, and once we understand it, we have more choices.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
PŘEDNÁŠKA v Ostravě... A lecture in Ostrava, Czech Republic
PPD – PŘIROZENÁ CESTA K VNITŘNÍ SVOBODĚ
„Jakmile je cesta za osobním růstem a vnitřní svobodou vědomá, přestává být strastiplná.“
Srdečně Vás zveme na seminář Petera Chappella věnovaný nové technologii v oblasti osobního rozvoje a růstu. Peter se v uplynulých 40 letech věnoval homeopatii a terapeutické práci v mnoha zemích světa a studoval faktory ovlivňující tělesnou i duševní pohodu lidí. Je lektorem a autorem úspěšných knih, jež vyšly i v českém překladu (Homepatická samoléčba a Druhé similimum, nakladatelství Alternativa). Na základě dlouholetých zkušeností zasvětil posledních 9 let vývoji vlastní rezonanční technologie PPD zaměřené na zlepšování fyzické i mentální kondice a tím zvyšování kvality života.
Na semináři se dozvíme jak být vyrovnaní, zdraví, efektivní a mít bohatý život. Jak dosahovat svých cílů a naplnit svůj vnitřní potenciál, aniž bychom podléhali omezujícím tělesným a mentálním návykům, které jsme přijali za vlastní. Peterova metoda nahrávek PPD je účinná, přitom jednoduchá a nenáročná na čas.
PPD umožňují
• celkově se zklidnit a být odolnější vůči stresu
• uvolňovat nabyté omezující tělesnéa mentální návyky
• lépe se soustředit
• uvědomit si a naplnit osobní potenciál
• nabýt většího sebevědomí a vnitřní vyrovnanosti
• rychlejší fyzickou a psychickou regeneraci
• převzít vědomě život do vlastních rukou a přistupovat k němu tvořivějším způsobem
Technologie PPD je založena na elementárních principech fungování lidské mysli a těla. Představuje proto navíc účinný nástroj podporující a doplňující veškeré známé terapeutické metody.
Jak je známo, prací na sobě samých můžeme přispět nejen k vlastnímu lepšímu a spokojenějšímu životu, ale také ke zlepšení globální situace, ve které se lidstvo nachází, a tím i k lepší budoucnosti naší planety. Pokud vás tato témata zajímají, je tento seminář určen právě vám.
Program
9:00 – 10:30 Představení technologie PPD
- historie vzniku (krátké pojednání o dlouhé cestě)
- principy a využití (co nás v životě řídí, proč a jak to můžeme změnit)
- význam v globálním měřítku
10:30-10:50 Přestávka (k dispozici bude drobné občerstvení a nápoje)
10:50-12:00 Otázky a odpovědi
Místo a čas konání
KDE: centrum Harmonie, Na Jízdárně 18 (velký sál v 1. patře), Moravská Ostrava
KDY: sobota 29.5.2010, 9:00-12:00
Cena
Vstupné 100 Kč, platba při vstupu. Kapacita sálu je omezená. Místo si můžete předem rezervovat u paní Hany Chappell, tel: 774 496 503, e-mail: hana@greaterpeople.com
„Jakmile je cesta za osobním růstem a vnitřní svobodou vědomá, přestává být strastiplná.“
Srdečně Vás zveme na seminář Petera Chappella věnovaný nové technologii v oblasti osobního rozvoje a růstu. Peter se v uplynulých 40 letech věnoval homeopatii a terapeutické práci v mnoha zemích světa a studoval faktory ovlivňující tělesnou i duševní pohodu lidí. Je lektorem a autorem úspěšných knih, jež vyšly i v českém překladu (Homepatická samoléčba a Druhé similimum, nakladatelství Alternativa). Na základě dlouholetých zkušeností zasvětil posledních 9 let vývoji vlastní rezonanční technologie PPD zaměřené na zlepšování fyzické i mentální kondice a tím zvyšování kvality života.
Na semináři se dozvíme jak být vyrovnaní, zdraví, efektivní a mít bohatý život. Jak dosahovat svých cílů a naplnit svůj vnitřní potenciál, aniž bychom podléhali omezujícím tělesným a mentálním návykům, které jsme přijali za vlastní. Peterova metoda nahrávek PPD je účinná, přitom jednoduchá a nenáročná na čas.
PPD umožňují
• celkově se zklidnit a být odolnější vůči stresu
• uvolňovat nabyté omezující tělesnéa mentální návyky
• lépe se soustředit
• uvědomit si a naplnit osobní potenciál
• nabýt většího sebevědomí a vnitřní vyrovnanosti
• rychlejší fyzickou a psychickou regeneraci
• převzít vědomě život do vlastních rukou a přistupovat k němu tvořivějším způsobem
Technologie PPD je založena na elementárních principech fungování lidské mysli a těla. Představuje proto navíc účinný nástroj podporující a doplňující veškeré známé terapeutické metody.
Jak je známo, prací na sobě samých můžeme přispět nejen k vlastnímu lepšímu a spokojenějšímu životu, ale také ke zlepšení globální situace, ve které se lidstvo nachází, a tím i k lepší budoucnosti naší planety. Pokud vás tato témata zajímají, je tento seminář určen právě vám.
Program
9:00 – 10:30 Představení technologie PPD
- historie vzniku (krátké pojednání o dlouhé cestě)
- principy a využití (co nás v životě řídí, proč a jak to můžeme změnit)
- význam v globálním měřítku
10:30-10:50 Přestávka (k dispozici bude drobné občerstvení a nápoje)
10:50-12:00 Otázky a odpovědi
Místo a čas konání
KDE: centrum Harmonie, Na Jízdárně 18 (velký sál v 1. patře), Moravská Ostrava
KDY: sobota 29.5.2010, 9:00-12:00
Cena
Vstupné 100 Kč, platba při vstupu. Kapacita sálu je omezená. Místo si můžete předem rezervovat u paní Hany Chappell, tel: 774 496 503, e-mail: hana@greaterpeople.com
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Nao is the Time.
Time is not just linear as we commonly use it in calendars, diaries and clocks. We could say that the pendulum in the clock swings to and fro but time stands still. To say that the pendulum measures time is a misunderstanding. That's an intellectual constructed of the mind. It's actually a very useful intellectual construct and is also very deceptive. It tends to make us think there is only linear time and ignore the other dimensions of time. Any appointment we make we do in the present moment, and we later meet in the present moment, and we never leave the present moment. We do everything in the present moment, now. Now is also part of Time.
I have decided that we need a new word to describe the essence of Now. Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now was a seminal book a decade or so back and has now penetrated into our current world consciousness of understanding of now. The Tao Te Ching is an ancient book about the movement of now which is also highly influential. This is a subject we are now in a position to elaborate upon in greater detail and we need a new word to describe what we mean so it is not confused with the normal now, and the many common uses the word now has. I want to name this concept with a new word NAO, which I will use from now on in this blog.
It’s perfectly obvious that Nao is a never-ending moment and there is no beginning or end to it and it continues on forever. We never leave it. When we are thinking of the future or the past we are thinking of it from the present moment Nao. We never actually leap forwards or backwards in time. There is no other time but Nao. Nobody time travels, except in Hollywood. Actually, some people time travel like Barbara Marx Hubbard, but it happens in expanded Nao.
In my way of understanding, time is like a spiral, a bit like the builders measuring ruler that rolls up into a coil. It's linear when we take it out and it's a spiral when we let it coil itself up. And we carry time/nao around with us, in our time pocket so to speak.
I admit it is really hard to understand this model, but at least it's an attempt to get away from the linear model which is in direct contradiction to the obvious that nao is the only time that we ever experience.
The reason we think of time as linear can be explained by the fact that we all have a story-maker in our brain.
I quote what two leading neuroscientists say on this story maker.
Prof Antonio Damasio http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=27
who describes it this way: "Perhaps the most important revelation is precisely this: that the left cerebral hemisphere of humans is prone to fabricating verbal narratives that do not necessarily accord with the truth."
Michael Gazzaniga, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He is one of the leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience. He writes: "The left brain weaves its story in order to convince itself and you that it is in full control. . . . what amounts to a spin doctor in the left brain. The interpreter is really trying to keep our personal story together. To do that, we have to learn to lie to ourselves."
These insights, based on solid experimental work, show that we tend to believe our own press releases. Often when we think we're being rational, we're being spun by our own thinking.
I remember a Stazi informer, confronted on TV, 50 years or so after her informing. She says, these letters are in my handwriting, and it’s my signature, but I did not write them. That’s a press release even a politician would be proud of. I’ve come across similar things in incest.
I extend these ideas on a bigger scale of ideas to time and Nao. The left hemisphere of the brain tries to make sense of what is going on in every field of life and tries to weave it into something we can comprehend and understand. So it makes up simplistic notions like linear time because it's so easy for us to understand. Once we accept the linear time idea we can build enormous so called scientific systems upon this even though it's a partial fallacy, or just one extreme of nao/times many aspects.
I like to think that there is a continuum from the time Nao to linear time and everything in between. Many people are aware that time also has different dimensions. Anybody who's been through a car windscreen, giving birth, had a spiritual breakthrough, or being in a similar situation to these type of events may have experienced the fluidity of time. It seems like the more intense the event the more time becomes a fluid experience.
Most of us pop in and out of Nao. When we start a thought, we always have a choice. We can stop, stay in present moment, Nao, or go ahead and engage in the thought. We cant do both at once. Some intellectual people I know find it very hard not to be in thinking mode and seem not to understand the being/nao mode exists. People can be lost in thought for seeming ages. Some people are convinced that they only exist when they are thinking (Descartes for example) and they have no idea how to be when not thinking. On the other hand such intellectuals often enjoy music, sex, cooking and wine tasting, all very Nao experiences.
The amount and the ways we pop in and out of nao sets the range of our experience of nao.
Nao itself is something that is multidimensional and multilayered and however hard we try there are limits to how much we can penetrate it. These are self-imposed limits. Typically these are habits and fears of what might happen if we really stop thinking!
Yet there is a big incentive to let go and go into the depth of Nao. In the depth of Nao is hidden the greatest secret of life, the holy grail. All we have to do to find it is to drop all our fears and go into this present moment. What’s more it’s a pot of gold. I am sure that when Michael Jordan was air swimming and seemingly defying gravity, about to dunk, he was in the Nao. Tiger Woods is very explicit about being in the Nao when striking the ball in his autobiography. Both earn/earnt $10millions by being in the Nao. In fact, success in life is a lot to do with one’s degree of Naoness.
I have decided that we need a new word to describe the essence of Now. Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now was a seminal book a decade or so back and has now penetrated into our current world consciousness of understanding of now. The Tao Te Ching is an ancient book about the movement of now which is also highly influential. This is a subject we are now in a position to elaborate upon in greater detail and we need a new word to describe what we mean so it is not confused with the normal now, and the many common uses the word now has. I want to name this concept with a new word NAO, which I will use from now on in this blog.
It’s perfectly obvious that Nao is a never-ending moment and there is no beginning or end to it and it continues on forever. We never leave it. When we are thinking of the future or the past we are thinking of it from the present moment Nao. We never actually leap forwards or backwards in time. There is no other time but Nao. Nobody time travels, except in Hollywood. Actually, some people time travel like Barbara Marx Hubbard, but it happens in expanded Nao.
In my way of understanding, time is like a spiral, a bit like the builders measuring ruler that rolls up into a coil. It's linear when we take it out and it's a spiral when we let it coil itself up. And we carry time/nao around with us, in our time pocket so to speak.
I admit it is really hard to understand this model, but at least it's an attempt to get away from the linear model which is in direct contradiction to the obvious that nao is the only time that we ever experience.
The reason we think of time as linear can be explained by the fact that we all have a story-maker in our brain.
I quote what two leading neuroscientists say on this story maker.
Prof Antonio Damasio http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=27
who describes it this way: "Perhaps the most important revelation is precisely this: that the left cerebral hemisphere of humans is prone to fabricating verbal narratives that do not necessarily accord with the truth."
Michael Gazzaniga, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He is one of the leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience. He writes: "The left brain weaves its story in order to convince itself and you that it is in full control. . . . what amounts to a spin doctor in the left brain. The interpreter is really trying to keep our personal story together. To do that, we have to learn to lie to ourselves."
These insights, based on solid experimental work, show that we tend to believe our own press releases. Often when we think we're being rational, we're being spun by our own thinking.
I remember a Stazi informer, confronted on TV, 50 years or so after her informing. She says, these letters are in my handwriting, and it’s my signature, but I did not write them. That’s a press release even a politician would be proud of. I’ve come across similar things in incest.
I extend these ideas on a bigger scale of ideas to time and Nao. The left hemisphere of the brain tries to make sense of what is going on in every field of life and tries to weave it into something we can comprehend and understand. So it makes up simplistic notions like linear time because it's so easy for us to understand. Once we accept the linear time idea we can build enormous so called scientific systems upon this even though it's a partial fallacy, or just one extreme of nao/times many aspects.
I like to think that there is a continuum from the time Nao to linear time and everything in between. Many people are aware that time also has different dimensions. Anybody who's been through a car windscreen, giving birth, had a spiritual breakthrough, or being in a similar situation to these type of events may have experienced the fluidity of time. It seems like the more intense the event the more time becomes a fluid experience.
Most of us pop in and out of Nao. When we start a thought, we always have a choice. We can stop, stay in present moment, Nao, or go ahead and engage in the thought. We cant do both at once. Some intellectual people I know find it very hard not to be in thinking mode and seem not to understand the being/nao mode exists. People can be lost in thought for seeming ages. Some people are convinced that they only exist when they are thinking (Descartes for example) and they have no idea how to be when not thinking. On the other hand such intellectuals often enjoy music, sex, cooking and wine tasting, all very Nao experiences.
The amount and the ways we pop in and out of nao sets the range of our experience of nao.
Nao itself is something that is multidimensional and multilayered and however hard we try there are limits to how much we can penetrate it. These are self-imposed limits. Typically these are habits and fears of what might happen if we really stop thinking!
Yet there is a big incentive to let go and go into the depth of Nao. In the depth of Nao is hidden the greatest secret of life, the holy grail. All we have to do to find it is to drop all our fears and go into this present moment. What’s more it’s a pot of gold. I am sure that when Michael Jordan was air swimming and seemingly defying gravity, about to dunk, he was in the Nao. Tiger Woods is very explicit about being in the Nao when striking the ball in his autobiography. Both earn/earnt $10millions by being in the Nao. In fact, success in life is a lot to do with one’s degree of Naoness.
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