http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/ Personal Development for Smart People Thu, 22 May 2008 20:21:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/#comment-66699 Raw Food Diet - Day 19 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:03:05 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/#comment-66699 [...] This experiment has raised my awareness of something else as well. There’s a part of me that’s questioning whether I’m taking the notion of optimizing my diet too far. Health is obviously more than just food intake, and I’m concerned I’m giving too much of my power to something outside myself. Is it possible I’m somehow creating a more and more restrictive diet for myself as part of a process of discovering a more important lesson? That would be congruent with the subjective reality interpretation of this experiment. One way to grow is to honor your expectations, which is basically what I’m doing with this experiment. But another way to grow is to change your expectations. When it comes to diet, I’ve always used the former approach, but I’m starting to get curious about what would happen if I began testing the latter approach. [...] […] This experiment has raised my awareness of something else as well. There’s a part of me that’s questioning whether I’m taking the notion of optimizing my diet too far. Health is obviously more than just food intake, and I’m concerned I’m giving too much of my power to something outside myself. Is it possible I’m somehow creating a more and more restrictive diet for myself as part of a process of discovering a more important lesson? That would be congruent with the subjective reality interpretation of this experiment. One way to grow is to honor your expectations, which is basically what I’m doing with this experiment. But another way to grow is to change your expectations. When it comes to diet, I’ve always used the former approach, but I’m starting to get curious about what would happen if I began testing the latter approach. […]

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