http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/ Personal Development for Smart People Sat, 09 May 2009 21:45:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-77186 Eradicate Ants With Your Thoughts « The World According to Julia Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:23:56 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/#comment-77186 [...] is out of alignment with the Universe, and I at least held a little tiny portion of an open mind to subjective reality. I even indulged the polyphasic sleep experiment. That’s all a little insane, but still not [...] [...] is out of alignment with the Universe, and I at least held a little tiny portion of an open mind to subjective reality. I even indulged the polyphasic sleep experiment. That’s all a little insane, but still not [...]

]]> http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/personal-development-and-subjective-reality/comment-page-1/#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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