[Sunnybayes]

Ilya, you wrote in a previous thread:

1. I can easily control my internal states. I control pain, hunger and appetite. I can fall asleep in 3 seconds and wake up as easily. I can get myself drunk with water and sober up after alcohol intoxication.

I think those would be fantastic skills to have. Could you please elaborate and explain how you accomplish these things?

I can do these things.

Basically it comes down to training yourself how to focus your attention on different areas of your body. Its a skill. Its not that hard to develop.

Usually all those happen automatically for me, all I do is "drag the attention" from the "outside" and "squeeze it up" to my head. This is being "in the now" as I think as described in "The Power of Now".

sober up after alcohol intoxication

This one is tougher for me to do. But I've never had a hang over where I've thrown up, though I guess I don't drink that much to begin with. When I get drunk, it feels like the top "chakra" feels like jello. I have to do more of the "thinking" with my "gut", because the upper areas just don't react.

The reason that I am "quoting" all these words is that because I am using those abstract words without defining them, and therefore it sounds spiritual because I am not able to define them. I would like to define them, but I really need to think about how to define those words better. But these are words that I mean to tie to the physical feelings and visual images that you have in "your minds eye."

The feeling that I'm talking about is simple. You recognize it like this:

Focus on your left hand. Feel the sensation in your left hand for like 5 seconds. Then, take it and slowly feel the sensation move up your arm, across your chest, and then down into your right hand. Feel the sensation there.

Now, the key to my behavior and intelligence is that I have that feeling usually in my head. Sounds absolutely nuts right?

Well, for me, when i do that, it keeps the intuition strong, it keeps the visual images coming, it lets me monitor if I'm being dragged into someone's negativity, like TV, it lets me know if I've been thinking to much and I need a break. Its keeps me in the present moment, in "the now", but I am also able now able to think about the future while being in "the now" because I pretty much have a feeling in my mind associated with my future goals, so I'm able to be in the now and think about the future goals at the same time. I know that is really hard to swallow.

I've been doing this more and I'm even starting to be able to visualize the feelings. For example, when I've return from abroad, I could actually almost "see intuitively" the culture shock in my mind. The best way that I can describe it is that it "looked dark". Its more of a stress that happened in the "top" of my "minds eye". That was the area of my mind that controls culture, and that since I was in a new culture coming home, it was old programming. The way I fixed it was that I just kept my focus on that part. I think the author of "The Power of Now" likes to call that a "pain body". It helped when I meditated and said "its not like that" and "told it to" those areas. That made "the dark areas light".

I have a "mental algorithm" that I do that gets rid of those pain bodies automatically. And so I'm able to easily adapt to any new situations with a minimal amount of stress.

Basically here is how I operate. I walk into some new situation, like getting off the plane into Hong Kong. Totally new to me. The people are different.

The first thing that I do is get "in the now" by "dragging my focus" to my tounge feeling, nose feeling, mouth feeling, around eyes, fore head, almost like I'm "inhaling the focus".

Then its cool. I something new happens. I just "visually watch my feelings that are occurring in those areas".

When something new or kinda threatening happens, one of those areas (tounge feeling, nose feeling, mouth feeling, around eyes, gut) wants to react . Because I am in the "now" watching those feelings, I am able to "catch them", before they take over my behavior. Then I "turn those dark areas into light" and so I get used to the new situation very easily, opens those areas up for reprogramming.

I think "bringing the dark areas" to the light is that you are opening up those areas of your subconscious mind to being reprogrammed, and set "expectation"

Honestly, this is how I think intelligent people operate, and its all automatic usually, not even concious.

Its hard work to vibe with my intelligent friends cause they are all just kinda "stuck up" not really in the snobbish sense, but in a different sense that they are just on a "higher level".

If you've got some pain in your life, if you meditate then you can reprogram those areas that are causing the trouble.

I got to a point in my development where I could feel/see the dark "pain bodies" in my "minds eye"/body, and I would not even know "what they meant" what they were attached to (like memories, or location) I just new that they made me feel bad so I just did meditation to make them go away. And I was just better after that.

The weird thing is, by "watching your feelings" you can catch your limiting beliefs. If you have bad memories of a place, you can "catch" those bad memories, then remember "where they occurred" in your mind, and then later go back and remove them.

Your memories/behaviors/thinkings are associated with your feelings and you can conciously manipulate them to cause better behavior in yourself. By realizing this, abstract concepts such as believes, memories, behavior, expectation become concrete.



I typed this up way long ago but never got around to posting it. I use "fear" in these paragraphs the same way that I use "pain body":

Originally Posted by InJoy

What book was that?

Well the specific book is not important. This was like in 1998 when I read it. Its all the same though.

If you have read my framework in my signature, then all it is that it makes you shift your focus away from the lower levels of your hierarchy (i.e. feelings in all your limbs) so that you can have all your focus/ consciousness on the upper levels of your hierarchy so that you can use your concisenesses to change your high level mental patterns and be able to create influences on your thoughts on the highest level.

Basically it is that you relax yourself. Relaxing means you become unaware of the feelings in your body (i.e. "all the tension in your body just fades away...") and you achieve this by reading a script or saying those thoughts verbally in your mind.

Then once you go into a deeper state of relaxation (you consciousness becomes more focused on the upper levels of your hierarchy, i.e. you are in a state of "higher conciousness") then you start to say whatever affirmation that you want to say. My favorite when I first started was "everyday in every way you are becoming better and better", and "you will have success beyond your wildest dreams". And then once that worked, that I actually believed that, that took about 2 times or maybe a couple more, I don't remember, then I just became more focused with my affirmations.

And after a month or so, my mind became so accustomed to self hypnosis that I did not need to manually go into the steps of relaxation, I always had my focus on the higher levels of my hierarchy. This felt like I was more aware of my internal feeling of the inside of my head/gut/back of my eye balls, and that if I had some fear, or something bothered me in my every day situation, then I'd instantly be aware of that feeling, and since I was always in a constant state of relaxation (focused on the higher level of my hierarchy, or at least had the mind set of being relaxed) then I could instantly change my thoughts to better thoughts, and then the affirmations would allow my subconcious mind to figure out how to change my behavior.

Then I got to a point where I did not even need to use affirmations to catch fears and bad thoughts, I basically mastered my fears, because I have a subconcious habit now of what to do with my internal feelings to make the fear go away, its just automatic. But new fears always spring up, because every time you come in contact with anything new, your amaglada (or some fear producing center) either learns to make fear at that unknown or not... so basically I can instantly squash that fear the instant that it comes up. And I know that its always going to come up, and I just do my rationalizations down the hierarchy of that unknown until I don't fear it.

In a follow up to earlier findings that an area of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) appears thicker in those who can better control their emotional response to unpleasant memories, the investigators found that study participants who exhibited better fear inhibition also score higher in measures of extroversion – an energetic, outgoing personality.

Now I'm at the point where its just all automatic and my personality. Don't have to think about it. I just do it.