I've been awake all day and I have to work an overnight shift tonight. So I'm going to TRY to make this brief (not that I'm good at that). :P
Well I went to the willpower workshop today and we talked about the parts of willpower.
There's 3 things: I won't, I will, and I want. All of those things have to be working together and not against each other to get the results we want. What also has to work together is impulses and self control. I want to get to where my self control IS my impulse. We talked about the two minds and how they can clash. The mind of self control, and the mind of impulse ( the amygdala. )
So I took lots of notes so I can use this information later. It goes with something else I got from someone. I will talk about all this later.
But there was a point I wanted to make before I move onto the other two things I wanted to say.
This stuff all ties in together so I know these are key pieces of this puzzle I've been trying to put together for long. It's like I AM the puzzle.
Anyway the point.... About impulses and self control... We are reliant on our instincts which can often be impulsive. Impulses come from experiences. We talked about this for over an hour and lots was covered in the 2 hours.
So instincts... When they are impulsive is like being on auto pilot. A lot of people just do things automatically without thinking about them. Like we are aware we are breathing but we don't think about it much, we just do it.
It ties up with one of the law of the universe, the law of polarity. For everything, there is an opposite.
(I'm trying not to start off with Anyway. I realize it is a pattern.) :P The two other things I wanted to talk about were the reason I wanted to write this post quickly, ( I'm trying to be 'brief'. ) :P
I saw life as a game of pinball, the ups and downs in life is a lot like a spring. Spring loaded action. When things are down, it's like someone is pulling the pin back on the machine to fire the ball. That means the person is holding back. When the person let's go of the pin, the spring action is released and the ball goes forward, shoots out of there. I'm like that ball, or chances are like that ball.
The other way I was looking at life was like walking down a street and there are lots of buildings... They are like chances that you do or do not take... Some you know you cannot take, because they are not your chance, it's someone else's chance.
Say you see a building that looks like a business. So you want to know what business it is and decide to enter this building. You took a chance AND made a choice... But until you know what you're getting into, you have to find out. Say you find out: Hey! It's a restaurant. Cool, I'm hungry, let's do this! So they have a menu, but you're like: "Hey, the options on this menu are hard to tell... They are not clear descriptions... I'd like to order some food, but I don't know what the options are... "
So you need someone to TELL YOU: We have this, this, this, and that! Then you can ask questions about it or just order whatever sounds good at the time and just be surprised with whatever you get whenever you get it. I've been to a restaurant where I ordered 4 TIMES! There were 2 waitresses working and they BOTH took my order TWICE. Sometimes life is like THAT! Then you're sitting there saying:
1) I'm still hungry and I'm already here, so I'll stay.
2) Screw this! What kind of screwery is this?!
Those are choices based on how you SEE it, THINK about it, FEEL about it...
There's something about a choice I want to point out... You have the choice to be offended or the choice NOT to be offended. You can choose to be affected, or NOT to be affected. And even if it affects you, you can choose to what degree it is going to affect you. When I just wrote the word degree I thought of two things... I thought '3rd degree burn' for how badly something can affect you emotionally... AND I thought of degree as in education. My mission lately is to gather information from every source available to me.
Anyhow, I think this is enough for now. I'm tired and I'm depriving myself of sleep I need so my brain can function tonight so I can work.
When I hit bottom on things I bounce back and I see why things had to be crappy... In order to get better. Things happen for a reason. Another law of the universe is The Law of Rhythm. The natural cycle of things, like how night turns into day and day into night, and again, The Law of Polarity.
Well I went to the willpower workshop today and we talked about the parts of willpower.
There's 3 things: I won't, I will, and I want. All of those things have to be working together and not against each other to get the results we want. What also has to work together is impulses and self control. I want to get to where my self control IS my impulse. We talked about the two minds and how they can clash. The mind of self control, and the mind of impulse ( the amygdala. )
So I took lots of notes so I can use this information later. It goes with something else I got from someone. I will talk about all this later.
But there was a point I wanted to make before I move onto the other two things I wanted to say.
This stuff all ties in together so I know these are key pieces of this puzzle I've been trying to put together for long. It's like I AM the puzzle.
Anyway the point.... About impulses and self control... We are reliant on our instincts which can often be impulsive. Impulses come from experiences. We talked about this for over an hour and lots was covered in the 2 hours.
So instincts... When they are impulsive is like being on auto pilot. A lot of people just do things automatically without thinking about them. Like we are aware we are breathing but we don't think about it much, we just do it.
It ties up with one of the law of the universe, the law of polarity. For everything, there is an opposite.
(I'm trying not to start off with Anyway. I realize it is a pattern.) :P The two other things I wanted to talk about were the reason I wanted to write this post quickly, ( I'm trying to be 'brief'. ) :P
I saw life as a game of pinball, the ups and downs in life is a lot like a spring. Spring loaded action. When things are down, it's like someone is pulling the pin back on the machine to fire the ball. That means the person is holding back. When the person let's go of the pin, the spring action is released and the ball goes forward, shoots out of there. I'm like that ball, or chances are like that ball.
The other way I was looking at life was like walking down a street and there are lots of buildings... They are like chances that you do or do not take... Some you know you cannot take, because they are not your chance, it's someone else's chance.
Say you see a building that looks like a business. So you want to know what business it is and decide to enter this building. You took a chance AND made a choice... But until you know what you're getting into, you have to find out. Say you find out: Hey! It's a restaurant. Cool, I'm hungry, let's do this! So they have a menu, but you're like: "Hey, the options on this menu are hard to tell... They are not clear descriptions... I'd like to order some food, but I don't know what the options are... "
So you need someone to TELL YOU: We have this, this, this, and that! Then you can ask questions about it or just order whatever sounds good at the time and just be surprised with whatever you get whenever you get it. I've been to a restaurant where I ordered 4 TIMES! There were 2 waitresses working and they BOTH took my order TWICE. Sometimes life is like THAT! Then you're sitting there saying:
1) I'm still hungry and I'm already here, so I'll stay.
2) Screw this! What kind of screwery is this?!
Those are choices based on how you SEE it, THINK about it, FEEL about it...
There's something about a choice I want to point out... You have the choice to be offended or the choice NOT to be offended. You can choose to be affected, or NOT to be affected. And even if it affects you, you can choose to what degree it is going to affect you. When I just wrote the word degree I thought of two things... I thought '3rd degree burn' for how badly something can affect you emotionally... AND I thought of degree as in education. My mission lately is to gather information from every source available to me.
Anyhow, I think this is enough for now. I'm tired and I'm depriving myself of sleep I need so my brain can function tonight so I can work.
When I hit bottom on things I bounce back and I see why things had to be crappy... In order to get better. Things happen for a reason. Another law of the universe is The Law of Rhythm. The natural cycle of things, like how night turns into day and day into night, and again, The Law of Polarity.
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