I could have sworn I've written about his already, but I did not see a blog title that would seem to contain this information. I'm too lazy to read through them all right now. It's probably there somewhere, but that is probably for the best I didn't find it, being that my thoughts about this are much more refined now. This concept that follows is critical for anyone who wishes to understand what is going on. This concept will definitely shed some light on the shit show.
As always, I figured this out studying myself, studying others, reading and applying. As always, I synchronized all that I needed, I put the thought together, and the books came, reading and applying. It's important to say this, not because of my ego, but because you too can make this happen. I'm not special in this regard. Neither would you be.
I'll link a couple books at the end, if you wish to study up for yourself, wanting more than just my word for it.
I was studying the unconscious, and this led into the study of hypnotism. At the same time, I was studying people around me, and why people do the things that they do. It's important to understand that while doing this study work, I understood that humans are just monkeys. Primates. Humans can be trained just like any other animal, a dog, a horse, a gorilla, whatever. Most humans live a very confused life thinking they are not primates. I do not make this mistake while making my observations.
Let's start with an anatomical switch, before we get to the environmental, and mental switches. The easiest anatomical switch to see play out is puberty. Particularly in males, but I'm a male, so I can't genuinely speak for females. As a male, it happens slowly, but there is also a day, when one can say, life is different. A switch gets flipped. I've lived with a ten year old boy. If we asked him who his girlfriend is, he will snicker at you, and say he doesn't like girls. But we all know that is going to change. With puberty, there is no control over the switch. It happens for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. A day is coming for any ten year old boy, just like it did for me, when all of a sudden nothing in the world is going to matter anymore: just girls.
This same switch also switches back. I will never forget that day for me. I was fighting with my girlfriend, for weeks at a time, months on end. Always fighting about sex, who fucked who, who is talking to who. My whole life, from puberty till this day revolved around sex in every way. Practically every thought that ran through my mind revolved around sex. I was walking through my roommates house, feeling weird. Strangely, I had felt it coming for awhile, but this day it was almost like a presence. There aren't words for it. But I remember it now. I sat down on the bed, and just felt different. Suddenly I didn't care about sex so much. Instead of thinking about sex every other thought, every two seconds, now I only thought about it every ten seconds, or so. I remember feeling a great relief. I felt more free. I had quadruple the time to think about other things.
Think about that. It's subtle, but yet it's not. From puberty until that moment I was basically forced to think about sex every two seconds. Then suddenly not. That is a big change. What did I do differently? What did I do to bring about that changed? Even looking back with hindsight, I have no idea, other than I was simply growing older. Now, as I edit this, I'm forty seven, and I can go a major portion of the day and never think about sex. Compared to my late teens and early twenties this is a radical difference. Life changing.
This is a purely anatomical switch. I'm not saying environment cannot have an impact on it, such as surrounding myself with women, or taking up some extra girlfriends, but that wouldn't take me back to my puberty days. Therr are definitely ways to stimulate one's hormones, but it is a purely anatomical switch entering puberty, and leaving it.
I'm sure you can think of your own, but one of my favorite environmental switches is homelessness. It's a technique I learned studying shamanism, and also just noticing it through the struggle of relationships. You know, when it gets sketchy and your girlfriend, or wife, puts you out. It's a dramatic change, and it's easiest to notice if one gets no warning. One day everything is cool, next day your out on the streets. For me, this is a tremendous boost of energy. When one is comfortable, seemingly safe, energy tends to be low. Look at how many men gain weight when they post up with a woman, have kids, become a family man, compared to when they were single. Or pay attention to a male when he suddenly becomes single again, even if he doesn't end up homeless. If you pay attention, there will be a dramatic difference in energy expenditure. Life force. Vitality. Whatever you want to call it.
I could make an argument that this is why so many avoid being in a state of homelessness; they can't handle the energy. It requires personal power to be able to withstand the higher frequencies.
Using shamanic techniques, there have been many times I've purposefully created a state of homelessness for myself simply to have this boost of energy at my disposal. It is literally just like flipping a switch. You can think of it just like that; flipping a light switch. Safe at home, switch is off, get put out on the streets, light is on. Safe at home, can't feel the Universe so much, lower occurrences of synchronicity, out on the streets, totally in tune with the Universe, nearly everything is synchronous. With this boosted energy one can achieve higher states of consciousness. One can synchronize and manifest many things that could not be synchronized from the safety of a home.
Think about this, look around.
Starvation is another environmental switch. Anyone who does a three day fast can tell you that it heightens the senses. It makes one way more sensitive. This is why in most spiritual practices routine fasting is necessary; it creates heightened sensitivity. You know the spiritual phrases, that one must look within. Well, fasting makes one sensitive to their own body. This gives one a better opportunity to look within, as it makes it easier. If one is fat, content, and bogged down with food, they are typically as insensitive as can be. Speaking in terms of evolution, this sensitivity while in a state of starvation increases ones chances of finding food, but in modern times, particularly in America, it is impossible to actually starve to death.
So this conscious choice to fast gives one the safety of starving, read here, increasing one's energy, without actually being in danger. It's a switch one can flip by choice.
I'm sure if you thought about it you could figure out all kinds of switches for your own energy purposes. There are all kinds of ways you could change your environment, to flip energy switches. A new girlfriend. Lots of girlfriends. A new job. A new anything. Drugs. Food (food is a drug). Religious experiences. Even down to little things, changing clothes, rearranging furniture. buying stuff, on and on. Many of these lesser changes will not provide sustained energy like puberty does, or homelessness will.
Here comes the most important kind of switch. Here comes the switches that give one the most control over life. I learned about this studying hypnosis. After learning about this type of switch you will be able to have so much more control over your life, and also understand why others live as they do.
Hypnosis is a curious phenomenon. I'm going to sum it up though, for the purposes of this little essay. If you wish to know yourself better though, I highly recommend looking into hypnosis. I am not saying to go and get yourself hypnotized to learn about yourself. I am saying to study it so you can understand how your own mind works.
The short of it is that when hypnotized, basically ones conscious self if put to sleep, but the body stays awake. When this happens ones unconscious is given a voice. Now this is simplified language because I'm not trying to imply the entire unconscious, so maybe it's better to say subconscious, but I never really use that term. So here, I'm saying that once one's conscious is asleep, the body is still awake, and since the body is part of the unconscious, the body gains a voice.
One of the more famous illustrations of this is a particular woman who was used as a lab rat basically. This happened back in the day, 1800s or so. This woman was a pleb, no education, couldn't' read or write type of thing. Just a peasant. Well, hypnotized she could do things that she shouldn't' have been able to do, like use logic. Not basic logic, but educated logic. Back then the big name guys did lecture tours, so this woman was hypnotized a lot, to demonstrate what her unconscious could do. It was also brought to light, that the more they hypnotized her the more of a voice her unconscious gained. Her being constantly hypnotized altered her personality.
This lines up with what Carl Jung has pointed out about the unconscious having its own personality. Who by the way tinkered around with hypnotism. He used different methods though of making contact with the unconscious. You see, if hypnotized one will not remember what happened while the conscious is asleep, so Jung used dreams and Active Imagination to make contact consciously with the unconscious. This allows one to remember, and have a knowing of one's own unconscious.
Here is the important part of this puzzle regarding these switches, and this happened with anyone hypnotized. If a persons conscious self was put to sleep, their unconscious would follow suggestions to their logical conclusions, without checking premises. So, we've all heard probably, if not seen first hand, how a stage performer will hypnotize someone, and then tell them they are a chicken, and then this person proceeds to act just like a chicken. What is happening is, the person suggesting, is filling in for the conscious voice, and since the unconscious does not check premises, that is to say, it doesn't check to actually see if it is a chicken or not, acts like a chicken. That is a super cheesy way to show off the power of the unconscious. This pleb woman though, not being used for extravaganza, was used by physicians, and they gave her Aristotle style logic premises, and she would always be able to follow them to their conclusion. Something an ordinary, consciously awake pleb, could ever do.
Here is a very important piece of the human puzzle; the unconscious does not check premises, it simply follows whatever is suggested to it's logical conclusion: flawlessly, even if one is just an ignorant pleb with no education whatsoever.
Think about this. Try to look at your life, and if that is too painful or uncomfortable, look at your friends or your neighbors. Let's say your neighbor has conscious thoughts about himself, and they are negative, say, something like, "I'm a stupid loser." This individuals unconscious is not going to check to see if that premise is correct or not; it is simply going to follow it to it's logical conclusion. What is the logical conclusion to a statement such as "I'm a stupid loser"? A whole lot of self destructive behavior. Losers don't do well in life. Losers don't have nice things. Losers don't win. Don't get promotions. Losers are typically fat and addicted to drugs. Stupid losers don't take care of themselves. What if it's a female. What if this females life has taught her that she is only good for sex, and needs a man to support her. Her unconscious is not going to check those premises, it is simply going to follow them to their logical conclusion.
This is a switch. Simply look at the difference between someone who believes, that is, consciously tells their self they are awesome, and someone who tells their self they are a loser. Think of the drug addict. Think of the champion. In other words, the drug addict isn't really an addict at all. That is simply a human who has been convinced by external forces that they are a loser, are not worthy, and their unconscious is not checking to see if that is actually true or not, it is simply following that to its natural conclusion.
In my own life, raised as I was, I had been utterly convinced from birth that something was wrong with me. I had even been convinced god didn't love me. You could say I was effectively brainwashed. Being that I was a child with nothing to give context to my experience, not even my conscious self could discern enough to actually check the premises.
I believed them, everyone, wholeheartedly: something was wrong with me. Nearly everyone said this, implied it, suggested it, that something was wrong with me, and my unconscious went about making sure that played out. It was synchronized in every way, at every turn. I was locked in. My unconscious made sure it went that way. It was completely self fulfilling.
My uown unconscious made sure everyone thought something was wrong with me. I was seventeen years old before someone with nothing to gain from helping me let me know I had been dealt a bad hand in life.
At forty seven, that shit is still bouncing around inside my head a bit. I still to this day have self destructive nuances. I will still, out of nowhere, hear that voice in my head say; something is wrong with me.
To put some more context on this, I've personally spent years consciously undoing the negative self talk. It is a serious thing if one spends any length of time at all repeating things like, "I'm a loser" in their own heads, with their conscious voice. It's probably true that it takes an equal amount of time to undo that kind of mental programming. Ten years spent hating one's self, equates to ten years having to loving affirm one's self, before it is just happening naturally without the conscious effort. Unless....
This is where the previous switches come into play. If one can elevate their energy, say by being homeless, or perhaps some stroke of luck, something goes ones way, a new job, a new lover, a fresh start, and at the same time, consciously affirming with that elevated energy, that one is not a loser, or flawed, or whatever the case may be, the necessary time can be drastically reduced. Prayer is also a form of this conscious affirmation.
I say, pray for all you got, all the time.
There is a great deal of research regarding auto-suggestion, and external suggestion. Using these tools to reprogram the unconscious mind goes a long way. This probably sounds or seems, as it does for me, a lot like positive thinking philosophy, but there is a difference. Giving one's own unconscious positive affirmations will definitely make ones life better, but this is not positive thinking philosophy. Positive thinking philosophy is putting a positive light on negative things in order to feel better about them. Something like, turning a lose, into a win, with thoughts alone. This is rubbish. If you lost a race, you lost, but this doesn't make one a loser.
Don't spin it. Don't spin reality. Just give one's self positive affirmations regardless of outcome. So you can see in these terms it still takes time to overcome the old habits or pathways ingrained in the brain.
Let's be clear. Say something bad happens like a relationship comes to an end. There's good reason to have negative feelings and emotions about this, but to say positive affirmations about ones self during these experiences isn't putting a positive spin on them. "I love her, and it hurts she's gone, but I'm still worthy of love."
First things first: we need the energy to change, and we can consciously take some initiative by flipping some switches ourselves. We don't have to wait on it to build up so much in the unconscious that something traumatic happens to force it.
As this is happening, we can reprogram the old conscious mindsets with new ones that are more life affirming, and advantageous. This part will not be easy, especially if you're like me and have a long life of everyone telling you something is wrong with you. Even with the conscious affirmations, the imprunted past will be constantly impacting the situation.
The external auto-suggestions, and suggestions of those you are close to especially have an impact. This shows another type of affirmation; shielding one's self, consciously protecting one's self from the past.
This will be enough to get iyou going. All these books reference other books, and that path is unending.
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Depths-Hypnosis-Robin-Waterfield/dp/041594791X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me
https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Jung-Library/dp/0140150706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472654447&sr=8-1&keywords=the+portable+jung
https://www.amazon.com/How-Body-Knows-Its-Mind/dp/1451626681/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423266735&sr=8-1&keywords=How+the+body+knows+its+mind
https://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Your-Subconscious-Mind/dp/160459201X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389295547&sr=8-1&keywords=the+power+of+the+subconscious+mind+joseph+murphy
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1612038662/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572246952/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk
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