One day a Zen master told his students that he was going to teach a new technique of shooting an arrow.
He instructed his students to cover his eyes with a cloth and then he shot his arrow. When he opened his eyes, he saw the target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his students, they looked embarrassed because their teacher had missed.
The Zen master asked, ‘What did you learn?’
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Something or someone always tries to kill you
Something or someone always tries to kill you, kill your confidence, kill your success.
It is not wrong. It is the nature of reality.
And unless you learned this really early on, you are both ineffective at life, and always pissed. Pissed, as in frustrated, angry, upset, because the way the world is doesn’t match your expectations, your picture of what is fair.
One would think I had already known this… and maybe to a certain degree I have.
But not fully.
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Do not die in the attempt! Die in the doing! Part 2
Most people, even some sayings suggest that dying trying is a good thing. But that supports most people who stop at tying and never get to doing. They have the sizzle of the steak, but never deliver the steak itself.
This is the continuation of yesterday’s article.
‘Not real, not real.’ What happens when you can say that?
I may not live much longer, but while I am alive, I’ll do the work necessary.
I slept a total of two hours last night. Then I woke up with a start… could not go back to sleep… And the experience of I am suffocating every time I put my head down is not ever going to allow me to sleep again.
So I got up, and researched chronic pulmonary obstruction disease… My symptoms are most similar to that…
Then I went back to bed and practiced for an hour to say: ‘not real, not real’ every time the panic came up. The not real tells me relax the muscles that block the air flow. I did that 80 times in that hour.
This is not dissimilar to the Amish Horse Training Method, where what needs to be let go of is a thought, but it isn’t the thought that keeps you miserable, it’s the meaning.
So the meaning is what is not real.
‘I am suffocating’… is not real. I noticed that there was, each time, an image or a mini-movie that triggered it. It was easier to see because I had my eyes closed……
Eighty repetitions got me to being consciously incompetent. The goal is to get myself to unconscious competence. Muscletest says another 300 successful repetitions can take me there. In the meantime my vibration has dropped, my IQ has dropped, and there is no guarantee that I’ll be able to sleep through the night even after I get competent.
But without integrity nothing works, not you, not your life. And worse than that: you can’t love yourself. And without integrity your word has no power.
When you say: ‘not real’, you are creating with your word… and if your word has no power, then you won’t obey it. In my case, in suffocating: if I didn’t HONOR my word, I would jump up and try to stay alive… Instead, when I say not real, not real… I already relax the muscles that obstruct my airways. And when I really-really didn’t react, my eyes even stayed closed… About half of the 80 instances.
Why is this called The Amish Horse Training Method?
The Amish ties the young horse to a fence post on the side of the highway for days, about 7 days. Every vehicle passing triggers the horse until it gets it, if it gets it, that all that noise is not personal, and that he, the horse, can let go of reacting to every noise.
Only humans are so arrogant to believe that just knowing what there is to do is enough…
So I have had not one student who has achieved mastery at the Amish Horse Training Method, even though I have no students who wouldn’t need it. Because just like an untrained horse reacts to everything, you do too… And it is as dangerous as in the case of the horse: you pull your whole life in the way of the eighteen
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I had a rough night. I am still tired and foggy…
I had a rough night. I could barely breath, especially when I lied down. So I didn’t…
It’s been coming for about three weeks, and it didn’t respond to healing.
It felt likely that it was my last night on earth.
And I had no idea what was causing it. I sat on the edge of the bed. I sat on the chair by my computer. taking even just five steps felt like the end of me.
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Do not die in the attempt! Die in the doing!
I had a flash of insight today.
I have been looking at books, movies, TV-shows and see what attracted me, and when I was not attracted, what turned me off.
I saw that I would stop reading or stop watching in the middle, if the main character isn’t made
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Do you live like a vibrational being? What’s the opposite?
Warning:
This article has the power to create a turning point for you. It probably won’t… but it is not the article’s fault. If you think you already know, if you think you are already smart… it won’t do a thing for you. So better you just leave now…
I just worked on extracting the relevant part from Sunday’s Muscletesting course recording…
The part where I am talking about the nature of the universe… I ta about the wave nature of the Universe.
What is wave nature?
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Is my life an exercise in… what? … futility?
Yesterday’s article fell flat on its face… as it was predictable in view of my almost 40 year experience.
If I started again from where YOU are, no distinctions, I would print out the ‘koan’ I heard many times from Forum Leaders:
For you everything is the same as everything else… except that not always.
Another success story of remote healing
1) What was your primary reason for asking for your health measurement?
I had been feeling stiffness and pain in my back for over a year and finally decided to order a health measurement from Sophie to find out what was causing it. I suspected that it was a health-related issue and that there was something out there that could help me get back to feeling normal again. I had a feeling that it was really time to seek help and that I shouldn’t wait much longer.
2) Describe what your understanding was regarding what you found out
My understanding was that I had an issue with my small and large intestines and that receiving healing from Sophie was the fastest way to start resolving the illness. If I had not chosen to receive the healing as quickly as I did, I could have gotten myself into an expensive and/or potentially dangerous situation that would require medical treatment.
3) Describe how things changed in your thinking now that you knew what was maybe off with your health?
Previously I thought that things happened to me, that I wasn’t responsible or aware of how my actions affected my life including my health. I had a suspicion that something I was doing wasn’t working well, but I probably wanted to be right about things instead of finding out what I could do differently. Now I see that I don’t need to “be right” or make myself “wrong”, I can choose to take guidance from others who may be in a better position to know what is good for me or what I would be better off not doing.
4) If you took healing: Describe how you feel now, after the completed healing?
At first, I did not feel much different after receiving the healing, but I did feel a little lighter. It took a few months for the back pain to reduce in intensity; over time I gradually started to feel better and noticed that I had more energy. I suspect some of the lifestyle changes that I made (based on Sophie’s guidance and feedback) also helped with my overall health scores and reduction in pain.
5) Can you describe to a newcomer how this remote healing thing is done? From your vantage point.
After sending a photo of yourself to Sophie, she can connect to you and determine if you have any illnesses and if they can be healed. These illnesses usually involve a blockage of energy. If I understand correctly, to heal an illness, Sophie utilizes special energies that work with the client’s consciousness, and the consciousness works with the body to restore the affected part(s) of the body to their original design (to the degree that it can be done). The healing is not necessarily permanent as the illness can come back if the root cause was not addressed.
6) Describe Sophie as a teacher and healer.
Sophie has a great deal of experience with life and what she calls “the invisible”, meaning deeper layers and dynamics of how things work that other people either have not figured out yet or don’t understand well. She uses her skills and abilities to help her clients with getting to where
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The idea of something isn’t the thing….
Most people stop and are satisfied with the idea of a thing they want. They never do more, and they are surprised that life doesn’t work.
In this article I won’t talk about the fact that people are not willing to actually do anything much for what they want… it is widely known… so I’ll just assume that you know that, but that is not the only thing that’s missing.
I know it is not nice to be critical of one’s alma mater, but even Landmark Education (where I learned most of what I know) never went beyond that.
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Testimonial questions
Questions that help you give me a good testimonial
instructions:
this is a tool both for you and me. What’s in it for you? Most of the time we don’t stop to look why we did what we did. What was the learning. What was the benefit. What did we do? What did we expect.
These questions are geared primarily to people who got healing from me, Sophie. But for every healing client I have 10 clients who bought something else… And if that is you, wherever I ask about healing, or health, just substitute what you bought. Answer, thoughtfully, every question that you have an answer for, and then email it to me. Even if you hate me, it will serve both of us. You express your hate, your disappointment, your anger, and will feel better. Or maybe you’ll see what YOU did that made you not enjoy what you bought. You can call me names: you have my permission. Just do it. You’ll thank me for it.
1) What was your primary reason for asking for your health measurement?
2) Describe what your understanding was regarding what you found out
3) Describe how things changed in your thinking now that you knew what was maybe off with your health?
4) If you took healing: Describe how you feel now, after the completed healing?
5) Can you describe to a newcomer how this remote healing thing is done? From your vantage point.
5) Describe Sophie as a teacher and healer.
5) What was your toughest moment? How did you overcome it?
8) Did you have any personal experience (e.g. The moment I understood the one-word, the moment I realized what I had misunderstood, what I did, etc…).
9) What would you say are the big benefits of distant healing with energies?
10) Why would you recommend it?
11) Getting well, changing mindset is the toughest thing in the world. Can you describe how tough it was, and what sacrifices you had to make to keep going?
12) What was your toughest moment? How did you overcome it?
13) Have you done other things with Sophie? Courses, workshops, challenges? Why?
14) What advice would you give to future clients and participants?
15) How did participating with Sophie personally help you?
16) Anything else you’d like to add?