Andrew: Hi.
I didn’t have anything more to say about the discussion above. I otherwise was “over” trying to work out how any of this “actualism” was going to work out for me.
It clearly wasn’t. 14 years, and not so much as a sustained period of feeling good. Whatever was in my way, was clearly unmovable through whatever ways I was approaching it.
Hi Andrew,
It often is this way – one picks up one end of the stick and runs with it but then missing an overall aspect of the actualism method/ practice, which you are starting to now experientially understand – that “feelings being a detriment to living”.
Feelings are indeed “a detriment”, at least both the ‘good’ and the bad feelings, whereas the felicitous/ innocuous feelings are only beneficial to living. Now that you experientially see how “detrimental” and silly it is to nurture those non-felicitous and harmful feelings, the obvious consequence is that they lose their dominance and attraction and “the world around is brighter and more vibrant”.
Andrew: Strangely, over the last few days, another pursuit, has brought ‘me’ into sharp focus. More so that ever before.
I have been learning to become a Trader, specifically forex and gold/ oil. I started over a year ago, and was able to do it full time, (sort of) for the last 7 weeks.
I thought that I would master it. I am pretty good at picking up skills, and this seemed like something that “if I just had the time” I would get the hang of.
Oh! How wrong I was. The entire skill “is” emotional. Yes, there is hundreds of hours of learning, which is very easy to do with AI. Yes, the principles are not “rocket science “. But, boy oh boy, if it is not “the” Masterclass in feelings being a detriment to living.
The simultaneous effect has been my desire to start jogging, and becoming healthier. I feel compelled to increase my cognitive health! I can’t hide! I am exposed!
Without meaning to, when I am just doing anything, the world around is brighter and more vibrant.
It’s fascinating to read how your experiential acknowledgement and understanding that “feelings being a detriment to living” is now giving you the motivation to start living life in a different way, more sensible and salubrious, more happy and appreciative whilst giving less emphasis on philosophically working out the problems of the world.
Andrew: It’s very obvious that the very immediate fact that ‘I’ am in the way of being able to trade effectively, and I have no one else to blame except my feeling reality, is so unintentionally the best learning experience regarding actualism I have had.
Who would have thought it?
Haha (link)
Ha, who would have thought it indeed – when there is no one else to blame you realise you can fix yourself up.
And the tools and way to do that are all there on the AFT website, yours for the using if and when you want it.
Richard: I am not gifted or special … I was born of ordinary parents, was sent to an ordinary state school – receiving an average education until I was fifteen years of age – took an ordinary job and worked for a living. I eventually got married and had four children and bought a house and … in short, I was relatively normal and did all the expected things. Thus did I live my life for thirty two years according to the ‘tried and true’ methods as laid down by the countless millions of other humans that had lived before me. I tried my best to make their system work to produce the optimum result … but to no avail. Only then did I make the first and most important movement of my own volition … I discarded the ‘tried and true’ as being the ‘tried and failed’. (I did say ‘I was relatively normal’ because one thing, and one thing alone, stood out that distinguished me from whomsoever else I met: I wanted to know – as an actuality – just what it was to be a human being here on this planet, as this body, in this life-time.) (Richard, List A, No. 26)
You might be able to relate to this, further down in the same email –
Richard: It is a radical break with the past … something akin to an evolutionary mutation, so personally seditious is its revolutionary opening gambit. (Richard, List A, No. 26)
Cheers Vineeto