This is something I experienced, just this week. Here in America we had our Presidential sElections, and a lot of people in my family, and people around, were profoundly Rocked by the Outcome. Even though the candidate I voted for didn't succeed, I already kinda saw it coming, or at least prepared myself for the situation. I could see that this was a disappointing experience for a lot of people, but my Emotions and my senses remained, almost entirely, unaffected. Fear is failure, and the forerunner of failure. -93/93
Fantastic video for today and this moment. More committed than ever to embracing how Thelema and Crowley help me chart a path that results in living my Will.
An example of frustration I went through recently and could have used Meta-Okayness: Yesterday morning I was on a Latin TV show modeling swim wear. When it came my time in front of the cameras I stiffened up and got in my head over analyzing how to look. I could have been “okay” with this feeling of stage freight and separated myself from it. But unfortunately, I sunk into that feeling yesterday and dwelled upon on it.
The key for me has seemed to be that sense of a mystical marriage and the possibilities of deepening that relationship. And that is based on personal experience tho the intellect helps one to understand and identify it. If someone without any sense of that starts thinking along non-dual lines and views life like a game they may suppress their emotions it seems to me. Not that positives couldnt come from that sort of thought exercise. But for me I may get quite emotional initially while a deeper perspective is there as well (or settles in fairly quickly). I may still be emotional (Ive burst out laughing before too) but there is insight and meaning. There is a shift in how one experiences an event/situation. But it doesnt really come from an intellectual place for me. It just comes because thats the way in which Ive come to perceive life generally, based on my experiences and how I perceive them. You could program yourself to think that way but that Lover is only an idea until its experienced and felt. Only then would it strongly effect us.
No, maybe something more like the Witness from Buddhist tradition? Meta-okayness is not complete and total aloofness from life but rather the ability to hold all of our experiences in luminous, unbounded awareness.
Here's my problem I feel like those feelings get suppressed and they end of blowing up at a later time.i need help dealing with suppressed anger and resentment.
In my experience it takes you out of your POV which is often overrun with emotions. With that different POV I am able to see everything clearer. I am able to ask questions like: what's the problem, what triggered the emotions, can I find a solution to the problem, does this situation really need these emotions or can I transmute them. And then I can go on to sort the problem or sometimes accept that there is nothing I can do right now. Jordan Peterson has a similar approach: treat yourself like someone you are responsible helping for.
You may want to start with meditations where you learn to identify (name) emotions as they arise in the body. With that foundation in place, you would then learn to track thoughts as they arise and to see the connections between those thoughts and the emotions as they arise. This will help expand your awareness of feelings and desires in real-time.
This is something I experienced, just this week.
Here in America we had our Presidential sElections, and a lot of people in my family, and people around, were profoundly Rocked by the Outcome. Even though the candidate I voted for didn't succeed, I already kinda saw it coming, or at least prepared myself for the situation. I could see that this was a disappointing experience for a lot of people, but my Emotions and my senses remained, almost entirely, unaffected.
Fear is failure, and the forerunner of failure. -93/93
Fantastic video for today and this moment. More committed than ever to embracing how Thelema and Crowley help me chart a path that results in living my Will.
fantastic!! ❤
An example of frustration I went through recently and could have used Meta-Okayness:
Yesterday morning I was on a Latin TV show modeling swim wear. When it came my time in front of the cameras I stiffened up and got in my head over analyzing how to look. I could have been “okay” with this feeling of stage freight and separated myself from it. But unfortunately, I sunk into that feeling yesterday and dwelled upon on it.
The key for me has seemed to be that sense of a mystical marriage and the possibilities of deepening that relationship. And that is based on personal experience tho the intellect helps one to understand and identify it. If someone without any sense of that starts thinking along non-dual lines and views life like a game they may suppress their emotions it seems to me. Not that positives couldnt come from that sort of thought exercise. But for me I may get quite emotional initially while a deeper perspective is there as well (or settles in fairly quickly). I may still be emotional (Ive burst out laughing before too) but there is insight and meaning. There is a shift in how one experiences an event/situation. But it doesnt really come from an intellectual place for me. It just comes because thats the way in which Ive come to perceive life generally, based on my experiences and how I perceive them. You could program yourself to think that way but that Lover is only an idea until its experienced and felt. Only then would it strongly effect us.
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Excellent video. Do you think the point is to get to the Cogito of Descarte? Simply all I know is I am, free of predicates? The bornless one?
No, maybe something more like the Witness from Buddhist tradition? Meta-okayness is not complete and total aloofness from life but rather the ability to hold all of our experiences in luminous, unbounded awareness.
Here's my problem I feel like those feelings get suppressed and they end of blowing up at a later time.i need help dealing with suppressed anger and resentment.
In my experience it takes you out of your POV which is often overrun with emotions. With that different POV I am able to see everything clearer. I am able to ask questions like: what's the problem, what triggered the emotions, can I find a solution to the problem, does this situation really need these emotions or can I transmute them.
And then I can go on to sort the problem or sometimes accept that there is nothing I can do right now.
Jordan Peterson has a similar approach: treat yourself like someone you are responsible helping for.
You may want to start with meditations where you learn to identify (name) emotions as they arise in the body. With that foundation in place, you would then learn to track thoughts as they arise and to see the connections between those thoughts and the emotions as they arise. This will help expand your awareness of feelings and desires in real-time.