CONTENTS:
A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION AND PERSONIFICATION
IT'S ONLY A MECHANICAL PROCESS! (DUH!)
ONCE YOU KNOW HOW THINGS WORK, THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS
RELEVANT READINGS
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A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION AND PERSONIFICATION
In the section on Difficulty And Difficulties, it is noted that the "great psychological explanations" attribute difficulty to achieving what one wants to "the ego" having destructive ambitions or wanting to enhance itself and its power to its owner's detriment.
Well, that is pure, absolute bullbleep.
I defy you to find such a creature in you.
When we "personify" things we create imaginary power "out there" and separate intent.
IT'S ONLY A MECHANICAL PROCESS! (DUH!)
Again, I repeat, the brain is simply a mechanical process that is excellent at carrying out what it has to do to survive (and experience pleasure).
There is no evil "being" in there, no devil, no "child", no "ego". It is simply something that is on your side (i.e. trying for your survival, which is a bit like intent, though it does not have anything more than mechanics in it).
ONCE YOU KNOW HOW THINGS WORK, THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS
So, once you understand and believe the truth in that, you can simply set it up so that the reasons for resistance are diminished or eliminated and the reasons for acting in parallel with what you want are clearly communicated to the machine. Of course, it is best to monitor the machine during the process, correcting as needed.
Note that the machine is pretty transparent, in that it sends out signals. Those signals are in the form of chemicals with some electrical power used in the process.
We can "feel" (have a sensation of, if we pay attention) those chemicals. We have names for the combinations of chemicals and generally categorize them as
"emotions". Chemicals cause us to get into motion to do something to effect the "out there" that we want to correct. The "e" in emotion means "out", as it means in exit.
Note that the wiser of us will learn to just observe chemicals (or discomforts) just as being only that, and not a sign to "escalate" into a frenzy of exaggerated reactions. The wiser will use "perspective" to look and see what the most effective action is to handle those chemicals and to get back to a higher state of resourcefulness.
There is no one on this planet who should not read The Structure Of The Brain. It covers what a miracle it is and how powerful it is, yet it also lays out the functions of the individual parts of the brain and how the chemicals affect our behaviors. It makes it clear, I think, that letting Dumb and Dumber (though good for certain things) is really, really dumb!
RELEVANT READINGS
