How to see what is... and where you are going.

Before you can move in any direction, you have to know where you are. And that you actually are somewhere.

This was known to Archimedes, who is known to have said that if he had a long enough lever (and a place to stand) he could move the world.

The "place to stand" is the problem.

Because most of use don't really see the world the way it exists. We are so caught up in our own emotional subconscious state that we don't see anything but that. What we recognize around us is simply what programming we accepted long ago - and that programming tells us where we "are" and how we should be "reacting".

And this is the hole in Napoleon Hill's theory of how to proceed in "Think and Grow Rich". He didn't know how to fight the very programming which created any opponent. He lacked very simple solutions. The closest he got was Coue's affirmations (see "Secrets Between Your Ears"). Coue's approach was to simply replace any existing unwanted mental habit with a new one - mostly by sheer repetition of positive affirmation.

The bridge to this is found in Lester Levenson's Release Technique materials.

The entire success secret is in being able to release the unwanted condition, along with any underlying counter-create patterns (fear, anger, anxiety, dispair, etc. ) which are holding that concept and pattern in place, mostly or completely overlaying the original creative and loving thought.

And that bridges you from self-help over into the next level - subjective.

At that point, you can make real mileage through the Silva System, in almost any of its incarnations. Laura Silva has taken this way beyond her father's work - but mostly in terms of marketing, not particularly improving on his basics. Jose Silva's last work, Ultramind, is where he bridged over from the objective into the psychic - making it possible for anyone and everyone to utilize their native abilities in this area.

But the Silvas didn't apparently know about releasing. So you want to take that tool with you. Once you get into a simple and deeper meditative state, you are then able to utilize releasing to let go of the negative emotional states and programs you've been carrying with you.

Then program at this level the positive approaches which come to you as intuitive solutions. And you combine the methods of Silva and Levenson as regards your own goals so that you can achieve these the quickest,  permanently from here on out.

That then leaves you in a perpetually peaceful state, able to quickly dissolve negative influences you've been carrying around. As well as those which pop up in your life.

Those are the only stops you've been having which keep you from being in communication with everything and everyone around you. That is the subjective level in full. Full communication with your environment.

At that point, you finally can know where you actually are. And then start moving forward.

Levenson releasing technique by itself left many open holes. It gets you into a great personal state, but says nothing about where to go from there. And as Levenson apparently didn't know about Silva or Huna, there were no cross-over advances to be made. The texts Lester studied in Eastern religions also didn't lay out the paths which Jose Silva and Serge Kahili King (and Max Freedom Long) walked.

Huna, in King's Kahuna Kupua materials, lays out the ancient understandings which were recorded in the Polynesian language of Hawaii thousands of years ago. And this tells us of two additional levels beyond the subjective/psychic level.

However, right at this point, I don't have a complete set of tools and techniques for these levels beyond King's own books and recordings, such as "Urban Shaman".

Anything that maintains the separateness of the individual as a base can be evaluated for usefulness. It may or may not have any application beyond its own universe of thought. Similarly, practices and dogmas which are full of indecipherable or unclear approaches - which have no accurate or definite translation - may or may not be useful. (One interesting study is to take only the actual stories and commonly-agreed talks Jesus the Christ left in scriptures - such as Thomas - and then throw away the practices, rites, rituals and so on which built up in the centuries after his passing. Go directly to the source.)

One book of possible application in that next level, Symbolic, would be Joseph Campbell's "Hero of a Thousand Faces", where he lays out just how the Jungian archetypes can be used to explain the common plots which all mythologies use.

Mythologies - Dreams - Symbols. This gives us a tool to sort through all these with a greater certainty of understanding. Again, you are able to use the Huna Garden technique, or Silva's Laboratory, or Hill's Invisible Counselors - all to verify what you are working to confront and grasp.

In all cases, you are getting information from Self (by whatever name you want to call it) beyond that Holistic level in order to achieve your goals in spiritual training.

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Luck to us all!

Habit Replacement - Fact or Fiction?

Found today where Serge Kahili King was telling me one habit needs to be replaced with another.

Now this is just as true as you find it workable, as much as you join in on the creating of it.

If you are in the habit of having persistent habits, perhaps this is a workable truth for you.

One concept which sits a bit sideways to this is releasing. (A description is linked in the title.)  In Levenson's release technique, the action is to simply let it go. Quit holding onto whatever it is that's bothering you. Sure, it may take several rounds of releasing to really let go of something.

The idea that I had was in that once you let it go, it would just be gone. You are simply getting to the core reason (usually a deep-seated fear) which helped you create that habit to begin with. And so you don't have any reason to have that habit anymore.

If you consider that something has to replace it, you might see that a calm, fathomless peace replaces it.

So I suppose that your new habit would be one of endless and indescribable peace. (This is the "peace that passes all understanding.")

And then you are really expanding your habit of peace to encompass all other habits.

I suppose that King would say that you are simply then connecting up the "Ku" with the Higher Self as an "always on" condition - or habit.

My understanding of Ku is that this is all that sits between you and Self. It is the mutual creation you've agreed to as well as that you've directly created and may or may not be taking responsibility for. Your education is to learn about the Ku (your body and subsconscious) and expand this to the whole world and universe we live in. As you continue to learn about your surroundings, you can bring these into better forms of creation - or vanish them as they are no longer useful to you.

Habits, like most things in this universe, are pretty much set on automatic. Like gravity, the seasons, how your heart keeps running, etc. Habits. Patterns. Automaticities.

So consider what it would be like if you just took things back to the original creative thought. Far from being a dull, grey void, it would instead be one of peaceful pre-creation - where everything is possible. Bright and sparkling perhaps - tinted in shifting pastels, possibly.

And so your habits simply return to their origin - where they are simply in pre-creative form. Which means you can have that habit again if you want it. But perhaps next time, you'll simply use it for what you want it and then let it go again. Much like an actor who can smoke on stage as part of a character, but then is not "addicted" to cigarette smoking afterwards.

At least this is my understanding of habits at this level.

Have fun with this.

Living is just too easy - with Practical Faith

It's simply to easy to live life. Once you have a practically, self-proved reality that you create the world around you.

Now you have to first get rid of all irrational (and rational) fears. With those out of the way, you then can simply live life in the moment, not with the shadow of some formerly impending disaster hanging over your head. Or wanting always to change something in the past - same difference, still a fear and a memory running your life rather than simply acting in the present to improve your life.

(Of course, you get over all these fears with Levenson releasing technique. And the easiest way to do this with by applying the Silva Method.)

After you get this done, then all the various work you can do to reprogram your life (such as Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" program, which just pulls from Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich") - all these programs simply fall into place once you have a "middle ground" from which to stand.

This is really a version of the "middle path" that Buddha recommended. And Zen practices.

Self actualization, per Maslow, is "...freedom from the good opinions of others."

The advice Harv Eker tells his children: "Don't take anything personally."

The universe doesn't tell you what you are, or how much you are worth, or anything at all. Only you can do that for yourself. And as you find yourself out of all the memories stacked around in your mind, you'll find that you are very, very simple. Nothing like you thought, actually.

The point is that you generate your own faith in yourself and what you are all about.

The simple strategy is to drop whatever you're holding onto in the moment. Just accepting it for what it is just as it is. That's the releasing part.

It's nothing to do with thoughts or a quiet mind. That last is simply a by-product of releasing. Trying to discipline your mind into quietude hasn't been the most efficient method found over the years. And a quiet mind isn't particularly a goal, anyway. It just happens when you find Self.

And that's when life becomes easy.

Now, there are some interesting (some say fascinating) things which occur at this point. Pain, it can be observed, is mostly thought and memories. The body is attempting to resolve a problem as best it can. The source of all illness, some say, is emotional stress - which again is a series of conflicting thought-patterns and memories. The outrageous successes you occasionally hear about are simply people who are savvy to a relatively small number (17, I think Napoleon Hill finally narrowed it down to) of success principles. And employing release techniques (and Silva Method) allows these to do their most effective work without the mind interfering.

So that's something to put in your pipe or under your hat for today...