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Hi Colleen,
A request for feedback is a great idea. Let me start by
characterizing what the common block may be. I would say that in
general one can be afraid of his postulates. Sometimes they work ...
sometimes they don't. So there may be a fear factor involved when
one makes a 'Not Important' postulate of something that probably is
or just may turn out to be important and that negative postulate just
may work and just may stick without it being able to be undone.
HEY! One has enough of a problem just getting the postulates they
want to work to work, let alone stick.
But see ... That is what holds in those things we don't want. We
don't have the guts, the confidence, the wherewithall to be
absolutely confident postulates will always without a doubt work.
If one is to be good at postulating and having their postulates work
then one must be able to postulate at will. Postulating with caution
and admonitions to 'Don't Go There!' are what keep one from having
full control and confidence in their postulates. DAMN! Postulates
can really be dangerous things, right. Do Not Postulate unless you
only make these kinds, not those kinds. Only postulate about these
things and not about those. In fact don't even think of those bad
negative things. Well all that does is put in a self-enforced
policing mechanism which is a postulate and guess what. Those
postulates are probably working grandly. So now that you have become
an expert at that and I'm sure you agree that you are, it's time to
become a master postulator which you actually are but have been
shying away from being so because of all the envisioned worse case
scenarios that open up in the whole panorama happeningnesses.
So the first step is to be able to make any, all and every postulate
under the sun, moon and stars that one can dream up. One has to
realize that they can do this without any hesitation, guilt,
apprehension or remorse otherwise one is putting a major block in the
mechanism of their having their own life, postulating.
I started with silly things. It's important to have a watch on, it's
important 'not' to have a watch on. The more sillier and the more
unimaginable weird things I could come up with the better. It can
also get pretty hilarious. How about having a mushroom growing out
of one's forehead and then of course 'not' having a mushroom growing
out of one's forehead. The more out of the norm of happeningnesses
the better. This also improves one's imagination.
If there are 3 characteristic abilities that any and everyone has, it
has got to be the ability to change one's mind (self determinism),
the ability to have the wildest of the wildest imaginations
(creativity) and the ability to re-order one's universe and the
entire universe by the simple act of changing importances.
FREEDOM of IMPORTANCES!!!! And with the usage of RI a process to
calm any and everything that could possibly come up at any TROM Level
or obviously from any corner or hidden enclave of one's mind is a
very very high state of beingness. Also a high state of confidence
and guts. Certainly it is a state of Freedom to Postulate without
any consideration of being the effect of one's postulations or even
other's postulations.
If one actually wound up vanishing Earth, the physical universe or
even just themselves, that's not such a bad thing. Obviously if one
could do that, one could put it back instantaneously or put up
something else. Perhaps something that all agreed was better than
before.
I must say that I really liked your post below. I can see that you
are achieving much, very much in working towards a goal of not being
your mind anymore. Be the one who can put it there or take it away
at will.
Also as a comment to your post. In essence one actually could and
should be in session on-stop. If one applies all Levels of TROM
throughout every waking moment as well as sleeping moments on a SOP
basis, I would say they are living a wonderful existence and life,
truly seeing, being and doing all as they wish.
Paul, keep on TROMming
On Sep 26, 2014, at 6:08 AM, Colleen K. Peltomaa wrote:
Helo, Paul, thank you for the acknowledgement and encouragement.
I would just love to get feedback from someone else who tries this.
How are others' (my not-selfs) practices going? I feel the
worldly cares slipping away from me when I am in practice and I am
learning a lot about my mind -- how it runs away and how it swamps
me, alternately, and I have developed a Rules of Practice that
cover everything I have so far experienced in my practice. I've
even figured out how to get myself up early enough in the a.m. to
get in a good two hours of quiet time.
Also, importantly, at the end of the day I do Level 2 and Level 3
on the day's events -- great exercise in bringing the past into the
present and then taking it out of the present.
Most importantly, I'm not shirking anymore on doing RI and I find I
get so much insight into my daily affairs and actually feel I am
getting smarter whenever I view things from the higher viewpoints
afforded me by being "in session".
When the mind is pushed aside and eventually vanished -- ALL
VIEWPOINTS ARE YOURS !
love,
colleen
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