Subconscious Causes of Self-Love and Behavior [Dynamic Self-Discovery] (WAS: Transitioning: On self-love and self-care)

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Hi Katya,

 

My backlog cleanup continues, and I find this post from you. I don't

consciously remember whether I wrote a response ... so I will now! I'll

focus on this, excerpted from near the end of your post:

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Elchanan: " After all, to " love thy neighbor as thyself, " one must first love

oneself. "

 

Katya: I believe this is true but how do we accomplish it? If we can't even

love ourselves enough to take care of our bodies or commit to a short daily

meditation what are we to do?

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I've written on a number of occasions about subconscious causation of

behaviors. (See, for example, posts #16441, 18033*, 18039, 18065, 31054*.

(An asterisk indicates a major post.)

 

People have devised a number of means for working with the subconscious

mind, using kinesiology (muscle testing), hypnosis, affirmations, etc. In my

own experience, this is not something people seem able to do on their own

with much success. Affirmations, in particular, are ineffective, because

they rely upon conscious repetition to somehow penetrate the subconscious.

This does eventually happen, but it can take years and thousands of

repetitions in many cases. And all that time, other issues are ignored ...

the focus of attention becomes entirely too narrow and eventually

self-defeating for this reason alone.

 

I realize that what I say here implies a cost (expenditure of funds). But

honestly, if we read what people are writing and observe all the struggles,

and then we read from some of those who consider themselves " successful "

with RF and observe all the anger, we can quickly see that RF does not, in

and of itself, resolve historical emotional issues in any way. In fact,

eating RF tends to strip away old armor and allow old issues to rush to the

surface.

 

For those interested, I do offer a form of work, called Dynamic

Self-Discovery, that allows us to " write " new, consciously chosen beliefs

( " programming " ) directly into our subconscious mind. I invite anyone

interested in learning more about how the subconscious mind and conscious

awareness function an differ from one another to listen to our free,

approximately 90-minute audio program entitled " Do I Have Two Minds, Or

What? !! " , provided by the Pat of Health Community. To download,

 

http://snipurl.com/two_minds

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

illuminedpixie

Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:32 AM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: Transitioning: On self-love and self-care (WAS:

converting when you have a non raw family)

 

 

Hi Elchanan,

 

Good advice. I realise a lot of this journey has been based around control.

I'm always looking for ways to control my outer experience to end the

unsettled feeling I feel within. Two things that have held firm in my

awareness for many years now is that two important steps I can take is 1) to

meditate daily and 2) to eat a fully raw vegan diet. Unfortunately it's

taken me years to get even close to where I desire to be and I keep falling

off the wagon again and again and it seems each time I do, I sink lower and

have to struggle harder to get back on.

 

I used to look at my husband and blame him for everything. The past few

months i have come to realise that it's my own reality that I have to change

and no-one else. I just find it difficult to prepare the cooked foods for

my family that I normally eat and a salad for me. And I guess there is some

lingering resentment that I spend over and hour cooking a big pot of meat

for my husband and 5 minutes making a simple salad for me.

 

I'm only on day 4 of mostly raw and still feel pretty crappy so I may sound

pretty negative right now! I've been pretty blocked up for about 10 days so

am carrying a lot of weight around, physically and emotionally. (even tho I

only weigh about 98 lbs. It feels like 98 lbs of anger today!)I find it

really hard to witness my anger and just let it go. That's probably the

main reason why I'm doing this.

 

I feel like meditation or at least a quiet mind carried throughout the day

is the most important thing I can do for inner peace, but I'm normally so

wired and tired that I just can't sit down. SO I figured I need to examine

my diet first so I can clean out the temple so to speak.

 

I think my reson for saying I'm an all or nothing gal is beacuse I always

feel so hurried to resolve my issues. I don't want the slow option. I want

to feel better NOW! I want to be a better mother/wife NOW! This is

probably why I never complete anything. Books, movies, art projects, eating

plans, meditation, exercise. It's all just a big plan that never

materializes.

 

" After all, to " love thy neighbor as thyself, " one must first love oneself.

"

 

I believe this is true but how do we accomplish it? If we can't even love

ourselves enough to take care of our bodies or commit to a short daily

meditation what are we to do?

 

OK, I'm just all bad vibes today...will check back in when the light is

shining a bit stronger!

 

Katya