Hi Lago Looks like your tinnitus robertus is still trying to rattle around in your attic...
One can be happy anywhere, in any circumstances. It is, after all, a choice, as you know. It leads to an inner contentment that can become contageous.
Being alone, and choosing to be alone, however, are entirely different matters. Sometimes happiness is a bit more elusive for those who have not chosen to be alone.
The choice to be happy in these circumstances is maybe not too prevalent among these folks, because of finding themselves in circumstances not of their choosing originally.
Trouble is these days that people don't have to force anyone to do anything. If someone in a white coat says it is true, and there is enough panic created by the media, then people will volunteer for it. Plenty of psychological experiments done to prove that.
Swine flu has so far only been proven to drastically or mortally affect the elderly, small children and people who are seriously ill already. It has little effect on anyone else. Total recovery is around 3 days. Common sense and isolation stop it from spreading, along with localised health services such as your district nurse etc.
If it was meant to cause mass destruction of a race etc, as has been surmised on here, then they only had to use it on 3rd world countries already crippled by disease in order to get their resources.
Too many conspiracy theories going around. The only thing I found from that link, apart from utter nonsense and rabid drivel, was another link to a scamming site.
You already have the answer to your question in your first few sentences. Every woman is different, and all of them require different things, or combinations of things, in order to feel that they are being respected, or made happy, or loved.
I think that if a man is willing to make his woman the centre of his world, the focus of his attention, in whatever it takes for her to feel that, then he is doing things perfectly.
If she reciprocates, then you have a prospectively perfect relationship that could very well last a lifetime.....
I just realised where you got that notion. My fault.
Just because the free test is posted on some energy alternative site does not mean it is affiliated with it, just that the site owners use the test to get people to visit there to look at their own stuff...
This is not the original site that the OP posted. It is a free site with a free test. No money is asked for at all.
If people are interested then ok, if not than ok too.
Enneagram tests are used by many large companies to test for compatibility in their potential workers. It is also used to assess the liklihood of whether people will be good workers, or loyal to companies, based on the character assesment in the test.
I really get this. It ties in with what I have come to see.
People can be "good". The same people can be "bad". They can be anything and everything, individually, or all together, with or without the linear time factor, therefore they just "are". They just are "people being people" with the capacity for all things.
I understand we have to differentiate in language, in a general way, to help others understand what we want them to know, but mostly it is inadequate anyway, no matter how many words we have.
When we say someone is good, the first thing someone does is say, "define good", because good does not mean the same to one as to another, even in a general sense, in language. Yet everyone instinctually knows at gut or primal level what good is and what bad is. Their "instincts" tell them. They don't need language. Language, I feel then, is only used for confirmation of what is known already, and not to actually gain knowledge.
To answer on acquired wisdom and inherent wisdom here, I would say that inherent wisdom is what we all know, and acquired wisdom requires the comfirmation of language and experience to affirm what we know, even when we believe we are hearing it for the first time.......
This has been my experience too Stress. It is scary opening up like that though, because it means letting go of the old thoughts and fears related to the religious upbringing they had.
And that means literally defying their entrenched beliefs around a God they have been led to believe has the power of eternal damnation over them. Not for the faint-hearted!
Agreed. Can't say we can't understand this stuff if we are not even using 2/3 of our brains, and as we all know, (or should), memory is contained in every cell not just our brains.....
We are let see and experience what we are willing to absorb. Those who never try or never trust what they don't know enough to open up, never get to experience it, while they hold that attitude.....
With the use of aluminium pans being linked so strongly to senility and altzeimers, I use stainless steel, copper based because they are much healthier.
I remember that they started out very small, a few people (the locals labelled them drop outs or hippies), in a couple of houses who ran courses that helped people get rid of emotional baggage. They let people stay in their own houses as there was no accommodation ther at first.
In return for their services and to help pay for staying there, they asked people to wash dishes, make beds, help them build new accommodations, tend their gardens, plant, sew and harvest etc.
Later they started charging for the courses and gave retreats to help people to get away from everyday stresses, and people flocked there to tend gardens and build and use their special skills to help out.
More and more people went and more accommodations had to be built, etc, so it just grew to what it is today. These days they ask people to contribute what they can in monetarty terms as well as help out while they are there, and they have exanded the courses to include the medhods they have used to build the "green" self sufficient village that it has become today.
If the man likes variety then he is better off not married and giving that woman the idea that he actually wants to spend the rest of his life with her alone.
He is obviously not being true to himself, nor fair to his wife.
I suspect you could be right for where you live. My daughter went there last year and she said it was amazing how plugged in you were over there. Not so here. Ireland has amazing energy with a boozing culture, which is a criminal waste. There are little pocket here and there but nowhere near enough to constitute a positive change in attitudes towards wider thinking.
An old police training psychological exercise requires a few people to play out an event, and then something like 20 people are asked to describe it in detail after the event.
Young trainees are amazed to find that when comparissons are done of the statements, no two people witnessed the same thing...
Strangely enough, describing details of events is like describing truth.....everyone's truth, like everyone's time, is different, all very plausable and recounted sincerely because each person believes what they are saying from their own perspective. The witnessing of events is illusory at best, coloured by the mind and mindset of the person describing that event.
To describe an event in the now as opposed to in time, would be different because the mind would not be coloured by the outward distractions. The even as is, would have happened or not. True or false, no elaboration, so no room for lies or fantasy or colouring by dint or previous experience.
The great thing about now is that is stands outside linear time, (no past no future),and since there is no such thing anyway, except as an invented human concept, then it puts things in perspective.
Whoever said, "no time like the present" was being more profound than they might have realised.
So, we don't have to push now ahead of us, (ironic by definition), we just have to sit in it, and enjoy it, every moment it is here.......
Funny thing, but most of the great discoverers in science etc, when asked about how they came by their moments of genius, all had the same answer in common. They said they were just in a happy moment ( I read "now" moment or "present" moment for this), and daydreaming....
In other words not projecting, not dwelling in some past place, but letting the mind go at will to where it naturally accesses the information.
I also read a long time ago now, (probably over 40 years ago), that when we are born, we know everything there is to know. It is a legacy from all of our ancestors, genetically inherited, and accessable only if we cut out what you term "white noise", or "superfluous thoughts".
Our shared thoughts with the rest of our human bretheren account for several people at a time often coming to some new conclusions scientifically, and simultaenously, worldwide.
That being even vaguely true, then there is no such thing as original thought, and we all have much more in common than many people realise. But, as usual, we are only as strong, (or clever) as our weakest link, and Heaven knows there are a plethora of weak links and loose cannons still out there......
I'm sure he will too. He is much more profound than I am.
It occurred to me that if we adopt a "now" mindset then there would be no need for belief in anything, (even though that is a belief too). The times I remind myself to do it, (stay in the present), I find I can't sustain it for long, but there is a complete absence of fear, no projections for a future that hasn't arrived, no harping on a past or it's experiences, in fact no (or very little) mind/ego activity at all, just experiencing the pleasure of being in the present second or moment or whatever.
The mind might then, (if not clogged with useless stuff), be put to better use creating or phlosophising pure concepts or abstract concepts, growing the parts of the brain that actually think on a higher plain.....
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Looks like your tinnitus robertus is still trying to rattle around in your attic...
My fault.
RE: I have experienced an epiphany
Thought you might like it.