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A New Earth, A New Life

Posted: January 31, 2014 in Stimulus Space Response
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by @anarchyroll
1/31/2014

Very few things have happened to me that I consider genuinely life changing. Listening to the audio book for A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle is one of them.

There was immediate change as well in terms of how I viewed my own life, as well as the lives of others. That wore off after a few months, but the seeds for long lasting permanent change had been planted.  Present moment awareness, resistance as an emotion, the ego, reading the sign posts of the universe, letting go, and mental noise are concepts taught in this book that I am eternally grateful and better for learning.

I know I would be lost without this book. It is no magic pill, because there is no such thing. It did fill in huge pieces of the puzzle of life for me.  This book brought me to year zero in terms of being who I wanted to be and living the life I wanted to live. This book is the salt of the Earth. This book allowed me to feel calm, ready, and willing to accept I had to tear it down and start from scratch.

How I came by this book? It was thanks to The Game by Neil Strauss.  The villain of that nonfiction book is a man named Owen Cook, who was going by Tyler Durden at that time (yes named after Fight Club Tyler Durden.) When Owen’s life came crashing down around him after The Game came out and painted him in a very negative light, and the negative financial repercussions that came with it, he started getting into spirituality.  A New Earth turned his life around and his most successful piece of self help material he personally created The Blueprint Decoded was built on a foundation of the concepts in A New Earth.

A vast majority of the Blueprint stuff was deep level stuff.  Well below the surface layer of pick up lines and traditional social dynamics material.  An audience member at the four day seminar where Blueprint was recorded talked about changing his college major after reading A New Earth. I was in college at the time and figured I would check it out.  Wow am I glad I did. My major didn’t change.  But the way I perceived basically everything that happened to me did.  How I looked at other human beings changed. How I looked at the world changed.  How I looked at concepts like coincidence, serendipity, chance, luck, reaction, interpretation, breathing, the thought process all changed forever.

In the future I will detail those changes more specifically.  The greatest gifts were a gift of calmness both in the face of adversity and good times.  An awareness of where my thoughts come from.  Better clarity on the human condition.  The struggle of the ego versus the soul that is waged inside of all of us, all day, every day.  A New Earth started the remodel by tearing it all down including knowing a new foundation had to be engineered.  The Game by Neil Strauss gave me the idea change was needed.  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey was what would serve as the new foundation. More to come on those next time.

Tap the #Source, Create the Space

Posted: January 25, 2014 in Stimulus Space Response
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by @anarchyroll
1/24/2013

You’ve probably heard of the Law of Attraction by now.  The Secret by Rhonda Byrne as publicized by Oprah has made it almost impossible to not know what the Law of Attraction is.

Think of The Secret as Tumblr of self help/personal development books. The is essentially reblogging of material that is hundreds if not thousands of years old. However, she mostly just reblogged (in book and movie form) the works of Charles Haanel.

To me, personally, The Secret came off as naive, pretentious, and new age selfish.  Another famous Law of Attraction book by Jerry and Ester Hicks came across as to me as borderline deranged.  Tapping the Source is put in plain language. It is explained thoroughly and simply. The main points are repeated throughout the book to hammer them home.  It is one of the few books I recommend to every human being to read.

The main points of the book involve thinking positively, visualizing specific goals as if they have been achieved, AND feeling positive emotions while thinking/visualizing the positive thoughts.  Attaching the feeling(s) to the thought(s) is what most people miss/forget about the Law of Attraction. Without the specific visualization and physical emotional state attached to it, thinking positive is essentially useless.

The other principle the book is centered upon is saying specific “focus phrases” while meditating.  A person should get into a meditative/prayer state (which is more than just sitting down with your eyes closed) and say each of the following in order:

  1. I choose to focus enjoyably inward
  2. My mind is quiet, I am now in the silence
  3. I am open to receive guidance from my source
  4. I know what I want
  5. I feel connected with creative power
  6. My vision is right now perfect and complete
  7. Each new moment is manifesting my dream

The book offers very detailed and specific guidance for why each focus phrase individually and collectively are important to say.  Tapping the Source is essentially an update of Haanel’s own 1912 book The Master Key System.  If you are looking to turn your life around or fine tune your success this book is what you’re looking for. It is a great starting point because it has been a starting point for every self help author for the last century.  Napoleon Hill, Stephen Covey, Tony Robbins, etc all use Haanel’s work as primary source material. That is what initially attracted me to the book. I wanted to know what the self help guru’s were reading and using to create their material.  If it is good enough for them, it’s good enough for you and me. This book will help to create a solid foundation for which you can build a palace of personal development upon.

Stimulus Space Response: Mission Statement

Posted: October 1, 2013 in Stimulus Space Response
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by @anarchyroll
August 31, 2013

What is Stimulus Space Response? On the lighter end of the spectrum, it is a term in communication theory within the symbolic interactionism concept. On the heavier end, in the philosophical world, it is what makes us uniquely human, it is what separates us from animals. How? Because unlike animals we have a space between what happens to us and our response to what happens to us, therefore we can utilize our inherent freedom of choice on how to use that space AND how to respond to what has happened to us.

What makes us uniquely human? That is pretty heavy if you ask me. Shout out to the opposable thumb. If one wanted to take a scientific view I’m sure there are other specific parts of the brain and human anatomy that make us uniquely human. Hey, if you know what they are, write a blog about them 🙂  The purpose of this blog is for me to write about what I have learned in my studies of philosophy, spirituality, self improvement, personal development, and self actualization.

Reading books and more frequently listening to audio books by Napoleon Hill, Charles Haanel, Andrew Carnegie, Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey, Tony Robbins, Richard Bandler, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle and others have all had profoundly positive effects on my life. I want to share the information, what I have learned, how I have applied the lessons, and how I think others can benefit from the general principles that the authors write about. I also feel that writing about the material, what I learned, and how I changed will provide an additional layer of evolution to my growth. Lastly, these philosophy/spirituality/self help blogs serve as an additional layer of a five part media writing portfolio I am building.

I would like to combine all five blogs into one website and present the material like a digital newspaper/magazine akin to VICE, Huffington Post, and The Guardian. The other blogs will be about hard news/journalism, business/economics, pro wrestling/mma, and sports. These are all subjects I am passionate about and would like to become a professional reporter/writer of. I received my bachelor’s degree in media communications from Northeastern Illinois University this past May. I want to make sure that I am applying what I have learned, that I am keeping my writing skills sharp, that I am staying productive as a person, and that I am working towards my overall goal achievement desires.

Without the books and authors I will be writing about in this blog I would be lost. I would not have graduated from university, I would not know who I am, or what I want in life. I would confuse being a consumer of material goods with purpose. I would confuse my friends and family with my enemies. I would confuse personality for character. I would confuse tasks with goals and activity with achievement. I would confuse my schedule with my priorities. I would confuse my comfort zone with my lot in life. I would confuse nervousness with excitement. I would confuse my ego with my soul.

I believe a lot of people have the same confusions, and I personally know many who do as well. I do not confuse myself with a guru or a qualified teacher. I am at present, very much, an amateur. But I aspire to be a professional. Jeff Bridges, a philosopher of Dudeism recently said on an episode of The Nerdist podcast that being a professional means “doing it even when you don’t feel like it.” My mind and body started tingling when I heard that. It felt like a missing piece of my mental/emotional puzzle had been dropped into my lap. This blog, as well as my others are me taking an additional step towards being a professional writer. The material I will be writing about in this blog helped me to lay the foundation internally for which I will be building upon externally with my writing.

I want to help, I believe I can help. I may be an amateur but I can help you by being a reblogger of philosophical/spiritual/self help information. Welcome to Stimulus Space Response, I look forward to our journey together.

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