self-growth

The war within

Submitted by freedom on

I’ve been thinking about Gary’s thread http://www.reuniting.info/node/9508. Folks are here for different reasons. Reboot can be boiled down to resolving ED by improving brain balance or it can be deeper where one tries to rewire core characteristics and circumstances that led to PMO use proclivity in the first place. If one thinks of this as a side of a bell curve, getting that residual growth as one shifts more standard deviations from the mean takes a lot more work than getting the initial benefit from less brain stimulation.

Changing our emotional response versus changing our external situation

Submitted by freedom on

Literature, such as that by Eckhart Tolle, suggests that we can change our reaction by focusing on ourselves and moderating our present response. If a situation makes one emotional, we can change our reaction and that will change our response to the situation. How can we know when our response is the correct response for us and indicates that we should instead change the situation? There must be some situations that are meant to be changed. How do we identify that tipping point between the need for inner and outer change so as to make clearer decisions?