Glory to the BUILDERS! (Malkuth)

Journals - Custom Subliminals
#124

It’s 2 weeks into my washout, and this morning I got a stream of thoughts that feel very much related to my BUILD custom.

I typed them out offline, but I think that I’ll put them here too as a kind of record.

13 April 2024

Finding innovative ways to put my ideas, knowledge, and even questions into practice or into the form of resources to help people.

It’s not about just having to be an expert. It’s about recognizing value in many forms and ‘concretizing’ it in a communicable structure.

People make successful businesses at age 13, age 23, age 43. It’s not because they’ve learned everything about a given area. It’s because they are good at relating to situations with an intuitive or explicit awareness of value. Every position, from 100 % ignorance up to 100 mastery contains some special relationship to value. And that relationship can be structured.

A person who is 100% ignorant might create a platform for building knowledge and learning. This person understands the perspective and needs of ignorance very well, and so they can create a more fitting platform than someone who does not.

It’s about taking whatever your current circumstances are and recognizing that they have relevance beyond yourself. That ‘relevance beyond oneself’ is synonymous with Value.

The leap for me–the Chironic blind spot–is to accept that the circumstances and issues I face are normal and have resonance beyond myself. This is the shadow side of exceptionalism.

The foundation of Ethical Marketing is in locating the people whose needs you deeply understand.

The foundation of Un-Ethical Marketing is in focusing only on a message and not on the people. In this approach, you try to convince ANYONE to get on board with whatever you are doing, whether they resonate or not. You want to get them to believe that they resonate.

In essence, Ethics comes down to a respect for agency. But on a practical level, it comes from knowing that there will always be an abundance of people who would freely, happily, and enthusiastically CHOOSE to engage with what you are offering.

So, this soul-driven marketing has its emphasis not on persuasion, but on LOCATION, locating those who resonate with you. Locating is just as much a science and artform as is persuading.

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#125

The other night after my rowing workout, I went to do a few sets of leg press. Years ago, I used to be able to do quite a bit. Like 430 and such. And now that I’m starting to get comfortable, I was tempted to put a little bit more weight onto it. But I think in my current state and at my current age, gradualness is the watchword.

The first few times since I was coming back to it after a very long time, I just forced myself to put only 90 pounds on the machine. Then I put 180 on last week. And felt okay. Did 180 again this week, and it felt easier, so I decided to add two more 45 pound plates and raise it to 270. Did two sets of 10. Felt pretty good. That was Tuesday night.

But then as I was walking during my morning commute on Thursday, I felt the beginnings of a muscle pull, like a strain. This happened to me once before in my calf, last summer. At that time it was bad enough that I needed to stop activities for 4 or 5 days. And I genuinely wondered if I’d be okay. This time was not that bad, but I could feel the potential of the muscle strain. And I realized that it was probably the direct result of pushing my Tuesday night workout. So I’m going to take a break from today’s originally scheduled rowing workout, and give myself a little bit more rest.

And I’ll try to keep the leg presses light, but instead focus on exercises that prevent injury. I guess when I was younger I was relying a little too much on my body’s capacity to resist injury. Need to be smarter now.

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#126

Day 16 of Washing Out

Woke up just before 6:30 am today for some reason. As I woke, I could feel quickly receding intense dream activity, not much recall. I just let it go.

I was right at the border of having enough time to meditate before son wakes up and gets ready. So did that. Earlier meditation session.

Experiencing the Generation and Organization of Perceptions

That was a theme.

At first, I focused on ‘Observe and Feel the Mind Generating and Organizing Perceptions’,

then it shifted a bit to ‘Is there a mind other than the flow of patterned perceptions?’

Not analyzing, just sitting with it and observing.

Either way, it ended up at: Feel the Process of Perceptions

Which is where it is quite often.

One funny point:

If the focus of your meditation is to Feel the Process of Perceptions, there’s not very much by which to be distracted (since most all things that might be categorized as ‘distractions’ are perceptions).

Turned out that I’d started the meditation at 6:43, and so the time was a bit tighter for waking ‘muh’ son.

But he did what he had to do and made it out to get the bus in time.

Now, it’s just after 9 am.

Daughter’s morning process will start soon too. Work day for her.

Think I’ll shower and get on the road myself.

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#127

Mind is not a phenomenon in the same sense that History is not a phenomenon.

History is a mental category that we have created to help us to organize the continuous flow of Events.

The actual phenomena are the ever-unfolding events themselves.

In the same way, ‘Mind’ appears to be an organizing category for referring to and making sense of an ongoing flow of perceptual processes.

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#128

The first thing to know about human beings is that they tend to organize and navigate existence by means of improvised narratives.

The second most important thing to recognize about human beings is their tendency to deny or minimize doing so (preferring instead to refer to an exaggerated abstraction that they call “Reality”).

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#129

A certain kind of human being likes to exclaim that life was better in the past, and that it is progressively degrading over time.

But upon examination of the past, all that I have found to be better were that there were more resources for us to waste, and that we had somewhat less capacity to waste them.

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#130

Okay.

Those were the thoughts this morning. Now time to eat and run.

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#131

I’m suspecting that the problems and obstacles I am currently facing are, to a large extent, matters of energy more than of anything else.

It’s not that I need to ‘find the answers’; it’s that I need to refine and improve how I’m cultivating and managing energy.

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#132

Looks like when I resume with my subliminals next week Thursday, it will be with 5-minute loops of each of my two customs. Then we’ll go from there.

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#133

Yesterday and today, early morning routine did not allow morning meditation. So, night time meditations instead. Same thing may happen on Friday. Just how it is right now.

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#134

2.5 weeks into washout. Resuming next Thursday. 25 April. That’s the plan.

Sunday 31 March to Wednesday 24 April.

Time to meditate.

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#135

Other People’s Consciousness

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#136

Got up this morning.

Meditated

Rested for the last two scheduled pushups workouts. Was feeling a little paranoid due to injuring my left calf. But most activities seem to be fine. Just need to avoid sprinting or jumping right now.

I think rowing should be fine too. May try tonight.

Anyway, returned to pushups and moved on to the next scheduled workout.

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Mentally, I’ve been fighting against disengaging from certain parts of work.

Keep at it.

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#137

Three weeks in to this washout. 5 more days before re-engaging with my subs. (4 not including today.)

Good stuff.

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#138

Still enjoying listening to The Wheel of Time series in audiobook form with my son.

We’re now up to Book 4: The Shadow Rising.

We’re listening to the original audiobook recordings, read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading.

But I’d kind of like to hear the whole thing read by Rosamund Pike. She’s in the process of recording her own performances of the entire series, and I’m sure she’s making it her own in a beautiful way.

I think the next time I listen, it may be with her version. But boy do I love that Kramer and Reading performance. It’s how I took in the series the first time ever about 18 years ago.

There’s something almost nostalgic about the crispness, the tone, and the timbre of how they both speak, especially Kramer. Yet it also feels timeless and not at at all stilted. I really enjoy their work. And it’s such a great, sweeping story.

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#139

Here’s a picture of an Asha’man Dedicated to your devotion for the Wheel of Time, Soldier:
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#140

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#141

2 more days left in my 25 day washout.

Started on 31 March and ending on 24 April. This Thursday, I’ll re-engage with my 2 customs.

Looking forward to it!

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#142

Okay. Well that was 21 March. It’s now a month later, and I’m 266 pages into this book.

So we’re 62% of the way in to it.

That means that if I maintain the same average pace, I’ll complete it in a little under 3 weeks.

It occurs to me that, without even intending to, I’ve established a baseline of performance for Book Blitz.

The next three books on the list are probably a bit more intrinsically motivating to me. So, those may go quicker. But it will be interesting to see how the quality of the reading experience, the pace, and maybe the retention evolve as I continually to work with my custom that contains Book Blitz.

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#143

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Actually did my pushups in my office this evening. In dress pants and all.

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