This is the exact point where I see it differently.
- I think you may be misunderstanding the significance of recon.
You’re looking at Reconciliation as a preliminary stage or a side-process that is taking you away from the process of Getting Results.
That’s one reason that you keep talking about ‘Patience’.
But here is the deal:
Recon is your mind integrating the subliminal and creating results.
Reconciliation is your mind attempting to adapt to the subliminal.
Disruptive reconciliation is (uncomfortable) evidence that your mind is busily and actively processing the subliminal. But it’s disruptive because your mind is overwhelmed and having a hard time.
That’s the real reason for micro-loops.
When you get majorly disruptive reconciliation effects, it means that you ‘took a very large bite’ of food and now your mind is struggling to digest that bite of food.
It’s not a distraction from your mind creating results. It IS your mind creating the results.
But if you get the listening balance right, the results will come smoother and faster.
Hence Micro-loops.
Does that make sense?
That brings me to my second point:
- The significance of so-called “Patience”.
You’re painting Patience as something that some people “have” and other people “don’t have”. And you’re putting yourself in that second group of people who “do not have” much patience.
But this is not accurate.
A skillful sailor does not “have more” wind than an unskillful sailor. Everyone “has” the same wind. But the skillful sailor is in a more beneficial relationship to that wind. And not because he’s a ‘better person’; but because over time he has learned the right things to pay attention to.
Patience is just the natural side-effect of becoming interested in the right things and placing your attention on them.
If you go to see a great and interesting movie, and you get absorbed into it and really enjoy it. You will sit ‘patiently’ from beginning to end. If you go to the same movie, and close your eyes, cover your ears, and turn your back to the movie, you may feel very ‘impatient’ for the damned thing to finish so that you can get out of there.
The people who are interested in the movie are not ‘better than you’ nor do they necessarily “possess” some quality of patience that you lack. Probably not. The difference is just that they’re placing their attention onto the movie. And you’re putting your attention somewhere else. You might even have a great reason for placing your attention somewhere else. (Maybe there’s something else much more important happening.) But either way, the process of waiting for the movie to end is likely to be less interesting for you.
In any situation, if you can find the strategically optimal directions and objects for your attention, you are likely to have more access to Patience. (Patience is something that you learn how to access. It’s not something that you own, possess, or ‘have’.)
That’s one definition of Skill in any given situation:
Knowing the right things to which to pay attention.