"keep your own counsel" (part 4)
19 days ago • 1 min readTyler Choice "Keep your own counsel" (part 4) ↓ ( Parts 2 and 3 of this newsletter series are more private, see newsletter.tylerchoice.com for more ) Anyway, most of us are stuck in our problems every day saying, “I don’t know what to do.” “What should I do?” Did you know that we always know what to do? That we know what the right answer is to every problem we have? You probably did. I seem to be late to find out about these things. I had heard it, but I did not fully understand it until I...
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19 days ago • 1 min readTyler Choice "Keep your own counsel" (part 3) ↓ Well, leaving the world is not always feasible. Often impossible. What then? The only solution that I know of when you can’t catch a break, can’t get out of your circumstances, is to slow down. And your brain says, “You don’t understand. I can’t slow down.” That’s your brain. Not you. And it’s right. The brain doesn’t know how to slow down - It can’t, It never will - And it knows it. I said this to someone recently. They said, “But you don’t...
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19 days ago • 2 min readTyler Choice "Keep your own counsel." ↓ Today, I was telling a mentor that I feel I've just broken through a psychological barrier that I've been trying to break through my whole life. He replied that he had once told me that he felt that this advice pertained to me: "Not to render my heart, but to render my mind." I thought about that tonight. Asking, what does that really mean? If I shrugged off the advice, all I would have heard is - "You aren't taking control of your mind." And when I...
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about 1 month ago • 1 min readTyler Choice Overcoming The World (Part 3) ↓ You can experience Yourself, you can come to Relationally Know Yourself, but you will never know yourself in your head - Your mind will never intellectually Know Yourself because it is only a mind. You will attain what you aim for unceasingly at every day and every moment. If you do not choose to be conscious at every moment, you cannot hold onto your gain. There may be what you set out to do, but the expectations you have of yourself - Or the...
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about 1 month ago • 1 min readTyler Choice Overcoming The World (Part 1) ↓ There is not a war between man and the world. Overcoming the world does not create a master. Mastery of oneself, who one is, is dependent on a choice. The choice is between the despair and hope in one's soul. There is no external enemy. There is only choosing to believe in the illusions in one's mind about what the story is. Voices are enchanting storytellers - Voices are more real the more you believe in them. If struggled against, they seem...
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2 months ago • 1 min readTyler Choice The Energy Factory (2/2) Our emotional processing system, if it were properly maintained, can do the job of processing emotion so quickly it appears instantaneous. This happens in nano-seconds or micro-seconds. This is not theory, this is what happens when the exit to the system is unblocked. I have experienced it, many others have experienced it, you have experienced it, and many live in it. Metaphorically the efficiently processing emotional processing system is called an “open...
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