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Motivation is Overrated - Source ; Outside Online (via pocket) :
"...What you can control, however, is your behavior—that is, your actions.
Consider, for example, a period during which you find yourself in a rut. Your thoughts and feelings are pummeling you with some flavor of “you suck, you’re going to fail, it’s cold outside, stay in bed.” It’s really hard to talk or think your way out of that jam. But if you force yourself to ignore your thoughts and feelings and simply take action, you give yourself the best chance of changing your thoughts and feelings...
...The transformative power of action is equally important when it comes to sticking with challenging long-term pursuits. Motivation tends to be quite high at the outset of taking on a big goal, which is why the vast majority of folks make it through their first week of a New Year’s resolution.
But then, when the first rough patch inevitably hits, motivation dwindles...Even though you still want to accomplish your objectives, you may stop caring as much about them. And yet if you force yourself to show up, to take action—...—and if you do this consistently, a strange thing starts to happen: Your motivation increases.
A consistent practice may take some motivation to get going, but over time the equation is reversed. Dedicating yourself to the practice, no matter how you feel, is what builds motivation.
“The plateau can be a form of purgatory,” a time when motivation steeply declines, writes the late George Leonard, master aikido teacher, in his book Mastery. “To practice regularly, even when you seem to be getting nowhere, might at first seem onerous. But the day eventually comes when practice becomes a treasured part of your life. You settle into it as if into your favorite easy chair. It will be there for you tomorrow. It will never go away.” "
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The forcing that we here are pursuing is intending a new position of the assemblage point. The most important one.
Silence.
The one from which all others are launched.
And getting familiar with how that feels, by spending as much time as possible in that position...so it gets easier and easier to get into it; to settle into it, like an easy chair with worn-in butt prints.
To strengthen the visceral feeling of our presence there.
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Nice pep talk. You are correct. The average human lets their vague habits and awareness push them around. The human mush push THEM around, as well as pushing our bodies into what must be done - and in it whole-heartedly to avoid loosing power and it flopping back on us dangerously. We must own our every action.
After all, we could be facing our death today.
And to quote a terribly average, salt-of-the-earth farmer:
"Doing is easy."
"Deciding what to do is hard."
Nice Techno!!
Last week I realized how identified I was with my negative thoughts, to the point that they stopped me from seeing things in the dark room. Just by ignoring them, lights appears. And then I thought: and during the day, how many times do these thoughts stop me ?!
It's as if the only "warm-up" we can do is detach ourselves from our own thoughts.
It is like: "You cant do it; You are a newbie; this is not the second attention; this is not a IOB; you are too tired; this is boring"
I promise you: 5 seconds of complete silence, and a nice light appears.
Great post. Needed to read it while I’m feeling particularly melancholy first week sober October.
Sorry to stink the place up with other systems but out of interest for you, in thelema they call this whole formula you’ve just described I.A.O. isis Apophis Osiris. Life death rebirth. It the magickal formula applied to fears of will.
“You begin with a delightful feeling as of a child with a new toy; you get bored, and you attempt to smash it. But if you are a wise child, you have had a scientific attitude towards it, and you do not smash it. You pass through the stage of boredom, and arise from the inferno of torture towards the stage of resurrection, when the toy has become a god, declared to you its inmost secrets, and become a living part of your life. There are no longer these crude, savage reactions of pleasure and pain. The new knowledge is assimilated.“ (Eight Lectures On Yoga, Fourth Lecture. A Crowley
I was found that simply being aware of it doesn’t help you get out of that second stage tho. How often I’ve got to I, A, but never O.