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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:00 am 
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Hi, I'm determined to find the answer for this and I will eventually. Thought I'd ask here too, with all the "out of the box" thinkers we have here! :)

A habbit is a habbit, because we're unconscious of them. Once brought under your conscious light, it is no longer a habbit, but a choice.

How to make all things unconscious conscious? How to live beyond habbit? Live freely, with a vast response-ability. Having no more "unconscious" processes? No more "unconscious believes or habitual thoughts or vibration offerings."

Thanks in advance, looking very forward for your answers!


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:16 am 
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Work on the project for many lifetimes. This as in any change at the being level takes substantial time. The PMR rule set says that you basically start over again each time. Catching up to where you were, last life, seems to be rapid. But it is the extending beyond previous levels that takes the effort and where in the stages of your life you get to spend the least amount of time out of the total.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:34 am 
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Hiya Luck,

It sounds like there are two separate questions here, one concerning habit and the other concerning becoming aware of unconscious content.

Habits are structures of agency that we deploy as an automatic sequence. We do this, generally, for the same reason that we employ sub-routines and model objects on programming: It sames an enormous amount of time, and increases consistency, among other things. Habits can be thought of as being of two classes: 1) Those we have personally thought out and if necessary redesigned and streamlined to suit our personal taste in living, and 2) Those not so analyzed and modified. Habits are necessary. Part of evolving includes the ongoing process of moving habits from group 2 to group 1. This is especially so with habits of thought and feeling, but even physical world habits (driving, walking, hygiene, etc) rate a regular revisiting. For more thoughts to think with on this topic, see James: http://psychclassics.asu.edu/James/Principles/prin4.htm. See also Casteneda: http://www.american-buddha.com/disrupt.routine.htm on the disruption of routines. (Note: Those two texts will seem to contradict each other. It's up to you to assimilate and make best of use of each.)

Become aware of unconscious contents of the psyche is cousin to the evolutionary dynamic of evolving by becoming aware of, and learning to intelligently manage, habits. There are several radically different classes of unconscious contents though, and while, ultimately, it is our responsibility to bring them each into awareness for review, that is a probably a process that goes on forever, or ought to. There are any number of somewhat brainless techniques for mining this material, but I am thinking that a person would be at a real advantage to attempt learning to methodically tackle the business from within the framework of a decent modeling system. Here I would recommend the writings of Carl Jung; and the best access to them that I am aware of is through Joseph Campbell's anthology: http://books.google.com/books/about/The ... oT6KNuZ74C . Alternatively, here is a website to get you started with that: http://www.carl-jung.net/

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:05 am 
It sounds partly to me that you are describing negative (habits) addictions, the ones that can control us and put us in a deep dark hole of despair and with very little learning. Yes we do have power over them, once we get out of denial, and realize we are being overwhelmed by a compulsion that limits our decision space as to be compelled to do something. Another words that compulsion blocks out other things we might be able to choose. Once we start to diminish that compulsion tied to that habit, we become free to choose other things that are less controlling and more conducive to our positive path of evolution. We diminish that measurement of that compulsion coming into our awareness, with a focus intent to do such, we modify that future probability of that coming into our awareness. Which allow us to have more choices to develop better habits, this is my direct experience with such things. Tools to help one focus their intent to accomplish this are very useful, especially at first, find some that best suit you. Sabby


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:50 pm 
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Before I respond to the replies, I wanna ask on a side note. Do you think in npmr we have habbits? Positive or negative, doesn't matter.


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