Friends, good morning and welcome to Day 12 of the #30daymentalchallenge. As always, join any time with link in bio. Many of you have written to me with really moving stories—we’re doing this seeker to seeker and it’s important to exchange—and also with grueling challenges...1/7
2/7 I often say that we experience many laws and forces, including those of physical limitation. This is why I eschew the term “law of attraction.” I don’t like the implication that we live under one mental super law. While consciousness may be (and I believe is) the ultimate...
3/7 arbiter of reality we do not, the vast majority of the time, dwell in that sphere. Kick a rock and you will feel mass—and pain. That is as much a law in its effects as any other. Yet we also dwell within the extraordinary. The mind is the medium for experience that exceeds...
4/7 the boundaries of the given. In The Miracle Club, I write about the success of placebo surgeries. This is not fantasy. I write about the precious and extremely delicate questions of spontaneous remissions of cancer—you...
5/7 can read about this in my article @medium “How to Talk About Contentious Issues In Science.” We are adults—and we can search together without falling into the childish, rah-rah tone of many metaphysical churches or the binary anti-intellectualism of polemical skepticism...
6/7 Nor does the search mean discontinuing normative treatments and obligations. Today we approach the miraculous—never fear that word—with our eyes open. Consider all possibilities within reach. The Talmud counsels: “Let your works exceed your wisdom.” This can be read many...
7/7 ways. For this day I ask you to take it to mean allowing yourself to experiment with the ultimate possibilities of thought and with expansion beyond the given. I wish you your best—by which I mean your most fortifying day—in our challenge. -M- ✊🧷⚡️#PMA
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Friends good morning and welcome to Day 13 of the #30daymentalchallenge. As always, join anytime and find link in bio. Yesterday was a tough day for me—you?—and today I am back on. Friction is part of life—it’s the only part of life that fosters creation. Without an unmet...1/4
2/4 need we would remain inert. That is why I feel the snake in the garden emancipated rather than misled. In his magisterial book Meetings with Remarkable Men, spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff includes an addendum, “The Material Question.” He tells the story of how he...
3/4 and a group of students fled the Russian Revolution and found themselves desperately without money in Constantinople. They tried and tried to procure resources but their efforts failed. Just at the moment when everything seemed about to collapse a forgotten resource...
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to Day 11 of the #30daymentalchallenge. Join any time—with link in bio. What is “positive thinking?” I eschew terms like “manifest”’and “Law of Attraction.” (I write instead about “selection” and the existence of numerous laws... 1/5
2/5 and forces.) But I hang onto this “golden oldie” of positive thinking. I like its historicism, I like its plainness—and something more. To me, positive thinking means deliberative thinking. It means constructive, directed, and determined thought. It does not mean rosy...
3/5 or myopic thought. It does not necessarily mean loving of neighbor or enemy, or denying of opposition or evil. (In terms of the psyche, I define evil as spite, a trait I despise). It does not deny concepts like victory—when pursued with ethics and reciprocity...
Friends, good morning and welcome to Day 10 of the #30daymentalchallenge. As always, you can join anytime and find the link in bio. Today may be our most important day together. Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that we often look back on the difficulties of the past... 1/5
2/5 with a kind of serenity—relived that certain challenges are safely tucked into prior years and that we successfully emerged from them, perhaps with benefit and refinement. This act may be more than just memory: it may be creation. The philosophy of Neville Goddard...
3/5 was described to me this week as “remembering from the future” (thank you @duncantrussell). This framing captures one of Neville’s key methods, which is to “remember when” you occupied a lesser or more difficult state and to feel in the present the satisfaction of having...
Friends, good morning and welcome to Day 8 of the #30DayMentalChallenge. As always, you can join anytime—link in bio. I was asked yesterday about my favorite affirmation or meditation. These things are very individualized and I don’t have a single favorite... 1/9
2/9 But I want to say something about the uses of affirmations. First, I don’t think it matters whether you structure an affirmation in present or future tense—don’t concern yourself with structure so long as the statement is emotionally persuasive to you. There’s no wrong way...
3/9 Then there is the question of use. I follow the method prescribed by French mind theorist Emile Coué, author of the famous (and often lampooned) mantra, “Day by day in every day I am getting better and better.” Coué was shrewder and more foresightful than is often...
Good morning and welcome to Day 7 of the #30DayMentalChallenge—there’s always time to join and the exercise is linked in bio. Yesterday I was asked *the* question: how to deal with the tormenting mental voices that reassert themselves even after a good start?...1/8
2/8 The most difficult part of the crisis of tormenting voices is that they arise unexpectedly. If you’re like me, you’re on a ladder changing a light bulb and suddenly a mental association hits and you’re thinking about an old (or projected) sorrow or agony or some such...
3/8 In such cases when your personhood feels threatened no amount of rational thought can wholly counter the emotion. Emotion is more powerful than thought and often precedes it. Emotion is also faster than thought (which is why we don’t think of rejoinders till after the fact)..
Friends, good morning from the Lower East Side and welcome to Day 6 of the #30daymentalchallenge. Join any time: link in bio and all commentary linked to hashtag. I hope today proves very clarifying because I want to make a point that often gets lost in the culture... 1/7
2/7 of New Age, recovery, and alternative spirituality. There is no schism—at least in this program—between the spiritual search and Rx drugs or other modalities of treatment. I believe in availing yourself of all devices that authentically help you. To summarily turn away...
3/7 from a pill or any “mainstream” treatment is to reject a doorway that could help. I want to be clear about this: I take an SSRI. It isn’t for everyone. But it’s proven a help to me. And I trust you to make informed decisions about your own needs. Without anyone else’s...