Friends good morning and welcome to Day 21 of the #30daymentalchallenge. As always, join anytime with link in bio. Today begins our final 10 days. Some of you have written me asking how to stay “on” the program. The truth is: if you’re not falling off you’re not... 1/8 
2/8 really doing it. Our minds and emotions—the amalgam of which I call our psyche—are enormously conditioned toward fear, hostility, and anger. These things are not *always* negative. Fear or even anger in the face of legitimate danger can be preserving. But as in the case...
3/8 of PTSD these reactions become hyper-conditioned, habitual, self-justified, and automatic. Hence such reactions form the very danger that they seek to ameliorate. This is the psychological mechanism at the back of the Oedipus drama. Overcompensating for perceived flaws or...
4/8 dangers is the very thing that leads to destruction. It is the core tragedy of the human situation. How much greater is that truth if, as I surmise, our minds possess causative qualities? Qualities that interplay with other forces around us. Hence our 30 Day Challenge is...
5/8 not about unrealistic expectations but about noticing and disrupting calcified reactions and thought patterns. It is also about results. The pledge you signed references results. Have you experienced them? I believe in a results-oriented spirituality and, in fact, I reject...
6/8 efforts to reconfigure the demand for results, or to respond to it with a corrective question. I believe that any therapeutic, ethical, or spiritual philosophy that doesn’t prove measurable in results—including conduct, relationships, and quality of life—ought to have no...
7/8 hold on you. Is hunger for results a “mistake” (as treated in some spiritual quarters) or is it a legitimate driving factor in your efforts? In my experience, finally, I consider it the latter. Allow that hunger to aid to your efforts today...
8/8 Wishing you all good things, -M- #pma ✊🧷⚡️this graphic is from a killer new podcast in which I was happy to participate which you can find @instagram @theesotericnegro
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