Kenny Rogers as Prophet and Gawd…The Gambler!

This is something I channeled a long time ago. LOL! I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.

Gambling:

A deeper look into an absurdly well-known song.

Entry: Adventurer; Definiton: risker; synonyms: charlatan, daredevil, entrepreneur, explorer, fortune-hunter, gambler, globetrotter, hero, heroine, knight, madcap, mercenary, opportunist, pioneer, pirate, rogue, romantic, soldier, speculator, stunt man, swashbuckler, traveler, venturer, voyager, wanderer

-Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition [emphasis added]

Ephemerally, while pondering the wonderful treasures found in The Gambler, I discovered Kenny Rogers had 61 albums out at the time. 61, for those of you into Hebrew gematria, equals the numeration of AIN, Hebrew for nothing, also the numeration of the Hebrew transliteration of the word ALL…my current reading at the time was Pacts With The Devil. Earlier in the day I had a slight revelation and began referring to magicians as gamblers. Kia hit home when I found the following quote and then checked the page number. Also, for Thelemites, note that Kaph and Resh (KR) add to 220, the same as the total of all the mystic numbers of the 10 sephiroth in the tree of life (or, the sum of the summation of 1-10) and the number of verses in Liber AL, The Book of the Law. Further, in a course on Eastern Religions, the first lecture contained a mention of an ancient root in Sanskrit and related languages. “kR” pronounced “ktr” acts as ancestor to both “KaRma, and “KReate” and the pronunciation sounds strangely like KetheR on the Tree of Life of the Kabbalists…let the mysteries continue.

“[Faustus] realizes, in a kind of satori, that there is more in the world to be explored, and he commits himself to the practice of magic, compromising his soul more in the fashion of a gambler making a bet than as an act of fatalism.”

-Pacts With The Devil S. Jason Black and Christopher Hyatt p61

[by New Aeon English Qabalah, Kenny Rogers = 149 = Jesus Christ…]

0. preceding and not preceding the lyrics

1. On a warm summer’s evening

Kenny Rogers had his first birthday on 21 August 1938 in Houston, TX no air conditioning made it a warm summer’s evening.

2. On a train bound for nowhere

Kenny sings of riding a train into the chaotic void—Nietzsche’s Abyss; Carroll’s chaosphere. The train reference also foreshadows the death of The Gambler later in the song. A train signifies the final escape from prison for those with life terms, as illustrated by the prophet J.C.: “I hear that train a comin’, its comin’ round the bend…” and redemption, “Meet me down there by the train…” again, “Let the train blow the whistle when I go.” This line signifies an escape from frantic searches for stability in chaotic existence to a peaceful beginning-end (in the spirit of Einstein’s ‘space-time’) of chaos. See the 2 of disks in Tarot for elucidation on this concept. This also describes the building of momentum towards the oath of the abyss. On his way toward Death (nowhere), Kenny meets up with his holy guardian angel and/or an adept Taoist magician lighting up Kenny’s way. This refers to the God On as a train bound for nowhere.

3. I met up with a Gambler

A gambler views existence as a set of probabilities. Nothing lies outside of the realm of possibility, thus the gambler acts as a magician, swinging the odds in his/her favor. Kenny meets this magician on his train towards his initiation into “nowhere”, never a more appropriate place to meet a guide/teacher.

4. We were both too tired to speak

KR (Kenny Rogers) refers to the Gnostic trance state induced here through sleep deprivation. They have both met up in a state beyond linguistic description which Zen monks have described by yelling loud and sharp, “AH!” Kenny is in what Leary called a state of high imprint vulnerability. The gambler notices this and meets Kenny there to initiate him into the mysteries.

5. So we took turns a starin’ out the window at the darkness

Obviously, The Gambler instructs Kenny in meditation practice, demonstrating the process, staring out the window at nothingness, at “darkness.” Some Buddhist meditation techniques involve staring at a wall and not allowing the mind to verbalize its perceptions. Kenny then takes his turn and struggles with boredom and silence, as indicated by the next line. The darkness referred to also reminds one of a wise old gambler’s dictum: The magician must have his/her feet planted firmly below hell and his/her head above the heavens. Perhaps Kenny confronts his own demons in this line. As stated below, the window is h.  In hwhy, (YHVH, bastardized as Jehovah) the first h refers to the mother and the h final to the daughter. See line 18. window = he’ = 5 = The Star card.

6. The boredom overtook us, and he began to speak

Intuitively sensing Kenny’s frustration with meditation and confronting his demons, the gambler finally interjects with the 1^st verbal lesson. Another theory regarding Kenny and the gambler states that the gambler acts as Kenny’s HGA (Holy Guardian Angel), and up until the angel (gambler) speaks, Kenny’s headed “nowhere,” remember? (Only a dualistic mental state can see a singular meaning in each of these lines. No one mind can deduce all the wisdom herein.) In the HGA analysis, Kenny’s descent into crippling boredom refers to the stage in meditation/yoga where the pain of proceeding reaches a climax and the practitioner bursts into Samadhi. This allows communication between Kenny and his HGA (the gambler). The reference to speaking indicates an opening mouth, pictured on the bottom of the tower card in tarot.

7. He said, “Son I’ve made a life, out of reading people’s faces…

In Liber Aleph, Crowley refers to a magickal student as ‘my son.’ This line further indicates the fusing of the microcosm in Christian mythology (Jesus, the Son of God) with the macrocosm (God Itself). Taking Son as a pun on Sun, the mythology slides from Christian to Egyptian and the Gods Osiris and Horus. Both our Sun and the Son act as visible manifestations of God. ‘Reading people’s faces’ refers to both the infamous evil eye of the magician, intuitive perception attained through magical/mystical practice and more overtly the perception of auras. It requires little imagination to understand how one may apply these skills to ‘make a life.’

8. “And knowin’ what their cards were, by the way they held their eyes…

A paradoxically wise cliché states that the eyes are the path to the soul. The cards symbolize both people’s true will and their current intentions, both of which one can easily determine through simple conversation and eye contact applied in conjunction with withholding judgment and measure. Consider every event (thing, place, conversation, person, etc.) that enters into perception as a disclosure to you from the flowing field of experience. Focusing attention on any one of these disclosures reveals secrets about the object of observation. This usually consists of a loss of the illusionary perception of separation between observer and observed and a full understanding of the function and existence of the observed.

9. “So if you don’t mind my sayin’, I can see you’re out of aces…

The magician/Angel asks Kenny for permission to give him advice as well as suggesting what may happen if Kenny does not heed his advice. As in a typical parent to child directive, “You had better mind me kid!” Or, “Mind your own business.” Thus, if Kenny does not mind (heed) the magician’s words, he can see Kenny’s future and it appears as the loss of the roots/seeds of the four elements (Aces in tarot). The ‘out of aces’ comment also refers to Kether, the concealed, 1^st sephirah of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The magician/gambler advises Kenny that he has lost touch with the original creative source. He finds Kenny either very low on the tree of life, completely fallen off of it, or in the abyss itself. Gematria could perhaps reveal which.

10. “So for a taste of your whiskey, I’ll give you some advice.”

Whiskey and other alcohol traditionally get called ‘spirits.’ The gambler asks Kenny to open his spirit up for illumination/initiation. On another level, the ‘taste of whiskey’ refers to sacrament. Since they have whiskey, not wine, they creatively adapt to their circumstances. On a more mundane plane, alcohol (in small amounts, i.e. ‘a taste’) relaxes inhibitions and opens people up to more direct communication. Also, whiskey

11. So I handed him my bottle, and he drank down my last swallow,

Kenny demonstrates his openness to learning by giving away his last bit of whiskey for occult advice. He passes with flying colors this cunning test from the gambler. On the HGA level of the story, Kenny gives over the last of his spirit to his holy guardian angel, for if one atom of Kenny’s self does not get dissolved into the angel, this will grow into a monster, destroying Kenny’s psyche and/or life. Kenny shows his mastership by giving it all over. The magician/gambler/angel drinks up Kenny’s spirit and then proceeds to guide him on his way.

12. Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light,

Tobacco served (and still serves) as a sacrament in many Native American rituals and celebrations. Sharing of it brings connection between all those involved. Again, the gambler asks Kenny for sacrament. The magickal lamp, Prometheus the fire-giver, the purple flame within the sacred heart, varied fire gods/goddesses all come to mind in the ‘light’ reference. Kenny must remove his masks and ignite the flame within his heart; thus purifying himself enough to receive the secret teachings/initiation.

13. Then the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression,

All external noises fade away as the magician begins Kenny’s initiation. It is not mere chance the adverb ‘deathly’ shows up here. Kenny enters into the silent void at the center of his own spirit beyond the duality of life and death. It has been written that one mark of an adept magician is an expressionless face; “the face of a baby before its first smile.” This illuminates the dictum from Liber AL I: 22 “Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.” The gambler’s lack of expression demonstrates to Kenny the fruits of such practice. He has passed beyond judgment into constant unlabeled experience.

14. Said, “if you’re gonna play the game, boy, you’ve gotta learn to play it right”

He refers to life again as a game of chance: probability. This acts as a paraphrase of the statement, “Nothing is true, everything is possible.” He then makes another reference to Kenny as a child (see the comment on use of the word ‘son’ above). The gambler issues a directive to Kenny to find his true will. “If you’re going to be alive, you must find and accomplish your true will,” serves as an appropriate paraphrase. There also hides a subtle instruction on avoiding falling into destruction along the magickal path.

[The chorus appears here chronologically, but for the purposes of proper analysis of it in reference to the rest of the song, it appears at the end of this exegesis. The chorus acts as a key to understand the lines of the song, and vice versa.]

15. “Now every gambler knows, that the secret to surviving, is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep,

Every adept magician possesses the secrets to getting by in the world, surviving the treacherous mystic path. Through magickal training, Kenny will achieve what Buddhists refer to as ‘Right Discernment;’ the realization of his true will. Everyone can attain with the hand they have been dealt, it remains a matter of knowing what to do with one’s circumstances. Also, knowing what influences and practices to indulge in and what pitfalls to avoid.

16. “’Cause every hand’s a winner, and every hand’s a loser,

A reiteration of the last line expressing that in existence, possibilities are limitless. This shows life as perfectly balanced. The Gambler here reveals his Taoist tendencies ‘Hand’ serves as a metaphor for individual circumstances. ‘Winner’ and ‘loser’ are simply labels individuals attach to said circumstances; two perceptions of the same existence. Thus, this line compels Kenny to abolish those labels and all perception of duality in order to play his hand properly (to do his true will). The Hebrew letter yod means hand. It also refers to sperm, the means of action. All the talk of playing cards suggests the use of tarot in Kenny’s initiation.

17. “and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep,”

I speculate this mysterious line refers to a peaceful death occurring while one dreams easy. Perhaps he suggests transcending the fear of death through methods similar to those in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Dying while one is still alive aids in quelling fear of death. Perhaps the gambler suggests lucid dreaming as a method for Kenny to accomplish this death experience. Also, Spare’s school of thought suggests using a “death posture” to attain trance states for use towards magickal working. Traditional yoga practices also contain an asana called “corpse.”

Author’s note:“Lo! On the other side of the grave I have conquered the fear of death, But the fear of life is still here; I am brave Yet I fear my own breath. Now I must conquer the fear of life, The knock of the blood in my wrists, The breath that rushes through my nose, the strife Of desires in the loins’ dark twists.” Believe it or not, as I wrote the last lines regarding the fear of death, this Will Oldham song was playing. The song is called “The Risen Lord.” If this shit didn’t happen so often, I might call it weird. Track 10…

18. When He finished speaking, He turned back toward the window,

The Hebrew letter He’ (h) is indicated three times in this sentence, for the letter h means a window: “the means by which the Light reaches us” –Crowley, 777. The tarot card in The Book of Thoth that corresponds with he is “The Star.” On a ‘warm summer’s evening,’ Nuit, the night sky/star goddess would appear radiantly across the huge Texas horizon. The close of the ritual is indicated by the gambler’s silence and turning away. The speaking refers to the gambler’s mouth. The Hebrew letter p means mouth and the tarot card “The Tower.” Kenny’s tower (his belief systems; reality tunnels) has been blasted by the magical initiation that has just taken place. The magician closes his mouth from whence sprang the fiery force responsible for the blasting. (See the bottom of the tower card for a picture of the mouth referred to.)

19. Crushed out his cigarette, and faded off to sleep,

He puts out the cigarette, officially ending the ceremony. After passing his secret (the chorus) to Kenny; the old gambler can rest.

20. And somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even,

In the middle of nowhere, the chaotic void—the place the song says they were headed all along—the magician finds perfect balance, the yin-yang of the Tao, Kether of Qabala. This perfect balance transcends the constant change and influx of one element into another, and thus, his spirit transcends his body. The gambler’s work here is done, yea, is done. This also refers to the 0=2 equation, 1 plus its opposite (-1) = 0; 1 and its opposite (-1) are both things and thus equal both 2 and zero at the same time. As the gambler realizes this, he achieves the glory of balance. See the “Adjustment” card of the tarot.

21. But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

The gambler has spoken his last words—the chorus—and in them, Kenny finds the seed of wisdom that shall become the blooming of his true will. The Ace refers also to Kether, the pinnacle of the qabalistic tree of life, of which seemingly nothing linguistic may describe. Kenny lets us know its something that he can keep beyond this life.

High Arcana:

You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em know when to fold ‘em

Know when to walk away, know when to run,

You never count your money, while you’re sittin’ at the table

Ther’ll be time enough for countin,’ when the dealin’s done

To comment on these secret yet obvious revelations could do nothing but taint their perfection. Each person must apply their own interpretation in their own subjective circumstances to attain to the wisdom and understanding herein.

The reader is a fool who views this as a joke; also fools are those who think the author believes that Kenny Rogers had occult intent in his performance of the gambler. Who is the master that makes the money green? –The Gambler, KR Zen

JC-22

-Eugene, Oregon 22 June 2004 e.v.

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Greetings everyone. I have a very special post for everyone today. My very wonderful sister sent me a Canon Powershot recently:

I will use the camera to share more of the beauty I witness, to do much higher quality videos for this site and the upcoming Radical Undoing online project (email me to ask more), and to pursue more photo-art projects…

My first experiment with the camera occurred last night. My close friend, and an excellent musician, j blessed me with an acoustic rendition of one of my favorite songs he has composed. You can learn more about j at one of his various web portals: No Where Love, Now Here Love, Tittle8, and more.

Thanks again to j for writing and playing this awesome song for me. Oh, and if you’re interested in why he referred to me as “JiGiDy,” you might find some answers by clicking here.

First, check out j. Click on the share icons at the end of the post to spread this musical joy far and wide!

Also, listen to the lyrics to the song and notice the pile of all of j’s worldly belongings in the background….

(PS: if no video appears here, try using firefox. I had trouble viewing it with safari…)

I like Gravity!

Enjoy,

-Garrett

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The deep freeze lifts away from Eugene, Oregon. Raindrops fall outside my window and melt away the layer of verglas that had settled on the surface of everything. Now I return to Escape Plans Unlimited…my mission far from accomplished.

Today I have for you a very short video of the neck technique I demonstrated a few months back. This technique is deceptively simple and powerful in the extreme. Its power rests in the deep sense of silence it can instill when performed correctly.

To do this technique, set a timer for 3 or 5 minutes. Relax your face a body for a few moments. Now, turn your head from side to side AS SLOWLY AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. If you do this correctly, it will feel almost ridiculously slow.

Finally, the video:

Enjoy Everything!

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Have you ever caught yourself wondering how you got where you are right now? Have you ever had the thought that you don’t really know yourself? Has it ever occurred to you that the body underneath all of your thoughts is something different and impossible to contain in words and thoughts?

The exercise I will do with you today will help bring you to a deeper experience of you as a physiological experience, instead of all the thoughts and labels you think you might be.

Whatever you call yourself–human, socialist, leftist, liberal, conservative, Buddhist, Christian, [your name here], fat, thin, ugly, pretty, and anything else you can think of–is not the same as Y-O-U. Why does any of this matter? Perhaps it doesn’t matter at all. Perhaps living a life in which the real creature gets buried under confused thoughts, and confuses itself for those thoughts, is not too bad after all.

It takes so much effort and time to pay attention, to develop focused, concentrated awareness, and to really get clear with oneself about what the hell is going on in any given situation…Why not just float with the habits and programs that have gotten each of us this far?

Well, for one thing, that is not the mission of Creative Deconstruction or Escape Plans Unlimited. The mission of this blog is to wake myself up; to seek my own enlightenment, my own joy, and my own concentrated and focused attention; and to ignore anything and everything that tries to convince me otherwise. Of course, this can get a bit complicated when attempting to identify foreign installations, as Castaneda called our programming and waking sleep, and to remove them.

Again, I redirect your mind to the body in which it resides. Feel that thing sitting there in front of this screen.

For the sake of the following exercise, record a video of yourself doing it, or feel free to follow along with me and to stare into my eyes during the video. Do not expect to be entertained by this video. Instead, expect to have an experience….your own experience. Notice if the full 2 minutes of the 2 exercises seems to drag on, notice your breathing and your reactions. Leave me a comment about such observations.

Without further enjoyable rambling, the video:

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For the rest of the next 31 days, I will not completely repeat the instructions for the various exercises and experiments I have prescribed as I go through them one by one and share with you the results.

Instead I will simply record a video and include relevant notes and fun things like pictures and lists here.

As I creatively destroy myself by taking my own advice, I trust some of you out there will stop by, check out the exercises, think you understand them, and then never try any of them. Then, a couple of you will actually do the exercises. I want to hear from you. Record a video of your own and send it my way. I’ll put it up on the blog, and give you a free 15 minute Creative Deconstruction phone session….

Today, I have for you a long overdue, new and improved gagging video. Gag yourself for wellness and relaxation! Remember, it is your body and your choice what you get to do with it. I encourage you to experiment with your body for yourself before believing all the shit you may have been told about it while growing up.

Welcome to the Meta-Vomitorium!

Now, I didn’t show you in the video an addition variation you can make for better gagging. For the variation, take a finger from your opposite hand, put some water or lube on it, and put it in your rear end. This will encourage the sphincter muscle to relax, and when it relaxes, it feels great. I can already hear the reactions you might have to this. Well, whatever your reaction may be, remember this: It is your body, and you can do with it whatever you want. Enjoy it. All of it.

Until next time, this is Garrett Daun, with Creative Deconstruction, metapuking and signing off.

Enjoy,

-GTD

For further instruction and experimentation, check out my consultation page by clicking on those words.

Also, check out:

My DVD release to assist in the completion of the Radical Undoing DVD series begun by the late Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt.

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Greetings folks-

The World Health Organization recently infected me with with their new name-brand virus to help me test the power of Creative Deconstruction without the help of flu vaccines. Creative Deconstruction did indeed combat and destroy their virus. It took almost an entire week of struggle for me to defeat it, but I did.

Now, here I am at Esozone. If you are one of the kind and wonderful participants, welcome!

What you will find below is a transcript and/or notes from the workshop we did together, in slightly different form.

Enjoy! If you would like a pdf copy for yourself, click on the link below:

Creative Deconstruction Esozone

Creative Deconstruction Esozone:

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This list will help you remember and recreate the experiments and tools from the workshop. If you would like to schedule a Creative Deconstruction consultation, see the contact information and options at the end of this handout and at http://creative-deconstruction.com Good luck!

If you have any questions at all, feel free to email me at escapeplans@gmail.com

While we gather around the concepts and tools, keep in mind these key points:

1. We are gathering to share knowledge and to experiment together. Stay with the group. It is more important to stay with the flow of the group than it is to be right or to compete. The physiology of the group is primal. The ideas are secondary.

2. Real brain and life change will almost always be accompanied by and/or preceded by anxiety. You must deliberately leave your comfort zones.

3. These are extremely powerful exercises. If you do this work with persistence and determination, you WILL get results. Your results are your results. The results of other people do not matter, except for sake of sharing and discussion. No matter how much you learn about the taste of fine wine, you will have experienced nothing until you taste it for yourself.

4. Do not approach this workshop with beliefs and preconceived ideas. Do not believe anything I say. Instead, do the experiments and get your results. Take what you get, and don’t take what you don’t get.

5. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Delights and forced to toil in punishment for their confusion. The Buddha simply wandered and had experiences, free of judgment and punishment. Which myth guides your life?

Let’s get started!

A simple key: Enhanced 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Diminished Use this key all day long to evaluate every experience you have. Eventually, it will guide you automatically to ever more enhancing people, places, situations, and opportunities.

Warm Ups:
-Grounding (use for insomnia, restless legs, etc.).
-Back Twist Grounding.
-Energizing arm swings.
-Knee Slaps + Crossover.
-Bodyweight Squats.

Concept 0. Belches, Farts, and Yawns take precedence.

Tool 0. Learning How to Learn: Focus. (focus on forehead and breathing to take in information. Work always on staying focused.)

Tool 1. A Simple Twist of Face + variations (make faces opposite of emotion states)

Concept 1. What the Hell is Going on Here?

Tool 2. Atlas Shrugged + Shoulder variations. (forward, back, reach, dance)

Concept 2. It’s ok when things don’t go well.

Tool 3. Ok to say, “No.” (ultra slow neck turns + neck pressure + variations) watch when people say yes or no to you, notice if their head movements agree with their words.

Concept 3. You are the most important person in your life.

Tool 4. Trusting Gravity: The Flop.

Concept 4. Cognitive Endgame. Use this when there is no time for body work.

END GAME:
Step 1. Recognize your reaction or experience as a repeat of something you have done before.
Step 2. Ask yourself, “How many times have I done this before in similar situations?”
Step 3. Use the cognitive brain to END the game NOW by making a solid decision to end the game when it is wasting time and energy.
Step 4. Let it go for real this time.
Step 5. Proceed in authenticity. Do what you really want, accept your results, repeat.

Decide to only play games you want to play. Play them deliberately and not by default. Know when you are playing games and when they are being played around and with you. Now, I do not necessarily mean board or video games here. I mean real life Role Playing Games.

Tool 5. Dehypnotizing Breath.

Concept 5. Either all communication is hypnosis, or none of it is.

Tool 6. Laugh at everything, even when you’re not feeling it (yet). The Laughing Breath.

Concept 6. You can alter yourself and the ambience around you. Happiness and Sadness are contagious states of the brain.

Tool 7. Explosion of a Star. (Laying on the ground/mattress, or standing up.)

Concept 7. Breaking Free: The Safe, Feared, and Catastrophic Life; the Authentic/Powerful/Extreme option. Always ask for what you want.

“Everyone wants to feel good about doing an unpleasant thing and they wait and do not do it.” –Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt.

Tool 8. Paradoxical Breathing + Croak, Hold, and Flick.

Screaming/ Yelling: Yell or scream as loud as you can, either out loud if you dare, or into a pillow if you must.

Concept 8. Creative Deconstruction Consultation Services:
1. Radical Undoing Sessions.
2. Customized Escape Plans.
3. Recorded Clear Observer Sessions.
4. Online, phone, and personal consultations to get back to the REAL YOU.
5. In-home workshops and Creative Deconstruction parties and special events tailored to meet your needs and blow your minds.

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Today I return again to a favorite subject of mine, the human face. There are so many different looks and shapes to faces. What a fascinating thing to look at out in public, especially in big cities, where the faces come from all over the world.

Well, I am going to let my talking head say the rest here:

One last thing. Soon I will be releasing the first Creative Deconstruction course for download: Creative Deconstruction: Ground Zero. The course will include all kinds of amazing exercises and experiments. You will be able to host your very own Creative Deconstruction workshop once you master the ideas and techniques for yourself. The PDF and videos will be available for download after purchase, and there will be a hard copy and DVD edition as well…..

For now, drop over to Creative Deconstruction to peruse the personal services available for your delight!

See you again tomorrow…

-Garrett

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Greetings.

The next 31 days are 31 days of integrity. I will take the previous month’s 31 Secret Keys and record a video and/or post on each and every one of the 31 secrets.

I will not be posting the entirely of my results. They will likely differ from your results you get from doing your own experiments. However, they will be an inspiration for you to do the experiments and see what happens for you. While I have done all of the exercises I mentioned on the list, it has been a long time since I have done them.

My dreams and some people in my life have brought clarity to a whole slew of false selves I have been living and operating within. I am taking the 31 secret tools as a prescription for myself to refashion my approach to people and life……one experiment at a time.

Get ready for a wild month.

Also, as part of another experimental program I have undertaken, I am implementing a few new secret tools that I have hinted at in earlier posts. More on those experiments as my results start rolling in….

See you tomorrow for Experiment #1………

Enjoy,

-Garrett

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Anyone reading this who knows the organic creature typing these words can tell you that my name is either Jack Wilde or Garrett Daun. Myself, I do not propose to tell you who I am. You can discern that through reading this blog, emailing me, buying services from me at Creative Deconstruction, and sharing experiences with me.

If you have trained yourself to do such things, you could look at the picture of me below and determine a hell of a lot about me. Perhaps you might even discern some things about me I have not yet discovered. If so, leave me a useful comment to that effect.

Go to the Original Falcon website by clicking on the Original Falcon words earlier in this sentence. On the site, look at the Radical Undoing DVDs # 5 and 6. They are called the Legs and Pelvis and the Grand Tour. In those DVDs, you will experience a man named Jack Wilde.

Of course, the guy writing this blog is Garrett Daun.

The two men are one and the same.

What began for me as a nickname developed into a quest of moving beyond limiting labels to discover a little more about my own true nature. It took many years for the two names to coalesce into a creature far greater than both names, or any name, can encompass. The names, and your name, are tools for you and other people to communicate with.

Many opposites arose between Jack Wilde and Garrett Daun. Jack Wilde is a roaming, hitchhiking, wild anarchist type. Garrett Daun is a Gnostic Bishop, ULC minister, businessman, massage therapist, and he has a BA in religious studies and creative writing. Jack Wilde used to train hop and hitchhike all over the continent looking for adventure. Garrett Daun has had jobs and responsibilities. He trained in martial arts, rock climbing, snow camping, and mountaineering. These latter tasks brought Garrett a lot closer to Jack.

Today, the two have fused. My friend Little j now calls me “Jiggediah,” a combination of Jack and Garrett Daun (JGD). You can find Little j’s excellent website, No Where Love, and his other site, Now Here Love, by clicking on either or both of the words I just typed.

Little j, also known as James, Jamie Jameson, and JMKom, needs you to click on over to his site and leave tons of encouraging comments. Why? Because he has been considering not doing as much with his website. I encourage him to continue with it, and I encourage you to assist him in this.

Have you ever noticed the presence of different moods in your experience of life? If so, you are like many humans. Scientists have identified something called Mood Modules. The basic idea behind mood modules is that the human brain can access certain information in certain moods. The mood you are in determines the memories your brain can access. This explains some reasons behind test anxiety.

If you apply some of the techniques presented in this blog effort, you can destroy some of the boundaries between various mood modules in the operating structure of your brain. For example, if you stretch out your face when you are in various different moods, you are asserting a different part of yourself–let’s honor G. W. Bush and call it the decider–that operates above and beyond your various moods. Since the actions of the face muscles assist in the creation and maitenance of mood states, when you break up the structure of the face, you also allow your brain access to far more memories and data than when trapped in any give mood. Give it a try.

So what does all of this have to do with Using Personae to Escape False Selves, you ask? Everything. When you develop a persona opposite of the one you currently understand as yourself, you will expand your understanding of yourself to include far more than the two personalities. For example, the new personality and its traits will reveal to you that you are more than either of the two personae you have developed. This will liberate you in many ways.

Good luck. Jack and Garrett are on your side.

-Garrett and Jack.

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This is a repost of my article from 30pov.com …

Many lifetimes prior to the one in which I write this article, I used to consider myself an anarchist. Not just any anarchist, but a green anarchist. In those days, all my internal strife found a perfect outlet: The State. The state represented all that I thought was wrong with the world and with my own life.

Me, enjoying all of life.

Let me tell you, there is absolutely nothing wrong with anything. I’ll write that again so you can let it sink in a little deeper. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything. Ok, one more time, to allow your brain cells to wrap around the idea and get more comfortable with it:

There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything. There are no troubles. There is nothing you can ever do that will make you ok.

One of my favorite teachers, Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt, once said, “The world has no troubles. The trouble is you. The trouble is your brain. It’s not your fault, it’s a design issue.”

Now, I know that the quote up there will rub some of you all kinds of ways. I look forward to fielding your questions and comments about it. If you have any troubles you can’t seem to escape from, drop over to my site and purchase Escape Planning, Radical Undoing, and/or Choose Your Own Adventure Consultations. We can take your seemingly real troubles and turn them into fuel for living the life of your dreams.

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever heard a deer or squirrel complain? Yeah, I know that squirrels make funny noises, but have you ever heard one sit and bitch to the other squirrels about how tough life is for them? Have you ever heard a three-legged deer complain about the loss of its leg?

Animals take action and live their lives, no matter what circumstances surround them.

There is no point buying green. There is no point worrying about the end of the world. There is absolutely no point in paying attention to politics. There is no point doing anything but living a life full of great joy, love, adventure, and creativity. These are the elements of an organic life.

An organic life does not demand or expect you to care about green choices, green politics, or green businesses. The word “Green” is nothing more than a dynamite marketing tactic. All a marketer must do to succeed is to identify deep and common fears. Then, the marketer offers to relieve some of your fear by creating an opportunity for you to take action so you feel like you have done something. By attaching the word “green” to products, services, and activities, marketers have set the stage for you to get rid of some of your guilt and fear by taking action.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this, and I cheer on the marketers who make millions on “greening” everything.

I bet that some of you think that I do not care at all about the destruction of the natural world. Well, you are wrong. I do care, just not in the ways marketers and politicians want me to care. I care about you as a dynamic and organic life form on this beautiful planet. I care that you begin to recognize your true role here as a human-animal. I care that you break free from the eco-anxiety the television has attempted to infect you with.

If you care at all for politics, this is like the hole you have fallen in. Either close the lid, forget about it, and vote to your heart’s content, or climb out. See my blog for tools.

An organic life begins by recognizing that you are the most important person in your life. From there, just infuse everything with joy. Bring joy to every single experience you have. Remember that you are an integral part of nature, and that you and everything else are nature. Do not believe the liberals, conservatives, communists, socialists, or anarchists. Let them whine themselves to death.

To live an organic life:

1. You are nature. You have a right to exist. You are the most important person in your life.
2. Fill yourself with a deep joy. Remember to enjoy even your miseries, because you never know, it might be the only time you get to have such an experience. The more joy you bring to your miseries, the more power you gain over time. Infuse every situation you enter with Joy. Be deliberate about how you administer the ambience around you.
3. Love yourself deeply. Love everything about you. Love even those parts of you that you may not have liked in the past. Accept and love yourself as a whole. Then, you can begin to understand what love means, and how it might be possible to share with others.
4. Seek out and create situations and experiences in which you do not know what the outcome will be. This is one meaning of adventure, not knowing the outcome ahead of time. This can include sky diving and rock climbing, as well as talking to a new beautiful person or taking a trip to a new place.
5. Create something new at least once a day. Create things every chance you get. If you have any spare time, fill it with creations of your very own. Try new art forms. Write poems. Create anything. What you create does not matter at all. The process of creation is what I am getting at.

Get out of your own head. Abandon all ideas you have had about yourself. This article is your license on a whole new life. This article forgives you of all of your sins. This article gives you permission to stop caring about all the garbage everyone else thinks you should care about. Now you can care about you, about living with joy, about seeking beauty everywhere, and about living an awesome organic life.

This does not mean that you will not get angry, depressed, upset, frustrated, or confused. What it does mean is that now you have the choice and the permission to infuse those situations with joy. You have the choice to administer the ambience around you in any way you choose. Will you fill your life with joy?

If there is anything you think I should care about that I have missed, I don’t care. Enjoy yourself anyway.

Love, Wildness, Chaos, and Joy……

Enjoy Everything! I love you all, especially the haters….;)

-Garrett Daun of Escape Plans Unlimited and Creative Deconstruction

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My very handy computer dictionary defines altar and temple in the following manner:

altar
noun
the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services.
• a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, esp. for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity.

temple
noun
a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.

Now, lest you imagine that I am a Christian, I will tell you that I am not. I am not anything you could ever possibly define, and neither are you. Now that we are free from bullshit definitions and labels, we can use the above definitions, and all religions in fact, for our own empowerment, experiment, and joy.

This article is about the utility of using an altar and a temple as metaphors for understanding how to make quick and lasting changes in our lives.

Let’s explore that definition a little more closely.

The altar in a Christian sense is, “the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services.” What is the metaphor behind the bread and wine? Some posit that the bread, the body of Christ, is semen, while the wine is menstrual blood. This idea communicates the mysteries and miracles of conception and birth.

Others see the bread as the body of god, and the wine as the blood. Yet others think of the bread as matter and the wine as energy. Further, a student of Art might see the bread as form and the wine as content.

For the purposes of Creative Deconstruction, where we steal every useful technique from every place we can find them, I propose that the bread and wine represent simple mundane items that have the power to affect our lives in powerful ways, if viewed from the proper perspective.

The proper perspective is this: everything on an altar has its proper place and function. The second definition of altar from above reads, “a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, esp. for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity.” Now, imagine your deeper self, the part of you beating the heart, working the lungs, operating bodily functions, and making your mind possible…this part is the “deity” you will serve with your altar and temple.

Every single item, person, and even your thoughts and manners of thinking, emotions, everything, the food you eat, the toothbrush you use, and all the clutter and stuff in your life, each of them plays some role for you. Each of them triggers a different emotional experience. Each of them triggers a cascade of thoughts, reactions, and activities in your mind and body.

Since we are imagining that you yourself are the God or Goddess indwelling in the temple of your life with various altars scattered about dedicated to your service and empowerment, it follows that we can use the screen of our conscious mind as a tool for upgrading and redesigning our altars and temple spaces in a more conscious and deliberate manner.

To begin, you must identify the true desires of the god inside you. Creative Deconstruction offers multiple approaches for accomplishing just that. What I mean by that is the dream or ultimate life you have thrown aside for a life of compromise where you do things you don’t like in order to get by. That is no longer a satisfying option for anyone, so give it up. If you need help, check in over at Creative Deconstruction Services page (here).

So, once you have uncovered and remembered your true dreams and desires, independent of any other forces in your life, you have the foundation to begin. If you have not found your true desires and dream life, you will design your altars and temple spaces to constantly aim your attention at the goal of discovering yourself more fully.

From there, go through everything you surround yourself with. Start with a desk, a car, your bedroom, or other such space. Make a list of your friends and associates. Now, deduce how each item, person, place, and thing fits into your goals on this planet. Notice whether they strengthen or weaken you in your pursuits.

From there, you can make decisions to scrap the weakening or distracting items, and to enhance and add positive triggers to aim your mind and body constantly toward your goals and desires. You can do it one piece at a time if you wish. If you are having trouble identifying just how an item, person, place, or thing affects you, try the following exercise:

Write out in your journal: “What does __________________ mean to me?” (Insert person, place, thing, habit, thought process into the blank space.) Do this for long enough to indentify what kinds of meanings your surroundings have been infused with. Start small and work up from there.

Once you build some momentum, your life will shift effortlessly in your favor. The idea here is to recognize that the things around us which we ignore are actually the background upon which our lives take place. This background influences us constantly in both subtle and direct ways. By shifting the background, we can shift the whole life.

Enjoy Everything! Infuse all things with arrows pointing toward your highest aims.

This post is inspired by Mark Joyner, and some of his Simpleology Business and Life Coaching Tools.

You rock!

-Garrett Daun

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Thanks to everyone for your excellent comments over the past month of Creative Deconstruction 31 Tool Giveaway! I appreciate all of the comments, visits to the blog, and kind feedback on your experiences. If any of you reading this have tried one or more of the exercises and secret tools, I would love to hear from you. Leave some comments or email me directly at escapeplans at gmail dot com.

Today I will wrap up the 31 tool giveaway with 4 more exciting, experimental, dynamic secret tools.

If there is enough interest or any special requests, I will record video demonstrations of some of the tools presented here.

Coming soon, I will be releasing a PDF/video introductory Creative Deconstruction Workshop. After you master the tools and absorb the various powerful concepts, the PDF and video course will allow you to conduct your own Creative Deconstruction Introductory workshop.

28. Chaotic Glance of Power:

This exercise is inspired by Timothy Ferriss and his book, The Four Hour Work Week. This simple exercise will imbue your eyes and your glance with immense power and confidence. It may feel funny and scary at first. With practice it will get easier and easier unitl you become a master of your own eyes and glances.

For the next 3 days, look in the eyes of everyone you see. Keep looking into their eyes until they look away. That’s it. It’s that simple. You will find yourself a beneficiary of many smiles and strange looks. Tim Ferriss gives a hint for situations when someone receiving your Glance of Chaos gets upset. Just say, “Oh, I thought you were an old friend of mine.”

You can later build on this exercise by striking up directed conversations with all the people you meet from doing the glance.

Also, I know this exercise must be a totally different monster for women, as they often end up on the receiving end of unwanted stares. I encourage any women reading this site to contact me and let me know how this exercise goes for you. Can you come up with any adaptations, or does it work just as well for women as for men? I feel excited to hear from you.

29. Escape From Your Fake-Ass Self: I don’t expect too many of you to try this one. If you do, drop me a line and tell me about your results.

Create for yourself a new character. If you like, add traits that you don’t have but you want to adopt. Come up with a new name, new history, new stories, and new ways of using your body posture and facial gestures. Practice in the mirror or with a close associate who shares your zeal for Creative Deconstruction. Keep at it until it feels somewhat natural to you.

Go to a part of town you never frequent. If you live in a small town, travel to a different town in your area. Cities are best for this exercise. Try out your new personality. Try it out at a bar, a church, a library, or anywhere else you can meet new people. If you slip up or if someone catches you in your act, abandon it and walk away. Or just laugh and carry on.

30. A Future Wish Come True: This exercise is inspired by Mark Joyner and his Simpleology Business Coaching service.

Sit or lie down in a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Now, imagine yourself 40 years into the future. Imagine that you have kept up with all of your bad habits for the whole 40 years. See yourself in the state you will be in if you keep on living in ways that are destructive to your health and well-being. Really see, feel, hear, and experience this vision of yourself.

Next, feel and hear yourself making a powerful wish. Wish that you could have another chance at the last 40 years. Again, really feel a deep yearning to erase the past 40 years and get another shot at your life. Keep on wishing until the yearning reaches a fever pitch. At that moment……open your eyes.

Your wish has just come true. Spend a little time writing down what kinds of changes you want to make.

If you like, project those new changes and patterns 40 years into the future and enjoy how wonderful the future you looks and feels. Take some actions toward that goal right away. Not later, not tomorrow, NOW. Good luck!

31. Garrett Daun’s Creative Deconstruction Workshops, Consultations, and Services:

The very best secret tool I have to offer you cannot quite find its way onto this blog. If I could upload myself into this page and work with each of you directly all at the same time, perhaps I would consider doing so. Since I do not yet know how to upload myself, I can offer you the next best option: working directly with me online, over the phone, at workshops, and individually in my office.

In person, you have access to everything I know, all that I have learned. What’s more, I will tailor my knowledge and expertise to your specific needs. Below are some of the services and consultations I offer:

1. Customized Escape Plans: What do you want to escape from? How do you want to do it? When do you want to make it happen? With customized Escape Plans, I will work with you to develop a step by step escape plan. You will have a solid plan of action, with detailed, simple steps from where you are now to exactly where you want to be. Escape Plans Include: an hour long phone or skype session, a PDF of your printable Escape Plan and action steps, and four email consultations to ask questions, get help, and get inspiration along the way. Escape Plans are usually best suited to take between a week to about a month.

Some folks like to purchase extra phone and/or email sessions to get a little extra help during particularly tough escapes. The base rate for an Escape Plan is $111, there are also $222 enhanced, and $1111 luxury options. See creative-deconstruction.com for more details.

2. Choose Your Own Adventure Consultation: There is a true dream that you have nurtured since you were a little kid. That dream likely got ploughed under a life of work, paying the bills, and living up to other people’s expectations of you. A Choose Your Own Adventure Consultation will bring you back to that dream, encourage you to grab it up, and fill you with enthusiasm and zeal to begin creating your dream….today.

The Choose Your Own Adventure Consultations are available online, by skype, by phone, and in person in Eugene, OR. Some people require as little as 15 minutes to uncover their dream and begin working on it. Other folks want a few hours to unearth their nearly forgotten dream life. Either way, we WILL make it happen for you.

(Prices are for online and phone. Inquire about in person rates)

15 Mins = $30
30 Mins = $50
60 Mins = $80

3. Radical Undoing and Energized Meditation Sessions: These sessions are guaranteed to blow your mind. You have never experienced your body like this before. You will feel more electrified and energized than you have ever felt before. The radical undoing exercises will break up blockages in your patterns of movement and tensions. They will help you to deeply relax. They will give you power, energy, and clarity. You will become more aware of yourself and your surroundings than you ever thought possible.

In a radical undoing session, you will learn a host of exercises specifically chosen to help you work through your own chronic tensions, both in body and mind, and to reclaim the energy tied up in them.

There is little more I wish to say about the Radical Undoing sessions. Try one out, you will be glad you did.

Radical Undoing and Energized Meditation Session: 60-90 Minutes = $75

4. Workshops, Parties, Special Events: I am available for custom designed workshops, ceremonies including weddings and funerals, Creative Deconstruction in-home experimental parties, and other special events. I am available to design and conduct team-building workshops, productivity-enhancing exercise routines for the office, exercise routines tailored to your profession, and a whole hell of a lot more.

Creative Deconstruction is a dynamic approach to life with self-trust as its basis. I trust that deep inside, you know what is best for you. It is my job to peel away the layers of expectation, false idea, and other such garbage, and to reveal the real you underneath it all. From there, I fill you with enthusiasm and zest for your own life. Then, I help you put together a plan to get you from here to exactly where you want to go. Then, you DO IT! If you have a creative idea and you want to make it real, get a hold of me and let’s get started!

5. Creative Deconstruction International Luxury All-Inclusive 10-day Workshops: At these workshops, each client gets a solid 5 hours of individual work with me, including Escape Planning, Choose Your Own Adventure Consultation, Radical Undoing and more. The price includes airfare, transportation, food, lodging, and activities. You will not need to spend ANY money once you arrive at the airport on your way to Bali.

Beyond the work directly with me, there will be daily group Creative Deconstruction sessions, swimming with dolphins, daily massage and bodywork, training with exercise and yoga masters, meditation at ancient temples, luxury food catered daily to your room, luxury beachfront villa accomodations, bungee jumping, chaufferred transportation at your whim, and much, much more.

The first luxury workshop is strictly limited to 12 clients, and will take place before the end of 2009 in Bali.

Creative Deconstruction Luxury Escape: Bali = $11,000 per person, all expenses included.

All of these services and consultations are available for purchase at Creative Deconstruction.

Contact me at escapeplans at gmail dot com for more information, to view testimonials, and to schedule your first session right away!

Ok folks, thanks much for participating in the 31-Secret Tool Creative Deconstruction Giveaway. I look forward to a September full of more and more exciting zest for life and beauty!

Let’s talk.

-Garrett Daun

Enjoy Everything!

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Ok, over the next couple days I will wrap up the 31-tool-giveaway. It will remain up here on the blog indefinitely. I may record a DVD and PDF available for purchase/download from this blog and my other site very soon. Would it be useful to have these tools recorded in video format? Let me know and I will deliver the goods!

Today I will be giving you a quick shotgun blast of techniques for you to get more powerful, real, and authentic with yourself. Let’s get started!

24. In-The-Body Experiences: Perhaps you have heard of having out-of-body experiences. Well, I propose that those experiences have actually replaced in-body expriences as the norm. Did you remember your body sitting there in front of the screen right now? If not, this technique will help you remember to remember your body.

Again, the simplicity of this exercise probably makes you think it won’t do much for you, or that you already knew all about it. Well, I assure you, try this one for long enough and you will reinherit your body in all its glory. All it takes to have an In-body experience is to take your mind from wherever it happens to have drifted and bring it back down into the body, right where you are.

Technique 23 will help to re-boot your awareness into the space you find yourself in. Just ask, “What the Hell is Going on Here?” Next, focus your attention and awareness onto your body itself. Go ahead and whisper a little something to yourself about your bodily circumstances as you find them. “I feel my ass sitting in a chair. I feel my hands typing across this keyboard. The palms rest of the edge of the computer.”

Make it a point to do this exercise all day long. If you must, set aside three moments; once upon waking, once during midday, and once before you go to sleep. Turn the mind back on the body and you will find yourself more alive and real than you may have ever thought possible.

25. Real Sweetness:

This may prove difficult for some, but give it a shot. You will find yourself full of energy and happy that you went through with it. First, get yourself some REAL maple syrup. Make sure the only ingredient is maple syrup. Alternately, get yourself some honey or agave nectar. Next, throw out all the refined sugar and refined sugar products in your home.

That’s right, throw them all away. Now. Don’t just sit there reading this and not taking it seriously. You can improve your health by the end of the day by getting rid of all the corn syrup and refined sugar products from your home right now. Who cares if you still feel addicted to eating them. Just throw them away. The discomfort you feel is you gaining power over your surroundings.

Use the maple syrup, agave nectar, or honey sparingly. All three of these substances taste wonderful, even more wonderful than refined sugar and corn syrup. Learn to make your favorite recipes with these as substitutes. Your bones, teeth, blood, and brain will thank you with higher and higher level functioning the longer you stay off refind sugar.

Trust me, I know how difficult it can seem to get off sugar. I have found myself at 7/11 stores late at night with doughnuts and snickers bars in my hand. I used to go buy a whole pint of Ben and Jerry’s and eat it all in one sitting. I love the stuff. But, there is no time like the present. In fact, there is nothing but the present, and in this present, I have made powerful decisions to keep myself away from refined sugars and corn syrup. You can too. Feel the difference for yourself.

26. Ambience Administrator:

A network administrator administers computer networks and makes sure they flow properly. A school administrator (supposedly) makes sure schools function and operate smoothly and properly. It follows that an Ambience Administrator makes sure that the ambience of any given location flows properly and serves the people who find themselves in it.

All who aspire to Creative Deconstruction must take up the role of Ambience Admin. What does this mean? It means becoming more and more aware of your body in every situation. Second, it involves becoming more and more aware of the places and people surrounding that body at any given time. Third, it involves injecting and/or removing influences into or out of situations to create an empowering and authentic experience.

It doesn’t really matter whether or not other people know what you are doing. Most of the time, they will not notice anything but a subtle raise in their mood and some delightful sensations in their bellies.

There are many ways to Administrate Ambience. One example is to hack your own emotions. If you find yourself a victim of some mood or limiting perspective, you can hack the mood and turn it around in your favor. You can do this by injecting a dose of authenticity into the situation. This can be as simple as looking other people in the eyes and smiling at them. Remember that everyone you see is caught in the ambience with you. Most of them are not aware of the dimension of ambience.

You, being the fully aware and awake Creative Deconstructor you are, get to infuse the situation with whatever mood or emotion you wish. Remember this next time you feel compelled to complain, talk shit, or to sit around feeling bad for yourself. You are infusing the ambience around you (and it is always around you) with negative crap. It can be likened to shitting on your own plate of gourmet food. You have to be in your ambience, so why not make it the way you like it?

Just like shitting in a toilet or a composter, you can throw tantrums, complain, and have pity parties all by yourself in a contained space. You can yell into a pillow and punch a mattress instead of yelling at and punching other people. Once you flush the toilet, let the shit disappear. Don’t go slinging it around the metaphoric walls of your life. If you sling it on your friends, it will be there for you to clean up or smell later.

Think of the ambience like a higher level of decoration. It is like the paintings and drapes in the background that everyone takes for granted and no one pays much attention to. By paying much attention to yourself and the ambience, you have already taken charge. By standing on your unshakable foundation, you may then paint your insides and outsides with the ambience of your choice. Practice in your own home. Try it out wherever you spend time.

After all, you get to choose what kind of “reality tea” you make, and with what teas and herbs you infuse it with. What do you want to experience? Go out and create it.

27. Arms as Strong as Legs:

This is a very simple strengthening exercise. If you have not worked your arms for a long time, it can help to have a partner for this part. Make sure to be safe and careful with yourself. Do nothing that harms you. All you have to do to begin training your arms to be as strong as your legs is to do handstands.

In the beginning, do your handstands against the wall. You can somersault your way up to the wall, or you can start facing away from the wall on your hands and knees and walk your feet and body up the wall until your face and chest are nearly against the wall.

From there, try holding the position each time until you can comfortably hold it for 3 minutes. After that, try one arm only. Try walking around along the wall using your hands on the ground. After a couple weeks, you can even try handstand pushups against the wall.

You will find that over time the handstands will train and strengthen all the big and small muscles in your wrists, arms, chest, and even your fingers. Try having a friend hold your legs for balance when you attempt to do the handstand without the help of a wall. Over time, it will get easier and easier for you to balance. You might even notice some subtle changes in your perception over a long period of doing the handstands. Or perhaps you won’t. In any case, they will take place.

Ok, infuse everything you experience with joy. In other words, Enjoy Everything!

Love, Wildness, Chaos, and Joy…….

-Garrett Daun

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What the hell is going on here?

You can now cut through all confusion, ignorance, frustration, and conflict to the bare facts. Whenever you find yourself anywhere, ask yourself, “What the Hell is Going on Here?”

Look, listen, smell, taste and feel the ever-changing answer for yourself.

You might find over time that this exercise allows you to see more clearly what is actually going on. This will help you discern between what is going on in your head and what is going on in reality.

Enjoy!

-Garrett

Tags: Health, Hell, Languages, programming, Real-Time, Strategy

20. Cognitive Endgame:

I learned this technique from Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt at the Descendance: The Clear Observer workshop in Arizona in June of 2007. It keeps coming to mind as a powerful example of using the awesome power of the cognitive brain to shut down and deconstruct patterns of inauthenticity, human game playing, manipulation, and simply feeling bad.

The End Game technique is useful in moments when there is no time to duck out and stretch your face or take a break to get a handle on things. This is an emergency technique you can use anywhere, anytime. Take a deep breath, and let’s begin.

In the beginning, you may want to try this technique on something minor until you get the hang of it enough to know how to let go of more major games in your life. Just because you let something go does not mean that everyone around you will do the same. Let the chips fall where they may, but be prepared to face organic reality at every turn…

If you would like this kind of solid support while making changes in your life, as well as a bunch of dynamic techniques to aid you in your journey, contact me by clicking here to schedule an introductory session.

END GAME:
Step 1. Recognize your reaction or experience as a repeat of something you have done before.
Step 2. Ask yourself, “How many times have I done this before in similar situations?”
Step 3. Use the cognitive brain to END the game NOW by making a solid decision to end the game when it is wasting time and energy.
Step 4. Let it go for real this time.
Step 5. Proceed in authenticity. Do what you really want and accept your results.

Decide to only play games you want to play. Play them deliberately and not by default. Know when you are playing games and when they are being played around and with you. Now, I do not necessarily mean board or video games here. I mean real life Role Playing Games. Identify some of your own and leave a comment to that effect.

Just today I used the End Game technique to stop lying to myself about some of my personal relationships. There were subtle manipulations and fears I had allowed to dominate and control my mind and my actions. I made note of the hundreds of times in the past I had played that same game, over and over. Next, I consciously decided to STOP playing the game, once and for all. I then phoned the people involved and came clean about my former game playing and made known the truth of my situation and my desires.

This produced the results:
1. Bringing me into much closer touch with myself
2. Bringing me into deeper intimacy with a close personal friend.
3. Made me feel instantly lighter and better.
4. Brought me to tears over how difficult it had once been to be authentic, and how suddenly easy it became.

How about you?

21. Fists of Fury:

This simple exercise will allow you to detense, and thus access the massive power available, in your arms and hands. It provides an added benefit of stimulating the large portions of the brain dedicated to the hands. More on that later.

Take a few deep breaths. After a complete exhale, make fists as tight as you can without hurting yourself. Do so for the duration of a full inhale. Say, “Ah” and exhale fully while opening the hands as wide as you can. Repeat with the breath. Repeat for 3 or more minutes.

After you have finished with 3 or more minutes of opening and closing the fists in synch with your breathing, find a bed or thick, soft pillows. Either lay down, stand, or kneel next to the bed. Take a deep breath in. Give a loud shout as you punch your fists hard on the mattress or large pillow. Take another breath in and repeat. Do for 3-4 minutes.

Take a few moments to sense and feel your body after you have completed the exercise.

I will again remind you that after doing each of the exercises I have provided in this blog, you will know intuitively how to construct a daily routine for yourself. You can also create a whole weekend around working with yourself in these ways. It can be fun and/or disturbing to work with a partner….;)

22. Backwards Walking.

This one is extremely simple, and yet, the results can be profound. You will know what the results are when you do it for yourself long enough to find out. Are you starting to recognize a pattern here? You will have to conduct your own experiments to get your own results. All else is a variation on the theme of entertainment!

Walk backwards. Challenge yourself to do it for longer and longer walks. Watch the reactions you get from other people. I was surprised to find that most people did not respond at all. Others asked why I was doing it. Yet others sneered. Hilarious!

You can also try backwards jumping rope and backwards running. Master the walking first.

Check out this short video for an example:

That was shot in Carlsbad, CA with a tiny little Hello Kitty digital camera. I was indeed walking backwards, as evidenced by my big smile.

-Garrett

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