Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady

- Contact - “Obsessive thoughts deal in never and impossibility. Obsessive thoughts are never happy since they want only what they cannot have since lies can never be true. “ Willingness cuts both ways like faith, hope, trust, and belief.  The will to have faith in faithless things, hope in hopeless things, trust in what is not trustworthy, or belief in the unbelievable only leads to frustration....

- Contact - John and I have a long history.  He wanted to focus on some of his questions and so we have.  He also thought his questions might help others too.  The opportunity to have his proactive focus is helpful as this discussion develops.  We will probably continue as his questions were ordered on a pad many pages long and may be growing.  Some things to consider, or think about:  We are free...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid motion of current events. We are free to choose what we think.  It is what we choose that largely impacts our experience.  It is how well we think about what is happening that determines our sense of well-being.   Thoughts defend what is not t...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid motion of current events. We're beginning to openly discuss how to notice, confront and dissolve the interference obsessive thinking appears to create.  When thoughts are imagined to be true our seeming reality develops an easily recogniz...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid nature of current events. May’s Principle is Integrity.  Integrity is integration.  Since integration is inclusive we cannot be alone or apart - from anyone or anything. Obsessively thinking about our “self” is embarrassing when what we think...

- Contact - John and I have a long history.  He wanted to focus on some of his questions and so we did.  He also thought his questions might help others too.  The opportunity to have his proactive focus is helpful as this discussion develops.  We will probably continue as his questions were ordered on a pad many pages long.   Words along with outward actions do not define who we are but what we th...

- Contact - May's principle is Integrity; which is integration since what is Absolute is the seamless nature of all that is and all that are: all that exists.   Principles are indivisible, inviolable, indiscriminate, and equitable since they reflect the operating basis for functional capacity, of humans and all things.  We share these since there are no distinctions in them, there is nothing...

- Contact - Both of these generous men have first-hand experience with violence and talk about the impact of their experience that had it seem to become second nature. They are both close friends and appreciating their frankness is easy since the vulnerable aspects of childhood and trauma are often thought to be hidden.   Violence is brewed internally with thoughts that are conflicted. There is no...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid nature of current events. The right to think does not make what we think right. Inner conflict and emotional turmoil reflect lies that only appear to exist in thought.  Once thoughts seem true thinking we create reality we imagine what we thin...

- Contact - MOD episodes inclusively overlap as they have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid nature of current events. It is not what is said or what is happening, but what we think of it that has the greatest impact on our experience.  If it is not what we hear or what is happening that we experience then...

- Contact - MOD episodes inclusively overlap as they have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid nature of current events. Our discussion is not about agreement, faith, or belief. Considering what is said and watching your responses or reactions may help you see how you effect shifts in your awareness.  Conside...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid nature of current events. “All we are is peace, love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that we are not.” Jack Pransky InsideOutUnderstanding.com Response-ability is the ability to respond. Accountability adds up - or something is...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid nature of current events.  “All we are is peace, love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that we are not.” Jack Pransky InsideOutUnderstanding.com It is a leap to consider delusion, lies or hallucinations have any power but to the...

- Contact - QUOTE: This month from Stacey V:  “All we are is peace, love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that we are not.” JackPransky InsideOutUnderstanding.com Courage is natural when not discouraged.  Trying to turn a wrong thought into one that is right is discouraging.  This attempt stems from thinking incorrect thoughts are, or can be, true thus making reality dependent on th...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events. Consequences are immediate effects of a cause. Feelings are the body’s language.  What we think about what is happening is the  primary cause of our feelings.  Observation is our present awareness and  as a ref...

- Contact - This episode looks at childhood trauma, violence, racism, inequity, suppression, and oppression as an insane reaction to the internal struggle with obsessive thoughts trying desperately to turn our thoughts into reality and truth as we think we become only what we think.   David and John have a history of fighting and though their backgrounds are diverse their stories are very similar....

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events. DECISION to act on principles: surrender of fight reveals peace. Faith in what is faith-full reveals what is full of greatness is our great-fullness.   When thoughts are seen as thoughts we have them as they ar...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events. Our inquisition continues and has been an open exploration of basic tenets often presented without rebuttal.  It is clarifying to engage John's determination and is stimulating a greater awareness of this...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events. Knowing awareness is immediate since any thought’s limit can never exceed what is boundless.  What becomes always changes so is not now what it was at the beginning of this sentence. That which is not bound in...

- Contact - Decisions aligned with what is actually happening confirm the useful purpose of thoughts. To believe in what is not happening as all that is happening is to think that thinking about thinking creates reality and truth as immediately as we think we become only what we think.  . What is manifest in thought can feel real just as the imagery of a movie or dream can “capture" our imagi...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events. John Perretti is a prior pugilist, painter, and poet.  He was a professor at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City, the co-creator of Extreme Fighting, and coined the term “Mixed Martial Arts.” He foun...

- Contact - This joint effort again looks at the source of the problem and includes an answer to what is the solution. It is simple, but not always easy since we are capable of complicating what we think about what is happening.  If we can think what is happening shouldn't be happening we think it is possible to control what is happening with thought.  In fact, all that is ever happening is a...

- Contact - John Perretti is a prior pugilist, painter, and poet.  He was a professor at School of the Visual Arts New York City, the co-creator of Extreme Fighting, and coined the term “Mixed Martial Arts.” He founded the gym Madison Avenue Muscle.  He also holds multiple world records for Free Dive Spearfishing and a would-have-been world record for a black marlin that had a bite taken out of it...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events. Sobriety is sanity.  Emotional sobriety is sane living.  Living as though we are only an image of thought - thought to be real and true - is insane.  Trying chronically to feel better about any mistaken idea is...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will each always reflect the moving nature of current events. 12 / 12 Page 100, Step Eleven: “Perhaps the real problem was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives."  Bill Wilson points out that imagining, what is impossible as possib...