Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady

- Contact - Our discussion respects all twelve-step programs' tradition of anonymity so that we can speak openly about our associations without violating their suggested principles.  We also ask this tradition be respected at the level of press, radio, film and internet so that our participants if recognized are not disclosed at a public level beyond their choice to be heard. Anonymity may be...

- Contact - Some considerations:  Truth, Reality, and Love cannot be denied - no matter what we think - and our human experience of suffering is evidence we know this since we know more than we think, we know better.  Pain is our frank, honest, immediate admission we know something is wrong.   There is no addiction, loss, condemnation, pity, guilt, or shame in Truth, Reality, and Love. There is no...

- Contact - Some topics reviewed:  Reactive nature of obsessive thoughts.   What is happening is happening.   Maturity is not based on age.   Benders go in circles.   Ego is what we think of our “self”.  Functional literacy: reading our body language.   Change, fixed, still - unmoveable.  Stories are used to excuse our "self".   Service to others.  Community effort.   Flexibility, adjust...

- Contact - Some topics covered in this clip:  Learning is a function of the brain to help realize the body’s capacity. Learning does not make things work but comes to terms with how things have always worked. Thinking never knows and knowing never thinks - until thought expresses all that is known.   Thought has no impact on Knowing while they dramatically impact our human experience. To think we...

- Contact - Some topics from this conversation:   Being the change we want to see.  Confidence.   We are actors choosing the role we play.    How to bring balance to doubt.   What can we do?  "Maintaining" Being.   Boredom is the numbing consequence of denial.  Nature of Absolute Presence.  Knowing and thinking as distinct yet shared.    Opinions.   Sensation translates our environment....

- Contact - Our universe is based on principles that provide its functional capacity.  All that is happening is happening now with or without our thinking or understanding. Reality does not change, so does not happen, while It Is Absolutely Present as the  stable basis for all that happens. No position in thought, no matter how extreme, will improve or reduce our present state of Mind though think...

- Contact -  Some topics in this episode: Implementing the change you want to be Living with doubt rather than in it. Concession vs. surrender.   Child abuse, self-abuse Past traumatic issues Post as present traumas.  “Potholes” in my “past”  Past and future are imagined.   Therapy, medication.  Popping or getting beyond the bubble.  Fear, real and imagined.   How fight, flight, freezing, and fawn...

- Contact - Some points from this conversation:  Conceding we know we know and are aware we are aware.   Actions suggest we are actors and character defects suggest the parts we choose to play are defective once we think they're real - and who we are.  Time as an illusion; past and future as concepts.  Sick thoughts.  Responsibility - and our capacity to act irresponsibly.   Freedom to act wr...

- Contact - Two questions left from Alyssa and Sturgis III: Alyssa:  What becomes possible with access to an Ever Present Knowing Awareness?   Strugis:  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - why do we focus on “fools rush in” while the second part is “where angels fear to tread” where awe and essence and reality are not?   Why must we almost die to wake up to the reality and awe of an absolut...

- Contact - We can speak in absolute terms by conceding things are as they are no matter what we think.   Or we can reduce our potential to what we think by using words only to support our mistaken identity and all its contentions.  Words are expressions of thought that can be used as abundant guides or serve limited ideas.  We can feel better or worse by how well we see and express things accurat...

- Contact - Lies are not true so speak in twisted terms to think we can cover their nature. The past and future are used to dismiss our culpability for using them to excuse what we are doing.  The past and future are concepts held only in thought.  The Present is the culmination of all that has ever happened, and all that can happen, as it is happening, now.   The self centered in thought is what...

- Contact - Consider this, live with it, and watch how your thoughts act or react, as your body tenses or relaxes.  Your knowing awareness is greater than you think you know.  Thought adapts immediately to what we know compared to the time taken to misshape it around imagined thoughts that have no basis in reality.   Mind Knows and brains think.  Mind is Absolute Knowing, Peace, and Love.  What is...

- Contact - Responsibility is the ability to respond.  What we think has no impact on Absolute Principles while what we think dramatically impacts our human experience and functional capacity.  We experience what we think 24 hours a day.  No person, place, or thing has any greater impact on our experience than what we choose to think.  All voluntary outward actions begin with our first inner actio...

- Contact - Some things to consider and contemplate as an awakened meditation.   Principled concepts are indivisible and definitions only offer perspective to adjust thought's aim, depth of field, and focus.  To have doubt is to have doubtful thoughts.   Reactions protect lies, or what is wrong since we know better, we are repulsed.  Obsessive thoughts are lies so any actual relevance is cons...

- Contact - Addiction is a lie since the idea there is no other choice is a lie.  If there was no other choice there would be no choice or resulting conflict. The principle of choice always allows at least one of all possible choices and not choosing.  Obsessive thoughts, or lies, are the primary motivators of reactive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors.  Choosing denial to claim what is happeni...

- Contact - This conversation focuses on the questions from our second conversation:  Alyssa:  What does the Infinite enable, how is it practical? Sturgis: How are thoughts aligned, or maligned and what is their impact?  How can this be explained, or gotten across to someone?    This is the third of our three subsequent conversations.  Listening in order can offer context since they build on our c...

- Contact - This episode is the second of three for us as we continue to discuss mentally obsessive thoughts and reactive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors along with what we can do to foster or abandon this addictive tendency.   The two ending questions from our first conversation were:  Alyssa:  How does this relate to forgiveness?  Sturgis: How do feelings work in relation to thought? As you...

- Contact - Truth, Reality, Peace, Love, Light, and Life are Absolute and essential to human existence.   What IS Absolute is indivisible, indiscriminate, equitable, and not negotiable. There are no exceptions to what IS Absolute.  The opposite of the Absolute is Absolute.  When the opposite of something is the same it is not relative and thus not a thing but the potential for all things that rela...

- Contact - The mental-obsession is the core disease of reactive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors - also known as addictions.  If you suffer from mentally obsessive thinking you know it but may not understand why.  This mental ailment is not limited to people with overt or obvious addictions but all who struggle with inner conflict, emotional turmoil and mental anguish.     Our conversation wi...

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