The problem with reality is. . .it is too real.
Reality stings.
Reality is a headache.
A bit of fantasy and diversion is about all the aspirin you can take to deflect the throbbing ache of reality.
Fantasy? Maybe "Magic" is a better choice of words.
Daydream when you're bored at work?
Fantacize when you're stuck at school in algebra?
What does it take to break the ache?
Is there no escape from the TOO REAL part of life?
YES.
Yes what? Yes 'there is no escape?' or Yes 'there is an escape?'
There is and there is not. . .depending on how real you want the answer.
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Let's sit very quietly for just a moment and tune in and shutdown the background annoyances.
Total concentration for what follows, okay?
Big revelation coming up in 5. . .4. . .3. . .2. . .1. . .
YOU are the source of information to yourself.
Consequently, the bad news is going to come from YOU.
Your report to yourself (about reality) is something you can tamper with and jury-rig the message.
If you intercept that report on reality and counterfeit a false report. . .reality goes away and false reality replaces it.
Why would I do that?
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Let's reverse-engineer the situation and get a fresh perspective.
Remember, what we are doing is we're trying to learn what it takes to break the ache (of reality.)
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We have 2 choices.
1. Face reality and deal with it and live with the pain of the ache of existence
2. Deny the pain and confront a substitute (false-reality) and live in a "better" world
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Advantages? Disadvantages?
1.Facing reality means although you will be suffering you are actually dealing with the things causing the aches. You might develop skills which
make you stronger. You might adapt resourcefully. Maybe. Maybe not.
2.Denying pain by living in a false reality means you develop the kind of delusional mindset where life can seem more fun, mysterious, exciting, romantic or filled with grand purposes. The downside is your efforts are empty of effect on the real world. You waste your time. The "fun" doesn't last.
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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BREAK THE ACHE?
Confront or Deflect?
Notice how binary my presentation has been so far?
Why does it have to be either/or?
What if you took a dish from column A and a dish from column B to make the meal (of living) more palatable?
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Consider the following analogy.
Would you drink a tall glass of fresh, pure drinking water to quench your thirst?
What if it contained only 1 tiny drop of arsenic?
Get it?
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What is used develops. What is not used will atrophy.
Exercise your real muscles and your real muscles grow stronger.
Exercise your make-believe muscles and your real muscles atrophy. (Notice what I didn't say?)
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If you are dying of thirst crossing the desert while heading toward an oasis 1 mile away and you see a mirage seemingly one half mile away
do I have to ask you what will happen if your turn toward the mirage and ignore the real oasis?
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Life is time and what you do. Life is not really what you're THINKING while time is passing.
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Let's go back to the top.
What does it take to break the ache?
Alcohol, drugs, fantasy, make-believe, delusion are THE REPORT you give yourself after those things have tampered with reality.
Doesn't it feel better? SURE!
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Guess what? Real life didn't really get better!
Why? Reality is real.
Fantasy is not real.
The report your give to yourself can be true or phony.
What if you have lost track of the difference??
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What is a PLACEBO?
A placebo is an inert substance having no direct effect.
However--the expectation of a beneficial effect results in a report of benefit.
Slow down. . .
say that again!
What is a PLACEBO?
A placebo is an inert substance having no direct effect.
However--the expectation of a beneficial effect results in a report of benefit.
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Isn't this just another way of saying you can give yourself a false repot in order to BREAK THE ACHE?
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Here is where you can have an epiphany if you are ready for it.
Are you ready?
Are you giving your full attention?
You are about to make a connection you may not have ever consciously made before.
It may well change what you are able to think from now on!
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Big revelation coming up in 5. . .4. . .3. . .2. . .1. . .
The PLACEBO is nothing, but your REACTION is everything!
The PLACEBO does not cause the reaction.
The false report you give yourself causes the reaction.
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Being tickled is a phenomenon similar to the placebo.
Try tickling yourself. Can you? No.
But, if somebody else is involved. . .you can be tickled.
The touching of the "tickle zone" is a misleading distraction. It is a lie.
How can that be true? Try touching that tickle zone and tickling it.
Nothing. Zip. Nada.
See?
It is all inside your false report.
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Did you "get it" yet?
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The placebo in your life is a lie you are telling yourself to create the false report YOU THINK YOU NEED.
What does it take to break the ache?
Something inert (no direct effect) which you invest with meaning.
What is that false report in your life?
What is your placebo?
Remember how we started this topic?
The problem with reality is. . .it is too real.
ARE YOU DEALING WITH REALITY or are you busy trying to break the ache with some PLACEBO?