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May 22nd, 2013
The Deceptively Simple Secret to Living an Easy Life of Total Abundance
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#11

ElTighre

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 So EFT is just used to get rid of whatever is bothering you?
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shimmy

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awesome post.  well explained, easy to understand. 
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SnugglyBear

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Smirnoff wrote:
Very good post snuggly bear, possibly one of the most mature and well written posts I've read on here in a long time. Gold stuff mate.
Thanks mate, I appreciate it.

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So, can you post practical results from following this to give examples?

IE You used to be unemployed and overweight with $200 in the bank, now you run your own business, have 5 girls on rotation and maintain sub 10% bodyfat at 200lbs?


If this is your first question, I think you're missing the point. But sure, I'll get to that in a moment. The point is that when you feel this way, you're not results-obsessed or attached to any kind of material value, it's just a fun bonus that you enjoy as an extension of this FEELING. Of course, when you're not FEELING it, you're focussed on some outcome you logically THINK will make you FEEL better. Let this go.

And your reaction to this might be "fuck off hippy, that's a cop out."

But it's not. The truth is, if you don't put the feeling first, YOU WON'T EVEN REALLY ENJOY whatever abundance you manage to accumulate. You'll just be looking for the next thing instead of enjoying what you have now.

But to answer your question, the main thing is that it brought me from a place of emotional turbulence and instability to feeling really fucking good almost all of the time. It turned me into a person with only a few good friends who could barely count on me to a guy with tons of social abundance with tons of people who count on me now, blowing up my phone, wanting to go out every night of the week (guys AND girls) - and more importantly, really quality close friends that I love and trust and vice versa. It turned me from a guy who mostly pulled from social circle and online game to a guy who can get laid from a new girl off cold approach about once every other week (and when I was really applying the shit in this post to the fullest, I had runs where I fucked several girls off cold approach in a single weekend back to back). I got an awesome job where I get paid to do basically nothing and I'm surrounded by hot girls. And I'm ripped as fuck bitch. Anyway I'm done tooting my own horn. I also acquired this because I'm not a total pussy and I applied the principle in my post called DOING WHAT I FEAR. Letting go plus doing what you fear equals massive results.

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Excellently written. This is one of the very few texts that actually explain how to do something to the point where an outsider can understand it.

Having regular sex as a precondition to being socially attractive which is a precondition to having regular sex doesn't make sense but it seems to be a minor point of your post.

I never considered EFT because it is just one of many pseudo-psychological rituals that have no basis in actual science but it seems many people do have success with it. What do you actually do when you do EFT? Do you really tap some points of your body with your finger while saying some phrase and that's it?


Cheers for the compliment dude. Also I see what you mean about sex, I just wrote it in there as a bonus. Gym and clean eating is enough to get this buzz, but it's a nice motivation to get out there and pull to remember that regular sex will give you a nice chilled out feeling automatically. It's not a precondition but it sure fucking helps.

Yeah I felt the same way about EFT. Quite frankly anything not very practical these days makes me nauseous to look at because it feels like a waste of my time. I do EFT because it works. When I have a bad emotion because of something that happened in the past or something I'm anxious about in the future, I tap on it and it goes away and my vibe is clean again, and typically when I think about the thing that triggered it, the emotion doesn't come up again. The basic idea is that the areas you're tapping on are the energy centres for your emotion in your body, and by tapping on it (the phrases are secondary, it's just to link it mentally) you are literally physically flushing out the emotion. The proof is in the pudding, it works. But what most guys (including myself in the past) don't get is YOU HAVE TO BE FEELING THE EMOTION. You have to let it build up in your body and actually be feeling it before you tap on it, otherwise it's DOING NOTHING. If you feel it and tap on it, it eliminates it (sometimes you have to go through the tapping sequence a few times before it eliminates it entirely if the emotion is super strong). If you don't feel it, you might as well be tapping your dick.
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Such an awesome post. Thanks for taking the time to put it out there. It'll help guide many, including myself.

Cheers dude.
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 Good shit. Cannot recommend high quality diet, excercise, mediation and consciously CHOOSING to feel good enough. Your life will change.
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This interview is a great example of the RIGHT VIBE (Ryan Gosling obviously). Note his easygoing, fun attitude, where you can tell he feels super good but is able to maintain it because he is EXTREMELY RELAXED. Whether consciously or unconsciously he attains it because he has the mindset of letting go, of not taking anything too seriously or letting anything "stick" mentally or bother him. He's the type of guy who you can tell would fend for himself well if you dropped him into a random situation in a random place, yet still has MASSIVE ABUNDANCE in his life. Obviously the vibe will express itself differently in different guys so it's not wise to try to mimic Ryan Gosling, but the point is the FEELING he has is pretty much the same baseline you want to let go into and find consistency with.

www.youtube.com/watch
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#17

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 Niiice.. I'm gonna be a broken record and recommend TRE again here, it's been great for me for becoming more chilled out,

Also worth trying... COLD SHOWERS... I'm just getting into these (read some of the comments!).  The health benefits alone look immense (upped immune system, fatloss, tight glowing skin) whats also really cool is people reporting feeling calmer and energised.  Even people with depression and panic attacks saying its working wonders.  Fits in great with paleo eating too - if you think about it, hot water is unnatural, we've evolved to bathe in cold water.
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Some comments:
1.) Awesome wording of this stuff.  Kind of reminds me of the variable that fluctuates for me.  You talked about how guys can shift into this for minutes sometimes, or get lucky and do it for the night.  Then they go back and are like "Whoa was I really that awesome guy?!?!"  Yeah, its funny, to me this is like...you have to "stay in the dream" --> the realization of what just "happened" kind of fucks it up, and you go like basically "Whoa I was was dreaming!  Oh fuck...ruined the dream!"
2.) Awesome example video with Ryan Gosling too, actually.  So chill, relaxed, not "trying."
3.) I'll check out the EFT in the next few months.  Since the rest of what you're talkin bout sounds right on and in line w my experience, I can't not check it out.  
4.) I REALLY like how you put it, the "letting go of logic."  That's like the best words I think for describing the right headspace.  
5.) Also, just a detail that I think might be more key than you emphasize -- you kind of seem to mention 'doing things you fear' as a 'thing on the side', but I honestly think this is ESSENTIAL for the mindset you describe.  Cuz, if you don't do those, you'll run up near them, feel the fear, then you CAN'T be in that chill relaxed zone we want.  I really do like the way you put it: "Do the things you fear...just for FUN."  That's awesome.  

Some questions:
1.) You mentioned something to the extent of "You can even go get ripped in the gym, without being needy."  Are you kind of just pointing to a lot of "male accomplishments" being to "prove oneself" rather than "to express the self" and do what he wants?  
2.) On point 4, I guess you've exposed some weakness or chink in my armor AKA flawed belief system here...I had cut computer programming out of my life for 3 years.  Now I'm back in it.  I now fully accept that I can "be a nerd" in the day time as well as "get in my head" for the purposes of my job, but then I can be "out of my head" outside of work.  I guess I realize now...dur...I can't tell...should I be able to be in my head (logical, doing the job) and out of my head (fun and chatty w my coworkers) at the same time?  Obviously I can't expect anyone else around me to 'go first' as I have more life and social experience...noone else has had the experience of kickin the job out for 3 years and focusing on themselves, so if anyone were to be able to do it, it'd be me.  Actually, yeah...I guess there are times when I could still be doin the work yet still relaxed...  Good stuff SnugglyBear.  So not really a question but still room for others' thoughts there.  

My takeaways:
1.) Throwing this in a special new folder in my evernote called "Stuff to read every Sunday."  I'll be reading this once a week, for now.  Good reminders.  
2.) Will soon force myself to do 30 days of 20 minutes of meditation, to make it a regular habit I can do every day.  (I always start, then slack off on it.)
3.) Will lean into the fears EVEN MORE.  Actually, I already kinda have been these last few weeks, but I'm sure much more is to come.  
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Robby here, tried this today after a long plateu of frustration, anxiety and lack of fullfilment in a certain environment where I could not feel free and expressive, after a few hours of using this stuff from the moment I woke up today (8AM) up until now (12PM), I've had about 4 hours of practice and sarging and let me say this - THE RESULTS ARE STAGGERING, honestly it's like I faced one fear at a time without even noticing, it was like BAM BAM BAM BAM and everytime it was something a bit more uncomfortable, thing is:

A) I was not focused nor have I forced myself to face the fear, it just naturally happend as this state of mind just naturally flows into DOing and ACTing.

B) Every time I faced a fear (small or big as it may be) I've felt my state just went up, and up, and up. Thing is, I was relaxed from the get-go (I've had good "state" from the start), but as the day progressed my relaxed state just got more and more cemented until I was, as Tyler would put it, "ICE" (teeth), BUT, along with the unbreakable relaxed vibe, I also became more and more energised and took more and more action, I was litteraly dominating social groups, 100% giving value, keeping everyone captivated and simply HAD FUN.. thing is, I didn't even notice controlling groups, didn't even notice the time passing, only when I later looked back have I noticed how I LORDED AN ENTIRE SOCIAL GROUP for like 15 minutes straight, with the only thing I'm noticing (while this is happening) being the person I am talking to, and simply giving value (as in storytelling, sharing experiences, listening; all ego free of-course).

Anyway, I am amazed man, thank you, I will definatly practice this more, and I am sure to give another post later regarding my progress and impressions from this mindset/technique.
THANKS :D
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Livewired

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Join Date: 10/18/2011 | Posts: 209

amazing post, enjoyed reading it :)

eft looks interesting, can you anybody any books on it?
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