SELF MASTERY
IS, OF COURSE, FIRST!
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The core purpose of The Site is to have you gain life mastery so that you will learn how not to suffer and/or struggle in life and how to maximize your happiness, all towards your living your greatest life. The central entry would then, logically, be through the site Living Masterfully. The other sites are actually supporting site that will help one do that, so you'll likely be entering through The Life Management Alliance main site.
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It is interesting to see how we let our lives be run largely by lower level primitive mind programs, which were designed well but are incapable of adapting quickly enough to today's world and what we truly want in life (which comes from our higher brain if we are doing it right!).
And then, on top of that, we let our lives be run by "programs" we've adopted or learned to believe because others, especially "the culture", have put it forth, largely unexamined and not near perfect.
And then, on top of that, we let our child minds decide many things in life when that mind is not yet knowledgeable enough to choose well and does not have developed reasoning yet.
At one end of the scale, one can live life as a programmed, reactive automaton with many not so good emotions in life. At the other end, we can live life on purpose, knowledgeably and in such a way that we are at peace virtually all the time and also living a great life full of great results and great, enduring happiness.
I would guess that just being alive is great in and of itself. But it seems to me that we could do it without all the trauma and problems and repeated problems and repeated negative emotional consequences.
If we don't upgrade the programming (beliefs, ways of thinking, reacting), then our lives would seem logically to not be as good.
Am I missing anything here?
And, of course, to upgrade the programming we have to do some thinking about what is wrong and not working and what would work better. See Socrates' view on this: The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living - Why? (or at least now worth nearly as much!)!
Obviously the only way to do that is to change the programming so that it is true and effective for living the best life. (Duh! Of course!)
Few people seem to fully (some hardly at all?) "get it" - that the only way to a great life is through self mastery.
Gain true knowledge --> Use it --> Upgrade programs --> Get what want
or
Just live life .............Hope, occasional spurts --> Get what want?
What are "beliefs"? They are programs wired into our brains in neuronal patterns that if we do x, then y will result or that "this is true". If we have determined something is true then it is a valid belief and not just a hypothetical, but believed, belief.
Note that you cannot "get to" self mastery and being the master of your emotions without mastering your beliefs, as they lead to emotions (and behaviors).
Thus, your first "job" is to assure that your beliefs are upgraded and correct and that your emotions are managed.
Read, study, learn and implement these, as soon as possible:
