03-22-2011, 12:01 AM
alien wrote:
Sedna wrote:
What remains missing is real life examples. I get that when you are unsure you look to CC's words, but what seems missing is any application of those words to your actual life. I am beginning to wonder if anyone here actually practices any of this stuff or if it is mental practice alone?
I think several have given real life examples, including myself. Another stalking practice I occasionally engage in is when visiting The Mother-In-Law. In my "authentic self", I find this woman to be overbearing, manipulative and essentially about as annoying as a fly up one's nose. But when I stalk that awareness in myself as it relates to dealing with her, I go in with a smile, say what she wants to hear, and nod enthusiastically when she talks about her right-wing political views and insists that we really don't need a health care plan in the US because everyone should be able to pay for it as they go. Needless to say, I share none of her views, but as a stalker I have the absolute awareness that ANYTHING I say will only be used as an attempt to twist and manipulate... so I simply agree with timing, cunning, sweetness & forebearance. *shrugs* Nothing I can say will change her views, so the stalking exercise teaches me how to lose my own self-importance quickly & efficiently. It's not about stalking her - that would be altogether pointless - it's about stalking myself and my reactions to her.
I'm not sure what kind of examples you're looking for. Stalking is a subtle art in many ways, and something we do automatically once it becomes part of our being. It is a 24/7 prospect.
That is a good example from your own life. What has been given so far is made up examples, theoreticals, and quotes when what I am seeking is examples from people's lives that they can draw the correlation between what CC said and what they are doing.
From your example, I would take stalking others to me being disengenious...and this reiterates what you described stalking could do, but it also completely backs up what you are asserting someone did that you didn't like. Also, I don't see this resulting in an AP shift for either you or your mopther-in-law so it is not clear to me that this is even stalking in the proper sense. Do you see my confusion? I mean on one hand someone give the quote about shifting AP but then no one has an example from their life that they did that shifted the AP, and also someone posts that no stalking exercise has ever resulted in their AP being shifted.
Sedna wrote:
What remains missing is real life examples. I get that when you are unsure you look to CC's words, but what seems missing is any application of those words to your actual life. I am beginning to wonder if anyone here actually practices any of this stuff or if it is mental practice alone?
I think several have given real life examples, including myself. Another stalking practice I occasionally engage in is when visiting The Mother-In-Law. In my "authentic self", I find this woman to be overbearing, manipulative and essentially about as annoying as a fly up one's nose. But when I stalk that awareness in myself as it relates to dealing with her, I go in with a smile, say what she wants to hear, and nod enthusiastically when she talks about her right-wing political views and insists that we really don't need a health care plan in the US because everyone should be able to pay for it as they go. Needless to say, I share none of her views, but as a stalker I have the absolute awareness that ANYTHING I say will only be used as an attempt to twist and manipulate... so I simply agree with timing, cunning, sweetness & forebearance. *shrugs* Nothing I can say will change her views, so the stalking exercise teaches me how to lose my own self-importance quickly & efficiently. It's not about stalking her - that would be altogether pointless - it's about stalking myself and my reactions to her.
I'm not sure what kind of examples you're looking for. Stalking is a subtle art in many ways, and something we do automatically once it becomes part of our being. It is a 24/7 prospect.
That is a good example from your own life. What has been given so far is made up examples, theoreticals, and quotes when what I am seeking is examples from people's lives that they can draw the correlation between what CC said and what they are doing.
From your example, I would take stalking others to me being disengenious...and this reiterates what you described stalking could do, but it also completely backs up what you are asserting someone did that you didn't like. Also, I don't see this resulting in an AP shift for either you or your mopther-in-law so it is not clear to me that this is even stalking in the proper sense. Do you see my confusion? I mean on one hand someone give the quote about shifting AP but then no one has an example from their life that they did that shifted the AP, and also someone posts that no stalking exercise has ever resulted in their AP being shifted.