************* The following message is relayed to you by trom@lists.newciv.org ************ Hi Leoncio I like your description of what happened. Flying rudes isn't TROM but it got me past my block so I could make progress with TROM again.
Keep on TROMing Pete Sent from my iPad On Feb 29, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Leôncio Madruga <lsmadr...@selecom.com.br> wrote: > ************* > The following message is relayed to you by trom@lists.newciv.org > ************ > Hi Martin, Pete, and all trommers > > " As the mind only contains his own past postulates, he cannot possibly ever > win the game against his own mind. It is the one game he can only lose. " > > In fact the word 'mind' in above text means 'reative mind'. > > And our analytical mind is continuously playing games with our reactive mind. > > I disagree with Dennis when he say that our analytical mind only can lose the > game with our reactive mind: sometimes we can win the game! Using TROM, for > example, is a winner strategy for this game. > > When Pete was in his blue funk his analytical mind was overwhelmed by his > reactive mind with some 'blue funk' postulate. > > He knew that he could solve the problem using TROM, but he couldn't. > > The 'blue funk' postulate put Pete into a procrastination mode: he knew what > would be better to do, but he could not do anything with TROM. He was forced > to not know TROM exercises. > > Then he studied and successfully applied another technology, which was not > known by his mind (both reactive and analytical). The unknown-ness of this > strategy did not allow a new procrastination overwhelm, and Pete got ARC. > (Am I plausible Pete?) > > So, every procrastination is clearly an overwhelm from the reactive mind, > with the analytical mind assuming the overwhelming postulate to not to do > something. Each new postulate introduced by analytical mind to overcome the > procrastination is followed by a counter postulate from reactive mind, > letting the being immobilized. > > Over the internet there are thousands of recipes to overcome procrastination. > This probes that it is not an easy task. > > Every human being, in some part of his life, gets wonderful results from good > technologies just to stop using it a little later. He can find several (and > of course, futile) reasons to stop using it and do not realize that his > analytical mind was forced to not know that technology again and entered in > pure procrastination mode. > > When a first read TROM book, I got enthusiastic and decided to start TROM > exercises in the next weekend. On Thursday I got a cold. I did not start TROM > exercises on that weekend, and on Monday my cold started to vanish. > > Then I decided to start again next weekend. New cold, new delay. > > Finally I got the message: my mind could not overwhelm my mind with a counter > postulate (because my enthusiasm about TROM were huge), so it overwhelmed my > body with a cold, but with the same effect. > > The solution was to overwhelm my reactive mind: I decided consciously to > procrastinate forever those TROM exercises (I think aloud that to myself, and > did not think to start exercises, but I knew, deep inside, I would). In this > movement I took in my mind a complimentary postulate, and that cold postulate > vanished completely. > > Then on the next Saturday morning I wake up (without any problems) and in > that precise moment I decided to start TROM exercises, without letting room > for cold-style procrastination. I got up, went to my home-office and > started with TROM exercises, successfully. > > My both minds learn with every new overwhelming strategies I introduce in my > games with reactive mind, so from times to times I got myself procrastinating > something without solution, looking for a new (i.e., unknown by me) and > workable strategy. It is not an easy task, either. > > Best tromming > > Leoncio > > > _______________________________________________ > Trom mailing list > Trom@lists.newciv.org > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list Trom@lists.newciv.org http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
