Human beings are born because of the accumulation of Chi. When it accumulates, there is life. There is one Chi that connects and pervades everything in the world.
Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi wrote the 4th-century book, The Great Happiness. In that book, he explains the energy the Chinese call Chi. Zhuangzi claims Chi is an eternal, non-physical life force. That life force is in a constant state of expansion. He also thought physical life has limits, but the amount of things to know has no limits.
Zhuangzi is a relativist precursor. True relativists believe absolute truths do not exist in physical life. Truth is an association with a core belief within a language or culture.
Chi exists around the world, according to Eastern esoteric schools of thought. Non-physical life force and energy flow are the Western words that describe Chi. The Indian word Prana has a similar meaning.
Huangdi, also known as the Yellow Emperor, lived 2,500 years before Zhuangzi. Huangdi developed what is now known as Chinese medicine. He believed Chi is the foundation for all healing. He developed acupuncture to remove self-created internal blockages that limit the flow of Chi through the body.
The ancient Chinese philosophers knew thoughts create physical matter. Our thoughts contain energy from our imagination which is an aspect of our non-physical self or soul. Thought energy flows through layers of our self’s consciousness, and we feel the effects of that motion.
Blocked energy from disturbing emotional thoughts manifests internally and physically in some way. When thought energy tries to change our cellular design, the cells respond.
Our cells contain atoms. Atoms are patterns of probabilities. When the cells receive the emotional energy we produce, they react to the probabilities that develop from the atoms in that energy.
Fearful thoughts restrict the energy flow or Chi through our bodies. Stress-free emotional thoughts increase our energy flow. Blocked emotional energy helps create the illnesses we experience.
Our emotional thoughts tell our cells what to do. And our atoms produce the appropriate probabilities based on the energy flow our thoughts give them. Probabilities and our perception of them create what we experience.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Monday, February 14, 2022
Your Narrows
Cameras Rolling Hearts Are Bowling.
Strike And Spare
Don’t Split Hairs In A Cove
Where Love Overflows.
Multicolored Lights Energy Takes A Bite.
Indelible Ink Paint Me Pink
Surrounded In Red Like Souls Just Wed.
A Sprinkle Of Flowers Dress The Hours.
In Chocolate Sauce, Strawberry’s Boss
When Valentines Arrows
Touch Your Narrows.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Strike And Spare
Don’t Split Hairs In A Cove
Where Love Overflows.
Multicolored Lights Energy Takes A Bite.
Indelible Ink Paint Me Pink
Surrounded In Red Like Souls Just Wed.
A Sprinkle Of Flowers Dress The Hours.
In Chocolate Sauce, Strawberry’s Boss
When Valentines Arrows
Touch Your Narrows.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Friday, January 28, 2022
Ready And Primed
Ancient Beliefs Don’t Do Me No Good
No More.
Nibbling Bones Until They Groan.
Phantom Thread Come To Bed
Footprints in Lice Rolled The Dice.
The Kind That Stick To Toughs
Already Bought With Behavior Taught.
Bandanna Savior — Any Flavor.
Search The Screens, Blow Some Beans.
Kiss The Bear In Your Hair.
Lift The Laird.
Discernment — Cut The Pear.
Forgiveness — Take The Dare.
Truth Time
Has A Different Rhyme.
An Inner Self
That’s Ready And Primed.
No More.
Nibbling Bones Until They Groan.
Phantom Thread Come To Bed
Footprints in Lice Rolled The Dice.
The Kind That Stick To Toughs
Already Bought With Behavior Taught.
Bandanna Savior — Any Flavor.
Search The Screens, Blow Some Beans.
Kiss The Bear In Your Hair.
Lift The Laird.
Discernment — Cut The Pear.
Forgiveness — Take The Dare.
Truth Time
Has A Different Rhyme.
An Inner Self
That’s Ready And Primed.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Belief Tune-Up
"The exploration of the highest reaches of human nature and of its ultimate possibilities has involved for me the continuous destruction of cherished axioms, the perpetual coping with seeming paradoxes, contradictions and vagueness.
And the occasional collapse around my ears of long established, firmly believed in and seemingly unassailable laws of psychology."
Abraham Maslow, the founder of humanistic psychology, wrote those thoughts. He identified a four-layer hierarchy of basic human needs. The four basic needs are physiological esteem, love, friendship, and security. Higher levels of needs also exist. Those needs are sensual understanding, esthetic appreciation, and spiritual needs. When we become aware of those needs, self-actualization comes to the surface. That means we believe we are the person we think we should be.
We live in a body filled with beliefs. Our ideas and thoughts are more than shadowed images. Thoughts act like invisible cells looking for a belief. Thoughts and beliefs affect our nervous system, and the body responds accordingly. The cells respond to core beliefs because there is so much emotion attached to them. Core beliefs are the deeply embedded emotional thoughts passed to us through our family and early education.
The core belief system includes deep-seated thoughts about relationships, duplicity, sexuality, truth, emotions, perceptions, religion, science, and the physical universe. Within those core beliefs, other beliefs develop through our associations and influences. We build thought fortresses around our body of core thoughts. And we challenge any incoming thoughts that do not conform to our core beliefs.
We also have hidden beliefs that fly in and out of our core belief environment. Examining beliefs enhances our awareness of who we are. We become more aware of the type of energy we project into our physical reality.
When we combine our beliefs with imagination and emotions, we form a mental picture of what we want to experience. We initiate the action of our consciousness through that desire. And it manifests physically in some way. The non-physical energy within us creates what we want to experience. Our beliefs create perceptions. And our physical and non-physical consciousness responds.
As Maslow points out, most of our beliefs need a tune-up because many of us are not aware of the manifesting power within emotionally charged beliefs. www.shortsleeves.net
Abraham Maslow, the founder of humanistic psychology, wrote those thoughts. He identified a four-layer hierarchy of basic human needs. The four basic needs are physiological esteem, love, friendship, and security. Higher levels of needs also exist. Those needs are sensual understanding, esthetic appreciation, and spiritual needs. When we become aware of those needs, self-actualization comes to the surface. That means we believe we are the person we think we should be.
We live in a body filled with beliefs. Our ideas and thoughts are more than shadowed images. Thoughts act like invisible cells looking for a belief. Thoughts and beliefs affect our nervous system, and the body responds accordingly. The cells respond to core beliefs because there is so much emotion attached to them. Core beliefs are the deeply embedded emotional thoughts passed to us through our family and early education.
The core belief system includes deep-seated thoughts about relationships, duplicity, sexuality, truth, emotions, perceptions, religion, science, and the physical universe. Within those core beliefs, other beliefs develop through our associations and influences. We build thought fortresses around our body of core thoughts. And we challenge any incoming thoughts that do not conform to our core beliefs.
We also have hidden beliefs that fly in and out of our core belief environment. Examining beliefs enhances our awareness of who we are. We become more aware of the type of energy we project into our physical reality.
When we combine our beliefs with imagination and emotions, we form a mental picture of what we want to experience. We initiate the action of our consciousness through that desire. And it manifests physically in some way. The non-physical energy within us creates what we want to experience. Our beliefs create perceptions. And our physical and non-physical consciousness responds.
As Maslow points out, most of our beliefs need a tune-up because many of us are not aware of the manifesting power within emotionally charged beliefs. www.shortsleeves.net
Friday, December 31, 2021
Open Mind
We Are Here. Time To Cheer.
Mr. Clean Let Out A Scream
Party Planner Is In The Virus Slammer.
Puddles Of Pain— Mental Rain. Pull Back The Curtain Nothing’s Certain. Showers Of Hours With No Name Grow Flowers In The Mist Of What To Gain.
Atoms Pray The Electromagnetic Way. Molecules Do The Hustle When Cells Sit In A Fear-Filled Duffle.
Folks Got A Little Looped On Twenty-Twenty-One’s Vaccine Scoop.
Fuss And Folly Still Sit On The Trolley Cause Monkey Shines Define The Times.
Yo,
Create Twenty-Two With An Open Mind.
Happy New Year!
Open Mind
H.T. Manogue
www.shortsleeves.net
Puddles Of Pain— Mental Rain. Pull Back The Curtain Nothing’s Certain. Showers Of Hours With No Name Grow Flowers In The Mist Of What To Gain.
Atoms Pray The Electromagnetic Way. Molecules Do The Hustle When Cells Sit In A Fear-Filled Duffle.
Folks Got A Little Looped On Twenty-Twenty-One’s Vaccine Scoop.
Fuss And Folly Still Sit On The Trolley Cause Monkey Shines Define The Times.
Yo,
Create Twenty-Two With An Open Mind.
Happy New Year!
Open Mind
H.T. Manogue
www.shortsleeves.net
Friday, December 24, 2021
Christmas Grease
Holiday Wishes And New Year’s Kisses!
Blinking Lights — Santa Thinks Twice.
Naughty Spanked Nice With Loaded Dice.
Party Glow. Children Know
No Sense Of Clock In A Flock
That Wears Red Socks.
Perception Pointing. Choice Anointing.
Emotions Rage. Anger’s On Parade.
Roasted Nuts. Eggnog Bunch.
Gifts Not Tiffs Define This Day.
Pesky Peeps Grow Webbed Feet
When Elves Sled And Treats Spread
The Ego From The Web.
A Connection Tree Is The Place To Be.
Smooth That Inner Crease
With Loving Christmas Grease.
www.shortsleeves.net
Blinking Lights — Santa Thinks Twice.
Naughty Spanked Nice With Loaded Dice.
Party Glow. Children Know
No Sense Of Clock In A Flock
That Wears Red Socks.
Perception Pointing. Choice Anointing.
Emotions Rage. Anger’s On Parade.
Roasted Nuts. Eggnog Bunch.
Gifts Not Tiffs Define This Day.
Pesky Peeps Grow Webbed Feet
When Elves Sled And Treats Spread
The Ego From The Web.
A Connection Tree Is The Place To Be.
Smooth That Inner Crease
With Loving Christmas Grease.
www.shortsleeves.net
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Beliefs Build And Protect Lies
Telling a lie is an act with a sharp focus. It is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point in a set or system of beliefs, in order to avoid the consequences of having that point occupied by the truth. This requires a degree of craftsmanship, in which the teller of the lie submits to objective constraints imposed by what he takes to be the truth. The liar is inescapably concerned with truth-values. In order to invent a lie at all, he must think he knows what is true. And in order to invent an effective lie, he must design his falsehood under the guidance of that truth.
On the other hand, a person who undertakes to bullshit his way through has much more freedom. His focus is panoramic rather than particular. He does not limit himself to inserting a certain falsehood at a specific point, and thus he is not constrained by the truths surrounding that point or intersecting it. He is prepared to fake the context as well, so far as need requires.
Princeton Philosophy Professor Harry G. Frankfurt wrote those thoughts in his 2005 book, On Bullshit. Frankfurt does an excellent job explaining the difference between lying and bullshit. We find ourselves in a world where liars and bullshit artists become political rock stars. The inequities in a capitalistic society give these modern-day bandits the ammunition they need to keep the lies and bull shit coming.
Beliefs have salient features. And one of those features is they begin to erode through the years. Beliefs are a mixture of old and new thoughts, so they are always vulnerable when new thoughts arrive. So if a fashionable societal belief doesn’t fit into a person’s perception of the world they live in at a particular moment, they lie. The lies create fresh beliefs, and they become new truths.
Beliefs act like invisible cells. They build perceptions and choices to protect the lies. The liar lives in the glory of his tweaked beliefs. The liar becomes the truthful one in his world of perceptions. If others don’t agree with the liar’s perceptions, they become liars. But the bullshit artist keeps on painting a world of altered truths until the bullshit propels him to a mental place where all the wordy shit-slinging no longer matters.
On the other hand, a person who undertakes to bullshit his way through has much more freedom. His focus is panoramic rather than particular. He does not limit himself to inserting a certain falsehood at a specific point, and thus he is not constrained by the truths surrounding that point or intersecting it. He is prepared to fake the context as well, so far as need requires.
Princeton Philosophy Professor Harry G. Frankfurt wrote those thoughts in his 2005 book, On Bullshit. Frankfurt does an excellent job explaining the difference between lying and bullshit. We find ourselves in a world where liars and bullshit artists become political rock stars. The inequities in a capitalistic society give these modern-day bandits the ammunition they need to keep the lies and bull shit coming.
Beliefs have salient features. And one of those features is they begin to erode through the years. Beliefs are a mixture of old and new thoughts, so they are always vulnerable when new thoughts arrive. So if a fashionable societal belief doesn’t fit into a person’s perception of the world they live in at a particular moment, they lie. The lies create fresh beliefs, and they become new truths.
Beliefs act like invisible cells. They build perceptions and choices to protect the lies. The liar lives in the glory of his tweaked beliefs. The liar becomes the truthful one in his world of perceptions. If others don’t agree with the liar’s perceptions, they become liars. But the bullshit artist keeps on painting a world of altered truths until the bullshit propels him to a mental place where all the wordy shit-slinging no longer matters.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
