Chapter 12: Errors in Thinking and Perspective

Too often I see people making the same mistakes.  Some of these are mental errors, others are errors in context placement.  Let's tackle some of these.

Ignorance Is Bliss

I can probably think of a scenario where this is true.  But to accept it as given is an error.  I'll give you a simple example.  I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.  It ravaged my body and spirit.  If I had accepted this as the absolute truth I would have done nothing and accepted my state as permanent.  But I had the thought in my head that I was not born with this disease and perhaps I could reverse it.  Through years of trial and error I noticed that my attacks where I would be exhausted beyond belief and would fall asleep were related to my gut pain.  I used water fasting to cure my gut.  Once my gut was healed my autoimmune attacks decreased in frequency and intensity and my body could heal when I have it proper sleep, diet, exercise and removed stress by being conscious of what perspective I took in the inner world.  The lesson was that understanding and modeling reality - in this case my own nature and physiology - allowed me to use that understanding to shift the real world such that it would impact my quality of life greatly and impact my inner world experience.  If I did not come to the truth and the mechanism of how things actually worked I would never been able to institute change to make my life better.  This can be extrapolated to many other things.  Buy understanding the nature of how to operate a competitive business or how large corporations buy or how to get out of an armbar you can make a meaningful impact to the health of your arm or the health of your wallet.  In my case it was the health and well being of my body which meant everything in the world to me.  Think about it.