Comments on: Go Beyond Knowing you could Die to Knowing How to Live

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:56:36 +0000

I really hope you benefit from this technique. I would be very interested to know what realisation you (or anyone else) have from it. You can find out how to contact me through my contact page.

You do not need to worry about it bringing up regret. It may bring up things to begin with but as you go deeper you will come to an answer that will show you how to go past regret. This technique is not about the past or the future.

The realisation is not to live in the now. This is a shallow answer, only the beginning.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:07:33 +0000

Wow, what a great article. I believe up to now the best technique I had found for building leverage over yourself was the common NLP exercises where you state a goal (i.e. how you want to be) and then systematically go back and forth in one-, five-, ten-, and twenty-year intervals two times – once for imagining how your life will be if you do not change, and once for how it will be when you actually do.

But this article is… quite a few notches removed from that as far as effectiveness goes. In fact, it’s a bit scary. But I will definitely return to it and do it in as much depth as possible, when I’m ready to deal with the potential regret it’ll inevitably bring up.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:21:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment, it’s good to know it was useful

By: Loraleigh Vance

Loraleigh Vance — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:43:54 +0000

What a powerful post.

And at a particularly good time for me. I’ve been stagnating and wallowing, neither pretty sights.

Thanks for the inspiring thoughts.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:34:12 +0000

Well said Kate. Realising the temporary nature of everything in life is critical in beginning to break out of our ego driven world.

However it is only the beginning, there is a massive amount still to learn

By: Kate Saltfleet

Kate Saltfleet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:25:24 +0000

Thanks for this insightful article. The awareness of one’s mortality is the key to self knowledge. It doesn’t mean being morbid, but awareness that this life is temporary, which gives freedom to explore its meaning, rather than being caught up in the ego.

In the West we deny and bury thoughts and feelings that make us uncomfortable and death is the ultimate discomfort. However there is something to be said for facing these facts and then learning lessons from them.nI guess that is why so many cultures have a Book of the Dead which is said to hold the keys to life.