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Pocket Therapist
Drew Ellis
Obsoletes psychotherapies as it cures emotional problems, co-dependency, lying, procrastination, neurosis, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
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This Pocket Therapist booklet is excerpted and edited from the 160-page book Neo-Tech Cures Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Neurosis.
The Neo-Tech Cure is based on fully integrated honesty and is grounded in the inescapable fact that each individual is responsible for his or her own life and actions. As such, Neo-Tech provides each individual with the power to eliminate problems in any area of life. The power of Neo-Tech comes from self-Discipline, self-Thought, and self-Control -- the DTC technique.
There are essentially two approaches to psychotherapy. One is behavior therapy and the other has been labeled "talk therapy". The label "talk therapy" is used because the phrase describes both the process and mechanism. No matter what specific treatment modality is used, i.e., Gestalt, group, family, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, or any other specialty, the phrase "talk therapy" is accurate.
Behavior therapy is treatment based on learning theory derived from the work of men such as Pavlov, which holds that emotions, like anxiety, can be learned, and further, what can be learned can be unlearned. Behavior therapy methods are practical and involve common sense procedures such as exposing people gradually, step by step, to feared situations so that the fear can eventually be overcome. Such techniques have been proven successful in the treatment of conditions such as phobias and obsessive-compulsive illnesses.
The balance of this booklet pertains to "talk therapies".
Mental disorders are claimed to affect about 18 percent of the approximately 220 million Americans. Of these, it is estimated that 25 percent need the attention of a psychiatrist. ...Can it be true that 40 million Americans have a mental disorder and that 10 million "need" a psychiatrist? This author doubts it. As a result of such statistics and sentiments, there has been an explosion in the number of mental health workers over the last twenty years. Indeed, the fields of mental health and social work have experienced quantum growth compared to all other college programs.
In one study conducted by Vanderbuilt University, letters trying to determine the potential for negative effects of therapy were sent to practitioners in the field. Of the letters mailed, over 53% did not respond! Why? Were they ashamed? Were they too busy practicing techniques that might be harmful? Of those who responded, the overwhelming majority stated there were definite negative effects from psychotherapy. From the response of those practicing therapists it was concluded that from 3 to 6 percent of patients were made worse by psychotherapy. By "worse" it was meant there was a lasting deterioration directly attributable to therapy. And, since these percentages were derived from the "therapists" own figures, how much should they be increased to arrive at a more honest, accurate accounting?
In a Buckley University study, ninety-seven psychotherapists who had themselves undergone some form of psychotherapy were investigated. Naturally, this group reported widespread positive effects from their therapy. But, 21 percent admitted their treatment had also caused them harm, citing such factors as bad effects on their marriage, destructive "acting out" and withdrawal from the ordinary world. Another researcher, Lieverman, studied the effects of encounter groups and found the experience to be harmful to 7.5% of the people studied.
The Neo-Tech Cure is based on the following two fundamental definitions:
Neo-Tech is a noun or adjective meaning fully integrated honesty. Neo-Tech (fully integrated honesty) allows the guiltless creation of earned power, prosperity, health, happiness, and romantic love.
Mysticism is any attempt to deny, evade, or alter reality. Mysticism causes problems where problems need not exist.
You will find through Neo-Tech that natural highs begin flooding your mind as you begin to use your mind as it was meant by nature to be used. By using your own thoughts and DTC you increase your problem solving ability. You will begin to integrate reality rather than avoid or create reality. You alone are responsible for this new and ever-increasing power. As you grow in this process, this may be your first experience of real, honest, and genuine power: power earned through self-controlled and self-directed actions. As you continue to remove personal mysticism, the emotion of happiness will increase in intensity and duration. Indeed, the natural highs of self-control and happiness can reach an almost continuous state.
No longer will happy emotions simply dissipate to eventually become empty memories. With mysticism removed, positive and negative emotions become integrated with past and future actions. This creates a happiness account -- metaphorically similar to a bank account. Thus, at any given moment you can draw from your happiness account to privately experience the emotions and values you have earned. Even when life situations bring tremendous pressure and pain you can draw on that happiness account to experience your earned character and values in their full context.
Self-responsibility, honesty, and effort are the keys to harnessing vast power, genuine control, and limitless happiness. You are, once you pass this step, well on your way to the fountainhead of human life. You are beginning to enter the healthy, dynamic world of competitive value production. You are on your way to a rich and rewarding life.
One of the most fundamental Neo-Tech integrations links time to life. The wasting of time is the wasting of life. The more one moves toward lazy, dishonest, mystical actions, the less important time becomes. By contrast, the more one moves toward productive, honest Neo-Tech actions, the more important time becomes. As you begin to appreciate the value of time, the emotions you experience will be radically intensified.
You have made some bad, unintegrated judgments and decisions -- decisions that were not conducive to long-range competency, self-esteem, health, happiness, love, and prosperity. Now, based on a good-for-me/bad-for-me evaluation method[ 5 ], you realize that mysticism/rationalizing/drinking/drugs have caused your problems and pain. Through self-dishonesty and laziness you have created problems out of thin air, you have created problems where they did not need to exist. Creating problems where none need exist is the essence of all mysticism. By nature, dishonesty (mysticism) will always damage or destroy values.
One must pay for all errors in judgment even if they are innocent errors. You can never blame another person or situation for your problems. For, no matter what obstacles or life challenges come your way, a healthy integrating mind can always turn a negative into a positive. You alone are responsible for your life. And this includes what goes into and what comes out of your mouth, including words[ 6 ]. You alone must assume full responsibility for your mouth, your decisions, and your actions. Using Neo-Tech, you begin to realize that you do have the power to control and direct your life.
For many, this is a crucial step in self-control, happiness, and love. Each individual must make the decision to eliminate those people who impede their growth and who do not base their friendship or love on the exchange of values. As one specific, drinkers and drug users frequently build a cadre of co-alcoholics, drinking partners, or drug users. To eliminate these people may be difficult if they are people who, by traditional standards and habits, one is supposed to love and value, i.e., mother, father, brother, sister, spouse, lover, close friends. Yet, if such people have few or no values to exchange, then you have no reason to continue the relationship. ...You do not live your life for them. You live your life for yourself. Do not get fooled by the mystical trap of obligation. Also, do not get fooled by traditional lifestyles or habits that are erroneously idealized and popularized as fun and exciting[ 7 ]. Such lifestyles and habits can be traps that dupe people into believing that happiness and excitement come from external sources such as partying, socializing, sports, or obligatory family events as opposed to building a genuine base of self-esteem and happiness through honesty, value production, and the exchange of values with those people who are genuinely important to you.
As you elevate the value of your life, you open the door to new friendships, love relationships, and career associates. Human beings are social animals, thus, value-based relationships add greatly to happiness. This, in turn, further fuels your drive for happiness, love, and prosperity.
Most traditional therapeutic approaches contradict reality. They claim an outside person, therapist, or power will come and remove problems or your "defects" of character. By following the traditional approach you talk, wait, hope, and pray for something other than yourself to solve your problems and build your character. Due to self-dishonesty and laziness, reinforced by a history of defaulting, you have probably avoided many of the efforts of life. Because of this avoidance, you have not built the desired character nor experienced growing happiness.
You now have a choice: change your behavior or continue to default in this and other areas of life. However, reality always asserts itself. Defaulting on the crucial area of character development eventually leads to low self-esteem, stagnation, poverty, loneliness, and unhappiness. Yet, as character is self-made, it can be developed at any time through sustained effort. Using the Neo-Tech approach, you take action. You do not avoid those things that are difficult, complex, unpleasant, or require sustained DTC -- Discipline, Thought, and Control. You learn to make decisions based on reality, fully integrated honesty, and long-range planning. You build character.
Because character is earned through self-effort, it is a crucial ingredient of self-esteem, happiness, romantic love, and even prosperity. The nonvalue or limited value of things void of effort contribute very little to life. For example, consider how the effortlessness of being born attractive has little value compared to the high-effort trait of honesty or of creating life-enhancing values for mankind. Being honest and creating life-enhancing values requires sustained effort, integrated thinking, and DTC. Thus, it is logical, just, and natural that such self-developed traits bring more self-esteem, pride, happiness, and love than the no-effort coincidence of being born attractive. Similarly, the low-effort "external authority" (therapist, God, or government) approach to solving problems earns less self-esteem, happiness, and control than does the high-effort, self-responsibility, Neo-Tech approach.
Following traditional psychological treatment approaches leads people to believe they are powerless to correct life problems, pains, sorrows, unhappiness. Through such approaches, the solution becomes a therapist, counselor, group, or some unknowable higher power. This myth is devastating to the conscious mind. For it contradicts reality -- it denies individual knowledge and power which in turn makes life unknowable and uncontrollable. With such misinformation, is it any wonder the mind turns off and stops integrating, stops trying to understand the world, stops trying to direct life to happiness and values? Indeed, sustained contradictions or denials of reality severely damage the conscious mind.
By following traditional psychological therapy, people think that some external power or authority is guiding them when in reality they guide themselves. Through that myth people are robbed of the genuine happiness earned through consciously and competently solving their own problems and directing their own lives to values. The Neo-Tech approach puts each individual in control. Through that control and self-built character, a person is capable of capturing the happiness, love, and prosperity that arises from total self-responsibility and from producing values for others and society.
Emotions are spontaneous; they do not integrate. Emotions are not designed to direct life; they are designed to be the rewards of life. A temptation to act solely on emotions is a temptation to act automatically, to relieve the mind of the effort of being conscious and the effort of being honest. To automatically and continually act on emotions reduces conscious beings to the same level as automatically reacting, stimulus/response animals.
Conscious beings, by nature, are not designed to act automatically on feelings, whims, or wishes. This is a major key to emotional stability and lifetime happiness. For, feelings, whims, wishes, will try to seduce you into defaulting, seduce you into blaming, seduce you into laziness, seduce you into lies, seduce you into drinking or drug use. Feelings are mysticism's prime tools for controlling you and protecting itself. When honestly explored, it will be discovered there is a fine line between feelings, rationalizations, and mind-created realities. Yet, it is important to remember that many feelings and emotions are spontaneous -- they just happen[ 11 ]. Since individual, moment-to-moment feelings and emotions are spontaneous, they are not subject to right or wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral judgments. However, every single action is subject to such judgments.
The temptation to default on life responsibilities, to lie, to escape, to drink, to take drugs, will always be shrouded in feelings, emotions, rationalizations, and self-lies. One must exert great discipline, thought, and control (DTC) to direct actions. These actions, with time, will direct feelings. This is how one develops genuine self-control and self-esteem versus being controlled by fleeting feelings, whims, and wishes. Over the long term, it is objectively honest actions that create the positive emotions of life: pride, joy, pleasure, love, happiness. Just as it is objectively dishonest actions that create the negative emotions of life: sorrow, pain, fear, loneliness, unhappiness. Acting on emotions or feelings can provide a short-term, temporary sense of escape, satisfaction, and false happiness. But, once the behavior is finished, once the indulgence, the default, the drinking, or drug use has stopped, then the negative feelings return. For problems have not been solved. Unless this pattern is interrupted, thoughts and behaviors will always turn from integrating and problem solving to dishonesty, laziness, emotionally escaping, drinking, or getting high. All integrations toward honest values and dealing with reality are replaced by feelings, whims, wishes, lies, and rationalizations. The longer this default pattern is allowed to exist, the more damage is done to the body, to the mind, and to the emotional capacity for joy, love, and happiness.
| Neo-Tech integrates reality and captures life-long values by having actions beget feelings. ...Neo-Tech integrates the mind. Mysticism fabricates reality and destroys life-long values by have feelings beget actions. ...Mysticism disintegrates the mind.[ 12 ] |
Having actions beget emotions is like putting money in the bank. First you must work to earn the money, then you put the money in the bank. First you must control and direct actions, then you earn the positive rewards and emotions. And, just like the bank, the more discipline you exert to save, the more interest and money you have to draw from; the more discipline you exert to control and direct behaviors, the more joy and happiness you have to draw from.
Are You An Alcoholic?
Traditional treatment approaches spend much time defining what an alcoholic is and what type of behaviors, drinking patterns, metabolism, or heredity identify if one is an alcoholic. But such activities are pointless and designed to gain credibility, unearned power, and unearned livelihoods. Simply put, there is no net value in any form of frequent or heavy drinking. To ruminate over exactly when physical or psychological addiction begins is meaningless and dishonest. Such activities are used to bolster egos and foster the livelihoods of the entire profession of counselors, therapists, researchers, and government "experts". That intellectual and academic struggle to define exactly what constitutes alcoholism allows each individual to rationalize any drinking behavior that falls short of that "official" designation. The labeling of "alcoholic" by external authorities removes self-responsibility and provides a plethora of a-points needed to rationalize the facade of the-point. For the only the-point is self-honesty. There is no value in any form of frequent or heavy[ 13 ] drinking. Indeed, the disvalue of drinking, drug use, and self-indulging neurosis surfaces long before physical or psychological signs manifest themselves. It does not matter if you are physically addicted to alcohol or not[ 14 ]. Indeed, you know right now if you drink too frequently and or heavily. And this is the-point for your future sobriety and happiness. For there is only one valid the-point: complete and total self-honesty. There is no compromise to honesty. You are either honest or dishonest. In any given action or thought you cannot be partially honest or almost honest -- you are either honest or dishonest. And it is right here and right now that the self-dishonesty and the self-lies must end. The denial must end. For when fully honest with yourself, your drinking behavior becomes clearly and irrefutably obvious. No one needs to tell you or define for you what constitutes alcoholism[ 15 ]. The only thing that is needed is self-honesty.
Are you addicted to drugs or tobacco? Is it impossible for you to maintain an exercise or diet program? Are you compulsive? Do you procrastinate? Are you neurotic? Such labels and excuses are invalid. The only valid point is self-honesty, for self-honesty is the-point.
By not allowing cravings, impulses, or feelings to direct your actions, you gain a major advantage in recovery and in directing your life to values. As you are beginning to control your life and health, this is the perfect time to eliminate other forms of personal mysticism or addiction such as sugar, caffeine, chocolate, cigarettes, overeating, or television. The best way to eliminate any addiction is to simply stop. Stop immediately, completely, irrevocably, and without any crutches.
The more you diminish your ability to integrate in one area of life, the more you lose the ability to integrate in other areas of life as well. With this seductive process, it becomes easier and more tempting to default to the mysticisms of laziness, dishonesty, and external authorities -- it is easy and effortless to allow someone else to direct your life, to solve your problems, and to answer your questions. Soon, you become doped-up on low-effort, dishonest notions, and whimsical feelings. You are then spiraling down in values, and the momentum tends to keep pushing you in that down direction[ 17 ].
Following the Neo-Tech approach, you integrate reality. Once you honestly look deep within your mind and soul, you find your problems are based on mysticism[ 18 ]. Now, the true power of Neo-Tech comes to you. For, with the Neo-Tech approach you begin identifying mysticism in all areas of life. There is no limit to what you, the individual with a mysticism-free, integrating mind, can accomplish. Armed with integrated honesty you dump years of laziness, default, neurosis, drinking, drug use. You swiftly move into the world of value production -- the sunlit world of self-esteem, happiness, love, and prosperity. In this productive world, you no longer experience unearned guilt, for you are living life as designed by nature. ...You are following the nature of the conscious-integrating mind to be honest, to produce values, to be happy.
With the Neo-Tech approach, you easily spot people who may harm or hinder your productivity and happiness. The Neo-Tech approach allows you to integrate their actions and see them for who and what they really are. You realize that no external authority exists to help you achieve prosperity, happiness, or sobriety. You realize you alone have that power and you have that power in plenty by using Neo-Tech (fully integrated honesty).
All genuine happiness is derived through the creation of values. To not continually build and exchange values is to default to the lazy, self-lie norms promoted by today's upside-down world. Defaulting in the areas of value creation and self-honesty closes the door to all future growth. It is crucial to begin orienting your life around the creation of values as opposed to trying to find happiness from external sources. Your happiness must develop and grow from within yourself.
Happiness comes from being in control and solving problems. To be a success in life you must learn to solve problems. All life challenges are only temporary problems to be solved. Solving problems as they arise is, in reality, the easiest way to live. For every problem solved strengthens the conscious mind and builds self-esteem. The more problems you solve the happier you will be. And every default on problem solving such as laziness, dishonesty, neurosis, drinking, drug use; or seeking external authorities -- friends, family, spouse, counselors, therapists, priests, governments -- to solve problems for you, makes life harder and more complex. For then, skills are not developed, knowledge is not increased, and self-esteem is not earned. Indeed, exerting self-honesty and self-effort in solving life problems and challenges is the only way to experience forever growing prosperity, excitement, self-esteem, love, and happiness.
In a Neo-Tech world there is no dichotomy between thoughts and actions. The only reason there is a dichotomy between thoughts and actions in today's world is because of mysticism. Through mysticism, the human mind has learned laziness and dishonesty. All dishonesty ultimately means self-dishonesty. Each individual has access to the most powerful and potent entity in existence -- consciousness. Consciousness is the only thing in existence that can change or alter the course of life, nature, and existence itself. Everything else simply reacts: from animals, to gravity, to chemicals, to molecules, to atoms, to galaxies -- everything. It is only consciousness that has volition. It is consciousness that directs life and creates magnificent values such as food production, housing, electricity, cars, planes, rockets, jobs, and money. Consciousness indeed has the power to solve life problems. To control and direct conscious thought means to control and direct life. Conscious power is self-created through time, effort, discipline, thought, and control. There need be no dichotomy between thought and behavior. Any dichotomy that exists is the result of personal mysticism -- a dishonest, mind-created reality that rationalizes dishonesty, laziness, and the path of least resistance.
Take the one year Neo-Tech challenge. Go all out. Give 100%. Give everything you have. Gain control of the most powerful entity in existence -- your own conscious mind. Just do it. Live life the way it was meant to be lived. Do this for one year and see where it gets you. It is 100% guaranteed that if you do this you will be sober, happy, and directing your life to forever growing prosperity, excitement, romantic love, and happiness. Take this Neo-Tech challenge. You have nothing to lose but hangovers, drug stupors, and neurotic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. You have everything to gain. And if you "fall off the wagon", then get right back on. Do not indulge yourself. For if you do, it will be a week, a month, six months, a year, five years, a lifetime of default, rationalizing, drinking, drug use -- a lifetime wasted because you "fell off the wagon" and indulged yourself with lies and mind-created realities. And the exact same thing is true for procrastination. Procrastination is nothing but self-dishonesty and laziness. Procrastination delays, limits, and stops your success, achievement, and happiness. Indeed, the buck stops with you. The lies stop with you. The denial stops with you. The procrastination stops with you. No one can do this for you. No one can do this but you. The only route available is self-honesty, self-effort, self-control, and self-power.
The Neo-Tech approach is the opposite of talk therapies. The individual can never be dependent on nor get addicted to Neo-Tech as there is nothing to get addicted to. Each individual has the power to eliminate any type of personal problem or addiction. The power of Neo-Tech builds from a base of honesty, self-esteem, self-responsibility, competency, and love of life.
Armed with Neo-Tech (fully integrated honesty) and DTC, each individual captures ever increasing prosperity, happiness, and love.
"I can't convey the optimism and confidence this knowledge has instilled in me. I know that no problem is beyond my ability to solve given the time, knowledge, and ability I, with human consciousness, possess. Indeed, great times are ahead." J.B. CO
"Thank you for showing me the way to freedom from sugar, caffeine, cigarettes, and alcohol. Thank you for giving me the strength to achieve freedom from the cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other drugs I have used constantly to hid behind for over thirteen years. I am off the path of self-destruction and the search for mystical answers, and onto the path to life, health, happiness, and prosperity". W.S., CANADA
"Neo-Tech saved my marriage." W.P., WY
"After reading Neo-Tech, I achieved the following: an increase in personality, confidence, and security. I do not believe in any more authorities. I am done with wine, smoke, and drugs. As a result, I am absolutely healthy physically and mentally". R.A.M., MN
"I will use Neo-Tech everyday of my life. It has brought me to a better understanding of myself and to what life is all about. It has taught me that there is more to life than just partying and drugs, it's taught me to have morals, values, and to be a productive person." G.G., CA
"Since I received Neo-Tech my life has changed considerably. I have doubled my income, my grades have gone from about a 2.5 to a 4.0, my marriage has been rekindled and I have quit drugs completely. All of these changes took place in less than a month!" M.A., AZ
"Neo-Tech revived my motivation. My career is once again on the move, I have gotten two raises and the future looks great." S.G., UT
"Before Neo-Tech I was lazy and irresponsible. I smoked pot, drank alcohol, snorted crank, and lived on coffee and soft drinks. I worked at a minimum wage job and was ready to flunk out of college. Obviously my life was a mess! I was committing slow suicide. I quickly quit all drugs, doubled my income, and for the first time in my life, I will finish an entire quarter of college without skipping a single day of class. Also, my grades are now all A's and my boss tells me that I may soon be running his business." M.M., NM
"Due to Neo-Tech, I am now fully responsible for everything that happens in my life! I do not place the blame on others, or wait to be "discovered" by some "higher authority" who will recognize that I am "special" and worthy of great unearned wealth and prosperity...NO, NO, NO!!!
Truth is friend, I am special! So are you! We are all special when we take the responsibility to constantly live in the real world, to seize the opportunities available each day and ultimately realize the unlimited power of our individual consciousness.
Pounce on Neo-Tech! Consume it! Purge yourself of internal and external mysticisms and prosper forever!" P.T., CA
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[ 1 ]There may be a few valid applications for hypnosis such as pain control for terminally ill patients and certain phobias. The key is in finding a genuinely competent and ethical practitioner. The overriding negative for the general application of hypnosis is the relinquishing of self-control and self-responsibility.
[ 2 ]Mysticism is a rebellion against life, effort, and consciousness. Mysticism is placing emotions over reality. Mysticism is the mind trying to fabricate reality. Mysticism is following external authorities versus assuming total self-responsibility. Mysticism is following "higher powers" versus doing independent, integrated thinking. Mysticism is the path of least resistance versus the path of effort and DTC.
[ 3 ]Recovery of independent thought is possible at almost any age through the nearly infinite self-healing power of the human mind (this does not include cell death caused by alcohol or drugs), especially when made mysticism-free through Neo-Tech. Neo-Tech cures mysticism.
[ 4 ]However, there is nothing wrong with confiding in a spouse, lover, relative, work associate, or close friend. It can be valuable to share thoughts and feelings with someone you trust and respect. However, no matter what such people say, it remains your responsibility for integrating the rightness or wrongness of any decision and its actions. Similarly, it is solely your responsibility for implementing and maintaining any decision.
[ 5 ]See Advantage 93, in The Neo-Tech Discovery.
[ 6 ]See Advantage 73, The Neo-Tech Discovery.
[ 7 ]In today's upside-down world, the norm is to seek happiness from external sources. The endless drive for one-shot blasts of external fun, entertainment, and happiness is promoted by the high-visibility media.
[ 8 ]Character is not a product of birth, heredity, spiritual endowment, upbringing, or social standing. Personal character and power are created through conscious choices which manifest themselves in actions and behaviors. As consciousness has volition, a person can develop any character trait he or she chooses to possess.
[ 9 ]Such moments are indeed where all psychological and behavioral battles are fought. At these crisis points it is helpful to remember the "one-day-at-a-time" concept. For, it is easier to hold out for a day than for a year or for a lifetime. Indeed, the battle really breaks down to minutes and seconds. During these crisis periods, the internal dialogue and motivation must be changed. If you continue to think about the problem behavior, you will probably succumb. You need to interrupt that thought pattern and focus on something else. You may try focusing on a personal goal and immediately dig into specific plans, work, details. Or think about your job, spouse, family, anything that is value oriented. Immerse your thoughts and actions in concrete detail. Another alternative, if available, is to exercise or do some other physical activity to divert your thinking. The need is to change your thoughts and motivation from defaulting to something real and productive.
A second crisis point can occur after gaining control of the initial crisis, that second crisis point is impulse action. Say, for example, you have ended a romantic love relationship. Rationally, you know it is best to not talk to the other person, yet all day long you have struggled with the desire to call. All day you conquer and control your urge. Then, suddenly, nonthinkingly you pick up the phone and call -- just to say "hi". Such nonthinking impulse actions tend to follow internal crisis periods -- this is mysticism's one last attempt at getting its way. You must force yourself to be fully conscious and exert DTC to not act blindly or on impulses.
Consider psychology's most fundamental and proven law: you get more of what you reinforce. ...If you act automatically or nonthinkingly, then automatic/nonthinking actions are reinforced. If you act neurotic, petty, jealous, lazy, or lie, such behaviors are reinforced. However, if you exert self-control and consciousness, then control and consciousness are reinforced. This simple law is a powerful key to directing life and behaviors.
[ 10 ]Such feelings, however, quickly generate a series of rationalized thoughts, reasons, or mind-created realities to justify themselves and the behavior. Mysticism is like a spoiled child trying to get his way.
[ 11 ]However, long-term feelings and emotions are controllable and follow the law of cause and effect. The cause is honesty and effort and the effect is happiness and joy. An individual's net happiness level is a mirror reflection of that individual's net life choices of honesty and effort.
Emotions are the only way we experience happiness or pain. Genuine happiness is a signal that life is being lived correctly. Painful emotions are warning signals that something is wrong.
[ 12 ]See The Neo-Tech Discovery.
[ 13 ]Frequent or heavy drinking need not to be further defined. To attempt to do so would lead to the same academic type of debate as defining what constitutes alcoholism. The only the-point is self-honesty. You know if you drink too frequently or heavily. And if you default, if you lie to yourself and others under this open ended "frequently or heavily" clause, then you would also lie and default if the wording said alcoholic. For the real issue is one of self-honesty.
Anytime you lie you ultimately harm yourself more than anyone else. For lies and laziness (mysticism) will, by nature, always destroy values. Drinking and drugs negatively affect those around you: spouse, family, friends, and work associates, but the ultimate damage and destruction is to yourself. For with time this progressive disease (mysticism, exhibited through drinking, drugs, neurosis) will destroy all the values you possess or wish to possess: pride, career, prosperity, family, love, happiness, and life itself. The following quote, from the Neo-Tech Discovery, is printed with permission.
"Both the direct and indirect effects of alcohol and drug use are negative and harmful. Even in moderate amounts, alcohol and drugs act on the mind to distort reality. Unnatural distortions of reality are negative because consciousness requires an accurate perception of reality in order to make the judgments needed for survival, high quality living, and long-range happiness.
"Initially, the damage from alcohol and drugs is subtle and so well rationalized that the user does not allow him or herself to become aware of the psychological, intellectual, and physical damage that may be occurring. Even a few alcoholic drinks can cause irreversible damage to a minute percentage of brain cells by a dehydration effect that causes a sludging together of red blood cells. This sludging tends to clog the blood capillaries and thus diminishes the amount of oxygen reaching those brain cells fed by the minutest of these capillaries. Some of these oxygen-starved brain cells die each time this dehydration or sludging effect occurs. Damaged or destroyed brain cells do not regenerate. Any single occurrence of alcohol brain-cell damage is not readily noticeable or measurable. But the effect is accumulative and at some point in life this process begins to have a measurable and noticeably negative effect on the mind."
In spite of the damaging effects of alcohol and drugs, no rational or moral reason exists for government to restrict, control, or forbid by force the sale or use of alcohol or any drug in any way whatsoever. No person or government has the right to initiate or threaten force against any individual who is not violating the individual property rights of others. Individuals have the basic right to do anything with their lives they choose, including damaging themselves by using alcohol and drugs, just as they have the right to damage themselves with tobacco, sugar, caffeine, religion, promiscuous sex, mysticism, and suicide...so long as they do not initiate force or fraud against any other individual.
[ 14 ]With the exception of dealing with the short-term medical needs of physical withdrawal, addiction is not an issue. Even this point is questionable. Stanton Peele, a well-respected researcher of addictions shows the best way to stop an unwanted habit or addiction is to simply stop -- without any aids or crutches. Stopping in this manner is best, even in the most severe case of physical and psychological addiction. For example, Peele's studies showed that 95% of the soldiers who were addicted to heroin in Vietnam were able to end their use when they returned to the United States. Furthermore, 85% of those who were classified as seriously addicted were able to simply stop, cold turkey.
[ 15 ]Total abstinence may be required for most alcoholics.
[ 16 ]See The Neo-Tech Discovery for information on the CAS (Caffeine, Alcohol, Sugar) Happiness Diet. The elimination of caffeine, alcohol, and sugar adds greatly to individual happiness. The best reference for a low-carbohydrate, fat-loss diet is Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, published by Bantam Books. Having a healthy, trim body greatly adds to self-esteem, happiness, and romantic love.
[ 17 ]If you turn the tide and begin spiraling up in values, then the momentum tends to keep pushing you in that up direction. However, the energy and DTC to maintain an upward spiral is greater than the low-effort or no-effort of spiraling down. That is why so many people fail. They give up or default on effort and DTC. However, this is really only an illusion. For the easiest, indeed the only route to abiding happiness, love, and prosperity is through effort and DTC. In the long run, a low-effort life of spiraling down becomes very hard, unpleasant, and unhappy. For example, the low-effort life of a street person is far harder and less happy than the high-effort life of a successful, loving, family person, and businessperson.
Most people fall somewhere in between these two extremes. As such, they experience a corresponding level of happiness. Most people exert enough effort as young adults to get "ok" or "good" jobs -- in the middle ground. These jobs lead to houses, cars, and kids. However, twenty or thirty years later, most find themselves in boring, stagnant careers and home lives. Why? They stopped exerting effort and DTC. Their stagnation is a result of too many sitcoms, football games, happy hours, and other diversions of integrated thinking -- diversions of the effort needed to direct their lives to ever increasing values, excitement, happiness, and love.
[ 18 ]The mind trying to fabricate reality, the mind avoiding problem solving, thus, the mind creating problems that did not need to exist.
[ 19 ]See Neo-Tech Get Rich By 2001, Neo-Publishing Company, for a complete description of the white-collar hoax. The hoax that keeps people from advancing in careers and income.
[ 20 ]A one year challenge does not minimize or preclude the day-to-day struggles you will face. In fact, potentially the most valid concept from the traditional treatment model is to take temptation and sobriety "one day at a time." You must exert the DTC to deal with each and every urge to escape, to drink, to take drugs, or to have any kind of default, no matter how frequently that urge is. But, focusing on the bigger picture will help you move past this initial day-by-day threat as you have a bigger goal and purpose.
[ 21 ]To fully capture the rewards of life you must develop a solid base of value production. For all other life values stem from this. You must produce enough values to support yourself and build a foundation for all the things you want out of life. To fully capture the rewards of life you must do forward-essence-movement, integrated thinking. This is where you move the essence of a company, business, or career forward. This is one of the greatest values and traits anyone can develop. However, if you are in a work situation that does not allow you to do this forward-essence-movement, then you may need to develop a new career or start your own business. No matter what, you need to break out of the low-effort rut of the 9-to-5 worker. See Neo-Tech Get Rich By 2001 by Mark Hamilton for a full description of the stagnation running rampant in American business today.
[ 22 ]Have your emotions and spark of life been deadened by failure, lost dreams, lost love, poverty, stagnation, alcohol, drugs? No matter what your emotional condition, within you lies a child of the past. That child is rich and alive with emotions. With Neo-Tech, you can rekindle the pure and powerful emotions of that child. That child, with honest, innocent emotions is waiting to be your guide to a life of excitement, prosperity, romantic love, and happiness.
[ 23 ]A caution with the one year goal. It is easy to start off with a strategy that is not realistic. Such a strategy quickly becomes overwhelming. Self-disciplines are built one or two at a time, not ten at a time. You may need to fully implement one discipline before undertaking another. However, each self-discipline captured will speed the development of new self-disciplines.
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