Hello All, from a sunny garden :-)
Ok I know where I am with this, and it is good to see that Oprah is not being endorsed. Sadly, and other than those who have been used to support the show and who have been manipulated by her work, this person would only be appealing to those interested in the same thing as she.. which is running a lucrative business based on emotional manipulation.
Kdag, the book looks interesting however for me (I know it’s not the same for everyone, neither should it be) I would steer clear of it due to the fact that it uses hypnosis techniques. For me, any form of hypnosis leaves a person vulnerable due to the trance states induced. Hypnotism of any sort, even in good intention, is a dangerous practice to train oneself into to me.
John, agreed on your initial note for trusting the gut.
If lgats work to knock out the faculty of logic in people then it makes sense to me.
Emotional manipulation (as you describe to generate transformation) is often overlooked in all of the manipulative situations and relationships that I have observed. It is very difficult to recognise, and near impossible to get out of once in.. without an outlet given (the point of transformation presented by lgat leader), it is the realisation of what is or has been going on, quite a painful realisation at that, which can start to lift a person out. Trusting the gut alone means that a person will stay stuck in due to the emotional manipulation involved and that is connected to our gut, quite right.
This bit is now a spanner in the works likely for some, so remember that it is personal, though for me life is a basis of chaos and chance.
When chances (opportunities) present themselves, autonomy means choice. So in simple terms I understand that we take our chances, or we do not, this based on multiple factors. So to say that something was just known to me, ‘ I just knew’, would be to add a proponent of magical thinking to something rather quite bland - I took a particular choice and it worked out well for me in this instance, though as chance would have it, my choice could have worked out in any way at all, desirable or undesirable.
To conclude, ‘trusting the gut’ for me is something that I would propose as a hidden, or more obscure sense of control in the psyche. It is completely illusory.
Trusting the senses in relation to the gut health for smaller things however, that’s a different story. I would and do look to this faculty when choosing things like foods and drinks to eat, small purchases, checking weather before stepping out, picking things needed for a trip, etc. That’s just enjoyment, and I am also rational in the sense that I am not packing a favourite ski outfit and boots to visit a very hot country.
If there is someone stood in front of me who I decide with my rational mind is an idiot, I will decide that (within) and move along with my day. Idiot or not, no chances, I have made my decision and I’m off.
Trusting the gut means second chancing, second guessing yourself due to the emotions (affects, as John says) involved.. they involve the values of general respect and kindness to all humanity etc. But, learning the hard way, not everybody utilises the same do they, and some do use them to manipulate, so it’s be rational o’clock for me. Always. The other bits are running unconsciously and I have no need to worry about them.
For larger areas of life, I would not trust the gut, and if I were, it would be the slight unconscious part of me running, it would not be a known intention and I do not believe that it should be.
I’d also say that awareness of trusting the gut is a dangerous trend because it gives the mind too many conscious options to consider in likely incorrect circumstances, options of which risk ending up as singular avenues of choice (dangerous huh) due to the repeat in preference (if allowed), that can and will stall decision making.
If anything, I would promote gut health for diet / physical health alone, and to leave it as an unconscious actor.
Note: trends are for making money.
Ok I know where I am with this, and it is good to see that Oprah is not being endorsed. Sadly, and other than those who have been used to support the show and who have been manipulated by her work, this person would only be appealing to those interested in the same thing as she.. which is running a lucrative business based on emotional manipulation.
Kdag, the book looks interesting however for me (I know it’s not the same for everyone, neither should it be) I would steer clear of it due to the fact that it uses hypnosis techniques. For me, any form of hypnosis leaves a person vulnerable due to the trance states induced. Hypnotism of any sort, even in good intention, is a dangerous practice to train oneself into to me.
John, agreed on your initial note for trusting the gut.
If lgats work to knock out the faculty of logic in people then it makes sense to me.
Emotional manipulation (as you describe to generate transformation) is often overlooked in all of the manipulative situations and relationships that I have observed. It is very difficult to recognise, and near impossible to get out of once in.. without an outlet given (the point of transformation presented by lgat leader), it is the realisation of what is or has been going on, quite a painful realisation at that, which can start to lift a person out. Trusting the gut alone means that a person will stay stuck in due to the emotional manipulation involved and that is connected to our gut, quite right.
This bit is now a spanner in the works likely for some, so remember that it is personal, though for me life is a basis of chaos and chance.
When chances (opportunities) present themselves, autonomy means choice. So in simple terms I understand that we take our chances, or we do not, this based on multiple factors. So to say that something was just known to me, ‘ I just knew’, would be to add a proponent of magical thinking to something rather quite bland - I took a particular choice and it worked out well for me in this instance, though as chance would have it, my choice could have worked out in any way at all, desirable or undesirable.
To conclude, ‘trusting the gut’ for me is something that I would propose as a hidden, or more obscure sense of control in the psyche. It is completely illusory.
Trusting the senses in relation to the gut health for smaller things however, that’s a different story. I would and do look to this faculty when choosing things like foods and drinks to eat, small purchases, checking weather before stepping out, picking things needed for a trip, etc. That’s just enjoyment, and I am also rational in the sense that I am not packing a favourite ski outfit and boots to visit a very hot country.
If there is someone stood in front of me who I decide with my rational mind is an idiot, I will decide that (within) and move along with my day. Idiot or not, no chances, I have made my decision and I’m off.
Trusting the gut means second chancing, second guessing yourself due to the emotions (affects, as John says) involved.. they involve the values of general respect and kindness to all humanity etc. But, learning the hard way, not everybody utilises the same do they, and some do use them to manipulate, so it’s be rational o’clock for me. Always. The other bits are running unconsciously and I have no need to worry about them.
For larger areas of life, I would not trust the gut, and if I were, it would be the slight unconscious part of me running, it would not be a known intention and I do not believe that it should be.
I’d also say that awareness of trusting the gut is a dangerous trend because it gives the mind too many conscious options to consider in likely incorrect circumstances, options of which risk ending up as singular avenues of choice (dangerous huh) due to the repeat in preference (if allowed), that can and will stall decision making.
If anything, I would promote gut health for diet / physical health alone, and to leave it as an unconscious actor.
Note: trends are for making money.