Reacting is to loose control. I alway want to be acting so that I think it out before I perform. Visualization is a great process tooooooo.
 Walter1968
                                                
                                                Level 6
                                                Apr 13, 2018
                                            
                                                
                                                    Walter1968
                                                
                                                Level 6
                                                Apr 13, 2018                                            
                                        This concept is also a main point of Scientology. Their communications class has a course in "bull-baiting" where two people sit in chairs facing each other = only an inch or two apart. And then one would try to make the other laugh or react in some other way (withOUT touching them). Make faces, tell jokes, whatever. And the idea is for the other person to learn to be "at cause" = to NOT react to what others do. Then they switch places. I think it's a very good educational technique, and probably should also be used in middle schools across the country (I think it would cut down on bullying).
 Steve32867
                                                
                                                Level 5
                                                Apr 7, 2018
                                            
                                                
                                                    Steve32867
                                                
                                                Level 5
                                                Apr 7, 2018                                            
                                        Yes for sure. you aren't right about everything.
 LeighShelton
                                                
                                                Level 8
                                                Apr 2, 2018
                                            
                                                
                                                    LeighShelton
                                                
                                                Level 8
                                                Apr 2, 2018                                            
                                        We are human and life is complex. Vent when you need to vent and chill when you ought to chill....There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (Hightower)
 cava
                                                
                                                Level 7
                                                Apr 2, 2018
                                            
                                                
                                                    cava
                                                
                                                Level 7
                                                Apr 2, 2018                                            
                                        Life is an endless series of trainwrecks with only brief, commercial-like breaks of happiness.
Deadpool
Yes. This is a Western-thought-flavored, English-language distillation of some key Buddhist thought. It touches on mindfulness, being in the moment, responding vs. reacting, and discriminating and indentifying with "name-and-form".
 stinkeye_a
                                                
                                                Level 8
                                                Apr 2, 2018
                                            
                                                
                                                    stinkeye_a
                                                
                                                Level 8
                                                Apr 2, 2018