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Session #3:

The ‘Cracking Crux’



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Opening Thoughts:

Picture yourself waking up one morning in a great, positive, ambitious mood. You

feel so inspired that you decide that you want to go sailing:

You get excited by the idea of expanding your horizon, navigating the oceans, experi-encing the vastness and wonders of the seas… You’re so fired up, you just can’t waitto get going!

So the first thing you do, is go out and buy the best boat there is.

And then you think:

“Okay, now I’ve got the best boat… So my next course of action is to learn how to sailit. I’ve got to know how to raise the mast and how to harness the wind. I’ve got to getmyself the best clothes and the best gear that can handle any potential impact of theweather.”

So you compile all your resources. And once you’ve pulled all your stuff together, youstand on the dock next to me, and you say:

“Okay man, this is it, I’m ready to sail!”

You hop onto your boat, and you head out into the water. You’ve got the wind withyou.

You get further out, maybe three miles. Everything is going great! You go ahead, tenmiles, perhaps even thirty miles off shore. You’re sailing with ease, and it all feels so good!

And then, all of a sudden, right when you’re at the peak of your experience, you feelthis jolt from behind you…

It’s a terrible shock. The boat snaps in half, and it begins to sink…

And you think:

“What the heck?! I’ve got the best boat there is… I paid the best people to help medesign the best looking gear. Oh my goodness, I’ve got the best mast, the best sails…I know how to handle the wind, so that can’t be it… What the hell happened?!”

And as you’re flailing around and choke on the water that’s filling up your lungs, youlook back and you notice:

You never untied the boat from the dock…

And it ripped the boat in half…

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Table of contents

Foreword .............................................................................................................................. vi

Introduction: “Is It Me, Or Do Current Methods Just Not Work?!” ........................................ 1

Chapter 1: Prevailing Views On ‘Subconscious Programming’ ................................................ 3

1.1 The Basic Principles of Prevailing Philosophies ........................................................... 5

1.1.1 Repetition of Input ................................................................................................ 6

1.1.2 Repetition of Emotional Charge ........................................................................... 8

1.1.3 Pattern Reinforcement ...................................................................................... 11

1.1.4 Summary ............................................................................................................ 15

1.2 Investigating Popular Techniques .............................................................................. 17

1.3 Conclusion: What’s Missing? .................................................................................... 20Chapter 2: How We Really Function Subconsciously ............................................................ 22

2.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 22

2.2 Meta-Patterns ........................................................................................................... 23

2.2.1 Structural Meta-Patterns ................................................................................... 28

2.2.2 Thematic Meta-Patterns .................................................................................... 31

2.2.3 Practical Implications ........................................................................................ 36

2.3 Transcending The ‘Cracking Crux’ .............................................................................. 37

2.3.1 ‘Egg Marks’ ......................................................................................................... 38

2.3.2 Complex Cover-Up Mechanisms ........................................................................ 41

2.3.3 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ..................................................................................... 43

2.3.4 Identification ..................................................................................................... 44

2.4 A New Orientation .................................................................................................... 46

Conclusion: The ‘Danger’ of Positive Thinking ..................................................................... 49

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ForewordMake no mistake:

What you’re about to learn is potentially mind-blowing .

But before you begin to absorb the rest of this study guide, make sure you’ve watched the ‘CrackingCrux’-video it comes with. Because this report will use what was covered in the video as a startingpoint to take things up a notch and delve deeper into the matter at hand, which is the question of:

Why can it seem so hard to ‘crack your egg’… to break free from your subconsciously ingrainedlimiting patterns… despite all the various methods and techniques that exist out there and that youmay have already tried?

This manual provides the answer by shining a light on the very ‘blind spot’ that may have kept youfrom experiencing the big breakthroughs you’ve been after time and time again.

Big words, I know…

I mean, you probably came across a whole bunch of different ‘experts’ in the past few months alonewho all suggested they’re the exclusive keepers of the alleged “one missing secret.” There’s alwaysone more “golden nugget” or “deeper law” that nobody supposedly knew about before.

And here I am implying something similar…

Well, the truth is a little different. And this manual doesn’t so much give you a ‘missing secret,’ but

rather a different angle from which to look at yourself and pursue the most effective and rewardingroute to make the changes in your life you’re after (<-- for which you can even use techniques youmay have already tried in the past, this time with new awareness and increased effectiveness) .

In short, here’s what you’ll get from this study guide:

You’ll discover what’s quite likely to be the very underlying reason why we’re often left withlittle results from all our (many) efforts to make good and lasting changes in our lives, wonderingwhy so many approaches we’ve tried always turn out pretty much ineffective, or at least merelywork on a somewhat random, ‘hit-or-miss’ basis.

You’ll also see how the new understanding you’re about to gain actually enables you to get theresults you want after all (<-- even if that’s by using techniques that seem to have failed before) , because you’ll better and more completely understand how our subconscious minds really work (<-- which is probably a bit unlike you’ve been led to believe) .

Also, you’ll learn that all it takes to finally elicit notable and lasting results is a mere slight adjust-ment in focus, through awareness of an apparently ‘small’ thing that we may have overlookedbefore (<-- that may nevertheless enable us to easily instigate major shifts in our fundamentalorientation in life, and thus on the ‘reality’ we create and experience – as was explained in our

previous Session 2) .

Why can it seem so hard to ‘crack our eggs,’ i.e. to break free from our subconsciously ingrainedlimiting patterns, despite all the various methods and techniques that are already out thereand that we may have already tried?

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And best of all: you’ll see that once you do know all about this ‘blind spot,’ entirely new perspec-tive dawns, our outlook on life changes, and we’ll be able to define a fresh , systematic , step-by-step approach to finally ‘crack our eggs’ and break free once and for all.

Please Note:

Of course, I’m not delusional – I’m sure you’re not just going to take my word for it,particularly because…:

At first, the insight we’re about to gain may seem to challenge our existing understandingabout the subconscious mind.

As such, it may appear to be in conflict with our conditioned view and expectations ofhow transformational techniques should work…

And consequently, we might be inclined to immediately discard what I’m about to share,just because it doesn’t seem to be in line with our preconceived notions and expectations.

But honestly, that would be a real shame, because the potential empowering effect of what you’reabout to learn on your ability to finally elicit the kinds of shifts you long for is absolutely huge!

So in order to make sure you’ll give this new way of looking at things an honest chance,and to prevent your shutting down in the face of potentially paradigm-challenginginforma-tion, here’s something to keep in mind as you go through this study guide:

First of all, make sure you read the entire thing and don’t skip ahead.

The next few chapters are designed to explain as clearly as possible our new manner ofunderstanding the ways of our subconscious minds and the ‘method of operation’ of the‘egg,’ so that we can…:

Really get it … See through its subtle ways to sustain itself… Step up our game from ‘self help ’ (<-- or rather ‘shelf help,’ which would be a more

accurate term to describe the way most programs are used) to bona fide ‘self- actua -lization ’ and ‘self- mastery .’

This also means that the first parts of this study guide may include things we alreadyknow. That’s on purpose, as this information is meant to be understandable to anyone ,even those without a lot of prior knowledge on the subject. So bear with me if at first thisguide appears to merely point out what’s already blatantly obvious to you:

There’s a carefully thought-out build-up to its story. And just following its flow will reallyhelp you deeply ‘dig’ its essence. So stick with it. I promise the understanding and insightit all leads into can be truly profound and extremely liberating .

And secondly, make sure you realize that the aim of this study guide is not to de-grade existing methods and ‘experts’ or to be different for the mere sake of it, butrather to expand our paradigm and understanding .

As you’ll see, this manual is written from an integrative mentality, not a pigheaded orrebellious one.

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So all in all: what you’re about to learn is truly remarkable, and yet potentially challenging toaccept at first. So as you go through this study guide and get ready to discover what it is, I urgeyou to keep an open mind.

In the words of T.H. Huxley:

So let’s go!

“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”

“Alright, but thisbetter be good!”

In fact, once you really ‘get’ the concept that this manual is about to explain to you, you’llunderstand that the more expansive insights you’ll gain actually don’t challenge the valueof existing techniques, much less render them obsolete or worthless.

Instead, it offers you the opportunity to use them in new ways and get much more out of

them than you may have gotten so far.

(Of course I’ll also be offering various new techniques and protocols myself, should yoube interested in those. But these won’t render others useless. In fact they can often be puttogether in mutually reinforcing and synergistic conglomerations.)

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Introduction:

“Is It Me, Or Do CurrentMethods Just Not Work?!”

Let me tell you a quick story…

A while back I did a survey that gave me some clear revelations with regard to people’s experiencein the ‘self help’-marketplace. You might be able to relate to this. Here’s one of the questions Iasked:

“What is your biggest frustration in applying information on personal development subjects like‘changing your subconscious programming,’ the ‘Law of Attraction,’ achieving your goals, etc.?”

To be honest, the response was pretty overwhelming. And it was like I opened a cesspit. The answersI received were charged with quite a bit of anger and frustration (<-- which of course wasn’t that biga surprise, as I explicitly asked for people’s biggest frustration… but it did leave a somewhat un-settling impression of the average state of affairs) .

As you’ll recall, the ‘Cracking Crux’-video showed an email by a guy called Robert Simmons thatprovided a nice summary of the overall gist of most of the answers I received, which were prettymuch all along the following lines:

One expert after the other pops up with another alleged “one missing secret” that’s supposed togive you the big breakthrough you’ve been after and allegedly leaves all other methods either

obsolete or worthless.

Usually they suggest this new “secret” is completely “effortless”… i.e. you hardly have to doanything and it’s the easiest thing ever to get awe-inspiring results.

The websites for these programs and techniques are filled with testimonials of people whoseemingly were able to achieve astonishing results. And so it seems almost impossible to fail.

Nevertheless, all the while they keep trying one method after the other, but nothing reallyseems to work for them… or in case they do get any results to begin with, they’re usuallyrandom, mediocre, and/or temporary.

But there were also some other people who told me about a different feeling they had:

In outlining their biggest frustration, they drew me the following scenario that you may or may notbe able to relate to:

To be honest, that really struck me… I never realized that testimonials could have such adebilitating effect. So before we get started, let me get one thing out of the way:

One expert after the other pops up with another alleged “one missing secret” that’ssupposed to give you the big breakthrough you’ve been after and allegedly leaves all

other methods either obsolete or worthless.

Usually they suggest this new “secret” is completely “effortless” – in other words, theimplied message is that you hardly have to do anything and it’s the easiest thing everto get awe-inspiring results.

The websites for these programs and techniques are filled with testimonials of peoplewho were seemingly able to achieve astonishing results. And so it seems almostimpossible to fail.

Nevertheless, all the while you keep trying one method after the other, but nothing reallyseems to work… or in case you do get any results to begin with, they’re usually random,mediocre, and/or temporary.

“With all these testimonials, I’m starting to think that I’m stupid and that there’s somethinginherently wrong with me, because I can never get any of this stuff to work for me!”

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Sure… In the end, if nothing seems to work for you, in some way it is you… I mean, there muststill be something inside you, probably beyond your conscious awareness, that keeps holdingyou back, no matter what method you’ve been trying to make improvements.

But there’s nothing… I repeat: absolutely nothing inherently wrong with you! In helping myself

and many others, I’ve discovered that anyone can find an approach that works for them, if onlythey become aware of what seems to be a little-known concept that this report emphasizes.

Once you understand this principle, you’ll be able to define a systematic approach towards takingout whatever it is that’s holding you back, as opposed to using some random, ‘hit-or-miss’ strategythat’ll give you some hard-to-replicate ‘lucky hits’ at best…

You’ll even be able to include methods you already know in this approach, because now there will bea system behind what you do; it’ll no longer be arbitrary.

The key lies in understanding how we really function subconsciously. And that’s generally a little

different compared to what we’ve been led to believe.

Let me explain…

Please Note:

While the descriptions that follow can open and expand your mind to an entirely new sense ofpossibility and inspiration, complete intellectual understanding of the mechanisms discussedis not a requirement.

So in case the upcoming explanations come across as a little too complicated to your liking,rest assured knowing that its ultimate application (<-- which is what we’ll get into later on) is simple and straightforward.

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Chapter 1:

Prevailing Views On‘Subconscious Programming’

Of course, as our previous sessions have illustrated beyond any reasonable doubt, making changesin our subconscious programming is crucial if we want to instigate significant shifts in our life expe-rience and sense of happiness, success, empowerment and fulfillment.

After all, while most people think that they’re in full conscious control of their thoughts, attitudes,decisions and actions, the truth is that the great majority of ‘information processing’ and ‘decisionmaking’ takes place at the subconscious level, based on our ingrained, fundamental, implicit orien-tation on which we build our beliefs, concepts, values, worldviews, intentions, hopes, dreams, etc.

Session 2 made that abundantly clear. But in case that wasn’t enough for you to accept this notion,consider this illustrative experiment: 1

That’s pretty mind-blowing, isn’t it? Just in case it wasn’t clear already, here’s what this studyillustrates:

1 Libet, B., Wright Jr., Elwood W., Feinstein, B. and. D.K. Pearl (1979), “Subjective Referral of the Timing for a ConsciousSensory Experience - A Functional Role for the Somatosensory Specific Projection System in Man,” Brain , Vol. 102, pp.193-224.

Benjamin Libet and Betram Feinstein, two neurophysiologists at Mount Zion Hospital in SanFransisco, did an experiment in which they asked people to press a button as soon as they feltthey were touched.

The outcome was as follows:

The brain turned out to react to the touch in 0.0001 seconds, while it took people 0.1 secondsto actually push the button.

But here’s what was remarkable about the research:

The patients didn’t report being consciously aware of either the stimulus (the touch) orpressing the button for almost 0.5 seconds!

Let me tell you what this means:

It implies that decision to respond to the touch was made by the subconscious mind. None of the patients tested by Libet and Feinstein were aware that their unconscious minds had alreadycaused them to push the button before they had consciously ‘decided’ to do so!

Somehow their brains were creating the comforting delusion that they had consciouslycontrolled the action, even though they hadn’t.

Later studies have shown that 1.5 seconds before we ‘decide’ to contract one of our muscles(for example when we’re lifting a finger) the brain has already started to generate the signalsnecessary to make the movement.




In reality, it’s our subconscious mind that drives (the great majority) of our conscious thoughts, feelings and actions .

Then after the act , the brain makes us think that it was indeed us who made the actual decisionto act, while in truth it was really a purely automatic, unconscious process.

In other words: while we may think we’re in control and have total ‘free will,’ it’s our subconsciousprogramming that’s really calling the great majority of our shots!

As a result of this awareness, pretty much all mainstream personal development approaches andtechniques rightfully intend to help us manipulate our subconscious method of operation in a waythat’s supposed to help us ‘change,’ ‘overwrite,’ and/or ‘replace’ our existing belief structures andpatterns.

And indeed, all these methods can (more or less) have their place in the grander scheme of the process.

However, as we’ll learn in the next few sections, most of these approaches are based on a limitedunderstanding of how we really function subconsciously. That’s the reason why we usually…:

Don’t get any results at all…

Merely get mediocre results that can hardly be qualified as pivot points on which our true senseof happiness, success and fulfillment in life hinge (<-- like “attracting” nice restaurant tables and

parking spots) …

Or only get temporary results (<-- varying from mediocre to indeed notable) that don’t seem tolast…

In this chapter we’ll discover why that is:

Section 1.1 quickly discusses the prevailing philosophy about the way our subconscious mindspresumably function, which is the body of knowledge on which most contemporary personaldevelopment techniques and approaches are based.

After that, Section 1.2 digs deeper into the rationale behind these methods and why they’reassumed to be effective for making significant changes in our subconscious programming.

And finally, based on this exploration, in Section 1.3 we’ll pin down the exact blind spot in theserationales that often keeps results at bay, and how we can overcome this shortcoming to finallyelicit the results we’ve been after for so long.

So let’s get to it…




1.1 The Basic Principles of Prevailing Philosophies

As you may already know, the subconscious mind has a few tricks up its sleeve to help us optimizeour performance and well-being in life. Two of these are the following processes:

Filtering;Habituation.

These processes underpin the mechanisms through which most currently prevailing ‘self help’-approaches assume the programming in our subconscious minds gets ingrained, which are

presumed to be:

Repetition of input;Repetition of emotional charge;Pattern reinforcements.

You may already be aware of these mechanisms. But just in case you’re not, I’ll quickly explain themanyway, because they’re so crucially important to have at least a basic understanding of. Without it,you may not get the real gist of the blind spot that’s the focal point of this study guide and that we’llget into later.

So to ‘lay the groundwork’ for the juicy stuff that follows in later sections of this manual, let’s quicklyzoom in on each of these mechanisms…




1.1.1 Repetition of ‘Input’

The basic operating process of ‘habituation’ creates subconscious, (semi-) automatic patterns forpretty much any input that’s repeated often enough.

Think of an activity like any of the following:

Driving a car; Riding a bike; Reading.

As you probably know (or recall):

When we first had to learn it, we needed to be conscious of every single action we took, be-cause everything was new. And having to be conscious of every single aspect of an activity canturn into a pretty exhausting experience.

However, once we had actually learned it, we could do it on autopilot; we no longer needed toconsciously think about how we’d perform every single facet of the activity. It had now becomesecond nature , and as such practically ‘effortless.’

Another way to put that is to say that the activity became habituated :

The subconscious mind created fixed patterns that it could just ‘mindlessly’ play out whenever we’dhave to perform the activity in question again. And because of that, the experience would be far lessdaunting than it was when we were first learning it. After all, it would now be ‘second nature,’ i.e. ahabit .

This process of habituation is one way in which our subconscious mind helps us function andperform well in life:

It allows us to simply run and mindlessly play out fixed, instilled patterns for activities we perform ona regular basis, so we don’t need to waste our energies in having to consciously think of each aspectanymore (<-- thus getting mentally exhausted every time we’d do it) .

Our subconscious mind is capable of ‘habituating’ pretty much any kind of repetitive input. ‘Input’in this context roughly comes in two categories:

1. The information perceived by our five senses (<-- i.e. what we hear, see, taste, touch, and smell) ,which includes the messages that are explicitly and implicitly communicated by other people,the media, societal/cultural norms, etc. that as such contribute to forming a certain worldviewsand expecations.

2. The information we deliberately impose on ourselves through our ‘conscious, free will instruct-tion’ to do certain things (<-- for instance, practice playing a musical instrument, condition a

particular movement or technique in light of a sport, drive the same route to work every day,write by hand, ride a bike, etc.) , all of which eventually turn into automatisms that hardlyrequire any conscious though to perform.

This concept also has us mindlessly perform habits of which we don’t even know theactual reason we do them. There’s an old wives’ tale that nicely captures this principle:




All in all, the basic premise is simple:

Repetition of input creates habitual patterns in our subconscious mind.

This concept also has us mindlessly perform habits of which we don’t even know theactual reason we do them. There’s an old wives’ tale that nicely captures this principle:

A young daughter asked her mother why she always cut the ends of the roast before putting itinto the oven: “Well, that’s the way Grandma taught me,” Mother replied.

Mother then passed the question on to the girl’s grandma: “That’s just the way my mother usedto make them,” Grandma replied, and the next time she saw Great-grandma, she asked her thesame question.

Great-grandma laughed, shook her head, and answered: “That danged oven was so small, youcouldn’t fit a thing in there. Cutting the ends off the roast was the only way to make it fit.”




1.1.2 Repetition of ‘Emotional Charge’

Essentially we are not your emotions. We only have and/or experience them. In that context, wecan see emotions as incentives for behavioral modification through a system of metaphorical‘punishment and reward’ that works as follows:

Certain actions and/or behaviors elicit reactions and/or experiences in response. (<-- Forinstance, if I call someone names, as a reaction that person may punch me in the face.)

In turn, such reactions trigger certain emotions in us. (<-- For example, I may feel hurt, insulted,belittled, etc.)

Some emotions feel ‘good,’ which would encourage us to repeat the kind of behavior and/orrecreate the (kind of) situation that caused them in the future, because we’d want to experiencethe ‘good feeling’ again.

Other emotions feel ‘bad,’ which would encourage us to avoid the kind of behavior or situationthat caused them in the future, because we wouldn’t want to experience the ‘bad feeling’ again.

As such, through the underlying process of habituation, repetition of emotional charges can instillautomatic subconscious patterns for particular types of behavior. In general:

Repeated uncomfortable emotions as a result of certain behavior (or thought) will lead to auto-matic subconscious patterns that are setup to avoid the ‘punishment’ of the uncomfortableemotion.

Repeated comfortable emotions as a result of certain behavior (or thought) will lead to auto-matic subconscious patterns that are setup to seek and repeat the ‘reward’ of the enjoyableemotion.

Some examples to make this clear:

Think of the laboratory rat who’s trained to take a certain route in a maze, by givinghim a ‘bad feeling’ by means of an electroshock every time he goes the ‘wrong’ way.Pretty soon he’ll avoid the directions that he knows would lead to getting zapped.

Or as another example (somewhat crazy just to get the point across), let’s say I’mwalking down the street and I feel a giant need to ‘do my needs.’ Now let’s assumeI decide to do it in the middle of the street in clear view of a crowd of people:

You bet that I’ll run into negative social feedback, as a consequence of which I’llexperience an emotional arousal that feels very uncomfortable. This intensefeeling causes me to form an intense bad memory.

As a consequence, from this point forward, I’m much less likely to do my needsin the middle of the street. In other words: my emotions have served as anincentive or motivator to change my future thoughts and behavior.




So as such, emotional charge (comfortable or uncomfortable) puts up an incentive to create auto-matic, subconscious patterns that are setup to either avoid or repeat whatever caused it.

The more often the emotional surge repeats itself (and/or the higher the intensity), the faster andmore deeply our subconscious mind will ingrain such patterns.

‘Emotional charge’ and ‘input information’ can also come attached to each other, thus ‘combiningforces’ in a way that’ll aggregate into a very strong stimulus to our subconscious mind. For example:

Certain people might command us into certain behavior and simultaneously attach fear to it bymeans of threats of discomforting consequences in case we don’t comply.

If the resulting impetus is strong enough, it can cause automatic patterns of thought, feeling andbehavior that are likely to remain even when the folks who originally gave the commands andinstilled the fear are no longer around.

In other words, we may still keep a habit, despite the current absence of whom or what causedthe emotion that originally urged us to obey.

Please Note:

The explanations above are basic ones that merely get the main point across, becausethings aren’t always as straightforward as ‘comfortable = good’ and ‘uncomfortable =bad.’ For example:

Indeed, we can experience highly significant ‘positive’ emotional arousal that feels plea-surable and that indeed may result in genuinely constructive patterning that supportsbecoming our best selves and getting into a flow of continuous growth, empowermentand fulfillment. (<-- For instance, our efforts pay off and we reach our goals, which goesalong with pleasurable emotions.)

While that’s obviously a good thing, that doesn’t mean that ‘pleasurable emotion’ always is.

For example, an enjoyable emotional experience can also be induced by things that aren’t good for us in the long run, such as addictive drugs. In this case, even though the sourceexperience feels gratifying, repeating it consistently still results in self-sabotaging andpotentially destructive programming (i.e. addiction and dependence).

Also, for deeper reasons we’ll get into later, some people may deliberately evoke ‘nega-tive’ emotions in themselves because they feel an underlying urge to punish themselves,or because doing so comes with ‘secondary gain’ (<-- such as attention from other peoplethat they would otherwise lack) .

So in this case they’ll repeat behavior while there’s an uncomfortable feeling attached to it

(although in this case it might actually be the secondary gain that ultimately drives therepetition through its comfortable boost).

Anyway, in such cases, there are deeper, more fundamental imbalances in play. This issomething we’ll get into more deeply as we progress in this manual.




Similarly, certain people might impose belief systems on us and (deliberately or inadvertently)induce fear and/or guilt in us if we refuse to take them on. For instance:

We may feel a strong sense of guilt for having different convictions than our parents,because we suspect they’d think we don’t show enough love or respect for them by going a

different way.

Regardless of whether that’s even the case, if the feeling is strong enough we may stick tosuch patterns (<-- e.g. we keep engaging in our parents’ rituals) even after they’ve longpassed away and it wasn’t originally our own choice to do so.

Or we might fear ‘hell and damnation’ for no longer subscribing to the religious convictionsthat were imposed on us when we were still kids.

And so we may meekly acquiesce and stubbornly stick to them, even if on a core level wedon’t agree and/or even fully realize they keep us from being our highest selves and from

actualizing our true capabilities.

These are just some random examples, but there are many ways in which emotions can keep usattached to certain belief systems and other ingrained patterns.

As such, emotions act as the ‘superglue’ that can keep such structures in place (<-- or in other words,as the bungee cables that keep us attached to our apparently unmovable convictions, as it wasdepicted in the video of Session 2).




1.1.3 Pattern Reinforcement

Aside from the process of ‘habituation’ that lies at the root of the mechanisms described in the previ-ous two sections, our subconscious minds have another basic ‘operating process’ that filters a greatdeal of information out of our conscious awareness.

‘Filtering’ is a natural mechanism that allows us to function and perform well in life by helping usdeal with the fact that the ‘actual world’ simply has too much information for our conscious mindsto handle.

According to Hungarian biologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, about two million bits of information andstimuli impact our senses and nervous system every single second!

So in order for us to not be constantly overwhelmed, be able to cope with that amount of informa-tion, and have the freedom to think and act consciously in such an environment, our minds mustkeep most of these pieces of input out of your conscious awareness.

One way in which they do so is by deleting a great deal of the available information:

Here’s a somewhat simplistic example of this that you might be able to relate to:

Let’s say you’re working on something and trying to focus on it, and suddenly someone turns ona fan or an air-conditioner that makes a constant, humming sound.

Your mind interprets the new sound as a change in your environment. As any suddenenvironmental change might bring along a certain risk, you become alert to it.

At that point, you may find that the humming sound bothers and annoys you, because itdistracts you from what you’re trying to focus on.

But after a while, your brain starts to filter out the humming sound, so that you’re no longeralert to it and can focus more efficiently on the task at hand.

Why?

Because after a while, the sound no longer makes up a change in your environment. Instead, ithas become a constant . So after concluding there’s no direct risk associated with this sound,your brain decides that there’s no reason anymore to remain fully alert to these particular bitsof information.

And so it ‘deletes’ the humming from of your conscious awareness so that you don’t really hear it anymore, even though the sound remains there all the time.

Here’s another example illustrating the same principle:

Imagine you live in an area where planes fly over or trains run by regularly. Because thishappens all the time, you after a while you don’t really notice the sound of the planes or thetrains anymore. Or at least, it’s not something that keeps you from falling asleep at night. Yousimply don’t become alert anymore every single time a plane flies over or a train runs by.

Here’s a somewhat simplistic and relatable example of this:

Let’s say we’re working on something and try hard to focus on it, and suddenly someoneturns on a fan or an air-conditioner that makes a constant, humming noise.

Our minds interpret this new sound as a change in our environment. As any sudden envi-ronmental change might bring along a certain risk, we thus become alert to it.

At that point, we may find that the humming sound bothers and annoys us, because itdistracts us from what we’re trying to focus on.

But after a while our brains begin to filter the noise out of our conscious awareness, sothat we’re no longer alert to it and can focus more efficiently on the task at hand.

Why?

Because by then the sound no longer makes up a change in our environment. Instead, ithas become a constant . So after concluding there’s no direct risk associated with it, thebrain decides that there’s no longer any reason to remain fully alert to it.

And so it deletes the humming from of our conscious awareness so that we don’t actuallyhear it anymore, even though the sound is still there.

Here’s another example that illustrates the same principle:

Imagine living in an area where planes fly over or trains run by regularly. Because ithappens all the time, after a while we won’t really notice the sound of the planes or thetrains anymore. Or at least, it’s not something we keep becoming alert to; it certainlydoesn’t keep us awake at night.

However, let’s say we have a relative or a friend that normally lives in a quiet, rural area,who comes over and stays for the night. This person may have trouble falling asleep, be-cause the regular noise of the planes flying over or trains running by keeps botheringthem so much.




But pattern reinforcement doesn’t end with confirmation bias. Here’s what’s more:

2. (Unconscious) pattern repetition: Once patterns are installed subconsciously, we’ll wind up playing them out automatically. (Afterall, that’s the main purpose behind them, as explained in Section 1.1.1) .

Clearly, this is okay for subconscious patterns that support our personal growth and empower-ment and the realization of our goals. But it’s not conducive to our success and overall well-being in case of self-sabotaging and self-destructive automatisms.

Sure, in some cases we may actually know that we get triggered into specific automatic patterns.But just as often (if not more regularly), such programs play themselves out at a level that’s

completely outside of our normal conscious awareness, meaning we don’t even realizewe’re doing it.

And as explained in the preceding sections, whenever the same thing gets repeated oftenenough (even if it’s automatic and without our conscious attention), the pattern will only getingrained more deeply, which is the case even more strongly if there’s an emotional chargeattached to the pattern as well.

So in these two ways we constantly reinforce patterns that are already installed in our sub-conscious minds, be it mostly inadvertently and without us realizing it. Nevertheless, they stillbecome more powerful and dominant, even though we may not be paying any conscious atten-

tion to them.

Confirmation bias already came to light in more concrete terms in our previoussessions. Let me quote a few examples:

“You’re probably familiar with overlooking misspelled words. This is because your brain is soaccustomed to reading the words in correct spelling, that it simply overlooks a typo. It filters

the typo out of the image, thus causing you to overlook it and ‘see’ the correct spelling, whichis more in line with your expectations.”

(…)

“Basically, our ingrained belief system (i.e. the correct spelling of the words we see most ofthe time) causes the brain to filter out the information (i.e. the typo) that’s at odds with itsconditioned worldview (i.e. its expectations).”

(…)

“Due to the fact that the information picked up by our eyes is edited by the brain accordingto its ingrained convictions, a large proportion of what we actually ‘see’ is determined bywhat we believe deep inside to be true.

And of course, because we see what we believe, we immediately believe what we see. Afterall, the selectively filtered image that we perceive naturally supports the convictions thatdrove that filtering in the first place.

Thus, what we see also reinforces our belief system, which in turn increases the probabilitythat we keep seeing things in the way we expect them to be or are convinced they are…which then goes on to make us see things in that manner once more.”




Now let’s quickly summarize what we’ve found, so we can begin to evaluate the effectiveness ofvarious popular methods and techniques.




1.1.4 Summary

Based on the understanding of the mechanisms outlined in the previous sections, what follows is a‘simple term summary’ of the overall philosophy that underpins most popular personal developmentapproaches (<-- which we’ll use as a starting point to identify its commonly overlooked ‘blind spot’) .

Summary of currently prevailing thought:

Subconscious belief systems lie at the basis of the ‘reality’ we create for ourselves:

1. In today’s popularized ‘Law of Attraction’ jargon, they ultimately determine our‘vibration,’ and thus what we ‘attract’ and ‘manifest’ in our lives.

2. In more accurate terms:

They determine the reality we actually ‘perceive’ (<-- i.e. taking into account themechanism of ‘filtering’ by means of deleting, generalizing and distorting inputinformation) ;

They (indirectly) guide and direct our (conscious) patterns of thought, feeling,decision making and acting, and thus ultimately the life we create for ourselves.

Belief structures and subconscious patterns are presumed to be created throughthe mutually interactive processes of ‘habituating’ and ‘filtering’ certain ‘input,’ bymeans of:

1. Repetition of input information;

2. Repetition of emotional charge;3. Pattern reinforcement.

The resulting effect of pure conditioning has caused the creation of our current‘subconscious programming,’ which means that this programming isn’t somethingwe were born with, but rather something we acquired over the course of our lives:

For example: our parents told us (or even imposed) their worldviews, we grew upunder the influence of certain societal and/or cultural norms and habits and ritualsthat were characteristic to our family of origin, we went through certain forms ofeducation, we watched the news, we may have subscribed to certain religiousconvictions, and so on.

As such, over the course of our lives we constantly received a certain type of ‘inputinformation’ (<-- possibly reinforced with a certain degree of emotional charge) .

In most people, (at least part of) this input has not been conducive to building ahealthy self-image and ‘success’ in life as they define it at present.

And yet, through repetition of this input information and emotional charge over time,our minds subconsciously instilled an entire inner system of beliefs, concepts, valuesexpectations and automated ways to focus our attention, and play out other associa-ted patterns. And once installed, these patterns got (unconsciously) reinforced over

time as well. These patterns are still running the show in our lives right now, and usually have an




In short, currently prevailing ‘self help’-techniques are based on a philosophy that sees subcon-scious programming solely as a product of pure conditioning .

Here’s a visual illustration of this train of thought:

Input(‘Five sense info’,

‘free will instruction’)

Input Processing(‘Subconscious programming’ in the form

of beliefs, values, concepts, andother subconscious patterns)

Output(Conscious thoughts,

feelings, and actions andresulting ‘manifestations’)

Operating ProcessesFundamental Wiring:(Habituation, filtering)

Underlie and permeate our entire subconscioussystem, and guide/direct the formation

of subconscious programming

Visual Summary:

Now before we move on, don’t get me wrong, because all of this is essentially true…

Nevertheless, as you’re about to learn, there’s a fundamental aspect that’s missing from this picture , and thus never gets the attention it should if we really want to make notable and lastingchanges and want to stop the never-ending cycle of trying technique after technique without everreally getting the results we’re after.

In order to get a good grip on that blind spot, let’s first take a closer look at the techniques that arecurrently available to us (<-- at least the ones we hear about most often) , how they intend to help us,and where they might fall short…

inhibiting influence on our ability and resolve to deliberately take charge of our livesand create our desired reality.




1.2 Investigating Popular Techniques

The process of ‘pure conditioning’ outlined in the previous sections is definitely of major influence indetermining the nature of our subconscious programming, particularly during our ‘imprint period’

(age 0-7), ‘modeling period’ (age 8-13), and ‘socialization period’ (age 13-21). (<-- But as you’lllearn in the next chapter, it can certainly play a significant part later in life too) .

Please note once more that ‘conditioning’ is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, it allows us to ‘train’ourselves and establish the kinds of habits and efficiency in terms of energy allocation that are condu-cive to what we want to achieve in life.

However, as said before: if you’re like most people, you’ll probably acknowledge that much of theinput you received over time has not been supportive to building a healthy self-image and thefulfilling degree of success, happiness, and empowerment you currently seek.

So the main idea behind today’s prevailing philosophies and approaches is that by changing our‘subconscious programming,’ we’ll eventually transform our ‘reality’ (<-- by means of changing ourthoughts, feelings, decision making, actions, and the vibrational patterns we project) .

As said, that’s essentially true, which is why many experts have come up with techniques that aresupposed to change our subconscious programming in ways like the following:

Rationale behind currently prevailing techniques:

Based on the philosophy outlined in Section 1.1 of how our subconscious programming iscreated and acquired , most experts assume we can change it in analogous ways:

1. Change our ‘input’ into a constructive (as opposed to a ‘ negative ’) kind:We can do this by using our conscious, ‘free will instruction’ to change the kind ofinformation we absorb and expose ourselves to into a kind that’s more conducive towhat we want to ‘achieve’ and ‘manifest’ in life.

By the same token, we change the types of emotions we evoke on a regular basis toones that we like to experience more of.

Because of the fundamental process of ‘habituation,’ it’s assumed that by deliberatelymaking our ‘input’ positive (<-- e.g. through affirmations, visualizations, etc.) , we leaveour subconscious mind no choice but to change its wiring for the better and instillnew patterns based on this new input.

In other words: we’ll instill new ‘subconscious programming’ that ‘replaces’ or ‘over-writes’ the old, and in turn we’ll form new habits that’ll be more conducive to ourenvisioned ‘success.’

Next, the second way this philosophy assumed subconscious programming can bechanged is to…:

2. Allow existing patterns to ‘break’ by releasing the emotional charge associatedwith them, thus dissolving the metaphorical ‘superglue’ that keeps them in

place.




Indeed, if we evaluate the most common and popular techniques more closely, we’ll see thatthey’re all based on the above-mentioned concepts:

Repeating positive affirmations:We’ll do this with the intent to change your ‘input’ into a more constructive variety.

Creative visualization with emotional involvement:We’ll do this to change our ‘input’ into a constructive variety and evoke comfortable andpositively exciting emotional charge to add to the power of the suggestions delivered throughthe visualization, ultimately to ‘replace’ or ‘overwrite’ our existing, inhibiting programming.

Subliminal messaging:We’ll use this to give ourselves ‘input’ of a constructive variety, while bypassing the potentialfiltering imposed by our subconscious mind based on its already ingrained beliefs. (<-- Theseexisting beliefs are obviously in conflict with the positive suggestions we try to implant by meansof the subliminal messages, which would thus normally get deleted, generalized, or distorted.But by being subliminal, this ‘constructive input’ can supposedly bypass this filtering and thusimplant its content undisturbedly) .

Brainwave entrainment:We’ll use this to both break existing patterns in our brains and create new ones , by giving our-selves a different, more constructive ‘input’ through audio impulses that establish brainwavestates that are more coherent than the ones resulting from our currently installed subconsciouspatterns. This should make us more receptive to positive suggestion, or even directly instillmore constructive patterns.

EFT and other emotional release techniques:We’ll use these with the aim to release the emotional charge associated with limiting subcon-scious patterns, thus dissolving the metaphorical ‘superglue’ that keeps them in place andfreeing them up so we’re better able let go of them (and put other patterns in their place).

‘Healing’ methods:We’ll normally use these in a relatively ‘random’ way (<-- i.e. not knowing exactly what they’redoing, what they’re focused at, or how they work) to ‘heal’ any potential imbalan-ces thatunderpin our subconscious programming. Such imbalances are usually certain types of ‘wounds’inflicted sometime in the past that triggered uncomfortable emotional charges that in turnresulted in constricting subconscious programming.

In turn, through the fundamental operating process of ‘filtering,’ the resulting new sub-conscious programming will cause us to create a new, more ‘positive’ conceptual realityinternally , which we’ll subsequently ‘manifest’ into ‘ external reality’ through our ‘im-proved’ thoughts, feelings, decisions and actions:

We’ll notice different information that would otherwise be filtered out of ourawareness… Other information will be deleted that would normally be included (and perhaps

emphasized) in our perception… Input will be classified and generalized differently… We’ll basically construct a whole different internal concept of reality and our place in

it, which will also result in different decisions, actions, and behavior that’ll be in linewith our new beliefs and aspirations.




So the overall aim of each of these techniques is to manipulate our existing subconscious program-ming in ways that are in line with the established, mainstream understanding of how our subcon-scious minds work (<-- as explained in Section 1.1).

So now that we’re clear on the principles behind currently prevailing ‘self help’-techniques (and while

it all makes sense and is definitely all true in essence), we’re still left with the question asked in theforeword of this study guide:

It’s because of that blind spot.

Let’s figure out what it is…

Why can it seem so hard to ‘crack your egg’ and to break free from your subconsciously ingrainedlimiting patterns, despite all the various methods and techniques that are already out there andthat you may have already tried and that are supposedly based on all this ‘advanced’ knowledgeof the subconscious mind?




A common instruction we get with using EFT is: “ Try it on everything ,” and we normallyget a series of standard accompanying statements and phrasings that may or may notbe accurately specified to us .

With ‘brainwave entrainment’ and ‘subliminal messaging’ we just need to start listen-

ing and that’s it. All we can do is follow that instruction and hope it’ll pay off in someway eventually (<-- which it can, but we don’t know for sure until it actually does) .

Do you see the degree of arbitrariness in these approaches? Of course, these are just a fewexamples, and again: this is not to say that there’s anything essentially wrong with thesetechniques, and that it’s impossible that they bring us great results. The point is this:

Regardless of how powerful these and other techniques can potentially be, the way inwhich we’re instructed to use them tends to be in a relatively random , arbitrary, ‘hit-or-miss’ fashion.

We never really know exactly what we’re doing or targeting. We’re basically wearing ablindfold while hoping we hit the bulls-eye. This way, even if we do get some ‘lucky hits,’and even if those ‘hits’ are not superficial (as they usually are), we’ll never know what really did the trick (<-- and thus we won’t be able to replicate our success across a wider board) .

Now of course: we may not give a wet slap about that if indeed we do get the pay-off wewere after…

But if – like most people – we don’t get that pay-off, or if our inhibiting subconscious pro-gramming simply reinstalls itself after a mere temporary sense of relief, we’re likely to getextremely frustrated, think it’s all a big scam, and may even be inclined to give up comple-tely on wanting to become our best selves and actualize our true hidden capabilities(which would be a shame, because we really can) .

So here’s the crux:

While everything we covered in the previous sections about the subconscious mind is essenti-ally true, this prevailing philosophy overlooks a crucial aspect that we haven’t covered yet…

Still, this aspect is essential and will complete our picture of how we function subconsciously andwhy our established programming tends to stubbornly sustain itself (or quickly reconstruct itself after we do occasionally elicit some shifts).

As such, disacknowledging, disregarding or simply not knowing about the impact of this blindspot makes up the reason why most currently prevailing approaches fall short in producingnotable and lasting results, even though they may genuinely have the potential to do so.

Instead, it leaves us in a relatively disempowered position, from where the best we can do isapply the techniques available to us and merely hope for some arbitrary results.

So where do we need to look for this blind spot?

Let’s explore…




Chapter 2:

How We Really Function Subconsciously

2.1 Introduction

At this point we’re left with the following questions:

While the mechanisms of ‘habituation’ and ‘filtering’ are essential in the way we function subcon-sciously, they’re really just two examples of our ‘mind/body’-system’s fundamental operating pro-cesses. These particular ones are merely responsible for the efficient allocation of our energy (<-- sothat we don’t waste it on things that our minds consider unimportant) .

Of course, efficient resource allocation is crucial to optimal performance, achievement, success andfulfillment in life. However, that doesn’t mean it’s the complete picture of how our subconscious

minds work.

In truth, there’s another factor, a crucial determining one in the form of a driving force behind theformation and perpetuation of our subconscious programming that impacts its nature like nothingelse.

This blind spot is the basis for the ‘egg-cracking crux.’

Ignorance and lack of recognition or acknowledgment of this concept is the very reason why mostpersonal development techniques seem to have such a merely random, ‘hit-or-miss’ type of effect.

And by becoming aware of how it manifests itself in our own subconscious mind, we begin totarget the foundational elements of our eggshell structure.

So let’s dig in…

Our Remaining Burning Questions:

How does our subconscious system of ‘beliefs’ and programmed patterns really come tobe (<-- contrary to how we’ve probably been led to believe)?

And why does it normally remain so stubbornly, no matter what method or technique weuse in an attempt to ‘change’ it, ‘overwrite’ it, ‘replace’ it, etc.?

Give yourself permission to take your time to digest the information of this chapter. You mighteven want to read it multiple times to let it sink in.

At the same time, remember that there’s no need to be able to reproduce all the details; thepractical implications are ultimately relatively simple to implement. (<-- The explanations that follow merely serve to facilitate your understanding of what exactly we’re doing and how deepwe make changes in our ‘mind/body’-systems on the ‘Crack Your Egg’-process) .




Input(‘Five sense info’,

‘free will instruction’)

Input Processing(‘Subconscious programming’ in the form

of beliefs, values, concepts, andother subconscious patterns)

Output(Conscious thoughts,

feelings, and actions andresulting ‘manifestations’)

Operating ProcessesFundamental Wiring:(Habituation, filtering)

Underlie and permeate our entire subconscioussystem, and guide/direct the formation

of subconscious programming

Philosophy:

Focus on the ‘input processing’ level, and work with operational ‘habituation’ to establish the desired changes by changing‘negative input’ into ‘positive input’ through ‘conscious, free will instruction’. The new ‘constructive programming’ that’ssupposed to be established this way should result in more desirable ‘output’.

‘Old’ Model

As you recall, based on the philosophy of this ‘old’ model, most experts out there tell us that weneed to target the orange ‘input processing’-area in the scheme above in order to establish thechanges we desire. And as a result, that level is what most methods out there are aimed at.

As mentioned before, there’s nothing essentially wrong with that. However, as we’ve established,the problem is that the representation you see above is not a complete illustration of how we really function subconsciously. And as a consequence, no matter what technique or method we try to use,we hardly ever deal with our true, core imbalances (<-- with the exception of some occasional ‘luckyhits’) .

So to come to a more complete illustration, we need to expand on this model and add a layer of‘meta-patterns’ to it. This results in a ‘new’ model that we can depict as follows (next page…) :




Before we make this much more tangible through some concrete ‘meta-pattern’ examples, let’scover our bases first. As you take a look at our ‘new’ model above, you’ll notice the following:

First of all, we’ve expanded the ‘orange area’ in our model, which now has two levels instead of

just one:

1. A ‘surface level’ in the form of subconscious programming that’s directly responsible for‘input processing’ (<-- i.e. the programming we covered in the previous chapter and whatmost personal development programs always refer to) ;

2. A ‘ foundation level’ in the form of ‘meta-patterns.’

This illustrates how ‘meta-patterns’ are not fundamentally wired ‘operating processes’ like ‘habi-tuation’ and ‘filtering.’ Instead, we acquire them at some point. Also, they’re not the kind of pro-gramming on the surface, ‘input processing’-level (<-- which we’ve gone over in the previous

chapter and preceding sessions, and usually encounter in most programs out there) .




Instead, we find them at a level in-between :

As you know, the fundamentally wired ‘operating processes’ of ‘habituation’ and ‘filter-ing’ lie at the root of the formation of the ‘surface-level’ subconscious programming…

We’ve gone over this in detail in Chapter 1…

The same processes lie at the root of the creation of meta-patterns… except in case ofmeta-patterns, there are other ‘operating processes’ in play as well:

The additional ‘operating processes’ involved fall under a category we’ll refer to as ‘instinc-tual tendencies.’ (<-- More details in subsequent sections …)

In turn, the ‘meta-patterns’ themselves are responsible for directing and guiding theformation of our ‘surface-level’ subconscious programming.

They don’t create this programming; the processes of ‘habituation’ and ‘filtering’ areresponsible for doing so (<-- as explained in Chapter 1) .

However, ‘meta-patterns’ tell these processes how to create this programming and whatkind of patterns to create. In other words:

They offer the coordinating rules that define the directions and patterns in which our mindsform the ‘eggshell structures’ that are unique to each of us . They’re the causative drivers for the configuration in which we build up our own ‘egg elements.’

As such, ‘meta-patterns’ explain how our particular subconscious system of beliefs, values,attitudes and automatisms really comes to be, contrary to how we’re often led to believe.

And likewise, they’re the explanation for why this ‘subconscious programming’ tends to sustainitself so stubbornly no matter what we try to change it, overwrite it, replace it, etc., or for why it reinstalls itself so quickly after we do happen to get a little breakthrough:

In Terms Of Our ‘Egg’-Symbology:

Together with our ‘surface-level’ subconscious programming, ‘meta-patterns’ make up the‘Egg Filtering Attributes ’ that we discussed in the videos.

As such, the orange area in the depiction of our ‘new’ model on page 25 represents our personal configuration of such ‘Egg Filtering Attributes,’ and thus effectively indicates ourunique eggshell structure (<-- so the shape of an egg would have been more appropriatethan an orange square, but let’s go with it as it is…) .

This means that when we speak of ‘Egg Filtering Attributes,’ we don’t just refer to the‘surface-level’ subconscious programming we hear about all the time. Instead, we bearon both that type of ‘subconscious programming,’ and the underlying ‘meta-patterns’that drive and steer their creation.

This is how the symbol of the ‘egg’ is not just not some cute, lightweight and ‘cartoonish

repackaging’ of old wives’ wisdom, new age mumbo-jumbo, self-help platitudes, or someoverhyped fad. It’s indeed a broader concept that encompasses far more than that.




Of course, so far the whole idea of meta-patterns may still seem a little abstract and elusive. Solet’s go over some concrete examples.

As you saw in the depiction of our new model, we can distinguish between two types of meta-patterns:

1. Structural meta-patterns;2. Thematic meta-patterns.

The next two sections carefully explain both these types, so we can get a clear picture of what they doand why they’re so important to take into account.

After that, you’ll appreciate how understanding these meta-patterns opens up a whole new world ofpossibility for us!




2.2.1 Structural Meta-Patterns

Structural meta-patterns define certain basic ‘mechanical’ tendencies in our subconscious mind toprocess ‘input’ in particular ways:

Where thematic meta-patterns (<-- which are the focus of the next section) have the greatestimpact on the content aspect of our patterns of thought, feeling, attitude, belief, values, etc.,and impact the instigation of our subconscious programming from that angle…

…structural meta-patterns are content-independent , and set out more neutral, contextual rules to process information.

The best way to explain this is through a couple of examples:

Example #1:Some people compare things differently than others. For instance, let’s say we’re bothcomparing two people:

I might be inclined to spot the differences between those people. You on the other hand may be inclined to spot the similarities between those people.

Do you see the difference? Your structural tendency might tend more towards ‘matching forsameness,’ whereas my structural tendency might tend more towards ‘mismatching fordifferences.’

These are two extremes, and we can fall anywhere within the continuum they demarcate, butyou get the general idea…

Example #2:Some people think differently about problems and challenges than others. For instance, let’s saywe’re both observing a certain challenging situation:

I might have a more philosophical tendency and (initially) devote most attention to why theproblem or challenge occurred in the first place, from the mechanically wired convictionthat if I understand where an issue originates, I can gain mastery over it.

You on the other hand might have a more practical tendency, and (initially) focus mostly onthe immediate practical questions regarding how to overcome the challenge and what you

can do about it, without giving a wet slap about understanding why and how this situationcame to be and why a particular solution might work or not.

Again, these are two extremes, and there’s a scale ranging from ‘why’ to ‘how’ or from ‘philosophical’ to ‘practical.’ But I’m sure you appreciate the concept and why it’s relevant:

Such distinctions could be of influence in determining whether or not a certainpersonal development technique or approach is going to be effective for us. Forinstance, building on the above example:

With my philosophical tendencies, I may not be able to get techniques to work for which I’m

not clear about how and why they have the potential to be effective, while they may verywell work wonders for you if your structural meta-patterns exclusively prescribe practi-cal utility. In other words: “Different strokes for different folks…”




Structural meta-patterns are often partly genetic, though not necessarily. But even if they are, theyalways have a great deal of acquired characteristics to them, meaning they could be subject tochange (at least to a certain extent).

And more importantly: the acquired characteristics are always heavily intertwined with our thematic

meta-patterns.

This is why thematic meta-patterns are the ones we need to concern ourselves with most, asthey’re the most pivotal to the nature of our subconscious programming and fundamentalorientation in life:

They directly influence the content of your subconscious programming.

They indirectly influence the contextual rules (<-- through their impact on ‘structural’ meta- patterns) that define the ‘bandwidth’ within which particular techniques work for us.

So let’s explore that kind of meta-pattern in more detail…

Summary of ‘Structural’ Meta-Patterns:

Structural meta-patterns are important from a ‘ mechanical ’ perspective:

They provide contextual rules for how our subconscious mind filters information. As such,they don’t have anything to do with the actual content of our subconscious structures of

beliefs and values.

Instead, they merely define particular ways of filtering that are uniquely wired into eachand everyone’s ‘mind/body’-system. These ways can include genetic tendencies and ten-dencies we acquired as a result of the influence of our instilled thematic meta-patterns.

From a practical perspective, that means that in order for any personal developmenttechniques to have a notable effect, we need to make sure they do one or both of thefollowing:

They work in line with our unique contextual rules; They bypass the filtering imposed by these rules.




2.2.2 Thematic Meta-Patterns

Thematic meta-patterns indicate particular themes that underlie the formation of our personalconfiguration of ‘Egg Filtering Attributes.’

In other words: there’s a significant content aspect to them, which has to do with particular high-impact experiences we may have gone through in the past.

As such, ‘thematic meta-patterns’ have a significant impact on the subject matter of our personal setof (limiting) beliefs, values, and other subconscious patterns.

As always, this becomes clearer through a relatively simple example scenario:

Example ‘Thematic Meta-Pattern’ Scenario:

As you may recall, the second video presentation gave an example illustration of anunbalanced ‘perfectionist’ personality. So let’s stay congruent and stick with thatparticular theme here… Picture this scenario:

A young boy appears to be smart and have a lot of potential. He grows up in a family withloving parents, and also two brothers who are mentally disabled and autistic.

The parents love all three kids, but are also especially proud of the young and smart boywho’s the focus of our little narrative here. They place a lot of hope and expectation onhim because he obviously has more potential to ‘succeed’ in life than his disabledbrothers. And so they try to stimulate him to do his best and perform well.

The boy does well in grade school, works hard, and is often the best in his class. Hisparents praise and acknowledge him, and all is well.

The boy progresses through the early grades in school with ease, and is gradually pre-sented with more and more opportunities. He gets a bit bored by the standard repetitivepractice of regular school activities, and begins to explore various ‘creative routes’ for awhile.

As a consequence, he temporarily redirects his focus, and isn’t as precise and perfor-mance-oriented as he used to be. As a result, his grades are still good compared tothe rest of the class, but not as ‘excellent’ as they used to be.

One evening his parents talk to his teacher, who makes them aware of these develop-ments.

Back home, the parents become angry with the boy, and threaten to take away certaintoys if he keeps going on like this, doesn’t do his best at school, and doesn’t come homewith the excellent results that became the norm and that everyone knows he’s reallycapable of.

The boy is caught off guard, feels threatened in his sense of security by the anger of hisparents (the very people he felt were the ones that were there to keep him safe). He alsogets the implicit message that a great deal of hope is placed on him because of his poten-tial, in contrast to the perceived lack thereof with his mentally-disabled brothers.

The boy now feels the pressure on him and interprets it as a significant threat to his




Now for the sake of explaining the importance of this, even though it might be a far stretchbecause this exact theme may not apply or be relatable to you, imagine for a moment that you’rethe boy from the example scenario above:

As explained, over time you construct a whole structure of ‘limiting beliefs upon limiting beliefs,’all ultimately based on the root imbalance induced by the extremely discomforting feelings youoriginally experienced when you felt threatened in your security when your parents becameangry and disapproving of you because of something you did (or didn’t).

For instance, as outlined in the example scenario, your fundamental drives may eventually

evolve into certain ‘surface-level’ limiting beliefs about ‘financial abundance’ and ‘being rich,’such as “ money is the root of all evil ,” “I’m not allowed to experience financial abundance ,”

security if he doesn’t comply. Consequently, he installs a meta-pattern that instructs himto think, feel, and act in ways through which he would avoid making any kind of mistake and avoid being the source of disharmony in his environment from that point forward.

As such, he takes on the personality of a perfectionist and a people-pleaser (<-- with the

implicit intent to retain environmental harmony) , because he thinks that’ll prevent suchhighly uncomfortable events (<-- i.e. perceived threats to his security) in the future.

Over time, this underlying ‘driving force’ of ‘avoiding mistakes,’ ‘pleasing people,’ and‘maintaining harmony’ causes him to create a structure of new (limiting) beliefs, values,and patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting that are in line with the meta-pattern’s coor-dinating rules that seek to avoid and prevent similar ‘threatening’ situations that original-ly induced its installation.

Potential ‘surface’ limiting beliefs the boy might develop in accordance with this underlyingdrive could be:

“It’s bad and not okay to be angry, so I’m never angry: I’m not an angry person, I’malways upbeat and positive;”

“I always need to do what [certain] people want me to do;” “Rich people often have bad qualities, and since I must not make mistakes and be

perfect, I must not become rich”… or: “rich people often make other people angry,and since that’s what I’m really trying to avoid, becoming rich is dangerous”… whichin turn could eventually evolve into more superficial beliefs, such as: “I can’t givemyself permission to experience financial abundance” and “money is the root ofall evil;”

Etc.

In turn, the structure of beliefs he unconsciously builds this way will influence histhoughts, feelings, attitudes and behavior throughout the rest of his life, and will reflectthemselves in the actual reality he creates for himself (<-- as explained in our earliersessions) .

For example, even though he may consciously think he’d like to be ‘rich,’ he will uncon -sciously repel this very experience by means of the vibrational pattern broadcast throughhis ‘eggshell structure’ that represents his deepest inner state (<-- which is really still re- flecting the imbalance he ingrained at the time when he was young and felt severely threat-ened in his security… and his thoughts, feelings, and behavior are still driven by this under-lying imbalance, probably without him being aware of it because they became habituatedover time).




which are really, ultimately and indirectly driven by your deeply ingrained, implicit intent toavoid similar experiences of feeling threatened in your security by the anger and/or dismayof other people.

Later in life you may realize that you have some difficulties ‘manifesting financial abundance.’

You get yourself some ‘self help’-material, through which you may learn about and becomeaware of your limiting beliefs of “ I’m not allowed to experience financial abundance” and“money is the root of all evil.”

Once you do, you conclude that these beliefs must be the core reason for your difficulty to‘manifest financial abundance.’ So you follow the advice of the ‘self-help experts’ by beginningto apply their techniques in an attempt to change those particular beliefs, thinking you’re reallydigging into the roots of the issue in this particular area of your life.

However, what you probably don’t realize, is that in this particular scenario, the beliefs you’retargeting are really relatively superficial in your overall structure of subconscious programming…

even though you may be under the delusional impression that you’re working on the very coreelements that lie at the root of your difficulty to ‘manifest financial abundance.’

But that’s not the case… Instead, there’s an underlying reason why you created these moresuperficial limiting beliefs to begin with!

Ultimately, this underlying reason is the originating experience of feeling threatened in yoursecurity when your parents got angry with you, and your subsequently resulting (unconscious)tendencies to avoid similar situations from that point forward, which are still playing themselvesout to this day.

As such, the limiting beliefs of “money is the root of all evil” and “I’m not allowed to experience financial abundance” are merely surface manifestations of underlying tendencies to avoid asignificant (past) discomfort.

So are you beginning to see how crucial and fundamental these underlying tendencies are to theoverall nature of our life experience and the ‘reality’ we create for ourselves?

As long as this fundamental ‘breeding ground’ remains intact…:

… it’ll either be extremely hard to elicit notable shifts in our subconscious programming to startwith…

… or even if we do have some success in (temporarily) instigating such shifts (<-- normallythrough a relatively random ‘hit’) , the new state usually doesn’t last long and we probably

Please Note:

While this particular scenario is made relevant to the topic of financial abundance, the ulti-mate effects of such deep and constricting subconscious drives (<-- including ones that involvedifferent themes and content) can translate themselves in all manners of manifestations, suchas chronic emotional suffering, physical disease, trouble connecting with others and buildingfulfilling relationships, etc.




won’t experience the fulfillment and happiness that we’re really after enduringly .

For example:

We’ll (implicitly) find ways to reconstruct patterns similar to our old ones that may be

different in content and detail, but have the same overall gist and atmosphere:

We still feel constrained and unhappy, because the true, underlying imbalance hasn’t beenresolved.

Or we keep moving whatever we contemplate to be our ‘finish line’ so that we never gain asense of happiness and fulfillment even if we do happen to reach (some of) our primarygoals.

For instance, extrapolating on the ‘financial abundance’ scenario of the boy, even if we do‘manifest’ something that we might currently interpret as ‘financial abundance,’ we may

not even regard it as such when it’s actually there: We may think we must need to have more ‘financial abundance’ regardless of what

we’ve already ‘manifested,’ because we still feel constrained and unhappy …

Or we realize that ‘financial abundance’ must not have been what we really wantedafter all, because we still feel constrained and unhappy now that we have it.

In short, we’ll always feel constrained and unhappy no matter what, because we haven’t resol-ved our fundamental, underlying imbalance.

As long as this deeper issue remains, it’ll go on to determine our fundamental orientation in lifeand the overall atmosphere of our mental and emotional state, which in turn will be reflected inlife experiences that evoke the very imbalanced patterns of thought, feeling, attitude and behaviorthat are built on it.

Of course, the scenario outlined above is but one example, and perhaps one that you’re unable torelate to content-wise…

But the important thing is that it illustrates what type of relatively small, hidden factors could be in play that we may not even realize, and that the ‘limiting beliefs’ that we often think lie at the root ofour blocks in life could really be surface manifestations of more deeply-rooted imbalances.

In reality there are clearly tons of possible scenarios that can potentially create different ‘thematicmeta-patterns.’ In that regard it may also appear like a very elusive and perhaps seemingly impossi-ble endeavor to uncover and identify our own unique issues.

But here’s the good news:

As explained in Session 2, life actually gives us a hand on this process once we genuinely decideto break free and invest ourselves in a creative vision.

By dissolving just one particular imbalance that happens to be of major overall influence, we’lldismantle an entire structure of inhibiting subconscious programming along with it.




And besides, while the details of these scenarios can differ and vary infinitely, believe it or not:

The basic characteristics and results of all these scenarios can be drilled down to only a (relative)‘handful’ of typical ‘thematic meta-patterns,’ which makes uncovering your central, underlyingimbalances a whole lot easier!

So now that we have a good, general idea about the nature of ‘thematic’ meta-patterns, let’scompile the practical implications of our new insights in the next chapter.

Summary of ‘Thematic’ Meta-Patterns:

Thematic meta-patterns are important from an ‘ orientational ’ perspective:

They indicate particular themes that underlie the formation of our personal configurationof ‘Egg Filtering Attributes.’ In other words, there’s a significant content aspect to them,which has to do with particular high-impact experiences that we may have gone throughin the past.

As such, this type of ‘meta-pattern’ has a significant impact on the subject matter of ourpersonal set of (limiting) beliefs, values, attitudes, and other subconscious patterns. Put

differently: they account for our ‘blind spots:’ the things we don’t see about ourselves.

From a practical perspective, that means that through becoming aware of our ‘thematic’meta-patterns…:

… we’ll have a very clear indication for where to look within ourselves to find thecore, foundational imbalances on which our entire ‘eggshell’-structure is built…

… and knowing that enables us to systematically target and take out those core foun-dations , so that shifting into a constructive fundamental orientation and associatedsubconscious programming happens as an automatic by-product of this process!

In fact, a huge chunk of our limiting programming simply dissolves as if it never exis-ted to begin with, and the resulting ‘clean’ breeding ground is much more responsiveto the positive suggestion we may want to impose on ourselves in order to establishnew, constructive patterns, even by means of using ‘old model’-techniques.

The best thing is that there’s only a certain limited number of commonly recurring, typical‘thematic’ meta-patterns, which makes it relatively straightforward to figure out which ofthem are impacting us and driving the associated inhibiting patterns we display.

The ‘Crack Your Egg Program ’ provides clear instruction and direction on how to mostefficiently engage in this process.


http://www.crackyouregg.com/Crack-Your-Egg






2.2.3 Practical Implications

From our exploration of meta-patterns the following practical implications come to light:

Where most programs and experts out there see ‘limiting beliefs’ as the ultimate foundationallevel that we need to ‘change,’ ‘substitute,’ ‘overwrite,’ and what not, we really need to digdeeper than that:

We need to delve into the more fundamental, underlying reasons why we have such particularinhibiting convictions and attitudes in the first place, and into the root governing imbalances that impose why and how we create our personal set of limiting beliefs in the one-of-a-kindconfiguration in which they uniquely appear in our subconscious mind. Put differently:

We need to become aware of the foundations on which we’ve constructed our entire ‘eggshellstructure’ in its unique configuration of ‘Egg Filtering Attributes.’ And as we’re about to see illus-trated in the next section, this requires a somewhat different approach than we’re typically usedto based on our ‘old model’-perspective.

In fact, this insight leads us into the ‘Egg-Cracking Crux:’

If we don’t become aware of these ‘foundations’ and their mechanics, we’ll likely keep gettingno, mediocre and/or temporary results only.

On the other hand, if we do become aware of them, we’ll understand how we can define asystematic approach towards taking out our entire ‘eggshell structure’ (<-- i.e. both our uniquemeta-patterns and the one-of-a-kind structure of inhibiting convictions, attitudes and othersubconsciously-driven patterns of thought, feeling and behavior) , and thus finally elicitnotable and lasting results.

With all this in mind, the final sections of this chapter will conceptualize our newly-acquiredinsights into a fresh orientation that accurately takes into account how we really function sub-consciously and will give us clear direction to transcend the ‘Cracking Crux,’ in order to finallyget the results we’re really after.




2.3 Transcending The ‘Cracking Crux’

To recap:

Chapter 1 covered how ‘pure conditioning’ is one important pathway through which subcon-scious programming comes to be.

In the preceding sections of this chapter we discovered that there’s an extra element in the formof meta-patterns that we must take into account, which really drives the creation of our implicitpatterns and that puts up additional constraints to our ability to deliberately elicit favorablechanges in our subconscious programming.

So in order to define an approach that will have notable and lasting effects, it serves us well tosummarize the insights we’ve covered across our various sessions so far into a clear, conceptualmodel that accurately captures what’s required to effectively dismantle and dissolve the subtle,

yet profound influence the ‘egg’ has on us.

The elements involved in this context (and that we’ll formalize in this section) are:

‘Egg Marks;’ Complex cover-ups; Self-fulfilling prophecies; Identification.

The tricky thing about these processes is that they normally occur quite far outside of our normalawareness, meaning we often have no idea they’re even going on.

But once we know about them, we automatically become more mindful to them. And as a result,we’ll be able to catch ourselves in the act and eventually to both reverse our programming bybreaking and even dissolving existing patterns at their deepest roots, and keeping them fromturning up again.

So let’s zoom in on these processes in more detail, so we can finally define our new orientation…




2.3.1 ‘Egg Marks’

As we explored, ‘habituation’ and ‘filtering’ are not the only standard-issue operating processesthat our ‘mind/body’-systems come with.

For instance, another very strong fundamental drive is the instinctual tendency to always seek to sur-vive. This includes the impulse to increase probability of survival, which applies to both that of ourown and of others we consider part of our tribe (<-- i.e. spouse, off-spring, relatives, members ofour social circle, and others we feel related to and/or bonded with) .

As a fundamental aspect of our ‘mind/body’-system’s operating system, these tendencies remain forpretty much all our lives and can drive very strong emotional surges.

As you’ll recall, Section 1.1.2 covered how emotions serve as a means of behavioral modificationthrough a system of metaphorical punishment and reward. Here’s how that becomes relevant inthe context of the ‘Cracking Crux:’

In general, events that we perceive as in any way capable of compromising our own or ourtribe’s (probability of) survival and/or well-being (<-- including our (perceived) safety, security,social alignments, etc.) will trigger a very significant emotional reaction that feels extremelyuncomfortable.

The resulting emotional discomfort leaves a significant and intense memory, and serves as a cuefor us to do what we can to ‘fight or flee’ the situation, i.e.:

If possible, to alter the situation in the moment; Or otherwise to get away from that situation altogether … now and in the future.

As such, just one or a few significant events that evoke an intense enough emotional reaction canleave what is called an ‘imprint:’

Imprints

In very simple terms, an ‘imprint’ in this context is a life-altering experience of highemotional significance, which in turn shapes our subconscious programming by im-printing and/or altering our beliefs and implicit focus of attention in either a con-structive or destructive way:

If the originating experience is some kind of ‘triumph’ with a significant ‘positive’ emo-tional charge, we’re likely to create constructive programming and/or beliefs attesting tohigher levels of development, along the overall theme that ‘ anything is possible ’ for us.

If, on the other hand, the experience is horrid and accompanied by a highly significantuncomfortable , perhaps traumatic emotional charge, we’re likely to adopt a set of dis-empowering beliefs and self-sabotaging emotional patterns.

Such experiences often occur at moments of crisis caused by a (perceived, potential)threat to our own survival (or that of another person), which is thus accompanied bystrong, uncomfortable emotion.

Major events like this can affect our view of the world and ourselves, for better orworse. And as you probably know, for most people it becomes a strongly inhibiting factor in their lives (as opposed to an empowering one).




So as such, ‘Egg Mark’-experiences are literally defining moments in our lives:

They’re the moments in which we define our persona and decide to see the world in a certain way. Inother words: they make us create our ultimate, underlying, core, foundational meta-patterns.

But it doesn’t end there…

Please Note!

Again, it’s important to realize that in these types of scenarios, it’s always about our perception of the event, not necessarily the event itself . So even though the actual event itself might not be‘survival-threatening,’ our perception or interpretation of it can be.

And as mentioned before and explained in our previous sessions, it’s this perception ofreality that we react to, i.e. not as much reality itself, but rather our interpretation of it ,the story we attribute to it.

As such, while in retrospect certain events may not seem like very big deals, our perception ofthem at the time they occurred may have been. Take our scenario from Section 2.2.2 forexample:

In reality, the source event of the ‘Egg Mark’ wasn’t that big a deal. I mean, it’s not like the boywas being attacked by a saber-toothed cat. There really wasn’t a real threat to his securityand/or survival. In fact, quite on the contrary:

Out of a sense of love and wanting the best for their gifted kid, the parents sought to turn appa-rently unmotivated behavior into conduct geared towards top performance and actualizationof the boy’s potential, which they thought would increase his chances of building a fulfilling life.

However, in the experience and interpretation of the boy, he felt severely threatened in hissecurity. The emotional discomfort had him install a meta-pattern that would in turn driveand direct his taking on the types of beliefs, values, intentions, expectations, and so on, and the

patterns along which he’d construct them.

These in turn would then subconsciously drive his conscious patterns of thought, feeling,attitude, decision making, and acting in the future.

So relating this back to you:

Even though certain past experiences may not seem like they were that big a deal from yourcurrent perspective (and while the mere notion of them potentially having been a big dealmight even seem ridiculous at present ), they may well have been in your perception at thetime of the event itself, and you may effectively still be dealing with their impact.

So again: the actual events don’t have to be life-threatening. It’s always our interpreta-tion of the event at the time that defines our meta-patterns.




2.3.2 Complex Cover-Up Mechanisms

As human beings, we’re rather unique in the sense that we’re a class of life that not only has thecapacity to merely consciously think . Instead, we also think about our thinking , feel about our

feelings , think about our feelings , and feel about our thinking .

This can be a very useful feature, because it can put us in the powerful position of being able to ob-serve ourselves (<-- which is the quality on which the ‘Participant/Observer’-method we discussedin our first session is based) . However, when we use that feature ‘unconsciously’ (which most of ustend to do a lot), it can also lead to problems. Here’s how:

We often unconsciously wrap one emotional state around another, and then another, and thenanother. And we do this until they’re so tangled up that it’s almost impossible to fix them.

For instance, consider this:

Let’s say at some point and for whatever reason we begin to feel jealous of someone;Then we get angry at ourselves for feeling jealous (<-- for example because we think it’simmature and we’re not ‘supposed to’ feel jealousy) ;Then we become depressed because we’re getting angry with ourselves (<-- for instancebecause we know the anger doesn’t help the situation) .

Or as another example, let’s apply this concept to the scenario we used in Section 2.2.2:

The boy may feel scared;Then he may start to feel angry with himself for feeling scared (<-- for instance because heknows he needs to be strong and perform well) ;And then he might feel guilty about being angry (<-- for instance because he knows on somelevel that his parents only want the best for him) .

These are just a few examples to illustrate how we stack multiple emotions on top of each other:

We feel ‘depression’ about ‘anger’ about ‘jealousy:’ the jealousy is nested in anger, and theanger is nested in depression. In other words, the original emotion of jealousy is covered up bymultiple layers.

Or we feel ‘guilt’ about ‘anger’ about ‘fear:’ the fear is nested in anger, and the anger is nestedin guilt. Again, the original emotion of fear is covered up by multiple layers.

So do you see how easy it is to lose our way with such complexities going on?

In the first example above, the difficulty is that if we go to work on the depression, we only workon the surface level of the issue. But doing so won’t make a big difference in the grander scheme ofthe problem, because underneath it are multiple layers of emotion that are ultimately built on anunderlying imbalance that’s acting as the core foundation for the entire interplay.

So for example, you can use EFT and tap on the depression that you feel as much as you want... Butyou’re not going to make a great difference this way, because the underlying source that drove you to‘depression’ through “who knows how many” intermediate steps remains intact.

For example, from a practical perspective:

We may use EFT and tap on the feelings of depression we experience as much as we like... But we

won’t make a great difference this way, because the underlying layers – and particularly thedeepest source that drove the feeling of ‘depression’ through ‘Pete-knows-how-many’ inter-mediate steps – remain intact.




This is a crucial phenomenon to be aware of, because we’ve discussed before how ‘limiting beliefs’are usually very much attached to strong emotional states. In fact, as we discussed in Section 1.1.2and in our earlier sessions as well, emotions tend to act as a type of superglue that keeps your‘eggshell structure’ together.

As such, limiting beliefs and emotions can become intertwined in a way that creates a complex andvery strongly tied knot that seems to resist change, because it’s so hard to untangle. After all, usuallywe’re merely aware of the surface emotion and/or belief, without remembering the actual source ofthe knot.

Consequently, we’re also inclined to work exclusively on that surface level.

So do you see how absolutely crucial it is to learn how to dig in into the real, core level that may bedeeply covered up?

But just when you think that it can’t get any worse than that, the other processes of our mind’s

‘operating system’ kick in…




2.3.3 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Apart from seemingly being very hard to untie, the complex inner knots we implicitly create tend tocompletely mask their core , i.e. the origin upon which this entire web of chaos was built to start with.

And then things get even worse:

With these various emotional imbalances being linked and built on each other, one uncomforta-ble emotion can automatically trigger the other, and we may not be aware of this or have anyconscious control over it.

For example: sadness may automatically trigger anger, which in turn may automatically triggerguilt, which in turn may automatically trigger frustration, etc.

Before we know it, we end up in a vicious emotional cycle that we can’t seem to stop and/or

break out of.

As discussed in our previous session, these ‘vicious cycles’ manifest themselves in our ‘physicalreality’ as circumstances that only go on to evoke more of these imbalanced emotions.

And because most of us don’t understand the underlying mechanism of this process, we’ll beinclined to interpret these circumstances as justification for our convictions and ongoing misery,which obviously merely reinforces the whole structure (<-- which will then go on to be reflectedin our ‘outer reality’ even more strongly) .

We see what we believe, while we also believe what we see. It’s a self-reinforcing cycle, just like

we discussed earlier in Section 1.1.3 on ‘confirmation bias.’

This self-fulfilling prophecy can lead us into downward spirals that are very hard to break outof if we don’t know what’s really going on with us on a subconscious level. In blunt terms, allwe know is that we feel like crap and that ‘life sucks,’ but we have no idea what’s ultimatelydriving this experience.

And nothing we ever do changes it unless we dissolve the root imbalance that’s ultimatelycausing it.

But guess what:

It gets even worse…




2.3.4 Identification

Here’s what happens next:

As you know, when we keep repeating certain patterns, they become habituated , and as suchthey get programmed as automatic patterns in our subconscious minds (<-- and/or reinforcedin case they’ve already been installed) .

So as the whole vicious cycle described in the previous section keeps going on and being repea-ted, the cycle itself becomes our habituated , default state .

This way, the whole process becomes so deeply ingrained, that after a while we simply don’tknow any better. It becomes part of our identity ; we identify ourselves with it.

This is key , because we basically begin to think:

“This the way I am. This is the type of person I am.”

For example, we’ll think:

“I am a loser.” “I am just the kind of person who thinks/feels/acts like this…” “I don’t have much self-esteem: I never had, so that’s just who I am .” “I’ll never have a great relationship. I am just not cut out for it (<-- for whatever concrete reason

we make up on the surface to justify this conviction…) .” “I’ve suffered from this ailment for as long as I can remember. It runs in my family too, so I guess

I am just stuck with it.” “I am not supposed to have a lot of money, because money is the root of all evil, and I’m a

supposed to be a good person.” Etc.

Notice the word ‘am.’ By using it, we’re declaring ourselves to be something and/or freeze acertain ‘reality’ into being of a certain nature. In other words:

We take a piece of behavior (such as losing, getting angry, not esteeming ourselves, etc.) or asnapshot of a ‘reality’ that’s really in constant flux…

And then we identify ourselves with that behavior or snapshot , and declare that “that’s who we or the way things are.”

In other words, we equate two different things:

1. On one hand: a pattern of thought, feeling, attitude and behavior that we’ve installed based ona source event that put us in a state of severe discomfort and left an inner imbalance (<-- i.e. an‘Egg Mark’) , or a temporary state of affairs as it is in the moment.

2. On the other hand: a self-definition (<-- i.e. a declaration of ‘personality’) or a definiteconclusion about ‘life’ and ‘reality.’

So the whole chaos of ties, knots, ‘surface level’ limiting beliefs and ways of thinking, feeling andacting now becomes our ‘projected personality’ and worldview.

We think this is who we really are and what life is like , while that’s not really the case:




It’s rather ‘imbalanced pattern built on imbalanced pattern,’ the totality of which ultimately socompletely engulfs our entire state of being, that it totally masks our true, genuine essence.

But while it isn’t who we really are, it does create the mental and emotional ‘atmosphere’ in whichwe live our lives. This ‘atmosphere’ not only filters all our perceptions and attitudes and determines

how we color our world so that we merely (or at least mostly ) see your preconceived notionsconfirmed, but also operates on a level outside of our normal conscious awareness.

Living in such an ‘atmosphere’ we hardly notice how it filters all incoming information and colors allour perceptions, and how we keep seeing confirmations of our own inner preconceptions.

This ‘atmosphere’ becomes the very fabric of our mental and emotional life. In other words, itbecomes our way of being .

This ‘atmosphere’ is what I refer to as the experience inside the ‘egg.’

And thus we’ve come full circle.

So where does this all leave us?

Let’s see…

Think of it this way:

Imagine you have purple-colored glasses on.

As a consequence, the whole world looks purple from your point of view. Any ‘informa-tion’ coming into your eyes first go through this ‘filter’ that gives a purple hue to every-thing that eventually enters your eyes.

As such, your perception of reality is different (more purple) from reality itself. If you’dtake off the purple glasses, the world would look entirely different.

But you’ve forgotten you’ve got these glasses on, so you never see it that way.

In a similar way, this ‘atmosphere’ I’m talking about filters reality for you, so that you seethings differently compared to how they really are (or could be).




2.4 A New Orientation

To recap, in support of our ‘egg-cracking’ journey, we’ve conceptually modeled our minds in threeseparate levels:

Level 1: This includes what’s on your mind consciously … your immediate, conscious thoughts about thedetails of your experience of what’s ‘out there’… the direct stimuli that trigger your mental,emotional, and behavioral responses.

This is the information you take in through your five senses, or that you consciously impose onyourself through what I call ‘conscious, free will instruction.’

Level 2:This level refers to your ‘subconscious programming’ in the form of your particular structure of

limiting beliefs, values, attitudes, intentions, etc. that run in the back of your mind, and operatemostly outside of your conscious awareness.

These are the beliefs and programs that function as the rules for ‘sorting’ and ‘perceiving,’ thatgovern the way you think, feel, and act on the first level.

This is where you’ll find what I call your ‘surface’ limiting beliefs like the ones I just mentioned,such as:

I’m a loser.

The (predictability of) the results of our efforts to elicit constructive changes in our subconsciousprogramming (<-- and thus in our lives) depend on which level we focus on:

Most people never actually step outside ‘Level 1,’ and they pretty much go through life playingout a series of automated responses, (semi-) ‘robotic’ patterns, and scripted dramas. They usu-ally aren’t even aware of the fact that it’s really their subconscious programming that’s predomi-nantly determining the course of their lives. At this level, everything seems at random, and life

just happens to us .

Others have ‘woken up,’ and are able to recognize that much of their patterns of thought,feeling, decision making, and acting are based on a structure of subconscious programming inthe form of preprogrammed convictions, values, attitudes, and so on.

As a result of that realization they’ve begun to engage in all kinds of different self-help methodsdesigned to help instigate constructive shifts in their subconscious mind (<-- such as repeating

positive affirmations, creative visualization with emotional involvement, subliminal messaging,brainwave entrainment, EFT and other emotional release techniques, healing methods, etc.) .

The results, however, seem coincidental, temporary, mediocre, and/or non-existent. Whateverthe case may be, their approach is generally arbitrary: there’s no clear-cut system, let alone cus-tomized method or structure to the process that’s tailored to their unique characteristics andrequirements.

Level 1: This level includes what’s on our mind consciously , i.e. the momentary thoughts in ourdirect awareness about the details of our experience of what’s ‘out there’ (<-- which makeup the stimuli that trigger our mental, emotional, and behavioral reactions).

This is the information we take in through our five senses, or that we deliberately imposeon ourselves through ‘conscious, free will instruction’.

Level 2:This level refers to our subconscious programming at the ‘input processing’-level, in the

form of our personal structure of (limiting) beliefs, values, attitudes, intentions, etc. thatrun in the back of our minds and operate mostly outside of our conscious awareness.

These are the programs and patterns that govern the way we think, feel, decide and acton ‘Level 1,’ and where we’ll find the superficial convictions and feelings we’re inclinedto identify with (<-- as described in the previous sections) .

Level 3: Finally, there’s the core level that makes up the underlying foundation and driving force forthe way the other two levels are structured on top of it. This is where we find our meta- patterns and the ultimate, root imbalances that drive the unique style of patterning ofour particular ‘body/mind’-system.




But to systematically make notable, lasting changes in our subconscious programming (and ourlives), it’s mainly ‘Level 3’ we need to focus on:

By disabling and dissolving the very reason why the other two levels are built up the way theyare, we no longer even need to take actions that are specifically aimed at those levels:

‘Surface level’-belief structures usually dissolve automatically in the process of making changesat the meta-pattern level. But even if they don’t, they’ll be like buildings without a core struc-ture and foundation: i.e. they’ll be easy to demolish, even by means of existing methods thatmay have rendered little result in the past.

By the same token, as long as we don’t take out the fundamental imbalance that makes up thisunderlying ‘reason why,’ our inhibiting subconscious programming is likely to rebuild itself nomatter what we do. Its exact details might be different, but the overall result is the same:

It’ll keep us from becoming your best selves and from actualizing our true capabilities, and will

perpetuate the same (or a similar) mental and emotional atmosphere that drove its creation inthe first place.

Whether we take out those core imbalances through lucky shots or a systematic approach (<-- like wetake on the ‘ Crack Your Egg Program ’ ) ultimately doesn’t matter. The point remains:

If we ever want notable and lasting changes, shifts need to be made on this ‘third level.’

Whichever methodology we choose to make those changes, we’ll need to take the followingconditions into account:

Our own, unique structural meta-patterns prescribe that the method or tool we choose to applybypasses or works in line with the filtering that’s driven by the contextual rules they impose.

Knowing about our own, unique thematic meta-patterns points us at the ‘Egg Marks’ that makeup the core foundational imbalances on which our entire eggshell structure and inhibitingprogramming is built. This gives us clear direction in targeting the true sources of our limitations.

So how do we figure out our own patterns?

Well, it all starts with the techniques and insights covered in the previous two sessions. So continueto practice their exercises. But from this point forward, see if you can take your introspection todeeper levels with the newly-gained awareness as put forward in this study guide.

For example, ask yourself:

Which significant events come to mind when you think back and consider what could have been ‘EggMark’-experiences in your life?

And how could they have influenced your current, default patterns of thought, feeling, attitude,decision making, and behavior? (<-- Don’t forget to apply the ‘participant/observer’-method duringthis exercise to defuse from any emotional discomfort that may get evoked, and leverage the otherskills and insights you’ve learned so far to process it…)

Or to begin your own process of systematically dismantling and dissolving your inhibiting sub-conscious programming on the meta-pattern level (<-- and thus all the rest along with it) , feelfree to enroll in the ‘Crack Your Egg Program .’












All in all, our new orientation prescribes that our progress and results stand or fall with our abilityand/or willingness to recognize and appreciate the crucial importance of meta-patterns, and a finalessential realization that emerges from it (<-- described in the next and final section).




Conclusion:

The ‘Danger’ of Positive Thinking

If you’ve ever written significant pieces of text, you’ll know that every now and then it’s best totemporarily step back and clear your mind a bit…

So while writing this study guide for you, every now and then I took a moment to relax and playsome tunes on my guitar. I always like to do that to relax, silence my mind, and of course learnnew stuff to improve my skills.

The latter is some kind of constant urge that just always seems to be there, either blatantly or moresubtly in the background. It’s a constant drive to grow, to move forward, to get better at what I (liketo) do… not just in playing the guitar, but in pretty much each area of life.

‘Drive’ or even ‘urge’ aren’t even the right choice of words here… It’s more like a feeling of riding awave … going with a certain flow … enjoying the game I’m playing without getting too hooked up onthe results it’s supposed to deliver.

As far as playing the guitar goes, I’m really not that good a player though… at least not compared tomany awesome players the world knows. I’ve never had any real lessons either; I’m what you’d call‘self-taught.’ But hey, some of the best players in the world are self-taught, right? (<-- I like to tellmyself that!)

Anyway, being a mediocre player compared to the big shots out there, I do like to study guitariststhat I really enjoy listening to – checking out their techniques, their licks, their different styles, etc.

However, as any true musician will confirm, technique, skill, style, and dexterity are only part ofthe story in creating great music. What’s much more essential to a unique and awesome sound isthe soul that’s put into it.

I’ve heard one of my favorite players say once:

“You don’t make music… Music finds you. Your job is to practice to get yourself ready.”


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Basically, what he was saying was that there’s music ‘out there,’ in the ‘ether’ if you will… like avibration or a wave that’s waiting for you to ‘pick it up,’ and then make it manifest in this realitythrough you… for which you obviously need skills and dexterity to be capable of translating andrelaying that inspiration through your body’s interaction with the instrument.

And that’s a really good point to remember:

You might be reading this out of a desire to learn how to take back control of your life, to actualizeyour dreams, and to consciously and deliberately create your own reality.

Well, creating the life you want is a lot like creating music. By that I don’t mean the average, run-off-the-mill R&B, teeny bopper, or dance song from today’s hit parades, but real, inspired musicthat has true soul to it.

The practice of consciously shaping your life and destiny (<-- or ‘manifesting’ as it’s popularlyreferred to these days) is not something you do … Like music, it’s something that’s done through

you.

This process can either feel like a struggle (which is what most people are experiencing), or it can feellike a natural ‘flow’… a wave or a current that you pick up… one that is natural to you… that you feelgood with… that fits you… one that’s authentically you .

That’s why experiencing the latter state is referred to as being ‘ in the flow ,’ or ‘in the zone .’

We’ve all experienced that feeling at some point in our lives, be it usually just shortly and fleetingly.

That feeling is what most people are really after when they say want to “attract abundance,” “mani-fest their desires,” and “create the lives of their dreams.” They seek that state in which everythingseems to come naturally, i.e. the experience that brings along such an awesome feeling of elationand livelihood, that we wish every day could be like it.

When you’re in the flow, you’re in tune with the greater currents of life. You’re playing an inspiredgame that feels like the natural thing to do, like you were meant to be doing it.

Most people seem to have completely lost that game: they’re not just out of tune with the greatercurrents and waves of life in general, but also with their own wave, the one I refer to as the ‘MasterWave.’ If your life feels like a struggle, this is what you’re experiencing:

Instead of feeling like you’re going with the flow it’s like you’re swimming up against the stream andfighting with forces much greater than yourself.

So the question is:

How do you find back that flow?

Many ‘gurus’ and their following will say you need to ‘focus on the positive,’ and tell you that as soonas you do, you’ll get more ‘good things’ in your life.

Now before I get into the issue with this undoubtedly well-intended piece of advice, let me make onething clear:




Indeed, widening our perspective beyond the ‘tunnel vision’ that ongoing negativity imposes, isinfinitely better than remaining stuck in negativity, as it allows us to notice all the good things thatare already happening and to actually spot opportunities that we didn’t notice before.

Nevertheless, there’s actually a danger to the mainstream interpretation of ‘positive thinking.’ And

to clearly explain what it is, let me get back to my guitar story for a second…

You see, I like to play and listen to various different styles of music, particularly when it comes toguitar. I can listen to genres ranging from hard rock to classical, from blues to folk, from flamenco to

jazz.

While I can enjoy the strong energy of bands like Pearl Jam and Guns n’ Roses, or the power bluestunes by Gary Moore and Jeff Healey… I can also enjoy Clapton’s acoustic jams, Richie Kotzen’sbluesy funk virtuosity, and the sweet, creamy, and mellow Fender licks of Mark Knopfler at othertimes.

In fact, when I was playing a moment ago, I played the riffs and guitar solos from Mark Knopfler’ssong ‘What It Is’ on my acoustic…

Now, while the guitar part of that song is nice in my opinion, it’s really the lyrics of the chorus of thesong that are relevant to our discussion (<-- although I’m not that fond of the way Knopfler sings, ifyou can even call it that… but that’s a whole other story) . The lyrics go like this:

Now clearly, that probably doesn’t come across like a whole lot of poetic value at first sight. Andyou’re right. But it is what reminded me of the danger of positive thinking, and what perfectlydefines the mindset we need in order to find back our ‘Master Wave.’ Here’s why:

The phrase “It’s what it is” carries enormous power. Because, let’s face it:

If you’re anything like most people, you’re regularly faced with ‘challenging’ situations and circum-stances in life that you’re quick to consider ‘negative.’ (<-- These may in fact have been your veryreason to start looking for ‘a way out’ by means of the kind of information I’m describing for youhere…)

Such circumstances evoke the type of ‘negative’ emotional charge that most ‘experts’ out there warnus not to get caught up in.

Now like I said before:

While that kind of warning isn’t bad advice in itself, this often turns into a way too simplistic sugges-tion to merely put our focus on whatever we consider ‘positive’ instead. As a result, most people givethis proposition a ‘Life of Brian’-like twist – no matter what cross they have to bear, the mottoremains:

“Always look on the bright side of life.”

That’s what it isIt’s what it is now

What it isIt’s what it is now




The common consequence of this mentality is that they tend to plainly deny the whole experiencethat triggered their uncomfortable state, by immediately turning away to focus on positive thingsinstead… all in an attempt to effectively ignore and avoid the ‘negative’ charge altogether, out of fearthat the negativity will expand if they give it any attention.

Now let me tell you why that can become a serious problem:

As explained in detail in this and our earlier sessions, there’s no denying that our experience of life isa reflection of our inner state.

And to get back to the relevance of that song ‘What It Is,’ some other lyrics of it go like this:

And that’s exactly what happens during such ‘negative’ experiences.

They’re reflections of the ‘Egg Marks’ we discussed:

The ‘Egg Mark’ is effectively a blockage, an impression from the past that hampers the flow ofenergy in our ‘mind/body’-system. It often stores a complete snapshot of the originating event.

It can pretty much archive everything we were feeling and thinking at the time, and everything that was happening surrounding the event.

As such, it’s an unfinished energy pattern that interacts with the flow of current thoughts andevents. Sensory inputs from today’s events basically dig through all the stuff we’ve storedthroughout the years, and they restore the exact (discomforting and inhibiting) patternsthat are associated with the originating events.

This way, the current dynamics of life can cause the fundamental imbalance that’s stored as an‘Egg Mark’ to get stimulated and activated .

And something from the past just comes And stares into my soul




When an ‘Egg Mark’ gets stimulated, suddenly flashes of what we experienced when the originalevent took place may rush into our consciousness – the thoughts, the feelings, sometimes eventhe smells and other sensory input that was there at the time:

Instantly we’ll experience the uncomfortable feelings we felt back then. This way, we can actu-

ally feel the fears and the insecurities of a young kid even when we’re adults.

Whenever they rear their heads, instead of dissolving the ‘Egg Mark,’ our initial inclination is toeither reduce the tension associated with it as much and as fast as possible, or to even dowhatever we can to avoid the pattern from being activated in the first place.

In other words, these sensory inputs trigger all the patterns of thought, feeling, behavioralurges, defense mechanisms, and so on that we (probably unconsciously) built around it ascoping, avoidance, and prevention methods.

We may not even consciously remember the originating experiences, or associate the source

events with what’s happening in the present. That’s why we may also wonder why we findourselves reacting so intensely to current situations of which we might rationally knowthey’re not all that bad.

These deeply buried parts of us are simply way out of balance. And that’s why they’re so sensi-tive , that the slightest little thing can cause it (us) to overreact.

We may not consciously realize it, but this way, most of our attitudes and reactions in life are funda-mentally caused by an inclination to avoid the feeling of an uncomfortable experience that gotimprinted as an ‘Egg Mark.’

And as we keep following these inclinations over and over, such patterns can turn into self-fulfillingprophecies. And before we realize it, it’s possible that we’ve built our entire lives around suchpatterns of avoidance.

Now at the risk of explaining the obvious, here’s how this blocks the process of creating a genu-inely successful and fulfilling life experience:

Many times we even bring this avoidance mentality to this process.

While we think that we’re taking the ‘enlightened’ route of consciously employing our creativepowers to shape our own destinies, implicitly we actually try to manipulate and change the worldaround us in such a way that it doesn’t disturb our ‘Egg Marks’. (<-- We see this, for instance, in themany attempts we take to manifest a ‘rescue’ from our current situation, which is an act that’s bydefinition reactive, and not creative.)

As such, we make our decisions based on stimulated blockages. Even the ‘creative desires’ that wehold for genuine can result from this urge to get rid of the underlying tension imposed by the ‘EggMark.’

In other words:

While we think and aim otherwise, in truth, our lives revolve entirely around our ‘Egg Marks.’

At that brings us to the real danger of positive thinking:




Instead, it brings us back into the ‘now’ and allows us to recognize the inner imbalance that’s beingreflected, so we can subsequently clean it out of our systems and finally get rid of our ties to thelimiting patterns that we keep getting pulled into.

That’s why the word ‘now’ follows up on “It’s what it is” in the song:

The phrase thus relates to the present… not the past, not the future, but the NOW, the only momentthat exists.

It’s not what it was… It’s not what it will be … It’s what it IS. So the state of mind that the phrase “it’swhat it is” instigates, allows us to accurately perceive what’s happening now .

And as you know, now is the only moment in which we can change anything in the first place. Thepast no longer exists, and the future doesn’t yet… The time to respond is now .

In that regard, the phrase “it’s what it is” must go together with something else, which is:

“… so let’s cut the crap and deal with it”.

‘Negative’ experiences are not about punishment, or ‘negative karma,’ or anything like that… Just likeany experience, they’re about expanding awareness , i.e. awareness of our innermost selves .

If we don’t pick up on that awareness, or don’t do anything with it, we never make a constructivedifference.

Once we acknowledge what the ‘negative’ experience is saying – or rather, once we recognize whatimprint of feelings and beliefs is being activated (<-- and which ‘life’ is thus making us aware of) – weknow exactly what it is that we need to work on in ourselves:

“It is what it is now”




We need to clean that junk out of your system! And once we do, it’s simply no longer there within usto be reflected in our lives anymore. And that way, the ‘negative’ experience disappears:

Either because we simply no longer get into the type of situations that used to activate our ‘EggMarks’…

Or because they no longer bother us because there simply are no ‘Egg Marks’ or associatedpatterns to be activated anymore (<-- meaning that you effectively don’t recognize them as‘negative’ anymore) .

So just redirecting our attention to something we consider to be positive is not going to cut it.That’s like putting on a band-aid; it might alleviate or even just mask the symptom shortly, butit never takes away the cause for the symptom to come up in the first place, thus pretty muchguaranteeing its eventual return.

The key is to recognize the ‘Egg Marks’ that the negative thoughts and emotional charge is associated

with, and then to get rid of our ties to them. That’s the only thing that’s going to make a realdifference in the long run.

Once we do, we’ll finally feel the freedom to deliberately create and shape our lives the way we want,without attachments or aversions being the sole determinants of the direction of our thoughts,

feelings, choices, decisions, and actions.

And guess what:

The more of those ties you release, the more you’ll find a unique, genuine, and authentic part of youshining through.

That’s that part that I call the ‘Master Wave’…

It’s important to realize that your ‘Master Wave’ is not a static ‘end of the line.’ It too is a movingcurrent, an ongoing wave progression.

But once you recognize and flow with it, it’ll feel so natural, you’ll wonder how you could have evermissed it. In fact, you’ll see how in fact you’ve been denying it all along, either deliberately orunconsciously (i.e. by default).

The choice to ride it is yours. You don’t have to go look for it, or ‘seek enlightenment’ or any of thatkind of stuff. It’s already there, waiting for you to tune (back) in. And you can do so by getting your‘Egg Marks’ and associated junk out of the way, thus clearing your field of vision and reception.

That’s how you really get in the flow. It’s a matter of:

Disregarding externally imposed norms of what or who you should be… living independently ofpetty irrational fears and anxieties… being free from attachments to results and expectations,from aversions to undesired circumstances, and from limiting beliefs instigated in times past.

Honestly and genuinely acknowledging who you really are… treading beyond your ‘Egg Marks’…enjoying the process of being you and becoming a more awesome version of you with everywaking moment.




Doing so will transform what appears to be a ‘struggle’ into a ‘natural flow,’ with all the feelings ofabundance, limitlessness and ease that come with it.

Rudyard Kipling summarized this beautifully in his poem titled If:

Th ’ h i f ‘C ki Y E ’ A d h d h ld i li ll

If…If you can keep your head when all about you,

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too…

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies…

Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise…

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,If you can think and not make thoughts your aim…

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same…

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken,Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools…

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools…

If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss…

And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss…

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,To serve your turn long after they are gone… And so hold on when there is nothing in you,Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch…

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much…

If you can fill the unforgiving minute,With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run…

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

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