Direct Experience Is Where It’s At: 10-09-2024

1. Face the internal state of mind at the first sign of error and mishap. That is where you will find the cause, not in witch-hunts, theoretical musings, psychological theories, or spiritual explanations.
2. We demonstrate our irrationality when we choose to punish ourselves with another negative self-construction (semantic object) for choosing a negative self-construction that caused failure.
3. Instead of examining the internal environment or the active semantic objects to find the cause of an error or mishap, we leave the immediate reality and get lost in verbal worlds and theories of what went wrong.
4. When we fail, it is because we rely on semantic objects. We leave the direct experience of that failure, where the fault is clearly the responsibility of the active semantic objects, and, instead, rush into self-esteem games of guilt, shame, and protecting our pride.
5. Being here now is most important when you are facing your internal actions and responses because running away from that reality into words is running away from the possibility of returning to living as your authentic self.