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@Selene_Mariposa After visiting Hong Kong I can say I'm glad we don't have public transport like that. Granted HKere were not noisy and considerate of surroundings, I did not enjoy sitting next to randos then walking to get to my next location then walking more. Yeah fuck that. Rather drive.
@BonesawMD Alot of times I considered myself easy going but more like people pleasing. Afraid to show my discomfort or discontentment with the situation.
@forihave5inned@DougMoore66@elsathora Whataburger is so trash it's not even funny. Guaranteed it'll come out looking like the most sad lifeless burger ever. In n out as least is fresh and uses fresh ingredients.
Changing your self-image is one of the deepest inner work you can do, because almost every change you try to make will get pulled back to whatever picture you carry of yourself underneath.
Your subconscious uses that picture as a target and steers your behavior, your perception, your choices, your emotions to match it, when reality drifts from the picture it experiences a gap and corrects back toward the picture every time, which is why lottery winners go broke, people who lose weight gain it back, people who land the dream job sabotage it.
The actual work is not to change behavior, it is to change the picture, and once the picture changes the behavior follows on its own.
This idea has been rediscovered under different names for the last hundred years, Neville Goddard wrote about it in Feeling Is the Secret, Maxwell Maltz translated it into Psycho-Cybernetics in 1960 which became the foundation almost every modern self-development book is built on, and later NLP turned the same insight into precise technique, but the mechanism stays the same.
The actual practice is this.
You pick one version of yourself you want to become and you get specific about who that person is, how they walk, how they speak, how they handle problems, how they feel in their body, what they tolerate, what they refuse, what they expect from life.
You find one short scene that would only be true if you were already that person, maybe waking up in their bedroom, maybe walking into a room of people who respect them, maybe driving the car they have, and you spend ten to fifteen minutes a day living inside that scene in the first person, not watching it like a movie but feeling the chair under you, hearing the voice you use, feeling the calm or the confidence already in your whole body.
You do this twice a day in the windows where the subconscious is most open, the last few minutes before you fall asleep and the first few minutes after you wake up, because in those states the critical part of your mind is offline and whatever you feel as already true goes in almost unchallenged, you fall asleep inside the feeling of the new self and you wake up returning to it.
You watch the "I am" sentences during the day and you stop the ones that vote for the old picture before they finish.
You take one small action a day that the new person would take and the old person would have flinched at.
You change the inputs around you so what you watch, read, and listen to is reinforcing the new identity instead of the old one.
You spend time with people who already see you as who you are becoming and less time with people who only know who you were.
You do all of this together, daily, and at some point you look up and realize you have been behaving like the new person for weeks without trying, because the picture has finally moved and your subconscious is steering you toward a different home.