the Order of Chaos

Those who REALLY want to succeed MUST constantly and diligently improve his/her skills.

Seminars, trainings, books, classes, podcasts, webinars, news – whatever it takes to advance your personality. Step by step, no fake excuses and procrastinations. Every day, hour, second and whatever the weather is outside.

Every time I awake at the mornings I feel some disappointment on what my life is. It seemed just yesterday like I had very positive mindset and where all that is now. Damn it.

How to be what some call “infatigable worker”?

In a proof-of-concept study, Mayo Clinic investigators have demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be used to treat heart disease. iPS cells are stem cells converted from adult cells. In this study, the researchers reprogrammed ordinary fibro

blasts, cells that contribute to scars such as those resulting from a heart attack, converting them into stem cells that fix heart damage caused by infarction.

“This study establishes the real potential for using iPS cells in cardiac treatment,” says Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., first author on the Mayo Clinic study. “Bioengineered fibroblasts acquired the capacity to repair and regenerate infarcted hearts.”

This is the first application of iPS-based technology for heart disease therapy. Previously iPS cells have been used on only three other disease models: Parkinson’s disease, sickle cell anemia and hemophilia A. The ultimate goal is to use iPS cells derived from patients to repair injury. Using a person’s own cells in the process eliminates the risk of rejection and the need for anti-rejection drugs. One day this regenerative medicine strategy may alleviate the demand for organ transplantation limited by donor shortage, the researchers say.

“This iPS innovation lays the groundwork for translational applications,” comments Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic physician -scientist and senior author. “Through advances in nuclear reprogramming, we should be able to reverse the fate of adult cells and customize ‘on demand’ cardiovascular regenerative medicine.”

The Mayo Clinic team genetically reprogrammed fibroblasts via a “stemness-related” human gene set to dedifferentiate into an iPS cell capable of then redifferentiating into new heart muscle. When transplanted into damaged mouse hearts, iPS cells engrafted after two weeks, and after four weeks significantly contributed to improved structure and function of the damaged heart, in contrast to ineffective ordinary fibroblasts.

Compared to non-engineered fibroblasts, the iPS cells:

• Restored heart muscle performance lost after the heart attack
• Stopped progression of structural damage in the damaged heart
• Regenerated tissue at the site of heart damage

ScienceDaily (July 21, 2009)

Why do we resist doing what we can in this moment? Because we might fail. If you get right down to the core of it, you will see that people act powerless because it’s far easier to blame circumstances than go ahead and do it anyway, and maybe look really stupid in the process. So we give our power away to others. It’s like we’re saying, “No, please, YOU take my power. This way I can blame YOU if things don’t work out”.

Hope attempts to prove we’re powerless.

We say things like…

-I am not the one in charge here, so there is really nothing I can do.

-I believe my fate is in God’s hands.

-They won’t let me…(government, rich people, or anyone else who appears to have more power)

-What is the use of trying? The odds are clearly stacked against me.

These are nothing more than assumptions. Assumptions are characterized by the habit of taking for granted that something is true when it is not. Questions you must ask are, “Is my assumption true or false? What proof or evidence do I have about my assumption? “

What’s more stupid than a stupid question? The answer is an incorrect assumption.

Think of this in terms of your return on investment. In business we focus heavily on the ROI (return on investment), but we forget to use that same concept throughout the rest of our lives. When we fail to do what we want because of an assumption, we are forgetting about the concept of ROI. What would be the ROI for doing it anyway, even if someone somewhere holds the assumption that it is impossible? If all any of us ever did was follow our assumptions, we would still be afraid of falling off the edge of the earth.

Is it wrong to hope or have expectations? Absolutely not. However, the tipping point where hope turns into defeat is when hope keeps us from doing what we can do in the moment.

From Dr. Robert Anthony newsletter

Hope can be a form of scarcity. There are those who live in hope and those who produce hope. What does it mean to be a producer of hope? People who produce hope are creators. People who live in hope are those who just wish and wait for things to change.

Hope is essential because without it life would be a daunting task. However, there is a dark side to hope that very few people talk about. The difference is in what we do or don’t do with hope.

For most people, hope is characterized by waiting for other people or events to change so that we can be happy or get what we want. In this respect, hope is like the dark side of positive thinking.
Positive thinking rarely brings about change because it is a passive activity. Hope then becomes a waiting game.

What people fail to understand is that hope is only a small part of the equation for success. Without action, hope leaves you in a negative reinforcing cycle of expectations, disappointment and
stagnation.

Hope is the longing and wishing for things we think we don’t have. However, the energy we put into wishing and waiting actually prevents us from receiving what we want.

Hope can be a prison. It is a conditioned belief that there is nothing we can do but sit back and “hope for the best”. The dictionary defines hope as “the desire for something to happen while expecting or being confident that it will come true”. This is nothing more than a waiting game.

Many people create a dream and then wait for a sign from heaven that they are on the right track. When the sign fails to come, they give up and go off onto some new adventure, again waiting for a sign that this is finally “it”.

We are conditioned to wait. We wait for the bus, we wait in line at the grocery store and the bank. In school we raised our hands and waited to be called upon, etc. We wait until our parents, teachers or some other adult tells us that it’s okay to do what we want to do.

People that are into hope feel powerless. Powerlessness is a conditioned pattern. Why is it that we can read about people who overcame great odds to accomplish some fantastic feat, but we can’t manage to get to an appointment on time? We are powerless because of heavy traffic, kids won’t cooperate, or some other excuse. If we really faced the truth of the situation, we would see that this supposed powerlessness is a clever disguise to keep us resisting what we can do in the moment.

From Dr. Robert Anthony newsletter

You have probably heard of so called inner voices telling us from time to tome what is good and what is not. They can appear every minute or even second. “Why you didn’t do that in time?”, “What are your plans for tommorrow?”, “I am so lazy”, “They don’t like me” and the like. Where are they all coming from? As I realized they mostly come from the childhood. And I liked an idea of considering them as subpersonalities. In other words there are several (not to say hundreds) personalities in each of us coming up on the scene in different life situations. You might have noticed how ofently we repeat our parents behavioural patterns in our own life. They are being transduced from one person to another just like viruses are. And our childhood is the most susceptible time for that transduction. Most of them play a protective role for the individual but they can restrain your freedom either.This is what the book called Embrace Ourselves: The Voice Dialogue Manual written by a couple of Stones about. The worst part of that is you lose your identity because those subpersonalities permanently take control of you mind and body. This is just like “stimulus-response” attitude. No brain just reactions. Some examples are “Loser”, “Procrastinator”, “Lazy”, “Sceptic” and most of them we take from our parents. But wait where are youself than? That is the question I ask myself every single day and suggest you to do the same.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take

your eyes off your goal

For most people obstacles are just things they feel the lack of. This could me anything . Time, money, knowledge, experience, power, connections and you name it. Once come to your mind they make you stuck and frustrated. You might be telling youself : Oh, my god, I can’t do that because I got nothing for that. Neither money (or whatever) nor skills (put your freaking version here). These kind of thoughts help you in no way but self-abasement. So why bother about them? Do you want to spend your entire life crying and complaining about how pathetic and useless you are? If you do just go ahead. Who cares?

One of the valuable features of powerful people is the ability to ask the right questions. Dealing with obstacles I used to queston myself with following:

• Who am I? (the host of my own life or what)
• What do I want? (win or lose)
• Why do I want that? (passion or just illusion)
  
• So what is my plan? (detailed one or just useless dream)
• Do I respect/love myself? (or just expecting someone to do that)

Recently I realized that the happiness is simply when you understand yourself.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with and bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with

Brian Tracy

Habits are patterns of thought and behavior our mind and body has become accustomed to. And when we try to change that pattern, our internal mechanism reacts. Sometimes it gets angry, sometimes it gets depressed, and often times it gets stressed. It is important to find healthy outlets for these emotions. Some effective outlets are exercise, finding a hobby you enjoy, or simply changing your environment for the moment and going outside to the park or beach.

Here are 5 steps for changing habits:

1. Awareness: You must become aware of your habits. What is this habit exactly? How is this bad habit or group of bad habits affecting you? How is this habit affecting others?
2. Wanting to Change: You must convince yourself that the change in the habit is worth the effort involved.
3. Commitment: You must be determined to do whatever it takes for breaking bad habits so that you can better control your life. You make a decision that “no matter what” you will change the habit. You do the work required to stop.
4. Consistent Action: It is important to focus on changing just one habit at a time. Then, take consistent daily actions for breaking the bad habit that has been causing problems and take the actions to develop a new one.
5. Perseverance: There will be times when you question whether it is all worth it. You’ll say to yourself that breaking these bad habits is too difficult; that you are too “weak” to change. Your old self, often so comfortable living with the bad habits, is trying to hold on.

Bad habits take time to take root and so do good ones. Realize you are not going to change bad habits over night. Changing them takes time. And the more time you spend sticking to your plan, the easier it will get. So take it one day at a time, and remember, “slow and steady wins the race,” not racing through things haphazardly.

Everything surrounding us is prone to fall into equilibrium. Your cup of coffee becomes of room temperature eventually, the wind makes atmospheric pressure equal in remote areas, compressed spring opens up on release –all these processes suggest the existence of some equilibrium forces driving them. They are sort of the excess potentials which can give you the energy to use. Good news is we are successfully exploiting those forces in our daily life. The best example would be a gas one uses driving his/her car. It is full of excess potential being released upon combustion in your car’s engine.Not to say about the food we eat every single day to support our energy costs. The point is any energy excess can/should be spent for something. Some people call this the equilibrium law. Given that one can consider the world as a place full of so called pendulums which vibrate, die out and interact. Every one next to another is accepting the energy from its neighbor and passes that through the chain. Once born any given disturbance is being transferred and causing the excess potential which is in turn can be released in completely another direction. Simply put our life is like permanent energy exchange. What is far more interesting is that the equilibrium can be perturbed not only by real actions but thoughts. This occurs when someone attaches to much importance to anything whatever it would be. Just imagine how different would it feel standing on the ground or balancing on the edge of a skyscraper. In the latter case you are much more concerned about the situation and your equilibrium is shifted. Thus the excess forces would be trying to amortize that energy surplus and either put you down or force you to step back. There is only you who can choose the direction so it comes to your self-control. Once your peace of mind is disturbed you become a source of energy for someone else because your equilibrium is unbalanced. Your gas starts to burn out. Here are some triggers one can use to bowl you down: sense of guilt, discontent, idealization, blame, overestimation, arrogance, perfection, money, hatred, greed and you name it. If you look at this list more carefully you could see that all that things listed are about the importance being attached to whatever it might be. Say you hate someone. It simply means you consider him or her important for you in one way or another. The arrogance is about self-importance, the overestimation is when the estimation is for some reason very important for you. So as you can see we are always facing some kind of excesses in our life and spend our energy to overcome the obstacles but we used to fail in that. Rather we should learn to recognize the equilibrium shifts in our minds and reduce the importance. How can it be done? I am using a simple approach of considering myself as an observer rather than a participant of my own life. It is kind of a game when you rent yourself to the world and watch a movie. Thus you totally reduce any importance to encounter. Do not worry but act since the importance potentials are being dissipated through the action.

Every person has been hypnotized to some degree either by ideas he has accepted from others or ideas he has convinced himself are true. These ideas have exactly the same effect upon his behavior as those implanted into the mind of a hypnotic subject by a hypnotist. Under hypnosis a normal healthy person is told she can not lift a pencil from the table and surprisingly she finds herself unable to do that. She is trying but fails. Her mind believes it is impossible. The same way our imagination causes us to follow the rules set up the minds. But who did set them up? the average person never comes near reaching his unlimited potential because he is living under the false assumption that he already knows the truth. he believes what his parents have told him, what his teachers have taught him, what he has read, and what his religion has told him without actually proving it for himself. The example on hypnosis clearly demonstrates the fact that once a person believes something is true (weather it is true or not), he then acts as if it were. He will instinctively seek to collect facts to support the belief no matter how false they may be. No one will be able to convince him otherwise unless, through his personal experience or study, he or she is ready to change. In other words if one accepts something that is not true, all subsequent actions and reactions will be based upon a false belief. It means you can not assume that what you now hold as truth is, in fact, really the Truth. Instead, you must keep in mind that you are presently hypnotized by false believes and values that are holding you back from expressing your true potential. So our job here would be to awaken from that freaking hypnosis. In his book “The ultimate secrets of total self-confidence” Dr. Robert Anthony sets it this way: The degree to which you awaken will be in direct proportion to the amount of Truth you can accept about yourself. And if you are really sincere about changing your own life and increasing your self-confidence, you must have an open mind.

To solve this problem I have resorted to the concept offered by a physicist and philosopher Dr. Zeland that he called The Space of Variations. The point is there are many sciences involved in the research of different fields of our reality and each of them deals with it’s particular aspect. They might even contradict each to other in the attempts to set that very Truth. The only thing they all would agree with altogether is that our world is diverse, or multi-variable. It is like an infinite set of causes and effects stored in so called Space of variations. All the past, upcoming and possible events of your life have been reflected in there. So the reality is that much variable due to the infinity of variations ever possible. And every particular starting point gives you a specific pattern of successive events. Guess who is in charge of choosing that initial point? Would you believe me if I say that is YOU? Making choices is all you need to be the one you want to be. The problem here is most of us don’t even know who they want to be. And this is about the choice either. That undecided state of living is what actually makes your life so boring and pathetic. In other words the way you think determines the way you live so you simply get what you eventually choose. But the real choice is when you are totally committed to making real steps towards the goal you have chosen. Some mistakes I used to do before and which can be considered as contrast triggers for action you can find on my page “Why you suck”. The choice is yours!

Each of us had been originally accustomed to comply with someone’s will, to carry out the duties, to truly serve your homeland, your family, your company, some ideas etc. To whatever but yourself. Everyone has some sense of duty, responsibility and … guilt to a certain extent. An individual is one way or another ‘being in service’ with certain social groups and organizations namely families, clubs, schools, institutions, states and you name it. All those structures are born and developing once some separate group of people start to think and act in the same direction. Then new people join the structure followed by its expansion and power accumulation. It makes the members follow the established rules and eventually is able to dominate over people comprising that. Such kind of arrangements are called the pendulums. The more people involved the stronger they fluctuate so every particular one has its on frequency. When there is less adherents the oscillations decay.

Some examples of extinct pendulums are: ancient pagan religions, old fashion, country political regimes and so on. In other words these are all that had been existed before but not used nowadays. Any organized uniform structures of living organisms are considered to be the pendulums either. Such a form of organization is said to be independent since it develops by itself and in compliance with its own rules. The followers don’t realize they act on the pendulum’s dictation rather than their own will. Any given pendulum is destructive by its nature since it takes your energy away and sets up an authority over you. The pendulum doesn’t care about your happiness and well being. Its ultimate goal is to get your energy. An individual who turned out to be under the influence of the system has to build up his life in agreement with its laws otherwise the system would set you aside. It is very easy to get into a system but so hard to escape without any losses. Once in the system you lose your freedom. They weaned us form being able to choose our destiny. They need the right people rather than best ones. They do not tolerate individuality. If you struggle with it you simply give your energy away. More detailed explanation on pendulums and how they work can be found in Vadim Zeland’s amazing book Reality Transurfing: The Space of Variations.

It is worth to mention about different kind of human psychological complexes either. Any given complex is actually when something touches your home. The inferiority complex due to your appearance, weight, intellect, communication skills is one of the widely used triggers the pendulums resort to in their vigorous attempts to get you entrapped. Just by looking around you could notice their snares set nearby. Thus all these triggers inside you are in fact the keys to our energy – justice, pride, vanity, honor, love, hatred, greed, generosity, curiosity, interest, hunger and you name it – all of them can be used as tools to manipulate. As a rule we are prone to stereotypically respond to external stimuli. One can realize that negative thoughts and conduct do not bring anything good but keeps doing everything by force of habit and thus making mistakes all the time.

As you know the habits are extremely hard to eradicate because they serve as an illusion of comfort. We used to believe in what we are accustomed to since it had empirically proved to be functional and predictable.

So who is to blame? Pendulums? Habits? Both? The point is this is another habit to look for someone or something to blame. Indeed how long are you going to avoid the responsibility for your own life???