or Truth, As it is.
1. The situation or experience as it is.
2. A situation or experience undistorted by your survival mode's reactions.
3. A situation or experience undistorted by your sensory experience, perception, or interpretation.
See also: Perception, Reality, Survival Modes, Thoughts.
1. Any thought patterns or processes, corresponding emotional patterns, physical movements, behaviors, and speaking that occur automatically from an emotional compulsion generated by thoughts.
2. Anything that utilizes energy in your body.
See also: Behaviors, TFFML, Trigger.
or Program
1. Brainactivity that distorts or influences all of your thoughts, emotions, or actions with specific people or in particular situations.
See also: Brain Activity, Distortion.
or Anchor, Attach, Bind, Bond, Cling, Clutch, Crave, Desire, Glue, Hook, Latch, Stuck
1. Thoughts your survival brain believes are necessary for physical, emotional, or mental survival.
2. Accepting one thought in your brain is more valid than your brain's other thoughts.
3. A belief that a person, place, thing, or idea will affect you in a positive or negative way.
4. A state where something owns you and your emotional stability.
5. The entanglement of self-interest with reality.
6. Normal judgments such as threats or benefits to your Physical Survival or your Sense of Survival that your brain assigns to a person, place, thing, or idea.
7. Basing your emotional well-being on a predetermined outcome.
8. Being stuck to an idea, emotion, or object.
See also: Brain Activity, Identification, Judgment, Mental Construct, Personalization, Sense of Survival, Sensory Input, Survival Modes, Thought.
or Acquired Reflex, Conditioning, Habitual, Muscle Memory, Programming
1. Automatic thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that arise after a triggering event.
See also: Emotion, Behaviors, Feelings, Programs, Thoughts, Trigger.
or Mindfulness, Paying Attention, Recognizing, Being Present, Self-observation
1. Unconditional honesty about yourself with yourself.
2. The ability to acknowledgy events and acknowledge your mind’s reactions to those events while staying detached to the pressures you feel from those events and reactions.
3. Staying present to all your thoughts triggered by and about your experience and your thoughts about the triggered thoughts.
4. Conscious recognition of the thoughts, emotions, feelings, behaviors, actions, activities, and situations you are experiencing while also noticing the additional layers of thoughts about your initial conscious recognition.
5. Watching events happening to yourself as if you were watching someone else while watching your body’s reactions to the experiences as you watch the events.
See also: Actions, Being Present, Detachment, Emotions, Judgement, Mindfulness, Reaction, Thoughts, Trigger.
or Evaluation, Judgment
1. The determination of where a sensory input, situation, or thought resides on a scale between good or bad, right or wrong, or help me hurt me.
2. The Automatic determination your mind generates on every stimulus that you experience.
Commentary: Judgments can often be recognized by the emotions they generate.
See also: Emotions, Sensory Input, Thoughts.
or Survival Thinking
1. The human brain’s tendency to think in dead or not dead opposites.
2. The human brain’s tendency to think in polar opposite terms such as Good/Bad, Right/Wrong, Help Me/Hurt Me, Win/Lose, Zero/One.
See also: Brain.
1. Self-compassionate detachment from unnecessary suffering generated by thoughts that have been triggered.
2. Healthy restrictions or reinforcements your brain puts around thoughts and actions to help you maintain your desired mental equilibrium.
See also: Actions, Detachment, Selfcompassion, Thoughts, Trigger.
1. An organ inside of your skull that is comprised of numerous specialized sections for processing the thoughts triggered by sensory experiences and other thoughts to aid in your survival.
See also: Brain Wires, Sensory Experience, Thoughts, Trigger.
or Memories, Reactions, Thinking, Thoughts
Any neurochemical activity in the brain.
See also: Brain, Thoughts.
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Brain Wires
or Brain Pathways, Nerves
1. The biological connections between sections of your brain for transferring information.
2. The biological connections between committees, subcommittees, and their members for transferring information.
or Balanced, Detached, Equanimous, Equilibrium, Grounded, Present, Settled, Still
1. The ability to stay detached from your brain’s mental reactions and corresponding feelings about internal or external stimuli you experience.
2. You can think and perceive reality, breathe regularly, and offer compassionate responses to events in your life.
3. Survival modes do not control your action. (fight, flight, freeze, grab, hold).
See also: Actions, Compassion, Detachment, Reaction, Reality, Survival Modes.
1. Dividing significant thoughts and physical actions into smaller pieces to manage solutions in parts.
See also: Actions, Thoughts.
or Acquired Reflex, Instinctive Reflex, Pavlovian Reaction
1. The process of learning specific reactions to triggers.
2. The intentional process to teach yourself desired reactions to specific triggers.
See also: Acquired Reflex, Instinctive Reflex, Reaction, Trigger.
Below are examples of the process.
Here is are examples of Classical Conditioning:
1. A happens + B happens = C reaction.
2. Eventually, A & B become correlated so tightly in the brain that just A happening will cause reaction C without even needing B.
For example, Pavlov rings a bell (A) and immediately presents food to his dog (B).
The dog’s reaction is to begin salivating (C).
After enough repetitions, when Pavlov rings the bell (A), the dog starts salivating (C) even without food being presented (B).
or
1. Your boss looks angry (A) and yells at you (B).
2. Your reaction is to worry that you will lose your job (C).
After seeing this happen several times, if you see your boss looking angry (A), you feel worried he will fire you (C) even if your boss is not looking at you.
or Parts, Sections, Voices
1. The brain is not a single organ; instead, it has at least 250 separate and individual sections, each with a specialty and instructions on how to use its specialty to favor the physical survival of the body or the sense of survival of the mental construct.
See also: Mental Construction, Sense of Survival, Subcommittees.
or Brain Fart, Ego Block, Mental Block
1. Momentarily forgetting what you were going to say or what you were thinking.
See also: Committee.
1. Concern for the well-being of others.
See also: Self-compassion.
1. Thinking, feeling, acting, and communicating with understanding, wisdom, and grace.
See also: Communication, Compassion.
1. Information that is transmitted and received via any manner—words, voice inflection, facial expressions, body language, breathing noise, our internal thoughts, etc.
See also: Thoughts.
1. Thoughts that occur in our brains and of which we are aware.
See also: Awareness, Brain, Conscious, Thoughts.
or Daily Ritual, Deep Thinking, Hobby
1. The intentional act of performing a ritual for enjoyment while consciously or subconsciously thinking, such as a hobby, exercising, or watching a sunset.
See also: Meditation.
or Sensory Data
1 . The input from our five senses without additional layers of thought distorting it.
See also: Distortion, Sensory Input, Thought.
1. A false belief or judgment about external reality.
See also: Reality, Thoughts.
1. An emotional state of not reacting to brian activity such as beliefs, judgments, thoughts about internal (mental) or external (Physical) reality achieved by repeated exposure to the initial trigger.
See also: Brain Activity, Reality, Thoughts, Trigger.
or Letting Go, Release
1. The process of allowing a sensory experience or a thought to occur without believing, personalizing, or identifying with it.
2. The conscious awareness that one is experiencing thoughts, feelings, or behaviors and observing those stimuli without forming an attachment to them.
3. Knowing you are okay no matter what changes or experiences happen to you.
4. Experiencing mental, emotional, and physical stimuli, noticing the automatic judgments your brain forms about them, and letting go of any influence from the various stimuli.
See also: Attachment, Identification, Judgment, Letting Go, Personalization, Sensory Experience, Thoughts.
1. The discipline of judging an experience or situation so that you, and hopefully others, suffer the least.
See also: Judgement, Suffering.
1. The discipline of noticing your mind’s reactions to triggers and then navigating situations so that you suffer the least.
2. The practice of maintaining your survival needs while simultaneously keeping yourself centered so you experience a maximum amount of Joy, Peace, and Contentment.
3. Mentally creating and experiencing each situation to minimize suffering and maximize your experience of Enlightenment.
See also: Awareness, Discipline, Enlightenment, Mind, Reaction, Suffering, Trigger.
or Blur, Cloud, Deform, Obscure, Twist, Warp
1. Any thoughts adding interpretation to the sensory data our senses receive.
2. An inaccurate perception of reality that influences your thinking, thought patterns, feelings, and behaviors.
3. Thoughts that are biased to benefit yourself or your sense of survival, regardless of reality.
4. An explanation of an experience or a situation our brain builds from incomplete information.
See also: Actions, Emotion, Reality, Sense of Survival, Sensory Data, Thought.
or Duelism, Nondual
1. The brain’s tendency to react in survival thinking binaries such as Dead/Not Dead, Good/Bad, Right/Wrong, Help Me/Hurt Me, Win/Lose.
See also: Brain, Reaction, Survival Thinking.
1, Mental reactions in your brain that generate physical sensations or feelings in the body, such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, etc.
2. Sensations that generate psychological and behavioral changes in the body.
See also: Brain Activity, Emotional Pressure, Feelings, Thoughts, Trigger.
or Blinded by Emotions
1. The inability to think logically or reasonably when you are experiencing emotions.
2. The inability of the mind to recognize possibilities when under pressure from intense feelings.
3. The distorted focus of your Survival Mind on relieving the pressures generated by advantages or disadvantages to your Physical Survival or Sense of Survival.
See also: Distortion, Mind, Sense of Survival, Survival, Survival Mind.
1. The experience of our thoughts about a situation combined with our emotions generated by those thoughts.
See also: Emotion, The Formula for My Life, Thoughts.
or Emotional Bias, Emotional Charge, Emotional Weight
1. The positive or negative sensations and feelings that emotions generate in your body.
2. Positive Feelings - Shifts your mind into Grab, Hold mode; also referred to as Clinging or Grasping.
3. Negative Feelings - Shifts your mind into Fight, Flight, or Freeze mode, also referred to as Defensive or Protective.
See also: Emotion, Feelings, Mind, Sensory Experience, Survival Modes.
1. Directing one’s emotions toward a different trigger or target than originally instigated the emotions.
See also: Emotion, Emotional Target, Trigger.
1. Feeling an emotion, then feeling another emotion in reaction to the initial feeling.
1a. Behavior Stacking - A subconscious action that generates another subconscious action in reaction to the initial action.
1b. Thought Stacking - The process of having an initial thought and then allowing that thought to take over the subsequent thoughts, etc.
See also: Actions, Emotion, Reaction, Thoughts.
1. The object, person, or situation that you feel caused your reactions.
2. The object, person, or situation upon which you release your emotional reaction.
See also: Mental Construction, Reaction, Trigger.
1. The numerous feelings we experience when processing several incongruous thoughts.
See also: Brain Activity, Emotions, Feelings.
1. A type of thought.
2. An attachment to a particular outcome.
3. A prediction based on thoughts or memories.
See also: Attachment, Thoughts.
1. The absolute acceptance of the powerlessness we experience and the firm confidence that we are okay anyway.
2. The acceptance that we may not recognize how we’ve affected a situation with our actions.
See also: Acceptance, Action.
or Feeding the Monster, Fueling the Fire, Mental Gossip, Spiraling, Storytelling
1. Subconsciously giving your energy to a distorted thought, emotion, or behavior by allowing it to take control of your subsequent thoughts, emotions, and actions.
2. Repeating a thinking process, emotional reaction, or physical action to increase or maintain the emotional weight of a situation.
See also: Actions, Distortion, Emotion, Emotional Pressure, Thoughts.
1. The physical sensations you experience when a subconscious or conscious thought you have is favored or threatened in your survival mind.
See also: Emotion, Survival Mind, Thoughts.
or Tethered, Centered
1. An internal space of joy, peace, and contentment you can experience even in the most disruptive mental, emotional, or physical reactions.
2. An area of acceptance within oneself that can be brought about by cultivating it in meditation or contemplation.
3. A mental state of solidity you can create to weather the constant changes of life.
See also: Acceptance, Contemplation, Emotion, Joy, Peace, and Contentment, Meditation, Reaction.
Habit
or Autopilot, Habitual, Normal, Usual
A consistent or regular thought pattern or behavioral action that you perform after specific triggers you experience.
See also: Actions, Autopilot, Thoughts, Thought Patterns, Trigger.
1. The way your survival mind thinks of yourself.
2. A sense of self.
3. Who your survival mind believes you are.
See also: Attachment, Personalization, Survival Mind.
1. The emotional weight of a message that hints at more profound information not directly in the words of the message.
See also: Emotional Pressure.
Instantaneous, unlearned reactions to a survival-related trigger.
See also: Acquired Reflex, Instinctive Reflex, Reaction, Trigger.
or Bliss, Equanimity, Nirvana, Peace of Mind
1. A mental state unchanged by emotional disturbance.
2. The state of subtle pleasure that fills your daily life when you train your mind to let go of attachments to autopilot thoughts, emotions, and actions that arise with every experience.
See also: Attachment, Autopilot, Emotion, Enlightenment, Thoughts.
or Bias, Evaluation
1. The determination of where a sensory input, situation, or thought resides on a scale between good or bad or right or wrong, or help me hurt me.
2. The Automatic determination your mind generates on every stimulus you experience.
See also: Emotion, Sensory Input, Thoughts.
or Excuses, Explaination, Rationalization.
1. A tool our brain uses to make ourselves feel better.
See also: Brain, Brain Activity, Feelings, Thoughts.
or Detaching, Releasing
1. Allowing the emotions you experience from your mental reactions to weaken so that you suffer the least.
2. Releasing the pressure you experience to control something.
3. Freeing yourself from the internal drive you feel to change reality or something which you dislike.
4. The process of releasing your desire to change that which you can not change.
5. Separating your true self from the thoughts and emotions your survival mind experiences after a trigger.
See also: Attachment, Emotion, Suffering, Survival Mind, Trigger, True Self.
or Survival Mind
1. A foundational part of the Survival Mind for generating rewards and punishments to perceived triggers.
2. A set of brain structures above the spinal cord that supports functions like long-term memory, emotions, reactions.
3. A foundational part of the physical brain that aids in survival.
See also: Brain, Reaction, Survival Mind, Thoughts, Trigger.
or Magic Switch, Quick Fix
1. A desired fix or problem solution with minimal effort from you.
Meditation
or Stillness, Windshield Time
1. A discipline of practicing awareness, acceptance, and letting go while being present with your reality in a controlled environment.
2. Noticing your mind’s thoughts, thought processes, and patterns, automatic mental reactions, emotional experiences, and your body’s experiences.
3. Seeing our mind’s reactions to thoughts and emotions.
4. A mental exercise to become familiar with your mind and how it reacts to triggers, processes information, and responds to thoughts.
5. Learning to discern and then manage the difference between Survival Mind activities, such as autopilot, automatic reactions, or thinking and being present or consciously aware of your mind’s activities.
6. Practicing being present.
7. Practicing being alone with your mind.
8. Guiding your mind’s activities with Self-Discipline and Self-Compassion.
9. Learning to be truthful with yourself.
10. Mental practice of cultivating your mind’s responses to triggers.
See also: Awareness, Present, Reaction, Reality, Self-discipline, Survival Mind, Survival Modes, Trigger.
• Focused Awareness Meditation – Concentrating on a sensory experience, a sacred word, or a mantra. The process of intentionally concentrating on a sensory experience, such as your breath, a thought process, or a state of mind, while simultaneously noticing when you lose your concentration and then gently bringing your attention back to your point of focus.
• Open Awareness Meditation – Keeping your mind open to all sensory inputs and thoughts without concentrating on any specific information; Instead, you are just watching the information pass through your mind. Open Awareness Meditation is similar to a bird's-eye view of a city; it is watching an entire city from above without focusing on one person or car.
• Centering Prayer – A hybrid type of Focused Awareness and Open Awareness Meditations where you focus on a sensory experience until your mind settles into open awareness, then you stop concentrating on the sensory experience and experience open awareness until you notice your mind begins thinking again. Once you see that thoughts have replaced your open awareness, you refocus on your sensory experience until you are grounded and can switch to open awareness.
• Compassionate or Loving Kindness Meditation – Concentrating one’s mind on broadcasting love, compassion, and positive thoughts to all or a specific group of people.
or Mental Concepts, Mental Object
1. The formation of thoughts into models of reality that seem and feel real.
2. The thoughts and emotions our brains experience after a trigger.
See also: Emotion, Reality, Thoughts, Trigger.
1. Numerous incongruent thoughts that happen as a result of triggers.
See also: Brain Activity, Trigger, Thoughts.
1. The sense of consciousnesses you experience as a result of your brain’s committees working together.
2. The sense of you that you experience.
See also: Brain.
or Awareness, Presence
1. The practice of conscious awareness while being present with your thoughts, emotions, and physical experiences.
See also: Awareness.
1. The Survival Mind’s tendency to give more importance to stimuli that harm your physical survival and sense of survival.
2. The Survival Mind’s inclination to dwell on negative stimuli.
See also: Sense of Survival, Survival Mind.
or Acceptance without Attachment, Nonattached
1. The ability to notice triggers without forming an attachment, identifications, or personalizations to the mental and emotional reactions your brain experiences.
2. The skill of accepting the meaning our brain puts on an experience without believing it to be accurate or untrue.
3. The practice of not being fixated or stuck to an idea, emotion, or object.
See also: Acceptance, Attachment, Identification, Personalization. Trigger.
1. Physically generated discomfort.
2. Physical affliction or discomfort caused by bodily injury or illness.
See also: Suffering.
1. The thoughts and beliefs your mind forms around a sensory experience to explain and interpret the sensory input.
See also: Mind, Sensory Experience, Sensory Input, Thoughts.
or Sleep on it, Simmer on it, Rest in it, Allow things to settle, Allow it to soak in, Process, Ponder
1. Allowing your mind to process thoughts or situations over an extended time.
2. Having the patience to allow your mind to search through the data it has collected and bring forth the best solution for a situation or thought.
See also: Unfold.
or Your Truth, Your Experience, Your Perceptions
1. Your interpretation of a situation or experience.
2. Your sensory experience of a situation and your thoughts about it.
See also: Absolute Reality, Perception, Reality, Shared Reality, Thoughts.
1. Thoughts that occur below our conscious awareness.
See also: Awareness, Brain, Conscious, Thoughts.