Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) cautioned …
“One negative word has the square root of four. Sixteen times its potential returns to confront. Therapy is re-evaluation. Say the word and you will be well.”
Such cognitive re-evaluation is currently known by such names as rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, etc.
The modern version of this ancient concept was pioneered by psychotherapist Albert Ellis (1913-2007) and developed by Aaron T. Beck and his associates.
Dr. Beck et al distinguished six different types of thought distortions …
(1) arbitrary inference,
(2) selective abstraction,
(3) overgeneralization,
(4) magnification-minimalization,
(5) personification, and
(6) absolutist thinking.
These maladaptive patterns of thinking PRECEDE and PREDETERMINE emotional responses.
The “emotional body” (electrical body) is the Second Chakra, and the “lower mental body” (magnetic body) is the Third Chakra, not the other way around.
Negative thoughts often arise from what Ralph Nader calls “a priori abdication.”
Norman Cousins (Head First: The Biology of Hope, 1989) wrote …
“Words can be lethal. If a physician is going to do everything within his power to treat a serious case, he will not compromise or complicate treatment by creating an environment of defeat and fatalism. No more important lesson can be learned by medical students than that no one knows enough to make a pronouncement of doom. If a physician decides to treat a case despite his apprehensions over a patient’s chances, that same reasoning should dictate the need to encourage the patient’s will to live. The wise physician pays attention not just to his prescription pad but to the climate of treatment. However remote a remission or recovery in a specific case may appear to be, the physician is obligated to get the most out of whatever may be possible.”
ALL HEALING IS SELF-HEALING.
Adano said …
“If you don’t know how you’re constructed, you think that somebody cures you. No matter what the disease is, you cure yourself. Techniques are only supplied on demand, time, place, circumstance, psychological circumstance, stress, and evolutionary survival.”
Greg Whiteley of Aquarian Age Lifestyles once admonished someone by saying …
“You want to prove that it doesn’t work.
“All you’ll prove is that it doesn’t work for you.
“Thinking that your affirmation doesn’t work is a THOUGHT.
“Write, ‘Every negative thought triggers three positive thoughts.’
“One of the most powerful affirmations is, ‘I’m willing to know what I want, I’m willing to ask for it, and I’m willing to receive exactly what I asked for.'”
'Say the Word and You’ll Be Free' have 20 comments
January 31, 2012 @ 5:16 pm suz
…and be careful and specific what you ask for, because you will get it.
February 1, 2012 @ 12:09 am atomb
A friend of mine visualized a specific model and year of car parked in her parking space.
One day, there it was.
Her neighbor bought one exactly like it and parked it in her space!
Incidentally, a person’s toxicity determines the speed of delivery for an affirmation.
Sathya Sai Baba speed is instantaneous.
An affirmation working too slow is often inappropriate.
An extreme example of the principle would be a boy of ten asking for a bag of cat’s eye marbles and getting them when he’s thirty.
February 1, 2012 @ 1:01 pm Karen
Yes Atom — that was a huge lesson for me to be very specific, such as seeing my name on the registration of that Lexus. Glad you shared this story!
February 1, 2012 @ 3:50 pm atomb
Thanks, Karen, for proof to readers of this blog that I’m not making this stuff up!:)
February 1, 2012 @ 1:24 am atomb
Re: If it’s ideal to be under the Sun at 11:45 am Central Standard Time, isn’t that 11:45 am in California?
It’s 11:45 am wherever you are, whether you’re in New York, Nebraska, California, or Rome, Italy. :)
11:45 am is ideal for vitamin D, luteinizing hormone, and testosterone synthesis for ONLY ten to twenty minutes.
Sunbathing is DEHYDRATING at midday.
Sunbathing times are before 11:00 am and after 3:00 pm.
Ideal sunbathing times – within those limits of before 11:00 am and after 3:00 pm – vary on the Atlantic Coast, Pacific Coast, and Gulf Coast.
February 1, 2012 @ 5:19 pm atomb
Re: Sundowner’s Syndrome?
It’s a circadian syndrome responsive to Chronobiotic Eating. :)
It’s a type of dementia involving confusion at sunset and fear of sleep, and, probably, by extension, fear of death.
February 1, 2012 @ 5:33 pm atomb
Re: Opuntia?
Here’s a great Luther Burbank quote from the book …
“Now the fragrance is the spirit of the flower; and without spirit, you must know, one can accomplish little.”
The book is centered on VITALISM and right up Kurt Schnaubelt’s alley. :)
February 1, 2012 @ 7:46 pm atomb
Re: what is it that allows some people to manifest everything material, for others, not so easy??
(1) Conviction …
Yogananda wrote, “Occasionally I told astrologers to select my worst periods, according to planetary indications, and I would still accomplish whatever task I set myself. It is true that my success at such times has been preceded by extraordinary difficulties. But my conviction has always been justified: faith in divine protection, and right use of man’s God-given will, are forces more formidable than are influences flowing from the heavens.”
(2) Specificity …
According to Carl Jung, “The face you turn toward the unconscious is exactly the same face it will turn back to you.”
Greg Whiteley recommends affirming: “I’m willing to know what I want, I’m willing to ask for it, and I’m willing to receive exactly what I asked for.”
February 1, 2012 @ 8:07 pm atomb
Re: what do you want, and what keep you from manifesting it???
I’m getting a lot of what I choose right now (since I saw you last).
It’s been raining Self-Realized and God-Realized Men and Women and I’m still too stupid to stay IN the rain.
The rest is coming when I deal with my TOXICITY (see elsewhere in these comments).
February 3, 2012 @ 1:16 pm RadioGuGu
Doesn’t the ‘rain’ only stop when we go on a cosmic vacation?
InJoy,
: D
February 3, 2012 @ 2:54 pm atomb
Cosmic vacation may be only a brief respite from the rain of words. :)
February 4, 2012 @ 1:39 pm RadioGuGu
Yes : )
All is well.
“There’s no you (& no manifestation, toxicity, wanting, you name it) other than particles in a white rain.” — “THAT” shifting all the ‘time’ & enjoying “itself” ; ) as ‘we’ are (enjoying) ‘you’ … A S WE/YOU A R E
All is well : )
THANK YOU, “PATRICK” !
February 2, 2012 @ 7:36 pm atomb
Re: he [Paramahansa Yogananda] did not promote fancy lifestyles.
Yogananda said (on the subject of World Brotherhood Colonies) …
“Start now building colonies, and stop industrially selfish society from gambling with your destiny. Get away from the perpetual slavery of holding jobs to the last day of your life. Buy farms and settle down with harmonious friends. Work three hours a day and live in the luxury of literary wealth, and have time to constructively exchange Divine experiences and meditate.”
Henry David Thoreau (Walden, 1854) wrote …
“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.”
He also wrote …
“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow. As for work, we haven’t any of any consequence. We have the Saint Vitus’ dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still.”
When the Ojai School of Self-Healing (OSSH) opens its portal, it will encourage what Yogananda called “plain living and high thinking.” :)
February 2, 2012 @ 8:10 pm martin
hi Atom,
hope you recieved my email? hope to read that blog soon on D. by the way i am all for “plain living and high thinking”… you know the idea of holding jobs to the last day of our lives sounds scary, this world of the system seems to be closing in each day, very slowly and it seems like we are coming to that breaking point??
i have a friend and i will use it quite lightly, he recently became a born again Christian and is trying to save my soul saying eternity is long time:)-how did Adano deal with fundamentalism? Adano talks of jesus and other things bible related but does not seem in any way stuck in the bible?? am i right?
February 3, 2012 @ 2:29 am atomb
Adano distinguished between Churchianity and Christianity, Templeism and Judaism, Pagodism and Buddhism, etc. :)
Vitamin D and calcium are definitely anticarcinogenic.
Their downside is they’re major contributors to AGING.
There’s two ways of looking at vitamin D – the Way of the Mechanic and the Way of the Gardener (to borrow Lawrence LeShan’s terms).
I prefer Nature’s Way.
Nature already knows we’re without adequate sunshine for months at a time, so it gave vitamin D a half-life of two to three MONTHS – more than the half-life of methylmercury.
This is due to the TISSUE-BINDING of cholecalciferol in fat, not the hormone itself which has a short half-life.
Adipose tissue stores vitamin D throughout the long winter.
Moreover, vitamin D is a hormone.
A hormone, unlike a vitamin, can be manufactured in the body – and vitamin D can be manufactured WITHOUT sunlight.
Infrared is advertised as “helping” the production of vitamin D, but – IF YOU KNOW HOW – you can make your own vitamin D while comfortably detoxifying in an infrared sauna.
The technique – and other techniques of “getting” vitamin D – will be revealed AFTER my business partner Mrs. Leni Pratte and I open the doors of the Ojai School of Self-Healing. :)
Clue for impatient folks: General Electric scientists KNEW how. (I doubt they know today since GE has switched its focus from photons to radioactive isotopes.)
February 9, 2012 @ 7:39 pm mindyinds
I remember hearing Adano tell us, around 1975, that if we can’t cheer up and smile, we should prop our smile up with toothpicks! He said that the brain would get the message and pump out the positive chemicals. Science has proved him right since than.
He also told us twenty-somethings that we create our own reality. All this time later, I am still working on that one!
So good to see Adano’s name and words in print, Atom, thank you. I think he kinda saved my life all those years ago. And I’ve been vegetarian ever since!
February 11, 2012 @ 3:48 am Ryan
mindyinds – thanks for your post. The power of the smile – or as Atom mentioned in a recent interview – the shape of a banana (!) can go a long way in spiritual practice!
Wayne Dyer used to tell a joke about Rule #6 – I won’t try here – but I’m sure it’s around the WWW – the punchline is don’t forget to laugh/smile… PERIOD.
Very, very powerful, as a spiritual practice!
All the best!
February 11, 2012 @ 3:37 pm atomb
I’ve heard Adano say that too, Mindy.
Maybe we were both in the same room when he said it. :)
Did you go to the Texas Institute of Reflex Sciences?
February 21, 2012 @ 2:28 pm RadioGuGu
: ) “We don’t smile because we are happy. We are happy because we smile.” : )
February 21, 2012 @ 8:58 pm atomb
:)