thanks for the time you have taken, alex.

I am more than willing to start the PG thing here in The Lab.  Still, though, I have no idea what to start with.... Do I log in as "Captain Kirk" and say hello and then see what happens?  I don't know if I am missing something here....

I believe I am at intermediate level.  Since this last month I have pretty much slept when I wanted to, eat a very low GI diet (over a year already), have done tons of mind maps (fun! but not sure how they help outside of class note taking), and find myself in quite surprising control of the relaxation response (except when I see my ex boyfriend who is somewhat of an addiction I still dont quite understand), and in general I feel quite better than ever and I mean this sincerely.

A lot of the changes I might just say it has to do with autosuggestion, but that is in no way to speak lowly of the process.  I personally have been quite active in studying neurology as it pertains to chronic pain (I am a therapist) and the the science behind chronic pain all comes from people like Ramachandran and Butler and Mosely and Le Doux etc... and if there is one thing that chronic pain science is all about it's brain plasticity. 

Modeling is great too.  I am a performance artist and actor and have always been a mimic.  But modeling takes it to another level than usual in the performing arts.  Doing modeling is like living the art, it isnt a performance, it is actually an interaction. 

Ok, I have said enough.  To summarize, I just wanted to sort of say that I dont think I am such a beginner, I have like somebody else on this forum said before, certain experience in self-exploration (goo?), and so I would hope that now that I have intergrated all 9 tutorials into my life quite well, I would like to move on to intermediate level. 

yours truly, daniel (sirhinojo)

Scalino Wrote:
the path I'm walking is more related to my experience of the flow of the universe - as it flows - and not to a strict application of the tutorials' guidance.

Yes! Yes! Yes!!  Real life in reality is the path, the tutorials are only maps and guides for bits of the path. Beware of mistaking any map for the territory on which you are actually treading; the last time I did that in real life, I was staring so hard at the map I fell in a ditch that wasn't on it   :  )
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AR

sirhinojo also wrote:
I would like to move on to intermediate level.

Well that's the best incentive for what I write next then, as I don't know about you but waiting ages for things I want to learn gets right up my nose  :  )
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AR