Book Excerpt
From
Introduction
No
matter who you are, the quality of your life depends upon
your effectiveness in meeting challenges. This is true whether
you are a world leader, a performer, an athlete, a CEO,
a copywriter, a soldier, a parent, a husband, a wife, or
if you are on any of a myriad of other life paths at the
moment.
If
there could arise a new science by which our individual
effectiveness could be reliably increased, a better human
race could rise to meet the worldsize challenges mostly
of our own making which now threaten our very survival.
This
book is a test instrument. You have the opportunity to test
whether it works for you or not. The measure is whether
or not it increases your effectiveness. You will be the
judge.
When
you fall asleep, a part of your consciousness shuts down.
The part of you that dreams (let's call it the Lower Mind)
gets into situations that sometimes trouble you in the dream.
If the part that is in charge when you are awake (let's
call it the Middle Mind) were not shut down, it would have
protected you from getting into those situations and from
the bad feelings you felt in the dream.
Similarly,
we hypothesize based on observations that there is another
part (let's call it the Upper Mind) that is shut down a
lot of the time you are awake, but the Upper Mind can be
awakened by certain stimuli and your reaction to them. Each
page in this test instrument (book) is designed to be such
a stimulus.
When
the Upper Mind, Middle Mind, and Lower Mind are all awake
your faculties are at peak effectiveness and the things
that you do - the solutions that you find - are characterized
by an unusual level of creativity. At those times we say
that you are in the Watcher State. This name is used because
when all of you is awake you have less of a compulsion to
use words in your Middle Mind - and so you have the feeling
that you are simply watching events in profound silence
- without being emotionally captured by those events.
From
this balanced place you are able to use all of your resources
more creatively and effectively.
Even
one page at random may be used for testing purposes. Others
have found that even a random page a day increases effectiveness
which has encouraged us to continue this line of research.
There
are many portals or doors into the Watcher State. Each of
the twelve chapters uses a different doorway into the Watcher
State. Rather than just tell you about the state, the book
gently brings you into the state.
Here's
what each chapter helps you do, and the portal involved:
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Reopen your mind to the existence of all possibilities.
(Door: Suspend Certainty)
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Drop acquired habits and mannerisms, and spontaneously
express your true Self. (Door: Self-Observation)
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Create unpredictable solutions to seemingly insoluble
problems. (Door: Suspend Consistency)
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Be real, rather than perform for other people. (Door:
Suspend Rating)
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Rediscover the unique experiment which Nature has designed
in you. (Door: Inner Wants)
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Perceive the profound web of cross-connections underlying
every moment of present experience. (Door: Outer Observation)
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Develop the ability to concentrate at will in any situation.
(Door: Multi-stream Observation)
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Learn not to become ruffled by time pressure, instead,
relax into a previously unknown and remarkable grace.
(Door: Timing)
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Realize the true role of the mind in the experience of
the Self, and so have the mind serve you rather than vice
versa. (Door: Disidentification with Wordstream)
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Know a greater inner clarity, and a greater receptivity
to the inspired creative expression of your Self within.
(Door: Inner Observation) Read
more...
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Experience negative emotion as a brief creative stimulus,
rather than remaining its victim. (Door: Nonattachment)
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Perceive Life from the point of view of All Of It Combined.
(Door: Nobility)
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