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mirror. But that's how everyone else perceives us half the time. And don't be too shocked.
Identify comfortable, but flawed general opinions you express only because you don't want to upset your social consensus and position, - then stop voicing them.
Ceasing All Manipulation
We enhance intuition when we stop manipulating OTHERS.
Manipulation creates an aura around us that makes us target of this kind of behavior. If we attempt deception, this inevitably comes back to us with similar intensity, similar results and in as inconvenient a time, - even if we were unsuccessful. Deception of ours produces further negative effects:
Example: Paying health insurance safeguards health is quite a common belief. - In actuality only we can protect our health by taking care not to get sick.
Whoever manipulates loses his ability to discriminate between right and wrong.
We become unable to discern what action leads to success and satisfaction. - Decisions of ours lead us astray and make us waste energy on pointless projects.
• It keeps us in the illusion that certain - ineffective - actions would be supportive for our growth.
• It produces inability to perform or complete activities.
Others detest manipulation as much as we do. Relinquishing this intention makes us intuitively recognize all such attempts,
