List of Sayings for 

Higher Consciousness

Compiled By Dr. Carr

drwaynecarr@gmail.com

BREATHING:

 Breath in positive healing energy,  breath out anything toxic or negative.

 Let the inhale be a drinking in of nourishment and support, let the exhale be a letting go  of  everything.

 Quench your thirst for oxygen with gusto.
 
 At first, let each breath be a pleasant challenge.

 When breathing, savor each breath, and let pleasure be your guide

 When all else fails - Breath!
 

STRESS MANAGEMENT:
 
 Don’t cope, manage.

 Be proactive, not reactive

 Face it, Embrace it, Erase it.
 
 Lose your mind and come to your senses.

 Let yourself go into your “cave” when needed.

 What you resist persists

 Taste and chew before you swallow.

 distress + neglect + time = disease.

 Don’t make an onion out of a pea: (A pebble on the end of your nose looks like a  boulder.)
 Beware of the “onion phenomenon”. Attempting to reduce stress can be like peeling layers of an onion. You can solve many problems and remove many layers of the onion so that what’s left is “pea-sized”, however if you immediately “zoom in” and narrow focus on what’s left, it will still occupy the same space in your field of vision and attention and appear the same size as when you started. By repeatedly peeling off and zooming in the onion will always appear the same size and your problems will always appear to be of the same intensity and size no matter how hard you try.  Give yourself time to back off and get perspective.
 

MEDITATION:

 There’s a difference between a mind that is quiet because it understands itself, and a  mind that’s made quiet by imposing some external discipline.”

 Let the ‘ripples’ in the pond of your mind play themselves out so the pond begins to  reflect  clearly.

 A cup is only useful when it’s empty”, let you mind begin to empty as you relax so that it   can be  useful later.
 

SPACE:

 Enlightened people live life “spaciously”.

 Make space for space.

 Drive with an extra car length in front of you.

 Let a space open up between your thoughts.
 

PRIORITIES:

 Health and well-being first, other concerns second.

 If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing effortlessly.

 The Native American works, rests, and enjoys; the modern man says “keep working”

 If it’s not worth doing; it’s not worth doing well

 Don’t kill and ant with an elephant

 Many people take better care of their car than themselves.

 Those who aren’t busy being born are busy dying.
 

THE OBVIOUS:
 how easily we forget the obvious

 It feels good to feel good.

 If you don’t like what you are doing, do something different.  (If  it’s not clear what that is,  try anything different.)

 Some people can’t see the specs in their eyes because of the specs in their eyes.

 If the shoe doesn't fit, don’t wear it.
 

PAIN:
 We live in a society that’s phobic towards  pain
 
 Pain is a message, you might be surprised as to what its trying to tell you.

 To brace against pain and to shut it out, in the long run, makes it worse.

 Don’t let pain become your identity and your credentials.

 What do you gain from your pain? (be honest)

 Sometimes we do to ourselves what we’d really like to do to others.

 If our only tool is a hammer we may treat everything as if it were a nail. --  If our only   tool is a  pain killer we may treat everything as if it were a pain.

 Running away from pain, or wallowing in pain are usually not your best options.

 The more you can “process” physical or emotional pain, the less you have to defend against  it.

 The three basic lines of defense against pain are bodily, emotional, and mental.

 Most mental disorders are simply ways of defending against pain.

 Some of us need “ouch-training” (to learn to say ouch.)
 

EMERGENCY MODE
 Move from emergency (sympathetic) mode into healing (parasympathetic) mode.
 
 Some people live their live as if it was an emergency, creating one emergency after  another.

 Some people are so stuck in emergency mode that there are always so many  emergencies they  don’t have time to even think of getting out of it.

 The people who need to get out of emergency mode the most have the least time to get  out of it.

 Don’t be an emergency - adrenaline junkie and create an emergency when there is none.

 He who spends his life arousing the sympathetic branch of his nervous system and  ignores  his parasympathetic branch, only has half a life.

 Some people live their life as if they’re being followed by predators.

 When you allow your parasympathetic branch of your nervous system to become more  you  began to experience the other half of life.

 The harder you try, the more you go into emergency mode.

 The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

 Don’t go around starting fires and then expect medals for putting then out.
 

SHOULDS:
 Change is much more likely if you are aware of what you are doing instead of what you   should  be doing.

 A map is most useful if you are aware of where you are on it.

 “Oughtistic” people “should” on themselves.

 There are basically three basic kinds of “isms” “aboutism”, “shouldism”, and “is-ism”

 Self-pushing and self-sabotage go hand in hand.

 You “should” be aware of what you are doing.
 

CONTROL:
 He who doesn’t have to control, is in control.

 He who tries to control everything, will end up being controlled.

 It’s irresponsible to be over-responsible.

 Actualized behavior is manipulative behavior done more creatively

 No need to kick down an open door.

 He who spends his life carefully calculating every step shall spend his life on one foot.

 Find your balance between “alloplasty” (changing the outside) and “autoplasty” (changing  the inside).

 If you hang on like a bull dog with a clenched jaw, then you can neither chew something  up or let  it go.

 There is great power in acknowledging where and when one has no power.

 The voluntary springs from the involuntary

 We can’t tolerate in other people what we won’t allow in ourselves.

 If your perfectionistic, then dare to be average.
 

EMOTION:
 We didn’t evolve emotions for millions of years just to have them be nuisances.

 Depression is really “compression”.
 
 Anger is the boundary emotion

  Excitement minus oxygen (breathing) equals anxiety.
 
 Anxiety is the suspension between anastophic and catastrophic expectations.

 What you can feel you can heal.

 He who morns well lives well.

 Angry people are usually unassertive

 There is almost always hurt underneath anger.

 Clear thoughts and clear feelings go hand in hand

 Let your disgust be discussed, it is the true misunderstood “emotion”.

 Be aware of what’s toxic and nourishing for you.

 Don’t get even, get mad.

 Do you “gunny-sac” your feelings until the bag breaks?
 
 Don’t let your thoughts do the job of feelings, or feelings do the job of thoughts.

TRUST:
 Trust your own learning curve.

 Trust your own rhythm of contact and withdrawal.

 Trust your “creative discontent”
 

ATTENTION:
 How you attend is as important as what you attend to.

 Don’t pay attention with ‘a-tension’

 Let your attention be attracted to where it’s needed

 let your attention be patient, loving, accepting and non-intrusive.
 
 Every once and a while press the ‘reset’  button..

 Let your attention be less like a flashlight that your deliberately point and shine and more  like looking up at the night sky and letting your eyes gradually adjust so that you can   experience the faintest star”

 Let go of any “grasping” with your attention.
 

AWARENESS:
 Be aware of how and now, “why” is less important
 
 I and thou, here and now.

 Listen to your “squeaky wheels”.

  What is the state of awareness when you are “brutally” honest with yourself? Honesty is  a state of awareness.

 Find your “center.” Be centered.
 

COGNITIONS:
 The truth shall make you free, but first it may make you angry

 He who starts with a conclusion shall end with an illusion.

 Do you suffer from “hardening of the categories”?

 Resistance to a new idea varies directly with its importance.

 Don’t be down on what your not up on.

 Beware of dog-ma.

 Do you always believe your own propaganda?

 Humans are good at generating hypotheses but poor at testing them.

 Are you trapped by an idea?

 Try to distinguish between what you tell yourself and “what is”.
 
 Clarity of thought is more important than content of thought.

 There are two types of intelligence that contribute to wisdom: knowing how to solve  problems and knowing which problems to solve.

 Are you always sharpening the knife but never cutting anything?

 Let ideas spring from the “fertile void” or space within you.
 
 “Being” is a major function of consciousness.

 Real truth has to be discovered in the present.
 
 Truly “forgetting” can be a higher function than remembering

 “Not knowing” can be a higher function than knowing.

 The “simple” can often understand the “complex”, but the “complex” often has difficulty  understanding the “simple”.  (On some cognitive tasks gold fish can even do better than  humans)
 
 Thought, by its self, can be a good servant and a poor master.

 Get off the “why - because” merry go round.
 

PERCEPTIONS:
 Don’t just decorate the prison walls if you can get out of the prison.

 Notice what you “wallpaper” your world with.

 Many people think their looking out a window when their really looking into a mirror.

 How many senses do you have?:  Taste, smell, touch, sight, hearing, gustatory, being,  truth,  balance, wholeness, pain, pleasure, space, humor, time, clarity, self etc. etc.
 

SELF:
 Let yourself flow between polarities as opposed to being stuck in one polarity

 There’s a difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization

 There’s a big difference between who you are and what you identify with.

 Behind every “good boy” or “good girl” is a spiteful brat.
 
 Whatever is on the surface usually has its opposite underneath.

 Be good to yourself.
 

BODY:
 Your body already knows how to heal itself, you just need to give it space to do it.

 We are a body-emotion-mind.
 
 Think of yourself as a self-regulating organism.

 Every  cell in your body has millions of years of accumulated wisdom

 Your body will make the decisions for you that you refuse to make. (e.g. by getting sick  and stopping  you from doing what’s toxic for you)
 Do you “somatize” - let your un-dealt-with emotional stuff express itself in your body?
 

NEEDS & WANTS:
 Most people try to meet their needs symbolically instead of directly hence their needs  are  never fully meet

 You never get enough of what you really don’t want.

 For some people it is truly more sacred to receive than to give.

 Do you suffer from DD? (“disabled desire”)
 
 Before you can meet your needs you have to “meet” your needs.

 Always consider your own needs, the other persons needs, and the context.
 
 Try thinking in terms of  needs rather than set solutions.

 Distinguish between the “end gain” and the “means whereby”.

 If you can’t say no, you can’t fully say yes.

 If you don’t have the space to “not care”, you can’t fully care.

 Be careful what you don’t wish for.
 

MISC.:
 It’s easier to ride a horse in the direction it’s going.

 The opposite of life is not death but “anti-life”.

 At times, surrender to the involuntary.

 Make explicit what’s implicit.

 A problem cannot be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
 
 You can keep your head in the clouds as long as your feet are on the ground.

 We have a choice of participating in mass craziness, or of taking risks to become a  healthy  human be-ing.
 

WORDS:
 Try substituting the word “and” for the word “but”.

 Try substituting the word “won’t” for the word “can’t”.

 Try changing “have chosen” to “am choosing”.

 Words for tension:  Grasping, squeezing, holding on, tensing, holding, freezing,  stabilizing a  posture, rigidifying, compressing, clenching, crushing, choking, tightening,  biting. grabbing.  bracing. paralyzing, petrifying.

 Words and phrases for relaxation: Letting go, unwinding, loosening, going limp,  surrendering to  gravity, accepting support, smoothing out muscles, inviting relaxation,  untying knots, feeling your  weight, melt into effortlessness, getting very comfortable,  allowing spontaneous release,  going deeper and deeper into relaxation.
 
 Words for pain relief: Dissolving, dissipation, evaporation, melting away, shrinking,  dispersion.
 
 

DEFENSES & DISTORTIONS:
 Categorizing & dismissing
 
 Making the slice of the pie the whole pie.
 
 Making a onion out of a pea
 
 Using the “ostrich method”.

 Making a rainbow into black and white.

 Engaging in “anti-life” behavior.
 

BIOFEEDBACK:
 Biofeedback only works if you apply what you’ve learned strategically to your daily life.

 In biofeedback, you are “learning how to fish” vs. “being given a fish”.

 Biofeedback should be done in an atmosphere of  trust, warmth, fun, exploration and  discovery.

 Expectations of performance just get in the way”

 Consider doing biofeedback with no expectations or “creative indifference.”

 In biofeedback, we teach “respons-ibility”  -  the ability to respond

 When doing biofeedback think of yourself as your body’s humble servant.

 Let your body be the teacher while you become the student.

 Begin biofeedback and relaxation as if you had 100 years to do it

 Trust your own learning curve

 Think of yourself as having a tool belt in which you will be inserting many different tools  for  stress management as you learn them.

 The best way to “chill out” is to warm your hands.

 Think of biofeedback as learning how to allow your own bodies natural abilities to heal to  come forward, rather than imposing some external discipline.
 

RELAXATION:
 Relaxation in time prevents a ‘level nine’.

 When sitting, become more like Raggedy Ann and less like Gumby.
 
 When sitting, surrender to gravity.

 The people who don’t have time to relax lose much more time by being sick missing  work  and going to MD’s and hospitals.

 Think of relaxation as a way of saving time instead of losing time.
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 Think of yourself as “inoculating” yourself against stress