“We are conditioned from birth to think and feel according to the psychological distortion of those before us, to take another’s word as our own without question, to follow the emotions of the masses. This shapes a narrow scope of the universe, squeezing life of passion and enthusiasm. The only way out of such an […]
“You like to think you are in control, but you are not. You are at the mercy of childhood conditioning, your mammalian brain, of relentless outside influences inflating your fears and strengthening the ego. The only control you really have is in letting go of it, in letting the loss and suffering, the abandonment, resentment, […]
“When something feels right or good or when you experience an ease you have never felt, it is common for a certain amount of psychological discomfort and frigidity to follow. You may hesitate and question the ease, because you have picked up somewhere along your life that meaningful things are only those you have worked the hardest for. […]
“If you only connect deeply in relationships when there is a crisis or shared grievance, you are training your subconscious to practice psychological stress so that you have an excuse to be loved. You don’t need an excuse. You exist, and that is the best reason there is. It is not about believing you deserve love. It is about feeling, practicing, training your psyche to feel love whether ideal conditions are present or not, which is the best contribution to your life, your relationships and the world you can make.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Control over any given situation is an illusion. Even how we react to them is (in part) out of our hands, because we are bound by the conditioning of our past. There is only one point of control, one point of choice: the instant we decide to let go of control. And in that pinpoint of time we see more, feel more, perceive more than we ever did before.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
It is so easy to watch someone’s mouth move while you think of what you want to say next. To truly listen means to turn off your internal dialog, to tame your thought monkeys into idea generators for your personal evolution. Listening is setting all of your conditioning aside for the honor and privilege of […]
“Conflict, suffering, all psychological pain can dissolve within an instant. The moment you listen without the conditioning of your past, without your history and anxieties about the future is the moment you understand, the instant you are accessible to truth.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You must step out from behind the scrim of your beliefs, your conditioned perspective and desire to save another in order to even glimpse a fraction of the truth.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
