Comments on: The Power of Being a “No Man”

By: Fife Self Catering

Fife Self Catering — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:13:58 +0000

How many home runs can you hit…

Once again, thank you for the excellent post….

By: marta

marta — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:09:54 +0000

I agree. I think we derive a lot of our discipline from the word no.
That no opens doors to other choices is something i had not considered before. thanks for the insight

By: Cameron Rogers

Cameron Rogers — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:13:52 +0000

asians like to have rhinoplasty because they want taller and thinner noses.`*-

By: Woom

Woom — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:54:18 +0000

I have become more frequent and harder to say no when i became older, before that I wanted to be together with friends and do the same they do…

By: Sofia Baker

Sofia Baker — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:29:32 +0000

my cousin broke her nose on a bad bike accident and he got a nose job.~’:

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:31:09 +0000

Hey Logan, thanks for the good words. Its very interesting to be fully there in social situations where alcohol is a crucial element, its pretty eye opening. As for hanging out with girls you dont like, it may be that you have an attachment (like many of us, myself included to some degree) to what others think.

Growing up in this culture, we often find ourselves taking responsibility for other people’s emotions. Its incredibly freeing to commit to letting other people have their stuff, while owning our own stuff. This of course, also takes into account honoring others as best we can. Honoring is all about allowing others to feel and be just the way they are, and using that as a starting point.

Also, many times us guys use girls that we arent really interested in as a crutch to hold our ego up when we are feeling insecure. I know I have allowed myself to stay in relationships that were like this and once I ended them, I freed up an enormous amount of energy and inner power.

Flirt, yeah that can be true, for me, saying no is really about choice more than control. Choice implies self responsibility, whereas sometimes control can sometimes involve others outside of ourself.

Tania, thanks for the feedback, you just summed up the whole article in just a few sentences

Justice, exactly! Yes, we overcome inertia by saying no, that allows us to initiate conscious choice in our life and definitely opens us up to new opportunity (that we can’t see until we make the choice).

Hey Dr. Post, thanks man! yeah I was wondering if anyone would catch that, yeah the yin yang relationship is very powerful when we start to look for it.

Hey Frank, well as I have come to understand it, alcohol doesn’t directly raise your level of consciousness, it simply removes all the anxiety and other negative emotions that are holding it down.

The only downside to alcohol and other drugs is that, since it has come from outside of us, there is a energy blackhole type effect afterwards where our energy gets drained by the drug. We experience this as a hangover, which can then lead to more use of the drug, then more hangover, leading to the cycle. I agree, once we get the inner stuff handled, there really is no point to drinking, since if we are already “drunk” on life, why even waste the money and the hangover.

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