¿De qué forma nos enferma el estrés? (vidaysalud.com)

El estrés es la plaga del mundo moderno y no es extraño que así sea si consideramos que casi todo en la vida cotidiana contribuye a crearlo o a aumentarlo: los problemas laborales o familiares, las preocupaciones económicas y la falta de tiempo, son sólo algunos ejemplos.  Y si bien no se trata de una enfermedad en sí misma, sí es un factor de riesgo de casi todas las condiciones de salud. ¿Cuál es el mecanismo que hace que el estrés crónico afecte tanto? Busca la respuesta aquí.

Con el ritmo acelerado que caracteriza a las sociedades de hoy, el estrés se ha convertido en parte inseparable de la vida diaria. De esta forma, muchas condiciones pueden ser provocadas por este factor que, si bien no es una enfermedad en sí misma, puede causar problemas de salud concretos y reales, cuando se prolonga a través del tiempo y no se toman medidas para contrarrestarlo o eliminar sus causas.

Lo que sigue siendo un misterio es cómo las preocupaciones del día a día hacen que la salud se vea afectada. Una posibilidad es que las personas bajo estrés crónico (las que están al cuidado de un enfermo, tienen un trabajo exigente o problemas familiares importantes por citar algunos ejemplos), tengan costumbres menos sanas: que fumen, consuman alcohol, no duerman lo suficiente o se alimenten indebidamente. Otra alternativa es que las hormonas del cuerpo que responden al estrés tengan algo que ver en la aparición de enfermedades.

Eso es lo que se ha creído durante las últimas décadas. Ahora, investigaciones recientes parecen acercarse a una respuesta nueva que involucra al sistema inmunológico (de defensas), que es el que ayuda a que te defiendas contra los virus y las bacterias y su relación con el proceso inflamatorio.  Debes tener en cuenta que la inflamación cumple una función positiva cuando el sistema de defensa la crea temporalmente para ayudar al cuerpo a sanar, como en el caso de la inflamación y el enrojecimiento que surge alrededor de una herida, por ejemplo.  Pero cuando la inflamación se prolonga más allá de lo necesario, o se produce sin que el cuerpo la requiera para sanarse, puede crear toda una serie de trastornos y hasta convertirse en una condición crónica en la que el sistema de defensas ataca al propio organismo (como en el caso de la alergia o el asma).

La relación del estrés, la inflamación y las condiciones de salud ha sido el motivo de varios estudios recientes. Uno de ellos se publicó a principios de año en el medio especializado Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Fue desarrollado por unos investigadores de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles, que llevaron un registro diario sobre las actividades de 122 adultos jóvenes (53 hombres y 69 mujeres) durante ocho días, enfocándose en sus relaciones con los demás y si éstas relaciones eran positivas o negativas. Además, los participantes tuvieron que hacerse pruebas de estrés y se les tomaron muestras de saliva antes y después de las pruebas, para medir los marcadores biológicos de la inflamación.

Los investigadores buscaban determinar si el estrés que provocan los conflictos personales podía desencadenar la liberación de moléculas conocidas como citoquinas, que se relacionan con los procesos inflamatorios. ¿Qué encontraron? Que los niveles de las citoquinas aumentaban tras las interacciones “negativas” de los participantes, por lo general las discusiones.

Esto implica que un nivel de estrés prolongado por una situación difícil activa las citoquinas.  Estas provocan procesos inflamatorios que a su vez puede contribuir a la aparición de condiciones como el asma, la enfermedad cardíaca e incuso los trastornos autoinmunes, es decir, en las que el sistema de defensas ataca al propio organismo (como la artritis, por ejemplo).  El estudio apunta a que el tipo de enfermedades más afectadas por el estrés son precisamente aquéllas en las que la inflamación del organismo juega un papel clave.

Otro estudio más reciente que el anterior y que se reportó en la misma publicación, consideró la respuesta del sistema de defensas de más de 300 personas que, en dos experimentos diferentes, fueron interrogadas sobre el estrés en sus vidas y luego expuestas al virus del resfriado (o catarro), para ver si se enfermaban.

¿El resultado? Tras ajustar las estadísticas para tomar en cuenta varios factores, los investigadores — en este caso de la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon en Pittsburgh — hallaron que las personas cuyos organismos tenían niveles más altos de estrés psicológico continuo (como el que provoca un divorcio o la pérdida de un ser querido) eran menos capaces de reducir la inflamación, al parecer porque las células de sus sistemas de defensa eran menos sensibles a una hormona que desactiva la inflamación.  El organismo queda entonces bajo los efectos de una inflamación prolongada con las consecuencias que antes te explicamos, es decir, un organismo más susceptible a condiciones como enfermedad cardiaca, asma y otros trastornos del sistema de defensas.

Por todo esto, prevenir y manejar el estrés crónico puede ayudarte a reducir el riesgo de tener problemas de salud serios como los que mencionamos antes. Para que puedas lidiar con estas situaciones, he aquí algunas claves:

• Planea tu día con anticipación y aprende a decir que no. Así evitas comprometerte con tantas actividades que después no puedas cumplir con todas.
• Decide qué cosas tienes que hacer primero y cuáles puedes aplazar.
• Toma tiempo para relajarte y hacer actividades que disfrutes.
• Realiza más actividad física y come alimentos saludables.
• Habla de tus emociones con tu familia y amigos.
• Prueba algunas técnicas de relajación, como yoga, meditación o técnicas de respiración.

Y en todo momento, trata de darles a las cosas el valor que en verdad tienen, sin preocuparte por cuestiones menores o que no puedes controlar, como el clima o un tapón en el tráfico. Si te sientes muy preocupada(o) o ansiosa(o) al punto de que interfiere con tu trabajo o tu vida familiar, busca ayuda profesional calificada.  Es importante que cuides la salud de tu mente para evitar repercusiones negativas en la salud de tu cuerpo.

Fuente: http://www.vidaysalud.com/daily/estres-y-salud-mental/de-que-forma-nos-enferma-el-estres/

The Master Key System - Study Questions with Answers

1.What is the world without in its relation to the world within?

The world without is a reflection of the world within.

2. Upon what does all possession depend?

All possession is based on consciousness.

3. How is the individual related to the objective world?

The individual is related to the objective world by the objective mind; the brain is the organ of this mind.

4. How is he related to the Universal Mind?

He is related to the Universal Mind by the subconscious mind; the Solar Plexus is the organ of this mind.

5. What is the Universal Mind?

Universal Mind is the life principle of every atom which is in existence.

6. How can the Individual act on the Universal?

The ability of the individual to think is his ability to act upon the Universal and bring it into manifestation.

7. What is the result of this action and interaction?

The result of this action and interaction is cause and effect; every thought is a cause and every condition an effect.

8. How are harmonious and desirable conditions secured?

Harmonious and desirable conditions are obtained by right thinking.

9. What is the cause of all discord, inharmony, lack and limitation?

Discord, inharmony, lack and limitation are the result of wrong thinking.

10. What is the source of all power?

The source of all power is the world within, the Universal Fountain of Supply, the Infinite Energy of which each individual is an outlet.

Source:  http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTMKS4.html

The Master Key System - Part One

It is my privilege to enclose herewith Part One of The Master Key System. Would you bring into your life more power? Get the power consciousness. More health? Get the health consciousness. More happiness? Get the happiness consciousness. Live the spirit of these things until they become yours by right. It will then become impossible to keep them from you. The things of the world are fluid to a power within man by which he rules them.

You need not acquire this power. You already have it. But you want to understand it; you want to use it; you want to control it; you want to impregnate yourself with it, so that you can go forward and carry the world before you.

Day by day as you go on and on, as you gain momentum, as your inspiration deepens, as your plans crystallize, as you gain understanding, you will come to realize that this world is no dead pile of stones and timber, but that it is a living thing! It is made up of the beating hearts of humanity. It is a thing of life and beauty.

It is evident that it requires understanding to work with material of this description, but those who come into this understanding, are inspired by a new light, a new force, they gain confidence and greater power each day, they realize their hopes and their dreams come true, life has a deeper, fuller, clearer meaning than before.

And, now, Part One.

 

PART ONE

1. That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.

2. Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude. 

3. The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends upon our method of thinking.

4. This is true because we must "be" before we can "do," and we can "do" only to the extent which we "are," and what we "are" depends upon what we "think."

5. We cannot express powers that we do not possess. The only way by which we may secure possession of power is to become conscious of power, and we can never become conscious of power until we learn that all power is from within.

6. There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.

7. The world within is governed by mind. When we discover this world we shall find the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect; and since the world within is subject to our control, all laws of power and possession are also within our control.

8. The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is what has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite Wisdom, infinite Power, infinite Supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression. If we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without.

9. Harmony in the world within will be reflected in the world without by harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, the best of everything. It is the foundation of health and a necessary essential to all greatness, all power, all attainment, all achievement and all success.

10. Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts, and to determine for ourselves how any experience is to affect us.

11. Harmony in the world within results in optimism and affluence; affluence within results in affluence without.

12. The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions of the consciousness within.

13. If we find wisdom in the world within, we shall have the understanding to discern the marvelous possibilities that are latent in this world within, and we shall be given the power to make these possibilities manifest in the world without.

14. As we become conscious of the wisdom in the world within, we mentally take possession of this wisdom, and by taking mental possession we come into actual possession of the power and wisdom necessary to bring into manifestation the essentials necessary for our most complete and harmonious development.

15. The world within is the practical world in which the men and women of power generate courage, hope, enthusiasm, confidence, trust and faith, by which they are given the fine intelligence to see the vision and the practical skill to make the vision real.

16. Life is an unfoldment, not accretion. What comes to us in the world without is what we already possess in the world within.

17. All possession is based on consciousness. All gain is the result of an accumulative consciousness. All loss is the result of a scattering consciousness.

18. Mental efficiency is contingent upon harmony; discord means confusion; therefore, he who would acquire power must be in harmony with Natural Law.

19. We are related to the world without by the objective mind. The brain is the organ of this mind and the cerebro-spinal system of nerves puts us in conscious communication with every part of the body. This system of nerves responds to every sensation of light, heat, odor, sound and taste.

20. When this mind thinks correctly, when it understands the truth, when the thoughts sent through the cerebro-spinal nervous system to the body are constructive, these sensations are pleasant, harmonious.

21. The result is that we build strength, vitality and all constructive forces into our body, but it is through this same objective mind that all distress, sickness, lack, limitation and every form of discord and inharmony is admitted to our lives. It is therefore through the objective mind, by wrong thinking, that we are related to all destructive forces.

22. We are related to the world within by the subconscious mind. The solar plexus is the organ of this mind; the sympathetic system of nerves presides over all subjective sensations, such as joy, fear, love, emotion, respiration, imagination and all other subconscious phenomena. It is through the subconscious that we are connected with the Universal Mind and brought into relation with the Infinite constructive forces of the Universe.

23. It is the coordination of these two centers of our being, and the understanding of their functions, which is the great secret of life. With this knowledge we can bring the objective and subjective minds into conscious cooperation and thus coordinate the finite and the infinite. Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.

24. All agree that there is but one Principle or Consciousness pervading the entire Universe, occupying all space, and being essentially the same in kind at every point of its presence. It is all powerful, all wisdom and always present. All thoughts and things are within Itself. It is all in all.

25. There is but one consciousness in the universe able to think; and when it thinks, its thoughts become objective things to it. As this Consciousness is omnipresent, it must be present within every individual; each individual must be a manifestation of that Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent Consciousness.

26. As there is only one Consciousness in the Universe that is able to think it necessarily follows that your consciousness is identical with the Universal Consciousness, or, in other words, all mind is one mind. There is no dodging this conclusion.

27. The consciousness that focuses in your brain cells is the same consciousness which focuses in the brain cells of every other individual. Each individual is but the individualization of the Universal, the Cosmic Mind.

28. The Universal Mind is static or potential energy; it simply is; it can manifest only through the individual, and the individual can manifest only through the Universal. They are one.

29. The ability of the individual to think is his ability to act on the Universal and bring it into manifestation. Human consciousness consists only in the ability of man to think. Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arises the activities called ‘thought,’ which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy - the two phases of the same thing. Thought is therefore the vibratory force formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind.

30. As the sum of all attributes are contained in the Universal Mind, which is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, these attributes must be present at all times in their potential form in every individual. Therefore, when the individual thinks, the thought is compelled by its nature to embody itself in an objectivity or condition which will correspond with its origin.

31. Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.

32. All power is from within, and is absolutely under your control; it comes through exact knowledge and by the voluntary exercises of exact principles.

33. It should be plain that when you acquire a thorough understanding of this law, and are able to control your thought processes, you can apply it to any condition; in other words, you will have come into conscious cooperation with Omnipotent law which is the fundamental basis of all things.

34. The Universal Mind is the life principle of every atom which is in existence; every atom is continually striving to manifest more life; all are intelligent, and all are seeking to carry out the purpose for which they were created.

35. A majority of mankind lives in the world without; few have found the world within, and yet it is the world within that makes the world without; it is therefore creative and everything which you find in your world without has been created by you in the world within.

36. This system will bring you into a realization of power which will be yours when you understand this relation between the world without and the world within. The world within is the cause, the world without the effect; to change the effect you must change the cause.

37. You will at once see that this is a radically new and different idea; most men try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove discord, we must remove the cause, and this cause can be found only in the world within.

38. All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without.

39. The world within is the Universal fountain of supply, and the world without is the outlet to the stream. Our ability to receive depends upon our recognition of this Universal Fountain, this Infinite Energy of which each individual is an outlet, and so is one with every other individual.

40. Recognition is a mental process, mental action is therefore the interaction of the individual upon the Universal Mind, and as the Universal Mind is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things, this mental action and reaction is the law of causation, but the principle of causation does not obtain in the individual but in the Universal Mind. It is not an objective faculty but a subjective process, and the results are seen in an infinite variety of conditions and experiences.

41. In order to express life there must be mind; nothing can exist without mind. Everything which exists is some manifestation of this one basic substance from which and by which all things have been created and are continually being recreated.

42. We live in a fathomless sea of plastic mind substance. This substance is ever alive and active. It is sensitive to the highest degree. It takes form according to the mental demand. Thought forms the mold or matrix from which the substance expresses.

43. Remember that it is in the application alone that the value consists, and that a practical understanding of this law will substitute abundance for poverty, wisdom for ignorance, harmony for discord and freedom for tyranny, and certainly there can be no greater blessing than these from a material and social standpoint.

44. Now make the application: Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.

45. Many will find this extremely difficult; others will conquer with ease, but it is absolutely essential to secure complete control of the body before you are ready to progress. Next week you will receive instructions for the next step; in the meantime you must have mastered this one. 

Source:  http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekTMKS3.html

Sex Transmutation Q&A 2

Answering more of your questions on practical sex transmutation

Brian wrote to me recently asking me for greater clarity on the practice of Sex Transmutation. (Please refer to my main article Sex Transmutation: Sexual Energy into Genius if this is your first time at this website.)

Here is Brian's question:

Hey Wily,
I would like for you to give me specifics on using the immense power of sex transmutation.  Is it you use sexual fantasy energy built up and then transfer that energy to goals? I need step by step directions without all the disconnects I read about on the internet.  
Thank you. 
Brian

And here is my reply:

Hi Brian,

Thanks so much for your email and questions. It's great to hear from you.

I wrote my article on Sex Transmutation a few years ago, and periodically have responded to questions about Sex Transmutation.

I have been revisiting the subject in my own mind the last week or so.

As part of my research, I bought Dr Charles Runel's 'Practical Application of Integrative Sex Transmutation' which is a 2 CD set on the subject. I am half-way through the course and am finding his thoughts on the subject very interesting. I will report back on that in full when I have listened to both CDs. He is a medical doctor and claims to have been using sex transmutation for about 30 years. So far his techniques seem to centre on preservation of the semen either through chastity (abstinence) or by becoming very masterful at sex so that you don't ejaculate... and then redirecting that sex energy into health and work. For the abstinence part, he tells how at college or Med School he eliminated TV and magazines from his life, would read philosophical type books etc before bed, all to cut down on sexually stimulating images and thoughts. He would also work long hours and pride himself on his levels of productivity. That sort of thing. He seems like a very genuine, humble sort of person genuinely interested in helping people and his CDs ($20) might appeal to you.

From my perspective, sex transmutation takes several forms.

1. Inspiration. This is where you use your natural sexual desire for someone to inspire you to be creative. You will have had experiences of this. You fall for a girl. You can't stop thinking about her. You start dating. And because you are in love and lust with her, you start thinking up things you can do to a) impress her b) please her and make her happy c) make her like you. It's kind of a natural thing. You are much more creative in this state than you are normally. It's because your energy, hopes, desires and expectations are all keyed-up with the excitement and all the hormones and 'feel-good' chemicals flooding your body.

How can you use this? Well, if you are in that stage, you can make the most of it by trying to be even more creative. Really push the boat out. Try your hand at writing love letters, poems or songs. If that's not your thing, maybe coming up with elaborate, unforgettable dates. What about practical, profitable uses? Can you be a 'champion' in your profession? Can you let that love/lust drive you to be the best at what you do... in her honor? Can you create a new product and dedicate it to her? What you are trying to do is use the hook (the girl) to feed into your profession and inspire you to greater deeds.

What if there isn't a particular girl that is inspiring you, or you are married and your relationship is a little flat?

What turns you on? You can fantasize or look at nude pics and allow yourself to get inspired by the images you are playing with or looking at. Focus in on what turns you on and start to vocalize or write down what it is that you like. At first you are going to be a bit of a caveman and your description will be just vulgar porno talk... but let it grow from there until you are really getting into what turns you on, like the particular curve of the breast, or the smooth hollow below or beside her hip, or the tautness of her abdomen. For me, I try and write poetry to describe the intensity and beauty of what I am thinking about. I let the 'charge' empower me and empower my writing. I'm using it to lift me up into a higher state, into a more potent form of communication.

The essence of sex transmutation is to get the energy up, and then focus it in on what you want to focus on... as though you are making love/having sex through that. So when I write poetry, my words are sex. I am having sex in the words.

Sex transmutation is the art of getting 'turned-on' and sustaining that heightened state of mind, body and spirit in all that we do. The art is in directing and managing the energy intelligently so that it can create something. Nature's will for sex is creativity... whether of new babies or new ideas. Sex must create.

Wily Walnut

The creative act is to transpose the idea of sex on to your particular project. The idea being that you take the role of the master pleasure giver (and you get your pleasure from that) just as in the ideal sex you are a master of your sexual energy and can last as long as you like and drive your partner to the heights of ecstacy. In a business situation you are the master pleasure giver and your aim in to drive your clients into ecstacy over your products or services. In art, you are the master pleasure giver in making your picture, sculpture or music something that totally wows your audience and gives them a pleasure rush whenever they experience your work.

The other part of inspiration is the Muse. And this involves worship. We see this evolve into religious feeling where mankind invented Goddesses and Gods, which were idealized perfect women and men, that they could then worship. In modern religions like Christianity, you have Nuns becoming 'the brides of Christ' and their worship of this idealized 'perfect' man takes on an almost erotic ecstacy as exemplified by someone like St Theresa of Avila.

You can use this aspect of sex transmutation by idealizing your wife, girlfriend or woman of your desire and seeing them as an embodiment of God, or the Universal Woman. Then all your acts are acts of worship and dedication to them. When you make love, you are actually at worship on the 'prayer mat of the flesh'. So you can play with this idea, and try and dedicate your actions to this idealized spiritual woman or women. In India, they have a system of Yoga (to achieve enlightenment or union with God) called Bhakti Yoga. In this they dedicate everything they do to God with Love, so they do everything with a totally loving attitude as thought they are doing it for God. So if they are washing the floor, in their minds they are washing the floor for God. This transmutes an ordinary situation into a spiritual experience. Can you see how you could do the same thing with sex?

2. Redirection. Napoleon Hill's sex transmutation chapter seems to imply a strong use of willpower to 'channel' sex energy into activity. This reminds me of those old fashioned health books that warned against 'self-abuse' (masturbation) and recommended long walks and cold showers instead! This really is about a deliberate decision to get active and busy and keep pushing into activity rather than to give in to sexual thoughts and indulgence. I've been reading a dog book called, 'Be The Pack Leader' by Cesar Millan from TV's The Dog Whisperer show. He tells how he rehabilitates disturbed dogs with lots of 1) exercise 2) discipline and lastly 3) affection. Dogs have a natural need to channel their energy in purposeful walking. They need the discipline of a strong alpha leader (you, the owner) to be psychologically happy.

I think there are strong parallels with our own biological ancestry needs. In primate groups, it was the alpha male who got the pick of the females. This would have been the case with early humans too. Gradually though we evolved away from pure brute strength alphas. Some of the betas started sneaking in behind the alpha's back to get some quick action with a female. The strategizing required to achieve this helped brains evolve and we started to get more variety occurring in who could mate with the females. The clever ones started to get laid too! It evolved to where the alpha males were not neccessarily just the strongest but also the cleverest and most powerful, in terms of being able to get food (or later money), good territory (property / things), and protection (weapons / leadership). So, our male biology is prepped with the understanding that the cleverer we are and the more we accomplish and become powerful, the more desirable we will be to the opposite sex. And you can see that demonstrated clearly where 80-year-old billionaires have 25-year-old babes on their arm.

So how do you apply this practically?

Really, it's about ramping up your ambition with the understanding that the more you achieve the higher your status. You want to be seen as the silverback of your profession or society.

It is that old bugbear, willpower, discipline. You keep your mind on a tight leash, focussed and purposeful when you are working (with a deep background understanding that it's all about the sex, but that delayed gratification will lead eventualy to greater gratification).

3. Blending. This really refers to what you were talking about with fantasy and goals. Here's how I like to apply it. Let's say that you have a goal to earn an extra $1000 a month. You have some ideas about how you are going to achieve that, or not. But you visualize the goal as achieved. Now, if you are highly motivated by money, it may be enough for you to just visualize having the extra income and what you will do with it. But if you are not especially money minded, you need to add some 'juice' to the visualization. And that's where you can pull some sexual fantasy in. If you already have a partner, you can imagine telling them how you've created this additional $1000 a month, and celebrate it with them. You would see them getting really excited and turned on by what you have done, telling you how pleased and proud they are of you, and then let them reward you by having sex right then and there in whatever ways you want to fantasize (you might even make love in a big pile of money!).

What this does is tie your goal visualization in with a lot of pleasure, linking the two up. It gives you extra energy to make the visualization easier and sustain it longer. It sets up the idea that achievement of the goal will include all this sex gratification. Now remember, keep flitting back to the achievement of the goal itself. Don't get lost in the sex! You will feel horny as you are doing this and will probably get an erection as you are doing it, but don't start masturbating or seeking out a chance to have sex to relieve the heat and lust. This energy is for your goal.

4. Desire tolerance. Most guys masturbate at some time. It starts early in life and they do it furtively when we are in their teens. They don't want to be caught, so it ends up being a rapid thing. It's a race to the 'finish' line. This teaches guys to rush towards the end of lust, where you ejaculate and the lust ends (until it builds up again). With goals, a lot of people come to realize that the real pleasure of a goal is in the working towards it, more so than it's achievement. A lot of people report feeling flat after a goal is achieved, whereas they felt excited when they were working towards it. Sounds a lot like sex, doesn't it? Well, just as we are told to enjoy the process of working towards a goal, we can also learn to enjoy and get great pleasure from FEELING DESIRE. Most of us are keyed up to the idea of sexual pleasure coming from ejaculation. What we want to do is retrain our minds to recognize that there is longer lasting pleasure in being horny and feeling desire for someone. Desire fires up (turns on) our minds and bodies. Ejaculation switches the mind and body off for a while (we need to rest afterwards).

Part of sex transmutation then is to re-jig our priorities and get pleasure from being in a state of desire and from the state of mind that it puts us in. We can delight in our heightened abilities to be creative, productive, funny or insightful.

Okay, I have got to go now Brian. I hope this has given you some additional thoughts on the subject. I am not sure that I have been any clearer than any of the 'disconnects' you refer to out there on the web. It is a complex subject and hard to objectify and make scientific, but definitely worthy of personal experimentation.

Warmest Regards,
Wily

Source: http://www.wilywalnut.com/More-Sex-Transmutation-Q&A.html

Dios hace que todo ayude para bien

Y sabemos que a los que aman a Dios, todas las cosas les ayudan a bien, esto es, a los que conforme a su propósito son llamados.

  --Romanos 8:28

  

¿Es bueno todo lo que le ocurre a usted? Eso no es lo que dice este versículo. Dice que Dios hace que todas las cosas malas obren para el bien de quienes aman a Dios.

Los cristianos no niegan que hay muchísima maldad en el mundo. Ni siquiera niegan que hay muchísima maldad en ellos. Sin duda usted puede identificarse con la confesión de Pablo en Romanos 7:19: “Porque no hago el bien que quiero, sino el mal que no quiero, eso hago”. Él exclama: “¡Miserable de mí!” (7:24) Y confiesa: “en mi carne, no mora el bien: (7:18). Así que Romanos 8:28 no dice que no haya nada malo. Dice que aun lo que es malo en nosotros puede obrar para bien.

Observe que el versículo no dice que las cosas por sí mismas obran para bien. Eso es lo que el mundo piensa: Que las “cosas les ayudan a bien”. Pero los mejores manuscritos griegos de este versículo ponen en claro que el sujeto de la oración no es cosas sino Dios: “Sabemos que Dios hace que todas las cosas obren para bien”.

Eso nos señala un elemento muy importante del carácter de Dios. Podemos llamarlo la soberanía de Dios. Esa es su autoridad y su poder supremo sobre todos los asuntos de la vida, para producir por ellos sus propios buenos propósitos. También la pudiéramos llamar la providencia de Dios. Es decir, la forma maravillosa en que Dios toma todas las vicisitudes de la vida, todas las contingencias, todas las decisiones, todas las cosas buenas, malas e indiferentes y las entrelaza para un buen propósito.  

Esa promesa no es para todo el mundo. Dios no dice que todo obrará para bien para todas las personas en el mundo. Esa es una promesa hecha solamente para quienes aman a Dios, quienes han sido llamados a la salvación. No todo en su vida será bueno pero todo en su vida obrará por la soberana providencia de Dios.  

Pudiera no ver eso en este momento pero cada sufrimiento, cada tentación, cada prueba, incluso cada pecado, Dios los teje en un tapiz que al final es para su bien. A veces mirar su situación es como mirar la parte de atrás de una alfombra oriental. Lo único que puede ver es un montón de hilos que van en todas direcciones. Parece algo caótico. Pero si da la vuelta a la alfombra, puede ver un diseño maravilloso. Cuando se le dé la vuelta a su vida algún día en la eternidad, usted verá el diseño. Verá cómo Dios hizo que todas las cosas obran para bien.

Aun en nuestras pruebas y tentaciones, Dios está obrando para bien. ¿Le sorprendió que yo dijera que incluso Dios hace que nuestros pecados obren para bien? Cuando veo pecado en mi vida, Dios usa esos tropiezos para aumentar mi aversión por el pecado. En cuanto a la vida venidera, Dios está obrando en todos los aspectos de nuestra vida presente a fin de producir una recompensa eterna que disfrutaremos por siempre en su presencia.

No espere que todo en la vida sea bueno. Eso no sucederá. No espere que todo en usted sea bueno. Eso tampoco sucederá. Pero lo que sí puede esperar es esto: Dios tejerá todas las cosas a favor de sus amados hijos para producir un buen resultado, ahora y por toda la eternidad. 

Fuente: http://www.gracia.org/recursos.aspx?p=a&article=20