One result of the Radical Undoing work I’ve noticed is the heightened experience of discomfort in situations I have grown accustomed to, but which no longer seem to benefit me. Sometimes this discomfort inspires a burst of activity in which easy solutions emerge for situations that previously seemed difficult.

Other times, the growing unwillingness to tolerate an inauthentic situation inspires an urgent desire to simply walk away. For example, I may have hated my job for years without actually doing anything about it. After some undoing sessions I may find the job causes so much discomfort that I can’t help but drop it completely, almost as an organic reflex.

This experience recently led me to a confrontation with what I had previously labelled “security”. I realised, alongside some anxiety, that I had tolerated miserable employment situations for years, believing that they provided essential security. What I had called “security” had been revealed as a prolonged emergency state that justified dependence.

The process of undoing seems to include a gradual demonstration that I’m always at risk of catastrophe, regardless of whether I’m braced for an emergency or not. Undoing may increase the motivation to let causes of discomfort fall away. The absence of preparedness allows space for new sensations and movements. Among other things, this appears to increase the potential for experiencing genuine joy.

Similarly, I recently saw through the expectation that “security” requires the regular delivery of apparent value from a centralised source (my job). Acting on this realisation allows space for me to engage in a decentralised range of enthusiasm-based endeavours over which I have more control. The anxiety associated with my employer-dependent job now outweighs the anxiety associated with the uncertain life of the freelancer. Opting to embrace unknown outcomes, rather than the continuation of restrictive work patterns, seems far more likely to inspire a joyful sense of adventure.

-Andrew

The war between the true artist and Resistance is a war without end, thankfully. Without Resistance, no artist would ever get out of bed, let alone create magnificence on perpetual display in the museum of life.

 –Mr. G

As I repeat so often and fondly:

:::LET’S GET STARTED:::

Find a place to park your rickshaw. Come inside and pull up a chair.

The show is about to begin.

HOW TO LET GO OF THE PAST

Now that you’ve found yourself, or even better, found out that you have no self, the real work begins. Let’s pretend for a moment that you’ve gotten deep into your body. You’ve done a lot of face stretching and some other radical undoing exercises. You’ve felt the simultaneous magnificence and horror of life in a body, and you’ve really started to enjoy it.

NOW WHAT?

Now it’s time to take responsibility and create a life out of nothing. What does that mean? It means that you have no morality, no template of fixed responses to the circumstances of your life and no real basis for making decisions anymore.

You used to let fear guide you. Yes, you did. Now you don’t even have that as a guide anymore. The great absurdity of life and death are one and the same to you. Without a constant fear of death, how can you make any movements? How can you make any decisions?

Many have fallen from this precipice into lives of depravity, boredom, sociopathy. This isn’t necessary. You can spare yourself those fates.

But how?

By letting go of the past…anchoring yourself firmly in your body…and following joy and awe wherever they may lead you. The treasures of life are within your reach. Wrap your arms around yourself and you have found what every earnest seeker has sought. Close your eyes and stare into that profound darkness. Everything you find there is yours to keep forever.

GHOST MAGNETS

Whenever you find yourself becoming a willing victim of past circumstances, events, people, places and things, try to locate these items in your immediate surroundings.

Do you see them anywhere? Can you pick them up and hold them?

No. They are ghosts and nothing more.

Every time these ghosts of yours show up to haunt you, look around and try to find them. Yes, there might be items in your home that keep the ghosts anchored there. Identify these items by how you feel when you look upon them. Then, exorcise your area by destroying the items. When it feels the worst, you’re gaining the most power.

Once you banish these ghost magnets to your local garbage abyss, they can never haunt you again. This is the beginning of letting go of the past: ridding yourself of the magnets you use to hold it in place.

It could be anything: a shirt, an old photo, a letter, a book…

You know what I’m talking about. You know how things make you feel. When they make you feel “bad,”

GET RID OF THEM.

If you want to take this exorcise to the next level, deliberately place new items in your home, office, and everywhere else you consider your domain. Make every item count. Choose things that inspire and enthuse you. Let’s call these: MIRRORS OF JOY.

Fill your spaces with mirrors of joy. Feel how these items fill you with excitement. Hang them on your wall. Wear them. Read them. Enjoy.

This is what the New Agers wish they could understand when they tell you: LIVE IN THE PRESENT. The present is an ever-fluctuating stream that you can embed with codes to enhance your experience.

Create a space you can really love and enjoy, and that space will feed and nourish you constantly.

Fill it with sorrowful items, and that’s what you’ll get for dinner every night.

For Gawd’s Sake, Feel Good!

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-Caterpillar, Alice in Wonderland

When was the last time you yelled?

I don’t mean the last time you raised your voice in an argument, or shouted “go team” at a Civil War reenactment; I mean really, truly, honest to whatever-god-you-believe-in, full release, orgasmically yelled?

Probably not too recently. In fact, the very idea is enough to trigger anxiety in some people. (“Who would hear me? What would people think? Would the police come knocking down my door? What if they thought I was—*gasp*—weird?”)

And you know what else? Most people can’t do it. Even if you parachuted them into the middle of a desert, hundreds of miles away from any other “civilized” human, and promised them water, food and a jeep chauffeured by Henry Rollins if they just, for once in their lives, yelled like they meant it—they could not.

We all carry the consequences of our upbringing into the most wild of wildernesses. For most of us, that means we speak quietly, politely, and carry loads of tension in our necks, jaws, and throats to make sure we never make any of those sounds that got us into such trouble as children. We choke ourselves off, afraid of what we might say, afraid of making a mistake, of incurring the wrath of our caretakers—who are now long gone, but still haunt our psyches in the form of the deep, chronic tension they left behind.

Now before you start formulating arguments against the desirability of a culture in which people yell at each other all the time, I should be clear that that’s not what I’m suggesting. The problem isn’t that we’re not yelling, it’s that we can’t. And what that means, fundamentally, is that our self expression is restricted—and that means a lot more than keeping our voices down.

We’re afraid of being impolite, of saying the wrong thing, of what the “other person” might think about what we say. Our chronic muscular tensions seats a Greek chorus of self-doubt and second guessing.

So we limit ourselves. We think about what we say before we say it. We run it by the chorus and ask, “Is this safe? Would you be upset? Does this sound stupid?” And in the process, we restrict our self-expression to what we think is safe, culturally and socially acceptable, and put our true convictions, our true creativity, our deep, organic authenticity in a cage.

To break out of that cage, you need to dissolve the muscle tension where it lives. Without that opening, nothing else can happen. But with that opening, anything can happen.

In the video accompanying this post, I provide a few simple but powerful techniques to get that process started NOW.

The expressions of the “voice”—singing, speaking, writing, any type of self-expression—represent the only means you have of building a bridge between who you are inside to how the world outside sees you. It’s your responsibility to build that bridge, to allow yourself to be authentically expressive, without fear and apprehension about what others might think.

We’ll be going into more detail on the neck, throat, and jaw–how to detense them, and how that detensing relates to sex, anxiety, and enlightenment–in our upcoming student’s choice course.

Until then, say what you mean, and mean what you say. I do.

-Riley

Garrett conducting his first workshop in the olden days.

I’m going to go ahead and assume that most of you reading this have faced some dissatisfaction with what you have to do to make money. This is a common ailment in civilized cultures around the world. Hillary Clinton once commented that modern forms of work have become an epidemic affecting millions of people.

Every individual has to face this disease on his or her own terms. You have to decide if you feel truly satisfied with what you do to make money. If you’re one of the lucky or valiant few who’ve found a job you really like, I applaud you. But, if you’re like me, and you have a hard time working for other people in situations you’d rather not be in, I have some good news for you.

Going out on your own to do freelancing and/or starting a business is way easier than you might think. We’ve almost all been trained in school to be good workers, to follow orders and to leave most of our important life decisions in the hands of others. Unfortunately, not everyone has your best interests in mind.

I stumbled into freelancing and doing business almost by accident. It started with helping people with their writing projects and editing papers for others. Then, a friend turned me on to some online content-production companies who pay freelance writers. Finally, I undid myself so much and fell in love with the process of breaking free that I knew I had to start a business passing on my knowledge and experience to other individuals like myself.

The process took a number of years, and I failed many times. Those failures all became fertilizer for my next attempts, until finally, I started making it work. A lot of things in life work that way.

The Spirit of the Entrepreneur

Check out this video I made about the Spirit of the Entrepreneur and how to make money doing workshops. After you watch the video, read on, and I’ll go into a bit more detail about getting paid to do simple workshops and teaching people how to do things you love to do.

To find out more about the Esozone Codex and The Spirit of the Entrepreneur training, click on the links in this sentence.

I’ve covered the following points before, but they bear repeating over and over in as many places as possible.

The Basic Formula of Making Money Doing Workshops

1. Identify Hobbies, Interests and Passions

It’s a simple as taking a look at what you get excited about. What kinds of hobbies do you spend your time on? Even if you enjoy searching around online, there are people who would love to learn how to do it. Make a list of 11 things you like to do. Don’t worry yet if those things are profitable or not, we’ll deal with that later.

2. Make a list of types of people who might want to learn what you love to do.

For each item you listed in #1, make a list of the types of people who might pay you to teach them how to do the things you’re passionate about doing. Get as specific as you can with these types. Are they 65 year old women who want to learn how to use email, facebook and skype to stay in touch with family? Are they 35 year old men who are making $100,000 per year at office jobs who want to learn how to break out as freelance consultants?

Identify who these people are and where they spend their time, online and off.

3. Pre-Test the Ideas for Profitability. (Thanks to Ramit Sethi for his teachings on this one.)

For each group of people you’ve identified above, ask the following questions:

1. Are they able to pay for your services?

2. Are they willing to pay?

4. Go to where the groups of people spend time and talk to them.

If you answered yes to the above two questions in, choose your favorite idea of those that passed the test. Make a list of places the target audience spends their time. Go there and meet those people. Tell them about your services. If you can reach them online, send them emails about what you can do for them. More advanced stages of this include setting up websites and contacting webmasters to put ads on their sites. For now, just go find people and talk to them about what you have to offer.

Find out if these people really want what it is you have to offer.

5. Build a workshop, service, and/or product out of your idea.

This can be a workshop like the one provided in the Esozone Codex, it can be a how-to PDF, or it can be an individualized service like teaching people how to write better, use computers or how to workout for maximum weight loss and muscle tone. Make sure you get excited about what you’re doing. Your excitement will add great value to your product or service.

6. Tell People About Your Workshop

Set a date, time and location for your workshop. We can help you with all the details in a Spirit of the Entrepreneur session, the Esozone Codex, and the deluxe consultation option. Basically, you go to the places where your target market spend time and put your offer in front of them. Talk to folks about it. Put up flyers. Put ads on local listings online and in local papers. Be creative and come up with other ways to share your offering with people.

It’s as simple as that!

It really is that simple. Trust that you’ll learn what you need to know along the way. If you ever have any questions, find people who are doing something similar to you and ask them how they do it. You can learn anything you need to know, just like you did when you were learning about your hobby, interest or passion. Once you make sharing your knowledge and value with other people one of your passions, making money will excite you just as much as your other interests.

A Very Cool Secret…

A cool secret about all of this is:

When you make money doing something you love, you win at every stage of the game. You’ll always be satisfied with what you’re spending your time on. When the money starts to flow, it feels even better. You’ll know that for every dollar you make, you have added value to someone else’s life, and your own.

Why Make Money Doing Workshops?

Here’s why:

1. You get over your fears of public speaking and performance.

2. You get to directly interact with other people who share your interests and passions.

3. You learn the material you teach in much greater depth and detail than you would otherwise.

4. It’s a lot of fun.

5. You can increase the value of what you’re teaching and start charging a lot more for your workshops as you gain experience.

There are a hell of a lot of other benefits you’ll get out of putting on workshops, but I want you to experience those for yourself.

Best of luck in your journey of expansion and fulfillment.

Enjoy,

-Garrett

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We would like to give as many people as possible the experience of Radical Undoing, even if it’s just a single session. So much can happen from deeply feeling your body in this particular way…a single session plants the seeds of a deep bodily awakening that can carry you into an entirely new life.

Riley and I are excited to hear from you and work with you.

Click on the button below to get your initial Radical Undoing session for half-off. You will receive an email immediately with instructions for scheduling your session.

We’re looking very forward to working with each of you.

Hey guys! Just finished watching both courses, and now I’m watching them again.

I had a memory of an experience while watching the first course. I can’t remember what exactly it was that Riley said, but the memory was triggered. After that, while watching the second course, Garrett said something that related directly to the same experience. So I thought I’d relate the experience.

This happened about ten years ago, but it has only really been in the past few years that I’ve been able to use it effectively.

I was sitting or lying down, meditating. I slipped into a light trance, and found myself sitting on a chair in a completely black, as in unlit, space. Some distance in front of me, I sensed the approach of something. It was BOUNDING towards me with such joy and energy, the only thing I could relate it too was a really energetic puppy. When I say joy, I don’t mean extreme happiness. I just mean it was raw, unbound by ideas of duality.

It became a puppy, and when it reached me it leapt into my arms. It was spinning and vibrating intensely, much like a super excited puppy would. Another quality it had was cuteness, but a cuteness that was so intense it made me nauseous. It was too much cuteness, or like an imitation of cuteness by something that just had way too much energy, trying to cram itself into the idea of cuteness. Then it turned into a white, glowing ball of energy, about the size of a beach ball.

I knew that this ball was mine to do whatever I wanted. Really, anything I wanted to do with this energy, it was completely open and up to me. This filled me with terror. The idea that I was completely free to do WHATEVER I wanted was the most disturbing thing that had ever occurred to me! I felt a deep connection to the idea that I was totally responsible for my own life. It was all my choices and decisions.

I didn’t have any belief in god, but at that moment I had a very strong sense of a terrible and vengeful god. I kind of had my own sense of how some christians interacted with god as someone to fear. I was terrified by the idea that it was all up to me and I’d have to take full responsibility for my life. I saw that I could choose to deny this, and forever live life being dead, or jump into the joyful terror of existence.

My brain buzzed when Garrett mentioned something about the fear( or awe) of god being the beginning of wisdom.

And that’s my little story!

Someday I’d like to have a live session “in real life” with you guys. Someday!

-Brendan

When you’re really connecting with someone…

The conversation flows effortlessly, and your posture matches up. You don’t need to think, because everything is just flowing. You feel it, and you know they feel it, too.

Maybe you’ve had moments of such deep rapport that it seems to verge on telepathy—like it’s not even necessary to speak, just to be, and everything is communicated.

Organic Radical Undoing sessions operate from that space.

The alternative–doing exercises from an impersonally prepared list–is more like having a conversation by reading from scripts. Not exactly the same…

Having “downloaded” and “installed” every element of the Undoing repertoire into our own bodies and unconscious minds, we trainers get into immediate rapport with the trainee’s unconscious by observing and syncing to his or her body’s reactions to the breathing and exercises, and synching our breathing along with theirs.

Then the information flows: no preconceived notions, just a powerful sense of what “wants to” come next. Sure, we can analyze it and force it into making rational sense, for people who are really into that sort of thing; but it’s the direct feeling in the moment, the strength of the transpersonal intuition that makes organic sessions so powerful.

It’s not magic–it just really seems like it sometimes.

When Garrett and I began doing organic sessions with each other, we were astonished by how often one of us would suggest an exercise, and the other would say, “That’s exactly what I was thinking!”

We also found ourselves innovating exercises, because we could tell the other person’s body “wanted” to move in particular way –which the other would often instantly confirm.

Over time, as you gain proficiency and deep familiarity with the Radical Undoing work, and begin to trust your own intuition, you will be able to rely upon your own unconscious to guide you through organic sessions. (At the beginning, however, it’s a bit like trying to pull the cart and ride on it.)

Once you do become comfortable in that space of trust-and-indeterminacy, your intuition will rise up around you in more and more instances of your life. You’ll be able to surrender to your own deeper wisdom and let it shower you with unexpected gifts, day after day.

So, you’ll have that going for you, which is nice.

-Riley

(From the .pdf accompanying the live Organic Radical Undoing Session demonstration. For more information click here.)

The body adapts automatically to almost any new situation or circumstances it encounters, inside and out.

You might argue that pain is a trouble of the body. Pain is an experience, yes, but what makes an experience trouble is the mind…the thoughts we think about it and the unconscious associations we make to it.

The mind has endless troubles, while the body has none.

The mission of Command Z is to refocus the mind onto the body…the vast and beautiful land of no troubles.

The trouble with clearing all the troubles out of the mind is that most people have built their entire identities around the recurring troubles they experience in their lives. When the troubles disappear, so do their identities.

This explains the prevalence of gossip, rumormongering, TV news, disaster footage, politics and religion.

Think about it. Since when does anyone or anything need saving? Do we really need to rescue the Earth from some imagined catastrophe? Or is that just a holdover from Christianity still living in the shadows of our minds?

When you refocus your mind on your body, you will witness directly that there are no troubles.

You might say that the only real trouble is the task of refocusing the mind on the body… It’s an Indiana Jones-style adventure.

That’s where we come in…

Choose Your Own Adventure… Find the Fountain of Youth… The Land of No Troubles. It’s been right there with you all along.

Enjoy,

-Garrett

Proverbs 9:10 is often mistranslated from Hebrew as, “The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

This has been used as justification for a rather tyrannical and wrathful conception of god as some warlike man in the sky.

The original Hebrew root is YRA, “yare.” It does often translate as fear, but this is misleading for our purposes.

Our purposes here, of course, are to help you make use of everything for your own benefit, your own personal advancement and enjoyment.

In this case, the lesson of Proverbs 9:10 can be used to understand a concept that can empower and change your perception of what’s going on in your life. This will enable you to easily align your behavior with your goals.

We have to unpack the words of the Proverb to get the most benefit from it. Let’s get started:

1. The Lord: For our purposes, we will define the Lord as everything inside and outside of you. Yourself, your perception and everything else in the universe are included. You might call this “life,” “reality,” or “existence.”

2. YRA/ yireh: Instead of fear, we will translate Yireh as awe and reverence. Hopefully all of you have had a transcendent experience in your life. Sometimes it occurs during an amazing musical performance, or a bout of serious laughter. It involves deep bodily tingling, emotional exaltation and a sense of eternal oneness with all of life.

The funny thing about the eternal oneness with all of existence is that it is the most normal and basic experience you could ever have. It’s not some kind of mystical thing. It waits patiently behind all the dross, worry and drama of daily life.

When you remember who and what you are, beyond words, the bare facts of existence become deeply satisfying, no matter what problems your mind is dealing with. This is what I mean by “awe.” Recognizing that we know nothing about our existence, and yet here it is, right here with us all the time.

3. Wisdom: wisdom in this case means an understanding that goes beyond all confusion, illusion and delusion. It signifies a beholding of existence as it is, not how we think it should or shouldn’t be. It is not in the realm of ideas. Instead, you find it underneath or behind the screen of the mind where ideas take place. When you avoid the traps of the mind, you reach the unerring wisdom of the body.

The Awe of Existence is the Beginning of Wisdom.

When you experience your first Radical Undoing session, you will know beyond all words and ideas, what it means to feel awe for your own existence. This is the beginning of wisdom, because now you truly understand that your life is your own, and you have ultimate freedom to construct it on your own terms. People often fear this experience, because it means taking full responsibility for your own life.

If you’re not taking responsibility for the creation of your own life, you might want to ask yourself, Who is?

If you’re ready to take that first step, get in touch with us on the site, register for a session, or send us an email to info@radicalundoing.com

-mr.g

-Sigmund Frued, Civilization and Its Discontents

Two types of “personal development” exist:

The kind that helps you get what your compulsive and conditioned monkey-mind craves (inclusion in desirable social groups, wealth, peace of mind, self-esteem, a better can opener, free fried chicken)…

…and the kind that fundamentally questions those cravings, collapsing the personality down to its bare bones and building a new being from scratch.

It goes without saying that the former category is the more common, and  new best-sellers, fads, “secrets,” and wish-fulfillment fantasies never cease to strut about the marketplace.

The latter is usually missed, esoteric even to the “esoteric.”

I enjoy observing what kinds of fads emerge, and when (for example, the immensely lucrative franchise, “The Secret” during recession time), as well as who embraces them and who derides them.

Mythic heroes, having evoked a genie, know to be very careful in their choice of wishes. Those who fail this caution become perennial examples of how we don’t really want what we think we want…

What would happen if you suddenly gained the power to manifest all your thoughts?

Probably not what you think.

So…make your wishes come true, or become a thing that wishes differently?

That’s a secret……

-Riley