Chapter 18: Cohesive Commitment by John Kooz

Chapter 19: The Directly-Aligned Intuition by John Kooz

Chapter 20: Computational Problem-Solving by John Kooz

About the Author by John Kooz

Love Life Yawp by John Kooz

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.  Talking is sometimes a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words" - Carl Jung

This is a quote from Carl Jung, the great mind that founded analytical psychology and brought us the delights of the collective unconscious, the powerfully important transformation of individuation, and archetypes of human experiences.  Jung and I both understand the immense value of solitude.

Solitude is a very potent and powerful reservoir for crafting positive, clarifying, and centering emotions in our lives.  Solitude and private space are true gifts.  It's a very healthy agenda to seek healthy nature, organized, and focused solitude.  Meanwhile, privacy gives you tremendous control because you can arrange things the way you want them and get everything just "set up" correctly, quite easily with privacy.  Nature, running, yoga, tea, meditation, life scribing (which is both Western and Eastern medicine, more on that below), and physiological alignment exercises are genuine medication for us.   Develop rituals and relationships with food and drink that engages you in a way that produces a centered, focused, peaceful outcome.  This way, your rituals inject control, safety, and mastery into your life!

I invented true Life Scribing 12 years ago, when I was 26 living in Calabasas, California.  Instead of a life coach, I am a life scribe.  Life scribing involves far more enhanced, advanced and refined chronicling, instead of the mere journaling that life coaches prescribe, and which anyone can do.  Instead, life scribing is a creative and scientific process that utilizes internet clouds, detailed photography, comprehensive productivity strategies, secured minimalism, and nuanced but sophisticated calendar temporal chronicling to build an architecture of "Life Lesson" elixirs from your personal history. This way, you can identify what you truly want, and therefore, smoothly achieve your dreams.  After all, precision means hitting the bulls-eye consistently, while mere accuracy means you have only hit where you have been aiming reliably.  Similarly, my life scribing gets you the precise outcomes you want in life. Because Precision is better than accuracy, you want the precise architecture to achieve your outcomes garnered by life scribing.

Learn all about life scribing in my podcast!

Surfing may not be at the Olympics yet, but every surfer is a true "Nature Artist", slicing his instrument across the canvas of a body of water.

Like the artist who carves out ideas and energetically expresses himself on a canvas, a surfer carves out maneuvers and energetically expresses himself on the liquid canvas of ocean swells and waves.

Swimming, cycling, and running are incredible sports. I'm a serious and focused runner and I love the feel of working up a sweat. In this podcast, learn why a person who is not a surfer, but a runner actually loves watching surfers so much!

It's all part of leading a valid and fulfilling life!

Living in a dream-world is perfectly acceptable, if you keep your feet on the ground. By keeping yourself grounded you allow your self to transform your fantasies into a dream-inspired reality. The mesh and framework that allows you dreams to be transformed into reality is through the conduit of style. Your style is the medium in which you can craft your existence, and it becomes your choice to choose society, personal dreams, politics, religion, education, or intellect to guide that expression.

“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.”

--Jean Jacques Rousseau

In other words, once we taste the flavor of that happiness, it will always be in our life pursuits. If we trust in our hearts and search there first and foremost before any other place, we will always find our treasure of happiness. The best way to begin finding happiness is to assume clarity in our intuition. After assuming a position of clarity by using our intuitive practices to create uplifting ceremonies, we thrive. We surge ahead, emotionally burgeon, and truly realize our thriving potential when we have clarified what our intuition is telling us. We are not part of an internal battle amongst our collective conscious. We collectively have an internal agenda that we must integrate with our reality. The clarity that arrives from relinquishing our problems allows us to take the leap into a transport for our destiny. This realization of our destiny arises from utilizing our intuitive practices because actions of the intuitive process establish a distance from other’s values, which can obscure our focus. By focusing on our clarity, we escape the negative problems associated with group conformity. Let’s remember that we always get what we look for. If we are searching for something, we will always be searching for it. If we are finding something, eventually, we will always find it. By simply changing the phrasing of our actions (still doing the same thing) we arrive at completely different results. I remember when learning Spanish I was always stumbling, and pausing mid- sentence about when to use the word to find (encontrar) and to look for (buscar). I realized I kind of stuttered at this linguistic juncture because there shouldn’t be a word for “look for”, it is pessimistic. If you continue to seek, you will always be looking for something, but if you initiative is finding, you will certainly get what you seek because you will discover! Examples of this are in the Matrix: “Stop trying to hit me, and hit me...Don’t think you can, know you can.” And many other pop-culture messages. The point is to look into your heart for happiness and find the joy there, and to cease “looking for it”.

Learn about this most direct pathway to creating this joy through our intuition in the podcast

Worry is one of the most limiting emotions around. Worry actually worry causes people to center on the problem and problems resulting from it as if there were no God or no hope. This is true, but some people go as far to say that worry gives honor and respect to the power of evil, by standing in terror in awe in front of these dark forces. While worry possibly could be praising malign, it certainly perpetuates in the absence of faith. The best remedy for worry is faith. Believing that the universe will provide a solution, and heeding The Beatle’s famous song “Let it Be” immediately washes away worry. Try it, faith and worry are like an acid and a base – the two completely nullify each other, but unlike chemistry, faith always prevails. We can always ameliorate worry and anxious emotions with staunch and resolute faith.

Additionally, emotions are funny things because when we try to conceal a certain emotion (such as depression, admiration, or frustration), a lot of times, that very emotion rebounds back and expresses itself with an unrelenting force. How many times have you had affection for someone, try to conceal it, and only find yourself bumping into tables, blushing bright red, and stuttering your words? By concealing your admiration it grows stronger, and instead of smothering it, you make it the powerhouse of your emotions. Pretty soon, all you can think about is suppressing that emotion of admiration. Similarly, if you are depressed and try to conceal that sensation of feeling low by smiling a lot and acting cheerful and uplifting, when you cease displaying that superficial façade, you realize that the genuine response of curing your depression by addressing it and expressing it has been canceled by your attempts to hide that emotion, making you even more depressed. This negative feedback-loop works with any emotion. The more you suppress them, the more contorted and convoluted the relationship with that feeling becomes.