What exactly am I doing?

Metareprogramming of the nervous system is about awareness. Its breaking down your awareness into its component parts, realizing you can bring them under conscious control and then playing around with them. You can control your nervous system!

Here is an exercise. Walk down the street. You see a person walking the other way-observe how you feel. Indifferent? A little nervous? Scared? Awkward?

Studies have shown there there is a lot of baseline fear in everyday human social interactions. For example, there was a study that people are generally a little nervous around each other, a little stressed, yet when they interact with animals they are not. I am going by memory. The focus was on the effect of pets reducing stress, but it revealed how stressful people are to each other.

That is because on a biological level, we are social animals, and there is social ranking going on all the time. Like when two dogs meet for the first time and figure out who is dominant. They sniff each others butts and circle around. We've all seen it. Dogs don't have pores like humans do. They can't sweat, plus they are covered with fur. So phermones and things come out the rectum. Its a big pore. They are smelling fear, sensing how much fear they can smell coming from the other dog.

The one showing the least fear ends up being the dominant dog. Then usually one dog will show a sign of submission. They keep their head lower, put the tail and the ears down, pull the lips back a bit, in kind of a grin. They may offer to lick the other dog. The dominant dog will stand more erect.

On a basic biological level, humans are no different. There are similar body language cues that apply to humans and mean the same thing. Dominant humans show more confidence and less fear in social situations. They make stronger eye contact, have more bass in the voice. They take more liberties with the people around them. It may include more touching, pats on the back. Generaly the alpha is allowed to touch others in the group that are not allowed to touch him/her.

So next time you are in a social situation observe how you act. But also going back to the exercise of walking down the street observe what you do and how you feel. Do you always say "Hi" and smile? Is the "Hi" kind of high pitched? If so you are telegraphing yourself as an omega. Its a fear based reaction. You are utilizing a defense mechanism, to get rank out of the way right off the bat, to protect yourself. Basically you are saying "Hi, I am a wimp. You are the boss, don't hurt me."

Not interacting at all is good. Generally, the the higher ranking person would put less effort into this exchange. Some people aren't as social and avoid eye contact and kind of ignore most passerby. On a busy street, you tend to end up ignoring passerby. There is not enough time or energy available to greet all these people. This is more signifigant in less busy areas. Its a god exercize though to observe your nervous system in action. This is the first step. If you tend to say, "Hi" and smile a lot, don't feel bad that you tend to be submissive in social situations. Just be aware of it. If you can be aware of it, you can bring it under conscious control. If you want to. Animals aren't aware of these things. Robotic unaware people aren't either.

Walking down a bike path on a sunday afternoon, observe Fathers with their wives and children. Notice their posture and demeanor. Some are alpha males with submissive wives and children. They will have a protective demeanor. They may not say hi or smile, maybe the wife will. If they tend not to make eye contact and not smile, they are alphas that may not be social. If they don't smile or say hi, they may just not be very social, you may not be able to deduce their rank.

Some couples will have the wife as the alpha. Is the husband very smiley and friendly? Is he wearing one of these slings like a papoose, or on the front? If so he is a beta male. The wife is the alpha. Some men actually lactate.

This is cultivating awareness.

Now, the reprogramming after this point of becoming aware of ones nervous system, does not involve walking around, projecting a lot of hostile energy, with your chest puffed out trying to intimidate passer-by. That is not what an in control person does. There is no pay off in such exchanges for a true alpha. That behavior is the domain of people with little control over their lives.

But still, such people, do display positive effects in their physiques. The stereotypical inner city male does have a lean muscular physique. His survival is dependant on projecting strenghth, to others in his envoronment. Its always incredible to me how much energy, such people put into simply walking down the street. It appears to take intense concentration.

Before emulating them however, ask yourself "Where has it gotten them in life?" Nowhere. They are stuck on the physical plane. We all have a physical vehicle, its good understand it and maintain it and get the most use out of it, but not good to be limited by it.

My goal is to be dominant on an abstract level. Wrestle with ideas and conquer them. Take an alpha male approache to life. "Make life my Bitch" to use prison slang!

Seriously though, This is the secret. Successful people sublimate this alpha energy. They dominate. Be an intellectual alpha!

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, all tough guys. Socrates was reputedly built like a fire plug, with a touch prize fighter's face. "Plato" means broad. Plato had really broad shoulders. He was a wrestler. Philosophy requires a good deal of muscular strength.

What happens is we "reify" things. We take abstract things and make them real. Our body picks up on this and and creates an appropriate response. If you have a beta, or omega, approach to life, you won't accomplish much and your nervous system will build a soft omega body.

More on this later. Stay tuned...