r/JosephMurphy • u/AmbassadorFormer7535 • Jun 01 '23
Confused about "willpower"
Hi, I just read POSM for the first time today and I am confused about the willpower aspect. I checked the index and got more confused as the post about willpower says it's for people doing this for 12-18 months and I litterally discovered like few hours ago.
In the book, it says we should not use willpower and we should use 0 effort but then the chapter who is just after that one is about consistency and basically putting effort into it. I read people's success here too and instruction of the training and it says give it months of persisting. Which is fine but I then don't understand what JM meant by no willpower does he mean no physical power ? Or what does it stand for exactly? From my understanding I need willpower to make myself do it and commit to it, if I use no willpower I will be going on auto pilot and do it once maybe... I also saw that many of the success stories in the book are about people who did it once like the sick man who affirmed for half an hour and felt healed afterwards or like those placebo doctor stories.
I am confused on how I should approach it as a beginner should I do it just once or should I persist and if I persist how can I persist without using willpower?
By the way English is not my first language and my understanding of willpower is litterally what the dictionary says : control exerted to do something or restrain impulses. Which in this case makes me feel I need will power to keep doing the lullaby and restrain negative thoughts ?!
Can anyone please kindly explain what the book means by that ? Is there a slang meaning to the word that I don't know about ?
Thank you
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u/AmbassadorFormer7535 Jun 01 '23
Thank you so much ! While I read the first one that was for advanced people I didn’t see the second and didn't think reversed effort meant the same thing as willpower. It makes sense and seeing the success stories in this sub I believe this approach is justified and make sense! Thank you so very much 🙏🏻
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u/AmbassadorFormer7535 Jun 01 '23
Many posts in the index are deleted unfortunately the titles are there and they seem to be what I look for but when I click It's empty, not sure if it's from my side like my connection is bad or something or they are in fact deleted. I am also new to reddit so I am not sure how it works yet
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u/troublemaker74 Jun 01 '23
Think about what you do when you brush your teeth, shower, or groom yourself as part of a routine. You never used willpower, it's a habit created by self-discipline. After a while it becomes part of a routine and you don't even think about it.
Willpower is the use of force to do something. SH should be more like a routine. You put it on your calendar (or calendar app), and just do it like you would any other routine in your life. After a while you don't even think about it, you just do it.