Read Between The Lines. 2^nd Edition

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Contents Page

 

• Chapter 1 - A letter of introduction 1

 

• Chapter 2 - Welcome to now 5

 

• Chapter 3 - Changing our approach to life and our surroundings 11

 

• Chapter 4 - Your destiny awaits you 15

 

• Chapter 5 - Dynamic ID Perception 19

• Chapter 6 - List of Personal Qualities and the 3 stages of d.i.p. 23

• Chapter 7 - Self Analysis 31

 

• Chapter 8 – Relaxation 37

 

• Chapter 9 - Guilt and Fear 41

 

• Chapter 10 – Juxtaposition 45

 

• Chapter 11-Creating Ideas 49

 

• Chapter 12-Advertising and looking after your customer 53

 

• Chapter 13-The bottom line 61

 

• • Lucky for some 67

 

• Chapter 15-Starting off with nothing 69

 

Chapter One A letter of introduction Dear Friend,

When I re-discovered by chance, that a book I wrote over nineteen years ago was listed at Amazon.com – it fired up all sorts of memories and dreams from my past that resulted from my authorship of Read Between the Lines. I stated in the book naively. Your success was assured – since the very process meant that you believed in your goals 100% from the beginning.

Well, 20 years on and 20 years wiser, I know that that the statement “Your success is assured” is not accurate. It is easy for me as the author to write it – and for it to be fuelled by writing it again and again, but where present, the statement.

Your success is assured - which I agree is a key component to the whole concept of Dynamic Id Perception
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_the_Id )

Has to come least some “Health and Safety” advice.

 

Simply because it is not fair to “drive” you to the sort of motivation I have driven myself to in both the production of the original and this edition.

I could say - In my opinion – that your success is assured; I can even say Health and Safety Warning! To believe that your success is assured may include health risks, because it can get you so worked up, to work towards your goal, that when you aren’t doing anything about it - it can make one feel guilty. I talk in a later chapter about guilt and how to make it work for you but by far the better way of dealing with “assuring you of your success, has to come from the effort that you as an individual follow after reading this book.

It is necessary to “believe that your success is assured, but in the same breath, not to the detriment of your health. Like most reasonable things, it is a matter of finding the right balance. I cannot give you, my reader the guarantee of success. I can’t even give it to myself, I might get run over by a bus tomorrow, and could I classify that as a success? Well, ok there are some that may state that it is, since I will be making acquaintances with my creator. For the main, I am writing this book for the living. I may have a great following of interested entities that look over me, for all I know but I wouldn’t know how to market to those guys.

So, I have decided to make a modified statement from the previous edition. Providing it is humanly possible, and a realistic goal, then success is yours. Unless you suffer with guilt in which case – take a step back and go and do something else. Let’s face it; we are aiming at improving our life – not make it worse.

When I came across the book on Amazon, something else stemmed from the original idea however, that as a process of improving one’s ” lot,” this process will definitely benefit some people. How much it helps you – requires that you “read between my lines” learn from my experiences and understand that the process is in all likelihood if used religiously at morning and at night will change your life.

Incidentally the term Dynamic Id Perception sounds like a title that a professional would dream up to try and make it sound more exiting than the reality is. DIP is a simple process, whilst it is a real thing. In spite that it is changing the attitude of your own belief system.

I am not clinically trained nor am I a professional in any matter relating to the belief system. It is healthy to be aware of this and hearing it or reading at the beginning of the book seems far healthier to me, than reading about it later and wondering if you have been hypnotized or programmed in any way.

Yes, I believe that this is a process of self hypnosis to some degree and as author, in the 1^st edition I wrestled with the idea of how some people may be as driven as I was when I came across it myself.

But in reality, I can now say that - at least for the first one thousand readers, That no one came to any harm or appeared to get “over” motivated by anything that I had written. I was really worried that some people would get into the frenzy that I allowed myself to get into after reading my book.

In fact I was so motivated that I phoned the local MP to tell him I had discovered a process that would put an end to unemployment. Hmmm, I bet he thought I was a “nutter.” To some extent I was as I hadn’t learned how to apply the brakes to Dynamic Id Perception.

Well that was twenty years ago and now I know to mention this at the beginning and not at the end. If you use this book to develop self motivation in particular, make sure you also use it to relax as well.

At least heed the advice as using it when you absolutely cannot do anything towards your goal and you are still highly motivated to do something towards it.

You will develop your own techniques as time goes on and you reshuffle different affirmations to accommodate your well being as well as your own requirements.

Whilst I openly offer you the choice to be sceptic as to the 100% assurance claim, I ask you to trust me that this process really works, that this process is healthy and helpful. If practised routinely, over time produces the desired results.

It also fired up an old dream that I had about how positive thinking and a process I called at the time Dynamic ID Perception could make me some money. Since I had sold out of the original print run, maybe I could “reignite” it with the Amazon distribution and then “My success surely would be assured” because then I would only need to advertise my product in front of as many people as possible. I toyed with the idea of re writing it and started to cut and paste from the 1^st edition to the 2^nd – After a week I had jived a copy together for -minimal work- and I was ready to start thinking about the money coming in again.

However, I couldn’t rest easy with myself and decided to halt everything and analyse what I had started up again. I had begun to feel guilty if I wasn’t doing anything towards my goal of writing the book or doing something towards it. It was good for my motivation at the time, but it was also relentless, in that there was little pay back until the whole thing had been written, edited, published etc.

I had written the original from the perspective of learn as you do, so obviously, by writing a book and gearing all my affirmations towards writing a book – I succeeded. I ended up with a book as a product that I had created myself, from scratch, with nothing more than a pen in my hand and paper on which to write.

It was no good, I was going to have to rewrite from zero point - from a perceptiveness of here and now – 20 years later on a lot of things have changed. First of all, I don’t need a book to tell me how to think positively, I can look up any number of such “How to” - get ideas – for example, on the internet.

There are many things in life that I do not “need” but that make life more pleasant for me. For my own pursuit, self affirmations in later chapters are now rewritten to side step the more materialistic gains like visualising a Red Jaguar, with a gleaming chrome fixtures and black tinted windows for example.

In this 2^nd edition I try to steer away from the materialistic gains that this process benefits, since my goals now are different to twenty years ago. Now I don’t need the money. Twenty years ago I was willing to try anything within my limits to legally gain money.

So I am coming at it from a totally different perspective and with hindsight of the 1^st edition behind me. As the reader of just this edition, you have my assurance that the main concept of the original is maintained within this edition, but as you might imagine with twenty years more experience under my belt, my style as much as my content has changed. I have arranged the pages so that if you should want to print it out it will start a fresh chapter on the right hand side. This leads to some blank pages. I decided to leave them in so you can use to make notes or jot down ideas etc.

And so my friend, this letter ends and the book begins.

 

Chapter 2
Welcome to NOW

Now is a concept that can itself, be a paradox – to my eyes – since one can shave down the experience of now into such a tiny slither of time that actually – it is no time at all. Ok let me explain. A thought process, it takes x many milliseconds to travel the nerves, reach the brain for the brain to process the signal and for the result to be presented to the “owner.”

Consider our consciousness? We know it is there. Otherwise, everything is a dream, everything. If the latter is true – then it is the case that none of us actually “own” what we think is our own free will, and we therefore share a higher conciousnce but since I am here and that since I am exercising my own free will as far as I am aware, then I go with the former until proven otherwise.

What I am trying to invoke in you currently, is a thought process that goes further than the words I use. Use your own imagination to ponder the concept that the word NOW represents.

On a nano scale – is it possible that we are all living ever so slightly in the past? That everything that comes to us as humans comes to us through our five senses, and by definition we know that it takes time to process our senses. We say “ow” to a hot surface, or react to a situation sometimes with lightening speed, but aren’t we also aware of another “now?”

If now is used as a measurement of time, it is relative. In other words, “now” can mean, now we are all going out to a party. The “length” of now can alter and be relative to the moment that it represents.

So, I am attempting to get you to imagine now NOT as a measurement of time, but as an absolute. A fracture of time so small, that it no longer represents a fracture of time. That it is instantaneous. “A knowing” like you “know” that your arm is there.

Breaking down to the moment of experience is this state of mind that many people use as a basis point for meditation and where I would like you to consider reaching by you own relaxation or meditation technique. After a while one doesn’t have to work hard at it to achieve, one can simply change ones viewpoint by simply realising the concept.
This “instantaneous now” allows the complete relaxation from any depression and from any anxiety. It’s a far fetched claim but having been there I am actually qualified to make the claim.

If one goes further, imagine accepting now as a moment just passed, but that you are a matter of nanoseconds away from processing the experience of now. An area of measurement between the now you experience and the now that can be measured is a matter for conjecture.

Our new now cannot be measured scientifically. Since measuring it, by definition implies a quantity to measure in the first place. However, I know that it exists, as I lived through it. I know from experience that some people that will have read so far and thought what a load of baloney. To this end, I ask that you continue to read this book in its entirety before acting or making any decisions.

I am liable to come back to a point made earlier, later on in a different chapter and I would like you to go away from this book with all its information, not just some of it. Where possible, I will try to keep within a Chapter.

In trimming this chapter to its minimalistic content, I don’t want to over do the trimming. Sometimes I need to repeat something in a different way. My original manuscript was over 800 (A4) pages for the 1^st edition, which ended up finally at 110 (B5) pages, this is not uncommon for authors I realise now – but back then in my innocence of writing I hadn’t thought about the reams of paper I needed to pay for and the publishing editing chopped it down severely to a cost in the end.

I mention this at this point as at that time in my life, money (or the lack of it) would have stopped me dead in my tracks if I had thought about it then. So I just blanked out any thoughts of how I was going to afford to have the book published and blindly carried on with writing.

The fact that I thought it was going to be about 800 pages long and it ended up at only 110 was in fact just a part of my own learning curve. If I had been able to deal with thought of the costs of the finished book, I could have saved myself many hours of work. It’s difficult to imagine how difficult that might have been for my readers to get through I realise now again in hindsight.
Actually the cost to have a print run of a thousand books cost £2000 twenty years ago. Nowadays, publishing in hard copy seems to me to almost be a crime. I expect most of my readership to have computers and to be able to download a copy. So with that in mind, to write a book is a lot cheaper to do nowadays. With that in mind, I am still able to shear some more volume out of this edition and leave my point with you. In the 1^st edition I imagined befriending my reader and wrote in a chatty, manner. Some of the things I wrote I felt I needed to say at that time twenty years ago.

In the book then, I spent a lot of energy justifying myself and trying to qualify every point I made. Believe it or not, now I have focussed more on points and minimised further justification – I don’t have to convince myself as the author that it works, while at the same time writing about it. Which I was doing twenty years ago I know from experience it does work and it is very powerful for me.

I have changed my style in this edition, so I can compact it more. I understand that sitting at a computer screen is not the same as reading from a book, its not quite as intimate in some ways, still, with enough of the right material to plant a seed. Then to try and “germinate” it is, I expect, every authors dream. It’s the words that I am using and stories that I am telling that give substance to this process.

If I were to cut it down to just the process itself, I know that it just wouldn’t work. You would pass it off as too obvious or too simple and at first due to our conditioning.

When I started to using “dip” I thought this process might put one up for some ridicule, but I was surprised that most people thought it was either

a) Nice to see that I was being positive.
b) Thought everybody did it anyway.
c) Didn’t believe in it.

The truth is that one ridiculed me but that was over sharing the process rather than using it. His view was that I didn’t have the “right” to publish stuff suggesting that my readers’ life is unsatisfactory; he missed the point completely although I understand where he was coming from. In hindsight, only close family members needed have ever known about it but it affected me so profoundly, that I couldn’t stop myself sharing it. It may in reality be a process that only the desperate or few individuals actually use to its full potential. It doesn’t matter who uses this though, it still works. It’s just priorities in life sometimes change and this is a guide on how to bring about change.

It doesn’t mean that it has to be to rebuild from the ground up, the process is highly personal to your own dreams and I encourage you to try. It may seem false when you first actually use it. Making it a living process for you just requires some basic foundation work though.

So to this extent please bear with me. I would like to be of service to you. I am a real person and want thoughts for you to use. I don’t need to go on about how glorious my life is at the moment. Nor do I need to beg you to try it, to find out for yourself. I can’t make that decision for you. So there is little point in me trying any harder. I can only ever be the sewer of the seed, I cannot germinate the seed for you that is conception and as such takes two.

I would like to be remembered as a personality more than being the author of a book. I think it goes both ways, that you as my reader get more out of the book having an idea about the person behind the writing.

. . . Getting back “on message”. Take life as a continuous stream or flow of now’s. Although stream or flow implies, movement, in fact the understanding of living this way means that “time” has no value. In fact the merest thought of moving on in time is a distraction from where I am trying to express here. When one reaches the successful translation of the NOW picture, now is such a tiny slither of measurement it becomes zero – but it becomes all embracing as a whole big picture at the same time.

I have to say that, feedback from friends on this subject is this concept is either understood, or not understood. For some it is nothing and for others it is deeply profound.

Writing is an art which, by my standards does not always fulfil the pursuit of 100% communication. I know that, as much as I was worried about affecting people, I know that no matter what I say, you can only realise how powerful this is if you decide to do something with it.
So now is the reference point from where we can learn, as I have shown, we can even learn about now. Even the word now can seem to take different lengths in time to think the word. I mean was that thought your thinking voice in your head saying now or was it a thought taken in a quantum movement that occurred instantaneously by reading these words. I invoke some thoughts hopefully.

Say to yourself now. Understand the moment and enjoy it. It is after all, fully yours. Whatever happens, keep NOW in sight. Sometimes we can only do one thing at a time towards our goal, that’s just how life is and keeping the concept of what our “now” means to us is like a “safe zone”.

I have read books that try to encourage “getting out of your comfort zone” as a way to progress change. This is almost opposite to my way of thinking. I want you to be in your comfort zone when you are doing something towards your dream. I want you to feel good about yourself and to encourage more comfort in your life.

Understand that in the long run by using a little extra effort, it works out positively. Making the effort fun is where the true benefit lays. Remember now and be excited by living each now as it happens.

Notes Chapter 3.
Changing our approach to life and our surroundings

Our own attitude can affect both our approach towards something and also affect other people around us. We all affect each other in day to day living even if we are not aware of it. We know that we are aware and effected when we mutter “which side of bed did he/she get out of this morning?” Meaning that we are aware that someone is grumpy or short tempered or similarly if someone is tearful we often feel sad for them. We all know that laughing is contagious.

These are the extremes of emotion, but we already use this skill in our day to day reaction with others. Quite often it is not what is said, but HOW it is said that makes a difference to the words being used. Sometimes NOT saying something gives another signal for example that you want to be left alone because you are busy on something else at the time. For the purpose of progressing this further, I will label under headings good and bad.

I understand that all emotions have their rightful place in life and I am not diminishing their value or really saying that one is bad as in evil or that another is good as in heavenly, but for the sake of this book, good and bad could be inter-switched with want and don’t want. If you are aware of these times that are observed as bad attitudes, they can be overcome with a little conscious effort in understanding.

A good attitude is a valuable asset. If we work on helping ourselves develop a good attitude, which rubs off on people around us, we will gain more friends and head nearer the route that offers respect as a reward.

Due to the fundamental affect that our attitudes have on others and as a part of the human condition, we all react individually to certain things in set ways. This is conditioning.

Conditioning and attitude seem to me to go hand in hand. We can condition ourselves to deal with things differently as well as change our attitudes both towards ourselves and towards others. We can, with practise and understanding break some of our own conditioning. This is a useful skill for scientists, who sometimes have to think of seemingly impossible concepts. When a new breakthrough is discovered sometimes even belief has to be “reengineered”.

We are all vulnerable to conditioning but it is not outside of our own control to look at and re-assess the way we condition ourselves. I will go into more detail later concerning conditioning.

One cannot mention conditioning without mentioning ego.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego

Ego and Id are interchangeable for our purposes, although my interpretation of Sigmund Freud’s research is that, there is ego and super ego and Id is like the container that encompasses all egos in all its different states.

I am aware of some of Sigmund Freud’s work and whilst I don’t necessarily agree with some of his beliefs, the terms he uses are for our purpose a necessity. I still have respect for the years of work he put into his career and how he followed his belief.

Ego = consciousness of the self and of its development
(ID: another definition - Total of instinctive impulses, in the individual).

When you do your own affirmations’ later, you might find it helpful to know that in my own mind, I am imagining arrival at our new zero value “now” and I am focussing on my id – it is to “my ego” that I talk. (I will use Id from now on as it technically correct – although I am actually “thinking” Ego as I still prefer an ego boost over an Id boost) The terms are interchangeable here and since I am still keeping to the same terms that I used in the original “Id” will remain my terminology.

It is to my “id” that I appeal to in my affirmations, in other words, I am making a conscious effort to express my dreams, my goals, to a part of my brain or mind that I know is listening. Whether it is my subconscious, my ego / id, is irrelevant, what is relevant is that I make the conscious effort in the first place to offer my affirmations to my brain in a higher function. I will come back to this in more detail later.

For our purposes I don’t think we need to make it any more complicated than is necessary. For me, obviously as a part of my own research it’s all part of a fascinating subject but I understand that for others it is not and in fairness we do not need to go into great depths of Psychology. That is beyond the capacity of this author and this book to explain. I am sticking to what I know works.

Why it works need not be of a concern to me. There are many professionals who have very successful careers being paid plenty of money to come up with those answers.

Chapter 4
Your destiny awaits you.

Each and every one of us are individual, who experience life in our own unique way and observe others from our own viewpoint.

Although we share our lives with other people every day and are “conditioned” by attitudes around us, there is a point where we can all go to in ourselves that is influenced only by our own subconscious.

How many times have you said to yourself “If only I could........?”

For you then, it’s only a matter of self-training that you require. It is important that the attitude of strong individuality is recognised, as you are going to communicate with and build upon yourself, projecting ideas into your own immeasurably complex mind, to the subconscious you, who is different from any other individual, using a quality that is unique to you.

As you are a reader of written guidance, you already have one quality which is to your advantage; a quality that in this day and age most people possess. It is, obviously, the ability to read. Well, I say “obviously”, but there is reading and there is reading!

The “quality” in reading isn’t simply over the words it is the absorption of concepts therein - reading and “hearing” what is being written – Even trying to read between the lines, to understand my point. Making the whole process individual to you is what will make the concept come alive for you in a way that is important to you.

Let’s move on.

 

Later in chapter 4 I talk in a bit more detail regarding getting your “routine” together. This will achieve a number of things.

a. It will confirm that your desires are still “valid”. b. It will strengthen your belief that your desires can be achieved. c. Your “subconscious” mind will be receiving positive

information, and in doing that...
d. Will be feeding your “id” making the process and progress go
effectively deeper each day.
e. It will give you a sense of commitment, or dedication, towards
your own goal(s)” and develop self motivation.

This stage consists of studying and doing research for the avenues towards your achievements. Making notes about how you are going to plan and act upon your goals. Lists will be a part of this process inevitably at the beginning however as you progress and you are into your routine the need for lists will not be as numerous as they are likely to be at the beginning of the process, when the concept is still new to you.

I have always gone for my dreams. When I was still in school I wanted to be a stuntman and was always diving around dramatically as if I had been shot or blown up. However achievement was difficult, not the sort of job one goes down to the local job mart to find after all.

By the time I had left school I had forgotten the childhood dream and was channelled to go into engineering. This I did, going into an apprenticeship three years out of four, when I left because I remembered that this was not what I wanted to do at all.

Up to and including those three years in the apprenticeship, I was more influenced by the people around me. The people around me couldn’t understand how seriously I visualised my goals; how my ideas could work all the time I wanted them enough. It wasn’t enough for any of them to believe that such a job would exist.

Yet, that summer I started up my own company called World Wide Stunts. I successfully hired myself and equipment out all over the world for a glorious seven years.

Previous to that time, I was allowing myself to be swayed from my real desires, by the attitudes of others, achieving all that others expected of me, but not realising my own goals fully. Only when I returned from yet another tour, did my friends see I was not just a dreamer.

Dreams are the most important “facts” that I want you to focus on presently.

I know you have got dreams because you have responded to my advertisement - you have already made a positive move towards achieving your goals.
If you are not able to “take in” what I am talking about at the first reading, please take a fresh look at that particular part, as