Dealing with it...
Hi,
I am new to these forums but have been lurking a long time and have used DYD series material from David Deangelo for a good 3 years.
Even so, there are times when you KNOW what you should be doing, but your heart tells to to do otherwise. I find these times arise when I am busy with work (biology major), too much exercise, have problems at home etc. I no longer live at home and haven't done so for 2 years or so. I consider myself to be a bachelor and don't mind, for the most part, being in my own company.
Over the years, I have had alot of success with ladies, and some not so eventful 'interactions; which I would rather learn from and then forget, lol.
Noone is perfect, and even with what I would consider to be a reasonable game, I am not infallible to natural human traits and feelings such as vulnerability/desperateness once in a while. The key is knowing how to control the damaging affects that these emotions have, both on you and the way in which people view you.
Which brings me onto how I am dealing with a current state of 'oneitis.' I have been here before and I kick myself for falling into the cycle again, but I put it down to a lapse another area of my life, namely my relationship with my alcholic parents and their subsequent divorce, but that's another story.
Help is at hand
For anyone going through the gut-wrenching pain of oneitis right now, please consider what I have to say. Recently I have been attending Al-Anon meetings for friends/relatives of alcoholics and I have learnt a few nifty tools to help ease the suffering:
1) Break up the day's time-scale into fractions of time, depenent on how long you can go without actually obsessing about the subject of your oneitis. e.g. try going half an hour without thinking about the object of your desires at all. If this is too long, bring it down to 15/10/5 and then minute intervals is it's really bad. Once you have reached your target, continue the cycle again. Before you know it, you'll be up to a few hours without thinking of her/him and your heart will feel a little lighter.
2) The above is difficult if you are holding onto the idea of 'what if' and not letting go. Remember, oneitis is, by definition, an unhealthy one-way infatutation so it is assumed that the other party does not feel the same way you do. Relinquish those feelings, LIVE FOR TODAY and nothing else. The irony is, if you detatch a little and stop chasing the hell out of your obsession, then if there were any feelings from her end from the start, she will come full circle and start to chase after you. This is just the twisted dynanism of attraction, and something that has just gotta be accepted. Use this knowledge to your advantage and if you feel yourself going completely wussy and soppy, wanting to text/email/call your 'it' girl, just consider point 1. It will save you face and heartache in the long run. What is certain though is that pursuing to to point of 'freakiness' is a big no-no. Step back, reconcile, take that girl off the damn pedestal and realise that she should be lucky to be with YOU and not the other way round.
3) Living in the DAY is a very important concept. If you are pondering the past, this is wasted energy because what is done, is done, and no amount of worrying about it is going to change that. Similarly, worrying about the future is pointless because what will be will be, no matter how much you worry about it. Yes, your actions TODAY most likely will affect the future outcome, but the future is not worth worrying about until you get there.
Now picture this: If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, where does that leave today?! With your anus hanging over it, ****ting on your happiness! Be mindful of this and try to work it out of your life. It's easy to say, but as I'm finding now, difficult to implement.
Well. I hope that this helps some people out. I certainly feel better talking about it
Cheers,
Push&Pull