Will Power--------hoooah !

[marygaspe]

There's no doubt that one ingredient in succeeding quitting smoking is that YOU HAVE TO
WANT TO QUIT.

That's not will power. That is just the desire to quit. And it must be a strong desire, sincerely
meant.

Hypnosis itself, or self-hypnosis would not work without such a strong desire.

How you maintain keeping to that decision is the issue.

And will power, the denial of day after day temptations, wears down most ambition to quit.

It's harder without some form of self programming gearing you to look forward to
something else, instead of the negative approach of denying yourself an immediate pleasure.

It is indeed harder, but it is through will power that we succeed.

 

[jimmoyer]

It is indeed harder, but it is through will power that we succeed.
------------------------marygaspe------------------------------------------

And because it is harder, this method of willing yourself to deny immediate pleasure,
has an extremely high rate of failure.

 

[sanctus]

It is indeed harder, but it is through will power that we succeed.
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And because it is harder, this method of willing yourself to deny immediate pleasure,
has an extremely high rate of failure.

Never a truer statement made! That's why, I read somewhere anyway, most people don't last past the end of Jan. with New Year's Resolutons.

 

[jimmoyer]

Some might feel it more important to debunk the existence of God.

But that is an issue beyond proof or disproof.

But I want to debunk all the pretensions and myths and wrong thinking about WILL POWER.

 

[#juan]

I think we have to define will power. What we think of as will power is simply that, a measure of strength of will, or a desire to do, or achieve something. Some people achieve far beyond what might be expected of them because they have the will, or desire to succeed. I once saw the end of a fight between a large dog and a much smaller dog. The smaller dog was seriously injured, but it kept on fighting and eventually drove the larger dog off. Was that an example of will power? In my mind it was certainly related to what we call will power.

So, one difinition of will power is: The desire, or the will of an individual to achieve, accomplish, or succeed, at any, and all endeavors.

Or not.....

 

[MikeyDB]

I was told I wouldn’t leave the hospital…..

A priest was called….

My first stroke left me paralyzed from the waist down and no feeling/use of my left arm.

My second stroke left me paralyzed and blind.

My third stroke resulted in …(contributed to…) epileptic seizures.. the grand-mal flavor…I’ve come to call them “the fall and flop…”

That was ten years ago.

I regained my vision, I regained some mobility….

It wasn’t a hunger for fame and fortune that kept me going to occupational therapy and physio….

It was the will to rise above adversity….you can call it willpower if you like.

For some the fight to live, to survive against all odds.. (not my first brush with death by any means) is the only drive left.

I’m sure my experiences of what I call willpower will be dismissed as something else…

Vanity or obstinance…anything but willpower…

Some like our friend Sanctus need to call it divine interevention…some will dismiss the will to live…that resevoir of untapped resilience and determination that enables you to overcome enormous hurdles as anything but willpower….

You start dying at the moment of your birth. You can resign yourself to accepting the vicissitudes and outrages of injustice and inequity, you can blame the world and everyone for what’s happening to you…or you can surrender to drugs, violence, any substitute….

If the metric of “survival” is a non-negotiable element when discussing the ethereal character of willpower…. From the jungles of SouthEast Asia to the green/black sky of a tornado whipped chaos on the frothy waters of lake Huron…I’ve experienced willpower a few times…

But then hey I’m just a crank …easily dismissed…

Please carry on…

 

[jimmoyer]

hOLY beJeeeeezus, MikeyDB.

Mother of Mary !!!

Easily dismissed with a story like that ?

I don't think so.

Your observations most assuredly deserve another look.

I like to occassionally learn something in between my long pontificating filibusters.