The marquee scrollers from This Moment of Being Alive best summarizes the actualism method:
- Begin by asking, each moment again, ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive’?
- Note: asking how I am experiencing this moment of being alive is not the actualism method.
- Consistently enjoying and appreciating this moment of being alive is the actualism method.
- The means to the end – an ongoing enjoyment and appreciation – are no different to the end.
- Enjoyment and appreciation are facilitated by feeling as happy and as harmless as possible.
- Felicity and innocuity are potently enabled by minimising both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feelings.
- An affective awareness is the key to maximising felicity and innocuity over all alternate feelings.
- A slightest diminishment of enjoyment and appreciation automatically activates attentiveness.
- Attentiveness to the cause of diminished enjoyment and appreciation restores felicity/innocuity.
- The habituation of actualistic awareness and attentiveness requires a persistent initialisation.
- Persistent initialisation segues into a wordless approach, a non-verbal attitude towards life.
- Consistently enjoying and appreciating this moment of being alive is what the actualism method is.
From What is the Answer to ‘How Am I Experiencing this Moment of Being Alive?’
RESPONDENT: Can someone please list the laws contained within the method that enable one to minimise the social identity and the instinctual passions?
RICHARD: Nope … however, the experiential processes contained within the actualism method can be:
- Activate the long-ago buried sincerity so as to make possible a pure intent to bring about peace and harmony sooner rather than later.
- Set the standard of experiencing, each moment again, as feeling felicitous/ innocuous come-what-may.
- Where felicity/ innocuity is not occurring find out why not.
- Seeing the silliness at having felicity/ innocuity be usurped, by either the negative or positive feelings, for whatever reason that might be automatically restores felicity/ innocuity.
- Repeated occurrences of the same cause for felicity/ innocuity loss alerts pre-recognition of impending dissipation which enables pre-emption and ensures a more persistent felicity/ innocuity through habituation.
- Habitual felicity/ innocuity, and its concomitant enjoyment and appreciation, facilitates naïve sensuosity … a consistent state of wide-eyed wonder, amazement, marvel, and delight.
- Naiveté, in conjunction with felicitous/ innocuous sensuosity, being the nearest a ‘self’ can come to innocence, allows the overarching benignity and benevolence inherent to the infinitude this infinite and eternal and perpetual universe actually is to operate more and more freely.
- This intrinsic benignity and benevolence, which has nothing to do with affective happiness and harmlessness, will do the rest.
- Sit back and enjoy the ride of a lifetime!
RESPONDENT: It’s interesting that in practicing Actualism, we need to be in touch with our emotions enough to not be detached, but not so much in touch with them that we get dissociated as in enlightenment.
RICHARD: For the sake of clarity in communication I would stress that the actualism method sits firmly upon the minimisation of both the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feelings and the optimisation of the felicitous/ innocuous feelings … and merely being in touch with felicity will not do the trick.
RESPONDENT: … but I see what is missing is I must generate felicity as my resident mood and not just be in touch with it sometimes.
RICHARD: Yes … and then, further along the way, be felicitous/ innocuous (‘I’ am ‘my’ feelings and ‘my’ feelings are ‘me’).
RESPONDENT: … but thank you for pointing out why because, obviously, how can I be happy when my attitude is ‘I didn’t ask to be born.’? HA!
RICHARD: Indeed not … that basic resentment, the fundamental grievance, will dog every best effort otherwise and render all endeavour useless.
– http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/listafcorrespondence/listaf50.htm#WzTtDiV
RICHARD: The jumping in point is always here … it is at this moment in time and this place in space. Thus, if you miss it this time around, hey presto … you have another chance immediately. Life is excellent at providing opportunities like this.
RESPONDENT: You’re going to have to send more information or draw a clearer map to paradise.
RICHARD: Okay. It is essential for success to grasp the fact that this is your only moment of being alive. The past, although it did happen, is not actual now. The future, though it will happen, is not actual now. Only now is actual. Yesterday’s happiness does not mean a thing if one is miserable now … and a hoped-for happiness tomorrow is to but waste this moment of being alive in waiting. All you get by waiting is more waiting.
Thus any ‘change’ can only happen now.
What ‘I’ did, eighteen years ago, was to devise a remarkably effective method of ridding this body of ‘me’. (Now I know that methods are to be actively discouraged, in some people’s eyes, but this one worked). ‘I’ asked myself, each moment again: ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive’?
– http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/selectedcorrespondence/sc-hope.htm