Change is Necessary

In my book Metaphysics of Wall Street I mentioned that, in the Stock Market, one finds out that, no matter how many times you have made a certain mistake, you can always make it once more. “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

The reason is simple: unless we change the ground from which the mistake arises, we will go on acting in the same impetuous, heedless, or overly-cautious manner. Swearing we will not listen to rumours any more, we once again — prompted by greed — do something that works out badly. We believe because we want to believe.

Those who have bad or addictive habits have found that TCC practice is a wonderful way to change habits, or have them change us. TCC practice changes the metabolism and that builds new ground from which the old habitual actions do not arise. One prison is finding this out in a dramatic fashion. We can, literally, become a changed person no longer lured by the old Loreleis.

All the words in the world, from a psychologist or an analyst — or psychotherapist — won’t make a difference. “Do you know what you’re doing to your family — or to your health?” we ask. The truth is, he or she does know — and is powerless to change the habit or tendency. Meantime we spend a lot of money for meaningless chatter. It may flatter the ego to be talked about. And even there, how truthful will we be?

If the TCC practitioner is sincere and persevering — and many are not — we can be changed naturally. If we are not willing to be changed, nothing can be done. The ground from which the problems arise must be changed, and can be.