The Monkey's Child: The Andras Workbook of Self-Development

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DEDICATED

TO THOSE

COURAGEOUS SOULS

WHO DARE TO

FACE THEIR FEARS

AND

RESOLVE THEM

Contents

Chapter 1 The Power Of Mind Pictures

Personal Skill Development

Andras

We Think In Symbols –

Facing The Monster Within

Andras Sets You Free

Chapter 2 The Mechanics Of Personal Development

The Mechanics Of Personal Development

Hope

Belief

Reward

Hope

Belief

Joy

No Shame - No Blame

Chapter 3 Elements Essential To The Achievement Of Status As A Person

Conditioning

Birth And After

The Roots Of Personality

Status As A Person

Personal Status

Commitment

Illusion

Chapter 4 The Ladder Of Illusion

The Nature Of The Beast

Assets And Liabilities

Self-Disclosure

Chapter 5 The Picture Thought Word Action

Picture

Thought

Word

Action

The Way It Should Be

The Way It Should Be Vs The Way We Were Taught It Should Be

Chapter 6 Why We Play The Games We Play

Defense Mechanisms

Ego

The Id

The Superego

The Defenses

Repression

Projection

Rationalization

Reaction Pattern Formation

Denial

Sublimation

Displacement

Intellectualization

Identification

Chapter 7 The Negative Ego Spiral

Fact

Fact Results In Feeling

Feeling Results In Effect (Illusion)

Effect Results In Hurting

Memory

Locking In

Forgiveness

Chapter 8 How To Believe

Belief

Doubt:

Procrastination

Elements Of Belief

Love

Confidence

Chapter 9 Honestfeeling

No More Games

‘Self’ Through The Senses

Negative Liabilities

Self-Disclosure

Self-Disclosure

Symbols And Pictures

Chapter 10 Creating Mind Pictures

Brain Functions

Visualization Continued

Model-Linking

The Inner Model

Chapter 11 Blueprinting Your Future

Success Letter

Chapter 12 The Wisdom Grid

The Wisdom Grid

PREFACE

Why THE MONKEY’S CHILD?

When I was a small child, my mother would constantly refer to me as ‘a little monkey’ because I wanted to know. I wanted to know everything! How does a refrigerator work? What are stars made of? Why do we have to breathe? What time of the day do the angels go to bed? My fingers were al- ways active, pulling things apart, putting them back together again. Always drawing something. Always doing something. I never really liked schooling because the teachers didn’t give me answers to my questions. (Why does water bubble when it boils? What is a flame? What is electricity?) and I had to ‘sit still’. I was curious, optimistic and unpredictable then and I am to this day still that way.

I believed in the good as a child and expected that good to be with me all my life. These good expectations suddenly went clear out of my life after I married a quiet, lovely girl who suddenly changed into a fearfully hurt soul. How could this be? I wanted to know. I sought profes- sional help only to find no effective help was available. They didn’t know. Nobody seemed to know. There were no answers to the pain from the professionals, family, friends and enemies. Lots of theories, lots of criticism, lots of blame, but no usable answers — everything was thrown out of balance, and I mean everything!

How could this be? So this little monkey embarked on a concentrated career of investigation to find the reasons why. Help came from two nervous breakdowns — a help that started me on a career of discovery into my SELF, the child within. The monkey’s child came home from the distant land of rejection at all levels to new ways of thinking and feeling, daring even greater things.

The monkey’s child has found how to master new skills and new knowledge, how to make sense of life’s experiences both good and not-good, how to remain individual and how to be versatile, prepared to take risks. So this monkey’s child grew up to became A Now Dynamic Real Actualized SELF to create the ANDRAS seminars that proved to be highly successful and highly challenging to all other monkeys involved. This has resulted in the publication of this book for other curious, unpredictable, innovative, entrepreneurial, questioning, discontented, wisdom-seeking monkeys to now recognize and utilize in their own way, time and manner,

the reasons why!

You too can become fully functioning, living your life again with enthusiasm, vitality, curiosity, inner power and direction, clarity, creative joy, love and flow.

Yours intuitively,

Andrew E Verity

This book is not a scientific treatise. It has come as a result of many years of application, trials, errors and successes. It does not claim to be an authority on any chapter of humanity. It has come by way of observing and recording consistent results in using the ANDRAS process

ANDRAS SELF DEVELOPMENT WORKBOOK

The ANDRAS workbook explores new fields of thought and feeling in human motiva- tion, helping you to make sense of life’s experiences – some of which, at times, overwhelm us. The aim is to give you an explanation of the incredible logic of the human mind and to understand why we continue to do the things we would rather not do at all.

This study has immediate rewards as it is supposed that you will be using your own experiences as a reference at all times. Insights not thought of up until now will challenge many of your set ideas and your world-view. It will also motivate you in your persistency for your personal search for one of the greatest of all virtues – your search for truth.

This ANDRAS workbook will give you answers to long-asked questions. By respond- ing as truthfully as you can (even to asking people close to you for the answers) when completing the activities on the right hand pages, you will get inner satisfaction in realms philosophical, physical and metaphysical. This workbook will also give you techniques to implement change that will give you control over the day-to-day unwanted repeating pat- terns that consume so much energy and time.

The ANDRAS workbook is based on the premise that the individual an be in control of his or her own destiny and that we create the ‘reality’ we call our ‘fate’. Change can take place in your life by the application of free thought-power and free will-power – if you take the necessary effort to unlock that power of thought and will.

The ANDRAS workbook explains how the pictures we carry in the subconscious mind creates the life in our destiny and that we can access any negative pictures and resolve the associated feeling in a symbolic process to create a chosen picture reflecting your real worth. The challenge to you is to learn HOW TO BELIEVE in those chosen pictures and let the pictures and your thoughts move in harmony on to your chosen words and then into planned action to productive achievement.

Belief is the hardest part of any personal development.

The ANDRAS workbook also explains the mechanics that you can apply to the proc- esses you will learn. How you can assert influence in your outer surroundings with a strong inner sense of conviction and sound principle. This is the beginning of genuine inner know- ing and you are introduced to the Wisdom Grid, which, in conjunction with the tool of Choice, will deepen your understanding of individual and collective behaviors to prompt you to communicate at a deeper and much more intuitive level – being true to yourself and the universal laws of love and grace.

Dear Fellow Monkey

It is my earnest wish that this book may encourage you to seek a deeper understanding and vitality of life, discovering for yourself the depths of the many values contained within your SELF and finding a deeper peace, at one with the inner person.

This workbook has grown from many years of writing on human development themes and from listening to the needs, wants and sadness of the failed aspirations of fearfilled people who have come to me in the hope that I could provide for them some sort of information regarding the benevolence or otherwise of the universe, that perhaps it would drop the manna of life into their drab existence. In many case it has been proven to be virtually impossible to manoeuvre their thoughts into a more realistic vein, they preferring to believe that they should surely be better treated by the Omnipotent Power. This led me into pondering on the power of belief, which in turn took me into the realm of belief’s power source – love.

By far the most common request from my clients in all their very real concerns relates to love, or rather the seemingly failed position of love in their lives. I say seemingly for love never fails, rather we too often fail love. There is a force, a block, that stops the flow of love and so creates eddies of emptiness within the psyche. Love then became to them a judgement problem blocking the very thing they seek, love. Love in fact exists in abundance and is eager to be shared.

I have found this blocking to be subtle and mischievous, evil and hurtful. Why do so many hold to this position? I reasoned that there had to be a force greater than their learned love. It is a force that demands explanation and it is this explanation that this workbook is about and how to eliminate the hurt and accept the love.

Blocking creates stagnation. Blocks do nothing, they offer nothing, they build nothing. Blocking rots from within.

Belief on the other hand offers a life of endless hope – and belief IS attainable.

To assist in understanding the printout of our BE-ing I have constructed a model that will show how we apply great effort to live out our life at two dominant levels: one that relates to the conscious will to be someone; the other relates to the level of the psyche in the unconscious that creates the forces that control our sense of BE-ing, too often driving us into a contradictory position and creating failure or defeat in the thing we wish so dearly to have!

THE NATURAL LAWS OF HARMONY

Consider as an example the insurance agent who needs to make sales to keep his family in food and shelter, a very real matter to him. He must use the telephone to make his appointments and without that telephoning he cannot earn his commissions. So he reaches for the phone to call up prospective clients only to freeze up – he finds he cannot make those calls so needed for his family’s survival. What power is it that stops that sales person, who is filled with a message of hope for another per- son’s needs, from expressing that message?

Or – a person dearly wants to travel to some far-away place but finds that the separation from others is far too stressful so that the travel, so dearly wished for, cannot be achieved.

Or the businessman or woman who tries desperately over many years to be successful, only to find

that all of life’s labor is totally destroyed by some foolish act!

Why is it so?

This workbook aims to show why these things are present so that you may, by application, remove negative, destructive and restrictive patterns from your being.

The model assumes an eternal and unwavering Power that has set in motion a series of laws to sus- tain the life/death cycle for all creation.

It is also assumed that the laws themselves are as unswerving as is the Great Power. In my experi- ence I have found this Power is unknowable, beyond understanding by our own efforts and without

any limitations in time or space. It is the on-going power from this Source that enters our psyche and assumes the role of LIFE within us. This Life never varies in purpose or intention. This feature must offer us a great deal of comfort for change or appeasement can only generate uncertainty.

Birth is the only way whereby all men and women enter into this life. It is the common bond we all have and thus we are all as important to each other in the scheme of things – regardless of our cir- cumstance. I have found that there are two major concepts that are important in this life – all other matters gain their value from them – these two are BIRTH and DEATH. These are the ALL in life for it is certain that we were born, and equally certain that we are all going to die one day.

I have taken many people back to times before their conception, before being a zygote, to find that they have lived their life in total response to the feelings of the mother when she was making love (or in many cases making hate), with the eventual child growing into that same feeling to the point where the child duplicated that feeling throughout the entire life.

Example: One young woman considered herself to be ‘disgusting’. In speaking to her about her mother she told of mother’s many complaints of her husband’s ‘beastly acts’ and of how sex was a disgusting act. When this young woman went back to before conception the feeling was that of over- whelming disgust. She also lived much of her life in such a manner herself and considered herself as disgusting.

THE

POWER

OF

MIND

PICTURES

Pictures are the

blueprint

of our being, the

power

in our thinking the

life

in our destiny

PERSONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT

- is essentially individual. Each person has a developmental ability and capacity that can differ dra- matically from another person. Yet there is a set of rules that when adopted can virtually guarantee success in life.

This workbook outlines some of those guidelines for the success of the individual.

My interest in the development of the personal-being started many years ago when I found that what I was taught as a child had very little to do with my life education, or learning things that would effec- tively promote my life success. I was taught what to think, not how to think. The education I received was all back-to-front while untested theory was promoted then, as now, as truth to live by.

This series of adventures into the unknown self is a product of many years searching for answers to personal and painful disappointment that has been mankind’s bedfellow for millennia. I believe that those answers, or at least a goodly portion of them, are available to all seekers after self-knowledge.

At the base of it all is the worth of the human spirit and the acceptance of that spirit as a worthy being of importance to the universe, created to believe, achieve and receive.

I have been greatly indebted to pioneers in the field of emotional release as Dr. Frank Lake, with his

work on ‘clinical theology’ and Dr. Arthur Janov and his ‘primal scream’ discoveries along with Dr. Stanislaf Grof and his findings with LSD studies and experimentation and of course to many more who stood bravely in the face of established ‘knowledge’ to set matters on a more enlightened and enlightening course.

These (and other worthies) may never have seen their work as a prelude to serious self-development, yet without their additions much time I am sure would have been wasted.

ANDRAS seminars have been operating now for decades and have been instrumental in the develop- ment of Personal Skills Programs. They were live-in seminars where the seminees learned the intel- lectual part of their inner being and its worth, as well as the emotional programs that have been set within their psyche. They learned how to meet their psychic carnivores and how to eliminate them.

All of the models used in this publication except one have been designed and used extensively in both formal classes and residential seminars by Andrew E Verity. These models will be described and il- lustrated as best as I can, however the application of these models is strictly up to you.

The one that I use not devised by myself was put together by Dr. Frank Lake, MD. and English psy- chiatrist of international fame. His concept of the ‘maternal distress syndrome’ and its attendant rami-fications will be enlarged on as we progress through this workbook.

DEFINITIONS are important. We will be defining terms as we go so that you and I will be speaking the same language.

ANDRAS ASSUMPTIONS

In all studies of all subjects there are initial assumptions, or ideas. These assumptions are examined in the course of the study, proving their worth as foundations for the subject being studied.

There are three ANDRAS assumptions:

1. That there is a force manufactured from the ‘dark side’ of the mind controlling and influencing the flow of energies and which lowers the person’s pictures of self-worth.

This living force (which we have named the ‘negative-ego’) creates a ladder of illusion and has developed in many people rungs of fears, reactions and justifications. These later become the labels by which these people live.

2. That the childhood beliefs then held are so patterned by the person’s experiences and punishments as to lock them into fixed illusions, or thought processes, effectively jailing the mind into a rigid world-view.

3. That living within an individual’s heart and soul is the essence of what we could call our BEING, the SELF, which simply exists and is separate from our experience and personality.

ANDRAS THINGS TO DO TODAY

TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS

(This area is on each page for you to write or draw

things you realize as you continue in these pages,

or things you would like to do to gain desired results.

Maybe write in your immediate objections or agreements

you experience within the text! You can then return to them

for your further consideration after you have completed

the book, or as the moods suits. It is a WORK area)

ANDRAS

. . . ANDRAS is an acronym that stands for A Now Dynamic Real Actualized Self. It is a most apt description of what this program is designed to do.

A – person of determined action.

NOW – to be able to live in the NOW. When we get to the brain functions we will see how important the NOW really is. It is in the NOW-time that the brain does its most valuable material work. This is the place of success and it has be estimated that very little time (5%?) is actually spent there! It is the place of doing. NOW is the time of decision-making. NOW is the place of commitment. NOW is the time for action. NOW is the place of belief. NOW is the field where effort is rewarded. NOW is what self-development is all about, that is, to feel good and be successful – NOW!

DYNAMIC – is how we want to feel virtually all of the time. This is available to you through these steps of self development. Is it Easy? Yes. No. Some parts will be very simple and easy to relate to. Other parts will test all of your fears and then some. To be DYNAMIC is to be able to take those fears and get them to work for you in a most joyful and positive manner. To be DYNAMIC whenever you want to is easy – when you know how!

REAL – is the hardest of all the self-development processes. To be REAL means to be able to put away all lying to yourself. To be REAL means that you will need to understand that all of the hurt you have had knocking at your door has been brought on by yourself! (Ouch! That hurts!) The con- cept of REAL is by far the most difficult to handle in the processes of self-development as we all want to stay excusably comfortable in our discomfort. Being REAL is another name for BELIEF.

ACTUALIZED – means to be able to draw on all of your potential as a great and powerful being. Now don’t start getting upset with that word powerful, because you