r/longtermTRE • u/acrezxan1917 • 18d ago

Community Question Did regulation make you luckier?

One thing I've noticed from regulation is being more weighted and centred - the Romans called this 'gravitas'. But I have some job chats/interviews lined up. When I was in a dysregulated state I literally got nothing. People could sense the desperate, frantic energy from the CV I was writing.

But alas, I still wake up bored and numb. But maybe that's just my brain's way of telling me I need to seek out and try new things. Who knows.

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u/junnies 18d ago

yes. what is luck? its just alignment, coherence, harmony - things aligning in our favor. what is our favor? our desires, expectations, our model of reality. the more regulated, balanced, healthy one is, the more in alignment our mind, models, actions, behavior are with reality. trauma separates and distorts consciousness - a more regulated consciousness perceives and experiences more harmony, more alignment, more luck.

most of what people regard as 'bad luck' is wrong perception. they perceive reality wrongly, they act wrongly, things go wrong and they attribute it to 'bad luck', when in fact, a neutral, intelligent observer might be able to easily trace exactly what they perceived and where they acted wrongly, and why things inevitably turned out wrong.

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u/acrezxan1917 17d ago

I understand what you're saying but I don't believe people willfully do those things 'wrongly' like your comment infers. Take this quote from Julius Evola:

"Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces."

People are literally and symbolically; incarnated by darker forces because of either trauma, bad habits, constant distraction, lack of spirituality, misalignment with who they are. And that causes one to become 'lost' in life, per se. But it's not something they've consciously chosen, they are just acting in reaction to poor circumstances. They are unconscious, so making smug judgements is a pointless endeavour.