Who is pulling your strings?

Question

How do we brake the cycle of manipulation and regain control of your life?

Answer 1

While I am subject to certain external factors beyond my control, I am largely in control will nobody pulling my strings.

Answer 2

Do you really want to move towards that direction of breaking the cycle of manipulations and regaining control of your life ?

There is only 1 way :
Embark on one of the true spiritual paths from the following 4 :
1. Yoga (Raja Yoga or Kriya Yoga or the life)
2. Karma Yoga
3. Jnana Yoga
4. Bhakti Yoga

Without that there is no hope in succeeding much in that direction !

Answer 3

Their is a great book out there called "The Art of Seduction" learning how to manipulate others will allow you to see how others are controlling you. Also gaining knowledge of yourself will teach you to love yourself because you are perfect. everybody has there imperfections(mental,and physical), however that's what makes everybody so wonderfully unique. If that don't work just tie the person up and manipulate their body parts until they agree to leave you alone. I'm just kidding the consequences to that action out way the gain. Seriously there are no limitations to what you can achieve ,the world is YOURS. The real question is how bad do you want it?

Answer 4

My strings are being pulled by multiple persons unidentifiable but they often go by the name of bill collector or grocery store.

To regain control of my life I should leave my home and become homeless that would stop the strings from being pulled

Answer 5

The brake is actually applied too often, and hard too.... only the accelerator is also stepped upon intensely !
One wish takes shape as a thought, and instantly, the neutralising counter-thoughts..... 'will it really happen, go through, etc' !
So, we are enmeshed in our own strings, 'webbed' inextricably !
May be a little bit of 'let-go' now and then can help a big way.
This is also made complex , and encashed by clever psychiatrists, counsellors, etc...
Just switch off the engine, and calm the mind, then we can 'refresh' and re-start, re-boot, with re-doubled strength and vigour, perhaps with more trust.

Answer 6

Hooray!!! At last I can truly say I work my own strings after years of being a limp puppet that everybody tugged about so much I felt like I had whiplash!

I think you need to be true and honest with yourself and others. If you really don't want something to happen then refuse it. Do what you're driven to do without others doubts and attitudes stopping you.

Answer 7

you have to first admit that there is a problem and to solve it yourself! you as a person need to stop being manipulated and to take charge of your life by taking action, having support as well as us doing it and not having someone else doing it for you! stop, think, sit down and think how to regain control as a small process! you need to be in charge of your own life, eliminate manipulation and the people who cause that from your life as well as getting the self esteem, overcoming your insecurities and living for yourself and not for someone else! think of it as it this way: you live to make others happy but at the end of the day it is equal to zero while living for yourself is equal to the infinite! think what you want out of life, who you want to be part of your life, go after it and accomplish your goal! being your own person and standing up for yourself and acting beyond your years will stop all the manipulation which you as a person have to do yourself!

Answer 8

Our strings are being pulled by the three modes of material nature, namely: goodness, passion and ignorance. We are all under the control of these three qualities.
However, these three qualities are under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Shri Krishna. Therefore only by fully surrendering to Him one can be freed by the influence of goodness, passion and ignorance and one comes to the transcendental platform of eternality, knowledge and bliss. There is no other way to overcome the powerful influence of material nature.

Answer 9

be assertive and arm yourself psychologically. Analyze people's motives and actions toward you, and be up-front and direct with them by asking them not so much directly as, "are you manipulating me?" , but more like. "When you do X, what do mean by that? I noticed you did X. Is there a reason?" The thing manipulators want to do is to keep it subliminal/have you not notice. So bring it up to their attention.

Answer 10

Nobody.

If you only do what you want to do then you can find the path of least resistance and eventually cut the strings that try and bind you. Less is quite often more.