The project basically started many years ago, when I was in my early twenties, and I managed to successfully go through my own psychospiritual crisis. I experienced what millions of people all over the world experience in the form of attacks of various psychological disorders and illnesses - persistent extremely bad mood for months at a time, sleep disturbances including horrible dreams and fears of going to sleep at all, increasing anxiety, fear, stress, nervousness to the extreme. Increasing problems leading gradually to the collapse of all life activities and abilities, the emergence of strange unusual sensations such as hallucinations and so on. This situation lasted for many months with a clear deteriorating tendency to a state where I stopped managing even quite simple activities. This was in spite of the fact that I had an excellent family background, long term excellent educational results and good social skills including successful personal relationships. I should add that I had studied mathematics and physics in college and was quite trained in general and abstract thinking.
In the rather critical state I described, I talked to my parents, and again I tried to describe to them what was going on, the hundreds of problems that were piling up. Why is a healthy, successful, well-liked 20-year-old with no outward symptoms dying? My dad was a brilliant and highly educated man, known for his practical thinking and common "sense". He listened to it all without comment and then managed to get to the heart of the problem. He said, "You can't solve all this, but it just seems important to you." That sounds reasonable, I thought. I got another kiss from my mom and this came to mind: "What if the reality is that any problem I can't solve is only seemingly important!". I have tried many thinking algorithms in the past months, nothing worked, but this did. Anything - thoughts, feelings, problems, fears, anything that popped into my head that wasn't solvable in the moment, I immediately (and correctly) understood as not really relevant in the moment. Often enough there was the familiar "aha effect" started to work subconsciously. Sleep began to feel great like it never had before in my life. I finished college pretty cool and my life has been great ever since... "oh, that's not really important either !"... "ok, I was wrong again !"... etc. I've done this 100% consistently, on everything, despite many experienced (commonly held but inaccurate) views of what is and isn't important. And within a few days I started to feel significantly better, even though many of the physical symptoms were still receding. Whenever I felt any major negative emotion, stress, anxiety, fear, etc., I knew immediately that I had been wrong again - and considered something important that was not really important. Gradually, this algorithm
