The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
The World is Not on Fire Despite appearances, the world is not, in fact, burning down. There is no denying that we are living in trying times. The amount of hatred, anger, indignity, and negativity you and I encounter on a daily basis is utterly staggering. If you give this too much attention, it becomes far too easy to see the world as being on fire. Whether the dumpster fire is Trump, Brexit, corporate greed, climate change, or what-have-you, it
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Who are you trying to impress? You may find the answer to this enlightening. I have spent a great deal of my life working to live up to the expectations of others. Some of this has been in my real day-to-day life, while some has been in my hobby life. In either case, the notion that I needed to impress person ‘x’ or group ‘y’ would dominate
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. You are worthy. You are deserving. There is nothing you have to do to prove yourself to anyone. It’s all-too-easy to get caught up in living up to the expectations of others, real and imagined. You want to be a good friend, lover, parent, sibling, child, human being, etc. Then, looking at the actions of others and seeing both good and bad, you hold yourself up to
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. I am not going to hold back any longer. I am showing who I am. No more hiding aspects of who I am. The time is at hand for me to be the best me possible. There are many aspects of myself that I tend to make light of, or give little to no acknowledgement of. Some of this has come from concerns about how people will
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Perspective is unique to each of us. What you may consider amazing and incredible, I might consider ridiculous and unremarkable. Every single person on the planet has their own viewpoints on absolutely everything. To be sure, we can come together in communities that share ideals and other things. But even there, it’s a matter of perspective. How many wars have been fought over which viewpoint of God
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The world is seldom the extremes we are presented. There are many reasons why this is so, but the extremes of our world, the polar opposites, are seldom where anyone or anything actually exists. I believe that a lot of the emphasis on the extremes is because they seem easy. Either/or situations can be made to feel simpler than having more choices on the table. What’s more,
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Positivity is not selfish. I recognize that in the face of the world today, and all the insanity nationally and internationally, seeking out positivity for yourself may seem like a selfish notion. With so many people facing adversity, cruelty, devastation, tangible and intangible bad things, doesn’t it make you selfish if you seek positivity and good things? No, because there are limited things we can all do
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The key to self-help is right there in the name. Self. Help. As in you help your self. Ironically, despite this idea of working with ourselves to help ourselves, people still seem easily inclined to give up their power, and turn to others to improve their lives. There are certainly plenty of times where we need the help of others. Doctors can treat illnesses and prescribe needed
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. You are stronger than depression. Depression is a liar. Depression will tell you all kinds of things about who you are, and they are all lies. It tells you that you are unworthy, undeserving, and that all bad things are what you can have. But you are worthy, and deserving, and all good things are what you can have. Depression is lying to you, and though I
Today is the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. It is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. It is on this day that those who practice Judaism ask God to forgive them for all the sins they may have committed during the year, and once again inscribe them into the Book of Life for the New Year. I was born and raised Jewish, and used to attend services every Yom Kippur, and as is tradition I would fast on