The Philosophy of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, Nontoxic Positivity, and More
Short answer: No. Long answer: Read on! I’ve spent most of my life caring most about what other people think of me. What kind of impression do I make? Do they think ill or good of me? Am I a good person worth your time and attention, or a bad person to be shunned? Do I deserve love, attention, and affection, or should I be scorned, ignored, and distanced? This has driven my life since childhood. The incessant need to
Who knew the subconscious held on to so much? Over the years, I’ve been in and out of therapy. I have been fortunate enough to have had some truly amazing therapists. Each has been unique, bringing a variety of ideas and approaches to help me work with the issues that impact my mental, emotional, and spiritual health. It’s too easy to look to physical health, wellness, and wellbeing. Hell, our society is veritably obsessed with the physical – looks, body
A new challenge on my path to be here now, more. I love learning. One of the driving forces in my life is my desire to gain more knowledge, to learn new things, to evolve my understanding. Much of what I know is largely useless. Trivia? Oh, do I have a head full of useless trivia. Also quotes from movies and TV shows, song lyrics, and the like. I love when I’m writing, and I come up to a question
Sometimes it takes very little to do a lot. Change is the one and only constant in the universe. No matter who, what, where, how, or why you are, change will happen. For the most part, change is impartial, neutral, and simply occurs. It takes many forms and happens both insanely fast and ludicrously slow. When it comes to the big picture matters and the collective consciousness, you and I have little to no control over anything. As I frequently
Everything changes and evolves, after all. Life is seldom stagnant for long. Sure, you might get several years where nothing much changes, but small things can, will, and do. Change is inevitable because it’s the one and only constant in the universe. Everything, be it person, place, or thing, changes. The majority of that simply is, and is neither good nor bad. A lot of people find this hard to swallow. Some cling to what they know, the familiar, the
We can learn from the past and look to the future by living in the now. For a long time, I envied people who had certain childhood memories that I lack. A home they grew up in that was unchanged for 30 years, large families living within just a few miles of each other that gathered to celebrate milestones, childhood friends they remain in touch with today, and the like. That’s certainly not everyone’s story, and definitely not mine. I
Caring about other people reflects our own desires, after all. Too many of the people in the current US Government administration don’t care about anyone other than themselves. Read any social media post from the President, the words of most of the department secretaries, and too much of Congress, and it’s utterly clear. The message is guard yourself, your “people,” and fuck those guys. It’s incredibly disheartening. What’s more, too many people are accepting it as the new normal and
Time to send the fear packing! I’m tired of living in fear. And in this instance, I’m not talking about the fear-based elements of this society. I’m talking about the fears that have kept me from being less than I know I can be. More than once in my life, I shrank away from doing something I believed I could/should do. Maybe I went halfway, maybe I started. But on too many occasions, I backed down, self-sabotaged, and/or allowed myself
Something in my head, buried deep, is holding me back. There are two reasons I write these explorations into mindfulness, nontoxic positivity, conscious reality creation, and the like. The first is to share these ideas, put the notions out into the universe in plain language so that I can help others discover a different approach to life, the universe, and everything. Too many forces in the world want to keep us small, and anything I can do to address this
This is not something to be done lightly. I’ve been in and out of therapy most of my life. It began after my parents’ divorce when I was 5 or 6. Over the years, I’ve seen a wide variety of psychologists and psychiatrists. Some have been incredibly helpful, some less so. But good therapists have helped me understand myself and the world I live in more clearly mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually. Mental health is too easily taken for granted.
