The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Spreading positivity is not that hard. For some people, this is the best time of the year…while for others, it is the worst. Gatherings with families, friends and loved ones can be fantastic or fatalistic, warm and pleasant or icy and disturbing, and can pick us up or knock us down. Whether positive or negative, emotions tend to run high this time of year. It is for
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Gratitude is an everyday practice that can generate unbelievable amounts of positivity in our lives. It is so easy to take gratitude for granted. But there are so many things we all have which we can be thankful for, and this is an incredible creator of amazing things. The spirit of Thanksgiving is expressing gratitude for our family, friends, and loved ones. I would suggest it holds
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Nothing is impossible. Unless, of course, you believe that it is. Look at the world we live in today. The technologies available to us, the things we have built and continue to build. Things considered impossible just a hundred years ago are commonplace today. This does not just apply to the material. Much of the immaterial we believe to be impossible, is not. It is just a
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Tomorrow is an election day here in the United States. Do not neglect your vote! If you want to see change in the direction the nation is heading, this is the best way you can DO something about it. Get out there and vote. One of the greatest rights we have in this nation is our ability to vote. Despite all the messages of disempowerment we receive,
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. I’m doing all that I can, but I am just not feeling it. For more than four-and-a-half years, I have written about Positivity here, every week, without fail. Over the past week a number of happenings have left me feeling mostly angry, sad, and not positive. A madman shot up a synagogue, and the unsympathetic President blamed the victims. Another madman sent out bombs to prominent opponents
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Creativity is an amazing power we each possess. Our unique ability to make our world; to build; invent; evolve; to start from a raw idea and conjure an amazing construct is incredible. While we have observed other creatures on this world capable of building and using tools, none has shown the skills and creativity we have to imagine and create wonders. We take so many aspects of
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. There is a surprisingly substantial difference between want and desire. Want is based in lack. One of its definitions, from dictionary.com is to be without, or deficient in. Want comes from a place of lack and scarcity. It is a statement that implies that there is not enough, that you have gone without because that which you want there is not enough of. Further, that implies that
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Don’t lose hope. I know that the world looks bleak right now, but we can still change it. Yes, there is some pretty awful stuff happening in the world around us. Terrible people are doing terrible things; threatening to take away rights; disempowering and disenfranchising all for their own interests; shredding the very fabric of our society. It feels terrible, it is scary and unpleasant and infuriating,
This post contains affiliate links. For more info, see my disclosures here. You are not invisible. Nor should you be. I see you. I see the struggles you are going through. They treat you as if you do not matter, and they act as if what you have endured is not important. They are wrong. You do matter, and what you have endured is important. Yes, you have struggled against incredible odds, and continue to fight to do so.
Letting go is frequently challenging. But doing so opens you up to tremendous amounts of positivity. This can present a huge number of issues, however. Sometimes letting go is challenging because deep emotions can be connected to the thing you need to release. No matter how logical you might style yourself as being, nor no matter how hard you try to not hold onto emotions, this can be complicated. Yes, I have written many times that we are all able