Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, Nontoxic Positivity, and More
That’s good – knowing your lines empowers you. Everyone has limits of their own making. Lines in the sand that they cannot or will not cross. Some of these are utterly conscious and handpicked. Others are subconscious and not necessarily desirable. Yet, either way, only you know where your lines are. There are many things in your life that you can apply lines to. Often, people cede many of them because they worry about the impression drawing lines will make
The uncomfortable truth. When people are scared, what they fear can become so overwhelming to the senses and emotions that they release all reason. Fear overrides logic, overcomes sensibility, and the next thing you know, you’ve allowed someone to manipulate you. All you need to do is look at the current American political situation to see the truth of this. The fear of suffering has been weaponized horrifically. Many people have been convinced that they will suffer horribly when the
Nobody can tell you how to be. Life in 2025 can be thoroughly exhausting. Spend any time at all reading or watching the news, talking to people about current events, and the ongoing assault on basic human decency, and it hits you. The dread, the uncertainty, the disquiet, the unease, and the fear are mind-numbing. For some people, all of this is a distant, far-off abstract. It’s so far enough removed from you and your life that little of what’s
Practicing mindfulness is equally easy and challenging. Let’s get factual, shall we? Every single human being on Planet Earth is of three minds. Each of these has a job to do as part of your holistic, overall being. No one can function without the other. The first is the unconscious mind. This is where your brain controls the pumping of your heart, the working of your lungs, digestion, synapses firing, and all the necessary things that allow you to live.
So long as you’re alive and breathing, you can do something. Just when you think the world can’t get any crazier, it does. Before you know it, you read about the latest utterly surreal move on the part of that businessperson, those politicians, that shitgibbon, and so on. It’s distressing, disheartening, upsetting, maddening, and scary. Life is always in flux because change is the one and only constant in the Universe. Yet, most people can only handle so much change
Not an easy question to answer. Everyone faces expectations when it comes to doing things in life. Things tend to be done in one of three categories. By and large, people tend to focus on doing for others and the world. And by the world, I mean that nameless faceless entity that encompasses world affairs, politics, environmentalism, and so on. While the narrative in the collective consciousness tends to imply (or sometimes state outright) that you should put others (and
Trying to balance other people’s lives will drive you mad. I’m going to make a statement that you might not like to read, but it’s a true statement. The quest for happiness is seldom the true life quest that anyone undertakes. What does that mean? It means that happiness, in and of itself, is not an end-all be-all matter. Happiness comes and goes, ebbs and flows. Often, something that makes you happy might have an instantaneous impact on you, but
The minds of others are outside your power. I don’t know about you, but one thing that drives me batty is closed-mindedness. It’s especially frustrating and infuriating when you see someone holding onto something illogical, unreasonable, hurtful, and harmful out of fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or some combination therein. Then, to add insult to injury, it doesn’t help that political parties, business leaders, religious leaders, would-be demagogues, and others weaponize that fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or combination therein. The divide
Reveling in the Joy Of Missing Out Currently, I’m reading a book called Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change by April Rinne. Since I’m a firm believer in the truth that change is the one and only constant in the universe, a book about the nature of change (or, as the book addresses it, flux) speaks to me. Also, employing it to thrive is very much in line with my values and beliefs. As I was reading this
It really is that simple. Who are you? That can be an incredibly loaded question. Who you are might not be a simple, singular answer, either. This might or might not be familiar to you: At work, you put on a specific mask, attitude, and persona. When you’re with family, the face you wear and the person you project is who they expect you to be. With friends, depending on the group, you’re the clown or the voice of reason.
