You Always Do More Awake and Aware than Asleep

Sleepers aren’t necessarily dreamers and are never doers. I know people who have lucid, involved, detailed dreams. They tell me about crazy happenings they experience when they sleep. I rarely remember my dreams. Once in a very great while, something lingers from my sleep, but more often than not, dreams elude me. Over the past decade-plus, this idea has come into the collective consciousness where being “woke” is somehow a bad thing. What does that even mean? People use the

Recognizing What You Can and Do Control

This is the key to less stress and more empowerment. Many of the ideas in the collective consciousness of the world today are centered around disruption. Lots of people talk about disrupting this, that, or the other thing. Interrupt the pattern, change the status quo, alter the conversation, and the like. Because change is inevitable, and the one and only constant in the Universe, recognizing, acknowledging, and even embracing this idea of disruption can do some amazing things. However, it

Who I Am Today Is Not Who I Was Yesterday

I’ll be someone else tomorrow. Driving with friends to a fencing practice more than three hours away, as we talked about the usual people and things in our lives, certain thoughts arose. Things that used to bother me, upset me, or otherwise set me off just don’t anymore. This is not a bad thing, because who I am today is not who I was yesterday. Giving this consideration and thinking about all the work I’ve done to become the person

You Choose Your Approach All the Time

You’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul. Certain things are true for everyone. Every single person on Planet Earth, in one form or another, wakes up, has a day, goes to sleep, and repeats the next day. Yes, some people sleep for only short spans while others get hours. Some people’s “day” is other people’s “night.” Yet everybody has a time when they are awake, not asleep, and moving through their life. This is where variations begin.

Maybe Today Is Not Your Day

Tomorrow might not be your day, either. Yet you’re always empowered. Have you ever started your day excited, enthusiastic, and optimistic? You woke up feeling refreshed, invigorated, and ready to tackle the world? That would be amazing, right? I’ve been writing about this life philosophy, Pathwalking, for 13.4 years. Six hundred and ninety-six weeks in a row, without fail. For all that time, I’ve been refining my understanding and approach to conscious reality creation, mindfulness, positivity, and making choices and

Half The Time To Change Still Feels Too Long

The challenges of living in a quick-fix society. The upside and downside of today’s world is its speed. What took several minutes a century ago is virtually instantaneous now. Food that took hours to cook can be made in minutes. The convenience is astonishing. However, it has also devastated attention spans. People used to accept that things took time way more readily than we do now. We want it instantly, as soon as possible – if not sooner. What’s more,

The Fine Line Between Knowing and Overwhelming

How do you define too much information? I’m mentally, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted. It takes a lot of energy to reclaim my balance these days. Why? Because I care about the world I live in. It matters to me that our so-called leaders are doing so many hateful, unhinged, harmful things to people, places, and things. Reading about the latest injustice, the unnecessary cruelty, and the utter uncaring is a lot. It’s all too easy to get dragged in deeper

Be Mindful of Your Outrage

Be outraged, but be mindful of what that means. There is some absolutely bizarre shit happening in the world today. Between the utterly messed up political machine in the US, the Russian oligarchy and Putin, and the ongoing Israel/Palestine debacle, it feels like all reason and sanity have left the building. And maybe it has. Rational, reasonable, multifaceted debate has given way to loud, opinionated, factless shouting. Civil discourse has been replaced by baseless, repetitious, utterly false jingoism and worse.

What You Do and Don’t Stress Over Is Your Choice

Nobody lives stress-free. Life is crazy. Much of this is by its very nature. Existing in this world, in the body you call your own, is fraught with all kinds of craziness in and of itself. The aging process alone is enough to drive a person mad. Then there are the people, places, and things – both tangible and intangible – that are part of life but not you. I don’t care where your politics lie, you can’t tell me

How Can You Tell When Positivity Is Toxic?

There are lots of signs when it’s not genuine. The concept of positivity has gotten a bad reputation because of toxic positivity. What is toxic positivity? It’s a form of unnatural, forced positivity. It can also be a gross misinterpretation of the concept of the power of positive thinking, the Law of Attraction, and the like. At its core, toxic positivity is the notion of absolute, no-holds-barred, no-other-options positivity. The idea is that an utterly positive attitude, approach, and positioning

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