Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Like attracts like – whether you believe in the Law of Attraction or not. The past couple of weeks have been personally rough for me. The air conditioner in my car is not working – and we’re having an ongoing heatwave. A plan for additional financial stability fell through. I got to take a literal and metaphorical guilt trip that took up a lot of mental energy. A nerve pinch in my hand forced me to stop fencing mid-practice. My
It’s my path, my life. Nobody else needs to understand – nor approve of – the choices and decisions I make. Like most people, there are numerous choices and decisions I have made along the way that were imperfect. Less-than good. Wrong. Bad. And worse. Part of the human experience is the choices and decisions you make. Some of them will lead to amazing discoveries, incredible experiences, and ultimately success. But then, some will lead to awful discoveries, lousy experiences,
The empowerment of Yes I Can is amazing. I don’t know about you, but No I Can’t makes me feel low, down, and dejected. It’s not a pleasant sensation. On the other hand, Yes I Can makes me feel good, up, and enthusiastic. It’s a very pleasant sensation. Positivity and negativity, at their core, come down to YES and NO. While there are certainly times when saying NO and stepping away from a situation is the way to go –
Maintaining neutrality over positivity or negativity doesn’t serve you when it comes to choices and decisions. For years, I have espoused the values of conscious reality creation, mindfulness, and positivity in my Pathwalking philosophy. When it comes to positivity, however, many quickly jump to toxic positivity. In the simplest of terms, toxic positivity is positivity used to disregard, ignore, and erase negativity at the expense of true awareness. If the opposite of positivity is negativity – and it is –
Actively looking for negativity does nobody any good at all. We all know people who are constantly complaining. With few exceptions, there is something they can and will say on the negative in virtually any given situation. And they always will. Why? Because when you are actively looking for negativity, you will find it. You will always find it. This is beyond the concept of conscious reality creation. That’s because anyone seeking negatives in a given situation tends to have
Be who you love – and your life will reflect that. Self-love is often misunderstood and viewed as selfish, arrogant, egotistical, and many other negative connotations. But the truth of self-love is that the person you spend the most time with is you. In fact, you cannot leave yourself, abandon yourself, or set yourself aside. Of course, astral projection, distractions, drugs, alcohol, and other things can separate you from yourself temporarily. But no matter where you go – there you
The brain weasels lie about everything. I am going to put them in their place. This was an excellent weekend for me. I got to see a close friend receive a well-deserved accolade. As part of that, I got to spend time with other friends – an in-person gathering with people I only get to see a couple of times a year. People I have not seen in at least 15 months. The positivity of that experience is immeasurable. I
I’ve written this before – and will write it all again. In pursuit of living my philosophy, I have written the same things over and over again. Despite the fact I’ve written this before, I know that I will write it again. And that’s simply because it bears repeating. This applies to the following ideas/notions/concepts: Consciousness creates reality Mindfulness is conscious awareness of your sensory input as well as your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions Change is the only constant
Never underestimate the positivity simple tasks can create. When it comes to goals and the things we are working to do for our lives, they tend to be large. These are not necessarily just the uber-achievement, huge-money-making large. These are also the not-instantaneous, multiple steps required large. Like building a business, evolving a relationship, or writing and selling a novel. When you’re pressing towards such a goal, it’s easy to get caught up in the work that goes into it.
Fitting in and being liked are not all that important when all is said and done. Throughout my teen years and well into my thirties, I really wanted to fit in. Not necessarily in the grand scheme of society – but within the structures that I spent time in. Before high school, I spent my formative years as an outsider. I was the odd, fat, short Jewish kid from the single-parent home in our very Lutheran Midwest suburban neighborhood. In
