Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
I offer you my support. I am fortunate to never have been sexually harassed or assaulted. But I know a tremendous number of people who have been. I believe you, and offer you my support. We are all in this world together. Every single one of us wants to live the best possible life we can. And yet, there are people who do not think about how their actions effect others. Some of it is simple thoughtlessness, some a matter
You may have noticed that by-and-large I only post positive, proactive thoughts. Part of the reason why I choose this is because I feel horridly inundated by negativity. There are so many things happening in the world right now that are upsetting. Sometimes it is really hard to stay focused on creating good, because it feels increasingly futile. I began writing Positivity on Mondays to combat frequent negative messages at the start of the work week. This has been really
Everyone is capable of having an opinion. Being entitled to an opinion, however, has frequently been carried to a dangerous and unhealthy extreme. What’s the difference? Let’s say that it is my opinion that the moon is made of green cheese. We know of course that it’s not. We have physical evidence returned from the moon to disprove me. When you show me a moon rock, and explain to me that the composition of the moon is not cheesy, I
The people who become our persons in this life can be an amazing source of Positivity. If, like me, you find that overall people make you crazy, you understand this distinction. What it boils down to is those who we get close to in various ways are persons, as opposed to those who are the faceless masses we refer to as people. People in this sense tend to drive us nuts. They cut you off on the road, they elect
Should I be concerned about disappointing myself? I struggle with this pretty frequently, and I know I am not alone in this. Who am I? I ask that question a lot. Part of why I keep asking is because I am constantly changing – which is part of the human condition. Another reason why I ask is because I know that you probably have a different impression of me than I have of myself. Ever hear a recording of your
What is important to me is that I live a good life, and am happy more often than not. We all have different priorities. Nobody’s emotions are exactly the same. While we may give our emotions the same names, odds are how they feel to each of us differs. Taking that another step, what makes me happy is going to be different from what makes you happy. Not just because of how it may feel differently to each of us,
You woke up today. That is tremendously positive. You have air in your lungs. Your heart is beating. You have thoughts in your head. These are all filled with positive energy. You are reading these words on a computer, tablet or phone. The positivity of that is impressive. It is very easy to forget that the positive exists in the smallest, most trivial things in our lives. Just being alive and living every day is immeasurably positive. I know that
I have a pretty good idea about who I am. Yes, in some respects I am two people – one in the real world, one in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) – but overall, I am simply me. I wrote about this yesterday at my author website. But one of the bridges that I am frequently working with is the one between MJ and Malcolm. Who I am and what I do in the SCA versus the mundane world,
My fellow Americans. It is time to take action. We are under siege, and we are being terrorized. Not by some foreign power, not by armed militias in the streets…but by our own President. President Trump is unfit for this office. If you do not see this for what it is, then I feel rather sorry for you. This man is in a position of authority and power which he is not just unqualified for, but dangerously uninformed and unprepared
What you take-away from a less-than-desirable situation is important. Seeing the good you learned from the bad is the key to this. We all have bad experiences. There are going to be things that happen that are infuriating, complicated, difficult and unpleasant. Life cannot always be perfect. Frankly, if it was, I think we’d all get really really bored of it. When bad things happen – and they will – what you take away from them is important. If you