The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
The answer is much simpler than most tend to make it. When you do something – doesn’t matter what it is – how do you prefer it be received? Would you rather be complimented for it – or criticized? I’m going to presume your answer is the same as mine: complimented. How does it seem to be so easy for people to forget this? Why do I say people forget this? Because I think if more people paused to think
It’s super important to us and the world to be nice to ourselves. I’ve written it before – I’ll likely write it again. I am my own harshest critic. I also know full well that I am not in any way, shape, or form alone in this. Lots of people I know are most critical when it comes to themselves. While it’s a good thing to be self-aware and give ourselves critical focus for our overall good – it’s way
Everybody likes to receive praise. When you do a thing, and you do it well, receiving praise for it feels amazing. It is incredibly empowering, and it serves as an affirmation of the choices you make along the way. For whatever reason, though, our modern society eschews praise. We have an almost surreal talent for criticism, but when it comes to praise, we seem to display something of an aversion to it. I suspect that one of the reasons for
Writing makes me feel good. It doesn’t seem to matter what I write. It can be words for business, it could be web content, it could be this blog, or it could be my next great work of fantasy. Whatever it is, writing grounds me, centers me, makes me feel good and opens the channels of creative energy. Not everyone is a writer. But everyone has a thing, or even more than one thing, that produces this sort of feeling.
The squirrels in my brain can be terribly distracting. What does that mean? When I am thinking about something, I frequently see not only the angle I wish to take, but alternative angles, results both good and bad, and all kinds of possibilities. Because of this, I frequently find it difficult to manifest precisely what I wish to. I woke up the other morning feeling anxious. I realized what it was that was causing me to feel anxious, but even
Surrendering to the Universe is not easy. If, like me, you are almost obsessed with the how and why of things, then simply surrendering to the Universe is a particularly loaded concept. It gets even more complicated if you are a skeptic or cynic. What does it mean to surrender? It means you have to have faith. This, too, can be a really loaded concept. We are frequently seeing around us people who are allowing their so-called “faith” to dictate
Change is complicated. First, it is imperative to acknowledge this statement: CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. Things change, because that is the nature of the Universe. Because time is an illusion, how we perceive change varies. Some change is quick and hard to miss. Some is so glacially slow that we don’t realize that change is happening at all. But everything changes, whether animal, vegetable or mineral. Everything evolves, shifts, and transforms. The desert was once a sea. Seeds grow into plants.
How do you find the line between being informed, and being overwhelmed by information? This is the question I find myself contending with fairly regularly of late. Given all that is happening both in the USA and around the world, I find I need to remain informed, and keep in the know. However, there are so, so many things happening that this quickly becomes overwhelming. World news can be pretty crazy, but all the insane political actions happening in America
Empathy is not a weakness. Empathy is not simply about understanding how someone else feels. It is about understanding that, like you, other people have feelings, too. We all have desires, we all have wants, we all have needs. Some are similar, such as food, shelter, clothing, companionship. Yet even with the similarities, they still will vary from person to person. The foods and quantities of food vary, the desired shelter differs, we like different clothing based on our individual
We live in an abundant universe. Society, however, strives to contradict this fact. We endlessly are bombarded with messages of insufficiency, wanting and lack. It seems like everywhere we turn we are told there is not enough money to go around, dwindling resources, too little security, and overall an insufficient amount of this or that to accommodate everyone. Worse, even where lack doesn’t exist, there are plenty of people who use the fear of lack to maintain control. If we
