The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Being accountable is an important aspect of mindfulness. When you are mindful, you are choosing to be aware of yourself. You are aware of what you are thinking, how you are feeling, and actions you are taking from there. When we are mindful of ourselves, we need to be accountable. Why? Because the only way to improve our lot in life is to be accountable for being
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The key to self-help is right there in the name. Self. Help. As in you help your self. Ironically, despite this idea of working with ourselves to help ourselves, people still seem easily inclined to give up their power, and turn to others to improve their lives. There are certainly plenty of times where we need the help of others. Doctors can treat illnesses and prescribe needed
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The heart and head will sometimes pull you in different, opposing directions. Your feelings will try to take you one way, while your thoughts attempt to take you another. Oddly, despite these both coming from you, they can make you feel as if you are an outside observer. When you can reach that place, and be the detached, outside observer, you can best determine how to synchronize
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Positivity is better than negativity. You know this already. Why? Because positivity is good. Good can be applied to any number of things in your life, both tangible and intangible. Negativity is bad. Bad can be applied to any number of things in your life, both tangible and intangible. When it comes to feeling, I think I can safely say that most of us desire to feel
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The world is only a terrible place if you accept it as such. You and I, however, have the power to change it for the better. Yes, I know that this feels like a stretch, but it is still the truth. I am well aware that many terrible things are happening. Aware doesn’t even begin to cover it. Spend a minute scrolling through Facebook or Twitter or
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The only real power and control we have is internal. All of the external expressions of power and control are never ours. They belong only to those who are wielding them, and will only continue to exist as long as people accept their own lack of them. Yes, when we go to the voting booth, we are choosing people to “represent” us. Some take that responsibility to
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. This New Year has the potential to be amazing. All we have to do is to make it so. It starts with ourselves. This is not an act of selfishness. I repeat, THIS IS NOT SELFISH. Self-awareness and self-care are all-too-often taken for granted, or outright ignored. But not caring for ourselves or being aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions disempowers our ability to create. When
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Life is not just black and white. Our lives are not lived in the extremes of either/or. Life is lived in the greys and colors between the black and white of the extremes. Society wants us to use these extremes because they appear easy to relate to. Black and white, fat and thin, short and tall, rich and poor, and so forth. These absolutes feel as if
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Self-motivation is a particularly challenging topic. This is something that is problematic for nearly everyone. However, if you are dealing with depression, and/or anxiety, it can be even more difficult. What IS self-motivation? It is finding our own inner-resources in order to motivate ourselves to do things. Sometimes they are big things, sometimes small. Finding motivation generally begins with the self, though we frequently go out-of-our-way to
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. What makes you feel afraid? Everybody has things they fear. Some are tangible, material things like spiders, snakes, and heights. But the vast majority of what makes us feel afraid are the intangible, immaterial things. These include intimacy, success, failure, abandonment, wealth, and a vast number of feelings and emotions. Intangibles, maybe, but still impactful on our lives. The fear reflex in each of us is hardwired.