The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Some days you just take one step at a time. Then follow it with another…and another…and so on. For myself and many of my friends and loved ones, last week was a serious downer. We lost people who meant a great deal to us. Losing people special to us is hard. Returning to our regularly scheduled lives can feel particularly trying. When I look for positivity every week, I acknowledge that nobody lives in a good headspace all the time.
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
Why did I start Pathwalking six years ago? When I decided that I needed to blog weekly, I came up with this idea. Pathwalking is the living, breathing process of using consciousness to create reality in order to manifest the life I most desire. Consciousness creates reality. How do I know this? Because I have done it. I know that when we are aware and totally present in the here-and-now, we can build our existence however we most desire for
You can think positive all you want. However, if you put nothing behind it, no energy, feeling, or action, it will be ineffective. I am pretty sure that everything has at one point or another been exposed to the notion of the “power of positive thinking”. On the surface, the idea that if you think good and positive thoughts, life will be better in numerous ways. Too easy, right? Well, that’s not untrue. Think whatever you want, positive or negative,
It costs us nothing to be polite. When did we become so impolite? What happened that, as a society, we accepted rudeness, inconsiderate people, and selfishness to be the norm? Walking through some stores, I was stunned how many people just cut us off, stopped in the dead center of a busy aisle for no good reason, passed dirty looks when I said excuse me, and let their children just run about without a care. I thought about it, and
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
If you are reading this, you probably have freedom. Freedom means a great deal. In the USA, freedom means the right to gather peacefully, to protest injustice, to love whom we choose, to worship as we wish, to express ourselves, and more. The positivity of this is immeasurable. However, there are things we are going to see in a free country that we do not approve of. White supremacists and neo-Nazis waving flags and taking to the streets is not
Self-doubt and indecision will complicate Pathwalking. I strive to be less doubtful about who I am, and to do better with making decisions about my life. Pathwalking is about choosing for myself, rather than letting random chance just happen. Yet I still question if I am deserving of this. I doubt myself, my abilities to do the things I want to do. This in turn can make me indecisive, and I get stuck in uncertainty. Self-doubt comes from many places.
Do you love yourself? This is not a trick question. How do you feel about yourself? Modern society tends to look askance at self-love. Why? Because our society frequently deals in extremes, and on this scale the extremes are selfishness and selflessness. A great deal of our fear-based society focuses on greedy, intolerant, ignorant, selfish people. Government, religious and business leaders frequently show us exactly that. Selfishness in the extreme, to the detriment of everyone else. Because that’s such a
You are awesome. Yes, I am talking to YOU. We are not told frequently enough how incredible we are. You are awesome. For real, you are an amazing, incredible person, and you have a lot to offer to this world. Self-doubt has the unfortunate power of stopping us from becoming what we want to be. Some of the doubt is due to outside influences, but the majority is on each and every one of us. We are our own worst