The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Working with an emotion you can’t give a name to is challenging. As I strive to walk my chosen paths in life, I find that there are times I must confront subconscious matters. Many of these get tied to old, outdated beliefs and values. Some are tied to habits. All of these exist in the subconscious and can only, thus, be accessed consciously with effort. Thoughts and feelings are tenets of the present. Hence, they can only be truly known
The ego is an almost conscious entity in and of itself. The concept of the ego, as most people are familiar with, originated from Sigmund Freud in 1923. In his paper, The Ego and the Id, he laid out what has become a major foundation for psychoanalysis that’s still applied today. To summarize (probably poorly), Freud’s concept of the ego was focused on the self – between the fun-loving and impulsive Id and the spiritual and ethereal Superego. Freud’s take
Your identity is labeled via artifice mostly tied to your egoic self. Identity is complex. How you identify yourself varies depending on circumstances and situations. Student. Parent. Child. Friend. Lover. Coworker. Boss. Man. Woman. No matter which of these apply, they seldom apply all at once. And what’s more – all of them are artificial. Additionally, your identity will change constantly. Some of that change is wholly under your control. But much of it will be viewed and commented on
Who I am – an honest assessment of my flawed, imperfect self. Almost ten and a half years ago, I began to explore this philosophy I call Pathwalking. Over that time, all of the articles I have written, additional blogging on mindfulness, conscious reality creation, positivity, and the like have changed who I am and how I approach my life. The change has been for the better. But while I am in a good place – I am still working
To live in the now is ultimate positivity. Why? Because we are living. No matter our present circumstances, we are here, living in a world of incredible abundance and possibility, now. The positivity of this is incalculable. I know that this can be difficult to believe. I struggle with it, too. There are responsibilities, bills to pay, weight to lose and other matters that don’t feel so positive. Yet when we live in the now, we can experience a higher
Identity has been an interesting challenge throughout my life. As a small child, as much as I can recall, I was a loner. I had little to nothing in common with the other kids in my neighborhood, for several reasons I don’t need to go into here. Suffice it to say, much of my time was spent playing pretend on my own, or coming up with cool adventures for my Star Wars action figures in my own variation of the
How I see myself is of far more importance than how other people see me. Jen Sincero said it well in You Are a Badass – Self Perception is a Zoo. It is a bunch of very different, multiple, diverse animals we keep caged up, but let run free in the world from time to time. There are at least five ways in which I see myself in this world. Different identities that I tend to show the world. The
I am not sure I can fully express just how much appreciation I have for each and every one of you who follows my journey. When I began The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, I had no real direction, and just randomly posted from time to time. Almost six years ago I started Pathwalking, and with that developed some direction. Now this entire blog has a purpose, and it is my hope that you’ll stick with me as I explore
I write on a lot of different topics. It all began when I was nine, and I wrote (and illustrated) a 50 page sci-fi story. I wrote a few other bits and pieces along the way. Then I learned to type, and I started typing sci-fi works. Then I started to write fantasy. I began The Source Chronicles in 1998. There was a scene, followed by another scene, then another. In time I had a novel. The novel became a
There are actions I can take, right now, to change my life. The challenge with this is in mindfulness. While the action I am looking to take is relatively simple, it requires a great deal of mindfulness. I have written before about the power of the words I AM. These two little words will ultimately define me, in the here and now, in absolute and specific ways. I AM is far more powerful than the retrospective I WAS or the
