The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
I am a blank canvas. Often this is where I can develop some of my best creativity. I have nothing in particular in mind, and before I know it I have something I didn’t have before. Today, though, my blank canvas is remaining blank. Nothing has been coming to mind. I am feeling positive overall. That’s great, I am happy that for the most part I am feeling well, but I have had no idea what I should write about
Every week I conclude with this: Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Action can take on a number of different meanings in this context. It may not be any kind of physical act, it may be an active change in thought or an active change in feelings. When I am feeling particularly down, or anxious, or uncertain, I find that I can’t just hope for the best and await something to provide me a mood changer. I
The only thing that holds most of us back is ourselves. We live in a world that is so full of possibility, opportunity and potential that it’s rather staggering. Yet we often believe that the world is actually full of lack, or limitations and impossibility. I am not writing about pie-in-the-sky, rose-colored glasses optimism, I am writing about reasonable, fully accessible options we often overlook or disregard or simply don’t completely see. I have been writing for most of my
Laughter is the best medicine. It may be and old adage, it may be cliché, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Laughter is a fantastically powerful vehicle to positivity. It is nearly impossible to feel bad when you are laughing. Not entirely impossible, no, but nearly impossible. Laughter is a release akin to tears, but much more frequently a positive one. Something evoked a powerful response, and it made you laugh. Might be a joke. Maybe someone had
What brings a smile to your face? What memories, what images, what sounds, what smells, what touches, what thoughts will make you smile? What brings a smile to your face? These are the things we need to have at our disposal for when we are inundated by negativity. We need to have these tools available to us so that we can give ourselves an easy means to creating positivity instead. Some days it feels like a major struggle to invoke