The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
I frequently write about how we alone can control our thoughts, our feelings and our actions. Yes, they can be influenced by outside people and things, but they are still under our own direct control. Feelings in particular can be heavily influenced from without. Feelings are frequently reactions to stimuli, so much of the time it is the things outside of us that cause us to experience emotions. If someone compliments you, kisses you, smiles at you, invites you to
Some days just getting out of bed is a challenge. Those days often require motivation. Finding motivators is an enormous positive. Motivators help us to quit bad habits, start and maintain good habits, and make positive changes in our lives. Motivation can come from any number of places, both within and without. This is one place where outside influences are often to your advance, rather than against it. Self-motivation can be challenging. Simply setting a goal, like quitting smoking or
It’s unhealthy to ignore the outside world completely. We need to be aware of what is happening in the world. While there is something to be said for the bliss of ignorance, knowledge IS power. The problem is, it can be very hard to stay focused when you are inundated with a barrage of upsetting information. How do you find and maintain a happy medium between knowing what’s going on, and being completely drowned in data? The mistake I keep
Sometimes the most positive thing to face is that we are here. We are alive. We are breathing. We have endless possibilities ahead of us for the day. In the face of a whole lot of insanity from outside influences, the holiday season, or you may be experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder; finding and maintaining positivity can be a particularly challenging idea. It may seem trite, but just being alive is a huge plus. You are breathing. You have the ability
I will do what I have to do when and if the time comes. In the meantime, I cannot live my life anticipating possibilities. In especial, focusing on worst-case scenarios. There’s a terrible idea – get fixated on awful, no good, scary things, and consciousness creates reality. We are now living in particularly uncertain times. We are witnessing an unprecedented situation in America due to our President-elect’s vast unpredictability, and his particularly vulgar, hate-spewing supporters (I am being specific here
Like a lot of people I know, I have many concerns about the future. Long buried ugliness has boiled back to the surface. After decades of progress in equality and fairness no matter your race, creed or color…the lunatic fringe is feeling re-empowered to attempt to be dominant once again. They may have gained a voice in politics and will work to alter public policy…but we can make all of their efforts a struggle. They are NOT in the majority,
Life is meant to be lived in the here and now. Over the past several weeks this has been the central theme of this blog. But one thing I have not gotten into in depth is – How? How do you live in the here and now? I have been working on this for the past two years, as I have been working to walk my own path. Along the way I have encountered new discoveries and lessons which I
Life is meant to be lived in the here and now. If, as I have postulated previously, I cannot live IN the past, or live FOR the future – then I am left with the present. For a lot of people, this very simple notion is hard to believe. The here and now is immediate, it is in-your-face, it is not then, not later, but right now. It is the moment. It is the ultimate reality around you. We have
The future is unwritten. The future cannot be known. It can be surmised, it can be analyzed, it can be guessed at. But it cannot be known. Living for the future can be nearly as dangerous as living in the past. Once again I am talking about the extremes. Like black and white, love and hate, up and down, past and future are the extremes of time. Last week I explained why the past is past, and living in the
The past is, simply put, past. People all too often look to this event in the past or that event of yesterday, and define almost everything in the now based upon the past. The trouble is – you cannot change the past. Pure and simple – you can’t undo past events or actions. They have happened. You can’t change them, you cannot undo them, you cannot redo them. Knowing this and accepting the truth of this matter, here is the