Nutrition of Your Mind

“When we think about nutrition, we often only think of food. But it’s also the information you consume, the people who influence you, and the content you allow in your mind. Your brain deserves clean nutrition too.”  

Some people are obsessed with nutrition of their body, but who thinks about nutrition of their mind?  

Who understands that the news and shows we watch are influencing our mind? 

Studies show that you become like the 5 people you are closest with. 

You become similar to what you consume, and who you’re around.  

What are you doing, not just for a healthy body, but for a healthy mind?

DARE To Use Your Own Intelligence

“Have the courage to use your own intelligence.”

— Immanuel Kant 

If you’ve had a unique language and way of thinking and living for the first 25 years of your life, and then angry, uneducated, military-like men march into your life and tell you you’re wrong, & they try forcing their beliefs into you, would you submit?  

Sort of like what the Europeans did to the Indians. 

Or they march into your life and tell you that you are correct – but they hate it! And they want to change you to be like them. 

It happens more often than you can imagine. Conformity has always been a stronger gravitational pull than beating to the sound of your own drums.  

Einstein said, “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”  

It is almost always fear within a person that guides them to conform. 

And when you conform, you lose your independence. You stop seeing the world with your own eyes & you start seeing the world from someone else’s perspective. 

Many people want that though – they want to be led, and that is okay. 

But if you’re going to be an authentic leader, you must DARE to use your own intelligence. 

Happiness > Dignified

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

— Charlotte Bronte  

Is happiness something only for children?    

As people age, it appears that any true happiness leaves them. (Not everyone, but the majority).

Many people get more death-like as they age, and less life-like. 

The true joy they had a child leaves them as they learn about the “real world.”  

In the real world you discover some people who only find “happiness” at someone else’s pain….thats not happiness or joy; that is sickness. 

But if the majority of people are sick, and even world leaders promote this sickness – it’s difficult to find true happiness. 

So, it is great to be serious, but we can also be happy too (& not “happy” at someone’s pain).  

How can you discover a real happiness again? 

That’s a great question, and the answer will be different for most people. 

What did you enjoy when you were younger? 

Do you have any hobbies that you actually like? 

Turn the television off. Ignore cruel politicians & never befriend a person who laughs at someone else’s pain.

You’ll never be happy if you laugh at the pain of someone. 

Think about what you enjoy, and take time to do some of that. 

Are You Present?

Something I observe with the human race is that most of them are never present. 

Their minds are elsewhere. 

One persons mind is living in the past. 

One persons mind is dreaming of the future. 

And one persons mind is not even their own… they’ve lost their mind and now they are everywhere but present with themselves. 

Everything is always happening in the present moment, even if your mind is not present. 

The body is present, always, but the mind can be all sorts of places. 

The good news is that your mind can be present too, in an intelligent way. 

I may write another meditation guide, but the first one I wrote is here, titled the 7 psychedelic meditations.  

Psychedelic in this context means “mind-manifesting”  

Life happens in the present. 

Buy the meditation guide today to begin your journey into the present moment. 

How To Calm Negative Energy

“There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.”

— Thich Nhat Hahn 

Negativity is a part of human society. 

Positivity is too, but negativity seems to be “winning” so far. 

It’s easy to watch the news and get emotional and angry. 

70% of USA politicians intentions are to provoke negative emotions in people.

It’s easy to take the negative bait of a politician – but then you’re caught like a fish. 

It’s easy to be negative. It’s easy to be angry. 

It’s easy to hate.  

And the majority of people conform to “easy” because what is great is difficult. 

It takes time to be positive. 

It takes being intentional about your mental health. 

It takes ignoring cruel politicians and focusing on good leaders and being a good leader.  

But yea, Thich Nhat Hahn has some good ideas about how to calm negative energy: 

— Invite something nicer to replace the negative

— Read some inspiring words

— Listen to beautiful music 

— Go somewhere in nature 

— Do walking meditation 

Add Fun To The Game & Arts

“When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.”

— Zhuangzi    

In this life there is work & play, and some people get to play for work; athletes & artists mainly. 

The best artists and athletes really love what they do.  

To most of them though, it is still work & requires extreme effort. 

The fun gets taken out of the game & the art as we age, but it doesn’t have to.   

Just because others have lost the joy of the game or art doesn’t mean you need to. Don’t conform. 

If you love the game, play. You’ll become great. 

If you love the art, do it. You’ll also become great. 

Don’t Waste Time Explaining To Those Who Won’t Understand

“You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog, he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect, he’s bound to a single season.”

— Zhuangzi   

There are a range of people on this planet – with a range of experiences and beliefs about life. 

You have your own unique experiences in life, and sometimes, if you have extraordinary experiences and try explaining them to others – they don’t understand what you’re talking about. 

So, sometimes, when you have an extraordinary experience, the best thing you can do is keep it to yourself.  

For me that experience would be when I ate magic mushrooms for the first time. It’s an experience that literally can’t be explained to people – even to people who’ve taken mushrooms.  

I did try explaining in actually though, 10 years after that trip, here.  

But I really keep that experience within myself – not needing or wanting to explain it to anyone. 

Focus on The Process

“Outcomes are a distraction. Focusing on the process of which you have to do to get the outcome is the most important thing that you need to do.”

We all want the outcome. The final draft. The championship ring. The big pay day. The supportive partner. The house.  

But are you willing to go through the process to receive these things? 

Are you willing to put in the effort and work every day until you get there? 

And when you put in years of effort and create something amazing – & it’s stolen from you by invasive greedy thieves, are you willing to keep going? 

Refuse To Kneel

“They teach submission as survival, and then despise those of us who refuse to kneel.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick 

Your government wants your submission. They want you passive. They want to control you. They want your blind obedience. And they use fear tactics to steal your individual power. 

The government has gone so far to control people that they have taken away peoples’ individual minds – & what’s more terrifying than that, is that the majority of people have freely surrendered their own mind. 

Don’t give up your mind. Don’t become a parasite. Even if everyone is doing it. 

Dare to be despised by those who don’t have their own mind. 

Dare to be hated. 

Dare to lead. 

And love it. 

Love a freedom that comes from within yourself – & not a “freedom” from a government that puts you in mental chains and calls it freedom. 

Antisocial Intelligence

“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

— Nikola Tesla  

Why would anyone socialize with people they don’t even like?  

Also, cultures like that in the USA are enemies of meditation. 

They are an enemy of the individual being with themselves and enjoying their own company. 

The USA culture wants people constantly moving, constantly consuming, constantly being busy, constantly distracted. 

The “powers that be” are great at creating predictable people who obey their systems without question. 

What the “powers that be” cannot stand is an empowered individual who thinks for themself. 

The “powers that be” will literally break laws to break down the empowered individual, and all the mindless masses will just think that the individual was wrong for being an individual… 

It’s a crazy system…if you think about it, but most people don’t think about it – they just try fitting in so they lose their individual self in hopes for acceptance, yet then they are almost never really satisfied.  

Don’t lose yourself and gain the world…  but most people lose themselves and the world, as they conform to what the system wants, and lose their individual self.  

How can you begin taking back your individuality? 

Go somewhere and be silent. No technology. No media. No music. Just you with yourself. In nature is the best place to do this.

Here is a short meditation guide to help.

This is the beginning of meditation. 

This is the beginning of taking back your individual power.