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How To Calm Negative Energy

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“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

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“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. 

Antisocial Intelligence

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“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. 

Too Much Fear Is Slavery

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“The slavery of fear has made men afraid to think.”

— Thomas Paine  

Fear is not always bad, but too much fear is unhealthy for your brain and body.  

It’s okay to be afraid of lions and tigers and bears. Oh my.  

But you should not ever be afraid to use your brain – to think. 

Governments go out of their way to make their own people afraid to think – and most people quietly surrender their minds – and since almost everybody does it, it’s easy to conform. 

But that is irrational & impractical to give up your mind to “fit in.”

The military also uses fear to destroy the minds of the people who just joined the military. Boot camp, etc. They scream and shout. They wake people up at different times throughout the night. 

They break your mind and spirit until you are so disconnected from yourself that you literally cannot think anymore. Your brain is in fear mode. Now those fearful soldiers are only obedient to their superiors and do as they say, without question.  

Fear fear fear. 

The antidote to fear is education. 

The more you learn, the less you have to be afraid of. 

But also the more you learn – the more of a threat you may appear to be to any tyrants and cruel governments. 

Intelligence should not be a threat – but it is to governments who only desire power & control.  

Dare to think. 

Build The New

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“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Socrates 

Great quote from Socrates, and it’s true, yet it’s difficult since the old ways & people are almost always fighting anything new. 

The old whom are cemented in their beliefs and ways of living – cannot comprehend other ways of life. They hold on and they fight the new. 

So we can’t change that, but we can focus on creating something new. 

And when enough people believe in the new more than the old, then the new manifests itself. Or when there is enough research and scientific study supporting the new. 

But again, it’s not easy to lead new ways of living and thinking – since so many people are stuck in old ways and fight the new. 

Even if something new is healthy and beneficial for a range of people, for example, psilocybin mushrooms are medicine, is scientifically proven to be beneficial for people, and it is becoming decriminalized and legalized medicinally – but we live in societies in the USA that grew up in education systems that didn’t teach any factual drug education – they just repeated “all drugs are bad,” while I’m sure all those teachers were taking prescription pills… 

blind leading the blind … people repeating what they’re told and not thinking for themselves … that’s not new. That’s old. 

But a new way is here and it is called actually educating people with facts & science and research and not just repeating something you heard from a teacher who knows nothing about drugs. 

Anyway, this is just one of the many new ways of living and new ways of medicine that is trying to become part of life in a healthy way – yet the old drunk and angry political men are so cemented in their hate and anger and ignorance that they won’t even take 1 minute to see actual scientific proof that mushrooms are healthy for people. 

So, yes, we the new, will continue working toward new ways and new medicines. 

Science, research & positive results support us – even if any old angry ignorant fools fight the Truth. 

One day intelligence will overcome ignorance, but for now we must keep creating and cultivating the new ways of life. 

Systems that desire power, and not to help people

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“Why are psychedelics too dangerous for veterans but sending them to war isn’t?” 

The USA government, and other governments, are more interested in using people instead of appreciating people. 

They send people to war to kill innocent people. 

They ban drugs like psilocybin mushrooms that actually help people heal – and legalize alcohol & prescription drugs that keep people sick and dependent. 

It’s a cruel and evil government that does that. 

Governments, like politicians, breathe lies. They seek power and use people as tools to get power. The USA government does this at least.  

It’s only years later when people reflect on what the government is doing, that the people learn the truth. 

People seem to be blinded in the present moment. 

Marijuana is also much healthier for people than alcohol & cigarettes, but the government is concerned with keeping people dependent and sick, in the USA. 

It truly is a sick and cruel system. 

The good news is that the system is always changing, & learning, even if the majority of people are blinded with fear in the present.   

I am certain, without a doubt, that one day psychedelics will be legalized medicinally, globally. 

When there is a medicine that actually helps and heals people, and is backed by science, research & positive results, not even the evil politicians can keep it banned forever.  

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

— Jimi Hendrix 

Home Is Within, Everywhere

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“But do not ask me where I am going, as I travel in this limitless world, where every step I take is my home.”

— Dogen  

Wherever you go, there you are. 

If you are at peace within yourself – you will be at peace wherever you travel. 

Your physical home may be a comfortable place, but are you at home within yourself?  

Can you travel and still feel that you yourself are your true home? 

Your body and mind a temple in which you reside. 

Forget Apathy, Uplift Your Spirit

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci  

Apathy is like gravity today – people revolve around it since it’s so cool to not care… 

The origin of the word Apathy comes from the Greek word “apathēs” meaning “without feeling”.  

The definition of apathy today is “lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.”  

And we live in societies that tend to shoot down the people who actually care & are enthusiastic about it.  

The haters & those who watch the one with enthusiasm are just jealous that they don’t have any enthusiasm in their own life.  

“The body without the spirit is dead,” a religious book says, and it’s true. 

Yet we live in societies that encourage people to live without any spirit. 

People are basically turning into machine-like robots; lifeless, without spirit, without feeling, without enthusiasm…look at the advancement of AI. It has no spirit.  

So rather than become more like technology – choose the spirited route. 

Dare to care. 

Dare to be hated by the lifeless machine-like people.  

Dare to love yourself.

Dare to experience life.  

Find a person or people who have spirit in their life, and let them be your role model.  

Ignore the apathetic & fear-filled masses. 

Ignore the robot-type people.  

And live YOUR life. Feel great about it, and don’t let any lifeless people manipulate you out of your spirit!

To Be Weird or To Fit In

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“A secret to happiness is to be as weird as you like, and the wrong people will leave the party but the right ones will join the dance.”  

Weird. Weird. Weird. 

We all live in a yellow submarine. Well, I do at least, and that’s pretty weird. 

Kids are pretty weird, but they lose their weirdness as they try fitting in with others as they “grow up.” 

Conformity. Conformity. Conformity.  

Many of us are taught to conform. To “obey or else,” and that almost always takes our uniqueness away from us. 

People who are different almost always get ridiculed and made fun of by “normal” conformists – who have lost themselves in order to fit in. 

“They laugh at me for being different. I laugh at them for being all the same.” 

Maybe there can be a balance between fitting in and being your own person. 50/50 60/40 70/30 80/20 90/10, or whatever makes you live what you believe in. 

It’s okay to fit in, and it’s okay to be weird. 

Sticky & Flowing Mind

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Are you ever walking in a public space and you pass by a person and they get in your head? 

It happens to me sometimes. 

I’m focused on living my life, going somewhere, and then a person passes me and then they get in my mind and I can’t seem to push them out. 

I don’t usually have this problem, and it happens less, but it does happen sometimes, and I call this a sticky mind. 

When I’m flowing, I’m focused, leading my life, centered within myself & accomplishing things. 

When I’m sticky minded I’m distracted by people outside of myself – or noises, or anything that is not my goals and dreams… 

If it happens to me, it must happen to others. Does this ever happen to you? 

Anyway, something I remind myself of is that “these thoughts will pass,” and I will be centered again soon and focused. 

I don’t need to fight these thoughts out of my mind – although sometimes I try doing that. 

I need to just relax my mind & not take the distracting thoughts of strangers so seriously. It will pass. I will have a stronger mind. I am an empowered individual.