Mindfulness

Nutrition of Your Mind

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“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?

Happiness > Dignified

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“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?

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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

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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 

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. 

Focus Means Saying “No” Often

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“There are measures of focus and one of them is how often you say no.”

— Steve Jobs  

Almost everything cries out for your attention.  

They say:

Look at me!  

Think of me! 

Listen to me! 

Your parents want your attention. 

Your teachers want your attention.

Your children want your attention.

Your government wants your attention. 

Your friends want your attention. 

Celebrities want your attention.

Mr Potato Head wants your attention. 

And so there’s a certain balance needed in giving our attention to others. 

It’s healthy to give your attention to people you trust, people who are helping, and people you help. 

But we don’t need to give our attention to everyone. 

And most importantly, we must attend to ourselves as much as possible. 

Listen to yourself. 

What do you think? What do you actually think? (Don’t just repeat something you’ve heard) 

What do you want? 

It’s healthy to not give our attention to everything. It’s healthy to say no.  

It’s healthy to focus on your life path & to not be distracted by all the noise and people outside of ourselves.  

So, go your way. 

Trust your path. 

And say no to any strangers who go out of their way to get your attention. (Even if they’re in the government …governments should be here to protect and serve – & not to scare people…) 

Relax Into Yourself

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“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

— Chinese Proverb 

We live in tense, fast paced societies. 

So fast that some people & organizations appear as if they are on a train going full speed – with an unbreakable mountain ahead that they will inevitably crash into. 

Society persuades its citizens to hop on this train, and most people do, but it’s not going anywhere. 

What is the antidote? Slowing down. Not getting on that train. Relaxing. 

But even if you get further than most and are able to relax in these restless societies – ignorant fools will inevitably go out of their way to try and bother you. Try to disturb your inner peace – since they have no peace within themselves. 

Observe those fools like they are demons sent from hell – and treat them as such. Just as Jesus did, and live your life. 

Stand up for your inner peace and don’t conform to being a miserable, ignorant fool.

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 

Dare To Use Your Mind

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“The man who obeys his own mind is accused of rebellion by those who never used theirs.” 

Education is powerful – real education – and not just repeating something you hear.  

Real education involves using your own mind. Reading. Thinking. Learning. 

And to not just conform to being a mindless lifeless nothing of a person. 

Governments love mindless obedient servants, and if a real genius or real spiritual teachers arrives on the planet – the government does what it can to shut them up, since the government doesn’t want educated citizens. They want scared obedient slaves. 

They want people to give up their own mind, their own education, to conform to being an ignorant, scared, anxious, person. 

And then you can take all the prescription pills from big pharma to make it so you’re numb to what the government has actually done to you.  

OR!! You can say no. To the government. They do not own you, or me, or anyone. 

Well maybe they own you, but they don’t own me. 

I am my own master. I use my mind. I learn. 

I lead my life, and I don’t let any mindless ignorant fearful conformists get in my way. Trust me, they’ve tried. 

And for a year or two I really wondered how so many people have given up their own mind – and why they did so… 

fear, probably. Maybe to fit in with all the other no-minded “people” .. 

who knows, but I will never ever give up my mind and my education to fit in with ignorant, mindless, dead-minded people.

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.