Category: Self Development
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We Don’t Know Anything
We think we know, but we don’t, and no matter how hard we try, we’ll never know. How many times in your life have you known something, only to later find out that you actually didn’t know it? That you were wrong? This has happened to me thousands of times, and I admit it will…
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Regrets and the Past
The past doesn’t exist as if on some film strip that can be viewed objectively from the present. It exists only in our minds. Therefore, the past is highly subjective. We can alter it as we please for our benefit. We all have past regrets. We wonder what our lives would be like if only we…
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Life Is a Struggle
What a struggle life is. Bills, relationships, commutes. Erectile disfunction, vaginal dryness, venerial disease. Death. At least death ends the struggles, but even learning to deal with the idea of death is itself a struggle. We’re all just flailing through life trying not to die, trying to be happy, but blind as bats and without the sonar. We…
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A Powerful Meditation Tip
This meditation tip is valuable not so much for active meditations like these during which you’re actively thinking and visualizing, but more so for passive meditations when you’re just trying to clear your mind and achieve that zen-like state of thoughtlessness you’ve heard so much about but have never been able to achieve because you keep…
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Eye Contact
There’s a difference between looking someone in the eyes and looking into someone’s eyes. The latter is intense and beautiful. It can be done with everyone we come across from gas station attendants to our loved ones, which includes our pets, and even with ourselves in the mirror. This won’t be about the importance of eye contact…
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30 Days of No Alcohol Ends
Today marks the 31st day since I decided to drink nothing but water for 30 days. Here are the previous four related posts: One Deux Tres Shi I scheduled this post to be published at noon on 5-10-14, at which time, over a period of four hours, I will be doing my best to…
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Increase Your Brain Power Easily
A large portion of our brain power is used to create the visual experience. ~30% of the cortex is dedicated to vision. Fortunately, it is the sense over which we have the most control. It is possible to increase your brain power in other areas just by shutting down your vision, which is easy: close your eyes. Perhaps the 30%…
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This Moment
One of the most beautiful truths about life on Earth is that we always have the freedom to completely change our lives in this moment, regardless of our circumstances. It’s easy to forget the power we have. We get into a rut doing the same shitty things over and over and before long it seems that this is…
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Alcohol Facts You Probably Didn’t Know. This Is Instead of Writing the 3rd Update to “30 Days of No Alcohol” Be…
…cause there isn’t much to update and I’m feeling unimaginative. Today marks three weeks of drinking only water. Due to the lack of alcohol and any semblance of fun times over the last three weeks of my increasingly dull excuse for a “life” (it’s so dull I can’t even bring myself to refer to my…
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The Power of Belief: Food Labels Affect Our Bodies
The following is the conclusion of a study performed in 2011: “The effect of food consumption on ghrelin may be psychologically mediated, and mindset meaningfully affects physiological responses to food.” Ghrelin is a peptide and hormone that stimulates hunger (among several other functions). When ghrelin levels rise, we feel hungry, and when they fall, we feel satiated. The study…