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  • Four Hours of Sleep – Update #1

    This is the first update to this post, a week into an abbreviated four-hour sleep schedule. Due to the long 4th of July weekend, I only had a few nights to try to sleep only four hours since (for now) I’m not using the schedule on weekends when I’m out and about with friends, drinking, enjoying summertime activities.…

  • Four Hours of Sleep

    For the month of July, I’ll be attempting an amended sleep schedule of only four hours of sleep per night with an afternoon nap as needed. I’m not 100% sure I’ll be able to do it, and as of now, the plan is only to use the schedule during the week and possibly sleep more…

  • The Nature of Personal Reality

    This post is a review of the most empowering book I’ve ever read: The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know, by Jane Roberts (and Seth). I finished reading it last week and just today finished transcribing the passages I doggy eared while using the best…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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%…