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Category: Self Development

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 30 Days of No Alcohol: 2nd Update

    Her icy green eyes, rare for a Mexican, beckoned me from across the table. A hint of sweat formed on her cheeks as she promised me physical pleasure the likes of which can only be experienced in her depths. Would I take her just once? Could I? Knowing myself, I would never be satisfied even if I indulged twice or thrice over the next…

  • Fun with Changing Perspectives

    Something I’ve been doing lately, especially when bored, is changing perspectives. Wherever I am, whether it’s a social situation, in meditation, in the woods, wherever, I try to switch my perspective from my own to someone or something else’s. I’ve gained a lot as a result: increased empathy, enhanced creativity, and perhaps most importantly, curbed…

  • 30 Days of No Alcohol: 1st Update, Very Exciting (Not Serious)

    This is the first update after the initial post about going 30 days of no alcohol, drinking nothing but water. Today marks a week of drinking only water, and below are my impressions. I’ve been shaking non-stop, my eyes are twitching, I can’t sleep, and I haven’t had a bowel movement in six days unless you…

  • 30 Days of No Alcohol

    I’ve been breathing Earth’s air for 30 years as of today. My gift to myself is to drink nothing but water for 30 days (tea and coffee are allowed). No alcohol, no juice, no milk, and no urine even though it’s sterile and I like the way it tastes. There will be a new post…

  • Stress and Its Effects

    In all of our bodies there’s a constant war going on between our immune systems and various bacteria and viruses. We have all of these bad guys in our bodies at all times trying to bring us down, but our good guys hold them off and keep us alive and well. When our immune systems…

  • The Power of Belief: Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Artwork by Viktoryia Kryvanos Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) shows us the true power of belief. People with DID have at least two distinct personalities. That means completely different people can occupy the very same physical body. When one “takes over” from another, often the difference in personality is discernible to…

  • Why Be Spiritual?

    If it’s true that we’re eternal consciousnesses who willingly incarnate here (and on other physical planets in this universe and in other realities and dimensions we as humans can’t even comprehend), and willingly immerse ourselves completely in this reality with thick blinders so that we’re ignorant of the wider reality from which we incarnated, then…