Fighting Utter Nothingness

We have to improve our previous negative processes before trying to build new positive processes on top of them. It's hard to climb a mountain while you're digging holes.

You have to be willing to be happy inside to find reasons to be happy outside. Happiness is a choice we've got to consciously make before it can consistently occur. I've found three simple tests to discover how willing you are to be happy at any time of day.

For a long time, there were two forces battling inside of me to be the dominant resource of my creative output. I'm learning how to help both of them work together to create a greater good.

It can be easy to feel like you don't exist to the outside world. But existence has to be built from the inside out for you to be perceived. To believe yourself to be perceivable, you have to find and project your unique combination of internal specificity, otherwise you'll live as an external reflection and blend into the background. You have to perceive yourself to become visible.

It's difficult to move forward until you can accept that the world is imperfect. We have to erase our fantasies of perfection. Not being trapped static, waiting for an ideal state.

It's important to be able to clear space in your mind to psychologically stand. Somewhere where you're not tripping over your cluttering thoughts, and projecting that mental mess upon the world around you.

Until you can reliably Be, right Now, it's hard to perceive yourself as being anywhere, or anywhen, else in the future. You have to believe in your Current Moment, for the future to be solidly perceivable. For it to be achievable!

To become perceivable, we have to practice perceiving ourselves. Finding processes that bring us to the surface of our existence.

We have to be ourselves more to move forward accurately in our lives. Evolving from the inside out.

We often edit ourselves too heavily and lose access to the accurate inner us. Practice relaxing your external facade, letting the true You through.

When our heads gets cluttered and unmanageable, relaxed random writing can help bring your pieces back in line.

Punishing yourself is rarely actually useful, so it's important to ask "Should I punish myself" before punishing yourself, because the answer is probably No.

You can use emotions to communicate better once you realize that they're constantly coming out of you.

Our choices make us, so we've got to learn how to choose better and more.

Using the "Family" word, silently to yourself, can change how you perceive potentially annoying peripheral people. Join me in attempting its proactive usage!

Video Game Vision can reduce the stress of chaotic, random human interactions. Consciously turning our challenges into meditations. Join Me!

If you consciously practice being Yourself every morning, it's much harder for anyone else to Tell you who you "are". Join me in being yourself!

Why Stop Criticising? Criticism is a burden we carry around, pretending to be a strength. I'm severely reducing my criticising to improve my mental health.

For Zen Quote Notes, I'm looking into the saying - "We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - by Alfred North Whitehead

We've got to learn how to look at ourselves and like it. no matter what we look like. With one simple trick, you can make reflecting a much more enjoyable experience!

Nothing is In Your Way. "In My Way" is just a thought blockage process we practice. With effort, everything can Be Our Way. Let's find out how!

It's important that we learn how to fly inside ourselves, instead of constantly emotionally falling. Giving ourselves the choice of internal levitation, instead of living upon the whim of endless gravity.

I'm working on my online dating profile, and who better to share that with than you?

It's easy for our brains to become fractured into multiple time zones at the same time. We have to bring ourselves together into one time and place. Right now.

Be you first. Get in the practice of being yourself, before immediately becoming the reflection of some random external expectation. You owe it to yourself.

I'm poetically dealing with the emotional aftermath of unkindly killing an unsuspecting insect. Join me!

Beginnings are always hard. we need to be extra kind to ourselves during.

De-insperation from a world renowned Misery Coach.

You are meant to be here! That is a fact you have to accept, before you can move through the current experience.

My head has always been a noisy place. As I work to identify and reduce my negative thoughts, I'm learning to make silence useful.

Daring to answer this endlessly debatable question.

Anything that isn't happening right now, and I'm still emoting into, is a Non-Existent Temporal State. It's easy to get trapped in N.E.T.S.. If you can label a thought as a Non-Existent Temporal State, it allows you separate your reality from your imagination.

We have to strip away unnecessary layers to find our clarity.

We do the best we can, with what we've got.

Do I exist? Do you exist? Despite being visibly three dimensional, it’s easy to feel like you don't exist sometimes.  It can be hard to perceive yourself as perceivable. With effort, we can start to find ourselves.

You've got to exercise your Whim regularly. Whims happen all the time, and unless we're attuned to perceiving them, we can go our whole lives without being inspired by their subtle yet powerful guidance.

People often say "just Be Yourself", like that's an easy thing to do.  It sounds simple on its face. In theory, Being Yourself only requires two things: A) Finding who "Yourself" is, and then  B) Being it.    This often ends up being more difficult than it sounds. Let's explore!

Action Precedes Motivation

Should is a good word to stop saying, if you can. It's arguably useful, in small quantities, but, unrestrained, it becomes a blanket condemnation with little helpful practical process.

Don't become complete.

Fear Makes My Farts Louder

I take a nap, making the mountain water, pound the rice.  -  Issa  -   Join me as I reflect upon this wordful wonder.

There's a difference between a Challenge and a Problem, and if you can tell the difference, then you can react to them appropriately.  A challenge is supersedeable. A problem is broken.

I've often worried that I'm not making enough BIG improvements in my life.  Seeing the small improvements as unimportant.  But, I had to realize that, big improvements don't just happen spontaneously.  All big improvements are the result of multiple smaller efforts coming together.

Our resting faces give bias to future emotions.   A positive facial position can keep us from becoming unconsciously angry.  Your thoughts wrap around your current facial expression.

Our inner beauty needs to be powered separately from our outer beauty.  Ideally balancing both simultaneously. If how beautiful you feel inside is powered by how physically attractive you currently feel, your entire emotional reality will fluctuate depending upon your physical layer.  Our inner beauty needs to remove the anchor of our ever changing external appearance.

We have to have our realizations in the proper order.  We all want to understand the universe. We want to understand how life works. We want all the Answers to our Questions, without having to wait around. But the truth is, we can't. We have to have our realizations in the right order, to be able to comprehend them.

Make your head a gentle nest, where ideas can be safely born and nurtured.

We've got to beware of engaging emotionally with our imaginations. If we can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, we won't respond appropriately.

Water Which Is Too Pure has No Fish - Ts'ai Ken T'an  -  Join me while I ponder this rich zen wordfulness.

Let’s refine the perception of our inner Worthfulness! One thought at a time.

We can gather spiritual insight from cheesy action movies. This is something I discovered from Vin Diesel.

When the student is ready, the master appears. -  Buddhist Proverb  -    Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordful zen wonderment.

Worry is a problem that disguises itself as a solution.  We have to recognize when we're caught in its insidious grasp.

Other people's words can guide you, but they can't be you.  You need to find the words and answers that are specific to you.    These words are only a beginning. They’re not an answer.

It's hard to get beyond self preconceptions. Sometimes, we have to sacrifice our preconceptions to accept what and who we are.  Learning the power of conscious release to achieve our secret self.

How do I grasp it? do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the self - Panchadasi -    Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordful zen wonderment.

To live happily you’ve got to become three things, in the correct order.  The right Person, in the right Place, at the right Time. This is how.

Ten years searching in the deep forest, today great laughter at the edge of a lake.  -  Soen   -   Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordy zen wonderment.

Practice allowing your thoughts to leap. We can escape our plodding, linear mental paths. By learning to leap in our minds, we can jump out of our psychological ruts.

Beginnings are hard to start. This is an old poem I once wrote about it.

I like walking fast,  but sometimes get stuck behind incredibly slow people. I've learned how to justify their necessity in my life. This is how.

Knock On The sky, and listen to the sound.   - Zen Saying -   Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordful zen wonderment.

We are seeking reflected consciousness in other people. There are things we look for in other people's minds, that we seek to reflect off of our own.   Using others mental reactions as justifications or encouragements to your own internal processes.   Our consciousnesses resonate, which makes it important to choose the right ones to reflect off of.   It's important to be aware of what kind of consciousness you're reflecting.

I sometimes Overthink things. This is a poem about my brain and it's rampant condition.

IS EVERYTHING NECESSARY? Can we be consistent in gauging the "necessity" of everything that happens to us in our lives?  If we understand our unconscious belief in the necessity of our causality, it can help us be more aware in our reactions.

Catch The Vigorous Horse Of Your Mind  -  Zen Saying  Join me as I give my random interpretation of this zen quotation.

We can train our brains to think well of ourselves, beyond identifying through our unconscious negative aspects.   How positively do you habitually and unconsciously perceive yourself? How much do those unconscious negative applications affect your every action and reaction?  We can consciously alter any unconscious negative bias, to improve the quality of everything we do.    To improve our life.

I've been trying to figure out what Beauty is. Beauty is easy on the eyes. A living landscape built to bloom. lighting up the room with pure pleasance, removing the apocalypse with your presence.    The opposite of repulsive, it's viscerally compulsive.  Like opening a heart without surgery, of witnessing truth without perjury. It's the reflection of your inner image of perfection. An institution. A visual, yet musical revolution. A credit to your species evolution.

Sometimes, knowledge held too hard can get in the way of our evolution.  We want to be quantifiable, to prove we exist by accumulating a Known Quantities to reflect ourselves visibly from, We have to create spaces between our looming, static, existing mental definitions, to see light and grow through.

Watching people move in patterns i couldn’t fathom. Detached from the  overall responsibility  i felt great relief in discovering that i’m not their juggler at allI’m just a ball!

You ever feel your life has no purpose? Like a stringless kite, waiting for the wind to decide your way. Or an unformed block of clay, praying for fate to shape your surface. Believing that inside, you have a purpose, but not knowing what it could be.

Don't unconsciously stand underneath your challenges, allowing them to loom over you large. We have to position our consciousnesses to be our challenge's equal.

The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese

We can grant ourselves the blessing of Morning Amnesty, allowing ourselves time to wake, before taking upon ourselves our daily psychological burdens. We need to develop a process of granting ourselves… ease in the morning, psychologically. Gently permitting ourselves to achieve consciousness, and become an appropriate vehicle to process reality, rather than immediately falling in the deep end.

I love words Verbally forming intelligible allusions from ephemera. Allowing every thought to be made audible and real. I love the way words feel - when coming out of my face as  they race  to make a connection. I have  quite a collection.

What if Happiness was an equation that could be applied to every situation.  Once you understand the math of happiness, it becomes progressively easier to achieve.  This is what I think the equation is.

Great Faith, Great Doubt, Great Effort - The three qualities necessary for training.

Action precedes motivation, while sitting around precedes more sitting around. Physical momentum can guide our psychological momentum if applied appropriately.  We can become philosophically inspired by action. Internal motivation will always reflect your current external momentum.

It's important to be able to touch your moment. Without access to what is actually happening, right now, you can get lost trying to attempt living. Our moment must be touched.