This has been the general theme of my work since the inception of my first book in 2008. It provides a lifelong practice of countering the habitual thought process, “What should I do?” When receiving this question from my mind, it’s fun to respond with “Watch what I do” because they sound so alike. If […]
Tag: mentalhealth
Who Knows?
I found a road to walk where there are almost no people. This suits my needs during these times, and I am grateful for the space to romp and exercise. 15 minutes up, 15 minutes back. It’s near a beach I came upon where there are also few people. As a writer, I am used […]
Your Life Is Set
Your life is set, like a table. You are always there, here, in a place among other things, people, surfaces. You can brace against that physical life-setting by tensing your muscles and fighting in your thoughts, or not. Either way, you are still occupying that space, physically (like part of a table-setting), in a room, […]
Beyond Tension and Belief
Tension blocks perception. It makes us believe things that aren’t true. It evokes a feeling that we drum up thoughts and actions that really do themselves. Physical/mental tension relays an impression of personal causation, self-created productivity. Tension fashions an illusion, but it is not that difficult to see through. When we have a new idea, […]
Guaranteed for Life
We like guarantees. They are reliable, effectively predictable. Here is one. If we are alive, our body is somewhere. Yeah, so what? Big deal! Well, it is a big deal because it isn’t how our mind perceives our predicament. We don’t sense that we are always somewhere because we mentally live inside our head, spinning […]
Soothing the Mind
Give the mind what it wants; it likes to have something to focus on. Minds like attachments and we don’t have to deprive them of this. We just need to give them the right ones so there isn’t so much anxiety. Generally, we obsess over our mental/emotional attachments because we don’t know how to get […]
Come Out of Tension
Though it seems like tension and stressful thinking assist with the things we believe we need to do in our life, they do not. Our real life physical actions have nothing to do with the mental and physical efforts we feel and identify with; they are purely muscular, lending to an inner sensation of […]
Like Seeing Through a Microscope
Observing what I refer to as our macro organism with our naked eye (looking at our skin and body parts) is like viewing our insides cellularly, molecularly, or atomically via a microscope. With the former, it is like looking through a microscope; we must sidestep our mind’s eye which blocks our direct vision of […]
What Is a Decision?
Is a decision something we think about, plan, or predict? Or, is it the thing we actually do? I take the latter approach. A decision is something we do, something our body chooses to do, which can only occur in real time as physical movement. But what is a choice? It’s the same thing as […]
