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Going against the grain
Tags: Ideas, Focus, Stereotypes, Mind

Some ideas are like low-hanging fruits and others are like diamonds — hard to find and very precious. The choice is between the easy or the hard path to truth. Some minds have a tendency to take the path of least resistance while others choose pain and hassle. I think it’s about a certain discipline of the mind that one must acquire, a supportive framework for digging out personal truth and deep understanding.

The low hanging fruit modus operandi

- Constantly seeking gratification and pleasure.

- Ignoring painful ideas or truths.

- Accepting norms

- Believing what most people believe.

- Avoiding confrontation.

- Having only external factors that motivate you to act

The diamonds

- Communicating a subtle understanding in a concise manner.

- Understanding someone’s opposing worldview.

- Understanding and simplifying complexity.

- Finding elegant solutions to complex problems

- Having a routine for long periods of time.

- Maintaining intense focus.

- Reading philosophy.

- Not reacting in an emotional way.

- Creating something elaborate

- Attention to detail

The mind makes thousands of choices every minute when engaged in a creative activity. The structure enables the stream of consciousness to converge, ideas and concepts to form into clear and concise sentences. It enables continuity and provides context. The elements of the mental structure are in fact principles of action and reaction. It can be simply called discipline.

Originality thrives on discipline, even though in some cases it appears to be the opposite — see artists consumed by their art.
Rise from the Eternal Slumber gripping our Society.
By: Ronak Parmar
Tags: Motivation, Aptitude, Coronavirus, Distraction, Mind

Rise from the Eternal Slumber gripping our Society.

We have conditioned our Limitless Mind & Aptitude into limited & mediocre thinking and living.

Knowingly or Unknowingly,

Directly or Indirectly,

Consciously or Unconsciously we are gripped by this Self-limiting, Self Doubt Monster.

It breeds like CoronaVirus at each moment of distraction.

Distractions are everywhere from the NonStop Notifications bombarding our screens, the moment they are powered on, to the Talks, Thoughts and the Tales of Travesty all around us.

We live in the World of Heightened Distractions.

In order to get Some Sense and Saneness from this Disempowering Insanity, we need to Rise from this Eternal Slumber gripping our Society.

It’s time to Rise and Shine.

It’s time to Break the Shackles holding us back.

It’s time to Fight for what we Love.

It’s time to Conquer the Unconquerable.

It’s time to Question the Unquestionable.

It’s time to Defeat the Undefeatable.

It’s time to Truly Live again.

It’s time to Be Happy and Spread the Joy all around us.

#ZenModeOn

#EyeOfTheStorm
Resistance
By: Pretheesh Presannan
Tags: Resistance, Mental Health, Poetry, Poem, Mind

Resistance

sometimes there is only resistance

there is only pain

sit with resistance

or walk with resistance

but do not expect helpful thoughts

sometimes thoughts are by themselves resistance

an expression of resistance

do not bother to solve them

pain and thoughts are sometimes like lightning and thunder

one may seem to arise later

but is probably the same

RESISTANCE
Internal Hiatus
By: Dan Gellert
Tags: Perception, Creative Writing, Poetry, Poem, Mind

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Decay
By: Lakshmikanthan Muralikrishnan
Tags: Memories, Thoguhts, Poetry, Decay, Mind

the loss of memories!

photo by author <Lakshmi Kanthan Muralikrishnan> — click on the name if you’re interested in more such pictures!

this is a small poem — in the mind series — about memories!

memories lie, and memories hold the truth in them, at times. memories are fuzzy, wading across the boundaries of experiences lived in flesh, and imaginary tales recounted! memories start in senses, or the absence of them, are translated into experiences — and registered in a repository that is slowly dying.

the retention of information by our brains to retrieve later invokes thoughts, controls our actions, and drives our decisions.

memories are what we have.

memories are what we run from.

memories are what we try to relive.

memories are what we try to bury underneath.

memories are what define us, to our inner self — the conscience and rational!
the mind of the moon
Tags: Moon, Life, Poem, Life Lessons, Mind

who is the cause of the effect

is it the moon or the mind?

or is the actor and director the same

the cause of action and the act are same

is the effect any different from the cause

is the cause any different from the effect
Cosmic consciousness in each of us.
By: Human Cosmos
Tags: Mindfulness, Cosmos, Conciousness, Mind

Human Cosmos App was designed to help people in uncovering their purposes and pursuing goals in all the important life spheres.
Why do we overthink?
By: Utsav Akarshan
Tags: Psychology, Overthinking, Mind

Well, the simple answer to that’d be uncertainty! But we all know the brain is not that simple. At times, it may trick us into a realm which can be challenging to break. So, let’s dig deeper into it.

To start with, its important to get a very clear idea of what exactly we mean by ‘overthinking’. To be frank, its nothing strange but thinking too much. Yes, you got it right. But you know what the problem is? You are just thinking and not doing! An array of thoughts keep repeating in a loop, and you’re stuck in the quagmire. That’s where you have already lost half the battle.

The immediate question that arises is: Why overthink in the first place? To answer that we have to accept a bitter truth: its human instinct! Back from the days, our ancestors were hunting for survival, fears and insecurities accompanied them. It was important because that’s what pushed them to come with newer things and in turn keeping the wheel of evolution rolling. Over time, our cognitive abilities enhanced manifold, and we became more and more analytical in our reasoning. But as always, life is not so smooth! Uncertainty is a part of life. That’s where the brain may go crazy. What if things go wrong? This single question can initiate a chain reaction so deadly that may cost one’s precious life in some cases.

Is there a hack to overthinking?

So, what next? How do we terminate the propagation stage? Or a better one would be how do we tackle the loop initiation, if possible? For this, let’s grasp a basic idea of self. Most of us grew up living around people. We exchanged our views with various folks. Be it sharing a joke, news, a matter of joy or pain, we kept clearing our thought stack. What we strived to learn all these years is effectively communicating our ideas to others. The one great thing that most of us missed is how to talk with ourselves! Believe it or not, this is the most pressing issue of this ever-competitive world. The world is running increasingly fast. To keep pace, you have to run. And for that, you got to have a strong and stable mind. Only if you can control your mind, you can keep the balance, lest you stumble.

So, the first thing is to understand the runner’s strengths and weaknesses. For that, we ought to introspect. At this point, one may ask: Won’t introspection aid the problem we ought to seek? Well, the answer is: To overcome the fear, you have to face it. Easy may it sound, it is difficult to implement. One of the best ways to unleash the voices of your self is Meditation. It makes you more aware of yourself. Just do all the overthinking during Meditation. Think about what’s going on in your life. Find out what is troubling you. Explore it to its depth and make it your friend. In this way, you are effectively communicating with yourself. No wonder, this will gradually cut off the initiation of overthinking loop. You see, how we tricked our brain! We are still overthinking but only during a fixed time and in a directed way. In fact, we are using it as a tool to explore ourselves and feel rejuvenated.
Doğru ve Yanlış
By: Ahsen Arslan
Tags: Mindfulness, Writer, Psychology, Philosophy, Mind

in Being Known
Her mind was blank
By: Maggie Thompson
Tags: Mind

Her mind was blank

Her soul was empty and her heart, cold as ice
The voice inside me
By: Blank Voice
Tags: Self Improvement, Mindfulness, Mental Health, Self, Mind

Photo by Jonas Von Werne on Unsplash

It doesn’t matter how loud you are, something silent and soft is going to make you quiet one day.

All the hurt you carry inside you as it belongs to the broken glass chunks is going to make you want to heal your wounds one day.

All the cold, numb pain you sip in the morning, once out of the bed... Like it doesn’t matter how who leave you anymore is going to make the sky rain down someday

And the thought you have every day, that the world will be better without you in, just want to let you know that it doesn’t matter useless or used you feel at this hour

It doesn’t matter who loves or hates you this morning

It doesn’t matter who pretend to care or not to care for you every time you need

It doesn’t matter what others like or dislike about your eyes, face, and body

Some would appreciate you, some not

Some say friends rest say enemies or in between frenemies

Never give yourself up on whatever the labels are

Some want you to succeed

Some would wish you fade out

You should know, that someday or sometime you are going to be grateful for choosing to stay no matter how hard it is to do so...

You are going to make yourself kind and proud one day…

And even if you don’t end up doing anything great, just I am letting you know that the love you give yourself, is somehow saving the world that feels you have failed…
The Momentary Introspection
By: Akash Nair M S
Tags: Meditation, Self-awareness, Self, Philosophy, Mind

Photo by Clark Young on Unsplash

This is not how I expected it to turn out.

This is not the way I had envisaged my life.

Why did that happen?

Could I have done something different that may have given a different outcome?

Am I the one who is actually at fault? But, I did everything in my capacity to avoid this situation.

Maybe this is how life is going to be, and I need to have a stoic attitude.

If I am given another chance, I would have done….

The signal turned green, and I rode away; leaving a billow of exhaust gases along with my introspections.

Thank you for reading.
10 Most Powerful Affirmation
Tags: Affirmative Action, Médium, Mindfulness, Affirmations, Mind

I know, that sounds like a boastful claim.

Affirmations are subjective.

Different people resonate with some more than others.

identified several affirmations that have

proven to be popular with many people around the world.

So that’s the list I’ll share with you here.

I’ll go through each one and ask you to repeat

it back to yourself three times each.

Now Read Complete Articles>>>https://sites.google.com/view/10mostpowerfulaffirmation/home
Islands of Glass
By: Tim Becker
Tags: Self, Poetry, Mind

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To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?
Tags: Short Story, Life, Questions, Deep, Mind

To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken? 4ever1friend ·Dec 18, 2020

I have often said that I am an actor of my own show. I took on the role of director when I started to have a choice. I’m not 100% sure what kind of show it is, but if I look back and relive some episodes, I come to the conclusion that some seasons were a good comedy.

So, we can say that until the consequences of my own choices caught up with me, but even then, I can still influence the direction a bit.
Am I here?
By: Diana Slabinschi
Tags: Change, Emotions, Poetry, Poem, Mind

I held back my tears

and my laughter seemed a bit forced

I knew I was supposed to feel something

But there was this unrecognisable silence within me

It felt so strange and foreign

Like I haven’t been here before.

a blackboard freshly erased

a sea without fish

I am here but not really

maybe parts of a whole

I keep calling them home

but did they change on the road?

What a blessing I found once again in a day without a sun.
Day 3 Of the 30 Day Self Care Challenge
By: Secret Wealth Creators
Tags: Self Improvement, Love Yourself, Law Of Attraction, Self Love, Mind

Day 3 Self Love challenge … enjoy the beauty all around you. Nature, your loved ones, pets, sunshine, mountains, music

whatever delights your heart

A couple of weeks ago I kept pulling the “beauty” card out of my card deck … like 5 freaking days in a row is a hard sign to ignore.

I see signs and symbols everywhere life is kind of like a magic carpet ride when you’re present and paying attention to the signs they are EVERYWHERE!

So I’m immersing myself in all things beautiful all things I love. What about you?

One of my fav things to do is take pictures of the beauty around me especially in nature. Allowing the artist in me to play and get lost in beautiful creations.

I would snap a picture of this stunning mountain all dressed in fluorescent pink tones here at sun set but I haven’t figured out how to capture that yet on my phone … just doesn’t do it justice.

I’m going to continue sharing my journey. How can you live yourself a little a lot more today? Comment post a beautiful pic below
Thoughts & Observations
By: Design Xlife
Tags: Observation, Experience, Consciousness, Thoughts, Mind

17 Dec 2020

It’s so exciting to see how world completely changes with differences in our perception. When, we are continuously engaged into thoughts, our mind is wandering and our time passes just like that. Contrastingly, when we are keenly observing our environment, our mind is still and we feel the slow passage of time. Apart from time, we tend to feel the emotions (pain, happiness, sadness) in a busy mind whereas in still mind we live a conscious experience of the happening, that is there is no particular emotion but a peaceful state of mind. Other difference include varying level of focus that in turn vary the capturing of minute details in the environment.

There can be many other differences as well. Feel free to share your thoughts and experiences!😉
The Secret To Get Anything You Want In Life
By: Sagar Mathapati
Tags: Financial Freedom, Secrets, Life, Life Lessons, Mind

Harsh! But true! “The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

― Archibald MacLeish.

As Earl Nightingale describes in his book Strangest Secret –

If a human is a farmer the human mind is much like a farmer’s land. The land gives the farmer a choice. He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care what is planted. It’s up to the farmer to make the decision.

The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant. If the farmer plants too seeds and one a seed of corn, the other nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes care of the land, what will happen?

Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn.

The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant … success … or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal … or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.

The problem is that our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value.

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free and our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.

But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Our mind can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big ones. So decide now. What is it you want?

Plant your goal in your mind. It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life. Do you want to excel at your particular job? Do you want to go to places in your company … in your community?

Do you want to get rich?

All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.

AS YE SOW and SO SHALL YE REAP.
Worst thing to do to your mind
By: I See Paradise
Tags: Focus, Iseeparadise, Mind

I remember the day I figured out my boyfriend was cheating on me. I had a turmoil in my head. I was running out of ideas on how/when/what?… I had real FOOD for thoughts. That same day, my mind started to get ill. Ill of pain, disaster, scenarios… I felt I was at a balcony rewinding that part of my life back and forth. After a while, I started to heal and to embrace life as simple as it is. I started to enjoy the little things in life. And, of course, I stopped jumping into conclusions and idealizing people.

Ciao.
Is Letting Go Easy?
Tags: Letting Go, Blog, Thoughts, Psychology, Mind

Isn’t this the question most of us ask others? Don’t we all have those moments somewhere which we wish to let go off, but not everything comes easy?

We have that constant thought roaming in our head which reminds us of the moment we wished to let go but couldn’t at that time. Talking and distraction become our escape. But at times, when we are rather quite distracted, we are taken aback to that time, to remember what had happened and the aftermath. Times when we are sitting all by ourselves, we get pulled into the zone and all our regrets, fears, arguments, other moments start surfacing. Some of which, we had forgotten and some we had let go off, but because we are in that zone, we are remembered of those events.

Some may be painful, others not. But there’s still a lingering question in our mind: Is letting go easy?

And we choose to not answer that because even if we do know the answer to that question, we choose not to answer it. We choose not to dwell on it.

We are constantly thinking, trying to not let our mind go towards that episode, but do we in the end have control over our mind too? Well, if we did have control, we wouldn’t be thinking so much about it, right? We wouldn’t be constantly wanting to go back and change one certain thing about it which would have, maybe made all the difference afterward.

Yet, we choose not to let go of certain times, certain hurtful, non-directive times. Yet, we scrunch up our face thinking about them.
burn
By: Lakshmikanthan Muralikrishnan
Tags: Regret, Poetry, Thoughts, Burn, Mind

the ashes of regret!

photo by author <Lakshmi Kanthan Muralikrishnan>

A blotch,

An evident spread

Of encumbrance;

I withdrew my brush,

Drawing out

A visible trail

Of cold breath -

Reeling back

Into memories

Of the fond autumn;

Raking the distant past

With fronds and bracts

Faded, fallen…

If I could be

Washed back

In the flow of time —

Shall I reclaim

That blotch of ink.

If I could be swayed

In the winds

Of Mount Fuji,

Shall I cherish

The dying cries

Of the inkstick!

If I were to,

Look back…

Into the fallen fall,

Shall I burn,

The red of Tatsuta river

In my eyes…

If I were to sigh,

So shall I

At the crimson dance

Of unruly gods!

If I were to die,

So shall I,

(Hold, O flow of Time!)

After I hear

The lonely stag’s cry!
WHAT IS NOT-SELF?
By: Drew Davidson
Tags: Consciousness, Mindfulness, Thoughts, Awareness, Mind

WHAT IS NOT-SELF?

One of the primary notions of the mind is that at the core of our being, there is an independent self sustaining entity that began when we were born here in this current lifetime. That I, (insert human name here), will then either live on after death or not. If I live on, I will go on to either a heaven or hell. I will only have the knowledge I have gained in this single life. And I will spend eternity in a finite location all based on whether I drank alcohol or not. Or the lights go out and the same blank-ness from before we were born consumes us yet again.

An independent self is a fallacy made by man to feel important.

The desire to look inside to learn more about your true self does not need to be a noble cause. If we better understand ourselves, we better understand others. When we look inside, we give ourselves the opportunity to see ourselves in others. When we see ourselves in others, we can better understand the motives of others. If we understand the motives of others, then we can better understand our emotions and what causes pain within ourselves and others. When we understand that others motives are usually based off of a series of events that made that specific choice the best choice for them. The same as us all.
Fantasizing
By: Anthi Psomiadou
Tags: Behavior, Imagination, Reality, Scuzzbucket, Mind

Can you come and hug me?

I mean, you know… without me asking for it.

Of course, I can also imagine it happening.

I create the sense of your arms around me so vividly,

that I smell the aroma of your skin.

It’s a pretty good way of dealing with moments

of loud materiality’s echos.

Fantasizing isn’t good or bad by itself.

The “problem” is its conflict with the reality you notice that

you have on your hands. Of course, you usually notice it after

visualizing many scenes of your scenario.

You clearly see the contradiction, and you stand there, like a kid

left at an orphanage by its poor parents seconds ago,

feeling abandoned by something you never had;

an imaginary abandonment.

And you sink into a spiral of imaginary lack

within the illusion of non-totality,

within the forgotten reality of your wholeness,

within the divinity — that slipped from your fingers — .

A babushka doll.

You can either surrender to the falling and reach the bottom,

or you can grab the spiral and come up, performing a kind

of mental pole-dance.

Actually, I consciously do both in moments like this,

and then I activate the processes that keep my axis impenetrable

by the whole cardiogram-route of ups and downs.

So, I know I’ll make it; within the next 2–3 hours.

But, until then, can you at least hug me from distance?

— You know it’s possible — .
On cultivating luck
By: Ernst Nietzsche
Tags: Dreams, Luck, Selfishness, Cultivation, Mind

Gold, fortune and luck arise, to share it we leave the site of the discovery and then we cannot return to it.

In this sense, we must continue to develop the art of map making, the difficulty consists in that the spring is located in the invisible, in what is almost not present; dreaming gives us good clues to guide us: the nucleus of our instinctual impulse when dreaming creates to its liking his own house, and with this the totality that determines it.

Perhaps we could better advance this art by invoking others to come closer to us without leaving the sanctuary.

A negative example: the loner who “involuntarily” hides his fortune from his visitors, even from his brothers; perhaps in this case it would be better to say: for now, in solitude our instinctual impulse can make its environment to its liking; when with others this monological atmosphere has to diminish, and when the house diminishes we lose the map to return to the original site.

A surreal contrast: more natural and healthy an apple tree seems to us in which the fruits hang from its branches, compare this with one in which its fruits are attached to the trunk like cysts; in the second image there is an anxiety, a fanaticism for the genesis; perhaps it is always like this for the human being: it is of refinement, of subtleties, of the weakening that comes by extending the hands to touch with the tips of our fingers the highest point where our fruits should hang.

Ernst and Georg Jünger offer us three good tips to cultivate luck: luck is not ordinary, searching is not finding, and once in contact with the potential, and not before, luck is in repetition.

In this sense, a piece of advice from Nietzsche: <<I ask you please, do not give up your highest hopes, you are going to find out why>>.

On experiences similar to those described above, are based Nietzsche’s comments on the losses that occur from exaggerating direct generosity before attaining mastery.

Translated from Spanish.
We Should Be Everything We Are
By: The Franc Blanc
Tags: Self Help, Advice, Self, Philosophy, Mind

Image by Alex Iby on Unsplash

Most of us prefer to act according to the situations we are present in. We act professionally in formal situations, friendly in informal situations, carefully in front of relatives, carelessly in front of friends, and so on. We even act differently around different people. It’s like muscle memory for us.

But a very important question arises here. Why do we behave like this? It seems like a normal thing to do, but when you think about it critically, it’s not normal. Why do we have to wear different masks in different situations or around different people?

We believe that it is always a better deal to act in a certain way in certain situations. But why does this behaviour arise? Since when did it become a norm to lie or manipulate?

Where does lie or manipulation come in between all these?

Of course, this is manipulative behaviour. It always has been. How else can we refer to this? We hide some part of our personality and exaggerate others to gain some favour from others. Without a doubt, this is a form of lie.

So, why do we do this?

It seems like the most basic reason for this behaviour is that we think that other people have something which we can get by acting desirably. It depends on our needs and desires. Most of the time it’s true. We behave diplomatically in front of our manager to get a promotion, and we behave extra quirky in front of our friends to get in their good books and look cool.
What goes on in your mind?
Tags: Poems And Stories, Thoughts And Feelings, Poetry, Poems On Medium, Mind

The art of Poetry

What goes on in your mind?

My mind

The temple where l hide my thoughts.

Body of dreams and never ending souls,

Something so personal, that i cant let it go.

Home for creativity and support,

the art of poetry, a place of gold.

A tunnel of never ending songs and talks.

The faces of my mom,dad and our favorite dog.

The words from each line from that one song.

A secret that nobody knows.

Something that broke me, something i had to let go.

Our mind, our treasure, our gold.

Something to never lose over a person, or any greedy, silly thoughts.

A thing that nobody except you can call their own.

Your mind.

The most expensive treasure of yours, something that lives and never gets old.

Your mind is yours, its personal, your own lyrics to the song.

So make it yours, be proud and make it a place filled with your own stories, love and support.
Empty Mind
By: 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊.
Tags: Mindfulness, Poetry, The Rebel Poets Society, Poem, Mind

“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.” — Lord Byron

Dear keyboard,

Empty my mind of these repetitive thoughts

Before they all end up in knots

Slipping away unexplored

Or even worse

Dismissed

and ignored…

Dear blank document,

When I open you, it’s only to vent

For I can’t write when happy —

Only when I am profoundly discontent

And, as you can see

That’s becoming

More frequent;

Dear words,

You slip away from my fingertips-

With you it’s hit-or-miss

Nightmare or bliss;

Yet that doesn’t entirely depend on me

But also on those who happen to read

My meaningless shit.

Dear Lord Byron,

You were so right when you said

That if you don’t write

To empty your mind

You’ll go mad

For I feel

Exactly the same…
volatility
By: Ariv Gupta
Tags: Beyourself, Emotions, Life, Mental Health, Mind

Just the other day, I was browsing aimlessly online and came across a couple of expensive shoes. I was so happy about their inspiration and usability that I sent it over to my uncle to show him, as I knew he would appreciate their beauty. A couple days later, I discovered he bought me them as a birthday present. Now, these shoes are more expensive than any I have ever bought, and I felt terrible. Instantly, shame crept into me.

I made my uncle do this.

The little kid inside me, on the other hand, was jumping up and down with excitement. I opened my computer and did a bit more research into what the shoes were like and got even more excited. I felt both intense happiness and a slight sadness at the same time. The positivity eventually took over, and I felt my entire day turn around. As I continued to research about these shoes, I stumbled upon an article talking about how abominable and horrendous they were. The writer of the article went on to talk about how they lacked imagination and did not deserve to be put out to market.

My heart sank.

One writer’s opinion turned my emotional state of mind by 180 degrees. Immediately my happiness turned into “am I really going to get this thing,” and I felt intense discomfort. I texted my uncle about how bad I felt, only to receive this message.

Don’t worry buddy, you deserve this.

This lit up my heart with joy. Immediately, all my morosity washed away and I again felt worthy of such shoes. I forgot the anguish I felt before and was reenergized with fuel to keep going and moving forward. My mind again went into a state of movement, pushing past the slow, unmoving characteristics it had displayed a couple of moments before.

Now I am lucky enough to be aware and catch such abrupt changes in my mental state. After I caught this change, I thought to myself.

What just happened.

In the past 24 hours that this event took place, I went from feeling kind of bad to feeling happy and bad to feeling ecstatic to feeling sullen to finally feeling worthy. My mind went on a rollercoaster. And this is just what I noticed when I was aware of what my mind was going through.

And the craziest part.

None of this was under my control.

I did not affect a single part of this outcome. I did not determine why my uncle decided to purchase the shoes nor why the reporter wrote a scathing article nor why my uncle said such a nice thing to me.

But my mind was so involved in every bit of this scene in my life that it couldn’t let go. It had to consider every possibility and every outcome of my decision and every permutation life could have taken up to this moment. It did not stop thinking and it continuously molded and shaped my emotional reaction to everything it went through.

When we attach buds of emotion to many of our thoughts, these emotions can flower with our thoughts and make a sizable impact on our day to day lives, affecting things in our life that do not have any relation to those thoughts.
The Fastest Computer Doesn’t Compute
By: Ilexa Yardley
Tags: Neuroscience, Circular Theory, Data Science, Reality, Mind

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Tear
By: Lakshmikanthan Muralikrishnan
Tags: Emotions, Poetry, Thoughts, Madness, Mind

A touch of madness!

photo by author <Lakshmi Kanthan Muralikrishnan>

the whelp howled -

into night’s nascent drips;

insonant

lunar craters trembled,

as he climbed

the windy stairs

in blind joy!

his tongue

whipped beads of his being

into the night’s cold!

denizens of the sky

pranced around,

cackling and cooing —

calling him out,

to journey long and hard!

euphoria

consumed his soul — as

his neck laid torn

in his predator’s jaws;

and in

moon’s witness,

joy tore his heart apart —

as he scaled

the ascendant’s pass!
Intensiteit
By: Wild Wild Mind
Tags: Wild, Mind

As the name might suggest, here is where I express my feelings and thoughts in their roughest, purest and weirdest forms. Feel free to comment.
Leeg
By: Wild Wild Mind
Tags: Leven, Leegte, Wild, Mind

As the name might suggest, here is where I express my feelings and thoughts in their roughest, purest and weirdest forms. Feel free to comment.
Wild Mind
By: Wild Wild Mind
Tags: Erotic, Wild, Thoughts, Fantasy, Mind

As I grow older I feel like I become, on average, more balanced over time. Eventhough, some old patterns seems to be engraved very deep into my brain.

After a long and intense day I walked through the supermarket. Visualizing different meals in my head, I was trying to figure out what I needed. Unintended and unconsciously, my attention found itself pulled toward a fine dressed lady on my right side.

She had short brown hair and was wearing a white t-shirt under a demin jacket with a short black skirt underneath. As she was bending over towards the shelves her demin jacket was sliding a bit backwards and her round breasts revealed itself to me. While she was bending further I could see how her hard nipples penatrated her shirt. Her skirt moved up a little.

Overwhelmed I naively followed my wild mind for about a second. The next moment I found myself pulling down her t-shirt and grabbing her breasts from behind with both my hands. I felt how her warm breast filled my hands, and I pinched her nipples in between my fingertips. Then I pushed her little ass against myself with my left hand, while my right hand was sliding down her belly, moving in between her skinny legs.

Clearly I could hear her sigh heavily and then moan deeply when I moved my fingers inside her. I felt my fingers soaking. Now my other hand was moving up through her hair, grabbing it tightly and pulling her head slowly back. She looked me my eyes; vulnerable, but longing for more. “Please, fuck me!”, she whispered hoarsely.

“Put yourself together!” I told myself, while my vision shattered into pieces. Awkwardly I pulled my gaze away from her, and while a feeling of guilt filled my body, I followed my way towards the vegatables. “Brocolli” I said to myself. “Tonight I will eat brocolli!”.
7 Mind Games to Win to Become Successful
Tags: Life, Success, Games, Philosophy, Mind

Photo by Afif Kusuma on Unsplash

Toxic People

They won’t even exist once you are successful.

The third deterrent for you to achieve your desired goals is toxic people.

Think about them. They affect your thinking. The simple notion of successful people is that you are the average of five people you spent most of your time with. Let’s talk about one of the most successful companies, Microsoft. Its founders are Bill Gates and Paul Allen; they met each other in prep school.

They have together founded one of the most brilliant companies in the world. The same way successful or positive people help you grow and reach your full potential, just like toxic people pull you down, they drag you down. Let it be criticism, let it be victim syndrome, or if they constantly blame you for something.

Maybe in some other cases, it is just purely craziness; you waste your time and energy with them. If you feel that you are wasting too much time and are not feeling successful, my suggestion is to look around. Look at the people around you. Do you think they are toxic? If they are, then you exactly what to do. You must depart from them; you must create some distance.

You will only reach your peak when you find the right people and eliminate the toxic people from your life.
What is your body telling you today?
By: Seethal Jayasankar
Tags: Listen, Food, Body, Health, Mind

Did you know that your body talks to you?

I have often heard people use sentences like “Listen to your body” or “Your body is your temple,” but I never really understood what it meant.

The past year changed everything for me.

A year ago, I decided to change my entire diet and lifestyle. It started with watching the documentary “Game changers” on Netflix. I did it as a trial (to try something new), but the drastic change slowly took me down different paths.

Before I go into the details, let me tell you how I used to live my life.

For the past 28 years, I was so obsessed with the external world that I never took the time to really understand my inner universe. I would eat out frequently and take in stress without recognizing how it affected my body and even never slept adequately.

I didn’t realize how much these factors impacted my life. I was always under the assumption that I was healthy and everything was fine (Hindi: Gaadi Chal Raha hai to chalne do).

When I moved to the US almost five years back, my diet went from bad to worse. I had cheap fast food options available everywhere. As a student, I never really had the time or the money to think about a particular food that affected my health. I just had to pop something into my body to get through the day.

My typical day looked like this:

I would get up at 5 AM after 4–5 hours of sleep (usually 4). I would take a quick shower and eat whatever was available (typically white bread made from bleached flour and an omelet). For lunch, it was usually food from a fast-food restaurant intelligently planted in our college cafeteria, where I could have a quick lunch at the cost of $4 with an unlimited caffeinated drink. For dinner, I would either cook some meat or get some Chinese take out. I watched sitcoms like Big Bang Theory, which confirmed that whatever I was consuming was completely okay.

Once I started my corporate job, I made up excuses that I never had the time to cook and usually ordered food at home or went out during weekends. Cheesecake or other unhealthy desserts was a weekly affair. So was tons of ice creams.

I started to put on weight, but that wasn’t the biggest problem. I became inactive, was usually tired, rarely had a good sleep, used to have abdomen pains, and had painful periods. My acne issues went from bad to worse. Since nobody had time for painful periods, I usually popped in some pills and continued with my life normally.

All this time, I never realized that the food I was consuming or the lifestyle I was leading was torturing my best friend, my own body.

It wasn’t just about the food. I was lost in stress and anger. I would get into unnecessary fights and conversations that were self-sabotaging.
You Are Going To Make It Part 2
By: Rachel Lee White
Tags: Life, Healthy Lifestyle, Brain Body, Mind

You Are Going To Make It Part 2

Photo by Alexis Fauvet on Unsplash

You have been through so many trials and tribulations. You have fantasied, dreamed, cried, screamed, you have felt every known negative emotion via your nervous system, and here you are…

Still walking, running, and standing in your territory, loving Yourself unconditionally.

Continue to take care of yourself first.

Your brain and mind are close knit partners.

The brain and body stand as physical elements forming functional organs upholding life.

Sensory-motor reflexes together with programmed movements, from basal ganglia, represent the majority of brain operational control

over body movement.

The superior advanced development of the cerebral cortex and thalamus has induced an emergent property of the active brain ”The Mind”.

The flowing out of the Mind from sensory inputs defines self with memories and emotions, stimulates cognition forming brackets of understanding, and makes decisions for initiating motor actions expressing behavior and speech content.

I will expound on these happy hormones produced by the brain next time.

Dopamine

serotonin

oxytocin

endorphin

You can do all things through the Creator of the Universe.

Continue practicing and experiencing the actions below.

Plan your day. Schedule breaks each day instead of waiting for things to slow down. Your mind and body need ongoing rest.

Give generously. Thinking about others makes us feel less burdened. Do

something to make your spouse or a stranger smile.

Consider your purpose. Any task is more bearable when you remember the reasons behind it. Ask yourself what you like about your work.

Protect your career and take care of your health by giving yourself enough downtime to refresh and recharge. When a vacation is out of the question, treat yourself to some rest and relaxation wherever you find yourself.

Conclusion

Remember, treat yourself kindly, nurturing, fairly, and continue to explore, expand, learn and grow; especially in unconditional love for You!

Happiness & Happiness with Rachel

www.rachelleewhite.com
The power of let something goes
By: Rifki Althav
Tags: Break, Thoughts And Ideas, Health, Mental Health, Mind

Have you ever face something that break your heart? Losing someone, or something that has a lot of memories. Now or soon, everyone will face this, no matter what u are a special human, but you gonna face it

But this is not about facing something that gonna break your heart. It’s about let the thing goes. It seems hard but you may do this if you are in this condition.

Believe that everything is not always belong to you

This sentence means you are not always become theirs. And they are not always become yours. Change your mindset about it

Know that the leaf that fall never hate the wind

This analogy means everything is on the line. Everything that was happen is made by design. If not today, it maybe tomorrow or next day. But you should not hate the way it happens. You may regret it but it was made for you. You may think the postive way, instead.

Do what you love and love what you do

Sort of people doing something that they love to forgetting something, and it works. Do your hobbies, love it as well. Make yourself become more productive than ever. This way iis a better self healing

Do believe for yourself. This is the important thing because everything started on your mind and your body. Keep healthy and do your best!
THE STORY OF HEART AND MIND.
Tags: Heart, Life, Mind

THE STORY OF HEART AND MIND.

It wasn’t long before that I realised that it is not anybody else who is going to make you feel loved and valued, but it is only you who can do that for yourself. Your body is your temple, the heart its priest and the mind its guardian. The day we start respecting ourselves and taking care of ourselves, we will find our problemls slowly vanishing. If our mind and heart are working like a team, respecting each other’s boundaries, no situation will ever be unfavourable for us. Problems arise when our hearts and minds are not in sync. Hence, in order to enjoy what is called “life”, we need to keep these frenemies in sync. Thus, slowly and steadily, in life, we realise that there are no problems outside, and that all solutions are inside. Life is what it is — what you make of it.
Why Is It So Hard to Stop Thinking
By: Bensu Cangüler
Tags: Life, Mental Health, Self, Life Lessons, Mind

Why Is It So Hard to Stop Thinking

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Even if we are alone during the day, there is always a voice with us. Never once in my life have I heard this voice say anything to encourage me. This voice always tells you that something is wrong. During my early teens listening to the voice, I always lived as an insecure person because, you know, that voice cannot belong to anyone but you. This is a common belief. Over the years, I have learned that there is a protective mechanism within me. The entire purpose of the mechanism that told me all those terrible words in my childhood and youth was to protect me. This created a big contradiction in my mind.

We all live in this voice. I am talking about your mind. His mocking and hoarse voice are as brutal as Voldemort in Harry Potter, but he has a purpose in his own way. Do not get bigger than your head. Or?

What happens?

I do not know when I first came out of the bondage of the mind. I think a sentence I saw in the Ikigai book woke me up from this dark dream. Ikigai's book says we have tens of thousands of thoughts a day. What if we try to listen to so many voices at the same time?

We go crazy.

So I started looking for ways to eliminate this absurd atmosphere created by the mind. Could be everything it said to me be a lie? For example, where did all of your thoughts like I am ugly, or that people do not love me belong? To understand where these judgments came to me, I first sought my existential truths.

I had a life purpose. Before I tried to go to this life’s purpose, I had to understand who I was and why that voice in my head always negatively spoke to me. My starting point was Ikigai philosophy. With Ikigai, I gathered my scattered thoughts. I found the reason I got out of bed every day. My dreams were more important than the thoughts in my head crash and making me feel uncomfortable. I found my reason to continue. However, everything was beginning.
Flight
By: Eli Snow
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Dark, Poetry, Poem, Mind

Flight

They say that the wheel breaks the butterfly

but only when it struggles.

Better to just go round and round.

A feeling of momentum,

but never really a destination.

Over time the butterfly might forget that

this is any different from flying.
Monday: What do I need To Get Off my Chest Today?
By: Dan Catalin
Tags: Mind, Thinking, Overwhelming, Thoughts, Monday

by Jorne Hermans unsplash.com

My chest was filled with alcohol today

But wait, alcohol doesn’t lay in the chest so

It was all about the liver, yet, I know that’s a lie

Because it was all about holding my tears within

my thoughts and my own seals.

Look at me as you try to convince yourself

That you are good, that you feel better

And that you feel empty of any other emotion

Are you done? Or are you still lying to yourself?

I was asked by someone “Why can’t you love anymore?”

Firstly I trembled and didn’t realize that love

Was more than just a simple feeling that can be shared

I said: “Look, I love animals, plants, emotions, and situations”

But… am I still scared to love? YES!

Because I am scared to love someone

Just a little bit more than I love myself

By doing that, I will give her a bullet

To the gun that has never been touched

Will she kill me or keep the gun safely

Until I die out of oldness?

So yeah, that is the risk which sometimes

it’s hard to take.

Let that behind, look at me, look at us

Every chest has something to say so

Let people be, let people feel, you know

Because if they don’t, they’re not gonna grow
Harmonious Release
By: Lori Mccray
Tags: Body, Heart, Poetry, Soul, Mind

Birth is both gravity and ecstasy. Neither one of them can be seen. Momentum is indisputable. Can all laws be proven? Are spiritual laws any less significant than material laws? You reap what you sow. Like attracts like. Thoughts are like boomerangs. Love is its own reward. Cause and effect can’t be manipulated (though we may certainly try to spin it). Change is changeless.

Life isn’t either/or. It’s both/and. We are ensouled matter. Ridiculous and sublime. Heart, Mind, Body, Soul ~ all of equal value. To pit one against the other robs harmony from all. Be one heart, mind, body, soul. Harmony, released.

LBM 12/7/2020