Why You Don’t Go To Sleep

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Why You Don’t Go To Sleep & Why That Might Be What Sends Your Health In A Parallel Universe

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This is a post that aims to bring you back to yourself, through bringing you and your health in the same universe, or at least closer.

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Intro

You might think sleep is strange and unnecessary, and it’s no wonder, since not even scientists can agree on its importance. Nonetheless, you should listen to your body when it asks for sleep. Sleep is vital. Nothing that’s alive ever made it without it. Maybe not sleep, but some kind of down time. This amazing vessel we express through needs that well deserved break.

Don’t deny it to yourself to experience life through all your senses and beyond. Lack of sleep influences that capacity of perception. But that’s only the beginning. Your health becomes exposed and your decision making suffers. Don’t let it become too late before you give it the attention it deserves.

I know peer pressure is real, so know that those who say you can or should skip sleep are probably very lucky fellows with very strong genes, or highly caffeinated people, who need to hear themselves saying that aloud, so that they motivate themselves not to hide under the desk for a nap.

It’s no secret that I have a passion for sleep, and I can vouch for its effectiveness, when done properly. I am simply not myself if I don’t get my rest. I’m sure it has something to do with my bile, which is a tad smaller, so my liver can’t process at standard capacity, but even so, I’m writing this because I know for a fact too many people out there put so much strain on their livers and lives, more than the amount caused by a slight design flaw in the body. Unfortunately, most of us don’t get even the standard version of it, and maybe they get to the optimal amount and quality twice a year.

This post may not resonate much with those under a blissful 20 to 25. I was once that age, I know you can’t give sleep the proper attention. You just can’t. You’re beautiful, on a verge of so many things at once, probably madly in love, and your metabolism still has that inertia from when it worked at its highest rates. I wouldn’t expect you to go to bed at 11 PM. That’s when you arrive at the club. And you still need to go meet with some people after…

But there is chance you need this already, and also, if at any point in time you need some sleep motivation, you can find it here.

I’m not going to tell you how many hours of sleep you should get. Everyone has his/her perfect number. What I want to ask you is when are you going to sleep and how is that working out for you?

There is a reason why going to bed anytime between 9 to 11 PM is recommended, and that’s because you shouldn’t stay up too long after the Sun sets. The side of the planet you’re on has finished its energy intake and exchange rituals, and has ended its highest productivity time period. Now it all settles down and so should you. Your internal organs know that and they start doing the tidying up work, so that’s when you should help them, or in better words, let them do their work, instead of refusing them this much needed break.

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The post is 11 points long, they are edited, but the order it’s not; that’s how they came to me and that probably has a reason. Not all things apply to everyone, but if you find just one that makes you go to sleep a bit earlier today, this post has served its purpose.

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1. Too much caffeine from coffee, green tea and black tea, energizers and stimulants:

Coffee can be a wonderful thing for you, but it goes from being your best friend in the morning, to a shady one in the afternoon, and a dangerous one in the evening. Unless you’re at your birthday party or at the New Year’s Eve party, you’re better off without it after 2 PM, or 5 PM the latest.

Green tea is probably the number one drink to benefit your health, but because it does contain caffeine also, it’s recommended in moderate doses through the day, and certainly not after 4 or 5 PM.

Black tea has the highest caffeine percentage of all teas, so you might want to have coffee or black tea, in the morning only, but not both in the same day.

Energizers are a modern invention with high health costs in the long run. They are filled with artificial ingredients, so after that sugar rush and strong caffeine or caffeine surrogate injection, you’ll end up even more tired, and your liver, digestive system, and blood flow, will have all types of byproducts to manage from metabolizing them. I personally can’t even stand the smell of an energizer, and I prefer getting a natural Vitamin C fix, from a big glass of home made lemonade, or fresh orange juice, than ever drinking that stuff.

Other stimulants, liquid or solid form, pills, energy bars or other complex, man made stimulants rarely contain organic and beneficial ingredients, and I would think twice before having them.

2. Too much sugar and too many fats:

You have to consider that anything after two or three teaspoons of sugar daily, along with processed foods, and foods that contain fat and protein combos in a high amount, become harder to process, the later you have them in the day. Besides giving you a short sensation of comfort, they don’t do much for your nutrient intake and burden your liver unnecessarily. Your body tries to break down every chemical component they contain, so you’ll feel tired and in a state of constant restlessness for many hours, without really knowing why. At the end of your day, you’ll be doubling the tiredness, but paradoxically, will have a harder time falling asleep.

3. Inertia from your day:

The momentum created by whatever you were working on during the day is normal. It’s natural that it will subside gradually, and only if you plan ahead, by setting a time on which you stop to-do-ing and start relaxing. Your body needs that transition, so it can catch up with the present. The vicious cycle goes like this: you can’t get up early, and you start your tasks later, don’t have much drive through anything, can’t be very productive for more than an hour or two, and then you feel disappointed you didn’t accomplish what you wanted out of your day, so you’ll try to make it up by staying up late. And the cycle continues the next day. Until you break that cycle by giving yourself the rest you need, and starting early one night, you’ll be stuck in this harmful and toxic pattern.

4. Fear of missing out:

If you’re alive in 2016, and you live in a city, anywhere around the world, and especially if you have an internet connection, you probably have this condition. There’s no escape from it, unless you become aware of it and work towards understanding where it comes from, why you feel it constantly, and why it’s not good for you.

There is so much information out there, the media compels you to better yourself even if you don’t need to, and then there is the need for daily outside validation. Because you see everyone doing so many things, you are incessantly wondering if you have enough, do enough, are enough. Few of us are told that we are enough, and we ask that question through our actions, so that we can, pun intended, sleep at night. So stop that negative spiral right now and tell yourself this truth: you are enough. Right now, just the way you are. You are a work in progress and you never really get it done. There’s no such thing as perfect, because there is no end. Our very nature is to always transform, always expand and we have the ability to do it inside the positive spectrum. It’s something that’s built in our DNA.

Your power starts with the awareness of what the Self is and means. No one can take that away from you. There’s no amount of sleepless nights that you can do to prove you are worthy.

Doing that comes from fear is infinitesimal compared to doing that comes from love, and love always starts inside.

So, you’re not missing out anything, all that you need to know is coming to you in perfect order. How to know this? Listen. To your body and to your Self. When your body is tired, the translation is you’ll be missing something bigger unless you rest. Solutions seem to have this secret connection with sleep. They simply come easier the next day.

You don’t have to live your life like it’s the last day of your life, because that’s a very unhappy life. Your body can’t process your life in one day, or in one sleepless week.

Paradoxically, when you put a constant burden of sleeplessness on your body, that’s when you can’t focus, perceive or function well enough to process and enjoy the magic. There might be something that resembles magic in a caffeinated, overworked, super wired state, but that is a mere fable copy of a fully awakened, aware state. And you will last longer on the natural way of re-energizing.

5. Fear of losing/giving up control over things for a while:

I’m sure you heard the saying: ‘Relax, nothing is under control’. We are not more powerful if we try to win the sleep battle with our bodies. We are slowly depriving ourselves of the chance of giving our best.

We are obsessed with control. Even those who are far from a position of power suffer from trying to win against entropy. It’s OK to let things disperse for a while, it’s OK not to control all of it, it’s simply OK to leave some room for life. When I see article headlines that let us know how many hours sleep “takes up” in a life time, I wonder what is the point of that? Are we machines? Do we want to become machines? No.

You are human and it’s OK to stay that way. Breaks, naps, sleep, are part of nature’s way to transform, to refuel, to prepare for a bigger comeback. We are newer with each day. Years wouldn’t mean that much in the negative sense if we would do life properly. Not sleeping actually accelerates the dissolution of the body.

This stigma attached to sleep, this erroneous labeling as laziness, is what keeps many of us in a state of constant fear of appearing human. Schedules, work ours, productivity – are necessary, but when did we start to make them more important than what human life needs to stay healthy and sane?

Instead of sleeping pills and energy pills, I wish we could see a non optional course explaining circadian rhythms on this planet. We are Sun beings. Vampires are fun, but see, they’re not human anymore, they can afford not to sleep at night. Unless they sleep twice as much during the day… I don’t know, I’m just guessing, I’m not a fan of those stories anyway. I like my men without red eyes and fangs.

And I like having coffee in the sunlight.

6. Fear of not being safe:

This seems to resemble the previous two, but is slightly different, in the sense that it’s an instinct related thing. This is a subconscious reflex we have inherited since prehistoric times, when we slept under the skies or under cave ceilings, or on high trees, lol, and we needed to be able to get up fast, in case of hungry, non human entities came to “visit”. So that’s normal in a way, and nowadays we have more modern predators also, that prey on the unsuspecting. But we live in social environments now, which tend to be in some ways, safer. Think about it this way: if you go to bed early, wouldn’t you be able to get up easier, and faster, and focus on whatever problem may arise during night hours, than if you were just be passing out from being way too tired, later in the night, and had to wake up suddenly? That is, if you do wake up. I for one, if I’m not in bed before 12, rest assured I won’t know what year this is if you woke me up around 3.

7. Not knowing that you can do a list of things for Tomorrow:

You might be surprised by this one. Or offended.

Of course this bit is not for those who are already control – organizing – binder freaks (yes, that was a Park and Rec. reference), but it’s for those who haven’t yet come to know the heavenly benefit of a notebook or of its digital equivalents.

I was saying this to myself whenever I needed to fall asleep quicker, and finally, at the end of last year, I made a post it and glued it to my bed. Because sometimes, if you see it in front of your very eyes, it’s much more effective than saying it in your mind only. If it works for me, it might work for you too.

Since there’s nothing you can do about it now, and that lovely Colombian elixir awaits for you at the very beginning of the next day, why not chill and write it all down, and you’ll pick it up where you left it with new, fresh energy, tomorrow?

You know those things you really want, and start working on them, and after you’re done you realize they ended up being so much better than the initial plan? What if you knew that by resting properly you can multiply that by 10? Or 20?

8. The magic of the new:

Not knowing that there is magic in the fresh energies of the morning, and that they are as powerful and delicious as the ones that you feel in the depths of the night, if not even more so.

9. When you’re out of touch:

Not being in touch with your body enough to respect its need for regular and at regular intervals rest, and not knowing sleep is a precious – not found anywhere else other than inside your body – way of rejuvenation and regeneration, may be what keeps you in that self sabotaging loop.

We are bombarded with information and studies about how flawed our bodies are, but how about getting to know its miraculous ways of functioning? How about its self healing abilities? Do wounds heal? Do most aches pass? When you do heal after a bigger issue, who did the healing, even if assistance was involved? It was you. What do you think that’s about? It’s this wonderful, complicated system that does so much on its own, we don’t even realize it, because well, we are born with it, and we don’t have to pay attention to it, unless it’s in trouble, right?

10. The unique relationship between a vital part of your body and sleep:

Standing in the way of a very close friendship between your liver and your sleep.

Science sometimes calls the liver “the second heart” of the body, and science is right. Your liver knows everything about you, from what you eat, drink, think about, feel about, to how much you sleep. And it doesn’t want much from you, just a fair chance to do his work properly, in the amount of time required for that. The more you cut the hours it needs, and then burden it with hard to process things – artificial stuff, alcohol, constant stress – the unhappier you’ll get. Happy liver, happy you.

Don’t go searching for a drug prescription, that will only give it more to process on top of everything. Allow it to perform its natural job. If you want to help it, add some herbal teas to your diet. And, did I say this? More sleep.

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11. The main health benefits:

1. Tension accumulated in the body subsides.
2. Pressure normalizes, not only blood pressure, but pressure from all the tiny spaces inside your organs and bones, that make up your whole body.
3. Blood flow normalizes.
4. Cell reproduction is increased.
5. Liver gets to finish the work is supposed to do.
6. Data is being compartmentalized and organized in the brain.
7. Skin, hair, nails, teeth get the proper time needed for regeneration.
8. Your internal and external reproductive organs stay healthy, since tension that tends to build up in your middle section is being finally released during down time.
9. You become immune to oxidative stress.
10. Your spine stays healthy and flexible, because only when you’re lying down, the subtle tissue that protects it gets to regenerate properly (think about this: the first thing that the doctor prescribes when you have any back issues is bed rest).
11. You will be less cranky or irritable, and you won’t be in need for “even you out” medication anymore.
12. Your elimination processes will stabilize and improve, which in turn also lifts the stress from your endocrine system, so your hormones will not try to make up for all the tiny gaps in the normal flow of the body anymore. You get rid of toxins that otherwise stay trapped and sabotage your health, so you stop carrying around stuff you don’t need.
13. Your digestive system will take in the nutrients when it’s supposed to, and it will not be doing overtime anymore.
14. You’ll loose weight much faster.
15. You’ll have true energy constantly, as opposed to spikes of it from stimulants, followed by severe drops.
16. You’ll get more sun and make more natural vitamin D, which means better mood, better state of mind.
17. Fatigue will be a thing of the past.
18. Your sex drive will improve.
19. You will find it easy to focus on tasks and you will enjoy everything more fully.

 

 

You will feel better, look better, function better.

So why would you deny that to yourself?

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Above And Below

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Trying to kill inertia damages, or even destroys the things that are on its trajectory path. Momentum holds future. Everything is a transition point.

X-Ray Of Thought (War, Guns, Capital Punishment)

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X-Ray Of Thought

 

I don’t agree with wars because I don’t believe in sacrificing the lives of innocent people, or the lives of those who carry these battles for others. I think it’s time we look at the words “casualties of wars” and realize they don’t suit us as humans anymore. I like to think that men who would give their life to defend something are too precious to be lost, and I think it’s time to stop teaching little boys it is brave to die.

Not that they could ever really be prepared for what war is really like. Not that they should be subject to a situation where they have to kill another human being, and return a changed man forever if they do.

Yes, there was a time when freedom was gained and kept like this. I repeat: was. That time’s time has come. Whatever interest you have in war, economical, strategical, political, justifying your own dark side, know now this: light is entering this realm too.

I think we are in 2014 and war is overrated.

I think wars are still going on feeding on the remains of grandeur of some egos of those who needed crisp discipline to maintain going forward and keep safe what good people built, and on the contracts that still need to be carried out by those who seek financial interests in affected areas, the gun dealers and companies who provide their construction materials, logistics, intelligence and transportation, and on the frail egos of those whose maturity will never really happen, not as long as they need a gun to validate themselves by anyway.

I think we are beyond that as a species. I think it’s time we realize we can go on without mass killing.

I think we could do without blood shedding.

I think we know that we don’t need violence to prove things that can be proven in other ways too.

I know the inertia caused by such a massive type of event seems unstoppable and seems to find self-reinforcing reasoning to keep going, but it doesn’t have to be like that anymore.

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I think fire guns are a way of making sure you don’t have much time before deciding to take another being’s life. Because it is a decision. It might look like anything else, but in the end, ending another life is a stepping stone in your everything: life, thinking, character, future, etc. Everything you do from that moment on will be influenced and/or determined by that. It’s the type of decision that you look back at and see as a mistake. It’s a short term desensitized manner of dealing with a problem. Just pull a trigger, from a distance, like you would press any button, like clicking a computer mouse or tapping a screen… and the problem goes away, right? You hardly realize that at the other end of the interaction, you’ve chosen to end a life. A life you have no right to end. It might seem like you do, but you never really do. Ending a life is never really power, just like winning a war is never really winning, unless it never starts.

Just because it seems easier to deal with outside demons than with the ones on the inside…

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Capital punishment has one small flaw: you can’t punish someone that killed someone by killing them back, simply because they die knowing that they were right in their thinking in the first place. You don’t teach that killing another is bad, by killing the ones who did it, it kinda defeats the purpose.

 

At least in my opinion.

 

 

 

Două lucruri

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Intro

Până acum câţiva ani, eram cel mai rău critic al meu. Nimic nu-mi scăpa. Mai ales din ceea ce nu făceam bine. Ştiam, într-un fel, că ceva era în neregulă cu abordarea asta, dar toată lumea în jurul meu făcea la fel, aşa că nu îndrăzneam să schimb ceea ce, credeam, aşa era dat şi aşa trebuia să fie. Cine eram eu, până la urmă? Nu că aş fi fost o conformistă de fel, dar chiar şi în nonconformismul meu, trăiam doar în propria-mi minte. Şi mă străduiam foarte tare să nu carecumva să păşesc înafara ei.
N-o să mă apuc acum să povestesc cum şi de ce făceam asta; pentru asta ar fi nevoie de o carte. Acest post se rezumă la o părere modestă și niște întrebări ale caror răspunsuri cred că ar ajuta. Intuiesc că nu puțini dintre noi am trecut prin situații și experiențe în care am simțit o puternică scindare interioară. Pornind de la acest sentiment, unul cu care rar mă mai întâlnesc în ultima vreme, am căutat să ajung la sursa ce-l alimenta și, încet încet, să mă dezleg din prinsorile acestei entități create în jurul vieții mele. E o postare cam lungă, ce-i drept. Cred că un ceai sau o cafea fierbinte ar merge de minune, mai ales că la viteza cu care se schimbă vremea din acest început de vară, până la sfârșitul postului, e posibil să plouă de două ori 🙂

O viaţă trăită numai prin intermediul minţii nu e uşoară. E un loc lipsit de căldură, pe care încerci în zadar să-l încălzeşti cu focul lucrurilor lumeşti. Un foc dealtfel mort, o iluzie schimbătoare a acelui moment în care speri că totul va căpăta sens. De fiecare dată când crezi că ai ajuns la acel moment, ceva mai mare, mai puternic, mai rapid îţi va răpi liniştea. Sunt ierarhizările zilnice cu care ne hrănim, pentru a ne putea situa undeva pe harta lumii şi a propriilor vieţi, dar ca orice relaţionare în care ceva pare superior, cineva va trebui să se simtă inferior. Am internalizat ca oameni o lege a junglei. Nu mi-a plăcut niciodată expresia asta, dar am acceptat-o, pentru că am crezut că altfel voi pierde ceea ce alţii câştigau adoptând-o. E ciclul natural al vieţii, la o primă vedere, doar că atunci când totul e interpretat de către ego şi secondat de către minte, când ne hrănim sufletele cu rodul tărâmului numit orgoliu, nimic nu va fi vreodată de ajuns; totul va fi o luptă continuă pentru primul loc şi al lui miraj. Vom fi mereu însetați. Tot ce urmează după locul întâi, e pentru cei ce pierd. Această abordare ne-a servit până acum, şi a făcut ca rasa umană să fie mai puternică, mai evoluată… nu? Am învăţat să ne reprimăm sentimentele şi lacrimile, pentru binele nostru, nu-i aşa?
Sigur am devenit mai aproape de cine suntem.
Totul decurge aşa cum trebuie…

Rezultatele şi dedesubtul lor

Sărăcie, violenţă, război, rasism, legi vechi devenite injuste, poluare, lipsa toleranţei, boală. Drame personale, catastrofe naturale. Un Pământ care pentru mulţi pare să pedepsească pe cei buni şi să-i ierte pe cei răi.
Şi totuşi, acestea au toate soluții reale. Ele nu sunt probleme de nerezolvat, nu sunt insurmontabile. Nici n-au fost vreodată. În teorie, știm ce e de făcut pentru le rezolva. Dar ele rămân la stadiul de scopuri utopice, atâta timp cât nu conștientizăm și nu ne îndreptăm atenția către problemele ce stau la baza celor de mai sus.
Sunt lucruri simple; atât de simple, că ne e greu să le luăm în seamă; probabil nici nu realizăm că trăim în minte și că nu avem grijă de corpurile noastre, așa cum ar trebui. Sună copilăresc, facil. Ar trebui să fim aici pentru scopuri mai înalte, nu? Dar o privire atentă asupra acestor detalii relevă legături continue între lucruri, aparent din sfere separate, ce generează cercuri vicioase, din care ne e greu să ieșim.
Trăim în inerţia conceptului că fiinţa noastră este conţinută în esenţa ei doar în minte; și tot ce construim deasupra acestui concept erodează rezultatele eforturilor noastre ca oameni şi umanitate, ca într-un joc de Tetris, pe care nu ştim că, de fapt, nu trebuie să-l câştigăm. Ignorăm esența și miracolul corpurilor noastre, apoi ne așteptăm ca ele să funcționeze în aceeași stare în care ne-au fost date la început.

Dacă acele scopuri mai înalte ar începe să-şi dezvăluie adevărata natură, doar după ce le-am rezolva pe acestea două?

Anfore cu viaţă

Câteva secunde pentru a reflecta şi a respira…

Nu ştiu ce e mai nociv, lipsa grijii pentru propriul corp, sau identificarea cu propria minte. Combinarea lor e o idee genială, dacă vrei să te autodistrugi.
Deşi Universul este conţinut şi în noi, am fost învăţaţi să fim atenţi la tot ceea ce se întâmplă în jurul nostru, şi eventual la senzaţiile rezultate din interacţionarea cu mediul, şi mai puţin la corpul în care suntem. Corpurile noastre ştiu exact ce au nevoie pentru a funcţiona la un nivel optim. Însă le ignorăm semnalele, pentru că nu putem să ne dăm voie să le luăm în seamă, decât după ce avem o aprobare scrisă de la cineva sau ceva. Ne trebuie un montaj pe muzică dramatică, o campanie, ceva de amploare; nu putem pur şi simplu să facem ceva ce nu face toată lumea din jur.

Negarea acestui spaţiu sacru dinăuntrul nostru, şi a ceea ce are nevoie, duce la crearea structurii primare, peste care adăugăm, strat cu strat, emoţii, sentimente şi situaţii negative.
Nimic n-ar fi mai uşor şi mai benefic, decât să ne întoarcem către noi. Însă cumva se întâmplă că majoritatea petrecem o viaţă întreagă fugind în direcţia opusă, într-o cursă al cărei premiu e promisiunea fericirii, aşa cum am fost programaţi să o percepem.
Într-o lume în permanentă mişcare, nimeni nu mai are timp pentru lucrurile din categoria a ceea ce nu este palpabil. Vrem dovezi cuantificabile; nu acceptăm intromisiunea lucrurilor care nu şi-au câştigat deja un statut atestat, uitând că totul a existat mai întâi în imaterial.

Când ne-am hotărât că următoarea reţetă ar fi bună pentru noi:
să nu mâncăm alimente naturale,
să nu prea bem apă,
să nu respirăm aer curat,
să nu dormim suficient?

Oricare ar fi denumirea pe care o dăm forței care ne-a creat, alegem să nu ascultăm acea forţă – deşi ea a făcut posibilă întruparea în aceste corpuri – când adoptăm acest mod de a trăi. Suntem încrâncenaţi în armurile noastre, parcă deranjaţi de limitele acestor miraculoase mecanisme, uitând să le iubim şi negându-le dreptul de a exista pentru scopul în care au fost născute.
Pare mai uşor, deşi e o decizie de management foarte proastă, pe termen lung.

De ce facem lucrurile aşa?
Pentru că am repetat timp de secole acelaşi lucru: am fost învăţaţi să mimăm un fel de a fi care deserveşte unui ideal de productivitate industrialist, ne-am program orele şi eficienţa, încercând să concurăm cu maşinile.

Ţi-e rău? Ia o pastilă şi întoarce-te la lucru.
Nu-ţi plac E-urile şi aromele natural identice?
Şi, preferata mea: somn? La ce-ţi trebuie somn? Lasa ca dormi destul după ce mori.
Nemţii ar zice că-s grecoaică. Dar nu e o pledoarie pentru dezaprobarea unei stări de fapt, e doar o incursiune în modul de apariţie a unor lucruri şi în modul în care sunt ele interconectate, pentru a vedea, de fapt, de ce anume mai avem nevoie din toate astea?
Ignorăm semnalele subtile până când devin strigăte, apoi ne ducem la doctor şi luăm o pastilă sau lăsăm o parte din noi pe masa de operaţie.
Ce-i drept, publicul e constant interesat de istorisiri despre cum ne debarasăm de părţile atinse iremediabil de boală, dar mai avem nevoie să le auzim ca să ştim că propria viaţă contează?

Servitori

Când trăieşti numai în minte sau mai ales în interiorul ei, alegi să fii servitorul ei, în loc să o faci servitorul tău. Totul trebuie să fie o provocare, ca să îți rejustifici și să-ți întăreşti această alegere: un munte de urcat, un teritoriu de cucerit, cineva de depășit; nemişcarea echivalează cu moartea.

Practicăm o abordare cu precădere masculină în toate sferele vieţii, deşi feminitatea este simbolul creaţiei, creativităţii şi al hranei sufleteşti, deci al asigurării unei dezvoltări pozitive.
Poate aplicarea unor principii feminine ne-ar scuti de multe probleme şi situaţii în care nu ne place să fim.
Poate cele două, masculinul şi femininul, ar sta mai bine ţesute împreună în luarea de decizii. Cum ar arăta lumea atunci?

Unul din paradoxurile minţii este că, deşi nu are toate datele, se comportă ca şi cum le-ar percepe numai pe cele posibil negative. Închide sau ignoră comunicarea cu inima, şi construieşte justificări ce ransforsează constant neîncrederea.
Când trăieşti în minte, nu vei admite că ai nevoie de atenţie sau că trebuie să te iubeşti pe tine însuţi, înainte de a te înarma cu o sută de modalităţi prin care eviţi acceptarea acestor lucruri. Poţi direcţiona cu uşurinţă pedepse, către tine şi către ceilalţi, nici nu e nevoie să te asiste cineva. E un reflex dobândit. Ce e mai bun decât persecutarea?, autopersecutarea.
Am devenit maeştrii jocului de-a leapşa cu vina, mereu la pândă după candidaţi pe care să-i servim cu nişte prajiturele cu răvaşe maliţioase.
Ne ţinem strâns în braţe ego-ul, suntem lacomi, invidioși, posesivi, şi apoi întrebăm retoric, de ce vieţile noastre nu sunt mai bune. Credem că prin control si manipulare, cumva, imităm adevărata putere. Îndulcitori sintetici şi grăsimi hidrogenate, în desertul care ne păcăleşte pentru câteva secunde cu imitaţia gustului bun, ca mai apoi să distrugă lent, dar sigur, toate ţesuturile cu care vin în contact.

Sa faci un lucru cu grijă, să devii mai atent, să nu mai trăiești pe fugă…
Puțini mai dau importanță măsurii lucrurilor, și mai puțini – ordinii în care se fac lucrurile în natura lor. Cine mai stă să macine boabele de cafea? Ce-i aia meditație? Adică să stau să mă gândesc un sfert de oră, așa, pur si simplu?!…

O umbră de gândire

Visele noastre. Ni le mai aducem aminte? Care, unde? Le-am sacrificat demult.

Când am decis că puterea de a ne schimba nu ne aparţine?
Când am făcut outsourcing cu responsabilitatea?
Şi când, mai exact, am acceptat că suntem nedemni de ceea ce ne poate oferi viaţa cu adevărat mai bun?
Atunci când au apărut primii filozofi, cei ce păreau destinaţi să rezolve probleme pentru care ceilalţi nu aveau timp? Gândirea profundă a fost mereu pentru filozofi, creativitatea a aparţinut artiştilor, construcţia caselor era treaba zidarilor, iar problemele sufleteşti erau rezolvate de călugări şi preoţi.
Iar restul oamenilor au rămas cu restul joburilor?
Ne ducem la ghicitoare, când harta propriei vieţi este în noi, şi o desenăm pas cu pas, nu ne-o poate dicta nimeni fără acordul nostru.
Probabil ceva în educaţia de-alungul anilor, să fi fost ce ne-a deprins să înregistrăm şi să executăm, şi mai puţin să înţelegem.
De ce ne lăsăm corpurile și viețile în mâinile altora?
Ne-am mulțumit cu mai puțin. Probabil am crezut că e mai ușor să părem neajutorați, decât să dăm impresia că am fi cu adevărat puternici.
Responsabilitatea aduce cu ea răspunderea. Nimeni nu vrea să fie răspunzător. Victima nu poate fi acuzat, nu?
Am confundat sentimentele cu instinctele, și a avea putere – cu a putea distruge sau cu a nu ne lăsa schimbați.

Mai multe întrebări

De ce ne e atât de greu să luptăm pentru ce știm că e mai bine pentru noi? Să fie din cauză că nu știm că putem să cerem?
Ne e oare teamă să fim chemați “leneși”, “fricoși” sau ”rebeli”? Care e eticheta de care ne temem cel mai mult?
De la cine trebuie să avem aprobare, ca să putem fi noi înșine și să ne fie bine?
Demonii dinăuntrul nostru și cei dimprejur au nevoie și de permisiunea noastră pentru a exista. Se hrănesc îndeosebi cu propriile noastre frici. Cresc cu fiecare călătorie în tărâmul sentimentelor negative, cu fiecare desert cu arome natural identice.

Și când a devenit mintea singurul instrument pe care ne putem baza?
“Ia un suflet; și du-te și trăiește ca și cum nu-l ai.”
N-am fi toți doar creiere? N-am arăta ridicol?

Până la urmă

Ar trebui să înțelegem că ne-a fost dat un spațiu sacru, care să ne servească și ca mediu de comunicare, și că suntem datori să avem grijă de el, cât de bine putem.
Ar trebui să vedem că doar în acest spațiu ne-a fost dat să împărțim funcția de manageri cu forța care ne-a creat.
Ar trebui să vedem că faptul că avem un creier și o minte, nu înseamnă că avem doar atât.
Mintea este doar un servitor. Cineva spunea că mintea este căpitanul care direcționează nava, nu nava în sine.
Suntem spații rezonante, care atunci când sunt lăsate să-și facă treaba, se sincronizează în mod firesc cu energiile universale. Să fim atenți la noi înșine este ceea ce face ca lucrurile astea să poată avea loc.
Noi suntem cei ce stau în calea oportunităților care se află dincolo de victimizare.
Corpurile noastre sunt menite să ne poarte și să adăpostească propria esență. Iar ceea ce conduce evoluția noastră ca oameni este alegerea de a păși peste granița dintre teamă și manifestările darurilor cu care ne-am născut. Să te îngrijești de tine înseamnă să te îngrijești de felul în care ai grijă de ceilalți. Când îți lipsește împlinirea, nu poți să dai la fel ca atunci când o ai.
Reînvie legăturile dintre minte și inimă. Lasă-le să meargă împreună. Ascultă cerințele spațiului în care te afli. Sunt două lucruri pe care nimeni altcineva nu ți le poate dărui, decât tu. Așa ai venit pe lume oricum: complet și împlinit.

English version: https://soulpatterns.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/two-things-should-unlearn/

The Kettle And The Brain

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aware, bigger picture, brain, cleaning, coffee, connections, discover, education, hoarding, inertia, kettle, learn, management, meditate, Miss World, momentum, motivation, out of order, productive, signal, sleep, study, unconsciousness, uneasiness, water

Miss World contest question: “Why do you think education is important?” I can’t remember what the woman said, but I remember thinking to myself: “because only when you learned more, you realized how much less you knew before”.
When you can’t seem to find the motivation to start something, start with something easy from your close environment, with an item that is temporarily out-of-order (it has gained new features, which make it hard to use, in the purpose it was built for) such as cleaning the coffee kettle (or any other pot, in which you boiled milk or made tea). It’s not a scientific method, but if you’re not a certified hoarder, chances are you’ll have a productive day. Once rinsed, the kettle becomes a contrasting point to the rest of he things around the kitchen that need attending. It becomes the starting point of cleaning, and it sends a signal to the brain, which knows something has begun and it has to be finished.
When you study, learn and discover new things, your brain gains momentum, in the same way you gained it when you started to clean that kettle. Once you develop the habit of making connections between things and seeing the bigger picture from which those things are a part of, you become more aware, and from understanding of things comes a calm, positive energy; something which you can build upon.
Curiosity is still free; use it. Not being at least curious can be the worst investment you ever made, and not even know it.
The decision to wash the kettle has the same effect on the kitchen and the house, as the realisation that you can think for yourself and that nothing can stop you from learning things for yourself.
Before you have inertia, you need to have momentum. It’s what fuels both consciousness and unconsciousness. The more you know, the more you realise you know so little, but the connections which are made during that process leave little room for unconsciousness. This is the moment in which chaos crosses over to order, “sense” becomes a word with meaning, not just some letters with no space between them. Unconsciousness feeds from the lack of understanding, the lack of will, order or purpose.
The basic structure of our personality is built on decision or indecision. The memories that we relive 50 times more, before we get tired of recycling them, or realise it’s too late to fight with the negativity resulted from that, the mental dusty collections of old rigid rules, which nobody follows anymore but yourself, they all have a correspondent in the physical world in your proximity, in the stuff that didn’t get the chance to be washed or cleaned, or put back in its place; in the kitchen, on the hallway, under the bathroom sink, on the balcony, on the computer-and-100-other-things desk, or your bag. This correspondence can be also found in our bodies, sooner or later, and it translates into pain and dis-ease. Uneasiness is unfortunately underestimated, although it never lies. Who has time for such nonsense as sleeping and drinking plenty of water, or meditating?
We settle for less, expecting a divine reward, but we forget that, in fact, we were given a divine space for free, and we are bound to take care of it.
We mistake escapism for wellbeing. Who bothers with the side-effects of a late-night, high-protein, Bacchic blast menu? There must be a pill for it.
When a messy environment becomes a natural state, it’s a sign that something needs resolving. Things put forever on hold accumulate a negative tension, and soon they will become like a huge luggage put in a tight place, and at first bump in the road, it will fall on our heads.
Nothing urgent springs out of nowhere; it is the result of poorly managed pre-existing conditions.
Yes, there is a type of order in chaos too; some even find inspiration in it. But it’s a fine line between a creative chaos, and the one which forms in the shadow of unfulfilled dreams, and apparently meaningless experiences. The choice of which to live in belongs to us, and it has different outcomes.
It may seem paradoxical, but at a certain level, chaos and order function in the same way; the difference is that one of them is easier to maintain. The difference can be huge. The difference is us.

 

 

Versiunea în română: https://soulpatterns.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/ibricul-si-creierul-colectionarii/