Spiritual/Mind Advancement, Food and Exercise.

Are you feeling lost? Uncertain? Adrift? This week, I experienced a trauma that collapsed my story of self, yet a new story has not yet emerged. Charles Eisenstein calls this “the space between stories.” Many of us are in this space between stories right now, when you feel lost, ungrounded, dislocated, as if your roots have been pulled up and you’re not quite sure where to land. Everything you thought you knew — about yourself and the world — is now in question. Even our systems — the medical system, our political systems, the education system, the banking system — they’re in the space between stories too. We know the old way is falling apart, yet the new way has not yet been born. As Charles writes in The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible: “So please, if you are in the sacred space between stories, allow yourself to be there. It is frightening to lose the old structures of security, but you will find that even as you might lose things that were unthinkable to lo...

Everyone loves a good, clear, easily grasped narrative. “X leads to Y.” “A causes B.” But as we’ve seen over the course of this series, the nature of depression is simply too complex to follow a nice, neat storyline. In exploring the history of depression, we saw that the way we view melancholy today is not how it’s always been seen, and that the condition has in fact been understood in widely different ways over the centuries. In our discussion on what causes depression, we demonstrated that our modern theories are no more clear-cut, and that because melancholy results from the interaction of several different factors, we’ll likely never be able to precisely pin down its origins. Finally, we saw that there isn’t a bright line that distinguishes “normal” sadness from clinical depression, and that being diagnosed with the latter remains a somewhat subjective call. Now, as we finish this series, we must challenge two final narratives: “Depression is entirely the person’s faul...

Being an angry hothead. Screaming like a baboon is easy. Breaking shit around the house is easy. Getting into a fight is easy. All of these only serve for self-destructive energy. Get rid of it. Take the hard path. Learn to stay calm. Walk away. Use your words. Master your anger. Being a dramatic crybaby. It’s way too easy to cry and start acting like a self-entitled brat. That’s what babies and kids do because they know their mom is there for them. You’re an adult now. Take control of yourself and stop being so damn dramatic. Gossiping relentlessly. What more, in groups. It’s easy to gossip and put someone down. It’s harder to be objective. It’s even harder to reflect and see if the subject in question bares similarities to you. Stop being so gossipy and mind your own business already! Focus on your own shit! Saying shit you don’t mean. Nuff said. You know it’s going to be accompanied with guilt and shame later. Try to stay calm and come back to it later with a coole...

Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He goes on to say knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces infinite possibilities and gives birth to creative evolution. If you feel stuck because of your current situation regarding your relationships, health or finances, use your imagination. Transform your current situation by firing up new synapses in your brain using creative visualization. It only takes daily practice of about five to ten minutes a day. Use your imagination to paint new pictures in your mind of what your situation will be if you are healed, prosperous and happy. Make your new vision larger than your situation. It’s THE key to changing it. Remember, according to neuroscience, 95% of what shows up in our lives is from our subconscious mind. The only way to download new software to create a new life is by painting a better picture in your mind. Even the brilliant Albert Einstein knew that knowledge is confining and limit...