Personal Meditation No. 165

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within.

Looking back on these very long fourteen days, I keep seeing that my background in science and research is becoming helpful and mitigating fear and acceptance. I remember when folks were told to wash their hands and not worry about wearing masks and I commented that I found it bizarre that a respiratory virus would be more concerned with surface transmission than aerosol transmission BUT folks stocked up on bleach and washed their hands and fell right in line with the rules until the rules changed. I remember that I found it strange that rather than use the tried and true methods of vaccinations in the past that a new mRNA treatment was speedily greenlighted and sent out to fix the world when companies were still making flu vaccines the same way BUT folks got shot after shot and then still ended up getting the virus.

I am just saying that there seems to be a track record here. And that history is a history of being aligned with what I believe and then enacting that belief. That is why this strain on hospitals is really confusing to me. If you did what you were supposed to do and believed that it was going to work, then where is your faith in your actions? Whether you got a bunch of shots or you didn’t, whether you live a healthy life or you don’t, you really need to start taking ownership of your life. Doctors and nurses are not in charge of your health more than politicians and bureaucrats are. You are in charge of your health.

We all make bad choices in life BUT the wonder and beauty of life is that every day, every hour, every second, we get the chance to start changing those choices and that path. Every morning, every evening, every night, we get the opportunity to decide to make a change in our journey. We get to choose as long as we live.

Not many folks are looking out for you and love you. Most folks are too busy worrying about themselves to even notice you are there. Sometimes we all find ourselves busy with our own lives and that is the place to be busy. That is the place to make change. That is the place to look. When you can’t find internal peace, then you start to look externally for a substitute. BUT there is no true substitute for finding what you are and what you believe. There is no substitute for being aligned. A life of misalignment is a life looking for external solutions where none exist. Find your inner peace? Get aligned?

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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Personal Meditation No. 164

"Start worrying about yourself. If you don't invest in your own life, then why would anyone else choose to invest in your life either."

Embrace the Within.

Folks get confused by the many moving parts of living in this age of society and it is quite understandable. The amount of change I have seen in my nearly five decades on this planet are unfathomable at times. If I told middle school me that I would be able to play games without having to write the code to create them and have every song ever created in my pocket, then I would have never fathomed it either. BUT here we are bombarded by technology. The key is that we control the amount of reach this technology has and the control this technology has over our lives.

I don’t dream about technology. My dreams are about ideas and conversations. My dreams are about folks I loved and folks I have never met. My dreams are about things I have done and things I have dreamed of doing. My dreams are about my fears and my hopes. BUT my dreams are never about technology. Technology is just a tool in my journey and not the quintessence of my existence. Technology is supposed to make things easier for us, however, it certainly appears that technology is making things more difficult now.

We like to picture ourselves as some different sort of animal than what we are. In actuality, we are just a basic animal with basic instincts and basic understanding. Our brains fall victim to thousands of years of survival programming in this digital age. Folks that understand influence and psychology are in a better position to take advantage of our base brain biases. And not understanding these biases make us vulnerable to that problem in our wiring.

It is not a matter of intelligence. This is all a matter of evolution and psychology. We can’t rewrite thousands of years of brain coding in a hundred years. We can be aware of that brain bias we possess and become metacognitive in our actions BUT we can’t change what got us to the dance. This survival instinct in our brain got us to this point BUT it is ill-equipped for the overload of today. So, I suggest simplification. Get back to what you value and start from there.

Having a tough conversation with yourself is an important part of moving forward with clarity and focus. You have to know what you truly value in order to live a life that is aligned. If you are not aligned, then you will not be healthy. Your mind will be torn in different directions for attention and focus. Clarity and focus of your goals and your values will get you feeling better mentally and physically. A house divided can not stand and a mind divided will cause collapse as well. What do you value? Focus on that and let it guide your journey.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain