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Tuesday, 09 June 2020 / Published in Posts
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You Were Always Right

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I’ve changed a lot. I used to only see the good in people, that’s all I would look for, that’s all I would acknowledge, that’s all that mattered to me.
In the past 5 years, I’ve started to notice the bad. I’ve started to recognize the ugly.
I’ve started to see the negativity and hatred.
My eyes and my mind was once so young, immature, but happy.
It was a different kind of happy. -open minded but unexposed.
Today I am happy, but the transition from that happy to this happy, the exposure, the change, was even uglier than the ugly I can see in people today. The things that I went through can only prepare me for a life that’s meant to get better.
I’m happy now, not the same happy that I used to feel (yet) but a mature happy. It was something wonderful about unknowing and misunderstanding the world and people, that’s what drove me to figure them out, but now that I know, now that I see the contrast, I have the option to be happy, when happiness was just a default in the past. Not only can I see the contrast, but I also hear it all around me. Negativity goes in one ear, and what used to pass through effortlessly, now lingers in the back of my head constantly. It’s loud and apparent.
Negative conversation didn’t make sense to me before and that was The Silence in Black and White.
Now it all makes sense. The choice is not an easy one to make, but I’ve chosen to be happy. I am happy. I will be happy.
The world, it filters itself for you as a child. But as you mature and progress, you must learn to filter the world.
Change has brought progress and progress has brought change. I see your negative energy, but I will recognize and feed from the positive, not only for my own benefit, but yours. We’re not growing up. We’re still kids. We haven’t forgotten. We’re just being distracted.
If you’re looking for yourself, sure you’re hard to find. Step back for a second. You’re looking too closely, attempting to define yourself with what you see, forgetting that what you are seeing is not within you but without. The world is not you, but you have let it be for some time now because someone, somewhere in your lifetime has told you that it’s not okay to be you. They were wrong. You were right. Why did you stop believing in yourself? You were always right.

Counting From Zero: Start With Your Mind

Tuesday, 20 September 2016 / Published in Posts
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Counting From Zero: Start With Your Mind

9/20/2016 | POSTED AT: 4:17 AM | IN: POSTS
When we’re taught to count, we’re generally taught to start with the number 1. As we get older, we adapt this technique not only numbers, but with our mindset and with people. Just as the clock or the timer starts from .00 to .01 and counts up to 1.00 (or 12:00:01 to 1:00:00 on a clock), we must start where the minute and second hand both point in this moment. If your body was the clock, where would that be? Your mind. By starting with 1, the second hand (the beliefs) must past each number (or experience) 11 times before the hour hand (the heart) reaches it’s starting point. We experience and attempt to understand the experiences and things outside of ourselves and time passes before we are forced to be faced with our minds.
 
Why wait until you are forced to face yourself? You can start counting from zero as soon as you’re ready. How can you apply this to your daily life? Prepare yourself mentally to believe that you will accomplish whatever goal you’re about to set for yourself before pursuing it. By doing this you are starting with zero instead of pursuing for the goal first, facing those 11 experiences, stressing your mind and neglecting your health and killing your confidence in the process. The first thing you can do at the beginning of each day is mentally prepare for the inevitable arrival of the situations that will indubitably support the outcome you plan to experience for that day, which will inherently support the outcome of your week / month / year / life. Prepare your mind to believe that any action taken by someone that isn’t perceived to support your goal is one which will manifest through conditional reasoning and not intentional reasoning.
 
In English, if someone pulls out in front of you on the road, assume that you are that person. Now assume that you had an unintended conditional reason for pulling out in front of someone such as, “I wasn’t paying attention to the person behind me because my child is late for school or I am late for work and I am rushing” Now with yourself in that person’s shoes, apologize to yourself. “I am sorry for pulling out in front of you”.
 
By creating this mindset first thing in the morning, if someone does pull out in front of you on any given day, the first thing you should do in this case is accept their apology which you’ve mentally created for them ahead of time and mentally reply to them with, “I forgive you, I understand, It’s okay and I hope you make it wherever you need to be.” Because you’ve started at zero, your 1 will be predetermined and 2 – 11 will be more than likely to have a more positive effect on your 12. — Because you’ve started with your mind, your beliefs will be predetermined and your actions, words, perceptions, intentions will all have a more positive effect on your mind. Your life is the clock. The minute hand is the heart. Zero or Twelve is the mind. Don’t start with your beliefs because your beliefs were created by someone else. With life, start counting from zero Start with your mind. That is the only thing that can truly define what you believe, what you can achieve, and why.

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