After accomplishing the emotional and psychological tasks of identifying the toxic parts of your life, you’ll begin to find clarity in noticing the good and healing aspects. You have taken a clinical hand to separating the hindering from the elevating, and separating yourself from overwhelming or distracting emotions and sentiments. You can begin to see … Continue reading Alchemy of Self: Phase 2 — Clarity
Negative reinforcement won’t work, not really. The key is in the positive. Be compassionate toward yourself because we will fail and it’s important that we fall onto a soft surface. These so-called ‘bad behaviours’ are simply actions that hinder you or clash with your ethics and values. If you want to be better you must … Continue reading Leaving Behind Bad Behaviours
Two halves of a whole, the inside and outside. We desire and require a stable relationship with both. There is an outside and an inside and the outside is on the inside and the inside in the outside, and they are both eternally separate and intertwined. Sometimes the balance becomes uneven and we isolate ourselves, … Continue reading Reading and Listening (Exposing Yourself to the Outside)
More often than not we know the ‘right’ thing to do. The actions that align with our goals and values exist, this is the path that we glance away from instinctively because our insecurities and exhaustion tell us it’s too hard, too far, we can’t do it. I forget that making the right choice is … Continue reading Tasting Your Own Medicine
I have ADHD along with several other neurological and psychiatric disorders which has meant I require more rest breaks during tasks, need to identify obstacles, and learn to prioritize. Understanding our own personal needs is a crucial step in increasing our productivity as we can’t accommodate problems we haven’t familiarized ourselves with. For myself, I … Continue reading 5 Ways to Recuperate and Still Be Productive
Often it feels as though we are alone in our mind, facing off against our disorders. We feel isolated. Maybe we feel doomed to follow the missteps of our parents, or that we’re missing out on life, or held back in a race everyone else is close to winning, I have moments like these every … Continue reading You and Your Mental Illness Don’t Exist Alone in an Empty Room
It’s my duty to myself and my future children to sleep enough, eat enough, and learn to take care of my immediate and also broader environment.
Every layman is capable of internal alchemy. Mysticism, esotericism, these contain humble secular power that can be absorbed by any skeptic. You need no belief but in your power to heal emotionally. For an introduction, check out Alchemy of Self. Every transformation requires a beginning. We must make the conscious choice that it’s time to … Continue reading Alchemy of Self: Phase 1 — Destruction
Trying to find and align with your true self can end up something of a life mission, but it needn’t take a lifetime to start making changes. There’s a heavy weight placed on ‘truth’, a topic I’ve just barely begun broaching with Metaphilosophy and Existence. The ambiguity and subjectivity of truth can be harrowing but … Continue reading True to Yourself: Questions About Truth
We haven’t solved any puzzles yet. Philosophy doesn’t offer solutions to living happier, fulfilled, balanced lives, or give true answers to the secret and meaning of life. Well, what’s the point of it then? The point is to explore. Philosophy feels the puzzles out, enjoys learning about experiences, wonders why we feel the need to … Continue reading Metaphilosophy
Sustaining Practice 