Today was doing some breath work – meditation in the morning. Mind was racing. Couldn’t sleep, so decided to do some breath work and observe my strongest bodily sensations – forgive me as I’m over generalizing everything. An hour went by like it was nothing, probably drifted off a few times to be fair without noticing.

During this my back was itching and this and that distracting me. Sometimes I might “scratch that itch”. Then I was like holy cow – this is like how my brain can be especially when going crazy and realized just as the sensations change without doing anything my thoughts change without doing anything. Not saying never do anything just that I don’t have to listen to every thought even if that thought is screaming for attention. It will pass and again sometimes it is best to scratch that itch. If you’re sitting on a nail… Though I found this connection comforting. I’m sure to some it is obvious, and yeah heard this before though feeling it hit me so much harder this more than just intellectually know it.

Can check out Kam and Stu Wilson at BreathInspired.com as they’re the experts here that I’ve studied under, especially for this specific technique – Vivation (which I didn’t cover how to just my experience today).

Often I’ve chosen methods I liked even if I didn’t like the results. Then there are other times when I picked something for the results even though I didn’t like the method. Ultimately, when the results were good to great I ended up enjoying or at least appreciating the method a lot more.

Prime example, not getting better at drawing is probably more common than many realize or at least I realized. I haven’t gotten better at drawing in a long time until I hired a mentor actually. We did a lot of drawing boxes he was worried that I might get bored and I said as long as I’m improving I’m enjoying. I spent years of not improving it was getting boring and painful.

I can’t say I really totally love drawing boxes and yet I do love getting better so I can enjoy. Lol.

This actually taught me that I should maybe focus more on results than enjoying the process because I got to say when the results suck after a while the process gets harder and harder at least for myself. And when the results are good the process actually can be more and more fun. You can think of exercise if you get the results you like you start to actually enjoy exercising. Now I love exercising.

Well I got to thank my mentor in drawing for all his help and support. Dynnaro You.

Also got to thank Bob Proctor for making me think of this from one of his books he talked about this, something to this extent. I don’t think he mentioned you’d start to enjoy the method when the results were good that might be my addition. Or maybe he did. Anyway I love his work.

Random thought after just posting this I take way too many supplements. I don’t like the results they’re definitely easy to take though basically I like the method and not the results it’s a work in progress. I also like the research that is supposedly they are of them supported by but who knows, that said I’m not sure on what to make of many of them.

Ever heard of S.M.A.R.T. goals? The acronym stands for: Specific, Measurable, Achievable (or Attainable), Relevant, and Time-bound (or Timely). They sound so smart. Maybe they are and maybe they’re great. What they aren’t is big, I’d wager they are what Bob Proctor would call A type or B type goals. A type goals are goals you’ve done before and B type goals are goals you you believe you know how to obtain/achieve and the path to take to accomplish them.

Now there are another type of goals Bob Proctor would call them C type goals. They’re goals I’d say that aren’t S.M.A.R.T. because you have know idea how to obtain them. Sure you may believe they are obtainable and this is important that said the how to is unknown as they are very big compared to where you are and will require a paradigm shift. These goals I’d say are very very smart to have in life, at least one. We are capable of so much more than we realize. Have faith and go for it. Believe!

He said something that really struck me. God does not work for you but works through you. Can replace God with higher power what not – though think about that, the concept of faith. Bob mentions if you really have faith and expect the results to come true you’ll do the work. Also, if you are praying for something and don’t do the work do you really have faith? Do your doubts outweigh your faith? Perhaps, and in many cases perhaps not. I know I have been filled with doubts at times, to say the least.

Comment below and let me know what you think. 🙂

Just after publishing this I saw on yahoo!finance how Elon Musk will get a billion shares if he can settle a million humans on Mars. Love him or hate him- Musk definitely makes C-type goals. Here’s a link to the article. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/elon-musk-billion-shares-spacex-164407735.html

I loved watching the Matrix the movie and the sequels obviously. I thought who would want to live in the matrix? These days considering how much time I spend in my head versus in reality and I’m like isn’t that in a sense living in the matrix. I’m like in many ways we do choose to live in matrix or at least I feel I do. I think if it was offered to spend a lot of time in the matrix like a real kind of a life like computer simulation you know not in our brain it might actually be not so terrible, or at least I feel it is understandable. Especially considering how much time I spend in my head. Who knows it might be better than spending all our time in our head.

I really want to be more present in life and get out of my head. I do find it funny because I want to create a comic that people get completely engrossed in and can’t put it down. I almost want to put people into the matrix, just a matrix I’m creating. Don’t most of us want to create something that just grabs people, something they can’t put down and makes them think.

Anyway, to me it’s just interesting this desire to be present and at the same time wanting to create stuff that in some sense makes people not present – forces them think. The irony of it all.

A mindful person is simply one who is actually here and now. They live their actual lives, not the one that exists solely in their heads. As a result, anxiety and stress are not commonplace.

Holden, Lee. Ready, Set, Slow: How to Improve Your Energy, Health, and Relationships Through the Power of Slow (p. 37). (Function). Kindle Edition

Below is an excerpt from an audiobook.

If you’re not getting your research published regularly in journals – preferably ‘high-impact’ journals like Nature and Science – then you’re not going to get that professorial position at a redbrick university. This wouldn’t matter, so long as journals published every study that was submitted to them, regardless of whether or not they found whatever they were looking for. But, of course, they don’t. Science journals – not all science journals, but most, including most of the big names – publish results that are interesting and novel. That might not sound too terrible, but it means that a study which finds something interesting – ‘psychic powers are real’, for instance – is more likely to be published than a study which finds something more boring, like ‘we looked for evidence for psychic powers and didn’t find any’.

Chivers, Tom. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World (pp. 91-92). (Function). Kindle Edition.

As an academic it is sad, though I often don’t trust what I read. Recently from personal experience I’m questioning how much protein we really need. I shifted my focus from protein to more a plant based diet. Cut back on beef and processed food. For myself, just myself my numbers in terms of blood sugar and cholesterol improved. When I was a kid it was eat your fruits and vegetables or at least or pressure to eat more veggies. Nowadays everywhere I go someone somewhere is selling protein and it’s like the cure all. Yet if everyone is so protein deficient now yet in the past when there weren’t all these protein supplements how did we even survive? OK, a little sarcastic and you get the point.

I’ve more than one friend mentioning issues with fruits and veggies today – yet they happily eat cake and ice cream and think nothing of it. Million thoughts there – though no reason to talk about the issues with cake and ice cream – not interesting. What goes viral as well just isn’t always the most helpful. Spreading fear around fruits and veggies… If anything aren’t processed foods in part made from fruits and vegetables? Are processed foods made from only the best no pesticide healthiest fruits and veggies on the planet or the cheapest? Not to mention the artificial ingredients…

Thus the additional point not only what gets published but also what goes viral we need to be careful of and take it with a grain of salt.

Feedback for Arthur:

• Adding some thickness and volume
• Think bigger trapezoid/ square-like shape for the palm

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