Everyone would like to do more and give more, at least in intent. But reality sets in rather quickly. Often most, our resources are too scarce to share them with others. We know or at least we sense that giving is the right thing to do. But when we see an opportunity to give or…
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Gratitude 101
Gratitude is the salt of life. Gratitude is what makes life beautiful and worth living. Being grateful makes you happy. Why? Because gratitude is seeing the glass half full. Or even better, you see the glass full of half liquid, half air. Gratitude makes you appreciate having a bus to go places instead of bitching…
Physical Practice – Periodization
How to get guiltless about Working Out You work out. You go out or stay in and exercise. You found an activity you like to perform to stay in shape. Yet questions arise Am I doing it too much? too little? How can I reach my performance goals? How much should I do? How long?…
Physical Practice – Periodization Calculator
Read about workout periodization here How to use the calculator This is a simple calculator – it just does the math crossing the various percentages. Workouts will be divided into 4 types of session: Easy Medium Hard Recovery Each type represents a level of effort compared to your current maximum. Easy – about 60% Medium…
How to Make The Best Use of Your Brain
This post is also published on WisdomFeed.com – How to make the best use of your brain Introduction You as a person are the product of your mind. Your mind is what is going on in your brain. Whether the brain is the recipient or the generator of the mind is debatable but this is not…
Improve your nutrition without changing your diet
Less food, more chew — Chinese proverb What you eat is important – it defines a lot of what you are made of. But how you assimilate food is of the utmost importance. You must chew your food to a liquid before swallowing it. Below are the 5 reasons why: THE IMPACT ON FLAVOR Food…
Life 5 Modes
Human life can be described using five modes. We can lead an enlightened, a driven, a normal, an ordinary, or a broken life We are all born enlightened Infants, toddlers, and even children are innocent. They embrace acceptance. Joy and lack of worry are ruling the day and time doesn’t matter. Humans have to learn…
17 practical ways to make meditation easy
Practical tips for relaxation, connection, and meditation A lot is said about being in the Now, living in the moment, regrouping or relaxing in order to relieve stress and otherwise live a fuller life. One can only achieve such a goal through practice. The exercises below can be the backbone of a practice session, but…
The Only Road to Happiness
The Quest The good things in life come from the inside, not from the outside — Peter Kelder, The Eye Of Revelation Our brain is wired to believe that some material wealth or some level of comfort, or some social status, or some personal achievement, will create happiness, serenity, solace, internal peace. But as you changed…
Can these 3 little words be the source of your worry?
The challenge Staying productive is a constant challenge. Getting a feeling of purpose in what we do is even more difficult. Part of the problem is the amount of task we accept to put on our plate, most of which we have an intuitive knowledge they will never get done. How do we paint ourselves…
Using Noise During Meditation
Utilize distraction There is a tendency to believe a quiet and soothing location is an unconditional requirement to practice meditation. This can greatly limit your practice. The truth is otherwise, Meditation and other connection practices can be applied anywhere. The teacher asked the student: – Are you ready to give up this world, and live in…
The best strategy to optimize your health insurance
FACT: Health Insurance Does Not Pay For Health Care You must understand the distinction between health INSURANCE and health CARE. HEALTH INSURANCE covers the risk of an unlikely but very costly health event. A bad accident, the treatment of a critical illness or a major surgery can quickly generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in…
Why time was so long when you were little and it is so short now?
Slow Time Most people say a year is 365 days. Geeks will say a year contains 365.2422 days. That is not the point here. Do you remember that it took you forever to go from being 8 years old to being 9 years old? At that age, time is slow. When I was 8, waiting…
Life is unpredictable
The illusion of control We tend to believe we can control what happens in our life. But life cannot be predicted. All we can do is arrange so the odds are in our favor.
The strange power of the Mind over the body and its weird tricks
The brain primary function was to manage bodily functions. Little by little, more functions have been added to its job description, such as emotions in Brain 2. Then came the latest addition, Brain 3, which with its reasoning skills, solved major survival problems.
Learn why your brain is blind to most of the world
Way too much information We do not see Reality, we see what we perceive as Reality. Reality has too many details to be recorded registered, computed, analyzed. Only a portion of the world is actually available to us at any given time and it is in fact not what you may think. I am not…
Connection Practice
The Connection Practice is part of the Personal Practice The Physical Practice, the Ghost Chasing Practice, and the Connection Practice are of equal importance. Remember that out of the three brains (Reptilian, Limbic, Neocortex) the Limbic system is the one making our Life. Practicing what engages and stimulates this part of the brain will enhance…
You are a star in your own movie
The Personal Narrative The Personal Narrative is the story you tell yourself about yourself. You are the fictional character your Mind created, and who behaves and acts accordingly to a preset storyline. Your mind will make whatever it takes so everything happens accordingly to that storyline. This character is also referred to as the Ego…
Ghost Chasing Practice
The Ghost Chasing Practice is part of the Personal Practice The Physical Practice, the Ghost Chasing Practice, and the Connection Practice are of equal importance Ghost Chasing is an umbrella name for the quest of understanding your unconscious behavior and its origins and eventually adopting better habits and attitudes than the ones you originally inherited….
Are we really any better people than our early ancestors?
We still behave like cavemen We may think a lot of ourselves because we have conquered many diseases, coerced electricity into giving us the Internet and Social Media, and managed to make air travel a normalcy but our mindset has not changed much since the dawn of humanity.
8 filters that block you from seeing reality
Our reality is a filtered version of the world Reality is not perceivable as is What we perceive as Reality is a filtered version so we can take action and live in the World.
Practice your way to a better life
Personal development requires action Just reading, talking and thinking about it is not sufficient. One of the core principles is that Body and Mind are linked. When the thoughts are acted upon, their impact is better imprinted in the mind. It is a fact that anyone is a lot more aware that a stove is…
Physical Practice
The Physical Practice is part of the Personal Practice The Physical Practice, the Ghost Chasing Practice, and the Connection Practice are of equal importance Your brain is creating your life, but your body is carrying your brain.
How the mind came into being
William Calvin in his Brief History of the Mind demonstrated that the brain attained its current size and anatomy long before humans started to use it for higher functions. Only later came the ability to throw with accuracy, to communicate using language, to think in logical terms, create societies, make technology what it is today.
The 3 brains in your head
An organization of the brain The Triune Brain is a theory from the 60s that tried to model the organization of the brain. It is technically inaccurate as an explanation for brain activity as neuroscience understands it but it remains one of the very few good approximations of what is going on in our head.
This may change the way you look at money forever
Money exists mostly in our imagination. Yes, there are these green rectangles of paper with round numbers printed on them and all these documents listing what we owe, own and earn. These are tangible objects we can feel with our senses and call them real, but money is imaginary and its value completely relative. Money…
Gratitude is the Key to Happiness but who and what should you be grateful for?
Why should you be grateful in the first place? Gratitude is the Key to Freedom, Love, and Happiness. Practice Gratitude every day. But who and what should you be grateful for? After all, you are the one doing all the work, right?
Life is a Game
Bill Williams is a psychologist who used his background and personal research to become a successful trader. In his book Trading Chaos (Wiley, 1995) he explores the reasons why 90% of traders are losing money on the market. Here is one of his opening statements: Life is a game in which we make what is…
The 3 Rules of Personal Development
Rule #1 You must be happy regardless of your circumstances Let nothing rob you of the joy of being here now Rule #2 You are your only hope and best asset Nobody else can create your life Rule #3 Your personal development is your life mission You owe it to yourself to become the great…
What really is survival?
Survival stereotypes We often picture Survival as a situation where someone has to face danger or death in the wilderness, eating raw scavenged items, building stuff out of random other stuff in a bare environment. Modern survival skills include How to dress for job interviews How to defeat the next layoff How to hack one’s…
4 ways Nature is unpredictable
Querying the future The progress of science and technology have pushed the boundaries of the unknown, giving us the illusion that we could find answers to everything. Will the next card be a Jack? How big my goldfish will grow? Will a meteor collide with the Earth? Will it rain next Monday? Because the outcome…
The Butterfly Effect in your life
The Butterfly Effect is a poetic name to say that in some situations, small changes in initial conditions can lead to major variations of the final outcome. It was first observed in the 1960s by an American mathematician and meteorologist named Edward Lorenz, in a quest to forecast weather using computer simulation.
Exponential Growth
This chapter contains a bit of math but we will keep it to the basics. Exponential Growth is one of the most powerful forces of the Universe and is the underlying structure to many phenomena.
The Divisions of the Mind
Many scientists, psychologists, philosophers and other folks in quest of understanding the Mind came to put in words the intuitive notion that we all have about our mind, that there are partitions in our head doing different things.
Who should you allow to teach you?
Learn from everyone Your teachers are everywhere. They are in everything. Make a point of learning from everyone regardless of how you value them, consider them or who they are.