If you’ve been with me a while, you know I’ve been struggling with an ever-growing list of health issues, both old and new. While chronic pain is already difficult for many healthy people to understand, the mental effects of conditions and chronic pain are even less understood. It eats away at you, saps your strength […]
Tag: Mind
Integrated Living Series Part Three: The Home in Your Head
People often want really nice homes. They dream of setting it up, adding personal touches, and maybe even having a family fill it up. Yet there’s another home each one of us had that we forget about. It’s the one in our head. No matter what, the brain is an inescapable part of our lives. […]
Believe you can change (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
I’ve become more growth-mindset oriented in the past few years. I’ve always leaned toward it but now it swallows and towers over any fixed-mindset attitudes I have left. It also explains my frustration when helping people. At first I assumed if just have to leave the fixed-mindset people figure it out eventually yet this article […]
Integrated Living: Introduction
Humans tend to have this strange habit of walking around each day and chopping their life into bits. They chop others’ lives into bits, too, at any opportunity. We have this natural ability to categorize, organize, and analyze yet issues arise when this is applied improperly. When we try to measure other people or ourselves […]
Helpful Illusions
Our minds are constantly tricking us. They are filled with lies and distortions. Our memories are faulty, optical illusions fool us, and our vision (and other senses) can actually change depending on our beliefs. However, there is hope. In fact, many illusions are crucial to our ability to function. What if I told you there […]
Shift to Peripherals
There are people out there who hurt others. They tease, they taunt, they bully. There are others who hurt people unintentionally. They break your heart, they let slip a crass comment, they behave carelessly. This can leave a person feeling pretty low about themselves. It can result in a person’s focus being swallowed up with […]
Vision: Zooming In and Out on Reality
The human brain is set up to apprehend a physical world. Our senses measure distance and pressure. Yet when it comes to the mind apprehending itself, many can feel rather lost. Personally, I find visualization helpful. Every thought is a physical entity that I either move towards and build up or move away from and […]
Integrity-Once More With Purpose
You thought I was going to say feeling, right? That’s alright, it’s a pretty catchy phrase. Anyway, today I’d like to talk about purpose. Each day can be a chance to infuse meaning into your life. Each day is an opportunity to be useful in some way. Every day provides room for improvement. Why waste […]
The Hidden Moment
Light takes a fraction of a second to reach your retinas and then another fraction to be processed by your brain. Sound takes a bit longer to go through the same process. Yet something in this process allows us to take the information from our senses at these differing speeds and combine it to form […]
Broken Glass
There is a fear of being broken. There are sayings about broken people and wanting to break people. The struggle to maintain the foundation is a great one. But what if we are meant to be broken? What if being broken is a gift, the only way we can build something greater? I have been […]
