Thesis and antithesis combine to create a new you

The art of self compassion

There is a child inside you. If you tell yourself to do something you are hurting the child within you. So you have to soothe the child inside you by telling it that I told you to do something.

The real meaning of the Sisyphus story is to laugh at the absurdity of life and not to take things seriously

You have to learn that your paranoia makes you see the bad in the other.. But if you learn to reflect on that matter and you are able to see the same aspects within your own self. You will know more about your self. Practicing in this manner you will detach from the world

The new information that we receive goes first to the hippocampus. Because the hippocampus job is to receive new information it has to forget the previous information which it has to pass on to the surrounding regions. once the memory reaches the frontal lobes only then it is a long term memory. So don't be in a hurry to master any subject, wait for the information to be relayed to the higher regions of the brain.

When the ego gets inflated one has to consider that he is only human. One has to bring himself down and understand that he is not God but only human.

If you have read philosophy you are aware that life is meaningless and absurd. It is only by verbalising the stings of life that we can reduce the impact of the stings which life gives us. So be grateful for being able to verbalize through language.

In philosophy there is thesis and antithesis and synthesis.. in addictions the thesis is the urge and the antithesis is to laugh at the thought of indulging in the addictions. The resulting synthesis is neither the urge nor the dislike. It is the act of becoming a new you.

Treat your mind as the other. Verbalize what is going on in the mind. Feel what the thoughts are telling you. Create a relationship with yourself. The mind thrives in a relationship. Developing a strong relationship with your own self will make you self sufficient and you will not need any out side help