Mindfulness Mode

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November 25, 2018 Power Tends to Corrupt
A bully can deny your reality. We have a president who can repeatedly lie blatantly and yet continue to receive professional media coverage befitting the office. When he should rather be disregarded as an unreliable source of information and ignored. It seems people are no longer outraged when the president directly contradicts himself. While some are dismayed, many others find it humorous, the truth drifts a few more degrees away from the national attention, as we are swept up in a whirlwind of falsehoods, half-truths and obfuscation.

Power tends to corrupt.         Great men are almost always bad men.

Bullies.        The response to power.        Definition of "bully" Dictionary.com.

Rude, terrible person.         Suppression.         NEWS = pain.

Excuse me.       Racist people.        Fake I.C.E..

I want protection.         Collusion.

No fair Supreme Court.

There will be blame.        Terrible difference.

Sources: CNN, FOX News, The D.C. Shorts, A.U.R.N., April Ryan, Abby, Phillip, Jim Acosta, Peter Alexander, Yamiche Alcindor
15 min
November 22, 2018377 Shortcuts To Awakening With Jonathan Robinson
Jonathan Robinson is an author, a psychotherapist, and co-host of the popular podcast "Awareness Explorers." His specialty is providing people with simple methods that lead to more peace, love, and awareness. He is the bestselling author of 12 books, and has been a frequent guest on Oprah and CNN. Articles about him have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, and Reader's Digest magazine. Jonathan is the host of the Awareness Explorers Podcast. He also speaks at Fortune 500 companies on how to be less stressed while achieving more.
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Website: www.FindingHappiness.com
Website: www.ShortcutsToAwakening.com
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Podcast: www.AwarenessExplorers.com
Most Influential Person
Justin Gold, a teacher that I lived with for 25 years
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness has made me a lot less afraid of them, [my emotions], and allowed me to just enjoy them more, not see them as something to get stuck in because I don't get stuck in them anymore.
And to allow myself to really feel them and to see them as a friend rather than something I need to be afraid of.
Thoughts on Breathing
Well, if I don't breathe, there's no mindfulness. Just like knowing the background of awareness as a way to always tap into peace.
Breathing is another thing that's always there and it's like a rock that will always be there if you need it. It's a good anchor into the world of presence and whether it be being aware of being aware or being aware of your breathing, it's a great feeling to know that something is always there that you can relax into.
Suggested Resources
Book: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body & Mind to Face Stress, Pain & Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Book: Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts for Bringing More Love, Balance, and Joy Into Your Life by Jonathan Robinson
Book: More Love Less Conflict: A Communication Playbook for Couples by Jonathan Robinson
App: The Headless Way
Bullying Story
I do actually have a story. It happened just a month ago. I actually teach mindfulness in prisons. I volunteer and I was in a prison, in a room with maybe 20 hardcore prisoners, rapists and murderers mostly.
I said something that really offended one of the guys and he got up and he started shouting at me. Well, you know, this is not a pretty scene. There's no guards there.
And I decided to use a couple of techniques hoping that they would calm him down and I wouldn't end up seriously hurt.
So I said two things. I said, I notice that you're really upset and that you're really good at expressing your emotions and I really appreciate how real you are. I just want you to know that right now I'm feeling really scared and I'm feeling really frightened with your yelling and I would like to connect with you, but I can't do it when you're screaming at me.
So I'm basically saying what's going on in the moment. One, my appreciation about what he's doing, what I noticed about what he's doing and what is happening in me. And it was pretty amazing, the effect.
He immediately calmed down. He said, that's cool. I'm sorry, I just got upset by what you said. Then he sat down and we went over the whole thing and we ended up forming a really nice bond.
But, you know, something like that could have saved my life because he was about six foot, five inches, 300 pounds.
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36 min
November 19, 2018376 Achieve Radical Wholeness With Embodiment Expert Philip Shepherd
Philip Shepherd is recognized as an international authority on embodiment. His unique techniques have been developed to transform our experience of self and world, and are based on the vision articulated in his celebrated books, New Self, New World (2010) and Radical Wholeness (Nov 2017). The approach he takes heals the frantic, restless pace of the intelligence in the head, which tends to run on overdrive, by uniting it with the deep, present and calm intelligence of the body. This way of thinking is in contrast to the prevailing view of embodiment, which involves sitting in the head and ‘listening to the body. Instead, Philip helps us listen to the world through the body. His personal path to understanding has been shaped by his adventures as a teenager, when he cycled alone through Europe, the Middle East, India and Japan. Philip currently spends his time divided between teaching international workshops, running Facilitators Trainings, and participating in a documentary about his work.
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Contact Info
Website: http://www.philipshepherd.com/
Blog: https://philipshepherd.com/blog/
Most Influential Person
Marion Woodman (Featured in Dancing In The Flames www.DancingInTheFlames.com)
Effect on Emotions
We think of our emotions as personal, private things. We, we feel our experience as private and everything you experience is shared. It's just the nature of our reality.
And so to come into that grounded place of wholeness is to feel, not that contained charge of the emotion, but that dilation where it's not that the emotion goes away, but it becomes integrated, it's able to be integrated.
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing is a huge part of what I teach and my contention is that the whole of the body should be available to the breath and if it's not, you're not in wholeness.
And we keep the breath out of our legs. We keep it out of our backs, we constrain it. So we, we talk from here and we lose our wholeness by constraining our breath. So it's the foundation.
Suggested Resources
Book: Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being by Philip Shepherd
App: Body World (Philip Shepherd's App to be released approximately April 2019)
Bullying Story
I'm thinking of one [bullying story] that happened very recently.
I facilitate teacher strings. So there are people who were learning to teach my work and a woman just wrote me back. There was a woman in her neighborhood who is something of a bully. We actually talked about it during the course and she said, what can I do about it? And I made some suggestions.
Well, she got back and sure enough, she went out walking her dog and there's this woman and there's no getting away and the woman comes at her and she'd just dropped more and more deeply into her wholeness, into her mindfulness, into that grounded, receptive chorus, responsive place.
And she said, the woman talked for about two minutes and then left looking slightly confused. And normally it would have been like 20 minutes of. And I really took heart from that. She didn't do anything but land in that mindful coherence of her awareness at this moment. I love where that went and how it went.
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39 min
November 15, 2018375 Learn From Mindset Missionary Tim C Star
Tim C. Star is a Speaker, author, podcaster, and mindset missionary. When he lost a long-term job at age 54, Tim didn’t work again for 2 years. He also didn’t get depressed or begin to question his worth in the world mainly because he didn’t base his self-value on his career. When he became aware that he wasn’t experiencing what the “experts” said should happen, he wondered why. The answer lay hidden in the early teachings he’d been exposed to since childhood. These concepts helped him gain a different perspective of the world, and of what happened to him. Today, he shares his insights with his followers.
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Contact Info
Website: www.TimCStar.com
Podcast: The Universe Between Your Ears www.UniversePodcast.com
Most Influential Person
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Effect on Emotions
This is the trick that we're after. I think if you can be in a position where you can assume a third party perspective on what's going on in your life and understand that it's just something that's going on.
It's not good or bad, right or wrong necessarily, and you can be removed from it in a personal way. Then the emotions that will be part of it don't have the same effect. The waves aren't as high and the troughs aren't as low. The period in between is longer.
You just have a much more stable path through your emotional life. And it's helped me to avoid a lot of grief, losing friends to cancer and things like that.
If I hadn't had these ideas in the back of my head, there are a few incidents that would've been so much tougher.
Thoughts on Breathing
The only thing that's coming to my mind really is as it's applied in meditation, it's part of the go-to, first level instruction when you get a guided meditation that you're listening to.
When you relax and your mind starts wandering, pay attention to your breathing in and out. And notice your breath. The reason being that if you're actually truly doing that, you can't think about anything else.
Suggested Resources
Book: Looking Out For #1: How to Get from Where You Are Now to Where You Want to Be in Life by Robert J. Ringer
Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Book: Any books by Dr. Wayne Dyer
Book: My Name Is Prosperity: A Law Of Attraction Story by Tim C. Star
Book: Where's My Stuff?: A hopeful skeptic looks at the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and the Law of Attraction by Tim C. Star
App: n/a
Bullying Story
Honestly, I don't think I [have any bullying stories]. I think it was just sort of under the radar. I'm not a big guy. I'm athletic.
I was on a baseball team when I was a freshman in high school, but that was kind of a joke. I would've loved to go on the football team but I just didn't. We went out and saw them working full pads in August in Chicago and I thought, I'll pass on that.
But the bullying thing, I never got truly bullied.
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39 min
November 12, 2018374 Improve Your Life Experience With Three Rooms; Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy is a a community activist, a wrestler, a speaker, and a writer. He is also a former Wall Street managing director. Following his college wrestling career, he served as a youth wrestling coach on Long Island for over thirty years. This led to his induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2009. He's also spear-headed a campaign to raise awareness of the opioid and drug epidemic that's sweeping the country. His varied experiences have given Kevin a unique and eclectic way of understanding human nature. He used this understanding to write the book, The Three Rooms, where he explains how observing which room your thoughts are in at any given time can change your experience of life.
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Website: www.TheThreeRooms.com
Facebook: The Three Rooms
Most Influential Person
Larry Glenn (my wrestling coach)
Effect on Emotions
Well, I think mindfulness has made me aware of my emotions because I think mindfulness is really about how we feel and it is the merging of our thoughts and emotions. That is what all the mystics talk about, when the two becomes one, you know, the nonduality.
You can talk about the soul of the Ottoman and the Brahmin of the soul and the universal mind all merging into one, and the thoughts and the emotions all merging into one. And I think that's, that's so important.
And so when I think of mindfulness, I think not only of the conscious awareness of my thoughts, but also how it makes me feel. Keeping in that centered place where thoughts of kindness, love, appreciation, and gratitude, that really does help.
Thoughts on Breathing
Well, I look at breathing when I look within and communicate within because I think it's really important to connect with that universal mind that we all have.
And, when I've asked that question sometimes within like, 'So where are you? Are you here?' I've received an answer that, 'Yes, I am in your breath.'
If I think of my breath as my higher self, I'm always here as long as I'm breathing. I can feel a higher self within me and that's my connection.
That connection to the universal mind is within your heart and the thoughts in everyone's minds, but I think of that breath as not just monitoring my breathing. No, I can feel you (my higher self). I know you're here because I can feel the breath and I know my higher self is saying to me, as long as you can feel your breath, you can feel me.
Suggested Resources
Book: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
App: The Calm App
Bullying Story
Having been a wrestler for most of my life all through junior high, high school and college, and I had two older brothers who were wrestlers, so even though I was very small, people tend to not want to bother with wrestlers.
What I've always found through the years is, bullies are not tough guys. Bullies are coming from a point of insecurity.
We've always had the saying, bullies start fights, but tough guys finish fights. And so bullies don't want to be, you know, run into the tough guy.
And so I was always kind of avoided because of being in wrestling.
But I do remember a story vividly and I put it in the book, where one day my son came home from school and he was talking about Martin Luther King's birthday. And we started talking about Martin Luther King about how he helped people, even when he didn't need to and maybe people who couldn't stand up for themselves. And we talked about how, how cool that was.
I noticed that he really got it and about a week later he came home from school and he told me that there was a couple of kids bullying another kid at school and everyone kind of gathered around and was kind of cheering on the bullies as they beat up this one kid. I can get emotional thinking about it, but he stepped in and he broke up the fight.
And it was the first time I ever remember him getting in a fight at school. I could tell it made him feel really good. But think of how it made the other kid feel.
Someone said, you know, you're worth sticking up for. Someone said, You are good enough. You are worthy. And when he went home, how meaningful that must have been to him.
And so Paul, my son had to have been, he had to be mindful in that moment because he had to be aware of what was happening and the emotions of compassion had to kick in in order for him to step in because what was happening with all the other kids, they weren't being mindful.
They were caught up in the moment. They were actually cheering like, oh, look at him. Oh, get that good. Did you see that kick?
And I'm sure that after it was over they were probably like, I don't know why I was cheering. I didn't really mean to do that, but you get caught up in it and you need to be mindful when it's happening. And I thought that was a really wonderful story for him and an experience for him.
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35 min
November 08, 2018373 Expose The Monster Under Your Bed With Kim Fiske
Kim Fiske is a respected professional keynote speaker. She's a life coach, an author and a seven figure income earner. Kim is also a thought leader sought after for her ability to convey to audiences provocative concepts and practical ways to deal with what she has coined as the monster under the bed. Kim has been able to change the way people view their relationships, their careers, life goals and journeys by giving them the ability to acknowledge their proverbial monster while providing mechanisms for coping with it. This process has provided relief in the form of an inner peace to those who are seriously seeking.
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Website: www.KimFiske.com
Instagram: @KimFiske
Facebook: @JKFiske
Most Influential Person
Dr. Wayne Dyer / Marianne Williamson / Jon Kabat-Zinn
Effect on Emotions
Mindfulness has changed my world. It's absolutely changed my world. It changed everything because I don't look through the same glasses at anything anymore. It's changed everything.
Thoughts on Breathing
I remember back in my early days of just quiet time. I was raised in a very fundamental Christian home, so meditation was kind of like a little bit new age-ey. We don't know if it's really of God or not. That was my upbringing.
So I called it quiet time and it's what I grew up knowing about prayer, but I never really understood because everybody prayed in a fear-based way. That's not faith. That shouldn't be how we pray.
So I learned how to quiet. Once I got my intrinsic value and I cleaned my conduit is what I called it; getting the barnacles and the monster tracks cleared up of my who I am.
Then I could visualize. I just kind of got this feeling inside me of being radiant and feeling unconditional love. So I breathe, I breathe. It has to be emotional. You got to feel it. It can't be cerebral. Cerebral, doesn't work. It doesn't do any unwiring or rewiring. It's got to be emotional and you've got to feel.
Go to this unconditional place, and sometimes it's hard. And I would fight my thoughts. I remember trying to quiet my mind and that didn't help me because my mind couldn't be quiet.
Then I went to self judgment because I wasn't doing it right. So when I started telling people, don't worry about quieting your mind, don't worry about controlling your thought, deep breathe.
Then go to this place of, I'm just going to notice all the thoughts that come by. I'm going to notice them and then come back to the breath. Oh, there I go. I just went and noticed another one. Oh, there's another one.
So then it stops the judgment about doing it wrong because so many people stop because they can't do it right. And they think they're unique. Oh, everyone else can do this, but me. No.
Suggested Resources
Book: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Book: Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon by Dr. Joe Dispenza
Book: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
Book: The Monster Under the Bed: Uncovering the Lie That Drives Us by Kim Fiske
App: Calm
Bullying Story
I have a story in the book about a friend of mine who's a black man that lives in southern California. He went to a friend's house in an affluent white neighborhood in southern California. My friend Jonathan had really done a lot of monster work.
He's already very self actualized, mindful, listening, trying to rewire, trying to reprogram from years and years and years of when someone feels discriminated against all their life.
And when someone feels bullied basically for their skin color or for whatever. Women can feel bullied because of gender. I even talk about Viktor Frankl in this chapter. I mean he was put into a Nazi concentration camp because he was Jewish.
This was the ultimate bullying. And so how do these people, this is who I really want to speak to, is the person being bullied because number one, don't allow the bullying to continue; protect yourself.
Put boundaries around. I don't ever ever want to rationalize or justify any bullying being done to you.
We teach people how to treat us, so put your boundaries up and know how to protect yourself from it or if you don't know, ask someone. Get some help about how to protect yourself.
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43 min
November 05, 2018372 Quantum Physics Can Improve Your Life Says Author Mel Schwartz
Mel Schwartz is a psychotherapist, marriage counselor and corporate leadership consultant. He is the author of The Art of Intimacy, The Pleasure of Passion and his newest book, The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love. Mel practices in Westport, Connecticut and Manhattan and works with individuals across the world. Mel is a member of the Society for Consciousness Studies and has been a keynote speaker at Yale University. His TEDx talk, Overcoming Anxiety, is receiving over 1500 views per day.
Contact Info
Website: www.MelSchwartz.com
Podcast: The Possibility Podcast With Mel Schwartz - http://melschwartz.com/possibility-podcast
Blog: A Shift of Mind Blog - http://melschwartz.com/blog/
TedX Videos: http://melschwartz.com/talks/
Most Influential Person
David Bohm, quantum physicist.
Effect on Emotions
I believe that mind or a thought in motion, (thought and feeling) are inextricably linked. My bias is that thought probably occurs first, although we may not see it, or be aware of it.
So I have learned that when I'm in a particular mood, whether elevated or deflated, if I check in as to what was the last thought I had, I can find the thought that set up the feeling.
Now the thing is, once you have the feeling, that feeling then will summon up more similar thoughts, which is why we tend to cycle up or down.
But there are different words and labels that we put to describe human experience. So we think of thought being from the neck up.
I can't say it resides there and we think of feeling as being in the gut, and who knows. But what we call thought and feeling are different aspects of the same whole.
Think about a coin. The head and tail aren't separate. They are different aspects of the coin.
Thought and feeling I see as different aspects of human consciousness
Thoughts on Breathing
Breathing is not sufficiently part of my mindful practices. It's something I need to work on. I tend to reside in my spirit and in my mind.
My work is to develop more awareness in my body and to be more conscious and mindful of my breathing. So to the point of embracing vulnerability and sharing your truth. That's work I still need to do
Suggested Resources
Book: Read Alfred North Whitehead, the philosopher, 19th century. Also read author, David Bohm.
App: Spotify - When I need a break from thinking, and from the things that impact me and don't allow my center, I'll turn on spotify and listen to music which will still me and quiet me.
Bullying Story
This has come up in a number of circumstances around bullying in my work as a therapist. Take an individual in a marriage where one person felt bullied by the other, and in this case atypically. Perhaps it was the man who felt bullied. Now, why was he allowing and tolerating the bullying?
Because his self worth, self esteem was questionable. So when other than someone physically bullying you and them being twice your size and in the moment not knowing what to do about it, bullying is often emotional and verbal. When it is such, the question is, if I am tolerating it, why?
It reflects back to my core issue with myself. Do I value myself? What do I deserve? What stories and narratives am I telling myself about the bullying and why I might endure it.
The story might be, if it happened to a child, if I told mom and dad, they'll be angry at me because I didn't stand up for myself.
Or the story might be, the word will get out and then I'll feel embarrassed or ashamed. We make up stories. We have to penetrate the stories we tell ourselves and come to the authentic truth, which is what's my fear?
No, we are taught to act strong and to avoid vulnerability. That is a misunderstood and misinformed belief. Acting strong is acting, it's weak.
Embracing my vulnerability means that I'm sharing who I am, what my self doubts and fears and insecurities are, and that means I'm not worried about you judging me.
That is authentic self esteem. Culturally self esteem is misunderstood. I call what we do other esteem.
So you ask a parent, what will give your child good self esteem? Well, if they're popular and they're great in sports and they get great grades, that doesn't give you self esteem.
So what we do is we betray our authentic sense of self to manipulate things so that others will like us or approve of us. But when we do that to an extreme, we don't develop a core sense of self. That will lead to allowing bullying.
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34 min
November 04, 2018 Vote For Me Today
A barely political collage about voting, prescription drugs and New Port Richey Bob among other things.

We can all agree.     Fight equal rights in Florida.

Prescription drugs for murderers.       General Buttadu.

Maybe we'll cut Social Security.        I'll be your veterinarian.

Your registration has expired.         Stand up for Crime.

Fight the community not special interests.

Fraud for congress.        New Port Richey Bob.

Prescription drugs for Florida.           Vote for me today.

I don't know what's going on.
14 min
November 01, 2018371 Mindful Money Abundance with Morgana Rae
Morgana Rae is a ten-time international #1 best selling author and a pioneer in personal development for over 23 years. She’s widely regarded to be the world’s leading 'Relationship With Money' coach. Morgana’s fans call her the “Money Goddess” because of documented stories of clients making thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars within hours of changing their relationship with money. Morgana writes, speaks, and coaches from a desire to empower idealistic entrepreneurs, coaches, authors and artists to have a big impact in the world and to heal the rift between heart, spirit, and money.
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Website: wwwMorganaRae.com
Free 4 Part Video Series to ease you into the money monster www.MorganaRae.com
Book: Financial Alchemy: Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation by Morgana Rae
Most Influential Person
The Buddha
Effect on Emotions
I think mindfulness, for me, is why I'm happy. We can't control what happens outside of us, but we can definitely change our experience and make things useful and bring more love and understanding and use everything to make our lives and the world better.
Thoughts on Breathing
I try to get out to the beach. I think nature, wherever you get it is really, really important.
I find when I'm in nature by the water or in the earth, my breathing slows and I start to breathe along with the waves and it just changes me.
Suggested Resources
Book: Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein
Book: Financial Alchemy: Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation by Morgana Rae
App: Choose Muse www.ChooseMuse.com
Bullying Story
I was the most hated girl in school in the third grade. I moved from the city in Los Angeles and Hollywood out to the suburbs. One was very diverse and a very, very different culture. We called grownups by their first name. It was just very different and then suddenly I'm in this very white bred suburb with different social rules that I didn't understand.
So I was the girl everybody hated. I had no friends in school. There was one girl I would play with after school, but she would be the meanest girl at school. It was a life that has only gotten better since then.
So I have this aspect of myself that I call my inner fat girl because I was chubby at the time, so people called me fat stuff like I wasn't even a person.
It was so dehumanizing and I still have this aspect of my personality that comes out when I'm feeling in a social situation, not good enough, not pretty enough, not popular enough. Like there's something really wrong with me and I have so much love for this part of me fat girl, because a, she needs love more than maybe any other part of me.
And I think she's also the most loving because that part of me that feels like the unacceptable ugly outcast who doesn't deserve to exist, recognizes, understands, loves and desires to provide safety for everybody else's inner fat girl that feels like the unsafe outcast who doesn't deserve to exist.
So my mindfulness is to take that experience and kind of turn it into gold through service, by bringing love first to that part of myself and really, truly loving her contribution. There's a temptation when we're being abused and feeling the abuse, especially if we're empathic and we're feeling the anger and the rage.
It's very tempting either to lash out at the people who are attacking us or even more tempting to lash out at ourselves and hurt ourselves and join the abusers. When we can pause and love the parts of us that we have the most trouble with; maybe you call it the saboteur or the bully.
You know, I talked about my fat girl. Each of them is on our team. Each of them has wisdom, and when we can really embrace and love that part of us, it gives us a super power. It gives us the super power of empathy.
When I love my inner fat girl, the part of me that feels hated and ugly and lonesome and doesn't deserve to exist and lonely, then I can see and understand and love everybody else's part that feels those ways and then it gives me sort of a super power to heal that pain and that changes the dynamic. I became a coach.
Really, truly. I quit acting and became a coach because I was doing it as a hobby and I liked myself better. I liked the relationships better. I was happier. So honestly I became a coach. Totally for selfish reasons because I found it easier to be happy helping other people.
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50 min
October 31, 2018 Multitudinous Tribal Existences
This one's a bit dark and didactic. It's kind of difficult to discuss retribalization while staying positive. Toward the end of the month, I came across a rich vein of additional tribalist information, much I was unable to include. This topic demands to be revisited. It will, hopefully with a lighter approach, next time.

Electric information movement.          Information bubbles.

Naive idealism.         Abandon that thinking.

Quote from Marshall McLuhan Playboy interview 1968.

World Pool.         Identity quest.         Facebook.

Youtube information silos.         The narcissism of minor differences.

"it's Even Worse Than It Looks,"         Norman Ornstein,

Thomas Mann,        Healthcare.        Fool for the Enlightenment.

The illusion of separation.         Show don't tell.

A new goal for humanity.
20 min

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