Things that make me less aware

[Chives99]

Your brains effectiveness and your motivation level to improve is equal to how aware you are, so the solution to this is to find out what makes you become less aware and how to improve how aware you are, here's my list.

 

• Alcohol- speaks for itself, people do and say stupid shit whilst drunk
• Drugs ( although i don't plan on doing anything mentally demanding when taking a psychedelic, its for when I'm on my own)
• Depression ( probably the equivalent of drinking a pint of beer or half a pint if you're a light weight like me), I've nearly crashed my car because i couldn't concentrate due to low mood.
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• Anger - performance is useless whilst angry, its why the driving licence authority tells you to calm down before driving as your concentration is significantly reduced.
• Tiredness- don't operate machinery or try and work whilst tired you'll make stupid mistakes and it could be dangerous, my friend flipped his car as he fell asleep at thee wheel and luckily survived but, even if you don't fall asleep you'll make a lot of bad judgements and miss things.
• Negative thought patterns ( similar to depression, but if you are on an obsessive spiral of thinking you aren't engaging in what you're doing and will lash out or do something ineffective)
• Stress- if you are stressed out, don't work , if you do your work will be shit and you'll make mistakes, best to relax first or reorganise your life so you are less stressed.
• When you are unwell- don't neglect your health, as trying to pull through will produce poor quality work as your brain cant focus on your ill health and concentrate at the same time
• When you are down on yourself and beat yourself up- similar to negative thought patterns but, when you are filled with self hatred you have not motivation or interest in engaging in whatever you are doing and will lead to very poor performance and majour fuck ups.

 

Thats my list, let me know if you have anymore that could be added. The solution to this is unconditional self acceptance and self love and the same for every aspect of reality as well. Everyday practice being aware through mindfullness, you could pick an activity like brushing your teeth and counting the strokes and watch the traps for when one of these on the list could affect your awareness level.

Edited May 5, 2020 by Chives99

[Fkdel]

Negative people, and mainstream media.