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The app has some meditation and breathwork which is kinda cool. 

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Keep playing those mind games together..!

 

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My gift to you on this glorious day:
How to win the mind game of life. 

Winning the mind game of life is about mastering your inner world and aligning it with your outer actions to create the life you desire. Here’s a strategy broken down into essential components:

1. Master Self-Awareness

 • Know Your Core Values: Understand what truly matters to you. This clarity helps in making aligned decisions and builds a foundation for inner peace.
 • Practice Mindfulness: Regular mindfulness, through practices like meditation or Qigong, keeps you present, grounds you, and increases awareness of your emotions and thoughts.
 • Question Beliefs and Assumptions: Many of our limitations come from unconscious beliefs. Regularly challenge your assumptions and seek out perspectives that expand your understanding.

2. Develop Mental Resilience

 • Embrace Discomfort: Growth often comes from challenges. Reframe obstacles as growth opportunities, and let each difficulty become a stepping stone.
 • Practice Self-Compassion: Be as kind to yourself as you would to a friend. Self-compassion creates resilience, helping you bounce back stronger when setbacks happen.
 • Visualize Outcomes, Not Obstacles: Focus on what you want to achieve, not what you want to avoid. Positive visualization conditions the mind to seek solutions rather than succumb to fear.

3. Cultivate an Abundance Mindset

 • Believe in Possibility: Limitations are often self-imposed. Cultivating an abundance mindset opens you up to opportunities you might not otherwise see.
 • Challenge Scarcity Thinking: Instead of seeing life as a zero-sum game, view success as expansive and available to everyone. Celebrating others’ achievements can reinforce this mindset.
 • Invest in Your Growth: Knowledge, skills, and experiences are forms of wealth that compound over time. Consistent growth enables a life of freedom and abundance.

4. Align Actions with Goals

 • Set Clear, Measurable Goals: Define what “winning” means to you, whether it’s financial independence, deep relationships, or personal mastery.
 • Break Down Goals: Small, consistent actions create momentum. Divide big goals into actionable steps and follow through with dedication.
 • Build Systems for Success: Habit systems, morning routines, and regular reviews keep you aligned and focused. These structures reduce decision fatigue and keep you disciplined.

5. Optimize Relationships

 • Surround Yourself with Supportive People: Seek out those who inspire, encourage, and hold you accountable. Healthy relationships provide stability and amplify your progress.
 • Practice Empathy and Service: Genuinely understanding others fosters deep, meaningful connections and creates a support network that strengthens your own resilience.
 • Learn from Different Perspectives: Everyone has a unique view of life. Learning from diverse mindsets gives you a broader, more adaptable understanding of the game.

6. Continually Evolve

 • Pursue Lifelong Learning: A growth mindset keeps you adaptable in a changing world. The more skills and knowledge you acquire, the more opportunities you create for yourself.
 • Reflect and Adapt: Regularly review your actions, decisions, and mindset. If something isn’t working, don’t hesitate to change course.
 • Stay Humble and Grateful: Humility keeps you open to learning and growth. Practicing gratitude fosters resilience and satisfaction along your journey, regardless of external outcomes.

7. Enjoy the Game Itself

 • Detach from Outcomes: Focus on the process, not the outcome. Winning the game of life is not about hitting a final milestone but about playing with purpose, joy, and presence.
 • Celebrate Small Wins: Acknowledge your achievements along the way. Celebrating small victories sustains motivation and helps you feel fulfilled.
 • Balance Ambition with Contentment: Ambition drives progress, but contentment keeps you grounded. Find joy in where you are while keeping your vision alive.

Ultimately, winning the mind game of life means mastering yourself, taking charge of your reality, and creating a life that’s aligned with your highest values.

 

- ChatGPT disclaimer 

Edited October 26 by Thought Art

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My heart rate variability is 73 right now. 
 

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Heart rate variability (HRV) measures the variation in time between each heartbeat. Unlike your heart rate, which simply counts the beats per minute, HRV looks at the tiny fluctuations in time between individual heartbeats. These fluctuations are influenced by your autonomic nervous system, which is made up of two branches:

 

    1.    Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) - Often called the “rest and digest” system, it promotes relaxation, healing, and recovery. High HRV often indicates strong PNS activity, signaling good health and resilience.

    2.    Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) - Known as the “fight or flight” system, it activates during stress or perceived danger. Low HRV can indicate dominant SNS activity, which may mean the body is in a stressed or fatigued state.

 

Why HRV is Important

 

HRV is a valuable indicator of overall health, stress resilience, and recovery capacity. Some key points about HRV:

 

    •    Higher HRV is generally considered a sign of better cardiovascular health, greater resilience to stress, and an enhanced ability to recover from physical or mental strain.

    •    Lower HRV can be a sign of stress, overtraining, fatigue, or even potential illness, as it may indicate reduced flexibility of the nervous system in adapting to challenges.

 

What Affects HRV?

 

Several factors can influence HRV, including:

 

    •    Physical fitness – Higher fitness levels often lead to higher HRV.

    •    Sleep quality – Poor sleep can lower HRV, while restorative sleep can increase it.

    •    Stress levels – High stress, whether physical, emotional, or mental, tends to lower HRV.

    •    Lifestyle factors – Smoking, alcohol, and unhealthy eating habits can reduce HRV.

    •    Age – HRV typically decreases with age, though maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help sustain it.

 

Overall, HRV is a reflection of your body’s ability to adapt to changing situations and stressors. It’s used by athletes, wellness enthusiasts, and healthcare providers as a way to monitor health, stress, and recovery status.

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Good video for contemplating the myth of science.

 

Edited October 29 by Thought Art

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The DSM, a document developed through science, longitudinal studies and rigorous science? 
 

Or, a bunch of people taking votes in a room with essential 0 science taking place? 
 

is DSM science or pseudoscience?

“Science” this is much much more murky and twisted than you think.

Edited October 30 by Thought Art

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Chakras? 
 

Meridians? 

Tan Tians?

Neurons? 
 

Chemical imbalances?

Mental illness? DSM? 
 

ahhhhh

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So much pain, we
Don't know how to be but angry
Feel infected like we've got gangrene
Please don't let anybody try to change me

Me
Just me
In the middle of a sea full of faces
Full of faces
Some laugh some salivate
Whats in your alleyway
Recycling bins or bullet cases

Its not equal
Its not fair
Were different people
But were not scared
We ain't never scared
To pave a new path
Make a new street
Build a new bridge

Say can you see by the dawns early light
Free slaves running
Songs words weren't right
Now a new days coming
The few stay stunning while the many are handsome
Your soul is alive but they want it for ransom
The base drumming is the anthem
We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons
And

Rise together
We rise together

Lost hope and found need
Grounded by our surroundings
Did the walls scream universities
Or you and I verse the tees
React automatic and we burst when squeezed
And make 9-11 each emergency
Urgency amber to red like the turning leaves
Oh please let the hurting cease
Don't let apathy police the populace
We will march across
Those stereotypes that were marked for us
The answers obvious
We switch the consonants
Change the sword to words and lift continents

Rise together
We rise together

If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from another dimension (Repeat)

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Stand up
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up
We shall not be moved
Except by a woman dying from a loss of food
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

We still don't understand thunder and lightning
Flashback to when we didn't fund the dam
Didn't fund the damn levee
No wonder man
Now our whole damn cities torn us under man
Underwater but we still don't understand
We see hurricane spills overrun the land
Through gaps you couldn't fill with a hundred tons of sand
No we still don't understand
We've seen planes in the windows of buildings
Crumbled in
We've seen flames sending chills through London
And we've sent planes to kill them
And some of them are children
But still we crumble under buildin'
Underfunded but we still don't understand
Under God but we kill like the son of Sam
But if you feel like I feel about the son of man
We will overcome

Stand up
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

I said put your hands up and I'll copy you
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
Except by a woman dying from a loss of food
Except by a freedom fighter bleeding on the cross for you

We shall not be moved
Except by a system that's rotting through
Neglecting the victims and ordering the cops to shoot
High treason now we need to prosecute

So stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
And we wont fight a war over fossil fuel
Times like this that you want to plot a coup
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Unless we are taking a route we have not pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said put your hands up and I'll copy you
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up

Now shake, shake a Polaroid dream
Nightmare negatives develop on the screen
We sit back and wait on the government team
Criticize they but who the f**k are we
The people want peace
But the leaders want war
Neighbors don't speak peak through the front door
House representatives preach stay the course
Its time for a leap of faith
Once more
Put your hands up high if you haven't imagined
Hope that the pen strokes higher than the cannon
Balls to the wall nose to the grindstone
My interrogation techniques leave ya mind blown
Places your bets lets peak to the enemy
Don't let them pretend that we seek blood
And whose we anyway kimosabai
Mighty warlord want to be street thug
A threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified
Blow for blow never settles the score
Word for word its time to be clarified
We the people did not want war!

So stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Unless we are taking a route we have not pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

I said put your hands up and I'll copy you
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up

Edited Saturday at 10:01 PM by Thought Art