Category: love

  • The 2 Intentions of Movement and Change

    We tend to move with one of two intentions, often with a situational preference to one or the other. When things get bad, we seek to eradicate the situation, wether by fight or flight or some creative alternative. In isolated cases, fight or flight is fine, but in the vast majority of persistent challenges it…

  • 3 Ways to Open Up To Yourself

    While one may claim we’re stuck with ourselves and ask, how could we ever escape? I’ve suggested two methods by which we do escape to ourselves – blocking and masking. Blocking is the act of running from cognitive dissonance or otherwise avoiding any repulsive experience or memory. Masking occurs when we attempt to convince ourselves…

  • Perception and Getting To Know Myself

    I am presently a bit obsessed with getting to know myself better. An exercise I recommend practicing regularly, since we are constantly experiencing, growing and evolving. Learning about and deepening awareness and understanding of self is imperative to growth and realizing potential. Most pressing of recent personal findings is a need to fix and heal…

  • The Most Boring Man Alive

    I am the most boring man alive. I’m less funny, less entertaining, less interesting, less adventurous, less energetic, less excitable and less irrational than ever before. I’m more equanimous, more comfortable and more at peace than any me I’ve ever known. I’m like my perfectly stable father but on a double dose of Benzos, floating…

  • Love and Heartbreak

    Having your heart broken is an immensely valuable experience. I appreciate the idea of broken, because it has the immediate connotation of being fixable. My heart didn’t die, it didn’t end, it’s just broken. It will heal. It’s only broken because I over-exerted it. In fact, the extent to which I experience love and experience…

  • Cloud Tripping

    I revel in an afternoon of cloud tripping, lucid dreaming and fantastic scheming… chasing frivolity and entertaining dalliance. Consider, we’ve got clouds in our heads and dreams in our skies. Strike that– reverse it! Taking time to indulge in my heart and mind’s playful dance, fight, or tease is not an often afforded luxury; a…