Self Awareness Daydream

The thought which resounds today as I dive ever deeper into the exploration of consciousness is that you must train your mind. You must train it to focus, and you must train it to choose your preferred thoughts. It’s a constant practice of recognizing your thoughts and then adjusting yourself to think the thoughts you…

Versions Of You Meditation

In this meditation, we approach our understanding of ourselves a bit differently. We are going to use the foundation of Psychosynthesis to recognize the needs, wants, and desires of the various personalities which are within each of us. Within each of us are countless variations of what we perceive as our single, external “personality.” These…

It’s Time to Develop Your Character

It’s an interesting turn of phrase – “developing your character.” Give that one extra minute of deeper thought. We use the word “character” to describe someone’s qualities. We then use it to further explain how they express their traits and ethics through their choices and behaviors. But… Because we have the ability for self awareness,…

The Value of a Crap Situation

It’s not easy, especially when faced with a crap decision or situation, but realizing the value of things does, in fact, give pleasure. It’s pleasure derived from a deeper understanding. It is this type of pleasure which often leads to a slice of enlightenment along your life’s journey. And achieving even a sliver of enlightenment…

About This Whole “Self-Improvement” Thing

We all want to get better in some way or another. We want to get healthy, get over our ex, be inspired to get off the couch, start a new career. Hell, some of us just want to start over altogether. But no matter what you try, changes just don’t seem to stick. Here’s a…

Don’t Be Rude to Your Negative Thoughts

The biggest issue with negative thoughts is that they haunt us. We dwell on them. And we become wounded by them. We even try to ignore them by learning how to stop thinking them. But each of these scenarios just adds more negative thoughts. So what do we do? Realize that negative thoughts are telling…