Swipe. Swipe. Toggle. Swipe. Swipe… Our standards have drastically been altered. Being confronted with a constant visual stimulus of change has hardwired us to pick, sift and sort what we think we most desire and/or (depending on our evolution) need in order to be happy, or in other words, what we think we need in …
Social media control
How can we get our lives back from the grasp social media has over us?How can we take back our lives from years of conditioning from social media? The first step we need to really acknowledge is that we are being controlled by algorithms enforcing our mental biases. The second is knowing how we feel about it. Once …
Social pressure gets in the way of creativity
Starting with Greeks a very long time ago, not participating in societywould cast us aside and one would be heavily criticised for not participating in the group. Thus having more of a private life, we would be defined as useless. This is where the word “idiot” stems from.While its origins came from the criticism of private people …
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More more more!? maybe it’s time to stop worrying about having and start living.
This may seem contradictory to where the rest of the world is heading right now.Though, for the last months I’ve been all consumed by stock markets.Hoping to catch a profit here, or a bitcoin break. Wanting more, because apparently I don’t have enough? I have plenty, I have too much. I have way too much.Yet …
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Introversion or something else?
You know how we tend to want to put a label on ourselves to define who we are so we can be a part of something? It comforts us, it allows us to feel maybe as if we belong.Well, that label can also be restrictive in fully harnessing our potential.I’ve concluded that maybe all introverts …
We shape our fate
Is the universe around us dictated by the collective? Or is there something else at play which guides us through challenges with a sense of purpose, feeling and ease but still hangs slightly out of our control?In French the Uni-vers is written without the E at the end. As it literally translates as United Towards,it …
As above, so below
You cannot fake happiness. Or if you do, the happiness you’re faking is so well imitated that everyone else gets the benefits but you. The same goes for success, or anything else where being in an authentic state supported by your external circumstances is required. The same goes for anything else worth experiencing.This is why …
To recharge ourselves
This morning, I picked up Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus - by John Gray, and upon opening it I probably discovered the singular main point of the book. Women and Men need to receive two entirely different things from one another. On the one side Mr Gray expresses that women need, …
Porn addication isn’t an addiction to porn
You may be wondering where your time is going, where your energy is, and why you're lethargic. Obviously its the porn, and it must go! But simply saying I'm going to quit doesn't cut it. The urges still come up, and your body sort of takes over. Powerless you sit there as your body does …
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New years resolutions
Is it not better to not make a new year observation? It's a new decade! Looking back over the years, we make new years resolutions every year, only to not keep them, or to find ourselves with gym memberships, hyper expensive gym equipment clogging up the front room or a years supply of weight watchers …