The dichotomy between these two selves’ goals creates a fundamental tension: The experiencing self values comfort and ease right now. And the remembering self values compelling stories and meaningful achievements, often at the expense of present comfort.

Mangoes are particularly beneficial for those struggling with insomnia, as they provide the brain with the precise nutrients needed for sleep regulation. The bioavailable magnesium in mangoes helps calm the central nervous system, creating ideal conditions for rest.

The attached person suffers when the moment ends. The detached person misses it entirely. The non-attached person experiences its beauty completely and then gracefully lets it go.

Who told you that this pain and confusion would last forever? No one. And yet you silently believe it; otherwise, you wouldn’t be so upset right now.

Because the mind is so talented at this kind of shape-shifting, it is often advised not to make up your own prayers — at least at the beginning. That’s because what often begins as an honest attempt to detox the mind of its ego virus quickly becomes an exercise in thinking about yourself to no apparent end.

Many do not like what the light reveals. To Shine necessarily reveals all that is hidden in shadow — the unconscious thoughts that manifest as toxic behaviors and selfish choices. And most would rather blame and destroy the neutral mirror than own the ugliness and fear it reflects.

What makes concentration so challenging is that it requires absolute stillness amid the world’s perpetual movements — not just the physical squirming of your body, but the constant flickering of thoughts, sensations, and external stimuli all competing for your attention.

Your nervous system conducts electrical impulses through neurons, your heart generates measurable electromagnetic waves (which is why EKGs work), and every cell in your body maintains an electrical potential across its membrane.

Breathing with your ribcage also causes your heart to expand. This has an interesting effect: when you inhale, your heart will speed up (bigger heart = more blood = faster pumping), and when you exhale, your heart will slow down (smaller heart = less blood = slower pumping). When you understand the mechanism, you can use it to manually adjust your own blood pressure higher or lower.

Does the parent inform the child about the reality of nuclear war-heads, student loans, or derivatives in calculus? Of course not — the child either wouldn’t understand or wouldn’t sleep!

In that time, I’ve watched all of my gut issues disappear — indigestion, constipation, and flatulence — and have been sick only three times (all three of which occurred after going slack on my diet).

Most people/animals live entirely in the third dimension, navigating reality and making decisions solely based on what they can see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. In the 3D, there is very little foresight or ability to delay gratification, as cause and effect is not properly understood.

All that’s missing here is context. Where is this experience happening? Notice the space within and around your device. An entire Universe infiltrates and surrounds this machine; it does not exist in isolation.

It’s the (nearly) unbearable feeling of being pulled in multiple directions, unable to sit still, either mentally or physically. It’s when your thoughts race, when you’re fidgety, and your mind insists that it has to be somewhere else.

To be clear, atoms and energy alone cannot give rise to even a single-cell bacteria, let alone something that can walk, talk, plan and create. Physical matter and its energetic counterpart need a blueprint — instructions on where to go and what to do.

What utter nonsense — depth of life has nothing to do with any of that. Depth of life is about presence, the degree to which you are fully here. Here! Now!

Take a moment to look at your hands or torso and marvel at the fact that what you see is the product of everything you’ve consumed in this lifetime. The food you eat, the water you drink, and the air you breathe are all transformed into the structure of your body.

Could your life be better? In a sense, sure. After all, you could always have more stability, more freedom, and more pleasure. More of your desires could be fulfilled. More of your pain could disappear.

Delay assistance: Avoid using ChatGPT (or similar tools) for at least 30 minutes. Push through the initial mental blocks — the struggle unlocks your best ideas. Earn your creations! 😉

The spiritual journey is often painted as a solitary pursuit: the abandoned seeker striving for enlightenment; the forgotten soul turning inwards to face the shadows alone. While this is absolutely true on the level of the deluded, separate self, it has no basis in Reality

Imagine two identical marathoners, both running 6 minute miles. The first relaxes their muscles, opens up their gate for a longer stride, and shifts their center of gravity forward. The second stays tense, quickens their feet, and pumps their legs twice as hard to keep up.

The nerves in your skin don’t necessarily react to temperature, they react to changes in temperature. After a while, they adapt to the new stimuli, reducing their response and effectively 'blending' the sensation into the background.

You didn’t hate the truth, you hated the actions necessary to make things right. Sitting with what is true — and taking the steps necessary to realign to it — takes incredible courage. But on the other side of that discomfort is an earned freedom.

Ideally, your spinal cord exists like this — as a kink-free cord from bottom to top. That means zero blockages from your pineal gland, pituitary gland and medulla oblongata all the way down to your pelvic floor, anus and gonads.

Say you’re driving around in your beat-up 2001 Toyota Corolla, and you see a brand new Porsche speed by you. “Oh wow,” you think to yourself. “I wish I had one of those.”

Like a phone battery, energy coming into your body via the nose, mouth and brain stem can get stored in your cells for later use — in your fat cells for heat during the winter, in your muscle cells for the final push in a workout, in your killer T cells for future viral wars.

When you really understand karma, you see that it’s basically the same thing as the First Law of Thermodynamics in physics, but with one key difference: Karma deals with subjective reality, whereas the First Law of Thermodynamics relates to objective reality.

In other words, a Kundalini Awakening revamps your spinal cord, brain and hormonal glands so that you may perceive subtler, “higher-vibrational” realities. Interestingly, unlike puberty, a Kundalini Awakening does not happen to everyone — it is reserved for those who desire to lift their consciousness and enter the next phase of human evolution.

In this view, pretending isn’t a tactic used by those unwilling to confront the truth — it’s a necessary part of manifesting reality! We must pretend that the cake already exists before we bake it. We must pretend the race is already finished before we run it. We must pretend the retirement account is already filled before we invest in it.

Apples contain phytochemicals such as flavonoids, anthocyanins, and rutin, which aid in detoxifying the body from heavy metals, radiation, and toxins like MSG. Additionally, their amino acids, glutamine and serine, support brain health, while their antioxidant properties improve skin, lymphatic circulation, and blood sugar regulation.

God is neither the antagonizing grey-haired man throwing lightning bolts at faithless humans from heaven’s throne, nor the impersonal statistician unconsciously flipping coins somewhere far away from here.

Bright, colorful, upsetting, status-boosting, pleasure-inducing, and bias-confirming. These primal impulses (and more) can be either mitigated or outright avoided by adjusting a few settings on your phone (below), or applying a few strategies to your phone habits (next week, Part 3).

No “using your phone in moderation”. No “only on the weekends”. No “bedtime hours“. Cut the problem out of your life so completely that you don’t even have the option of using it.

The ego never actually sees or hears the real world, because it’s too busy interpreting familiar patterns, generating spell-binding narratives about them, claiming those narratives as gospel, and then attacking others for failing to agree with it.

Just as a lightning bolt plays out on multiple levels of reality (the flash happens before the thunder clap, which happens before the smell of charred wood), you, too, are multi-dimensional. You, too, express at different speeds and frequencies.

If you expect the next President of the United States, artificial intelligence breakthrough or incarnation of Christ to end our societal woes, you are in for sore disappointment. And that’s because you live in a co-created reality — a reality that is an aggregate of all participants’ desires and actions.

Even for me to say “God is all things” would be to restrict Him/Her/It in some way, for the mind does, in fact, have a category for “all things”.

This fourth wave is the antithesis of boredom as it acknowledges the objective perspective upon which all experience — both dull and exciting — occurs. After all, how could you be bored when you realize that you’re just watching a riveting movie — mere light on an impersonal screen?

At first, the volume of restlessness will turn up to the point of being nearly unbearable. It will feel like the deepest of itches, a disturbed sensation whose end (it is believed) can only come from looking elsewhere. From here, your mind will start the process of negotiating (or yelling) at you to do something — anything — else:

Let’s remember that God, being omnipotent, has the power to place an unlimited number of flawless Beings — an infinite number of Jesus' — onto the planet whenever He/She wishes. But that story isn’t very inspiring, is it?

The idea that your shadow is greater than your light, or that your trauma is bigger than your soul, or that your subconscious is realer than your divinity…those are the only thoughts standing between you and liberation.

How far away is the pack of hyenas? Is that politician telling me the truth? Does this breakfast sandwich have mayo on it? Without senses, humans would be unable to create guesses about the complex world around them and would certainly go extinct as a result.

You can tell the difference between a “chem trail” and their naturally occurring counterpart — the “con trail” — based on how quickly the cloud evaporates. If it hovers in the air for hours in a row, you can bet it’s some form of toxic heavy metals or other deadly chemical.

Actually, your mind is always this crazy. It only seems to get crazier while meditating because you are finally taking a sober look at it.

The United States had to overthrow the English monarch to gain its freedom, right? The European Union could not exist if the Holy Roman Empire was still standing, no? Israel would not have a chance of being sovereign if the emperors of Babylon still ruled the lands, correct?

Transparent metal, targeted cancer treatment using sound, teleportation, full augmented reality, genetic engineering, zero-point energy, drones, faster-than-light communication. Get ready, friend, because planet Earth has officially entered its golden age of technology. Things are only going to get stranger and more mind-blowing from here.

For some sick reason, us humans love to bond over our shared misery. The state of our politics; our boss’ incompetence; the price of this meal; how crazy our partner is being; the weather ruining our plans.

On the trip of life, however, none of those assurances are present. That is: not only are you the first to ever take this path, but you also don’t have a clue where you’re going, nor any idea of how long it’s going to take to get there!

But stories are never satisfying enough. You don’t want to believe. You don’t want to have faith. You want to know. Unfortunately, words can’t convey the full logic of how, despite all the misery and evil out there, the Universe is actually a fair and just place.

Most of the time, you know exactly what to do to be happier and healthier. You just aren’t willing to delay your gratification or give up your temporary pleasures in order to get there.

Once you understand what’s behind those bad dreams, you won’t want them to go anywhere. “Bad” dreams are our way of healing.

No matter how high you get, or how well Crypto is doing, or how full-body an orgasm becomes, or how sublime a vision, or how optimistically you think, or how magnanimous your character…it won’t last. All of it — all of it — will decay and implode and be dismantled just like the rest of the Universe.

Your skin contains natural oils that are highly acidic and react with metals. This reaction causes the oil to corrode and erode the metal, leading to metal leaching when it comes into contact with your skin.

So while it is eventually necessary for you to detach from all thoughts of past and future, you don’t have to throw them out just yet. In the meantime, you can observe these kinds of time-bound thoughts carefully to discover what lessons, beliefs or desires are propping them up.

Note: Using pre-made lemon juice does not provide nearly the same amount of benefits as freshly-squeezed. You want foods that are as close to the source as possible. Also, hot water destroys a lot of the lemon’s life-giving properties.

Even crazier, what you believe is a single thought is actually trillions of nano-thoughts arising so rapidly that they seem to appear as one thing. Trillions!? Yes, trillions. Maybe more.

Besides, the goal isn’t to get rid of the ego as though it were a vermin that needed extermination. Instead, the goal is to integrate your separate ego into the larger truth of Oneness.

There is sincere wisdom in anger, though. Not in the emotion itself, but in what it points to: Anger points to guilt — where we ignore our own shortcomings by blaming others. Anger points to pain — where we can apply the soothing balm of forgiveness and surrender.

That said, we’re up against a lot in today’s world: air fresheners, scented candles, conventional laundry detergent, perfumes, fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, gasoline, aluminum foil and cans, chemical fertilizers, lawn treatments

Every time you don’t follow through on your word — even in small situations — you lose trust in yourself. And over time you’ll start suspecting yourself to be a liar, which immediately dilutes your power to manifest the change you were seeking in the first place.

If by “fully healed” you mean no longer feeling pain and avoiding biological death, then no — being fully healed is impossible in our current form.

Even “Natural Fragrance” can mislead you into thinking that what you’re inhaling is safe. The problem is: there is currently no legal definition for the word “natural” in the USA, nor are these companies legally required to share what’s actually behind the word “Fragrance”.

Suggesting you “not think” is completely antithetical to the process of “not thinking”, because the mind is designed to “think” about “thinking” whenever it comes in contact the concept of “thinking”!

It’s counterintuitive, but moments of anxiety — both major or minor episodes — can be immediately reduced by holding your breath.

It’s like a tree deciding to grow its leaves when it’s snowing outside. Trying to make huge shifts during the peak of winter is virtually guaranteed to backfire.

When I began my sobriety journey, I used peer pressure against myself. I told most of my friends that I was taking a month off. That way, I would be subconsciously held to my word.

Being on fire, and therefore spirituality, means living earnestly — like your life depends on how involved you are in it.

This answer is unsatisfying to some, but the logic makes sense: being in a state of peace means you are presently happy with the way things are. And thus to live in peace means you are presently living in happiness with the way things already are.