Optimise

There is nothing special about leading the life you want to live. There is nothing special about working hard to make your dreams come true. You just have to develop a higher tolerance to deal with your insanity than the average person. And be proud of it. That’s the crucial element.

We’ve all heard that: “Crazy people don’t know they are crazy, when you know that you are crazy, you aren’t crazy no more. Isn’t that crazy?” Even though you might not have the clarity yet to understand it, this isn’t yet more mambo-jambo. Granted that these days people, let’s call them the new-agers, because I have a bone to pick with them, they have taken EVERYTHING out of context, and created yet more undeniably incomprehensive context. The Bastards, just put whatever words they have learned the night before together and suddenly they think they’re Buddha. FYI Buddha is the skinny one, NOT THE FAT ONE, that’s Hotei. Just saying.

Crazy people live in a state of permanent confusion, they resist that confusion to such an extent that it ends up feeling like an ugly cat fight inside their head. You’ve all also heard that resistance is futile, it’s not only that, but it is resistance that generates so much grief. It’s resisting our most deep thoughts about our own incumbrances that causes so much emotional pain. Crazy people are unaware that, it’s not in avoiding themselves that the answer will come or their agony will go away. Crazy people wait for replies when they don’t even know the questions. Crazy people don’t know what’s inside their head, they have no connection with their thoughts, they often hear and feel the contents of their mind like a big ball of nonsense, a constant chatter of nonsensical noise, a whole deep-sea of absurdities. They take every opportunity to get away from their own mind, all the distractions provide just the perfect scenario for that. TV for example provides not only empty-entertainment but seemingly real occurrences that the less inclined to creative-thinking will find easier to get stuck in.

Social media, well don’t get me started on that, I beg you. There are many other distractions, a person who have been conditioned by their peers growing up, in order to avoid themselves, will always go back to the “Line of Fire”, listening to a parent that has always said things a certain away, even thought that is not the reality, people avoiding themselves and the fear of change into something new and better will always seek to keep hearing the same familiar stupidity, even if they know it doesn’t make sense. Why? Because if feels familiar. And familiarity breeds content.

The thing is, the only reality is inside you. The only truth is hidden away exclusively within your mind and soul. There won’t ever be an effortless way out of your seemingly insanity, nor a magic pill, nor a giant, or whatever size, signpost pointing to the escape door. Because there isn’t one, what there is, is a process to follow, each one individually different. In the same way that we can’t follow someone else’s “road to discovery”, we can’t expect that the conclusion of our journey will unfold before our eyes if we don’t make the effort to reach it. In the same way that when you are driving, isn’t the road that’s progressing underneath the car, while you sit back, to present you the destination. Nothing good comes from Learned Ignorance. Just because people who live in fear, of their own brilliancy or of what others will think or say, do their best for you to fall into compliance, doesn’t mean you must abide. Just because people in the past have continuously influenced ideas into your thought-stream, through which you grew up to accept as reality, never questioning them, alas creating the misinformed model of the world that you see and understand today, it doesn’t mean that’s correct. On top of that, and going back to distractions from our Mind, without wanting to sound like a bitter hippie; modern society is built upon many distraction and many more vacant potentials for fulfilment. Its demands fashion a visionless need to accomplish low-spirited successes. And seemingly, the more successes the better. Regardless of their importance towards self-realisation and worthy impact on an individual’s life. The shallow need to constantly “DO”, the pressures, mostly deceitful, to remain in constant cataleptic motion together with the equal automatic tasks performed, ultimately results in failure to acknowledge their innate requirements, inevitably leading to a disconnection from the awareness that the brain is in a state of sensory-overload. That causes “a state of mental and/or emotional strain or tension, resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.” Stress. Sensory overload doesn’t happen when many things happen at once, because A LOT of things continually happen at once, every day, all the time. Our senses are constantly gathering information about our surroundings. Sensory overload happens when we don’t pay attention to what’s happening around us, when we are performing tasks unaware of how they make us feel, or worst, tasks that have no content of any kind therefore don’t help enhancing our wellbeing or state of mind.

Sensory input is gathered, the brain processes it creating thoughts, then emotions that lead to behaviours and attitudes, but we act surprise not knowing why we are acting a certain.

Pleasant sensory input—> Pleasant thought—>Pleasant emotion—> Pleasant behaviour

You enter a room that it’s very, very messy and disorganised, your eyes are trying to gather information, but they don’t know where to focus on, the information received by the brain is chaotic. The brain forms thoughts, chaotic thoughts about that situation, sends signals to your nervous system that something isn’t right. You now feel almost claustrophobic in that room, the room feels dirty, small, is cluttered, you may even feel you are “running out of air”. “You can’t even breath properly in here”. Which that’s never the case. You spend too much time in this room not aware that your brain is not pleased with the information gathered by your senses and you will start to behave chaotically too.

Spend all day doing nothing, and you will soon become nothing. What is important is to know what exactly is Nothing. Performing mundane tasks detached from the thought process, is doing nothing. Doing some jobs, the ones we dislike, but have to actively perform daily is doing nothing. While sitting by the sea, while engaging with our sensory input is doing something. Is doing A LOT, in fact. That is why we get bored and unfulfilled with a busy but shity job, but you never have enough of going to the beach.

You see, our so called “Monkey Mind” is very narcissistic, almost like a child that doesn’t know or understand social behaviour yet so it will ask for attention in the most awkward always. A child will ask for attention by throwing tantrums so does your “Monkey Mind”, only these tantrums come in the form of more and more and more incoherent thoughts, until you finally pay attention to what is trying to tell you. You’ll soon find that it doesn’t have much to say, it only wants your attention, but once you satisfy its need you will know what you are dealing with. You will be aware of all the impertinent thought that you didn’t even know were there in the first place. Not being present in our body and mind leads to medical problems such as depression, obstructive sleep apnea, hormone imbalances and other chronic illnesses, which all lead to sleep deprivation due to a misdirected-focus mind and/or an overly-active brain.

Life may not be a dream, but it’s pretty much like one. See, in normal dreams, it’s the scenario that is controlling its unfolding (this isn’t true, but it appears that way), until you become Lucid and start manipulating the dream yourself. The same goes for Life. Life controls you until you take control, by becoming aware of what is holding you back. This is not the environment, other people, not what they did to you, how they treated you, or still do, but the perspective you have about these events, and all else in life. Life is what we make of it right? Not by mysteriously manipulating the surroundings but literally by how we see it but most important why. The problem isn’t the problem, but how you react to it. And you might or might not know that ignoring a situation is a reaction. It all comes back to you, so inevitably when you ignore life, life will ignore you back. Again, not in the energetic field or the poetic Karma manifestations, but in the sense that people will react to you the way you react to them. Find yourself in the darkness of you subconscious and bring it under the light of your conscious. That’s the only way out of insanity. There’s a fine line between insanity and genius, they say.

Dare to cross it.

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