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Does Music Move You
Does Music Move You? It is a great question “Does Music Move You“? I am going to give it due thought and process. Many of my friends are indeed music lovers across a wide genre of music, and if you don’t know me well you may be surprised to know it does not interest me in the slightest. I do not hear what you hear. Let us look at that, I grew up with music regularly playing in the household, my parents always played their country and easy listening music, especially on a Sunday. My brothers and sisters always played their own music, which was very varied. I listened to…
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Things I Need Less Of
Things I Need Less Of There are many things I need less of in this world, and it is a good exercise to stop and consider, actually, what those things really are. My initial, top of the head thoughts are:NegativityNastinessWeightMeatComputer TechnologySickness For some while I have been removing people from my immediate circle (and facebook) who have even a slight negative bias. It is toxic and you can’t understand the physical and mental toll it actually does take on you, putting up with it and trying to reason with it. If you have tried and know it is a problem, then let it go. I have never been in favour…
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Rule The World
Rule The World Consider if you had magical powers and were able to rule the world, and introduce new thoughts, powers and laws. Ill have a write down of my musings on this. Add your own in the comments. 1/ Most important, happening straight away. Remove skin colour perception. So the would be no way of seeing a persons ethnicity, this would include, hair colour, eyes etc. In other words, you could recognise people, but not on their ethnicity based on a visual queue. Further, and this will be unpopular, I would remove all language and dialects to make a common understanding between everyone. 2/ If you are earning money,…
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Are Cows Mindful
Are Cows Mindful? There you have it in a nutshell, are cows mindful? The reason I ask is simply this, how could any creature exist, whatever its level of intelligence in a small area doing the same thing for the whole of its lifetime. Its imperative is to exist, therefore it eats, drinks and sleeps like every living thing. Im suggesting that a cow is so mindful of the moment, it can live that moment every single day and not appear bored or distracted from the task in hand. Could you, in all reason, stand in a field all day, eating and not get bored? Now you are going to…
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Mental Health
Mental health However still the surface looks, you cannot conceive of what goes on below, so it is with mental health. People look like they are together and ok, yet scratch the surface and they begin to fall apart very quickly. The sadness for me, is that most people are unable to talk about these deep issues for fear of judgement or being made fun of or even being seen as crazy. If you are physically ill, there is no judgement to be made, but mentally, well that is another story. It’s all in your head, pull yourself together, cheer up, what is the matter, you have plenty to be…
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Living with Pain
Living with Pain Last few years for me have been an eye opener for Pain and the living with pain that follows. It started for me in my earlier days of martial arts and being very sports active. You know, the doctors say, it great to be active, then as you get old and vertebrae wear and suddenly the doctors are saying, “well, exercise is good in moderation”. The pain of the bones grinding makes you think about suicide. I know, it sounds dramatic, but truly, the relentless pain takes your mind to weird places. I was prescribed in my early thirties such a strong dose of medications that I…
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If I were a Billionaire
If I were a Billionaire Here’s a post to get you thinking and is part of the challenges Im setting, just think about if i were a billionaire and then what you would do with that concept. It is something I suppose we all give a measure of wishful thinking to it, but have you ever really considered it? As some of you will know, I have spent some years thinning down my life and possessions (not my weight) after chasing the dream of ever bigger houses and more and more things. When I went into a mobile home, my actual possessions filled a storage container floor to ceiling and…
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Meditation
My musings on Meditation We are all subject to doing meditation, most of us attempt to consciously meditate, whilst others deep in concentration on their passion fall into an unwitting meditative state. I think this is why I loved the martial arts so much. You get so involved in the doing and everything becomes engrained into your being that the mind becomes free. There are such interesting diverse thoughts on what meditation is and how you do it. If you try too hard are you are not meditating? If you are going to try and meditate, here are a few pointers, there are no absolutes, everyone is different, so what…
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Things I Wish I Knew
Things I wish I knew There were many things I wish I knew at the age of 16. I have decided that I must force myself into journalling, writing down things that are recountable. My memory has got worse lately, I put it down to large doses of medication over the last ten years, but equally, it could be down to the ability to not focus on my thoughts and random things that pop into my brain. For now, I am going to write these mind musings down, then jump into the things I wish I knew. I beg your patience with me, as I haven’t developed a style or…
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Spiritual Photo Submission
Spiritual Photo Submission Im seriously asking for help in this spiritual photo submission. I have lots of friends who are talented with a camera and have an interest in spirituality. You may also know that I have created a personalised wrapping paper printing company, confined for now to the UK, that isn’t to say my American friends can’t submit. Consider the broad category of spirituality and how it may be used in the creation of some personalised wrapping paper. Id love to use imagery from my friends and so Im asking you to email me here and send me your pictures with a subject line spirituality. You must have the…
