It seems like we have an inherent nature to try and run from and turn our back on death. Like if we live ignorant of it long enough maybe it won’t come. Or maybe we’ll get more time if we don’t think about it. But really it’s quite the opposite. Until you start remembering your time is limited. Until you start remembering it’s a gift you take a breath and see a sunrise or a sunset. It’s a gift to love and be loved. Until you have that knowledge and lose the expectation of tomorrow you never really live. 

So the very act of ignoring,refusing to remember, or just completely turning a blind eye to death means you haven’t even started to live yet. When you wake up each day thankful that you have another chance. When you remember none of this is guaranteed and each day is another gift. Then you really truly live. 

Every day becomes richer brighter deeper and has much more potential. You don’t take the people around you for granted. You don’t need a near miss or an accident to say you love someone or appreciate them. You show them daily. Not because you almost lost them but because you know time is finite in our experience of it. Whether you believe in something beyond this or not, this realm this experience this moment is special and has purpose. There’s a reason to be here. It could be as simple as just appreciating it or it could be you change your life or that of others. What’s important is to not think you have tomorrow. Not put things off thinking someday or when the weather is better or when I retire. Not waiting for money or a certain situation to experience things you want. 

Find a way every day to live that day fully. Even if you have to start out pretending, just don’t expect tomorrow. If you get the gift of another day embrace it,appreciate it, and share it. If you get another one then do it again. 

Live them all fully and when death does come, and it will, may you approach it with less fear. May you not have resentment, regrets, or long for all the things that you didn’t do. May you greet it with a smile and all the memories of how full you really lived each day. That you look back and know you appreciated, you lived fully, and you felt with every fiber of your being. You loved with abandon, you were hurt time after time, but picked yourself back up. You overcame so much and you lived a life that was yours. It was your design, your will, your mistakes, your triumphs, your dreams, and your pain. Live that life, live that day, and live it as the gift it is. 

Death comes for us all but truly living life is something so few actually experience. I hope I see you out there smiling, embracing, and fully experiencing it all. See you on the road and see you on the other side.

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We struggle, and we triumph.

Each new day arrives full of hope—

hope that, by dusk, may have faded.

But still, we continue.

We must continue.

For life is the ultimate pendulum.

The ultimate balance.

The brighter the light that shines upon us,

the longer the shadow it casts behind.

Each day is not an opportunity to win,

but a chance to slow the swing.

To stop fighting against the dark or chasing the light,

and instead—to embrace what is.

To live fully in each moment.

To release our labels of good and bad,

and simply be present with the breath we are taking.

Whatever you are experiencing is meant to be.

It has purpose.

It will guide you to what comes next.

No matter what you believe—

or what you believe in—

have faith in yourself.

Believe in who you are,

and more importantly,

in who you are becoming.

Every day is a swing of the pendulum.

But you are the fulcrum on which it pivots.

You are the center of both the light and the dark.

You are the hope.

You are the despair.

You are everything—to yourself.

And with that…

isn’t everything else just a bonus?

When you struggle, remember:

the swing will return.

Everything balances out.

Those who harm or hurt you

have their own pendulums to face.

Don’t focus on them.

Don’t focus on anything else.

Sit.

Breathe.

Feel.

Experience.

LIVE.

For this experience is yours to shape—

into the most beautiful adventure:

The Pendulum of Life.

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When it’s hard to breathe small tasks feel like insurmountable mountains.

When it’s hard to breathe isolation seems more prevalent.

When it’s hard to breathe loneliness is most profound.

When it’s hard to breathe options seem few and challenging.

When it’s hard to breathe love of self, and others, feels difficult.

When it’s hard to breathe, just keep breathing

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Your whole life you’ve been confusing people – including yourself. Social interactions can either recharge or drain your social batteries. Parties can make you feel alive, switched on, and your most confident – or completely bored, annoyed and withdrawn. You’re resilient and sensitive at the same time. Very social but rarely out. You enjoy being the center of attention – there are days when you think out loud, and you rarely care. And then there are days when you over-think everything, rarely thinking out loud, your annoying inner monologue kicking in. The entirety of your being is a conundrum.

You need constant mental stimulation. You hate first dates. “Please anything but small talk” you think to yourself. Unlike a real extrovert, small talk stresses you out like crazy – you need deeper conversations to make you feel alive. At times you physically can’t stand talking on the phone. You’ll screen your phone calls – even from your closest friends. It’s too intrusive for you. Friends expect you to tear your mind away from whatever it is you focusing on and focus on them. This literally makes your brain hurt, your mind can’t change direction easily.

Maintaining friendships is a constant struggle for you. At any given point, you have one (maybe two) best friends who are your entire world. You’ll connect with people very easily, that’s not the problem. Here’s the thing, when you meet with someone, you’ll go out of your way to make them feel comfortable and happy, but it takes you a while to feel fully comfortably, so you can only take being around others incrementally.

At the same time, when you’re upset you need to talk it out with at least three different people. This can puzzle you emotionally – you need to be surrounded by people to be happy, but you also have moments of wanting to isolate yourself to recharge and be left alone with your thoughts. Your self-angst is maxed out. You often feel like you’re out of control of your emotional life – so you compensate by tending to desire control in other areas of your life.  You’re driven, often a perfectionist, you care about the outcome of things. Indecisiveness is your Achilles’ Heel.

You ebb and flow between needing time alone to recharge your batteries and getting bored or antsy spending a day at home alone – this sort of down time feels either completely satisfying or utterly pointless, it all depends on your mood. 

Sometimes you feel like you were made in reverse. Coffee can actually be counter-productive for you. You hate traditional systems. You notice details that others don’t. You loathe the concept of how things “should be” – from the structure of our educational system to certain “rites of passage.” You think about everything – maybe a little too much. But it’s in your intolerability of “what’s supposed to be” that you innovate your own life.

Being a unique blend of both an extrovert and introvert makes you interact with the world a little bit differently than others, while it can be stressful, it often makes you see the world originally, too.

Anna Bashkova

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If you give the below video an hour and a half of your time, you won’t be disappointed with the Inner wisdom it gives you. Do we create our own reality? As human beings we all co-create the aggregate of our experiences, your outer world is largely a reflection of your inner world.  You are the co-creator of your reality. You are not the entirety of your reality, this isn’t solipsism, at the same time you’re not at the mercy of a deterministic world with no free will. You co-create it, which means you have a lot of Power to influence it.

When you remove filters that influence the perspectives and decisions you make, the things that resonate with those filters will be removed with it. One of the laws, which is the law of analogy, as above so below, so within so without, are consistent in every human being because the patterns and cycles within ourselves create and interact with similar patterns and cycles outside of ourselves.

Everything you do in life starts from inside you. It starts with a thought, it starts with a belief, a desire, a perception. Everything begins from what’s inside you, and then you take action to make that thought a reality. Whether you’re manifesting thoughts of wanting a coffee in the morning, running a marathon, creating a successful business, it all starts with thoughts, which are influenced by your beliefs, desires and perceptions.

The Hermetic principle of mentalism states that thoughts lead to the manifestation of things and events. Thoughts co-create our external reality and the quality of our experiences. Therefore, be responsible for everything you create by being responsible for how you think. Everything that happens unnaturally (as in, everything initiated by people, not nature) has to be the result of a mental state that proceeded it.

Thoughts create conditions, our thought processes drive our behaviors. We behave the way we do because we have perspectives, belief systems, and various forms of trauma or imprinting embedded in the mind, running in the background like a program. Our thoughts and emotions drive our actions, which is why we have to change our thoughts and examine our emotions to change our reality.

More often than we notice, the way we think and feel is not always aligned with the requirements of getting what we want.

THIS IS NOT “The Law of Attraction”, nor is this “The Secret.” This video is much more in depth as it describes the mechanics of how our perceived reality works in accordance with the natural laws of karma/causality. This will illuminate your eyes even more than it already is at this level in your evolution, giving you the power to live life more effortlessly with less resistance to the things that hold you back from getting what you want.

There’s a saying that goes, “The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the one you bring”.

The Grass isn’t always greener on the other side because you take your perspective with you wherever you go. Meaning that you can never chase happiness and fulfillment as long as you seek it outside of yourself. You’ve got to do the inner work needed to change your outer world.

This presentation is about taking responsibility for the way you perceive reality and becoming aware of the things you’re UNAWARE of that control your reality.

It’s not a religious presentation, however it will be referencing some spiritual concepts, as well as Philosophy, and Psychology. Although these are all various disciplines, schools of thought, and religions, beneath the surface of all the dogma and institutional rigidity, there are some parallels and gems of wisdom in each of them that are addressed which coincide with the over all message of this presentation.

The presentation digs deep down to the core of what’s holding a lot of people back in life, as the only way you can overcome your challenges in life is to study yourself.

This information in the video is meant for those who contemplate the paths that they walk in all areas of life, and the forks in the road that they run into. It’s meant to instill the will of personal growth through inner wisdom, which is why the presentation is called. Know Thyself – Flowing & Living Without Resistance – How To Be Happy Without Changing Anything But Yourself.

It’s about opening doors to your inner universe, whether you want to take that literally or metaphorically, understand that the vastness of who we are, especially subconsciously, below the surface level of what we can see and be aware of, is a universe of information that reveals more knowledge of itself the deeper you look.

“Whoever knows the all but fails to know thyself lacks everything.”

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