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6 Ways to Heal Your Heart Chakra

Chakras

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March 4, 2018

“When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.” ~ Amit Ray

In the wake of conceitedness and geocentricism, where ‘I’ is the center of it all, feelings like love, compassion, and empathy are fast loosing their true meaning. When we refer to ourselves physically, we indicate ourselves by pointing towards the heart center.

Yes, this is the power of the heart, the seat of the soul, the place where our true identity exists. This source of an individual being is located at the center of the seven major chakras. Integrating the top three and the bottom three chakras, Anahata chakra in Sanskrit means something that cannot be destroyed.

Similarly the same philosophy when applied to the self, it is the soul that can never be destroyed, as it is beyond the realm of the physical world. The heart and lungs are the main organs in the body because they’re responsible for the distribution of nutrition across the whole body.

Thymus gland, which programs and stimulates the immune system of the body, is associated with the heart chakra. Since the heart is associated with the self, it directs the immune system (through Thymus) to destroy anything self-destructive in nature. With the symbol of a star, the heart chakra is the meeting place of the divine and the self.

The downward facing triangle (in the star symbol) is the downward descent of the energy from the supreme power, whereas the upward facing triangle is the instinctive physical energy extruded from us, as a result of being on this plane.

And the intersection of the two is where the heart chakra resides. It is rightfully associated with the element air for air is all permeating. Similarly, the self is also universally permeating and has no shape or size.

The heart energy center is connected to the sense of touch. Not only does it use the hand and feet, but also receptors of other organs to facilitate a grounding experience.

A well-balanced heart chakra can help one, transform negative emotions in to positive ones. Devotion, compassion, religious and spiritual sentiments are all derived from the heart.

But what happens if we have an imbalanced heart energy center?

The Issues that Arise Due to an Imbalance with the Heart Chakra Energies

Due to an energy deficit in this chakra, one can experience problems like lack of ample blood circulation and BP Low/high. The upper extremities are impacted here causing lung diseases, breast related problems, pain in the upper back, shoulders or wrists, asthma or allergies.

Low immunity is yet another obvious result of an underactive heart chakra, causing the person to fall prey to diseases very easily. On the other hand, excess of immunity can lead to autoimmune diseases.

Feeling of rejection, loneliness, and depression are also a cause of deficient energy, as the sufferer is unable to develop a meaningful connection with others. They have a low sense of self, which creates behavioral issues like narcissism, which again cost them their connection to the world.

An excess of energy can create an overflow of emotions, which creates jealousy, over attached to worldly things, clinginess and lack of self-independence. The sufferer is constantly dependent on others for self-fulfillment and faces deeper insecurities.

Yet another obvious negative impact of an imbalance here is no or little warmth, compassion, and devotion. Such people are lost in their own needs, desires, and wants and have very little time to look compassionately towards those around him or her.

Here are 6 ways to heal your heart chakra.

Yoga poses

It is no secret that yoga poses have the ability to balance the chakras, and with the help of certain poses you can hope to rectify the problems associated with specific chakras. Since the heart chakra is located in the thoracic region of the spine, here are a few postures you can try under supervision that can help alleviate the distress symptoms of this chakra.

Bridge pose or Setubandhasna, Forward bending or Uttanasana, Camel pose or Ustrasana, and Cobra pose or Bhujangasana are a few heart-opening poses.

Crystal therapy

We all know that crystals have a healing capacity and can rectify the discrepancies found in the astrological chart. But, did you know crystals could also compensate for a chakra imbalance in the body. Wearing green and pink color crystals like Rose quartz, aventurine, emerald, jade, or malachite, will be beneficial in the long run.

Beej Mantra

The root sound of the heart chakra is ‘YUM’. In order to work on the same frequency, you can chant this mantra just as we chant OM. Simply be seated in a comfortable position and start by chanting ‘YUM’ multiple times. Or you could also chant OM, followed by YUM.

This alternative pronunciation is responsible for reaching the highest point because OM helps the practitioner reach the crown chakra and from thereon connect the heart chakra at the highest point with YUM.

Greenery and Nature

The color of the Heart Chakra is green and pink. For those of us, whose heart chakra is blocked or imbalanced, must spend time in nature. Walking on the grass with bare feet can help the practitioner connect with the energy of Mother Earth and soak in the richness. Also, having plants in the house and watering them daily will open up the gates of compassion and love for other beings.

Forgiveness

One of the many reasons for a blocked heart chakra is to hold grudges, pain, and hurt from our past experiences. The only way to heal this chakra is to forgive and forget. As difficult as it may sound, you have to trust this process. Letting go is a challenging task for many. However, those who overcame this barrier can vouch for the fact that is so unburdening. It can help to heal your heart chakra.

Meditation

Since the sense of touch is associated with this chakra, in order to heal your heart chakra, we have to draw our attention away from this sense and experience stillness. Practicing a heart chakra meditation can be the best way to experience a sense of stillness.

Imagine a shaft of green or pink light falling on the crown and flowing into the body and nourishing the heart chakra. As this happens, the heart chakra grows bigger and shinier.

With love being the core emotion of it all, take some time out to truly love yourself and others by removing the burden of expectation. It is not necessary to have anything in return because the universe is abundant and the more love you give away, the universe will find a way to give back more love to you.

Yoga asanas for Beginners to heal your heart chakra

Heart Chakra Yoga For Beginners | Yoga With Adriene

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The Four Cardinal Virtues of Human Excellence According to Plato

Wisdom

Gary Z McGee

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February 28, 2018

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The Four Cardinal Virtues of Human Excellence According to Plato

“Wisdom is the leader: next follows moderation; and from the union of these two with courage springs justice.” ~ Plato

Human excellence is the art of character. Character is the art of practicing the four cardinal virtues. Practicing the four cardinal virtues (courage, moderation, wisdom, and justice) leads to moral virtue, which is best encapsulated by the concept of arete. And arete cultivated over a lifetime can lead to eudaimonia, human flourishing.

The concept of arete is from Homeric times. Although there is no specific definition, it is associated with bravery and effectiveness, intimately bound up with the notion of fulfillment and the act of living up to one’s full potential.

But it almost certainly hinges on the four cardinal virtues. In The Republic, Socrates assumed a wide acceptance of them as the core qualities in an excellent human. Let’s break them down…

1) Courage (fortitude):

“Without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ~ Maya Angelou

Courage is the bedrock of human excellence. Without the initial leap of courage there is no freedom, and so there can be no excellence. One is merely restricted to the conventional, inhibited by the whims of others, imprisoned inside the box of the status quo, and hampered by outdated reasoning.

With the leap of courage, however, one is emancipated. One is delivered into liberation. The world unlocks. The mind unbolts. The soul unfastens. Inhibitions dissolve into serendipity, adaptability, and improvisation. Boundaries transform into horizons. Comfort zones stretch into adventure.

But, there is a fine line between courage and recklessness. Courage involves seizing one’s impulses just as much as it involves seizing the day. One must be able to respond to a given situation with the proper balance of apprehension and confidence.

Too much courage leads to recklessness; too little, to cowardice. Fitting that the next cardinal virtue is moderation.

2) Moderation (temperance):

“After the ecstasy, the laundry.” ~ Jack Kornfield

The beauty of life is that in order for it to exist there must be balance. The ugliness of life is that we are usually unable to understand what that balance is. Moderation can be deceiving, especially when we’re not tuned into healthy frequencies.

Luckily, health is a benchmark for moderation. It’s the core of universal law. Unluckily, this benchmark is hidden in a ‘language older than words,’ which can sometimes seem impossible to decode.

Although some things must be moderated more than others, extremism in anything is the bane of health. We can breathe too much oxygen. We can drink too much water. We can even live too much in the moment.

We moderate ‘being in the moment’ with the realization that even the moment needs a past and a future to define it. We maintain our personal health through moderation so that health in general can become manifest. Indeed. I live simply, so that you may simply live.

A good rule of thumb is: moderation in all things, to include moderation. This way we’re proactively injecting balance into the cosmos, while at the same time enjoying life. The key is to accept responsibility for the consequences of both our moderate and immoderate choices. Tricky, but wisdom can help.

3) Wisdom (prudence):

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” ~ Lao Tzu

Wisdom cannot be taught. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom. We can discover wisdom, live in it through experience, do wonders through it thereafter, but we cannot teach it.

If we define wisdom as a practical understanding of cosmic law and the skill (intention) in applying it to an ever-changing impermanent world, we see how it cannot be taught, only experienced. Wisdom is hands-on, never second-hand. Knowledge is second-hand, quantifiable, and measurable, but not wisdom.

As Dostoevsky said, “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

It’s the humility at the heart of wisdom that cleanses hubris from the eye so that justice can be actualized.

4) Justice (liberty):

“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.” ~ John Rawls

Humans are social creatures. As such, we are also story-telling creatures that create deep mythologies out of the stories we tell each other. Some of these stories are fiction and some of them are nonfiction, but they all require honesty and forthrightness in order to be just. Honest communication is the key.

Justice, essentially, is honest social communication and interaction. It’s being responsible with our power, no matter how much power we might have. Human excellence is predicated upon how responsible we are with our power over others.

If we lord our power over others, we are being unjust. If we use our power to help others flourish, we are being just. If we hoard power at the expense of others, we are being unjust and tyrannical. If we expiate power to empower others, we are being just and prestigious.

Ethos (ethike arete) is the heart of justice. It’s an essential ingredient of a robust character. An ethical human tends to be an excellent human. The art of character is a mastery of ethics practiced through the four cardinal virtues.

Courage frees character. Moderation balances character. Wisdom guides character. Justice socially stabilizes character. Through these four virtues the excellent human emerges as a venerated and valuable catalyst for human flourishing.

New, unique, incomparable human beings who give themselves values, who create themselves out of courage, moderation, wisdom and justice. Who set up platforms for the next generation and for the healthy and progressive evolution of humanity.

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With, or Without Purpose, That Is the Question

Daily Inspiration

Gary Z McGee

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February 21, 2018

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With, or Without Purpose, That Is the Question

“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” ~ Robert Browning

It turns out that life is a choose your own adventure. After you’ve answered Shakespeare’s critical question ‘to be, or not to be’, there is the vital question ‘with, or without purpose’.

‘Not to be’ is choosing suicide. ‘To be’ is choosing life. ‘Without purpose’ is choosing a life half-lived. ‘With purpose’ is choosing a life well-lived.

But do we want that life to be healthy and meaningful, or unhealthy and meaningless? That is the vital question.

Choose your own adventure, sure, but it’s incumbent upon you to choose wisely (with purpose). It just so happens that choosing wisely is synonymous with choosing to be healthy and choosing to inject meaning into an otherwise meaningless universe. It’s solely your responsibility to do so.

You’ll reap no Eudaimonia (human flourishing), if you don’t sow a little health and create a little meaning.

Without purpose (unhealthy and meaningless)

“The first principle is to not fool yourself. And you are the easiest person to fool.” ~ Richard Feynman

A purposeless life tends to be unhealthy because it usually comes with the heavy baggage of nihilism, boredom, and depression. These three can put you in a serious rut. Or worse, an angry abyss. From which some people never emerge.

Nihilism is unhealthy because your crippled with ennui and angst, unless you’re able to turn the tables and cultivate a good sense of humor about the inherent lack of meaning in the universe (see humorous nihilism).

Boredom is unhealthy because you become lazy and indifferent toward aesthetic and numinous experience. You become ignorant and stuck, laboring under the delusion that there’s nothing more. Having lost touch with both your Inner Child and Beginner’s Mind, you are no longer awake to novelty, astonishment and awe.

Depression is just plain unhealthy. A dark insidious cloud cast over all things. And for many of us, there is no choice in the matter. But to the extent that there is a choice, finding purpose despite depression can be deep, soul-feeding medicine that can, at the very least, soothe the ache.

When we have no purpose, we are floundering vessels cast aimlessly in a chaotic sea of meaninglessness, sail-less and precarious. When we have a purpose, on the other hand, the sea may still be chaotic and inherently meaningless, but we are robust vessels with a compass, with resolve, with passionate intent. Our sails are pitched full and heading True North. We are prepared for the worst, but there is fierce desire in our heart.

With purpose (healthy and meaningful)

“The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” ~ Walt Whitman

What will your verse be? Finding your purpose, and then being proactive about living it, is contributing a verse.

But then how do you find your purpose? As I explained in Three Steps to Self-purpose, finding your purpose is finding what you love to do, what you’re passionate about. It’s remaining open to discovery, which requires courage and vulnerability. But most of all it requires curiosity.

If, as Stephen Kotler said, “passion exists at the intersection of three or more things you’re really curious about,” then it stands to reason that whatever that curious intersection may be is your purpose.

Just ask yourself: where do the things that I’m curious about intersect? And then make that your purpose. Be proactive. Build your life around it. Make it your Immortality Project.

This is healthy. Even if everything around you is falling apart, when you have a purpose it’s all just water off a duck’s back. You’ve created meaning. You’ve established a bedrock, a foundation, an anchor for your hope. You’ve become the author of your own story. There are values to develop. There are morals to foster. There are people to share them with. There’s a reason to live.

Being-in-fate (embracing unexpected change)

“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” ~ Seneca

Yes, life is a choose your own adventure, but with a twist. Fate (random and improbable) will have its say. There’s no avoiding this. Even the mighty Carl Jung attempted to write it off, saying, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

This is only half true. Making the unconscious conscious is vital, don’t get me wrong. It gets your head out of the sand. It gets your thoughts out of the box. It makes you independently interdependent and self-actualized so that you are not dragged by fate kicking and screaming.

Nevertheless, Fate (chance, randomness, serendipity, vicissitude, and unexpected change) will still have its say, even if you do make the unconscious conscious.

You’ll simply be more aware of it. You’ll be more likely to go with the flow. More likely to roll with the punches and learn from the bruises. More likely to adapt and overcome.

But Fate will always be there, rearing her terribly beautiful head. And that’s okay. Fate is randomness and probability, doing its thing regardless of our purpose. But at least it keeps things interesting. At least we’re not bored.

Ultimately, your purpose is your lifeblood. It’s the reason you wake up in the morning. Maybe your purpose is to travel. Maybe it’s to become a parent. Maybe it’s underwater basket weaving. Whatever. Your purpose is yours alone. Nobody else can take it from you. It’s your sacred artifact, your adventure, your unique journey, your special verse, and only you can contribute it, or not.

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Finite and Infinite Heroism: Changing the Game of Life

Self-Actualization

Gary Z McGee

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February 15, 2018

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Finite and Infinite Heroism: Changing the Game of Life

“What limits people is that they don’t have the f*cking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.” ~ Tom Robbins

This article will introduce a new way of playing the game of life inspired by James P. Carse and his book Finite and Infinite Games, which demonstrates a way of looking at the world that is truly unique.

Kevin Kelly praised the book for “altering my thinking about life, the universe, and everything.” In the book, Carse breaks human reality down two different games: finite and infinite.

As I explained in Finite and Infinite Lovers and followed up with Six Signs You May Be an Infinite Player, A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, even at the expense of play itself. An infinite game is played for the purpose of continuing play, for the sake of play itself. While there are endless finite games (chess, football, war, marriage, politics, religion) there is only one infinite game: the game of life. Your life. My life. All of life.

Finite players play to win and are often superficially rewarded for their play. Infinite players play to continue playing and are often cosmically rewarded for their play.

But, as Carse said, “It is an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever must play, cannot play.”

Indeed. Whoever must play, is a slave.

The difference between Players and Heroes

“He who lives horizonally is never somewhere, but always in passage” ~ James P. Carse

By using the finite and infinite players as archetypes applied to the concept of heroism, we come up with two different types of heroism: finite and infinite heroism, which changes the paradigm in interesting ways.

A finite player can become a finite hero, but it is rare. Likewise, a finite hero can become an infinite hero, but it is also rare. Whereas an infinite player is more likely to become an infinite hero if given enough time.

The critical difference between Players and Heroes is action. Both finite and infinite players are merely players. Both Finite and infinite heroes are built for courageous action.

Here’s a basic breakdown of the four types

Finite Player (typical person)

Possesses average abilities, intelligence, and creativity but is limited by their cultural paradigm. Not courageous. Tiny comfort zone. Inactively playing.

Finite Hero (typical hero)

Possesses advanced abilities, intelligence, and creativity but is limited by their cultural paradigm. Courageous within their tiny comfort zone. Built for specific courageous action.

Infinite Player (atypical person)

Possesses above average abilities, intelligence, and creativity but is not limited by their cultural paradigm. Not courageous. Expansive comfort zone. Proactively playing.

Infinite Hero (cosmic hero)

Possesses advanced abilities, intelligence, and creativity but is not limited by their cultural paradigm. Courageous inside and outside an expansive comfort zone. Built for universal courageous action.

Finite versus Infinite Heroism

“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.” ~ James P. Carse

Where finite heroism is prepared against surprise, infinite heroism is prepared for surprise. Finite heroism is conventional; infinite heroism is cosmic. Finite heroism is contained within a cultural paradigm; infinite heroism transcends the cultural paradigm.

Where finite heroes act only within boundaries, infinite heroes play with boundaries and act outside them. A finite hero perceives a boundary as a “phenomenon of opposition,” whereas an infinite hero perceives a boundary as a “phenomenon of vision,” thus transforming it into a horizon that can be evolved into.

Infinite heroes play with comfort zones, stretching them in order to persistently challenge themselves. Even if that means inadvertently stretching the comfort zones of finite players, or even finite heroes.

Where a finite hero is courageous within their comfort zone, an infinite hero is courageous for the purpose of stretching their comfort zone. Finite heroes need the comfort zone secure in order to act; infinite heroes are secure acting inside or outside the comfort zone.

An infinite hero can overcome boxes by actually thinking outside of them instead of just saying they’re going to. Where finite heroes intellectually specialize, infinite heroes are autodidacts. Finite heroes learn for the purpose of receiving answers; infinite heroes learn for the purpose of questioning answers.

A finite hero is possessive, conditional, restricted, and dependent (or codependent) upon rules and regulations. An infinite hero is non-possessive, unconditional, free, and independent (or interdependent) despite rules and regulations.

Where a finite hero is free within the rules of the cultural game, an infinite hero is free no matter what cultural rules surround him. A finite hero is law-abiding even at the expense of human health; an infinite hero makes human health paramount despite the law. A finite hero obeys human laws while being ignorant to universal laws; an infinite hero disobeys human laws if they violate universal laws.

A finite hero succumbs to and upholds the preexisting codependent cultural dictates, whereas an infinite hero liberates themselves from such dictates in order to interdependently evolve. A finite hero is self-righteous; an infinite hero is self-overcoming.

Where a finite hero’s strategy is vertical, an infinite hero’s strategy is horizontal. A finite hero seeks power and control; an infinite hero releases control and seeks empowerment. Where a finite hero uses power over others to gain more power, an infinite hero uses power over others to gain prestige.

A finite hero meets an enemy with power and violence; an infinite hero meets resistance with poiesis and vision, holding violence for self-defense only. Where a finite hero seeks invulnerability, an infinite hero seeks absolute vulnerability.

Ultimately, a finite hero changes for himself; an infinite hero changes despite himself. A finite hero can become an infinite hero with enough work, whereas an infinite hero can don the mask of a finite hero at any time and act within a particular finite game while regarding it as but a moment in continuing play or action.

As James P. Carse said, “Only that which can change can continue: this is the principle by which infinite players (and thus infinite heroes) live.”

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Humorous Nihilism: Having Fun with Meaninglessness

Life

Gary Z McGee

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February 4, 2018

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Humorous Nihilism: Having Fun with Meaninglessness

“What is a tragedy but a misunderstood comedy.” ~ Shakespeare

Nothing matters. We’re all going to die. Everything we’ve ever done, both as individuals and as a species, will eventually become ashes and account for nothing. There’s no meaning in the universe. It’s all just one big existential bummer. Hurray?

The good thing is that we don’t need the universe to be meaningful in order to laugh at it. The fact that the universe is meaningless is funny in and of itself. The fact that we’re all going to die someday is Patch-Adams-wearing-a-red-nose comical. The jokes on us. We’re all a bunch of walking, talking punchlines, and most of us don’t even realize it. That’s hilarious. Or, at least, it should be.

Why should it be hilarious? Because the other options are too unhealthy. Being a depressed cold-hearted pessimist with a cloud hanging over you is detrimental to your health. Being a nihilistic cynic wallowing in ennui and crippled by angst is equally unhealthy. You might as well be a zombie walking through the coffin of your life.

It really comes down to answering one critical question: Do you want to live, or do you want to die? As Albert Camus said, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”

If your answer is life, then it stands to reason that you want that life to be as healthy as possible. And there is almost nothing healthier than laughter. Except, perhaps, sleep and love. Both of which are actually made better by laughter. So, when faced with the crushing implications of a meaningless universe that ends with your certain death, humorous nihilism trumps naked nihilism every single day, and twice on the Sabbath.

Laughing into the Abyss

“Life is a matter of oscillation. Life is vibration. The question is: how are you going to interpret that. Is it tremble, tremble, tremble; or is it laugh, laugh, laugh?” ~ Alan Watts

Laughter, it’s said, is the best medicine. Laughter reduces pain, forms deep social bonds, fosters brain connectivity, acts as an effective antidepressant, and protects the heart. Besides all these scientific benefits, laughter is flat out enjoyable. It usually happens when we’re having fun.

Laughter happens when we’re hanging out with our friends. It happens when we’re mocking our enemies. It happens when we’re watching comedies, dramas, horrors, even pornos. It happens when we’re alone with our thoughts, and when we’re dreaming. It happens when we’re watching Rick demean Morty.

Nothing is more powerful than laughter in the face of that which seeks to destroy you. Shine even as your soul is breaking under the heavy weight of cosmic nihilism. Allow your indomitable sense of humor to blaze through the cracks of your having fallen apart and come back together again. As Charlie Chaplin said, “Smile, though your heart is aching.”

You are free to laugh at anything: death, birth, love, hate. Just as you are free to laugh in the face of any authority: cops, heroes, the devil, even God. F*ck them all if they can’t laugh back. The joke is on them. The joke is on you too, but the crucial difference is that you’re able to laugh back.

So, what’s wrong with looking at the funny side of nihilism? What’s wrong with having a little fun with meaninglessness? What’s wrong with standing before the throne and flipping the crown the bird? What’s wrong with staring Death in the face and laughing while he insecurely looks around wondering how to handle things. We might even scare him off with our eccentricity until a later date.

Maybe next time, Monsieur Death… Yes, Death is French.

Eccentric Nihilism

“We must live forward and understand backwards.” ~ Kierkegaard

Another important question that we must ask ourselves regarding an inherently meaningless universe is: why even do anything at all?

Why not just shrivel into a lazy ball of ennui and hide in the corner until it’s all over? Again, it goes back to health. If you choose life, then it behooves you to make that life livable. And the healthier you are, the more livable your life will be.

It’s healthier to choose adventure over predictability, imagination over banality, eccentricity over nihilism, and art over emptiness. Sure, nothing matters and it’s all going to end someday, but someday isn’t right now.

This moment is what matters. Don’t be a boring Nihilist drowning in ennui. Be daring and healthy instead. As the delicious Marilyn Monroe said, “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

So, take Nihilsm by the balls and show it who’s boss. Cheerfully crush out. Transform it into art. Unconventionally twist the conventional. Turn it all inside out. Question to the nth degree. Attempt to square circles despite the impossibility of it. Like someone attempting enlightenment but never quite reaching it. Stay on the path anyway. Imagination is more powerful than knowledge for a reason. Use divergent thinking to discover why.

Meaninglessness melts away before the fire of our imagination. What’s left is art. What’s left is purpose. What’s left is the artifact of our own meaning. Sure, it’s fragile, and it’s ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but it is ours to cherish for a time. It is ours to use as a steppingstone toward becoming a better version of ourselves while we’re still alive.

It’s equal parts our tool and our toy. We can work with it and we can play with it. We can use it to leverage health into our lives by choosing adventure over banality and laughter over misery. It’s the ache in our heart and the angst in our soul transformed into art, laughter, and purpose despite nihilism.

So, have fun with it. Be eccentric in thought. Laugh at the cosmic joke. Play with it. Tease it. Dance with it. Re-imagine it in ways that shock your soul into heightened states of awareness. Shoot yourself in the daredevil-foot before someone else does. The universe is your playground, and it’s time for recess. Just be healthy and keep your tongue in your cheek. It will all not work out in the end. And that’s okay. F*ck it!

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Cheerful Nihilism (Nietzsche)

Cheerful Nihilism (Camus)

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The Issues that Arise Due to an Imbalance with the Heart Chakra Energies

Here are 6 ways to heal your heart chakra.

Yoga poses

Crystal therapy

Beej Mantra

Greenery and Nature

Forgiveness

Meditation

Yoga asanas for Beginners to heal your heart chakra

1) Courage (fortitude):

2) Moderation (temperance):

3) Wisdom (prudence):

4) Justice (liberty):

Without purpose (unhealthy and meaningless)

With purpose (healthy and meaningful)

Being-in-fate (embracing unexpected change)

The difference between Players and Heroes

Here’s a basic breakdown of the four types

Finite Player (typical person)

Finite Hero (typical hero)

Infinite Player (atypical person)

Infinite Hero (cosmic hero)

Finite versus Infinite Heroism

Laughing into the Abyss

Eccentric Nihilism

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