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Probing the Psyche for a Peaceful Mind

Spirituality

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April 18, 2014

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The human psyche refers to the forces in an individual that influence thought, behaviour and personality. Carl Jung said, “The Psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the “sin qua non” (crucial ingredient) of the world as an object.”

Psyche is of profound importance to create our experience, of ourselves and the world. We cannot have an experience of the external world without the presence of the psyche, and hence, it is essential to observe it’s functioning.

If we are disassociated from the psyche then it makes us susceptible to look for answers outside of ourselves. When it comes to the inner realms of psyche, there are five types of misconceptions which act as hindrances to achieve peace of mind.

These are explained in detail in the book “Mind in Indian Philosophy” that draws most of its excerpts from the ancient manuscript “Yoga Bhasya and Yoga Sutras”. These misconceptions holds back the Purusa (self that encompasses the universe) from knowing its authentic nature.

Listed below are the five types of misconceptions ~

Ignorance

In Buddhism, ignorance is considered as a primary hindrance to wisdom. A human being ignores the thoughtful invasions of the soul.

We get entangled in the never-ending web of confusion, and not making an effort to clear that confusion is an act of ignorance towards the self. Our sufferings, guilt, anxiety, nervousness, exists because we fail to get to the roots of these emotions.

Lack of vision and inability to understand the process of the universe falls under ignorance. Most of us live our lives without having an understanding of the self, and it’s this lack of awareness that leads to instability and turbulences in our head.

Egoism

The ego is something made up by the mind. It’s the sense of self — a flash of “I” or “me” that we believe in and cling to. Hurting someone’s ego means disapproving with their notion of their personality. Ego leads to attachment, aversion and ignorance. To end the suffering, we must end our desires and let go of the ego.

Ego is something that has been constructed, and therefore something that can be reconstructed and reshaped in whichever way we want. If it is inevitable to have an ego we should resort to shape it to our convenience. To see it as a tool and not as a master.

In Plato’s Phaedo, he said, “And the mind’s power of thought is strongest when it is distracted by neither sight nor hearing, pain nor pleasure, nor anything sensual, but is, as far as it can be alone by itself.”

Attachment

“Attachment is the root of suffering.” ~ Buddha.

Being attached to things and people means to give them unrealistic attributes, to perceive them as being able to give us everlasting happiness and to see them as unchanging forms. In attachment, the unconscious self is constantly seeking validation from the outer world.

We believe, when we are attached to things or people, that they are the cause of our happiness. This approach simply leads to neediness, dependency, and self-centeredness. The only thing real is a solitary being.

Happiness, as they say, comes from within and isn’t dependent on external factors. The Buddha said in the Dhammapada, “Attachment arises from (wrong) conceptions, so know them as attachment’s root. Avoid conceptualizations and attachment will not arise.”

Aversion

Aversion dwells in a pain that is deleterious in nature. In the deeper understanding of the psyche, pleasure and pain are two branches diverging from the same root. That which is pleasurable can convert into painful.

Attachment and Aversion affect the psyche in the same way, they erode the self-esteem in surreptitious ways.

Swami Vivekananda said, “We find pleasure in very queer things, but the principle remains, wherever we find pleasure, there we are attached.”

Clinging to Life

Clinging to life is having fear of death. The reality is that the spirit is eternal in nature and death is spirit leaving the physical body. People wish to live in the physical body for the longest time, dwell in fear of death and abandon the self from living in the moment.

One needs to embrace the fact that death is inevitable. Observing, investigating, understanding and eliminating these particular hindrances of the mind will lead to a better understanding of the self that ultimately takes one on a journey to attaining a consistent peaceful state of mind.

“The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.” ~ Stanislav Grof

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Eco-consciousness and the Rise of the Eco Warrior

Sustainability

Gary Z McGee

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April 15, 2014

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Eco-consciousness and the Rise of the Eco Warrior

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” –Henry David Thoreau

This article is about Nature versus Anti-nature. It’s about Natural Order versus the Great Lie. And it is about how to choose the right side, that is, the healthier side. What is anti-nature? It is the runaway train that we call industrial civilization, which is systematically destroying the world under the false flag of “progress.”

What is the Great Lie? It is the propaganda that has been shoved down our throats all our lives, set in motion by a plutocratic regime that has a greedy stranglehold on the vital resources of the planet. Like Peter Joseph said, “We live in a plutocracy not a democracy, and the only true power is behind the curtain, not in front. The financial and business powers not only own and control this country they own and control the entire planet; and no, it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s a value-system disorder.”

save_the_planet — We inhale what trees exhale, and trees inhale what we exhale. So you see, the tree and us are one.

It’s high time we changed this exploitative value-system. We live in a world where unsustainable civilizations slowly, and violently, deplete the environment of its vitality, all because we’re preached that we have to keep buying things in order to survive. We have to keep consuming beyond our needs. We have to “keep up with the Joneses.”

We must must must have a J.O.B. or we’re a degenerate, or a dirty hippie, or somehow evil. This is all part of the Great Lie. Like Derrick Jensen wrote in Endgame: The Problem of Civilization, “Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don’t, people with guns come and force us to pay. That’s violent… The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.” The violence must stop.

And the Eco Warriors are not waiting around for some bloated windbag in power to make a pathetic attempt at change through petitions and corrupt elections. No, the Eco Warriors are daring to take the wheel of this runaway train and drive it right off its unsustainable tracks.

When a nation favors competition, taking, and hoarding over cooperation, sharing, and gifting, it is approaching spiritual death. When profits are valued over people, money over meaning, entitlement over justice, and ‘us’ over ‘them,’ then we have given into the great lie: that everything is separate and not connected. That everything is a product. That everything has a price-tag on it.

We need to put the “eco” back into economy. It must be people before profits, equality before equity, and the heart before money. We need to return to the ethic of reciprocity: to the Golden Mean, the middle-way, and the Golden Ratio. Otherwise we’re just floundering aimlessly in an immoral, unhealthy, unsustainable system of governance.

We need to ask questions like the wise eco-feminist, Starhawk, asked, “How does my spiritual practice and daily life serve the earth? How does my spiritual practice and daily life affect the poorest third of humanity? How will my spiritual practice and daily life affect the generations to come in the future?”

Jake_Sully_als_Toruk_Makto — Toruk Makto

When the blockbuster movie Avatar was released back in 2009, there was astrange epidemic called “Avatar Blues” that showed a rise in depression and suicidal thoughts. The pundits tried to write it all off as just “utopian wishful thinking,” or “wanting to escape reality.” But I disagree. I think the depression was a genuine response to the giant metaphor the movie represented: that Pandora (Earth) is being destroyed by a greedy corporation that will obtain the “precious” resource unobtainium (oil) at all costs.

It was like a slap in the face. Toruk Makto, the movie’s hero, was a symbol, or archetype, for unified nature against ecocide. Here on planet Earth, Eco Warriors are the personification of this archetype, whereas mega-corporations represent the ecocidal impulse. Just replace Pandora with Earth, unobtainium with Gold/diamonds/oil, the militarized mining company with overreaching corporations, and Toruk Makto with Eco-warrior and the metaphor is complete.

We need a Toruk Makto, a force of unified nature. Hell, we need thousands of them. Like the great Carl Sagan said, “Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

Rise of the Eco Warriors Trailer…

As it stands, we have a critical decision to make: proactive responsibility or apathetic indifference? The state perpetuates apathetic indifference. Indeed, it conditions and propagandizes it to no end. We’re either a victim of this propaganda or we’re turning the tables on it. If we wish to transform our apathy into empathy, then we should assume an Eco Warrior disposition.

If we wish to transform our indifference into proactive courage, then we should assume an Eco Warrior temperament. If we wish to transform our unsustainable irresponsibility into sustainable responsibility, then we should assume an Eco Warrior perspective.

Sometimes this means acting amoral in order to bring morality back to an otherwise immoral system. One must act amoral in order to transform the immoral back into the moral. It’s like Isaac Asimov wrote, “Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”

Indeed, the amoral agent’s way of taking this world seriously is by disrupting it and then giving it a new form. We amorally rebel; therefore morality exists. In an immoral world we must oppose it amorally in order to compel it to moralize itself. The Eco Warrior is precisely the kind of amoral agent needed to fight against the immoral infrastructure that is destroying the world today.

Let others have their moral high ground; let’s stick with the amoral middle ground and change the world for the better. Like Bertrand Russell suggested, “Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.” Or from Clarissa Pinkola Estes, “If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, or rebellious, you’re on the right track. If you have never been called these things, there is yet time.”

Despite what you may think, fierceness, fearlessness and ruthlessness are all possible without resorting to violence. So it is with being and becoming an Eco Warrior. The world doesn’t need more trigger-happy militarized crackpots with nationalism and patriotism scrambling their brains into exploitable soup. It needs compassionate Eco-warriors with the courage to challenge the powers-that-be, while also bringing tonality to an otherwise atonal world, using progressively sustainable solutions that show how a new world is possible.

Like Derrick Jensen wrote, “We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls… Love does not imply pacifism.” Only you can transform yourself into a sustainable soul. Tap into your inner Toruk Makto. Be fierce. Be fearless. Be ruthless. Be an Eco Warrior.

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7 Things Self-actualized People Don’t Do

Gary Z McGee

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April 14, 2014

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7 Things Self-actualized People Don’t Do

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them. Life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez

The term “self-actualization” was originally coined by the theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive of realizing one’s full potential, but was brought fully to light by Abram Maslow in his hierarchy of needs theory of human development.

Essentially self-actualization is the prominent feeling of being fully alive and aware of what it means to be a meaning-bringing creature in an otherwise meaningless universe.

It is the self-realization of one’s individuated maturity in balance with an interdependent spirit. Self-actualized people have a healthy perception of reality and practice healthy habits.

Here are seven things self-actualized people don’t do in order to achieve their most authentic self.

1) They don’t fear change

“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.” ~ Ernest Holmes

Self-actualized people realize that there is no permanence. Everything changes. And that’s the beauty of it.

It’s because things change, because things begin, because things grow and blossom and wilt and die and grow again that there is such a thing as beauty to begin with. It is exactly because things end that things are so beautiful while they’re here.

Everything is more precious to the self-actualized person precisely because everything is fleeting and transitory. They don’t fear change, they change fear. They are flexible and adept at adapting to the many vicissitudes of life.

2.) They don’t waste energy on things they can’t control

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ~ Deborah Reber

Self-actualized people understand that not everything is under their control. And that’s okay. For the same reason that you put an oxygen mask on yourself before a child, you need to discover a Locus of Control before attempting to control the locusts, the “locusts” being a metaphor for “everything else.”

Self-actualized people realize that they can’t control people. They can only teach people and hope those people learn. They can’t control fate.

They do, however, understand that they have control over their attitude, and choose to place their energy into adapting their attitude to a situation rather than complaining about how things are not working out.

They discover that by changing their attitude they are more likely to create a positive outcome. But even if they can’t, at least they have the satisfaction of having tried something positive.

3) They don’t feel unworthy

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle

Self-actualized people never feel sorry for themselves. There’s no point. They realize that self-pity is poison. Worthiness is a matter of attitude, and they have the right attitude. They make being worthy a habit, and they practice it every single day. They don’t worry about how other people treat them.

They are not concerned with circumstance. They are only concerned with how they manage their own worth in regard to others and to circumstance. They understand that nobody else gets to dictate their own worth. Worthiness is a choice, and they have simply chosen to be worthy.

4) They don’t fear taking risks

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Self-actualized people understand that living a full life requires stepping outside of their comfort zone. There’s adventure on the other side of those walls we put up in order to maintain our comfort, and self-actualized people are determined to leap those walls in pursuit of higher fulfillment.

They seek to test the limits of the human spirit. They are not reckless or foolish risk-takers, however. They are calculative and circumspect about their risk-taking. They have a proper orientation between fear and shame.

They can extend the limits of what’s possible without fear, because they are proactive and courageous about transforming boundaries into horizons.

5) They don’t have a sense of entitlement

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain

Self-actualized people don’t feel the world owes them anything. What they get, they earn. If they should get something they didn’t earn, they are appreciative and never take it for granted.

They don’t just assume that other people will take care of them. Rather, they take care of themselves and “let the chips fall where they may.”

They don’t suffer from unhealthy expectations. They also don’t need immediate gratification, understanding that sometimes the best things in life take time to develop. They don’t resent the success of other people.

Instead, they are happy for other people, and tend to learn from both the successes and the mistakes of others.

6) They don’t see setbacks as “setbacks”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” ~ Bruce Lee

Self-actualized people seek opportunity in every obstacle. Every failed attempt can be used as a stepping stone for the next attempt. And no matter how many attempts it takes, self-actualized people don’t quit.

They don’t agonize over past mistakes. They don’t cling to the past. And they definitely don’t hold onto resentment. They are very present and centered, especially during setbacks. They understand that through mistakes they can become wise, but only if they learn from those mistakes.

But they also don’t make the same mistake over and over again. They make new mistakes, understanding that trial and error is the mother of all invention. They intuitively understand the meaning of the Zen proverb: “The obstacle is the path.”

7) They don’t let negative thoughts control them

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” ~ Lao Tzu

Self-actualized people never assume the worst. Instead, they hope for the best and prepare for the worst. They know that they can adapt and overcome anything that comes their way.

They understand that negative thoughts can hijack their perspective if they allow them to, so they are ever-vigilant and cognizant of how their perception of reality is affecting reality. At the same time, they don’t resist the truth of reality.

If a situation is negative, or it is creating a negative emotion, they embrace the moment and the emotion and then they transform that emotion into a positive one, thereby transforming the situation into a positive one. They are also adept at transforming the negative energy of past traumas into positive energy for the present moment.

They have learned, as Sogyal Rinpoche teaches, “What we have to learn in both meditation and in life is to be free of attachment to the good experiences and free of aversion to the negative ones.”

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The Effect of Positive Emotions on Our Health

Life

Bhavika

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April 13, 2014

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The Effect of Positive Emotions on Our Health

“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.” ~ William Atkinson

Its important we recognise our thoughts and emotions and be aware of its effect not only on our health but also our relationships and our surroundings.

Positive emotions makes you feel happy and joyful.

Everything around you seems beautiful, you enjoy the moment and things seem to fall into place.

Barbara Fredrickson, one of the long-time researchers and author on positive emotions, has shown how cultivating positivity can transform us at a cellular level and actually shape who we are.

Fredrickson’s theory of positive emotions, ‘Broaden-and-build’ suggests that positive emotions lead to novel, expansive behavior, and these actions, over time lead to lasting emotional resilience, flourishing and meaningful social relationships.

Positive emotions or behaviour – like playfulness, gratitude, awe, love, interest, serenity, and feeling of interconnectedness to others – broadens our perspective, opens our mind and heart as we feel completely in tune with our environment. Like the flowers that blossom when the sun rises, the same way positive emotions bring light and joy back in our lives.

According to Fredrickson, Negative emotions are necessary for us to flourish, and positive emotions are by nature subtle and fleeting; the secret is not to deny their transience but to find ways to increase their quantity.

Rather than trying to eliminate negativity, she recommends we balance negative feelings with positive ones.

In this video she discusses how positive emotions broadens our awareness of the world, allowing us to become more in tune with the needs of others.

Barbara Fredrickson: Positive Emotions Transform Us

Barbara Fredrickson: Positive Emotions Open Our Mind

Shakespeare said, “Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”

Lets take a look at the physical and emotional benefits of positive emotions –

Faster recovery from cardiovascular stress
Positive emotions have also been shown to benefit individuals with cardiovascular disease.
Lower blood pressure and risk for cardiovascular disease
Better sleep, fewer colds, headaches, aches and pain, and a greater sense of overall happiness
Expands our perception of what lies in our peripheral vision
Research suggests that even more abstract positive emotions like hope and curiosity offer protective benefits from diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes.
Studies show that positive emotions help a person to overcome negative emotions faster and be more resilient and be able to cope with a difficult situation.
People are more playful when happy, so that leads better physical fitness, regular exercise or increased flexibility. (so its important to engage in an activity that makes you happy)
People who experience warmer, more upbeat emotions may have better physical health because they make more social connections

When you delve in that happy space, more possibilities and new ideas emerge and our creativity flows. Happiness and joy transform us, although you might not stay in that state all the time.

There will days when you feel down and out, but if we observe our emotions and divert our mind and think of the happy moments, you will find the negative emotion fading away.

Don’t forget negative, repressed emotions can have detrimental effect on our body, mind and spirit. It takes control over you and makes you feel down, gloomy, unhealthy and its a unpleasant state to be in.

Nothing like a good humour to drive the negativity away, always works for me. So increase your daily diet of positivity or engage in activities that bring about happy feelings either meditation, exercise, yoga, laughter clubs, walk, painting, and so on.

Positive feelings also help us live in the present moment and believe in oneness and interconnectedness with everything around us.

To sum it up, Marcus Aurelius said “Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

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Emotional Guidance Scale from Abraham Hick’s Ask and it is Given
Barbara Fredrickson
Fredrickson’s Quote
Positive Emotions

4 Ways Traveling Can Expand Consciousness

Life

Gary Z McGee

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April 11, 2014

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4 Ways Traveling Can Expand Consciousness

“Genuine travel has no destination. Travelers do not go somewhere, but constantly discover that they are somewhere else… Nature does not change; it has no inside or outside. It is therefore not possible to travel through it. All travel is therefore change within the traveler, and it is for that reason that travelers are always somewhere else. To travel is to grow.” ~ James P. Carse

Experiencing the world can expand our minds because it allows us to see the world from another perspective.

travel quote — A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ~ Laozi

We can read all we want, poke people on Facebook from Wherever-istan, watch videos of snake charmers in the Medinas of Marrakesh, or talk to people who have visited Tibet, but until we actually immerse ourselves, we will never truly understand the majestic power of these beautiful locations.

Here are 4 ways traveling can help expand consciousness.

1) It diminishes preconditioned prejudices

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain

We don’t choose where we’re born. We don’t choose what culture we’re raised in. We don’t even choose what values we’re indoctrinated into as children and adolescence. Growing up we are conditioned to believe and to think with a particular worldview that is often drastically different than the worldview of someone in another part of the world who was born on the exact same day as us.

If we never travel, we may never even become aware of this astounding fact. When we finally do get around to traveling, we discover that the world is an amazingly diverse place.

Immersing ourselves in diverse cultures helps us to become more flexible in our worldview. We become perceptually elastic and even more empathic as we become engrossed in the alien goings on. Travel teaches patience and resiliency and helps us to become more adaptable and open-minded, making us more Zen in our everyday life. Nothing stretches a comfort zone like good travel.

When we open ourselves to the world, the world opens even further to us. We discover that our preconditioned nationalism and patriotism are petty things compared to the glorious interconnectedness that comes with true immersion into diverse parts of the world.

Like Einstein warned us, “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

2) It creates unity

“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

As our preconceived prejudices diminish we discover another boon of good travel: unity. We come to understand that separation is an illusion. When we travel we become better at handling relationships.

Our social skills improve dramatically. The more people we meet, the more we tend to grow into refined, sophisticated people. Good travel even improves our ability to trust.

Five studies done at Northwestern University examined the effect of travel on generalized trust.

Researcher Jiyin Cao wrote, “In all five studies, we found a robust relationship between the breadth of foreign travel experiences and generalized trust.”

The more we travel, the more we learn about the harmonious cycles of various cultures, the more we come to realize that, even though things are different, things are also connected in ways that go beyond sharing a border with a country.

We discover that there really are no borders. Borders are illusory lines drawn into the sand, at best; especially those laid down by outdated methods of governance and parochial power plays. A genuine traveler realizes that all boundaries can be transformed into horizons.

3) It enhances creativity

“If you’re really listening, if you’re truly awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.” ~ Andrew Harvey

There is so much beauty in the world, and no amount of pictures or videos can do justice to experiencing it firsthand. The biodiversity alone is astounding. Nothing beats the ability to contrast the memory of a sunset in the Sahara with the memory of a sunset in Kauai, or the capacity to differentiate between the popcorn-stink of tiger piss in Thailand and the dry dusty-stench of a donkey while hiking down into the Grand Canyon.

You can’t get this from sitting around at home vegetating in front of a computer. Having such diverse experiences enhances our imagination which, in turn, enhances our creativity.

Genuine travel reveals the searing beauty of the world, and we cannot help but be bursting with the need to express it. Whether through photography, poetry, a traveler’s journal, or the canvas waiting for us when we get home, traveling compels us to share our experiences through our art.

You can feel it weigh heavy on your heart when you witness monkeys leaping from cliff-face to cliff-face while boating through the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River.

You can see it at midnight in the bioluminescent waters off the coast of Pi Pi Don. You can smell it while backpacking through a tulip farm in Amsterdam, or on the back of a camel trekking through the Sahara. You can taste it eating a scorpion kebab in Bangkok.

Like Laurence Gonzales wrote, “See the beauty. Seeing what is beautiful in the world binds you to it so that you are motivated to stay alive to enjoy it again.”

4) It can reduce stress and depression

“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he and the world become part of one structuralized whole; he has his rightful place, and thereby his doubt concerning himself and the meaning of life disappears.” ~ Erich Fromm

Genuine travel reduces anxiety. But in a nine-year APA study that tracked the health of 12,000 middle-aged men, researchers found that those who took at least one holiday a year were almost 30 percent less likely to die from a heart-related cause compared to men who did not take time off.

Besides that, traveling gets us away from the corporate rat-race and domestic grind of life. It connects us back to the world. Our materialistic, hyper-possessive lives fade away as we suddenly become more engaged with the cosmos. We become more aware. We realize that things don’t create lasting happiness, but the experience from traveling will stay with us forever.

Like Chris McCandless was recorded as saying in Into the Wild, “…so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a person than a secure future. The very basic core of a living spirit is passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day, to have a new and different sun.

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Probing the Psyche for a Peaceful Mind

Listed below are the five types of misconceptions ~

Ignorance

Egoism

Attachment

Aversion

Clinging to Life

Eco-consciousness and the Rise of the Eco Warrior

7 Things Self-actualized People Don’t Do

Here are seven things self-actualized people don’t do in order to achieve their most authentic self.

1) They don’t fear change

2.) They don’t waste energy on things they can’t control

3) They don’t feel unworthy

4) They don’t fear taking risks

5) They don’t have a sense of entitlement

6) They don’t see setbacks as “setbacks”

7) They don’t let negative thoughts control them

The Effect of Positive Emotions on Our Health

Lets take a look at the physical and emotional benefits of positive emotions –

4 Ways Traveling Can Expand Consciousness

Here are 4 ways traveling can help expand consciousness.

1) It diminishes preconditioned prejudices

2) It creates unity

3) It enhances creativity

4) It can reduce stress and depression

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