Where do bumble bees live? I don’t think they have a hive like honeybees or wasps. Do they just have a little nest thing? Or are they true vagabonds, sleeping on random tree branches or something?
Month: October 2024
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The use of intellect needs to simplify things. If it complicates things, something is not right.
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My favorite Greek goddess is Athena. The reason for this affinity initially sprouted from two facts. She is the warrior goddess of wisdom (meaning she is smart and tough), and the story of her birth – that she sprung, in full war regalia, from Zeus’ head when it was split open by another god. Because… how badass is that?
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What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Most people don’t know that I am an extremely emotional person. Most people will tell you that I am laid back, easy going. I am adaptable, that is a fact, but that doesn’t change the fact that I experience emotions to a much higher degree than anyone realizes. Most people don’t see or feel the signs and signals from my internal environment, mostly because I have fine tuned the art of hiding them or minimizing them. Is this healthy behavior? Not likely. Is this a coping mechanism? Quite likely. Am I working on striking a balance between authenticity and emotional chaos? Absolutely.
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I am a renaissance woman.
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Never be done. Being done will stagnate you.
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I had a conversation the other day, and something came up where I said that uncertainty is rooted in fear, and people are not wired to live in fear all the time.
It’s the other way around though, I have realized. Fear stems from uncertainty about something. See a rattlesnake in your bedroom? Instant panic. See a rattlesnake in a tank in the zoo? Apprehension, maybe, but no full-fledged fear, unless you have a phobia. You can relate this to any situation, physical or emotional. Fear comes from a lack of reasonable certainty that you are safe, in whatever respect. The larger the deficit of certainly, the more pronounced the fear is. And the more pronounced the fear, the higher the probability (certainty) that we will act upon it.
Humans, for the most part, go to great lengths to avoid or minimize uncertainty. There are industries focused, at least in part, on the study of risk management. We buy insurance. We stay in shitty situations because we can’t handle the fear of being outside of something known. We don’t go after our dreams for the same reason.
It seems that to conquer your fear in a situation, you have to increase your tolerance for fear, because the uncertainty is certain.
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Uncertainty is a mathematical thing. Math is the language of the physical. The physical creates emotions, which in turn, influence the physical. Where does the mind fall – thoughts? Thoughts can impact the physical and vice versa. Do thoughts fall somewhere between, serving as a bridge between the physical and the emotional? Are we our thoughts, or something separate? Words are the language of the emotional. Words are physical. They say that words can hurt. Math speaks about the physical world to the emotional, the emotional world speaks to the mental world with words. Physical = math. Emotional = words. Thoughts are the how. What is truly the distinction between mental and emotional? If the difference is the presence of rationale, then math or logic has to be its language. I keep seeing a triangle in my mind. Flow charts too. Thoughts impact the emotional. Physical – MATH -> Emotional – WORDS -> Mental – LOGIC. Math transforms the physical into emotional, words translate the emotional into thoughts, and logic transforms thoughts into the physical. There is a bigger thought here. If I am not my body, then we can also infer that I am not my emotions, and I am not my thoughts. I am aware of and separate from all three. Awareness. Awareness is the only element that exists without translation or transformation. That is what I am.
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I had a conversation recently with a friend of mine and he was telling me about a comedy show where the dude also hypnotized the audience members. During the show, the dude instructed the audience members in a few things, but the final part was to put your palms together, press them together as hard as you can, and imagine that the two hands fused into one.
My friend told me he could not separate his hands after being brought out of the hypnosis, try as he might. This got me thinking.
Your mind really does have amazing power over your experience. In this case, you are guided to a place of openness by the hypnotist, given a task that makes you imagine something, reinforces that imagined reality with something physical, and once you bring your focus back to the moment, that imagined thing becomes your reality.
I don’t think most people realize how much your mindset and thoughts truly do shape your reality. If you want to change your reality, you have to start with your thoughts…
Interesting factoid. I read somewhere that your brain reacts the same no matter if you are experiencing an event, remembering it, or imagining it.
My friend is fine now, by the way. His hands are no longer fused together by the power of his mind.
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Apparently, my dad didn’t speak until he was three years old. When he told me this, I asked him why. He simply said, “Didn’t have anything to say, I guess.”
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 