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You're the calm one when it's someone else's life. A friend's relationship falls apart, you see it clearly. You know what they should do, what the real problem is, what doesn't matter. Your own version of the exact same thing and you can't think straight. It's not that your problem is bigger. It's that you're standing inside it. Steiner had a line for this: we have to learn to look at ourselves the way we'd look at a stranger. Not coldly. Just from far enough away to actually see. The whole reason your life feels like a mess might be that you've never once stepped back far enough to look at it.

I forced my mind to think positive, and every time the worst-case scenario came into my mind, I either thought of something positive, thought of when the good times come, or distracted myself with reels. (Had blood cancer, don't think the don't-doomscroll rule is important here, and stopped doomscrolling pretty fast.)

Please be HONEST, During your darkest period, what was the best thing you ever did for your mental health?

"In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." - Iroh Iroh just described, in two sentences, something Rudolf Steiner writes about and teaches. Most people's mood is affected by their circumstances. Aka they react. Things go well, they feel strong. Things go bad, they collapse. They're being carried by what happens to them. Steiner called the goal of inner work the opposite of this: to "steer a safe and steady course through the ups and downs of life, rather than being tossed about by them." You stop reacting to circumstances and start generating your own state from the inside. And he was clear about when this matters most. He described the soul at its lowest point asking: where do I find the strength to carry this? His answer was Iroh's exact answer: The strength "must well up from within us." He called it inner courage. Inner fearlessness. That's what Iroh is teaching Zuko here. Despair is letting your circumstances decide who you are. Hope is refusing to hand them that power. You give it to yourself. Nobody hands it to you.

@EpicMasculine7 "I trust no one" and "I love everyone" can live in the same person. Be hard to fool. But have a big capacity to love. A man who trusts no one and loves no one isn't a wolf. He's just alone.

Steiner: "What food is to the body, feelings are to the soul." "Fuck your feelings" is feeding your soul stones and wondering why you're so unhappy. Yes, you should stick to the plan. But there's more to life than the plan. The world is beautiful. A man who's killed his feelings isn't strong. He's starving. He can't see the beauty anymore.

You're a man. Fuck your feelings. Stick to the plan. Every. Single. Day. There's no going home.

Careful. You can win all 4 G's and still have an empty life. Imagine lying in the hospital bed, dying. Don't you think you'll have some regrets if you only focused on the 4 G's? Friends aren't a distraction. Beauty isn't a distraction. Love isn't a distraction. They're what you're getting strong for. Be in the middle.

Focus on the 4 G's 1. GOD 2. GYM 3. GOALS 4. GROWTH Everything else? Distractions.

Every time I wake up I try to write down my dream. The last few months, my dreams usually revolve around growth, power, responsibility, and social situations. The details change, but the pattern stays the same. My dreams seem to be scenes processing what happened that day symbolically.

Do you have any recurring dreams? What do you think they're trying to tell you?

@manly_mentor Everything you need to know and everything you want is already in you. The mirror isn't where you find the answer, it's where you stop hiding from it. You have to look inward.

LOOK YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND ASK YOURSELF: WHAT DO I WANT TO DO EVERYDAY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE? DO THAT.

@thesigmamindset All I can think of when i see your account name😂

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You should remain positive and calm during hard times. I had cancer. How I got through the day was thinking: God is not going to let me die this way. I have a lot more to do. And thinking about when the good times come, and that it's going to work out. Do not be afraid. - Bible

NEVERRRRRRR look desperate in life, bro. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it's just your time to suffer like every great man before you.

You're calm about other people's problems and a wreck about your own. Same problems. Different distance.

I connect forgotten esoteric thinkers to the stories we grew up with. First up: what Rudolf Steiner reveals about Zuko's arc: and why you'll recognize it in yourself.

Creatine isn't just good for getting big muscles. It's one of the best things you can take for your brain. Especially when you're running on bad sleep: - Sharper thinking - More mental energy - Less of that foggy feeling And if you struggle to actually sleep: Low-dose melatonin and magnesium before bed. I used to have a hard time keeping any kind of sleep rhythm. Since fixing that, I have more energy. I wake up by myself without an alarm EVERY single day.

Gym fam to gym fam. CREATINE really changes your physique. Like fr.

After you have assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled, Do not close the experience as you would a book, But carry it around like a fragrant odor. -Neville Goddard

If you want your prayers answered, pray like Neville Goddard says to. Not "please send me a million dollars." That's begging for a future. Lie back tonight, half-asleep, and feel it already done. The relief. The thanks. As if the million already arrived. "Thank you for the million." "The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized." Answered prayers start as answered feelings.

Your next season called... "Answered prayers"

It was raining the other day, and I caught myself thinking: this is kind of beautiful. There's a whole system here. God set it up so the plants get watered. The water sits on the leaves and shines. It makes a beautiful sound. A few weeks ago I would've just seen "bad weather." Here's the thing I'm realizing, and Steiner says it better than I can: "The world around us is filled everywhere with the glory of God, but we have to experience the divine in our own souls before we can find it in our surroundings." The beauty isn't something you're projecting onto a grey, neutral world to feel better. The beauty is already there: The light on the flowers The rain feeding the roots The sun warming everything. That's real. What changes is whether you can see it. Steiner's claim is almost physical: your inner life is an organ of perception. Develop it, and the same walk through the same landscape reveals more. "Inner experience is the only key to the beauties of the outer world." So this isn't "think positive and the universe will reward you." It's closer to the opposite. The world is already glorious. A dull inner life just can't pick up the signal. The rain was always beautiful. I just finally had the eyes for it.

@Fathers_Diary "Be mindful of your thoughts, Anakin. They betray you." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

Sex hits better when you're relaxed Conversations hit better when you're relaxed. Money feels special when you're relaxed. Sleep feels deep when you're relaxed. Food tastes better when you're relaxed. Anxiety fades when you're relaxed. Depression disappear when you're relaxed. Wins come faster when you're relaxed. Luck finds you when you're relaxed. Everything makes sense when you're relaxed. Learn how to relax. No matter what you're going through. Nothing kills a man faster than the weight of his own thoughts. Stay calm. Please don't stress over things that are out of your control.

@DearS_o_n The best advantage is to be interesting and not boring. Nobody wants to talk to the boring person.

People thinking you’re dumb is one of the best advantages you can have.

Yesterday I tried Neville Goddard's way of falling asleep. It was bedtime and I wasn't that tired. So I thought, what the hell, why not try Neville Goddard's way of falling asleep. I was asleep in maybe 3 minutes. Here's what Neville Goddard says to do: "A vivid representation of the action is the beginning of that action." So I lay in bed and imagined myself already asleep. Not thinking about sleeping. Picturing it. The weight of my body. As real as I could make it. I saw my face, my bed, my sheets. I also pictured two girls there, for the fun of it. Neville's instruction is simple: Immobilize your body. Act exactly as if you were about to take a nap. Then start the scene in imagination, and let it carry you down into sleep. "Carrying the action into sleep," he writes, "thickens fancy into fact." This is easy, because sleep is one of the few things where the method and the destination are the same. You're not trying to manifest a car or a million dollars here. You're trying to fall asleep, and the technique is falling asleep, just done on purpose. He warns you it won't be clean at first. "At first your thoughts may be like rambling sheep that have no shepherd." Your mind wanders. Fine. You bring it back. It wanders again. You bring it back. "Should your attention stray seventy times seven, bring it back seventy times seven." I don't know if I "thickened fancy into fact." I just know I wasn't tired, I imagined myself asleep, and a few minutes later I was.