hey, so i realized that i am closed minded about many things.
that is the bad news.
but, the good news is that when i realized this…
all of a sudden my mind naturally tries to expand by being a little more open to different possibilities.
i see little changes in the way i view and behave.
maybe realizing i am closed minded was a necessary step before i started to grow.
the solution is simple.
when the hunger pang hits, just shift your body into activation.
jump up and down 10 times, jumping jacks, push ups anything.
just enough physical activity to shift the momentum towards activation.
the hunger pangs usually hit when there is boredom, laziness, lack of movement.
the body is asking you to do anything but being bored.
once your body becomes activated, you will feel like doing something.
your attention will shift from the hunger pang to desiring to become productive.
i think this might work for depression too.
just start jumping up and down 10 times or until the body has created enough new momentum.
use that momentum to get something done.
this can be done anytime, any place, and costs nothing.
only side effect is that you will have so much new momentum,
you will have to figure out all kinds of new things to do to spend the energy.
i recently decided for some odd, random reason to start counting the positive things that occur in my daily life.
on the first day i realized that i had over 500 positive moments that day, quite astonishing.
the positive things can be as small as seeing a hot girl or as mundane as getting a task done on the to-do list.
while counting the positive moments, of course there would be negative events that occur. but i didn’t tally those at all.
after a while my mind started to come to the conclusion that positive moments are a normal part of daily life.
even if a random negative moment occurs, now my mind had been trained to know that positive moments will soon reappear.
and even if it is a major negative that happens, if i remember that i had 500+ positives the day before, the one negative seems miniscule.
i’ve been trying to keep this up for about 3 days now. and, notice i smile more, and laugh a little more often.
it’s like training the mind to only to focus on positive things.
if the mind can be trained to be negative through repetition, then the opposite can be true for noticing the positive.
this exercise might be good for people who are depressed. it really works.
i notice that the positive moments rack up faster when im out or at work, so now i look forward to being out and about instead of being at home.
i have another weird exercise i am working on. this came up in my mind randomly too. but it increases my awareness by 10 fold.
i’ll post about this next time.
i learned the power of “how are you.” i used to think it was an invasive question that is too meddling.. but it is actually a socially connective ice breaking ritual. once you get started on it, it becomes second nature and it leads to potential, open communication. sometimes tho, it does open up some TMI situations but those are rare.
1. Just tried this on my iPhone 3G 16GB, which was running incredibly slow (keyboard sometimes took 5 seconds to respond to a keypress; apps. took forever to fully launch). Reboots alone did not help.
I went to Settings -> Safari and deleted the history, cookies, and cache. Then rebooted. Much much better.
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2. reboot iphone
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3. software restore.
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4. I had the slowest phone in town after the upgrade to 4.0. I was searching for an easy fix, hopelessly. I tried that hard reset (holding the power & home button until the power off appears) and I had to do it about 3-4 times, but after that magic number, now my phone is operating as promised. I can’t remember who suggested it first – but i THANK YOU!!!!
Now you can safely store your notes and information online with Google Notebooks. The interface is trimmed to work with any mobile phone – including iPhone. But I could not find a way to ‘Search’ the notes. which makes it less useful. Still if you want to give it a whirl – go to:
i eat really fast. for some reason i enjoy eating fast.
my brain will not receive the message that my stomach is full until it’s too late.
so i just thought of a good strategy.
i will just wait 30 seconds between each refill.
and, keep the portion of refill really small.
so all of a sudden a 1 cup meal of food will last a lot longer.
a meal that usually lasts only 5 minutes will becomes 10-15 mins.
my brain will get the signal of satiation as it really should.
and, i will have eaten the same amount of food.
for some reason, i was under the impression that my affirmations would work better for me if they flashed on my screen in fraction of a second intervals to get those messages in my brain subliminally. i had it set to super fast speeds for maybe over a year. i don’t think it’s true anymore. today, i slowed them down to normal speed so i can watch them on my screen 5 seconds at a time. i had so much energy today and so much motivation. maybe i was feeling down for a while because i was missing my affirmations. now, i can read the affirmation and sort of think about it a little before it disappears. this comtemplation of the affirmation is essential to it’s effectiveness because it leaves an impression in the conscious mind then, if lucky it can effect me subconsciously. i can sorta control what i want to enter into the subconscious. if you just let it the affirmations go straight to your subconscious you have less control of what you will become in the end. anyways, i know i felt a drastic change in my energy level and motivation today like i used to feel when i used affirmation before switching it to subliminal speed. today was a good day.
It says it on the application’s AppStore page:
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