Presence
Last June I went to one of the most incredible music festivals known by many in the electronic music scene, surrounded by the shade and beauty of Michagen’s pine and spruce trees: Electric Forest. A month before the festival, over fifty thousand other attendees and I received a welcome package: wristband, stickers, a sunglasses pouch,…
Fulfillment
Having made poor attempts to release a new blog post here on Mindfulness & each week, I am going to simply do my best in writing each week and therefore release some of that writing here. This is an excerpt from The Story of Cogia (Sandman) by Hassan Alhabba (I believe I read it in…
Happiness
As mentioned last post, I am kicking off a new post series on the most common human emotions: Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Surprise, Disgust, Love, Jealousy, Anxiety, and Excitement. I hope I can bring some insight and breakdown of probably the most sought-after quality in this life: Happiness. “Happiness is when what you think, what…
Empathy
This post is about Mindfulness and Empathy, and what it does to us when practiced. I will also begin a series on the 8 most common human emotions: Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Love, Jealousy, Anxiety, and Excitement. If you find any value in this post and would like to support me, you can do so…
Less
I’ve been working on these Gratitude Manifestations, one of which was the gratitude for a job I greatly enjoy and challenges me, and well, it has come to fruition and filled my plate with a ton of work. I have now found the pace to get back into writing, and will continue to do so…
Teamwork
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Reason
“Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.”– Theodore Dreiser Instinct and reason both help advance the human species. However much of our evolution has relied on instinct as the primary…
Rejection
“Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.”– Angela Duckworth (Another way of stating this is that individually we are ordinary, but together we are extra ordinary). Layers and layers of simple inventions, like the parts of a computer (or the layers…