Author Archives: Si

How to Clear a Ton of Crap Fast

Remember a while back, I wrote about a more effective version of the Map'n'Tap? Ie, a way to quickly deeply clear everything around any given issue. Well, here's the fastest way I've found if you want to do a whole bunch of maps. Since any mind map should ideally be about a single subject, if you …

07/Dec/2011 – 22:22 | By Si | Posted in healing, self-improvement | Comments (2)

The Subtlety of Posture

I've talked about posture before and how strongly our mind & body are connected. How if we're feeling crappy, we can adjust ourselves physically and our mind will follow. We can do this just with our face (in the west, often the most outwardly expressive part of us) or with our entire bodies. What I've …

11/Oct/2011 – 13:49 | By Si | Posted in healing, self-improvement | Comments (6)

Why it seems the crap is never ending

When you first start on a growing or healing journey (aka life), everything seems amazing. Gigantic problems fall away with ease, life gets better, people notice the change in you and for a while it seems like all your worries are gone. After a while though you may start to notice, there's always more crap. What's going on? …

01/Oct/2011 – 14:00 | By Si | Posted in healing | Comments (5)

Snow!

Today I woke up and there was honest to god, real life snow, just lying everywhere, being all lazy. Even though it's winter, around these parts there hasn't been snow since 1995. So, what better way to spend a Monday morning than to go for a walk up a local hill? (rhetorical question) This hill, unsurprisingly. Mum …

25/Jul/2011 – 14:11 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

A Night Of Bad Dreams

I had a bunch of bad dreams last night. This is very rare for me. Typically these days I might get a single mildly bad dream maybe once or twice a month, if that. But first let me wind back a bit. A few days ago I hung out with a friend of mine. This is someone …

17/Jul/2011 – 12:37 | By Si | Posted in healing, life | Comments (3)

Random Thursday Night Adventure

I was sitting at home the other night, minding my own business when a text message flashed in on my intra-planetary communicator: "I'm coming to pick you up. I'll be there at 9:50pm. Pack a toothbrush" Well, okay then. (Secretly? I adore these kind of spontaneous adventures.) On the agenda? Sitting in an outdoor jacuzzi half …

16/Jul/2011 – 20:52 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

Three high states, three lists

There are three super high states of being: Courageousness, Acceptance and Peace. I first talked about them here. These may not be the utterly highest states possible (how much bullshit wankery do we want to get into, really), but they're damn good to aim for. Acceptance is a higher state than Courageousness. Peace is the highest. Courageousness …

16/Jul/2011 – 10:14 | By Si | Posted in healing | Comments (0)

Catching A Bus

At the moment, I'm living in the gardens of Isengard. You what? Yes, these gardens. Well, ok ok, I actually live in a cottage. The gardens are (quite literally) across the road. This is where my parents live. Rivendell is just up the road, and yep, in general the area is every bit as picturesque as …

10/Jul/2011 – 20:24 | By Si | Posted in life | Comments (11)

Bad Morning

This morning I woke up feeling bad. How bad? Really bad. The worst I've felt in… months? Kinda like this: (Years back I used to sing this to myself every day at work… but that's a whole other story) In fact, I distinctly remember thinking "God, I feel so crap even a blowjob wouldn't cheer me …

26/Jun/2011 – 16:35 | By Si | Posted in healing, life | Comments (4)

Dealing To Fear

Fear is very simple. Our usual reaction to fear, anxiety, in fact any "negative" or "unpleasant" emotion is to avoid it. To either push it down or try to escape it (booze, sex, TV etc). And this works! Well, kinda. All it really does is push that emotion back down again, but, like an unkillable hydra, it …

25/Jun/2011 – 16:36 | By Si | Posted in healing, health | Comments (2)