thoughts and practices for a concious life, 10:16

1.Be kind. You make a difference in the world, feel the power and the joy of that.
2.If you are unable to be kind, be decent.
3.Fall in love. Begin with yourself
4.Recognize your fantasies
5.Make a list of your commitments, write them down
6.Remember, there is no good or bad. There is only effective and ineffective. Do your thoughts and actions move you toward your commitments or away from them
7.a. It is your life, you cannot fuck it up
7.b. You will fuck it up, see 7.a.
8. Be honest. With yourself and others
9. Remember, we all make it up, everyone, everyday
10. Be nice to yourself. Be careful of what you say to yourself. Notice your inner conversations, would you allow someone to talk about one of your friends that way?
11. Practice being thoughtful, think about about what you are going to do or say
12. Learn some practical skills. How to light a fire, change a tire, fix a toilet
13. Travel, anywhere
14. Unplug your TV, limit your Facebook time
15. Feed and nurture your creativity. Dance, write , make music, smear paint on something, If you have been convinced you are not creative, challenge that by creating something
16. There is no right way to do anything. There is only the way we are doing it today.
17. Do yoga
18. Take new ways of being on as a practice. The human brain is like a muscle. Doing a small bit with it each day will result in new neural pathways and new ways of being that feel quite natural
19. Involve yourself in your community. Volunteer
20. Notice how fear gets in your way. What if the way fear feels is what it feels like to be alive.
21. Be quiet for a moment each day
22. Watch the sunrise
23. Watch the sunset
24. Take care of your body. Consider what you eat, exercise a bit. Take a walk, get a massage, give a massage. Wander in the woods. Have an orgasm. Howl at the moon.
25. Learn to cook some things
26. Start your own business
27. Give yourself permission to be human. Seek your own balance of capriciousness and responsibility. Let that balance shift, see what happens
28. Pay attention to what is going on around you.
29. Shave your head. Notice how just the suggestion makes you uncomfortable
30. Explore, consider the possibility that the fun part, the juicy part of life resides where you are mist uncomfortable
31. If you knew that today is the last day of your life. What would you do? Or, Do something that moves you in that direction
32. Pay attention to what you eat. Every cell in your body is replaced, except DNA, within 3 days to 12 months. What –art of your body would you like made out of Cheetos? Read, understand and question ingredients
33. Read a book
34. Forgive someone, start with yourself
35. Write a letters. To yourself, to someone you love, to someone you are upset with. Mail it it or not.
36. Practice being grateful for something, everyday.
37. Pray, it does not matter to whom
38. Say Yes, for an hour, for a day, for the rest of your life
39. Spend a day playing sick, spend a day playing well
40. Take no rule to seriously, break the rules.
41. Dance in the mud, jump in puddle
42. Walk slowly in the rain, head up, feel it.
43. Swim in a cold lake
44. Be proud of yourself. When you wake up in the morning, think for a moment about yourself. Pride; Having a quality or qualities that are worthy of admiration.
Practice being proud of yourself.
In the beginning find something of you, you can be proud of .
Your practice is to get to a place where you can be proud of you, all of you, even the wiggly parts that are not your favorite
45. Write a journal for one day, write about your favorite thing that has happened this year. If you find you enjoy writing keep doing that.
46. Notice something you do because you were told to do, and don’t do it, or, do the opposite
47. Laugh about something.
48. Put your phone on Airplane Mode for an hour each day. Then 2 hours, then three etc.
49. The Flow (The Path of Grace and Ease) Go with the flow. If you are struggling, step back, breathe, notice the flow and follow it.
50. Pay attention to the sources of energy in your life. The things and people that feed your soul. And, notice the things that drain your energy.
51. if there is a lake, jump in it.
52. Plant some seeds. Anywhere.
53. Notice something you want. Ask for it.
54. Honor your word
55. Be on time.
56. Learn a language.
57. Don’t overthink it.
58. Consider taking an Ayhuasca journey.
59. Build something.
60. When you go to a party or social gathering. Notice how quickly you choose who is interesting and who you would never talk to. Introduce yourself to the person you consider least interesting.
61. Throw a party
62. For no reason, call someone you love/like and say Hi.
63. Buy a dozen roses, give them away, one at a time, to random people during the day.
64. Put 8-10 wooden clothes pins in your hair, go out into your world
65. Write a song then sing it.
66. Consider this; It has nothing to do with you
and
it is all about you.
67. Every human has a superpower, what is yours? You might have more than one.
68. Occasionally when you eat out, buy a random stranger breakfast, lunch, dinner.
69. Consider this; If it is not a Fuck Yeah! It is a no
70. If you love doing a particular thing, quite your job and do that.
71. Sometimes it is just Jelly Brain. Ya gotta get with that.
72. Remember to breathe.
73. What you eat is more that nourishment. What you eat are the building blocks for your new body
Red Blood cells-replace every 4 months
White Blood Cells – every 12 months
Skin cells – replaced every 2-3 weeks
Colon Cells – replaced every 4 days
Sperm – replace every 3 days
Neurons – Never replaced, they are not replaced when they die.
Stomach cells – Replaced every 2-9 days
Fat cells- Replaced every 8 years
Oocytes (Female Gamator) – Are never replaced
Lung Alvioli – Replaced every 8 days
Cardio Lyocytes - .5 – 10% are replaced each year
There are 50-75 trillion cells in your body
What part of your body do you want to be made of Cheetos?
74. Fake it till you make it. Every human does that.
75. Give yourself permission to be you
76. Give others permission to be themselves.
77. Take yourself out on a date.
78. What if there is no Truth (with a capitol T). There is only what you choose to believe.
79. Question Authority
80. Be grateful, for everything
81. Just Fucking get over it. You can do that, you know what I am talking about.
82. What if it is so because you say so.
83. Speak easy, to yourself and to others
84. Acknowledge yourself for what you have done. “You should do more/better/faster” is not motivating. Practice giving yourself a “Well done” even if it is for sitting and watching a movie.
85. Consider your age, it has taken you that long to get where you are. Change, shift, recreation may take some time. Be patient with yourself, keep moving forward.
86. Are you willing to do what it takes? If you want something, you must be willing to do what it takes, you may not have to, but you must be willing.
87. Are you living? Or. Are you dying
88. No right, no wrong. There is only effective or not effective.
89. Go on adventure.
Adventure, n; An unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity
To put it another way
Adventure, n; An experience in which you either die or you have a great story to tell.
90. everything human begins with a conversation. What if “it” is so because you say so. Watch the movie “Milk” Regardless of where you stand on gay rights, that movie portrays how the global gay rights movement began, is sourced in a conversation between two men.
91. Practice Focused Problem Solving, when you make a choice or decision, remove everything from your mind that has nothing to do with the solution.
92. Trust yourself