I spent the last week solo as my family went to Florida for spring break. Most of my home alone time was spent reading and writing with my feet propped up. Morning walks and convos with my pets. I’m in a mental shakeup mode I’ve changed a few everyday routines to make my brain reset on some of my regular patterns. Nothing extreme I’ll brush my teeth with my right hand (I’m left-handed), shower immediately when I get out of bed, prepare my coffee the night before, zero phone activity until after I write. I want to see if my tone changes when I write without any outside observations or impressions.

My reading I’ve challenged myself to read more outside my box. I’m inside three books at the moment. Red Book by Jung, The Gulag Archipelago and I downloaded a book of poetry by Rumi. Finished a book that discusses the hermetic philosophies (The Kyballion) last week over a bowl of eggs.

I have a book on etymology arriving today. I’ve been fascinated with the origin of words lately.

Quite a change from Stephen King novels and recipe books.

I implement these books while try different audio levels and themes. I’ve been adding Solfeggio frequencies to my playlists and Spatial Audio. If you haven’t tried spatial with noise cancelling headphones I highly recommend. If you don’t own a pair of noise cancelling headphones I’d also

Highly recommend

If I were a billionaire every household would have a pair. I’m currently listening to some light drum beat that’s literally moving around in circles in my ears. Like I have a DJ slowly orbiting around my brain.

I’m not a therapist. I’m barely a college drop out but I will say music and sound therapy will do amazing things to your mental health. I don’t necessarily mean listening to your favorite bands while you vibe I’m referring to listening to healing frequencies.

Sound heals.

Period

I’m not anti medicine. I’m not anti doctor nor will I ever try to rise above the educated in their position. I will heed a professional’s advice for the most part.

But

I also believe the body has an amazing way of healing itself. Even your mental health.

Holistic? I’m don’t think I’m there but I’m all around it. I’m not that paranoid but it doesn’t take much to see we are treated to be and remain sick. I’m not on this platform to spout conspiracy theories this is my own personal perspective.

Anyway so most of my arthritis in my hands are gone.

Sciatica? Who’s that?

I went hiking up the pinnacle side of table rock with zero knee pain.

I had an operation on my left Achilles 15 years ago. Was told it couldn’t be repaired without surgery. I had a deformity building up behind my Achilles. The operation left terrible nerve damage on the back of my ankle. I walked/ran in constant pain for over a decade. If you thumped it I’d fall down in pain. I couldn’t even put my foot on an ottoman without wincing. My right Achilles began doing the same thing 5 years ago.

Both are healed. The right foot it helped by changing my shoes and socks. The left foot, my scar tissue no longer causes me pain. In fact it’s pretty much gone. My left foot always looked like they sowed up a small coin purse in it. That one is the one that really impresses me. I fixed my chronic pain. I dont take meds. I rarely take an aspirin. I’m speechless.

Joint pain as long as I drink water like a good boy stays away.

Audio also helps my focus. Focus helps my mental health.

My depression has been somewhere else. I made a mental door in my head to lock it out and I threw away the f-ing key. I use visualization as a tool for me. If something seems to difficult for me to understand I use visual aids to comprehend. Think of it as a mental pop up book. It works.

I’m not selling courses

I see many of you suffering from depression and mental health issues. Once again I’m not a therapist.

But

Don’t sell yourself short. Also no one is knocking on your door with the Publisher’s Clearing House winning letter. I’ve applied three years of self awareness, therapy and hours upon hours of meditation.

Why?

Because I’m worth the effort. Your intuition is the real you trying to talk to you. You aren’t a person/body with a soul. It’s the other way around.

*everyone stops reading

I know – here we go with some new age mystical bull shit.

Honestly what I’m studying is much, much older. I’m not here to start a cult either.

Also when you break everything down we are all chasing the same thing. They just keep changing the characters.

I’m walking around pain free other than the signs of some wear and tear from being alive for 53 years. I used to flex my ankles every morning when I woke up so I wouldnt fall on my face when I got out of bed. Next rehab will be my shoulder tear from 30 years ago. I needed to walk pain free first.

My mind is clear and much more perceptive than it used to be.

All I’ll say is this and then I’ll move on-

If you don’t believe you can do it then you don’t stand a chance.

You have to change the way you think about yourself and everything around you. It’s harder than training for a marathon but much MUCH more rewarding.

Ok bye on that one.

Work was painfully slow this week. Spring break broke us for a bit but I didn’t want to jump off a mountain this time. Life ebbs and flows like the tides. I went home yesterday with a smile on my face. When I arrived I received a group hug from my family as we were reunited after a week of separation.

Life’s good man

That hug is worth more than a thousand new campers.

Start a journal. Write down how you feel you don’t have to share it for the world to see like I do.

Words are spiritual. You can express the word spiritual without it being based on a certain book. You are the book.

Write down how you feel. Write down the things that make you feel.

Don’t leave your words in your head. The more you write them down the more you will release the ones that control you. If you don’t understand what that means come talk to me.

I said I’d stop but I lied.

Today is beautiful. I’m about to go for an amazing 4 mile walk through my neighborhood. The sun will shining on my face in about 20 minutes. I may camp next to a lake today on Dreher Island (if it’s open).

Gotta run. Or walk I mean.

Toodles 🫶🏼