The Mind is a powerful tool, here's how to use it correctly!

This was originally posted on social media back in 2021 and I find it highly relevant to illustrate the distance I've personally made since and prove my point.

Point being that your mind is a god-level power tool. Therein a device almighty, that is responsible for the design and experience of your everyday life.

It's one meme generating machine.

To test its worth. Here's one example of how you can apply it in your life, not only to mind hacking, but to bio-hacking your body shape and size.

Anything that relates to your biology can be traced back to your behaviors and the beliefs that underpin them.

In society at large, we see a tsunami of addiction, detrimental behavior patterns.

Realize that life is beautifully poetic though. By observing and following those very same detriments to your state of well-being is the finger pointing to the solution.

If you ignore a specific addictive pattern for long, it will leave you dry and empty in its wake.

It will make it harder and harder for you to ignore by collapsing everything in your immediate presence into reminders.

Reminders that there is something inside you screaming for attention.

It is a space that will allow you to acknowledge everything.

Acknowledge the painful fact of this behavior no longer serving you.

It's ok, it's safe to feel. It's safe to feel helpless. Vulnerable. Incapable to project a facade of success and happiness outwardly that is slowly siphoning away your energy.

Your power.

You are the one who transmutes that emotional energetic pattern stored in your body.

Once released, a full breath in. A sense of relief. Release of pent up trauma.

Now, you feel different.

It's much lighter on this side, like a breeze. It's playful.

You immediately recognize that you had passed through a gate-less gate.

The threshold of change. You look back and see there was no gate.

It was a mental model, an emotionally driven behavior pattern.

It is now gone with the wind.

There are many apparent addictions, all of them without exception are not caused or driven externally by _______ (enter the greatest attachment in your life at the moment).

The desires can never be satiated by chasing temporary states of relief.

Moreover, the sheer increasing frequency and quantity of that very ______ is becoming less and less satisfying with each additional *unit consumed*.

A viscous cycle to get you to the extreme breaking point which I was hinting at at the beginning of this post.

You are hereby set free of it by your own resolve.

With the ability to see that it was a substitute, a device to fill the unquenchable thirst of your soul!

Now circling back to the quote from Nassim Taleb, let's break that apart shall we.

I do not stand guilty of allowing myself to fall victim to heroin.

But Alcohol, Caffeine and Tobacco pretty much filled that void for me for a very long time.

You know, the socially endorsed addictions that still allow you to partake in the mindless rat race.

Not all carbohydrates are made equal Nassim! He stands corrected (a man does not know what he doesn't know), it is the processed sugars that are more dangerous than heroine and other morphine like synthetics.

Recognizing the addictive feeding patterns is no joke. Our collective food porn fest on what appears as a SAD (Standard American Diet).

Naturally occurring carbohydrates are what gave rise to population booms and arguably sparked the wheels of civilization (depending which time segment you zoom out to).

But I digress. 

A salary however as Nassim suggested, that is perhaps the penultimate addiction.

Truly dangerous and detrimental to you and society at large, to be doled out (on a dole), like scraps tossed aside to the dog.

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

At the time of my writing this (back in 2021), I was still spell bound to a 9-5 framework. However loosely defined and flexible due to lock-downs and remote work of the era.

It is the next chapter that I was writing at the time, breaking free of the greatest addiction holding me back from the ultimate freedom from.

There is one addiction that trumps all these three addictions however. It is the addiction to thinking or spinning in circles talking to yourself to absurdity.

These are subtle way in which your mental power is siphoned away and you're able to tame that wild beast. Your mind that is.

If you find these words resonant and feel the urge to explore more mental models and actionable advice in the pursuit of conscious liberation, I invite you to reserve your spot today for the August cohort on reBootCamp, a free 7-Day intensive.