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“NATURAL PRODUCTS”
I’m not here to talk about right or wrong. I’m playing a game of expanded awareness (some call it consciousness).
A fruit picked from a tree is natural.
Something mixed in a laboratory and packaged is not. Some might be considered closer and yet the truth is that..
you don’t NEED it.
This is triggering to many because they may have built a routine or (more dangerously) a business out of this. The way of marketing is simple- make people feel like they’re not good enough and then offer the “solution”.
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I ask myself these questions about almost everything I consider using:
WHY AM I CHOOSING TO USE THIS?
WHAT IS THE TRUE COST OF THIS?
For example, why did I need deodorant?
Answer: because i decided (based on the culture in which I was raised) to be ashamed of my natural smell as a way to be liked/accepted by my community.
Ditto soap, shampoo, conditioner, perfume, moisturizer, etc.. and SHOES
As a result, I paid money to solve this problem that I created for myself. (Truthfully, I didn’t actually pay the price of it. Rather, it was externalized to the destruction of planet earth and the humans who put their lives at risk to make it for the equivalent of slave wage.)
All meant to “fix” my problem of not being good enough.
I’ve committed to healing the stories I created for myself, closing the gap between my truth and who I’m showing up as.
So, I’ve quit the product game. I proudly use less products every day. I love the natural everything of my body. I’m down to just toothpaste and I did some strong research before landing on a great product (bite).
Imagine the kind of world we could create if we all reduced the unconscious consumption.
I’m here to sell you on the concept of nothing needing to be sold to you ❤️
-Theurbanbarefoot
I’m not here to talk about right or wrong. I’m playing a game of expanded awareness (some call it consciousness).
A fruit picked from a tree is natural.
Something mixed in a laboratory and packaged is not. Some might be considered closer and yet the truth is that..
you don’t NEED it.
This is triggering to many because they may have built a routine or (more dangerously) a business out of this. The way of marketing is simple- make people feel like they’re not good enough and then offer the “solution”.
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I ask myself these questions about almost everything I consider using:
WHY AM I CHOOSING TO USE THIS?
WHAT IS THE TRUE COST OF THIS?
For example, why did I need deodorant?
Answer: because i decided (based on the culture in which I was raised) to be ashamed of my natural smell as a way to be liked/accepted by my community.
Ditto soap, shampoo, conditioner, perfume, moisturizer, etc.. and SHOES
As a result, I paid money to solve this problem that I created for myself. (Truthfully, I didn’t actually pay the price of it. Rather, it was externalized to the destruction of planet earth and the humans who put their lives at risk to make it for the equivalent of slave wage.)
All meant to “fix” my problem of not being good enough.
I’ve committed to healing the stories I created for myself, closing the gap between my truth and who I’m showing up as.
So, I’ve quit the product game. I proudly use less products every day. I love the natural everything of my body. I’m down to just toothpaste and I did some strong research before landing on a great product (bite).
Imagine the kind of world we could create if we all reduced the unconscious consumption.
I’m here to sell you on the concept of nothing needing to be sold to you ❤️
-Theurbanbarefoot
Almost all great men who are remembered to this day and forever, started with less than what you’ve.
They all knew what they wanted to be remembered for deep in their bones and were willing to die for it.
They all welcomed the hour of danger, as it gave them the opportunity to test themselves.
Their conquest by the sword is written and immortalized by ink.
And also memorized and remembered by every generation.
Many men today are getting older with zero accomplishments.
Don’t let modern society destroy your ambition.
Your legacy and your generation name starts and begins with you.
-Urbanmenschethos
They all knew what they wanted to be remembered for deep in their bones and were willing to die for it.
They all welcomed the hour of danger, as it gave them the opportunity to test themselves.
Their conquest by the sword is written and immortalized by ink.
And also memorized and remembered by every generation.
Many men today are getting older with zero accomplishments.
Don’t let modern society destroy your ambition.
Your legacy and your generation name starts and begins with you.
-Urbanmenschethos
Fake relationships are a heavy burden to carry around.
All that pandering and pretending, hiding the truth just to get along.
Want to know who your real friends are? Up the dial on your honesty. Start to let others know what you really think and who you really are.
The unfortunate truth is that most relationships can’t endure the weight of total honesty.
Take off the mask and stop trying to be who everyone else wants you to be.
-masculinerevival
All that pandering and pretending, hiding the truth just to get along.
Want to know who your real friends are? Up the dial on your honesty. Start to let others know what you really think and who you really are.
The unfortunate truth is that most relationships can’t endure the weight of total honesty.
Take off the mask and stop trying to be who everyone else wants you to be.
-masculinerevival
Your dreamscape configures your lifescape. Externalities are neutral until you actively decide they are good or bad.
Before you can even put on your pants to take action in the external world, you must pull down your visor and engage the parasites gnawing your soul. Must stand beard to beard with the dragon of your own crippling fears. Must decide the certain suffering is both validated by a higher WHY and will be redeemed by your eventual success because you’ve committed to enduring that suffering to the end.
You might still fail. You may have to pivot. Hell, you may end up being disgusted with what you thought you initially wanted or have some lateral miraculous opportunity blindside you. Come what may though, no man masters his world till he masters himself.
-TheHowlingVoid
Before you can even put on your pants to take action in the external world, you must pull down your visor and engage the parasites gnawing your soul. Must stand beard to beard with the dragon of your own crippling fears. Must decide the certain suffering is both validated by a higher WHY and will be redeemed by your eventual success because you’ve committed to enduring that suffering to the end.
You might still fail. You may have to pivot. Hell, you may end up being disgusted with what you thought you initially wanted or have some lateral miraculous opportunity blindside you. Come what may though, no man masters his world till he masters himself.
-TheHowlingVoid
There are no coincidences.
Everything that exists in your world serves a purpose, and you are the master of the manifestations in your life.
Your subconscious behavior subtly shifts your beliefs, your consciousness, your identity.
To make any meaningful, powerful change in your life, superficial behavior changes will not be enough. You must actively train your subconscious behavior to support the new habit you are entraining.
Your life is shaped by your thoughts.
When someone asks you “How are you?” what do you respond? Keep that in mind. How often do you smile? How often do you engage strangers? How often do you hold eye contact? How often do you express gratitude? These are all subconscious behaviors that once you are mindful of, will reshape your existence.
You can shape your world in whatever way you see fit, solely with the power of your mind.
It’s simple, not easy. You have to truly believe with every fiber of your being that the affirmation you are repeating to yourself will manifest. In other words, you must live with INTENT.
Give intention to your life. Give your days purpose. Most of all, believe in yourself and your capacity to exist in a higher dimension than 2D.
-Flowmodus
Everything that exists in your world serves a purpose, and you are the master of the manifestations in your life.
Your subconscious behavior subtly shifts your beliefs, your consciousness, your identity.
To make any meaningful, powerful change in your life, superficial behavior changes will not be enough. You must actively train your subconscious behavior to support the new habit you are entraining.
Your life is shaped by your thoughts.
When someone asks you “How are you?” what do you respond? Keep that in mind. How often do you smile? How often do you engage strangers? How often do you hold eye contact? How often do you express gratitude? These are all subconscious behaviors that once you are mindful of, will reshape your existence.
You can shape your world in whatever way you see fit, solely with the power of your mind.
It’s simple, not easy. You have to truly believe with every fiber of your being that the affirmation you are repeating to yourself will manifest. In other words, you must live with INTENT.
Give intention to your life. Give your days purpose. Most of all, believe in yourself and your capacity to exist in a higher dimension than 2D.
-Flowmodus
There’s no doubt we’re ill. We’re ill with unhealthy ideas, diets, systems, traditions and cultures. We’re a species spending so much time and money subconsciously trying to preserve this historic, linguistic-based disease that has plagued us for centuries with narcissistic personalities, harmful pursuits, and unnecessary, foolish wars. But the time is coming; people are breaking free and reclaiming their minds by healing previous trauma through various methods which alter their state of consciousness. There is an awakening; that’s not a gimmick. However, the question is whether we can collectively elevate our awareness out of an ego-dominated perspective before we bury ourselves within the blood and bones of one another in the name of some god, political theory or unexamined desire.
-Findtheothers
-Findtheothers
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One of the most important things one can acquire is the ability to learn from mistakes, and grow as a result.
A mentality of victimhood makes this virtually impossible. Individuals with this mindset tend to view life as a series of random events, some good and most bad, due to chance.
The result is a sort of feedback loop where one may experience some sort of failure and refuse to take note of any lessons leading to further mishaps and negative feedback. This seems to compound overtime, and can result in health problems and accelerated aging due to the effect of stress on the body.
This is a problem because many negative outcomes often contain a highly useful lesson or seed of wisdom. As a matter of fact, those who end up living positive productive lives often attribute the largest personal growth to some of the most tragic and unfortunate life lessons.
In regards to individuals I have witnessed showing victim mentality, the result tends to manifest as a perpetual negative mindset where one expects the worst in situations. This can manifest physically in a sort of open eyed, frozen sort of expression. The other terrible side effect is that the individual tends to view the life situations of others as by chance as well. Those who are more successful are often viewed with jealousy with no acknowledgement of the level of work or planning which is often behind worldly success. Negative individuals will often gravitate towards others who have experienced misfortune almost taking comfort in this, almost as if they seem to resonate with them energetically.
The root causes of victim mentality seem to lie largely in upbringing, not only familial (correlation between the presence of a father and encouragement) but cultural as it seems that when a group subscribes to this mentality this creates a sort of heavy gravitational pull which is difficult to escape. Those who work their way out of communities or groups where addiction, negativity and poverty are prevalent will often describe a sort of “crab bucket” effect where the group tends to attempt to drag down anyone who attempts to better themselves.
-Extracavatorblog
A mentality of victimhood makes this virtually impossible. Individuals with this mindset tend to view life as a series of random events, some good and most bad, due to chance.
The result is a sort of feedback loop where one may experience some sort of failure and refuse to take note of any lessons leading to further mishaps and negative feedback. This seems to compound overtime, and can result in health problems and accelerated aging due to the effect of stress on the body.
This is a problem because many negative outcomes often contain a highly useful lesson or seed of wisdom. As a matter of fact, those who end up living positive productive lives often attribute the largest personal growth to some of the most tragic and unfortunate life lessons.
In regards to individuals I have witnessed showing victim mentality, the result tends to manifest as a perpetual negative mindset where one expects the worst in situations. This can manifest physically in a sort of open eyed, frozen sort of expression. The other terrible side effect is that the individual tends to view the life situations of others as by chance as well. Those who are more successful are often viewed with jealousy with no acknowledgement of the level of work or planning which is often behind worldly success. Negative individuals will often gravitate towards others who have experienced misfortune almost taking comfort in this, almost as if they seem to resonate with them energetically.
The root causes of victim mentality seem to lie largely in upbringing, not only familial (correlation between the presence of a father and encouragement) but cultural as it seems that when a group subscribes to this mentality this creates a sort of heavy gravitational pull which is difficult to escape. Those who work their way out of communities or groups where addiction, negativity and poverty are prevalent will often describe a sort of “crab bucket” effect where the group tends to attempt to drag down anyone who attempts to better themselves.
-Extracavatorblog
Boys don’t cry. Don’t be so emotional. Man up.
Yes, gender based expectations when taken to extremes can hurt and do damage.
And, there is also real wisdom in them.
To become men, we must be challenged. While males are born, men are made.
Nowadays, we act like the pressure that men feel to act like men must be abolished so that men can be truly free of “oppressive gender stereotypes”, but freedom without any restraint quickly descends into chaos.
Being a man has and never will be easy. It isn’t something that you can just get handed over to you.
While bubble wrapping everything and trying to soften any and every sharp edge in this world is rooted in good intentions, it robs men of the alchemical nutrient that they need in order to claim manhood for themselves.
Adversity. Pressure. Struggle. Sacrifice. Suffering.
Being a man is hard. You cannot soften the blows without softening the man.
-Masculinerevival
Yes, gender based expectations when taken to extremes can hurt and do damage.
And, there is also real wisdom in them.
To become men, we must be challenged. While males are born, men are made.
Nowadays, we act like the pressure that men feel to act like men must be abolished so that men can be truly free of “oppressive gender stereotypes”, but freedom without any restraint quickly descends into chaos.
Being a man has and never will be easy. It isn’t something that you can just get handed over to you.
While bubble wrapping everything and trying to soften any and every sharp edge in this world is rooted in good intentions, it robs men of the alchemical nutrient that they need in order to claim manhood for themselves.
Adversity. Pressure. Struggle. Sacrifice. Suffering.
Being a man is hard. You cannot soften the blows without softening the man.
-Masculinerevival
Your Ego is not a separate entity within you, IT IS YOU. Freud characterized the ego as largely comprising the Conscious mind, the mind you think and operate with within the moment. While part of the Ego/I is unconscious, it overall is what you think and feel with. If we can agree Freud's ideas on this were sound, then it becomes clear perhaps that the idea of “Killing ego", its a false idea To kill the ego would be to end your life. You dont kill the ego, you transform it
Without an “Ego”, you would be NOTHING. An automaton, or an animal, motivated only by basic instincts.
The Ego is sentience, it is the conscious mind, and you can no more kill it and survive than you can deny yourself oxygen and live. What do we do with ego then?
We LIVE BY IT. And we strengthen ourselves and overcome our weaknesses so our egos are not so fragile as to be broken by the world
What are people talking about with Ego Death or Overcoming Ego?
What people are attempting to define is not the elimination of consciousness but rather the taming, evolution, transcendence of their weak ego into a changed ego
Self Limiting Beliefs Self Limiting Identities Self Limiting Memories and Trauma Self Limiting Stories The realization of narcissism that your beliefs are the "right" ones The acceptance of your delusion that you know whats "true" & the world should reflect this The realization that filtering the world through your experiences and beliefs is not objective at all, but entirely subjective, and that your anger towards those things that cause dissonance is a problem of YOU, not a problem of them The realization that reality exists without you, that your perceptions are subjective
The only thing "Big" about most people's Egos is how immensely WEAK they are
A BIG ego is power, self confidence, self belief, strength, focus, determination. A big Ego separates winners from losers, competitors from amateurs
You want your Ego to be a force of nature. Not faux humility and getting upset about anything that contradicts you.
The most weakly Egoic & insufferable people I’ve ever met were people who thought they’d killed their ego.
-aja_cortes
Without an “Ego”, you would be NOTHING. An automaton, or an animal, motivated only by basic instincts.
The Ego is sentience, it is the conscious mind, and you can no more kill it and survive than you can deny yourself oxygen and live. What do we do with ego then?
We LIVE BY IT. And we strengthen ourselves and overcome our weaknesses so our egos are not so fragile as to be broken by the world
What are people talking about with Ego Death or Overcoming Ego?
What people are attempting to define is not the elimination of consciousness but rather the taming, evolution, transcendence of their weak ego into a changed ego
Self Limiting Beliefs Self Limiting Identities Self Limiting Memories and Trauma Self Limiting Stories The realization of narcissism that your beliefs are the "right" ones The acceptance of your delusion that you know whats "true" & the world should reflect this The realization that filtering the world through your experiences and beliefs is not objective at all, but entirely subjective, and that your anger towards those things that cause dissonance is a problem of YOU, not a problem of them The realization that reality exists without you, that your perceptions are subjective
The only thing "Big" about most people's Egos is how immensely WEAK they are
A BIG ego is power, self confidence, self belief, strength, focus, determination. A big Ego separates winners from losers, competitors from amateurs
You want your Ego to be a force of nature. Not faux humility and getting upset about anything that contradicts you.
The most weakly Egoic & insufferable people I’ve ever met were people who thought they’d killed their ego.
-aja_cortes
Brutal Truth:
The biggest threat to men as they move through adulthood isn’t smoking or obesity,
it’s a lack of strong friendships with other high-value, masculine men.
The biggest threat to men as they move through adulthood isn’t smoking or obesity,
it’s a lack of strong friendships with other high-value, masculine men.