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Your gut is smarter than your brain

| johnas9000

To be clear it might just be the “energy’. There are a lot of different names people use for different energies, like Zeus or Goddess energy. Suffice it to say. When you are at peace and calm you are 10,000% more likely to make a great decision. Other wonderful things happen as well, when you are at peace. You can listen, attentively, you can learn, you can come up with your own ideas, and novel concepts about pretty much anything. The whole universe is open to you when you are at peace.

I am talking about drop dead peace. No thoughts no mind. You dont have to meditate to get there. You merely have to operate as if you were meditating. So any “thought” that comes into your brain, simply let it pass, just like you do when you meditate. In this context I am using the word, thought, to describe the 50,000 BS thoughts you have every day. This way, you only leave room for space and the possibility for real ideation or creation to spring forth. Its kind of like me writing this.

I am not all wrapped up in my problems. I still have them and I actually will come up with even better solutions when I step away. I was just talking to a new friend and as we peacefully spoke it occurred to me, even we could collaborate since there is an intersection in what we both do. Actually there are a lot of intersections. But you dont get to have that experience, when your “conscious” brain is in charge. By the way all of our vocabulary sucks. Nobody did a fantastic voyage into your brain to determine where even thought comes from. Sure you can do an MRI and see what part of your brain lights up when you are doing math vs verbal exercises, but does anyone know where anything comes from? Who even came up with the concept of conscious and subconscious thinking? Yes I know that certain functions are controlled automatically. But where do true original ideas come from? Where does spirit, belief, religion come from?

For all we know all of the inventions of this world came from aliens, or God. You wouldnt know because you are rarely at peace. OK, maybe not you because you are reading this and you have a desire to learn, you are inquisitive. But most people are too busy regurgitating the 45,000 negative thoughts from yesterday. So there is literally no room for what I like to call thinking. The word thinking should be reserved for creating, ideating coming up with original ideas and thoughts. Simply vomiting the same thoughts you had yesterday in no way should be even called thinking. You are merely, actually hurting yourself.

Chew on that one for a moment. What you think is thinking is actually self harm. There is absolutely zero benefit to regurgitating and or worrying about the same thoughts you worried about yesterday. If you want to set aside time to brainstorm about a particular concern, Great! But in between now and then what is the purpose of general worrying other than self harm?

Want to read more? John Hopkins, about the ENS ( enteric nervous system) where 200 million nerve cells reside. Going with your gut? …”gone with your gut to make a decision or felt “butterflies in your stomach” when nervous, you’re likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain.” Science is being revolutionized about the way we think. These are not just my ideas.

How about Harvard 2023 The bacteria in your gut will affect your mood and happiness. To quote “study that also found specific bacterial link to happiness”

Ok you can google gut feelings and get 94,500,000 results. So you are going to have to go with my thinking on the subject. Or let me know when you get done reading them all. Just like your subconscious has all of the information so does your gut. In fact we know that your brain is communicating with you gut so there is reason to believe that a gut feeling is not silly, it is rooted and comes from all of the information you have.

I go back to my original assertion. Even reading the complicated articles. It would make sense that at peace you are probably getting great information. If you are frenetic and unsettled, that is not a gut feeling. That is an all too familiar feeling to pretty much all of us. It is nervous excitement. It might even be knowing that there is an unacceptable risk involved. The energy feels very different from, the feeling of knowing. And knowing might not even come from the gut, but it certainly feels safe and certain and “knowing”

You know what I am talking about, Why dont you look back on your life and the biggest decisions you made, how they turned out and how you felt about them. I doubt there was rational certainty about bad decisions. I also noticed for me there was a nervous excitement about all of my bad decisions. How about you?

A program not saved can not be restored

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A mind/ pattern or program not saved can not be restored

Sorry if I am being redundant here, but I think this is the most important thing I can teach you and sometimes hearing something differently finally gives you that aha moment.

“A perfectly functioning program not saved can not be restored.” john aslanian

“A perfectly functioning human will eventually malfunction and will need to be restored”

If your brain is a computer, which it is, and you finally get the program to run right,
why wouldn’t you save it?

So lets say you are having the best year of your life, maybe its running every day or yoga or walking, or eggs for breakfast, or a shake for breakfast, or a new multivitamin or a self improvement tape, or getting 20 minutes of natural sun light every day.
Its probably a combination of a lot of things that truly resonate for you.

So here is the problem, you don’t save it. You don’t even write it down.
Three months later, heck even a few weeks later, it all falls apart, and you are miserable,
and you have no idea what you were doing when everything was going perfectly. That is because there was no pain involved, so your brain doesn’t remember.
You were feeling great. Your brain is not wired to remember normal happy feelings.
It is wired to remember pain, so you don’t stick your hand in fire. Well it pretty much ends there.
It doesn’t even remember to not date the kind of assholes that would beat you or are alcoholics.(maybe because there was also some pleasure there, but thats another subject)

We are as complicated and different and opaque as a computer program.

I wish I could do it for you. Heck if I could I would make billions and we would both be very happy. But we are all different. There is eat for your blood type, what I eat might be bad for you.

So I write down EVERYTHING; what I ate, what supplements I took and what I did.
Sure enough a few months go by, and I am off track. So as with any word processing program; word or pages or excel, I go to edit find/replace and I look for “feel great” You would write that or your own code word on those days.

Wow, you might find, “I forgot the week I felt great I was going to sleep before midnight every night and or I was eating eggs for breakfast every day.” Sometimes its that simple, You could even be allergic to what makes me feel great, so you have to do you.

But you have no prayer of reloading the good software to your life if you have no idea what you were doing to make yourself happy.
And I can’t do it for you, I am not doing yoga or eating vegan or any of the things that might make YOU feel good.

But I can tell you to write it down. You will call me to thank me. Its the single simplest thing you can do to change your life.

Its probably a little bit more like this.

You are the user. You are operating off of the software. There might be faults in the operating system that needs to be addressed. I think I am little bit ADHD. I have never sat still for more than 40 minutes in my life. So maybe I need to focus a bit more on omega 3s, DHA, and supplements for my operating system. And lets not neglect the hardware. If we are constantly pouring alcohol on the hardware, dont be surprised if it doesnt work.

But it all goes back to the software. Because everything you do that you write down, that causes you to run perfectly, will fix the operating system, and even the hardware. There are supplements that will help your liver, your brain, your blood sugar, your gut. So its actually easy to fix everything with software that helps you run smooth. Some of it, you might stumble upon by accident. You dont have to understand it. Something as simple as eggs for breakfast. You dont have to know that its a complete protein, or that it is full of omega 3s, DHA, the perfect feel good fatty acid for you brain, or that it has choline in it, thats good for your brain. You just have to notice if it makes you feel good. And the same goes for whatever else you do and eat throughout the day.

Its that simple study YOU and what makes you feel good write it down as YOUR program, Save it so you can reload it when necessary.

A Post Away From Happiness

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Throughout our lives, we encounter bits of wisdom—some that stick with us forever. These nuggets of knowledge can come from anywhere: a grandparent, a mentor, or a line from a book that resonates with us on a deep level. For instance, my father once told me, “As long as you are healthy, you can dig ditches and make money.” While it might not seem like the most profound statement at first, it underscored a vital truth for me—the paramount importance of health.

My way of saying it is slightly different. “Your health is your wealth is trite and stupid, without it you are dead or in so much pain you wish you were dead”

Everyone has their own set of maxims that guide them. Moreover, it’s crucial to reflect on the sayings you repeat to yourself and others. I hear all too often negative ones. “Its all rigged” ” you have to have money to make money” “its impossible to get ahead” ” the economy sucks” Are they positive? Do they encourage growth and happiness? If not, it might be time to let go of the negative ones.

The sayings we choose to live by can significantly influence our outlook and decisions. They can be reminders of our values and goals, helping us navigate through life’s complexities. By choosing to adopt and repeat positive and empowering phrases, we can shape a more optimistic and proactive approach to life.

Take a moment to think about the words that have impacted you. What are the sayings that have helped you the most? Sharing these can not only affirm their value in your life but also potentially inspire others. Remember, the right words at the right time can be a beacon of hope and a catalyst for change.

So, as you go about your day, consider the power of words and the impact they can have. You might just find that happiness is truly just a post away.