#life evolution

[theresafelis]

Many things in nature go through a natural process of letting go: the leaves fall from trees, a snake will shed its skin, children lose their teeth. You may be in the process of releasing things as well today. Before you let these items, feelings, or thoughts go, I ask you to appreciate what they have given to you and how they have shaped your life. It may be the natural time for you to leave this behind, yet I encourage you to do so with love. Just as gently as leaves fall from their branches and slowly drift down to the ground, release with gentleness and ease.

[dylski]

What Happened Before History? Human Origins

Quality 10 minute run-through of 6 millions years of human evolution by Kurzgesagt.

[thesouljump]

I am never upset for the reason I think.

Apply this idea to whatever you think is causing you to be upset.  The upset you feel might be in the form of fear, worry, depression, anxiety, hatred, jealousy, or anything else.

I am not angry at ---- for the reason I think.

I am not afraid of ---- for the reason I think.

Apply this sort of statement liberally to anything that you think upset you, big and small.  Do not discriminate.  Do not overlook any small upsets in favor of big ones, or vice versa.  Search your mind for whatever upset you can dig up.

[thesouljump]

What have you learned in life so far?

Some say life is a game.  Some say it's a school.  Some say it has no meaning, some that it holds all meaning in the universe.  Whatever you think this life means, you are sure to have learned a thing or two just by living it.

I can't think of anything I've learned more, and with as much pain, as the idea that honesty (HONESTY) is the only way to live a peaceful life: honesty with myself, honesty with others around me.  In a later post, in a much more fleshed out version of this one, I will let you know what let me to that conclusion.  But I want to leave you with a lesson I read in the Conversations with God series, written by Neale Donald Walsh (paraphrased):

Be honest with yourself.  About everything.  All the time.  Then be honest with everyone else.  About everything.  All the time.

What have you learned?  What can you share with the rest of us?  Leave me  a note in the comment section.

[thesouljump]

Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to.

Alan Watts

[thesouljump]

Try This

Here's a short practice in manifesting your wishes: Take your age. Add 2 to that age. Write the following down on a new sheet of paper: Before I reach the age of xx, I will have done these 3 things... List the three things you will love to accomplish in that span of time. Put the list up in a space you are mostly likely to pass during the day. If you like, you can fill the page up with photos and drawing and clippings that represent your plans. And finally, work your hardest to accomplish them as soon as possible. That is; BE expectant, HAVE faith, DO the work. Let me know some of the things you'd like to see for yourselves over the next bit of time. Leave a little note below.

[johnmardlin-blog]

This is an evolutionary landscape. It’s one of my favorite scientific concepts, because it uses intuitive mathematical concepts to help visualize the forces behind evolution. Different locations on the horizontal plane correspond to different genetic combinations. Two dimensions is a gross simplification, but it still works.   The higher vertical points correspond to genotypes, or even species, which are more “fit” for survival and reproduction.  If conditions in the habitat shift, the landscape shifts with it. That is, if an ice age or rapid global warming comes, suddenly the species that were really well adapted may not be so fit, and the peaks and valleys change.   Where on the landscape a species sits will determine how it evolves, being inevitably pulled towards the peak whose slope it is already on. You can’t get from the top of one peak to the peak of the next one without becoming much less fit, a transition that no species could survive. This has a lot of interesting philosophical implications which can be applied to life. Ponder that one for now, I'll return to the topic shortly.