Conscious Savings

A habit is a choice made normal.

criticism is easy, spotting faults requires very little effort

New legislation is currently being passed around the hill with the intent of preventing online piracy of copyrighted material.

Like many pieces of legislation it has surely been crafted with the greatest of ideals and goals. Currently there are 2 versions.

1. Expand the jurisdiction for domain seizure – meaning a web-site could be taken down for hosting or linking to copyrighted material.
2. Implement Deep Bit Monitoring – meaning EVERYTHING you access on the web will be monitored and scanned for potential copyright material.

“Cutting off funding or access to only the illegal part of the site while leaving the rest of the site intact promotes legitimate expression.”

Below is an inspired post that has been waiting for a while to take form. It is a reference to my perspective of the world in an unedited freeform nature.

I am publishing this rambling as is with hope for criticism of the idea itself.

Similar to the way that everyone is a little different, their DNA is a little different
DNA is the self replicating pattern sequence that forms a creature
the soul is similar to DNA, it survives from body to body, changing slightly each time
perhaps growing and taking on attributes that help, perhaps stagnant, allowing the pattern to grow stale…

your cells are made up of pieces of your environment, filtered through instructional patterns
you are both your environment, and the instructions that filter the environment

by interacting with anyone and/or anything you exchange energy, this can be measured
your instructions are updating and being updated

this is getting to be a bit too abstract for evenme to follow

the idea being that a model for god is that of a person, everyone seems to like the idea of God looking similar to themselves so we’ll go with that
now take a look at your hand, really look at it
what are the building blocks of your hand?
skin, blood, muscle, bone, nerves
molecules of iron, calcium, and others that make up cells
what are you from the perspective of your skin cell?

I can already hear the nag “cells can’t see” or some other such dismissive comment, though it misses the idea
your body is made up of billions of cells, what does that make your body to an individual cell?

what is your cell to one of trillions of individual molecules of calcium within the bone of your index finger?
What is that molecule of calcium to the electron that makes up a part of it?

What are you to the planet that you live on?
What is the planet to the galaxy?
What is the galaxy to the universe?

Does the universe make up a part of a greater pattern?
Zoom in or zoom out and you end up with a similar pattern that repeats itself indeffinetely to the limit of your imagination.
Rpeat that same process over the course of every imagination that exists.
I currently think that the limit of the collective imagination is the beginning of god.

What do you do when you have a flash of insight, something that seems brilliant and possibly game changing for yourself or portions of the world at large.

Below is a quick outline of my process for taking an idea and turning it into a project. The following process is designed to be completed in chunks, based on how much time you have available. While I’ve found that insights for writing an article or a similar creative function work best when I jump on them right away, often the time from insight to deployment can be weeks or months if the idea grows large enough. Also the ideas below are not rigid rules of any type, and aren’t going to help you beyond setting up organizational scaffolding.

• Start out dreaming up the biggest idea you can, any extra function, feature, aspect, piece, anything and everything related. Jot it down, andif your mind mapping all the better since you can see how it fits together.
• Find the core, what does everything else come out from? This might have changed from your initial flash of insight as you expanded the idea.
• Review each idea that branches from the core and ask how does this add? Would something be missing if it wasn’t there?
• Prioritize, how important is the idea in full. How important is each branch. Measure importance however is easiest for you, 1-X for each branch, and how many other ideas at large you have under active development.
• Turn each piece into action steps which you could perform to transform your idea into reality. Call XYZ about … write email to…, research how to X…
• Observe how your internal state has shifted towards greater or lesser clarity, and repeat and modify as desired.

It’s your fault.
If you want to change something.
No matter what happened, no matter how, why anything, accept that it is your fault.

Until you are responsible how can you change it?

Nagging and screaming may work for children some of the time, but who wants to be at the mercy of someone else to be responsible your own life?

Once you have accepted reponsibility, then you can begin to figure out how things ended up the way they did and change circumstances accordingly. Whether it is a change in attitude, tonality, word choice, physical action, diet, or one of thousands of other factors, you have the ability to change your own circumstances.

But not until you accept.

It’s your fault!

If you think about your life, past, current and projected future. What would the underlying rhythoms be? Is there a passion of yours that you’ve found and grown? What do you think will become of that expression of your intent?

Are you wondering why XYZ… keeps happening? “Same old same old”, as you decided to settle down and grow up? Have you decided that what you have now is as good as it will get and the need to pursue any further growth is simply too much work?

What is the pattern that has shaped your life? What is the pattern that your life has shaped? How much of that pattern mathes the ideal that you want to live? What do you want to change within it? How about a simple exercise: pull out a pad of paper and/or keyboard and start writing a descriptive paragraph about yourself, the things that are current true and will continue to be so? Doesn’t have to be incredibly long, just a start to your life story, the simplest ideas that have resonance within you.

Did you learn anything? What do you have that you are grateful for? Anything there that will present you an chance to learn? Something that you don’t wish to have influence upon you, how are you going to change that aspect of your life?

If this post seems like a random collection of questions, keep in mind that your brain is excellent and coming up with answers to questions. So if these questions don’t align with where you are then please create your own exercise, and perhaps describe it as a comment below.
What question do you want to ask yourself? Your brain will come up with answers on it’s own when provided with (big) questions.

Yesterday I started to feel myself coming down with a cold so I decided to kick it out quick with a fast. At the end of the day I decided why not keep it going for a few days and turn this into a deep cleanse.

My juice fast recipe for the day:

• Carrot
• Apple
• Celery

I tend to use this juice fast recipe as a base since when combined properly it forms a complete protein and allows for extending fasting. The proper mix is 2 parts carrot : 2 parts celery : 1 part apple. If you are not an experience juicer then I don’t recommend jumping right into that mix as the saltiness of the celery is a bit much to handle. That said if you add some celery to your fresh pressed carrot and apple juice then you will be gaining some complete proteins and allow your body to maintain it self while your cleanse.

My method is fairly simple, I ran 3 pounds of carrots, 2 pounds of apples and 2 pounds of celery through a Champion Juicer to make roughly 3 quarts of juice. I will drink this throughout the day along with water and store bought not-from-concentrate Orange Juice anytime that I feel hungry.

Having my juice pre-pressed this way makes it much easier to avoid the temptation to indulge and break my fasting since all I have to do is pour a glass rather than go through the process of making juice each time I feel hungry. Aiding
The orange juice being is also there to aid in my will power in case I seek something sweeter, being pasteurized it contains significantly less nutrients than my what I pressed this morning though it does make for a nice change.

Find a quiet space, and imagine a room where there are 2 chairs and invite yourself 5 years from now to join you and have a conversation, ask any questions that you are unsure of and observe the differences between yourself now and the projection
then dismiss your future self, switch chairs and chat with yourself 5 years ago

inspired a great number of internal shifts without any other effort, been encouraging to realize that I have all the knowhow to accomplish most anything I want, just a matter of applying myself – largely through (re)building habits

How about you? What habits would make a difference between where you are now and where you see yourself in 5 years?
While logically working on the biggest change the great fulcrum that will change everything is tempting it can easily become a distraction to prevent you from getting started on making changes. If you don’t have a clear answer then pick 1 thing and get started, after a few days (5 seems to be the critical number) momentum will start to carry you forward.

– Thank you Steve Pavlina for the inspiration of the technique

PS. Yes this is grammatically terrible, this is a 1st draft which is a habit I will continue for several posts at least as I develop the habit of writing to this blog more often.

Diabetes: not fun, used to have hypoglycemic crashes somewhat regularly before learning to manage

watch your fat vs carb intake, higher blood fat levels cause sugar/carbs to stay in your blood stream creating the conditions for a crash – biggest thing I’ve learned is scheduling, when eating a fatty meal try to stay light for a few hours sticking with water and low glycemic index foods (apples are a particular favorite)

can share more if interested, learned how to cure diabetes when I went raw and haven’t had an issue since

walked in with intent of writing aboutsat down to computer and saw djano admin – computer wholesaleswitched to idea about building the solar school a private network with all their computers with help from kids as work exchange for partial enrollment
the order of events that lead from me sitting down and writing about an idea, to losing it and running on a quick tangent that is productive though not on centerit would seem that my mind is due for a thorough sweeping of ideas that I feel obligation tofor that nagging feeling that I need to do something besides what I am currently doingstate switch, the distraction is set and I feel good about what I just did today but what the heck was it that I did?I set out to get this done, it was part of the plan then I missed it,
this is part of the learning process, yet what are the options?sweep the floor, clear the air, now I am off to do so
I stop to drink water, I notice that my desk is full so I play tetris for a moment,and descide that it is ok that I lost that thought, the intent was to write and so I have
it seems that this place will serve well to capture many small ideas and random memes that I run across,once the habit is better set I would imagine there will be content of much greater value