FREQUENCY - FREQUENCIA

Frequency

Today, after many months of pause due to work and changes in my life I decided to come back and write. The word today is frequency. Frequency is for me the word, which at the moment means ups and downs. I will take a more broad meaning to frequency that is usually “lato sensu” translated as the cycles per unit of time of some variable. In life we live through diverse ranges of cycles. The frequencies that we attach the most will actually bring the reality in to our face. That means depending on the frequencies of subtle energies around us and that we tune into, the outcomes will be completely different to the good or to the bad range. Usually, human beings are vibrating something 24/7. This can be measured e.g. in our heartbeat or our brain waves. Those vary according to the activity, to the emotions, to the time of the day and due to many other variables that are not until now possible to be measured through some scientific tool. That is where the great challenge starts: we are trained to think in a Cartesian matrix of tools where only perceivable phenomena that can be measured are taken into consideration. That is somehow for me very naive and dumb. We are built with a limited number of receptors, senses, or levels of intelligence.

There are some mysteries still hidden from us that may affect these and that are dismissed due to pure ignorance or skepticism. What this leads us to is to a universal question: what are those frequencies of energy that we don’t consider or don’t accept as real just because we cannot detect? I believe that the answer comes from more “complicated to grasp” senses, such as premonition, intuition, out of body experiences, which still continue open to be properly clarified. The frequencies of energy where those “psych” abilities work are for sure in a range not described to now. So the limited number of possible explanations with the spectrum of energy that are well described at the moment fail to consistently describe such kind of energy flow or information decoding. What I propose is that we are actually the main engines of the fabric of frequencies, which are not seen or detected by any means. So, a group of happy people generates a field of happy frequencies, which in turn affect those near the same range by a simple match resonance. Equally, people with bad thoughts or lower quality feelings will tune and spread the same kind of effect and influence those who “vibrate” in the same range of resonance.

I believe that the future will be of ultra sensible sensors investigating different ways of seeing matter and energy. As stated to date, all particles that compose matter are not steady. They vibrate. Which demands a frequency. Likewise living frequencies of “alive” beings have influence in the vibration or manifestation of “non-living” matter. I think this to be a misconception.  My beliefs turn to a world where every bit of matter is alive. In different realms of realities. Even though we may not understand it today, I think this will be the next step towards a construction of a better world indeed.  If everything is alive, that means everything affects everything in a way not detected. So unanimated things have the power to absorb information from alive beings, and vice-versa. This is of course a speculation at the moment, but which makes sense to me after my life experience so far (which is nearly close to 40 years).

The individual choice of the frequency range is ultimately picked. We have the choice. That is the beauty of alive creatures. They have freewill. And this choice making is crucial at every moment. That is what will determine what will resonate or not with you. Which kind of person will be around. What kind of life experiences one will have. Essentially the whole reality that we see/experience may be construct not yet clarified, which is a kind of hologram that translates the predominant frequency of vibration of this out of detection range spectrum. To conclude, I propose some tips on how to vibrate properly. And it seems to me very simple. To mimic nature. If we understand the cycling properties of all nature matter, alive or not, we may have a path guide to follow.  To flow within experiences in combination with all kinds of matter or energy (solid, liquid, gas, plasma, radiation, heat, cold, electromagnetic and beyond), in a randomized but balanced way, may also help into the understanding of those particularities of the invisible frequencies that may play a crucial role on our lives. I do hope and wish (I am actually creating a frequency here as I write this) that all people who are deeply into “the search”, can use this theoretical and still to be proven model to modify the reality they experience here on their lives.

COURAGE

Today I am back. Since 2 weeks I came back to Brazil. And because of this 100% change in my life that is happening right now I decided to write about courage. Courage is to live in the abscence of fear. That is the most amazing decision someone can take in life. Unfortunately,we are taught since early age to fear. To back off when something or someone is going to cause you pain or debt. That is the worst option for you to overcome yourself. When you walk away from your pain, your are in fact saying no to yourself. You are saying no to the things that you know that need to be fixed. You are saying no to destroy the misconception that the only way is the safe way. I completely disagree with this statement. For me, the best way is the way you face the fears with courage. Courage is the attitude, which is deeply associated with fullness. 

The courageous people are those who challenge the mainstream beliefs. The more traditional way of behaving, of making choices, in the essence of living. Our time frame in this existence is very short. Because of that, there is no time to think too much and  to give up on something, which at first seems crazy or ridiculous. In fact, when people laugh at your dreams is a good sign. Is a sign that you can dream where others can only see problems or difficulties. A  courageous person is strong in every aspect. Is a person with personality. Is someone who faces the challenges positively, and who never give up until everything has been attempted. A courageous person has a magnetic attraction. He can attract everything to the reality, in the way he chooses. This happens because all boundaries are completely set to the side, and new rules are applied in order to make things and thoughts to become a reality. In fact, they like to be challenged because they will develop the courage to change perspectives to achieve the goals they have. And no matter who or what problem tries to stop him, he moves forward. He is like a gladiator, a fighter, a jedi. 

Because in the heart of a coraugeous person lies a spirit of happiness and strenght, There are some turn downs yes, but they do not stop him.  Even very hard hits from life cannot make them to fall. A corageous person goes with the natural flow of things. He can perceive much more than the majority. This happens because his awareness is wider and more adaptable. He can change directions quickly and use his skills to change plans, change the reality to a better one. There is no loss. Loss is an oportunity to learn. In fact, corageous people live on their failures, because they do not give up and therefore, they keep going no matter what.  In the end, the most amazing sign of courage (and I have already mentioned this in other texts in the past) is tha ability to be vulnerable and to show yourself as you are. People are afraid and do not have the courage to show what they are. They prefer to play a game where they are only caracters of some ideal role, which is not the true self they are. The true self fails. He has a lot of difficulties, defects and limitations. But those do give him something to proceed and to win. The victory comes when you find and accept from deep that you are a limited being. You have fears. The greatest courage is perhaps the acceptance of fear. And then the fear is transformed in one different dimension, which is not a negative one anymore.It is a positive, good energy that works as a fuel  towards  new endeavours. Only those who are brave can actually go through such an adventure. Finally, this is very individually tailored, but the way you face it will make all the difference through the adventure of life. I am now living a very challenging situation, but somehow, I face it with positivity to the best I can. It is not easy, true, and that is why very few decide to try. Thus,  the courageous people will gather something the cowards or the actors of life don't: experiences. And those are the only gifts that can NEVER be stolen from you. It is the only true treasure we collect through this life. I am gathering many experiences and I wish to all that with courage you can also collect this priceless gift that we are offered from life.

DUALITY

Duality

The word today is duality. It has been sometime since I wrote my last post. This was due to many reasons, but projects like this are for the lifetime and never end. So let's move on. The word duality is a good pick to make a wide discussion. We have been bombarded with news every day, and they are more or less divided into two groups: good and bad news. We are also a dual society in many aspects. There are always the hard worker and the lazy, the honest and the cheater, the good guy and the evil, the selfish and the generous. The list is endless. The point is that duality is the way we organize many of our day by day activities. We prioritize what is very important and postpone or cancel those things that are not so meaningful or heart catching. The problem with duality is that it works in many occasions as a binary system, similarly as computer language works: you either classify something as 1 or 0. That is very extreme in a sense that in between you have a full range of options, which are also in the end valid options. I usually have problems to figure out someone's else real message because of that. Maybe a 1 to me is a 0.6 to you. Or the 0 to you is a 0.7 to me. This leads to a very important issue: communication skills. Many of our misunderstandings in life occur due to the misinterpretation of duality. This means that I may say "the sun is yellow" and in your mind may wrong interpret "the sun is blue". This usually happens because the duality scale from the receiver and the person who talks are not matching. This creates a lot of problematic events, which lead us to face unnecessary problems. The core problem end up being how to put out the message in a way that you can achieve a "close" to universal binary communication system, where the receiver can really understand in its completeness what is being informed. In the era of instantaneous messaging or e-mails this becomes more tricky. The binary system of a text or a what's app is far more difficult to interpret. That said, it is much wiser to give information in person or through skype when the information involves complex issues, especially those involving conflicting feelings. Duality awareness is a term that I want to come with. This concept would  essentially lead to this: It is important, do not text, talk. It is no major issue: texting is fine. However, here comes another problem: Once you decided to classify something into important or not you are again "binarizing" ! So, if we think deeper, that means that we are in an infinite dimensions matrix of binary options that are impossible to predict. Each one of us runs a different operating system in our brains, due to the beauty of individuality. This a nature law, which cannot be changed. It makes even identic twins, with the same DNA code in their bodies, behave slightly or even completely different. The best way to reverse the bias of this matrix is to develop a very important emotional skill: empathy. Empathy demands you to work from your matrix to understand a different person matrix, trying to cope at the best possible way.  In real life the goal is to match what the receiver would feel or think when you do or tell something. Probably the best practical rule for that to work in practical situations is to follow one of the bible's laws: do to others exactly what you would like that they would do to you. Or even better: do to others what you would do to yourself. This does not guarantee that the outcome will be 100% successful. But at least you will be based on a theoretical framework, which seems to be reliable: your own set of values, (hopefully towards the good side of the options range, unless you are a masoquist!). Then it comes to the quintessential skill: to know yourself. With self-development you are able to act more authentically. With no masks. "Raw" you. So duality is there, ever was and ever will be. But in the information era, is almost a mortal sin to communicate inefficiently with others. Especially the close ones, family, work colleagues and mainly your love partner. So realize that your binary matrix is different. Accept it. And from that try to observe how to empathize with others by applying your own values mirrored into a different human being. By showing your nude identity you may still fail, but you will eventually succeed. If you fail a certain feeling will arise from deep: I did what I am. That, my friends, is priceless. Nice Sunday to all!

ANSIEDADE – ANXIETY -  BEDENKLICHKEIT

Dear blog readers let’s talk about anxiety! Today is Easter and because of that many of us are spending time with our families and friends. Due to the fact that is not my case at the moment, I decided to use my free time to help others and myself as well with this new text.  I hope these reflexions can lead us to become better persons, today that we celebrate the rebirth of Christ. 

Well, where does anxiety come from? From a biological point of view it comes from an over activation of our warning system. We are equipped with a complex group of hormones and those are chemicals in our body that regulate some of our autonomic responses; those that we cannot consciously control. The effects that hormones of stress usually activate are heart rate increase, body temperature changes, sweating glands activation and many others. The thing is that anxiety; because of being an over reaction becomes very annoying. It makes our body to become accelerated and ready for the danger. It generates a feeling of prediction, usually biased to the negative outcome. It informs that something may harm us somehow in the future, so that we become ready for the fight/flight stress response. But I would say anxiety is annoying and unpleasant because even though the self-defense system makes sense from a survival point of view the anticipation of the possible harm outcome makes it unnecessary in a great number of occasions. In some situations it makes us fail to response accordingly, to react without reasoning or to postpone a decision fearing the consequence. It is a break that stops many of us to enjoy life experiences to the fullest. 

The psychological part of anxiety is also very interesting. My readings have taught me that anxiety is “excess of future”. The time frame we are inserted in makes us to live a lot of times out of the now. When the attention is taken towards the future, anxiety appears. Similarly, excess of past leads to depression, but for now I will just leave it for other text. The problem to live according to the future (actually to the expectation of what the future might be) freezes many of our actions. We fear and do not risk because of that. And even worse, we live an illusion. The life as we know can happen only in the now. I know that the society has been told that we should also take precautions to avoid pain of any sort in the future. That is why we have savings accounts (money for some emergency), car insurance (in case we hit the car), life insurance (in case we die and our family suffers) and so on. This is neurotic. This is no life. To make plans is very wise, yes, but cannot rule our life. The risk taking must be developed in such a way that we dare to take steps that are usually out of our comfort zone NOW. Otherwise, we are living like a plastic flower, who may look very beautiful but has no life inside. It is a theoretic way of experiencing life. And anxiety is the reflexion of the amount of importance we give to the future over the present moment. But, it is of vital importance to notice that we live a sequence of NOWS, and not in any other time construct. Excess of past=depression. Excess of future=anxiety. This belief is so into our society that the bestseller drugs in the market are either antidepressants or anti-anxiety pills. We have become a society out of the present moment and that has turned a great portion of the population sick. Anxiety is just the tip of a bigger problem. And this leads not only to legal drugs consumption, but also alcohol, gambling, smoking and ilicit drugs, to name a few harmful consequences of being out of the now towards the future. 

The cure? It is not in any of those strategies. The cure resides on our effort to understand that life is risky, has many dangers along the way and those cannot be predicted. One must face it and to take action, which in my opinion is always better than the “watch and see” approach. Anxiety can be controlled, only when we understand that there is no reason for us to worry too much because of the upcoming events. As long as we are in tune with our values and life goals, things will naturally resolve. And then anxiety simply dies, due to the fact that the future will be there anyways but we decide not give the future any power to put us down. So, relax, take the present moment seat and enjoy what you can NOW. Wish you all a nice Easter!

LIBERDADE - FREEDOM - FREIHEIT

Dear blog readers. Today it is a special day for Brazil. Those who are brazilians have been following the corruption scandal involving the former president, Lula and the worker's Party. I want to do now a reflexion using this as background theme, but in one attempt to expand the real complexities under the term freedom in my view. To start, I want to say that I consider myself free to write and to think on my own way. As this is a reflexion about freedom, I am also considering that many may not agree and I respect their freedom to choose so, with no bad feelings. What I think is happening is that the concept of freedom has been lately taken in to the wrong direction. Many of us believe that freedom is the possibility to do whatever we want without asking someone's else opinion and in accordance to our own desires. In humans, this system is way too complex. The variables are in my view not possibly to be organized in such a way where we can eliminate all the bias. The perceivable bias relies mainly on where we were born, how we were raised/in what kind of culture and what were the values/beliefs thought to us along our childhood and adolescence in order to create our  adult identity. Add to  that the fact that this is also not enough to explain everything. In my studies of many writers and alternative science readings I have found out that the concept of self-construction goes way beyond any boundaries we know in formal academia. I would include, even though there is no scientific proof, that we have a self-awareness identity even before we were born. I dare to suggest that because of biological reasons. When we get to check two identical twins, with exact the same DNA code into their billions of cells, we should assume that they should develop at least similar if not identical personalities constructs, given the fact they are usually raised togheter. In practice, we NEVER see that. They are always different individuals. Therefore, something before the conception may have come along with this new physical body.  This concept comes from one of my inspirational teachers, Dr. Sergio Felipe de Oliveira, a brazilian doctor who is interested in the study of the pineal gland. In his opinion the reason for our self is the presence of the spirit (and I agree with that, even though no one has ever "proved" the existence of a spirit through a measurement, either photography, thermal camera or spectral analysis of any kind). Moreover, especially nowadays, the access to vast amount of information allows us to modify concepts and beliefs in light speed if we compare to 30 years ago. The personal resiliency is much more present nowadays, because we can prove or disprove something very quickly (not by googling of course, but by doing a deeper research over the internet). Freedom then is a mix of complex components, playing a role togheter. In the end freedom creates a unique  musical piece of values, which is individually tailored and never identical (even in biologically identical organisms as stated above).
Then it comes to how we manifest our freedom. We learned through or life journey all that we know now and then we want to apply those values to our day-by-day life. And at the moment we express our choices, backgrounded by our freedom, we are already in disagreement with anyone next to us. This is inevitable. It is human nature not to think the same way in comparison to other human being. This is in my view the way the nature has created mankind, to challenge all human life in one attempt to ascend as biological life. As far as science has reached to date, there is no reason to discredit that we are in this world to get better (as we systematically try every day to improve, e.g. in my case to become a better doctor by doing a PhD). So, freedom is never 100%. Even when we do not tell anything. The freedom to remain silent is maybe a high level of freedom, because it demands a high amount of self discipline. When we feel that someone has been unfair to us, as an instinct behavior, we react with self defense mechanisms, aiming homeosthasis, aiming  to prove our beliefs, aiming  to decrease our anxiety, aiming to be right  and ultimately to feel that our freedom allowed us to be different and express ourselves. When we judge someone's else action (or no action) we are actually hurting their universal right to be free according to their own set of rules. And the concept of wrong or right is then buried. Let's remember that laws are human created. They prevent us to do/act someways considered to be inappropriate, wrong. Bringing now Brazil's situation to the context, I feel that the people in the country are strongly lost in the way they express freedom. And this creates violence, war, hate and anger.  Naturally, it is very sad  to see our politicians being so unaware of those basic rules of choices. Freedom should be regulated on a set of rules that does not exist at the moment. Even though this is not a religious driven text (apart from the fact that I believe in a supreme intelligence that has created all of what we experience), I imagine that the Bible's quotation "do for the others what you would like them to do for you" makes an absolute sense. Even for atheists. It creates a possibility to have a self-developed set of rules that is standardized on our own unique values. With exception of some people with psychiatric disorders who are inclined to commit  self-destructive behaviours, the majority of people do not want to put themselves down. They wish instead to get better, to feel good, to be happy and to continuously improve until they die.  That is the fuel that makes me to get up everyday and it should be the aim of everybody. So freedom is not a comprehensible concept at this point of time. This is the reason so many discussion still raises out of divergent opinions. The real truth, as stated by the courts of justice and which is the final outcome justice pursues is also far from be understood by our limited minds. The absolute truth will never exist in my opinion, in any subject. And that is also the reason we should try to build a relative truth based on the prevalent beliefs we develop through the big adventure of being a human. I wish that today the brazilians can step forward towards a more balanced sense of justice, where the individual values can resonate in one big act and represent the relative truth that may take the country out of the situation. With no ideology from political parties.  To conclude, I wish that the invisible dimensions and universes (those already being proposed by physicists) which are way beyond our understanding may have a certain degree of influence over the outcome of such a big event, and that this "inspirational" energies that we cannot still grasp consciously, can bring  discernment  to people and wisdom  for them to make the best choice towards the future of the country, which will change as the freedom concepts of its people change.

Achievement - Realização - Leistung

Dear bloggers, coming back after a small pause. The word today is achievement. Achievement has been part of my life since sometime. It took time for me to understand what is this about. I tend to think now that achievement can have many different nuances and I will try to reflect some of those in this text. If you bring to the conclusion that achievement is just a goal that was completed, you are probably meaning only the outcome, and this is very simplistic and superficial. Achievement is the whole process. In order to really state the real meaning of the word achievement,  I believe we need to have a flaw, a challenge, something in our life or within you for which a development aiming an objective makes logical sense. In my case, and probably in most people's case, the great motivation is to start it all over. When something suddenly just brakes our life path in a meaningful way, the tendency is that this fact may have the potential to be our best fuel towards growth in life, and eventually an achievement will be the final result. I believe that because our evolutionary level is still somehow very primitive, to have our breakthroughs solved, is still necessary to suffer in order to achieve something. However, I believe this is only the start. If we decide after the suffering process that it was enough, and you try to be 100% committed with our own self to get better in whatever aspect, I dare to state that the suffering feelings are replaced by other more advanced evolutionary feelings towards becoming the best version of ourselves. Nothing takes out of my head that the only path to be fully satisfied with life is to work on our own flaws. That said and understood, we will have the start to begin  the deep understanding behind achievement, which is the final product of our choice to change. Change is key to achieve something. On top of that, resilience, self-discipline, willpower, persistence will keep us fearless and focused. There is no way to succeed but to keep continuously trying. And failing is part of the path. No one who has achieved something good, and who could be really considered an outlier in terms of success (to the upside of the curve), have had no failures. I dare to state that failures tend to be more fruitful than the success itself. Because to reach the good, the bad was somehow necessary at the moments preceding the good. In other words, we must thank the universe and the destiny to put obstacles in our way. The secret is to see them as a great (if not the greatest opportunity) to move forward and do something in benefit of ourselves and in many cases of others as well. As soon as we see that "shit happens" but this is no big deal, we start to crave for problems to come. If everything is in place, perfect, believe me, something in our life is not in place. Maybe we are not pushing enough or our choices are not in tune with our real purposes. I believe that a great sign of development towards achievement is to feel that something is out of place.  And to look at it saying from the deepest "thank you for that". It takes effort to see from a positive perspective things that are not pleasant to our eyes at first, but if we face them positively and with courage, they may become our greatest gift. The gift that our life has given us for free, so from there, we can move, and do, and be. To be is essential. To be ourselves. No fear, no restrictions, no blocks.  And the achievement will come. More interestingly, at a higher level of self realization we will notice along the path that the achievement will come when we feel good. The physical representations may be e.g. a  job promotion, or the fact that we could get a new house or have our first child. The "thing" itself is irrelevant, because the beauty of being  unique beings, makes us incomparable to each other and the physical world is just a construct so we can see it with our brains. I think that at this stage you will start to be aware that competition is only a human mindset of something very subjective. There is no need to compare ourselves to others when we feel 100% safe on our own skin. Moreover, there is NOBODY in the world like us, and this give us a particular, single custom way of perceiving the reality without giving too much of our energy to someone's else opinion or judgment. Achievement is for me when we get to a point where we look at the mirror, we see our own reflection and we can feel from our deepest roots that it is completely enough only to exist as what we are and that all the  other things society tells to be necessary are just noise. We are our greatest treasure, and that is why if we find ourselves stuck or unhappy, we will have to work this pain with wisdom to step in the direction of satisfaction and achievement that really will be forever attached to us: our own self.

ETERNITY - ETERNIDADE

Hello blog readers. Here comes another of my reflexions. The word today is eternity. Well, to talk about eternity, a so abstract concept, one must before start with the basics. The word eternity makes sense, only and really only if one considers that nothing has ever been created in the past and that no end is going to happen in the future, in what we call time continuum. That being said, we already can start to question over some of our common sense postulates.

First, and maybe the most mysterious drawback we have now is our complete ignorance when it comes to explain the nature of our reality. For me, the main limitation would be that our "advanced" physical body would be incapable of interpreting things, ideas and subjectivity that seem to be be included in some "space" that we cannot comprehend given our machinery technical obsolescence.  Following that, due to a physical principle that no energy is created, neither lost, only changes states, all that is out there, including biological life, has always been there. Probably, in some different format, consistency or range of vibration. So perhaps the recordings from life forms in the past that we have tracked with the scientific development we achieved are too rudimental to depict all the records from the past that  in fact may have occurred.  When looking back, we are very limited. The fact, that for example, we may have pyramids in the south pole, may change completely our own history as a planet, civilization  and as a species (check in google). A very small change in the tracking records we have can therefore give some more hints of what is this eternity.

Religious beliefs, especially those claiming reincarnation or spiritual ascent consider that makes no logic, from a philosophical perspective to consider this life to be as the only one, limited, closed and driven by no purpose, if one accepts that it ends after physical degradation and death of the body. But, coming back to the beginning, if no energy can be created nor destroyed, it makes sense that it was just exchanged to another set of rules kind of energetic world. Some say spiritual world, heaven, paradise or whatever. The name is really not important. Why all this? Why and for what reasons would someone construct a thing without beginning or end? Instinctively, what we do in life? We always try to progress. In our professional, personal, or whatever field of our life. Being that true, (as I have noticed in everybody), it is now the time to realize the reason or the eternity as an entity. So what moves us is essentially our own unexplainable willpower to evolve to someplace/somehow/somewhat better condition than now. Thus, eternity brings the real beauty and illumination path, of nature existence, within our own understanding capabilities (determined by our levels of intelligence, moral evolution and also by our processing power limit from the body. Whatever/whoever/whenever has design all of this, made with a purpose. Time as defined by humans is nothing really. The process of evolution in our stage of understanding has been designed to occur like that, and that is probably the reason why our minds perceive a time construct.

I believe that there is a strong association with what we are and what we can experience. In the last 200 years the exponential technology boom has allowed humans to experience much more than ever. At this very moment, I am sitting in one cafe, connected to the world wide web, being able to find/to communicate/to do whatever. I am wearing a bluetooth headphone connected to my smartphone, listening to a record from my favorite band that was released yesterday all over the world and that I already have now in my music collection. Given this is a 2015 common thing (which was impossible less than some years ago) we can realize how humankind is evolving. But how this affects us? By allowing the awakening to new forms of "information processing" that the body surely has, which in consequence of this nature rule, has also to evolve. That is why many people are in the "search" nowadays of extra dimensions, UFO associated societies or where we go / what happens to our self when we die. I put myself in this quest. Eternity is therefore a good thing, if not the best thing that we should have in mind when facing such questions. You have all of the "time" which will never end at your disposal (in spite of having an opinion that this interpretation might be a small piece of the whole recipe), the solution is just to keep moving forward.

The logic luckily brings us the absolute certainty that no matter what you do, right or wrong , fast or slow, to the good or to the bad, you will MOVE forward, at your own speed, and depending on your freedom of CHOICES.  That is how , in my view, we can interpret this right now. Hopefully, the species will evolve and bring new ways for us to experience all of this we call life. Eternity, in the end, should makes us fearless and willing to risk. I hope this all does not sound too crazy for you, but I found it was important to write about this now, because of my moment and also because I think that the more we reflect on such subjects, no matter if completely right or completely wrong,the more we are giving the opportunity to our brains/spirits/souls to look for a better life. May all have a great sunday!

MOVEMENT - MOVIMENTO - BEWEGUNG

Dear blog readers. Happy 2016! To begin our new year I decided to talk about movement. It seems a bit strange to discuss this word, but I will try to make it valuable somehow to all who will read. Movement states in our rational mind the idea of space dislocation. In physics is what we study through all those classic formulas and movements’ types. From a more intelectual perspective, not only regarding solid matter, it means much more. And it can be conceptualized in a deep, intricating manner. From the mind point of view, movement is when you put your brain to work and make it process whatever information you may choose. That is also correct, and neuroscience has measured this movement objectively through electrical signals (e.g. electroencefalogram), magnetic fields (e.g. functional magnetic ressonance imaging) or radioative markers interventions along with advanced X-rays techniques (positron emission computer tomography). Science has also tried to measure it objectively through standardized clinical tools (questionnaires, psychological tests, scales of function and many more). In essence, movement refers to change from one state to another, may it be physically visible or not.

However I want to go a bit deeper with that, when it comes to not well-established concepts of movement. For example (and this is my own finding in the last 3 weeks), do you consider when you are actually doing nothing, laying down on your bed, thinking nothing, simply being present in the moment also a movement of a different kind? My answer to that, at least from this experience is a certain YES.  And why? Well, in my view, the mind does not really need to be “active” as measured by traditional science to be considered to move. In another words, just by being alive, no matter what activity you do, you are actually moving. On the worst case, at least, moving in time (forward at a constant pace). But, what if we are actually also active from a perspective not yet described? Interestingly I have made so many discoveries about myself, the world and also physically manifested a lot of good, pleasant experiences, that it makes me conclude that we DO move ininterruptly through our life path, no matter if we are aware of it or not.  Secondly, by carefully attenting to your main mood, you tend to manifest in your visible reality something that pehaps was designed and planned in this realm of the invisible, mystic, out of the earth, or whatever names you may give dimension. Labelling in this particular case makes no sense, because all theories in this direction, even though very profound and widespread are not yet “proved” by our best true check tool to date, formal academic science.

But in the last century, and mainly in the last decade, I have noticed a shift in the society towards the development of this unknown dimension of movement in our lives. This means, a simpler life, a capitalist free mindset, a sense of sharing with others with no attachement or charges in return, a more well contructed goal driven life with different objectives but money, success or proud exacerbation. I can list a number of signs that we are probably much faster in our movement thorugh life, but not at the same pace with our happiness or life fullfillment. Today, a report from BBC states that this generation of children (even though with all the techonologies and modern possibilites life offers) is the saddest ever seen. The main concerns they have? To move fast enough to appear “cool” (meaning more successful/richer/happier and so on) than their peers in social media internet. Another main concern: virtual bullying. In the 80’s it was violence, fights in the familiy and fear of being alone. This is ONE example among thousands that are just as terrifying. Now it comes the movement. By being in a state of  “intended near-coma state” I slowed down my mind. This brougth a new perspective of realization to me. The results: more clarity, better decisions, incisive and sharp future plans leading to? Happier, slower, calmer life and a profound sense of being alive in this world. This may not be the solution to everybody. Different people, different paths, different solutions. However, one thing is clear coming back to the children example: if our kids are unhappier than ever being so fast in their achievements and accomplishments, the results they get in the end do not justify the reasons for this pursue.

So to conclude this briefly: Movement is necessary, but to be still, doing nothing, just looking and trying to get something out of the silence and the steadiness may be a very good tool to track a balanced speed of movement in life, where you move forward, progress, but do not overthink or overact, “burning” your chances of being in a better state of mind. Tools to achieve that? Many. You must find yours. For me what worked: Eating good food, sleeping well, exercising, praying, meditating, learning everyday with insipiring people (sports' heros, inovative and provocative authors) and connecting to people that really matter something and are willing not only to get energy from you but also to give it back. I hope all can find this track towards your own custom designed needs. May all have a great week and a very successful 2016, balancing your movement thorugh life with wisdom.