Most mess ups in my daily life happens not because of ignorance or external factors, but energy imbalance happening within my body which significantly influences the mind.
When the body is hot and restless, the mind also becomes agitated, and the breath becomes hot and shallow. This especially happens a few minutes in after overscrolling.
Ideally, it would be best to take a nap or relaxing food/drink, but if there's none, the heat and agitation would increase to the point of no return that even taking a nap becomes an extremely difficult chore, staying still proves to be highly tough.
Thus, it would be best to take a nap while we still can, because if the heat hits the fan, we'll lose our balance, drowning us in our own emotions and desires.
Another way is to take extremely deep breaths for a minute, which would eliminate body heat and mental agitation, decreasing thinking speed. However, this involves high concentration and a lot of uncomfortable feelings, as it means facing your mistakes and extremely hot exhales. Furthermore, this usually leads to a lot of perspiration, as the excess body heat is released outside the body.
Interestingly, taking a large poop also helps in stabilizing the body's energy levels, as the excess heat and energy is released in the form of poop. When people exhaust their mental agitation and energy with extreme overscrolling for hours, their body will force them to poop where they'll return to their sanity and realize what they had done.
Watching and noticing the subtle movements of trees, leaves, and birds also helps one relax, as their brainwaves will naturally slowly synchronize to the flow of nature, though it's not enough to completely expel the internal body heat.
In whatever we do, we must remember to breath deeply, as every deep breath is a symbol of our willingness to live and take responsibility of our life.
Another thing that disrupts the flow of daily life is the exhaustion of brain energy. As someone who regularly reads and writes, the brain energy is often exhausted after two hours of continuous focus, which may extend up to three hours if I'm using proper posture and breathing technique.
I've watched in a show before that the brain needs glucose or sugar to recover the energy, while it needs citrus or something else to recover from fatigue. However, I neither have any sugar nor citrus. I can only manage my schedule such that I take at least 30 minutes nap for every two hours of focused working.
If I'm rich, I would regularly prepare drinks rich in sugar and citrus, such that the brain would be able to withstand long hours of concentration. However, I'm not rich and I refuse to spend money on such luxuries, thus there's no other way but to take lots and lots of naps.
The status effect of boredom isn't severe nor dangerous, but if left alone for long periods of time, it grows into a giant monster that devours the life out of the person. The person has to face boredom with creativity or they'll succumb to overconsumption and repeat the same again.
Fortunately, boredom is a psychological effect, a state of mind that comes from identification with desires, where the person will crave something more interesting and exciting.
To gently defuse psychological effects is easy:
First, they have to understand the cause, what's making then feel and think that way.
Second, they have to accept that they are affected by that psychological effect without feeling guilty or being harsh to oneself.
Third, they have to monitor it with impartial neutrality, being completely careful not to judge nor hate it for even a microsecond. It's simply there, allow it to be there, watch it and it will eventually leave.
One of the annoying things that brutally destroys my day is whenever I mess one thing, I immediately give up and the entire day is completely ruined.
While it's not wrong to give up sometimes, it would be better not to throw in the towel just because of one or two simple mistakes. We must not throw the entire basket just because there's one rotten apple.
Instead, we should immediately dispose of the rotten apple and ensure that there's no other rotten apples in the basket. Thus, the rest of the day can be saved.
Regardless of how healthy and relaxed we are, nothing will happen if we keep forgetting our priorities.
To focus only on the priorities of material reality will make one lose sight of their inner purpose, and to focus only on the priorities of spiritual reality will make one lose sight of the present moment. We have to keep both realities within our line of sight, one for each eye.
Our current priorities for the material world are:
Our current priorities for the spiritual world are:
Our current priorities for the world between are:
These are a lot of priorities and I'll probably forget most of them after writing this article, only remembering to take naps and maintaining energy balance and harmony.
Still, I remember them now, and it doesn't matter whether I forgot them in the end or if I didn't managed to do them in the end.
What's important is to begin somewhere, to start and keep starting, without getting lost in the process or the goal. Because our lives are short, the end is nowhere to be found.
We can only plant now and leave the fruits to the next generations, just as how our ancestors left their legacy for us.
"The more we seek, the less we'll find. The harder we struggle, the more painful it becomes. The more we think, the farther we are to the truth."
"There's no need to force oneself on the right path, the middle path is enough."