From Apathy
To Sanity
Through applied philosophy
-with tongue in cheek : )
From Apathy
Stress is THE most pervasive health issue of the 21st century,
according to the World Health Organization.
Stress now officially affects THE MAJORITY of the world’s population,
but it HAS AN EFFECT ON EVERYONE.
Both directly, as well as indirectly.
–Second hand stress is very contagious!
Stress is arguably THE most costly thing for:
Society
The Workplace
Your Quality Of Life
Mental Kung Fu, is a deep dive in to the inner workings,
of all the intricately intertwined influences, involved in causing you stress.
Internally, as well as externally.
It is an introspective investigation into what YOUR triggers are,
so that YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO HELP YOURSELF
as efficiently and quickly, as humanly possible.
Or, in a cute punny slogan; how to:
BECOME OKAY IN YOUR OWN WAY.
So.
Without further ado:
Let’s go learn about Mental Kung Fu!
*Cue gong sound, and chanting mountain monks*
This is your life.
An ever evolving triangle, with its different parts always changing in size, relation and hence, balance.
Your PERSONAL life
-With your family, loved ones and bills to pay.
Your PROFESSIONAL life,
-With your colleagues and boss, where you finance your personal life and your passion.
Your PASSION,
-Which is your favorite activity, therapeutic friendship, or your comforting hobby,
where you go to seek refuge and recharge,
for coping with your personal and professional life.
Each part either:
Gives energy
Remains balanced
Drains energy
If one part goes out of balance,
maintaining your wellbeing,
depends on counter-balancing,
from the other two parts.
We can survive a life in imbalance for a long time, if we compensate enough.
The problem is just, that over time, we grow under-nurished from over-compensation.
Therefore, we need to become aware of prioritizing activities that keeps us in balance,
if we do not want end up crushed under a tipped-over triade,
from trying too hard,
on things that are working against us.
Your “life” is, in its most basic form:
The way you feel,
based on how you react,
to whether or not your expectations are met.
That’s [IT]* really!
E.G.:
Let’s say you are experiencing a beautiful sunny day,
but internally, you are worrying whether you are enjoying it enough and getting the most of it,
then the seemingly blissful sunny day, is leaving you with a stressed sensation in your body,
even though logically, it should be doing the polar opposite.
In other words:
Your interpretation of events, becomes reality, for you.
The way you respond to these events, shapes how others perceive you.
The ways others perceive you, affects how they interact with you,
and the way others interacts with you, guides your Self perception,
and in the end, defines your model of the world.
“Stress” is literally just a sensation we get,
when our imaginary demands are not fulfilled,
by a non-mind-reading world.
So if we aren’t getting our non-verbalized expectations met,
from a body-language-blind society, Zoom-ing past us at blinding speed,
what do we do?
We study to become masters in situation optimized interception,
henceforth known as:
MENTAL KUNG FU
Experiment.
Learn.
Adjust.
Repeat.
This is the way
to avoid
defeat
Mentally F.U.!
When we feel stressed, our locus of control tends to shift outwards,
making it FEEL LIKE OUR LIFE IS HAPPENING TO US, RATHER THAN THROUGH US.
It is in these moments of duress that we regress, and often end up apathetic.
And through passivenes from being overwhelmed, over time, we inadvertently end up in a much deeper hole, because even if we don’t do the actual digging ourselves, the external world keeps piling crap around all exits!
This is why we need a SIMPLE AND MAINTAINABLE EXIT STRATEGY to cut the crap that is bogging us down, in the form of a Self-made bullshit-shovel, that we’ll use to smack the rat race of life, right back in its insessive face, with a force that’ll MAKE YOU UNSTOPPABLE!
It is not easy, but it is simple, if you know what to do, and how to do [IT].
Look.
Everyone around you, as well as your very own little brain, is constantly trying to influence your decision-making, for one reason or another.
Meanwhile, your brain is just trying to fit in, and become part of the group dynamics, of whatever situation you happen to find your self in.
Now this is not some great-conspiracy-MK-Ultra-type-shit.
It is dead simple; clever phrasing, intelligent emotional manipulations and skillfully designed suggestions, that [per]suedes and directs your behavior, towards outcomes that are beneficial for the other party.
Eloquentness is highly seductive and persuasive!
Be it; your boss, partner, kids or your phone.
Whoever is the most “persuasive” in the moment,
wins the other persons favor,
and hence gets to control the outcome of the given situation.
It’s really not rocket-surgery though!
Ever since behavioral psychologists got involved in marketing and politics in the early 1900’s, through the use of “Hypnotic Language Patterns“, Neuro Linguistic Programming has become part of everyday life, and entire industries have been built around trying to convince you to become a supporter of their causes, through clever phrasing:
Commercial branding, political spin-doctor-ism, Self-help movements, Multi Level Marketing and “Guru‘s” with cultish followers, to name a few.
The recipe is very simple:
A charismatic and believable person with either authority or clout, makes you feel like their friend, through carefully tailoring what they say and how they say it, under the guise of offering you unique benefits, that can only be obtained through following their instructions (most often involving you parting with your hard-earned money), in order for you to become part of the cool-kids club.
There is also some form of visually identifiable adherence-badge involved, and an internal hierarchical structure, where the lower class of members has to be initiated through doing the dirty-work of the leadership, under the promise of one day becoming qualified to be part of the e[xc]lusive inner-circle.
Whether it be selling; products, ideologies or salvation, the recipe remains the same:
Skillfully served bullshit, that only stop tasting good, when you quit adding your own conditioned seasoning, through applied conditional reasoning!
Proper grooming includes: Shaving, manicures, growing thicker skin and cleansing your mind from excess.
This is done systematically,
through becoming aware of your unwanted “System 1” non-conscious behaviors,
and training your wanted “System 2” conscious behaviors,
to the point where they coalesce.
Remember this:
BEHAVIOR UNCHALLENGED
IS
BEHAVIOR ACCEPTED
Maybe It's Make-Believe
Aww, come on now, you even said it with the melody and all!
If you only ever learn one thing about the little moody spoiled brat that lives inside your skull, then let it be this:
ANIMALS AREN’T SUSCEPTIBLE TO PLACEBO.
ONLY HUMANS ARE.
Now, what does this fact tell you about the plasticity, and hence, manipulability of the human mind?
Not only does fake medicine work because you expect it to, based on authoritative suggestion.
Placebo becomes even more potent, if the fake pills are also: Large, colorful, bitter or very expensive, but if you believe that the fake medicine is bad for you, the opposite will happen.
Everything’s made up and the points don’t matter!
Your brain is so biased towards making itself look and feel good, that it’ll buy into whatever persuasive bullshit that you let through your guard, and the less energy you have, the weaker your defences are.
In fact, your inherent innate fill-in-the-blanks-with-post-rationalization bias sieve you call your “mind”,
is being played like a fiddle whenever you have any kind of interaction, anywhere and with anyone.
Only through becoming aware of your minds hidden-in-plain-sight pitfalls,
will you become enabled to affect how much they influence your behavior.
You can scoot on over here and take a gander of the very PLAYBOOK that marketeers and behavior psychologists use to sway your behavior,
and if you think that you are somehow special, impervious and can’t be budged,
then just know that they have a “nudge” for that as well, because you cannot rely on your own judgement to judge your Self, and you can also not become aware of what you do when you are un-aware.
Telling you what you want to hear, is only the tip of the iceberg.
You’ll make [whatever] make sense, as long as it agrees with you, and now with AI chat bots becoming more “Self aware”, it is more important than ever that you do the same, if you don’t wanna get duped and suckered in.
The only way to become a player, as opposed to getting played,
is allowing your Self to be played to the fullest extent,
meanwhile conscientiously observing your inner workings as you allow the effects of the external orchestration to take place.
THE MORE YOU FIGHT,
THE MORE YOU’LL LOSE.
Your only chance of winning,
is acknowledging defeat at the hands of your Self,
and becoming willing to start over, as a student,
and accept the fact that you’ll have to re-visit and (possible) re-learn, everything you thought you “knew” about yourself and the world around you.
Really let this fact soak and sink in for a couple of minutes, to comprehends the true ramifications on how your own gullible mind constantly deceives you, and the work you have cut out in front of you, if your choose to continue.
When this fact has taken root in the remains of your brain-rot ridden thinking-lump, it will help to guide your awareness towards whether something has an actual beneficial effect on you, or you just tell your Self it has, for whatever (t)reason.
[IT] is entirely a question of training your conscious mind, to reflect [upon] all the subliminal shenanigans!
Because:
Your surroundings can only keep driving you crazy as long as you keep providing them your keys!
THIS IS WHERE MENTAL KUNG FU COMES IN,
and the main principles are very simple:
1
SEEK TO MAXIMIZE YOUR POSITIVE IMPACT ON YOUR IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT.
-Including your Self.
(Altruism is reciprocal: If you don’t try to manipulate others, they will be less inclined to do so with you).
2
STRIVE TO MINIMIZE YOUR IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT’S NEGATIVE IMPACT ON YOU.
-Including your Self’s.
(Halving negativity, is more powerfull than doubling positivity).
3
AIM FOR DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM, OVER CHRONIC PERFECTION.
-Allow your Self to make mistakes and learn to intelligently balance them out,
rather than striving for perfection and living in frustration.
(Your Ego’s only goal, is to make itself look good, regardless of how that makes you feel).
*UGH*
But why this boring wall of text, instead of easily-digestible-colorful-high-production-value-auto-playing-content?!
Because ACTUALLY learning something, takes ACTUAL involvement.
-You can’t just use Artificial Intelligence to sum it all up for you and then go watch Funny Fails straight after.
It takes Actual Intelligence to learn something from active experience, rather than passively experiencing someone else’s experiences!
So if you’re game, to start changing how YOU play the game altogether,
then let’s begin our digital discombobulant deroute detox,
so that you can stop being played [by] your Self!
“This is your life, and it’s slowly ending, one minute at a time.
You throw away your liveliness, in the pursuit of earning a living.
You waste [IT] on buying shit you don’t need,
with money you don’t have,
to impress people you don’t even like.”
-Tyler Durden – Fight Club
(Very loosely paraphrased)
Mental Kung Fu...
-Seriously?!
YES!
-Well, kinda.
IF YOU FEEL MENTALLY CONSTIPATED, THEN MENTAL KUNG FU IS YOUR RE-LAXATIVE!
[IT] is the antidote to your non-existing attention span, leading to digital-dementia, caused by mental over-excitation, followed by physical under-stimulation.
[IT] is as simple as asking your Self this:
Does your behavior generally lead you towards more short-term satisfaction, and more long-term dissatisfaction, OR the opposite?
Do you want to address this?
Look.
You cannot make something clean, without making something else dirty in the process.
So if you want a clean and clear consciousness, you need to be ready to get your hands dirty!
Let’s cut the crap here for a minute.
“Mental Kung Fu” simply translates to: “Mental Skill Master” and it is an approach to life, that gives you accelerated learning, through making you aware, of how YOU learn best.
Pretentiously, I call this method: “Synergistic heuristics”.
Humoristically, I like to refer to it as “Mental Kung Fu[n]”
But simply put, [IT] is a dynamic iterative process, that involves finding the simplest and most reciprocally beneficial course of action, for any given situation in your life, all based on Dynamic Equilibrium.
–Mentally, as well as physically.
In today’s ever-changing-technological-life, I will argue that the ability to QUICKLY LEARN NEW THINGS, as well as, REMOVE BULLSHIT THAT SUCKS THE LIFE OUT OF YOU, is THE most valuable thing for you.
PERSONALLY, as well as PROFESSIONALLY.
Mental Kung Fu is also designed to help you, wean your-SELF off the self-help circus wagon, that keeps veering you into a dead end!
Finally, through the above, [IT] helps you reduce stress, by teaching you how to embrace your inner mess, instead of fighting it under duress. And most importantly: It relies on learned skill, instead of whimsical will.
Look.
No one knows your SELF better than you.
Not your parents.
Not your partner or best friend.
Certainly not your Guru.
Therefore, Mental Kung Fu’s goal is to MAKE YOU YOUR OWN GURU, so that you stop depending on external influences!
It sounds silly (and trust me, it is!), but what [IT] really is all about, is simply becoming re-acquainted with your foundational Self as it originally was, before all the crap was shoveled on top of it.
A beautiful example of this, is the Bumblebee story of novelist Mario Puzo, who became the screenwriter of “The Godfather” movies, after having written the novels. After winning two academy awards for best adapted screenplay, Mario decided to buy a book on screenwriting, as he felt he didn’t really know what he was doing, since he had no formal education on the matter.
In the screenwriting book, the textbook example given of perfect screenwriting, was “The Godfather”…
Another example, could be to question whether you’re actually naturally right-handed, or if you’ve just been weaned by a right-handed society.
Do you see the point I’m trying to make?
Are you really you, or do you feel more like two totem-poling raccoons in an ill-fitting trench-coat, trying to fake your way in to the show?
Using someone else’s recipe on your unique ingredients, will NEVER result in the best result FOR YOU!
-Only profiteering people, benefitting from selling cookware and recipes, will tell you otherwise!
[IT] is literally as easy as child’s play, but it requires you to be brave, in order to let go of the accustomed complexes and presumptuous preconceptions that ARE STANDING IN YOUR WAY.
Because, let’s face it: Very often, YOUR SELF’S INTERESTS ARE SELDOM IN YOUR OWN BEST SELF-INTERESTS!
That is why Mental Kung Fu primarily deals with the psychological aspects of life, because not only are we more psycho than logical, we prefer second-guessing to first-action, as well as conferring post-rationalization upon procrastination of our initial realization, to pretty much everything we do, consuming at least three times the mental bandwidth needed for making a quality decision.
Mental Kung Fu intercepts and intervenes with this interference, by interjecting fun and insightful questions, thereby interrupting your self-destructive thought-patterns, so that you think at least twice, before giving mindlessly in to your vice.
-Nice!
[IT] is all about practicing mind-control.
Because if you don’t take advantage of this skill. Someone else definitely will!
-Mind you, there is no tin-foil-hattery going on here. It is simply about foil’ing the ongoing encroachment of your mental-health!
Simply BECOMING AWARE
of your own strings,
DOESN’T MAKE YOU
ANY LESS OF A PUPPET.
But learning HOW
to PULL THE STRINGS yourself,
puts YOU
BACK IN CONTROL.
Bullshit-Free Philosophy
The mental enema you’ve been postponing
When even TED-talking, Ig-Nobel-Prize winning, world renowned scientists, studying why we lie, themselves get’s caught lying-about-lying (perhaps inadvertently?), how much more of a smoking gun do you need, for the case of the easily corruptible nature of our Self-serving human mind?
My core argument is this:
You have never heard the “truth” about anything from a true “master” in any field.
You have only ever been told a monetizable version, enacted by the most “sellable” person willing to grift, in any given category.
Why? Well:
All true masters, mind their own business and fly comfortably under the radar, with no need for accolades or flashy fame, and enjoy a peaceful life in privacy, with flesh-and-blood friends and family.
Think about this:
Why would a peaceful monk descend from his high-rise-haven of reclusive worry-freeness to help mankind and “spread the word”, if this way of life was truly his Modus Operandi?
What other reason, than but to seek fame, followers and fortune?
Do-gooders often end up being the inadvertent underminers.
Thinking you can help mankind, is just your ego’s ultimate wet dream.
Man, may be kind to one’s closest kin, but mankind, has a very bleak history of treating “others” very poorly.
Mankind’s doing, is out of our hands, but our own, is not!
We start, by undoing the wrongdoings we all have had done to us, through becoming aware of when people are selling us our own misfortune, and rejecting the transaction.
We do this through specifically selected information, designed and condensed to make you less dense, if you catch my thrift?
Put simply:
Ego-stroking hyperbole sells.
Honest nuanced views with reflective reservations, do not.
From this, you can easily deduct, that the vast majority of information that reaches you, is designed by an author, based off of the end-result they seek to attain from you.
So alas, as a means to an end, Mental Kung Fu had to be created, as a way of building an intelligent Self-defense system, to parry the onslaught of stupifying bullshit ricocheting around our us, over time, enabling you to go into “bullet-time” mode at will, and avoid the crap altogether.
You can kinda say that Mental Kung Fu is “Functional Philosophy” for the lost generation with acronyms, because no matter where, or on what spectrum you may find your Self, or what box you feel that society have squeezed you in to, Mental Kung Fu teaches you HOW to IDENTIFY what the ACTUAL underlying CAUSE(S) to your PROBLEMS are, (which your Self has become oblivious to), and hence make it simple to take action on.
A key insight here, is shifting focus to do something WITH your underlying issues, instead of trying to do something TO them.
The first way implies curious exploration = Learning to negotiate [with] your emotions.
The second way implies furious exploitation = Ignoring your emotions, and just powering through with willful ignorance.
Now, which way sounds like the most promising to you?
Mental Kung Fu’s core goal, is to replace dependance on WILL, with playful SKILL.
If we cut the crap for a second; Mental Kung Fu, is simply just YOU.
You. In your purest form, stripped of all the bullshit that is bogging you down.
“But why this non- endorphin-inducing, dopamine-reclusive, un-stimulating wall of text?!” -you cry sobbingly, with clenched fists, twitching from withdrawal.
BECAUSE THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT
BUT IT IS WHAT YOU NEED!
This is your ad-free sanctuary for reclaiming your sanity!
It is a blog-meets-a-book.
A sorta “Blook” if you will.
*AHEM*
Seriously.
Pretty much everyone in the world today, is in dire need of looking at something that isn’t auto-playing, auto-looping and auto-suggesting commercial content, designed to make you feel down, so you’ll cough up.
The fact is, that the less you know from experience, the more you’ll believe from interference.
Or in other words:
The less YOU are in control, the more susceptible you are to BEING controlled.
Be it; Algorithms, Apps, Apparatuses or Affluencers. Pretty much every thing and every one, is fighting for your attention with the primary intent of subconsciously guiding your behavior, to make you, do them, a favor.
In a world where instant-gratification is the norm from infancy, we are literally training ourselves to become dumber, by willfully exposing ourselves to getting rewarded from acting upon impulses, through our pocket slot-machines, and their gamified experience, rather than being disciplined through delayed-moderation, as taught by the present parents of yore.
Absent parenting and screen-time at low ages are literally ruining our children’s minds and ability to socialize.
-We are even dangerously close to raising a generation of mole-people!
This has now been done for so long, so ubiquitously and so skillfully, that we don’t even notice it any more, and even our own Self is now working against our own self-interests, because we’ve learned from commercials how “success” and “happiness” is supposed to look!
Therefore, Mental Kung Fu is a crash-course into Self-mastery, based om empirical experience and carefully designed to make you knowledgeable in the ways which your surroundings, as well as your conditioned Self, is constantly trying to manipulate YOU, into benefiting THEM.
Dopamine-driven device addiction is NOT dope!
To combat this, Mental Kung Fu is a 3-pronged approach, that helps you teach your-Self, how to skillfully filter manipulatory bullshit from [f]actual reality:
- Step One: Self-Care (347 pages of FREE eBook Awesomeness, NO strings attached. This is my gift to you!)
- Step Two: Self-Awareness
- Step Three: Self-Control
Listen.
The grifting bullshit-industry operates through peddling pay-to-attain fame-endorsed mystified self-help schemes, that have been designed for the ~20% of people that are easily (self)hypnotizable, because it is so SO monetizable!
-Also, the ones most easily entrapped, are also the ones most likely to spread the word, to double-down and enroll other members, thereby spreading the liability and diluting the feeling of shame for being suckered in to the shiny honeypot by bullshit, hook-line-and-stinker!
These charlatans and their cultish followers, have been in a self-perpetuating co-dependent profiteering-relationship, ever since the first monkey convinced the second monkey, that they would be given the keys to the secret club-house, if they played diligently along to the tune og the first monkey.
Sounds familiar?
Mental Kung Fu is very different however, as it is not meant to INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE.
It’s meant to CONSULT it!
[IT], is meant to snap you back to reality through a spinning back-fist, and not further lull you into an even deeper state of numbness, by a patronizing “there-there, just-remember-you-are-one-with-the-universe” pat on the forehead, while trying to further addict you with artificially created needs, for which they just so happen to sell you the solution, at a time-limited discount only for a chosen few, which you, against-all-odds, just so happen to have been divinely and personally hand-selected for.
LUCKY SPECIAL YOU, huh?!
Don’t believe me?
No worries. Go have fun.
But when you are done chasing your own tail.
As in D.O.N.E.
When you become so sore from being mind-fucked by grifting snake-oil-selling swindlers, that your ears begin to ring at night.
Mental Kung Fu will be right here, waiting for you…
The Ass-terisk
Sticking around?
Very well then, let’s get to it!
Besides being an obviously awesome name, Mental Kung Fu is highly potent, yet very simple.
So simple in fact, that it at times feels stupid, because we have been brought up with: Complexity, difficulty and exclusivity, being goals in themselves.
Well, I’m happy to burst your bubble: IT’s NOT!
In reality, Mental Kung Fu is just a bullshit name I came up with, because it was self-awaringly-over-serious, while sounding cool.
(And also: The domain was available, which is not unimportant in this day and age!
I could have gone with “Mental Feng Shui” or whatnot, but it just doesn’t have the same power to it, and even though dripping water can erode a rock over time, Self-inflicted Behavioral Design needs to make a big splash NOW, if we are not to pass the point of no return from losing all control to AI algorithms, or drowning in the cesspool of inbred-AI-slop, usurping low-effort content, with no-effort non-tent.
About half of the internet traffic today is non-human, and it’s costing advertisers over 71 BILLION dollars per year, which they will seek to recuperate, from you and me, and they have just begun synthesizing all your data into hyper-targeted ads with yourself in them!
Where do we go from here?!
Simple:
Mental Kung Fu is about revealing the magicians tricks and showing you the emperors merely retro-grade clothes, so that you can make your own informed decisions going forward, rather than merely relying on Social Proofing your way through life.
Hear me out:
Every one on earth is chronically searching for the next big “THING” to offer them respite, from a seemingly insufferable lifestyle of chasing ones own tail, all the while feeling like we are missing out on life itself, while grinding ourselves to the bone.
In fact. It has become so bad, that people’s despair, hopelessness and genuine cries for help, have now just become funny memes that we chuckle at, in a sort of sick desperation, because what else can we do really?
Well, as it turns out: A LOT!
Having gone almost brain-dead from being constantly inundated by; life-hacks, influencer-advice, bullshit-protocols, shitty-short-cuts, you-are-doing-it-wrongs, self-destructive-fads, and what else the algorithm shovels towards you when you are feeling vulnerable, I felt that someone had to come up with a way saving the little amount of common sense we still have left…
Well.
This is it.
My attempt at thing-i-fying something that is not a thing, and very much not like anything you’ve ever come across before.
All so that you can hopefully find what you think you are looking for, and regain what is left of your sanity.
So.
I’m not gonna sugar coat it: Shit IS fucked, and it IS gonna get worse before it gets better.
BUT: Wouldn’t you rather want a fighting chance, instead of just remaining incapacitated by the feeling of overwhelmedness?
Well, if you’re game, the name is: SIMPLICITY!
All bullshit aside, at it’s core, Mental Kung Fu is about providing you with the right introspective questions, as well as the interoceptive awareness, designed to give you self-made honest and bullshit-free insight, and hence the foundation for making better decisions going forward.
This will in turn, also make your mind more robust and resilient against external manipulation.
What goes on in your mind, spreads to your body, and what goes on in your body, spreads to your mind.
Becoming a master of both, begins with directing your attention towards the subliminal cause, of the superficial effect, because you will only ever find what you are purposefully looking for.
Please know that “Awareness” is not some devine mystical state of mind.
It simply means: “Become attentive towards”!
What's In [IT] For Me?
Mental Kung Fu does not care about what is theoretically ideal and potentially obtainable.
[IT] only focuses on what is realistically real and actually sustainable.
Mental Kung Fu strives to give you three things:
1: Possibility
– Teaching you, through fun little exercises, how to reduce stress so that you regain the capacity to make sound and sustainable decisions, instead of remaining trapped in self-destructive patterns.
2: Ability
– Insight into what mechanisms are responsible for your behavior and the knowledge to act effectively, instead of merely out of affect.
This way, you start doing what YOU KNOW YOU NEED instead of just feeling stuck, doing WHAT YOU’VE BEEN TOLD YOU WANT.
3: Maintainability
– Skills and experience gained from turning intentions into actions, fosters honest self-worth over bloated self-confidence, that will ensure you do not digress and regress for the umpteenth time.
Basically, allowing your Self the peace of mind to fiiiinally relax and blow the biggest raspberry known to man, from the release of the emotional enema, of unclogging your system from decades of built-up bullshit, that gives you the true catharsis you’ve been searching for all these years, in all the wrong places!
So, whaddaya say:
Do you wanna cut the crap and get straight to [IT], and learn SELF defense?
Then just hit the little whimsical red button!
-If you’re not convinced just yet, then by all means, keep scrolling.
Why Mental Kung Fu?
Because there is so much bullshit prevalent, and it’s growing ever more impossible to figure out what is real and what is fake.
This perfect-shit-storm of over-stimulation and under-nourishment is suffocating our spirit, while providing sensory overload. This ever growing ominous internal indifference from feeling externally overwhelmed, is wreaking havoc on both our minds as well as our bodies!
So if our outlook is bleak, then what do we do?
We look inside instead!
Many people today have become too self-aware to the point of it crippling their ability to enjoy life.
All because of a lack of true SELF-awareness, that enables us to foresee and break one’s SELF-made destructive patterns.
The catch-22 of all this is:
The more self-aware you are, the less joy you’ll experience, due to the fact that you’ll be too busy over-analyzing and second-guessing you every move.
The less SELF-aware you are, the more you remain doomed to repeat your self-destructive behavior over and over.
Dang it, huh!?
So, then what?
Well. In a nutshell, Mental Kung Fu is simply the SELF-applied spoke in your own wheel, breaking the cycle, and preventing you from going over the cliff, on repeat.
It may not be pretty, BUT [IT] WORKS!
But why is this even necessary?!
Simple:
Humans originally developed to roam the vast open plains of the sunny African savannah on our own terms. We lived autonomously in small groups with nothing but free-time, peaceful minds and active bodies.
Today, we spend most of our lives in small enclosed spaces under artificial light, glaring at screens, obeying rules and guidelines, with hyper-active minds, all the while our bodies sit catatonically still.
-Everything we’ve biologically adapted to over the last 4.5 billion years, has completely inverted in just a few centuries…
Also:
As a CHILD, you had the OPPORTUNITY to EXPLORE what you WANTED, SPONTANEOUSLY.
You EXPRESSED your EMOTIONS FREELY, and had your NEEDS FULFILLED almost INSTANTANEOUSLY.
As an ADULT, you HAVE TO do CHORES you HATE most of the time, THROUGH PLANNING.
You SUPPRESS your EMOTIONS INTERNALLY and have your NEEDS KILLED until it’s CONVENIENT for OTHERS.
Somewhere around adolescence, your world figuratively flip-flops, and very few people learn how to successfully deal with it, and end up forever chasing “uppers” in a life where they feel chronically “down”.
-Displaced and displeased.
Ahh. The uncomfortable apathetic feeling of adulthood.
No wonder we feel stressed out of our minds!
We are caught up in a system obsessed with short-term OUTPUT, with no focus on the long-term OUTCOME!
Well, this is all about to change, ’cause Mental Kung Fu means: “The way of turning debilitating belly-flops, into liberating cannon-balls!”
So, let’s go dip our feet!
*KA-SPLASH!*
From Digital Lobotomy
to
Vestigial Appendectomy
The Rigged
Demagogue-cracy
The only true influence you have on the world, is with your:
Money – You vote for more of what you pay for.
Attention – You vote for more of what you consume.
Actions – You vote for more of the good things you work for, but you also [inadvertently] work for more of the bad things, that you do not work against.
The thing is though: You can only vote for what ever options are presented to you.
And the presenter is only interested in one thing: Keeping you interested in furthering THEIR interests!
So they keep pounding your frail mind with bullshit, until you cave, and reluctantly go along with the lesser of your available evils, just to get the nagging to stop.
These conflicting interests compounds over time, and having your brain in an ever tightening vise, eventually leaves you with despise for “the system”, but no real place to go for solace, except for your vices.
All you need to know about the internet today, is that Google’s old credo of “Don’t be evil” has copped out to “Do the right thing”.
Well, for whom?
The thing is, that today, the string-pulling despots not only control both the supply-chain of the “disease” as well as the “cure”, they own the land where it is manufactured, as well as the investment opportunities needed to go into business of playing this game.
No matter what you do, you are paying them.
This is the world’s most pervasive and persuasive, hidden-in-plain-sight, rigged business-model and there is nothing you can do about it.
Or rather: No “THING”, you can do about it.
Because what you CAN do, is to start THIN-KING.
Thinking about how you can begin to use behavioral knowledge to YOUR advantage.
This is the purple pill that Mental Kung Fu offers.
Nothing more, nothing less.
A way to even out the playing field.
–Your way.
The price of admission, is YOUR DISENCHANTMENT for THEIR DISENFRANCHISEMENT.
What you pay, for becoming able to pay attention.
The price for the prize.
Is this a deal you are ready to make, with your Self?
Last Call Everywhere
=
Bad Calls By Everyone
You live in a world specifically designed without stopping cues, to make you forget time and place, so that you consume as much as possible at all times.
-They are even trying to make you sleep less!
Infinite-scrolling.
Auto-playing videos.
Auto-suggestion of new content.
Count-down timers to stress you out and force you to make hasty decisions, based on artificial scarcity.
Article-ception: Articles with adds inserted for other articles, sleight-of-handed inconspicuously inline within the first article.
Inundating notifications, for letting you know whenever someone have missed the bus, eaten a meal, or just simply having taken a breath, at the other side of the globe.
Irresistibly delicious “freshly baked” bake-off right at the register, to get your saliva glands going.
The most unhealthy items placed where you have to linger around, waiting in line, and how they leverage that 40-80% of all grocery shopping is semi-impulse shopping.
It’s all one big Möbius loop of: Feel-bad > Buy something to feel better > Feel bad about this decision > Repeat.
-In lieu of Prozac, Amazon will do!
It is like giving you Thor’s ale-horn, and then pointing the finger at YOU when you drink more than you should.
– There is just so much conflict-of-interest towards public health, that it truly makes the mind boggle.
Infinite content, leaves us infinitely dis-content!
You’ve been suckered-in, to preferring hyperbolic click-bait, over factual journalism.
You’ve been trained, to like quickness and quantity over conscientiousness and quality.
You’ve been taught, that for whatever problem you have, there is always something you can buy to fix it, that’ll also fold nicely under your bed as well.
You’ve been told, that endorsements and product-placement, personally recommended by your smiling idols, of consumables that harm you, which they don’t use themselves, is a-okay.
You’ve been shown, the before-and-after images of magical diets, from the same outlets that sells you chocolate cake recipes, gastric-bypasses and collagen-fillers, while telling you that “You are perfect just the way you are”.
Everything is designed to feel like one big happy-hour-frenzy, with the count-down clock always resetting just before it reaches midnight.
And we feel anything but “happy”.
Our ears are ringing with cognitive dissonance.
Our veins are pumping trans-fats and micro-plastics.
Our minds are stressed-and-strung-out, frantically grasping for whatever new Meme that can dull the notion of this Groundhog-grind, that is not going to change unless WE do something about it.
But you know something?
NOTHING is going to change, until SOMETHING changes.
Or rather, SOMEONE, changing their ways.
Prepping
For The
Shit-Storm
We’ve never been objectively better off as a race.
And we’ve never felt subjectively worse as an individual.
-Now, that should tell you something about the extent that your mind is being [skillfully/willfully] manipulated on a daily basis, and here are some [f]actual statistics.
Even scientific research is rigged against you, because studies is hardly ever made in fields where you cannot easily commoditize it immediately afterwards, because: Who would fund it?
Secondly, selling you a one-time cure, is much worse for business, than selling you a recurring prescription.
Prescription, subscription, potato, tomato.
If it doesn’t allow for monetizable over-the-counter-schemes, then you might as well forget about it, no matter how much it would benefit mankind.
But the catch-22 predicament doesn’t stop there.
Since most of our life-satisfaction is based off of the emotions derived from our ego’s eternal comparison fetish, no wonder we feel like shit, when it’s a multi-trillion-dollar-industry, trying to persuade us into believing that we will find happiness from bullshit posted on social media, just after the admission fee has been paid.
How will you find the ANSWERS YOU NEED, when YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO ASK THE WRONG QUESTIONS?
Your brain is very likely festering in a sort of chronic inflammation state, where all the external worries of imminent: AI-generated unemployment, climate armageddon, economic collapse, an always looming pandemic and all the globally available impending doom, from whatever crisis-of-the-week is being shovelled into your preferred channels, is consuming most of your mental bandwidth, leaving you with only the basic motor-skills for doom-scrolling…
Look.
In the old world, you could eventually find what you were looking for, and if you didn’t really know what you were longing for in the first place, no one could really be bothered to tell you what “IT” was, as they had more important shit to do.
You were pretty much left to your own devices.
Today, the situation is the diametric opposite, as everything is highly curated and personally adapted through you own [in]voluntary participation through your digital vices.
Never once have anyone ACTUALLY questioned WHY it is that YOU THINK THAT YOU WANT THE THINGS THAT YOU DO(?), as they are themselves far to busy with all their own bulshittery of: Self-improvement, Life-Hacking and becoming “Successful”.
Your mind has become the stray dog that is biting the very hand trying to help it, because of the addiction to the micro-transactive-world of instant-dopamine-gratification.
This internal state of hormonal disarray, coupled with an external state of dismay, is the perfect breeding-ground for: Stress, Depression and whatever trending initialism diagnosis, you can shake a stick at.
This inundation of information, keeps us catatonically trapped in perpetual “analysis-paralysis”, where all we can muster, is the same-shit-different-day frantic searching for our way out of the rat race, through whatever short-cut we can purchase with the fastest delivery option available.
-Okay, okay, a little dark perhaps, but tongue-in-cheek rhetorics travel poorly in writing, so heres a little smiley-face for ya : )
Well.
What if you could learn how to change all this?
Shedding this latent mother-of-all-evil comparison trait, and finally becoming okay with not being okay!
Can it even be done?
Well, let’s go see, shall we!?
Avoiding a BREAKDOWN
by
BREAKING [IT] DOWN
From Depressed
To
De-Stressed
Our sources of stress goes a much further than just the obvious ones.
Please humor me for a second:
Ever since you were born, and you took your first stroller ride through the supermarket-isles of the proverbial Mega-Mart, and your adorable little face smiled innocently up towards the whimsical cereal-box characters, designed to look down and make eye-contact with you, in order to establish a monetizable parasocial connection as early as possible, just to get you hooked on your own drug: Dopamine.
You’ve grown up in a society increasingly designed by behavioral psychologists and marketeers, altering your natural Modus Operandi from instinctive internal-reflection, towards commercialized autonomous purchase-based vivisection.
A society designed for you to voluntarily give up as many of your resources for MAKING THE ARCHITECTS RICHER, through willful and skillful emotional manipulation.
You maybe still recall the golden oldie of the “The script zombies” from 2018, that was shrugged off as a glitch in the Matrix, and quickly forgotten about through forced nervous laughter, but please be aware that this phenomenon of; ad hoc, ad hominem, ad nauseam, centralized information-control, is alive and doing very very well.
-Here’s a little humorous re-crap of how big the biased spiderweb was growing in size, at the time.
Just imagine where we stand today!
If you think that I’m coming on a little strong here, then perhaps this-just-in, piece of dystopian-hell-hole-news of epic proportions, regarding how close conglomerate grocery-chains are, to using their already installed facial-recognition cameras, to dynamically adapt their “surge price” scheme, based on which social class their algorithm estimate you belong to, in order to gouge you at the most extreme level, technically possible, will hopefully make you aware of how insane things have gotten.
In fact. While we’re at it. Let’s do a quick recap of Behavioral Psychology in advertising, shall we:
It really began taking off in the late 1920’s, when the Torches of freedom, were first lit, turning self-inflicted lung-cancer, into a personal statement about female independence.
All beautifully and maliciously orchestrated by psycho-analysts in cahoots with advertisers, cunningly turning fumes into feminism.
This ploy, was perhaps the finest example of blowing smoke up someones ass known to man, and that man, was no other than Sigmund Freud’s own nephew, who was the main architect behind it all, and he ended up becoming the father of Public Relations, that would come to shape the manipulative advertisement infected world, into what it is today.
You need only to make yourself aquatinted with how many things today that are known by a specific brand name, rather than their actual category-name, to get an inkling as to how unknowingly indoctrinated we all are.
All because someone has paid someone else, a lot of money, to make it so.
Just so that you pick their bullshit, over someone else’s.
We even have an entire holiday-season hijacked by a beverage company, selling brown fizzy sugar water, helping to spread the good ole merry “consume-and-be-happy” message of yesteryear.
I’m lovin’ it.
Aren’t you?
Look.
Your well-beings main Ad-versary, is the ease of which your Self can be manipulated.
The thing is though, that your Self can be fortified, through deliberately exposing yourself to cognitive trickery, methodically and regularly, until you grow numb and go from titillated to irritated.
Like a kind of reversed Pavlov’s dogs, experiment.
Losing your ability to salivate at someone else’s will, could end up being your salvation!
Why?
Because you’ve been gaslighted and programmed into constantly questioning everything about your worth as a human being, while been taught to seek external respite through monetary means, all the while true redemption awaits internally, hidden in plain [in]sight, ready to be instantly accessed at any given moment.
If you only learn how to allow your Self to do so.
Enter Mental Kung Fu!
-Not only is it freeing. It is totally free as well!
Mental Kung Fu, is reverse-engineered behavioral design, empowering you to use as many of your resources on MAKING YOURSELF FEEL BETTER!
So if you came here for advice, I’m afraid I only have one to give: STOP LOOKING FOR ADVICE!
The only thing Mental Kung Fu has to offer, is the Self insight as to where YOU can cut your own [digital] umbilical cord, with surgical precision!
[IT] all starts by transforming external-searching-in-disparity, into introspective-Self-exploration-with-clarity.
Sounds like bullshit?
Well of course!
You can only fight bullshit with even stronger bullshit, because this is what we have all been conditioned to look for.
Don’t you find it amazing, that with all the “smart” devices around us everywhere we go, they mainly get used for stupid shit that makes us dumber and more profitable.
The smarter our devices get, the dumber we become, as the need for retaining knowledge and maintaining mental skills, become more and more off-loaded to our off-putting digital face-huggers.
With an ever growing portion of our thinking, remembering and learning -abilities, being offloaded and delegated to our digital brain-parasites, we inadvertently leave our actual brains to live off of the nutrient-deficient remains, which are; ruminating worries, self-worth issues and chronic dissatisfaction, because these are the only thought-process left-overs and the ones being stirred by commercial interests, when sanity has all but evaporated.
We are literally condensing our Selves into becoming dense!
Just as physical automation has left us morbidly obese and in agonizing pain from our sedentary lifestyle, to the point where pharmaceutical companies are THE most valuable and influential on the planet, so will Artificial Intelligence Cuckoo its way into the last remnants of what used to make us happy stimulated humans, under the guise of “cheaper”, “more” and “faster”, which always ends up usurping what’s actually good for us.
So as long as you’re still here, do you want to do something about where we’re headed?
Then let’s go and have a look-see where the path from your past, point towards, what kind of survival-kit that’s packed into your nap-sack and whether you have the correct corrective compensative measures in place, or if you have set your Self up, to perpetually loop about in life’s grinding wheel of misfortune?
Let’s go talk to the manager:
Your SELF!
Going from OBEY to OKAY
by
REJECTING LEMONADE
and
ACCEPTING LEMON-AID
Sour Aftertaste
We’ll believe anything, as long as it agrees with us, no matter where we’ve Reddit, because we’ve all become the poster-children of posing!
By now, we all been stuck in our own little Stockholm-Syndromes within our SoMe Apps for so long, that we’re too embarrassed to admit that we married our rapist.
We are now in the final stages of this abusive relationship, trying to keep up appearances through the joined efforts of the cognitive bias of sunken cost, and the defective reasoning that “But everyone else is doing it, DUH!“.
We survive by putting increasingly heavier reality-distorting filters on our posts, so as to hide our hideous humanity from our neighbors, doing the same.
They’ve literally weaponized your own Self to be become self-destructive against your own self-interests.
How?
Simple:
That what approves and praises us, compliments and agrees with us, what makes us feel special and superior in any way, are tapping right into our narcissistic Self’s bloated Self-image, and affirmations is one of the best ways to make us do something we wouldn’t have done otherwise.
They tell you that you look like a winner, and in the winners clubhouse we all use “X”, so you can’t really be a winner if YOU do not use “X” right?
-Come on now, all the cool kids are dong it, you don’t wanna be left out, right?!
Like it or not:
You’ve been raised by media-moguls, producing entertainment skillfully designed to create conflict, drama and artificial desires, for which they conveniently happen to sell “the fix” for as well.
The main purpose of marketeers has always been to squeeze the lemon [into your eyes] as much as possible, making you feel inadequate, insufficient and insecure about yourself, so that they can then sell you their ego-boosting upgrade-lemonade, through product-placement and celebrity endorsements. Hooking you, to perpetual-upgrading from early infancy, through never-ending and ever-shortening fashion-cycles, artificially created scarcity, planned obsolescence and lack of repairability.
An influenza of Influencers peddling affluence.
United against you. Forever chanting the ancient song of finding meaning in life, through chasing new and better tails…
A life where the promise of salvation lies forever just behind the next step up the ladder, your next purchase, next increase in level, the next paywall or your next upgrade, be it physically or mentally.
A big market, where you my friend, are the product, and the ladder has been bent into a hamster-wheel, connected to the lemon squeezer itself!
-Please take comfort in knowing, that this isn’t some grand evil conspiracy. It’s simply the to-be-expected outcome of the “one-upmanship” behavior fostered by the game of “doing business”.
“Feel like shit?
Well, just buy this new crap already!”
Nearly every aspect of your life have been meticulously crafted with the sole intent to manipulate your behavior and extract as many of your resources as possible, be it money, time or attention.
Online or offline.
Physically, mentally or spiritually.
-They tear you down, so that you become willing to pay for building their mansions.
If you feel stressed, depressed, depleted or have anxiety, then don’t worry. The “system” is working exactly as intended!
But here’s the thing: If you stop drinking the lemonade, the lemonade-stands eventually runs themselves out of business!
-Mental Kung Fu is your aide in this raid!
INFATUATION With
External VALIDATION
Gives Us
Internal DESPERATION
FEEL Better
Giving in to our emotions, is THE most overwhelmingly intoxicating sensation there is.
Therefore we need to become wary as to WHAT emotions we allow to seduce us,
because the stronger the urge, the stronger the hangover!
Feeding too much from our instinctive desires,
is often leaving us as chronically recovering emotional alcoholics,
forever chasing uppers that leaves us feeling ever more down…
So.
How do we go about solving this catch-22,
since restrain is a total pain?
Well. It all starts with:
Becoming aware of
where you can help your Self,
the most, the fastest,
with the least amount of effort.
Now.
There are two ways to go about it.
Either you focus on:
Reducing negative influences.
or
Increasing positive influences.
You figure out what is right for you, by asking:
WHAT
is in control of
YOUR behavior?
YOURSELF
or
SOMETHING ELSE?
What is [IT] for you?
When you find the clue,
you become aware of where to apply
Mental Kung Fu!
But hold your horses for a second,
because now comes the most important part.
The part where you have failed innumerable times before.
The part where you should have taken a deep breath
and asked yourself the following:
ARE YOU FINALLY READY TO QUIT
THE THING
THAT IS MAKING YOU FEEL LIKE SHIT?
Because if you are not,
not only are you wasting your time.
You are literally setting your Self up for failure
and yet another opportunity
to lose hope.
Simply having the knowledge of where to act
is way less important
than the energy and ability to carry through.
INDUCING
your INSIGHT and SKILL
REDUCES
your DEPENDENCY on WILL!
WTF Is Mental Kung Fu?
Put shortly: It’s science, bitch!
Or rather:
Systemic Common Sense, based on empirical evidence, gathered through peer-reviewed meta-analysed studies, from accredited sources, then gradually tested on ourselves, and finally building on what works and discarding what doesn’t.
Elaborated, Mental Kung Fu, is Self-insight-based Bio-Psycho-Social behavioral design.
-De-constructed, re-purposed and re-imagined into an altruistic, reciprocal systematic approach for engaging with your Self, and the ones around you, in the most mutually beneficial way possible.
It is the internal Self-antidote to what is being continuously done to you externally.
-Whether it will turn out to be “DOH!” or “DOPE!”, is entirely up to you!
[IT] operates within the realms of: Stress, Work and Lifestyle, designed to create lasting behavioral changes where they make the largest possible impact, while using the least amount of energy.
-To be perfectly honest and get down to brass tax, it’s basically just about asking your Self, little fun self-caring questions in the relevant situations.
Formulating the “Core”-questions themselves, are inspired by Socratic reasoning, and follow a very simple recipe:
Is [IT] true?
-Based on empirical evidence and your own learned experience: What is the root of what you are trying to achieve?
Is [IT] kind?
-Is the outcome of your actions benevolent?
Is [IT] helpful?
-Will the outcome of your actions benefit others as well as your Self?
If all three parameters are fulfilled, you take immediate action on the answer to the “core” question, in the simplest and most accessible way possible.
Now that doesn’t sound too encumbering right?
Through [re]learning how to properly feel and listen inwards and asking your Self the right questions at the right times, will you find the right answers FOR YOU!
Introspection through interoception and reflection!
The basis for any successful and lasting behavioral change, is the energy to maintain it in the long run.
Without energy and surplus mental capacity, the old habits slowly overtake again.
Therefore, the primary focus in Mental Kung Fu lies in creating the foundational bedrock, necessary for the remaining building process to not end up in vain. Again.
The foundation is to create Dynamic Equilibrium.
Without a steady supply of mental and physical capability, you quickly end up incapacitated as the grind inevitably takes over.
You not only get functional tools. You learn how to create the foundry where you can forge your very own!
Spoiler alert: There are no shortcuts in life!
The only true shortcut, lies in realizing that the sooner you stop wasting time on chasing quick-fixes and life-hacks, and instead focus all of your energy on what you already know needs to be done, the faster you’ll start making sustainable progress.
Because, let’s be brutally honest here: You already know exactly WHAT needs to be done.
You just need to take a deep breath and stop kidding yourself into believing that it takes some form of future “thing” for you to be able to do [IT].
This is the path away from the rails of self-depletion, and onto the trail of self-completion!
Your biggest obstacle though, is what you think you already know, because so much is based off of other peoples’ experiences and advice.
In order for you to truly learn for yourself, you need to become genuinely curious and open-minded as you once was naturally, because you see, It is impossible to learn what you already think you know, because your questions won’t be genuinely curious, but instead rhetorical, and therefore detached.
You learn the most impactful way, by activating your emotions and through stimulating YOUR key senses.
So through discovering YOUR UNIQUE learning formula, you can maximize your skills in the most fun and invigorating ways possible!
Read more about how Mental Kung Fu can break the behavioral loop both Personally and Professionally through experimentation, by clicking the buttons below.
You can also continue and learn more about how exactly the approach works.
Take control over
WHAT YOU NEED
Stop being controlled by
WHAT DEPLETES
How Does
Mental Kung Fu Work?
Don’t worry, Mental Kung Fu is not some abstract esoteric new-age nonsense. It’s quite the opposite actually, as you cannot just combat bullshit with more bullshit, [IT] also has to be BETTER bullshit!
Therefore, Mental Kung Fu is designed to be an ultra effective systematic and systemic approach for achieving lasting behavioral changes, through taking advantage of all the most optimum resources within the fields of: Physiology, Psychology and Philosophy, WHEREVER THEY ARE MOST RELEVANT TO YOUR SITUATION.
We use anything from: Meta-cognition, “LEAN”-philosophy, Nudging-Theory, Dynamic Iteration through Agile principles, Stoicism, Taoistic-cultivation and Protreptic-reasoning, as well as the newest evidence based knowledge within The 5 S’es: Stress, Sleep, Strength, Suffering and Sustenance.
-Heck, we’ll even use the good ol’ “Rubber-And-Glue” technique if the situation calls for it!
If it all sounds like a big mouthful, it really isn’t, because you knew all these things instinctively as a child. It has just gotten lost through years of mistranslation and over interpretation.
You come pre-loaded with all these instincts from the factory, you just need to find your way back, in order to re-enable to them.
Becoming aware of what you are missing, is the first step towards finding it!
Therefore, Mental Kung Fu is: Dogma-agnostic, situational-specific, aptitude-over-attitude and completely unbothered with looking cool or being perceived as either low-brow or esoteric.
It is neither and both, and If [IT] works, whatever the concept may be, then goddammit, we’ll use [IT]!
It may sound complicated, but it really isn’t.
Mental Kung Fu is simply a dynamic utilitarian approach to real life situational-specific problem-solving, based on what works for YOU, with the resources available in any given time or place.
Instead of being married to one simple “End-All-Be-All” solution, and then ham-fistedly trying to approach everything through this one-sided approach, we learn to acquire the exact skill required for any given task, without becoming bogged down with all the superfluous stuff that isn’t applicable to our circumstances.
In other words: Instead of stubbornly pursuing “One-solution-fits-none”, we instead practice “Optimum-solution-through-fun!“, because the more natural something is for you, the higher your long-term probabilities for success will be!
You see, it is all about dynamically matching you attributes, to the challenges that you face, through skillfully selecting the best actions for your reality, and then adapting and replacing them as they become worn out and newer and better ones come along.
Many examples will be presented throughout, but it is the accumulation of “AHA!” MOMENTS gathered from YOUR OWN INTERNAL QUESTIONING that will help you figure out YOUR OWN SOLUTIONS.
Such as these:
Have you ever noticed how many of your PROBLEMS are caused by you saying “YES” too soon, and “NO” too late?
-And how many OPPORTUNITIES you MISS through the OPPOSITE approach?
Do you let criticism get to you, from people you wouldn’t even take advice from?
-Or do you let yourself BECOME INCAPACITATED by overwhelmedness, FROM WHAT YOU IMAGINE OTHERS EXPECT FROM YOU?
Is your life, a long line of goals, which upon completion, simply gets replaced with more-of-the-same-but-better, because this is what you have grown accustomed to, instead of embarking on what you’d REALLY like to do?
-Why do you pursue GOALS, whose PROCESS SEEM LIKE A GRIND, instead of others, which could be an OPPORTUNITY for FEELING MORE ALIVE?
Well?… Did I guess some of them correctly?
This we can work on!
It all starts with CHALLENGING WHAT YOU [THINK] YOU WANT and [RE]DISCOVERING WHAT YOU [ACTUALLY] NEED.
You can start right now by asking yourself the following question:
Does your BEHAVIOR
bring you CLOSER TO
or FURTHER AWAY
from YOUR GOALS?
Mastering Rubs Off
There are two ways to prevent injuries:
1) Avoid danger
2) Learning how to protect yourself
A little analogy:
Imagine that you have to walk a tightrope and that you are scared of falling and getting hurt.
Because of your fear, you use all of your attention on your feet and you do not see a bird passing close by.
The bird end up scaring you, and you lose your balance and fall.
All your attention was spent on not trying to fall, and you therefore lost your situational awareness on what you were actually trying to accomplish: Making it to the other side.
So.
Now imagine the exact same scenario, but no, you haven’t practiced on walking a tightrope. Instead, you have trained in falling without becoming injured, therefore your fear of falling, no longer controls your behavior.
NOW you can focus on what it’s actually about, because you practiced on mastering the cause that was holding you back, instead of focusing on the symptom that you wanted to avoid.
This way, you become able to evade the inevitable, and this skill is applicable EVERYWHERE, instead of only practicing tightrope-walking itself.
You become okay with any outcome because you feel equipped to handle it.
As opposed to feeling indifferent, because you’ve lost the will to give a shit.
See the difference?!
By loosening up and stopping with being so self-destructively uptight and through cutting our Self some slack, [IT] not only gets easier, it also gets MORE FUN!
In many parts our life, our preemptive fear of fa[i]ling, is actually what causes us to fail in the end.
Either from over-analysis-paralysis, or lack of experience in handling uncomfortable situations, due to an overprotective fear-avoidance response.
Short-term protection without reflexion, can easily lead to long-term subjection!
What if you could learn how to avoid the need for avoiding things in the first place?
–Perhaps you wouldn’t feel like coming in, last place so much?
We could coin this new state-of-mind, the bullshit-name: “Relaxed Vigilance”.
-Or, you know, whatever . The name is not important, but the SENSING is!
So in lieu of a Sensei, we strive to be a Sense-er instead!
LOSING BALANCE
is a
FACT OF LIFE
What is
YOUR STRATEGY
when it happens?
Imbalance
=
Overbalance
Life is about balance and contrast:
If we get too far off balance to one side, we then need to compensate opposingly with equal force, to regain our equilibrium, and if life is too boring, we yearn for challenge and new experiences.
We strive for the polar opposites for fun, but depend on the equilibrium if we want to last in the long run!
In order to be happy as often as possible, we need manageable fluctuations that gently challenge our comfort zone, without pushing our boundaries uncomfortably.
In other words, we naturally strive for “Dynamic Equilibrium“.
Please be very aware that “happy” is an extremely time-limited emotion, but “satisfied” can last for as long as you please.
It solely depends on your skill to stop cognitively comparing your experience, and to start intuitively caring.
It’s not a coincidence that the commercial forces has you chasing the illusive high of “happiness”, because it is by nature, periodic.
This is how, they turn your pursuit into a constant, because you cannot sell anything to someone who is content!
Problems begin to arise when “there is a hole in one of the libra scale sides”, because then no matter how much we fill it up, it will always feel empty, and the scale will tip over as soon as we stop actively fighting against the leak, and no one can endure having to fight constantly.
We therefore need to explore the root cause of this “hole” and confront it.
Only through this, can we absolve ourselves of the hopeless task of filling a bottomless need, and we get to do it compassionately, and at a time of our own choosing, instead of being confronted at a time where it is the most inconvenient.
My own experience is that when you go deep enough, you’ll find that this “hole” is totally imaginary!
You see, all the confusement about “life” stems from our problem-solving brain trying to make everything into a problem for it to solve.
Your ancient brain is figuratively a an outdated hammer, trying to turn screws into nails, so that it can be of use and handle [IT].
No wonder that this behavior leaves us screwed!
Mental Kung Fu therefore gives you the desperately needed screwdriver.
-Both the tool as well as the drink!
So get off the squeaky decomposing see-saw of your old lifestyle and go “Yeee-Haw”, cause shit’s about to get real!
Behavior
created by IMBALANCE
INCARCERATES
Behavior
created by BALANCE
LIBERATES
Break The Loop
The sum of all vices are always constant.
HAVE YOU CHOSEN YOUR VICES, OR HAVE THEY CHOSEN YOU?
“Bad habits” are basically just something that gives a short-term positive sensation, in exchange for a long-term negative consequence.
-Instant pay-out vs. compound interest, if you will.
However, we can’t just remove a “bad habit” without consequences.
Therefore, we need to work on replacing it with a new habit that yields a similar sensation/emotion, but without as negative consequences:
It’s better to sniff cocaine on the weekends, than doing intravenous heroin every day.
It’s better to be an alcoholic, than being a meth-head.
It’s better to be a caffeine addict, than being a nicotine addict.
It’s better to eat too many calories, than eating too little nutrition.
It’s better to let out som steam every now and then, than to EXPLODE from time to time.
Habits are a ladder.
Which rung satisfies you currently, depends entirely on your history and your immediate situation, and very little on anything else.
So if you want to make a change for the better, you better be prepared to stock up on some surplus energy, mental bandwidth and moral fibre, because de-escalating down a rung (and staying there), is ten times harder than escalating upwards.
Your situation, is an invisible escalator, autonomously carrying you upwards, unless you actively move backwards.
So if you want to change your behavior with skill, instead of will, you do this by looking for the CAUSE of our habitual behavior, in order to see what we can do WITH IT instead of AGAINST IT, because the current habit satisfies a fundamental need which needs to be accounted for if you want LASTING SUCCESS.
If we only fight OUR SYMPTOMS, then THE CAUSE will continue to WEAR US DOWN throughout our life.
Have you CHOSEN
your current situation?
Or have you merely
ACCEPTED it?
Easy Solutions
=
Hard Life
If you eat inappropriately because of stress or negative emotions, then the best diet-plan in the world will not be the solution, but only serve to give you yet another reason to hit yourself over the head.
If you lack energy, have headaches or poor sleep, then magical supplements, painkillers, sugar, caffeine or alcohol, will not help you in the long run, but only serve to make the problem worse.
If you use your phone as a distraction for just 2 hours a day, it compounds into nearly 20 work-weeks a year that you lose of your life!
What we experience as PROBLEMS
are only the SYMPTOMS
To BREAK our BEHAVIOR-LOOP
we need
A DIFFERENT STATE-OF-MIND
than what CREATED IT
Mental Kung Fu
=
Master Over Bullshit
Have you ever noticed how many of your recurring troubles, that are just Self-made distractions, manifested to deter you from dealing with your actual problems?
A way of setting your Self up for cheap short term victories, at the expense of feeling like a life long failure?
-All this, due to a billion-dollar industry, that makes its living from selling training-wheels, with ever more fancy rims and trimmings
If you had stopped riding your bicycle after the third time you fell, you’d never have mastered it.
If you’d never jumped into the water the first time, you’d never had learned to swim, because you cannot learn how to swim from reading a book or by practicing safely on the shore.
You need to get your feet wet!
If you have something that you feel that you are incapable off, it is very likely because you just haven’t found YOUR OWN WAY of doing it yet!
-Most likely because you’ve been listening to the people telling you are doing [IT] wrong, so you will buy [into] THEIR solution.
Regardless of whether you want to get into better shape so you can play with the kids or reduce pain, or if you want to become better at putting away your work and spend more time with your family, or perhaps get rid of your procrastinative behavior, THERE IS A WAY FORWARD FOR YOU!
The way, is to accept and BECOME OKAY WITH THE FACT THAT WE INADVERTENTLY GET IN OUR OWN WAY when we loose our self-insight because of a lack of energy.
Realizing this, we now know that we need to locate our energy-drains and either clog or flush them.
For good!
The amusing thing is, that it’s very seldom a lack of knowledge that is holding us back.
Often, it is our inherent search of shortcuts that keeps leading us astray.
-All the easy routes that I know of, are just shortcuts to detours!
Because if you really listen inwards, you realize that you already know the answer to the questions you keep postponing, and it is exactly these questions you learn how to ask, and at the appropriate time!
[IT] is not about looking for what YOU LIKE TO HEAR.
-This changes NOTHING.
[IT] is all about listening after what YOU NEED TO REALIZE.
-This changes EVERYTHING!
So.
If you’re tired of being stuck in a loop and feel ready to try something TOTALLY NEW, then Mental Kung Fu is HERE TO HELP YOU!
It won’t be easy though.
-Dark truths hits a lot harder than white lies!
But come on.
Honestly: Nothing worthwhile in life is easy, right?
However, it will be the last time that you’ll have to deal with it, because when you find what you actually need, it will no longer be a question of who can stop you, but rather:
WHO’S GONNA HOLD YOU BACK?!
A HABIT is a friend
that SOOTHES your ANXIETY
An UNWANTED HABIT
is a friend that does it
SELF-DESTRUCTIVELY
The greatest satisfaction comes from the greatest sense of relief.
Since catabolic stress hormones are as intoxicating and addictive as drugs, their anabolic counter-hormones therefore seem even more soothing, as they flood your system to “save you”.
Over time, you inadvertently become addicted to stress, in chasing the highs to dull your lows.
Furthermore, on a non-conscious level, you begin to form behavior patterns of autonomic Self sabotage, in order to keep you in harms way to ensure a steady supply of Self-made dope[amine], by thrusting you into situations of firefighting, in order to insure your Self its fix, of feeling like a hero, for saving you from yet another preventable incandescent incident, of frivolous-fire-FIGHTING.
Therefore, the best counter-measure to the phenomenon of “Self-induced Münchausen-by-proxy”, is the lost art of skillful fire PREVENTION!
Are you ready
to make some new friends?
“I DIDN’T PUT YOU IN A PRISON.
I JUST SHOWED YOU THE BARS…”
-Alan Moore – V for Vendetta
(Loosely paraphrased)
Join The Bowl-Movement!
Now, if you are getting slightly cult-ish vibes, then fear not!
You’d might say that I’m trying to start a movement for people who thinks movements are for idiots, and you wouldn’t be totally wrong here.
Many movements are circular, but this movement is more like “u-shaped”, because we’re starting at rock-bottom, individually choosing which side to claw our way up from.
You know, like a bowl!
-We’re fighting against centuries of bullshit, so perhaps it’s quite a bulls-eye description actually, ay?
Only, in this movement, we’d never really meet up, ‘cause let’s face it:
Too many people together always makes matters worse.
So, this would be more kinda like a “working-from-home-movement”, where productivity is much higher, as we’re not getting bothered by inane chatter from colleagues and stroke-inducing meetings all of the time!
You can be part of this static movement in your jammies from the comfort of your couch!
So, all in all, pretty kewl and unintimidating, eh?
-Your pet is even welcome!
We don’t have newsletters, “life-hack-of-the-week” or any other bothersome spam-info-crap, bloating up your already swollen mind.
With Mental Kung Fu, you get the most precious gift of all:
The gift of being left the fuck alone, to mind your own god damn business, because you are a self-thinking adult!
-Advert-free too!
So, go grab your favorite snacks and your beverage of choice, tuck-in and crack your knuckles, ’cause you are just about to embark on the amazing adventure of: We-Won’t-Take-Any-More-Bull-Shido!
HAAIIIYYYAAA!!!