From Apathy
To Sanity
Through applied philosophy
-with tongue in cheek : )
From Apathy
Mental Kung Fu...
-Seriously?!
YES!
-Well, kinda.
IF YOU FEEL MENTALLY CONSTIPATED, THEN MENTAL KUNG FU IS YOUR RE-LAXATIVE!
It is designed to help you, wean your-SELF off the self-help bullshit wagon, that keeps veering you into a dead end!
[IT] helps you reduce stress, by teaching you how to embrace your inner mess, instead of fighting it under duress.
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.
[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 NOT 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!
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.
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.
“Then why the wall of text?!” -you ask.
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.
This has now been done for so long 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!
Therefore, Mental Kung Fu is a crash-course into Self-mastery, 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.
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!
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!).
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 ones 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. 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
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.
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’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, and with 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.
So as long as you’re still here.
Shall we go and see where the path from your past, point towards, 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
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?
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.
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!
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?
“Mental Kung Fu” translates to: “Mental Skill Master“, and don’t worry, it’s not some abstract esoteric new-age nonsense.
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, Stoic-philosophy, Taoistic-cultivation and Protreptic-dialogue, 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!
Mental Kung Fu is: Dogma-agnostic, situational-specific and completely unbothered with looking cool or being perceived as either low-brow or esoteric.
It is neither and both, and If [IT] works, then goddammit, we’ll use [IT]!
It may sound fancy 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.
Makes sense?
By loosening up and stop being so self-destructively uptight and cutting our Self som 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?
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 poles 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
“Bad habits” are basically just something that gives a short-term positive emotion, in exchange for a long-term negative consequence.
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 emotion, but without the negative consequence.
We do this by looking for the CAUSE of our habitual behavior, in order to see what we can do WITH IT inserted of AGAINST IT, because the 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
Are you ready to make some new friends?
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!!!