In Feng Shui, your family of origin is your 'ancestral estate.' If your parents didn't pave the way or teach you survival skills, it’s like they gave you an 'energy-leaking' or 'barren' plot. In such soil, sprouting late and growing slowly is basic physics. Now they stand in the mud and judge you for not growing as fast as those in 'fertile estates.' In Feng Shui, this is called 'Yin energy suffocating Yang' (a toxic field stunting a good seed). The solution is simple: 'Move out.' Since the ancestral Feng Shui doesn't nourish you, mentally and physically 'sever the tie.' Don't demand a harvest from barren land; go out, find your own dragon vein, and build an 'energy-gathering layout' that actually works for you.
I am once again reminding you that getting artificial dopamine hits inside non-stop all day is frying your chimp brain more than you dare to imagine.
They can literally cook your entire life.
Heck, in general, if you are depressed, unmotivated, lazy, and even don’t enjoy life much immediately cut out all artificial dopamine hits and go outside.
You might laugh at this initially but give it 3 weeks and you will never look at social media the same.
It’s basic science.
D2 receptors, for example, are susceptible to downregulation from overstimulation, artificial blue light is shown to lead to a 30% reduction of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons in the substantia nigra in many animal models etc.
So you can not live an overstimulating life indoors and wonder why you don’t derive pleasure from anything natural or why you're not driven to create something.
i feel very obligated to let all the nerds know that there is a free game like geoguesser where you guess the location of origin and time period for art and historical artifacts. really high level:
Once you start noticing a receding hairline at the earliest stage, get castor oil and rosemary oil. Mix 15 drops of castor oil with 1 drop of rosemary oil in your palm, then massage it into your scalp consistently. It will save you from breaking the bank trying to restore your hairline later.
I've restored my hairline twice. My dad was already bald at an age younger than I am now, yet my hair is full and my hairline is sharp.
For a proper scalp massage tutorial, search for Austin Goh's scalp massage video on YouTube.
You're welcome.
If you actually want to change your life as fast as possible, this is the single most effective thing you can do, and you only need 10 to 30 minutes a day for it, ideally first thing in the morning the second you open your eyes, or at night the moment you get in bed before you fall asleep, because in both windows your brain is already drifting toward the exact state you want, it's halfway in trance on its own, that's when imagery actually sinks in instead of bouncing off.
Find a place where you won't be interrupted, lie flat on your back or sit in a chair with your back fully supported and your hands resting open, don't cross your legs or arms because crossing keeps tension in the body, close your eyes.
Start with the breath, in through your nose for four counts, hold for two, out through your mouth slowly for six to eight counts, do this for two or three minutes until your body starts feeling heavier.
Then move into the body scan, focus on your toes and silently tell them to relax and soften, then your feet, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, hips, lower back, stomach, chest, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, neck, jaw, face, eyes, forehead, and the top of your head, take your time, you're not trying to force anything, you're just lowering internal noise.
To go deeper, count backwards from 10 to 1 slowly, telling yourself with each number that you're going twice as deep, "ten, going deeper, nine, twice as deep, eight, even deeper still," and visualize something descending in your mind, a staircase you're walking down, an elevator going floor by floor, sinking through warm water, the image doesn't matter, what matters is the feeling of going down.
When you reach one you should feel a kind of stillness, your body heavy or strangely weightless, your thoughts slower and further apart, this is the working state.
Now pick one specific scene, not an abstract goal but a moment you can step into mentally.
If it's health, don't think "I want to be healthy," see yourself moving through a normal day with physical ease, walking without effort, breathing clearly, your body light and responsive.
If it's confidence, see yourself in a real situation where you'd normally hesitate, but now you speak steady and direct, things unfold without internal resistance.
If it's discipline, see yourself already inside the routine, doing the work without negotiation as if it's simply what you do.
Always stay in first person, through your own eyes, what's directly in front of you, the texture of the environment, the light in the space, then sound, voices in the room, the rhythm of your breathing, then physical sensation, the weight of your body, temperature on the skin, the way you occupy space when you're not resisting yourself.
Don't force excitement, allow the quieter states to appear, relief that things are simple, a sense of "this is already how I operate," a quiet internal stability that doesn't need justification, you're not building a fantasy, you're rehearsing familiarity.
Repeat the scene at least ten times, see the picture each time, feel the feeling each time, then sit in that state for a few minutes doing nothing and let it soak in.
To come back, count up from 1 to 5, telling yourself with each number that you're becoming more aware, "one, coming back, two, feeling lighter, three, more awake, four, fully present, five, eyes open," wiggle your fingers and toes, take a deep breath, sit up slowly.
The most important rule is don't try to force it, the harder you grip "I have to get into trance" the more your beta brain stays online and blocks it, treat it like falling asleep, you can only set the conditions and let it happen.
Don't judge the session either, some days you'll go deep and some days you'll barely drop in, both still work because repetition is what burns the new pattern in, do it daily for three to four weeks before deciding if it's working.
If you spend a lot of time building hypothetical scenarios in your mind, you are effectively trapped inside your own head. This preference for ideas over reality often arises because the mental plane offers absolute safety, it eliminates the risk of rejection, failure, or outside judgment.
By simulating entire situations in private, your mind becomes a self-imposed confinement where temporary satisfaction replaces real action, which explains why the completion of your goals ends up being successively postponed to a distant future that never materializes.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.