Jibher

[Electra @Electrarythm]

If you want a deeper understanding of your unconscious habits and how to break free from them, try this exercise daily.

Backwards Review Exercise

Rudolf Steiner, widely considered one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, recommended mentally reviewing the events of your day in reverse order, starting from the present moment and moving back to the beginning of the day.

At the end of the day, sit quietly and mentally go back through everything that happened. Try to remember conversations, reactions, emotions, movements, and small details as clearly as possible. Some people do it before sleep, others in the morning so they stay more awake during the exercise.

A useful way to do it is backwards. Start from the present moment and move step by step toward the beginning of the day. This requires more attention because the mind cannot rely on automatic memory flow.

One of the most interesting parts of the exercise is seeing how the mind reacts to certain experiences. Small events often stay in our thoughts for hours without us understanding why. Someone says something irritating, looks at us a certain way, or reacts unexpectedly, and the moment keeps replaying in the mind long afterward.

Later, while reviewing the day calmly, it becomes easier to see what actually caused the reaction.

Usually it is not only the event itself, but identification with some image, expectation, insecurity, or habit.

For example, imagine making a joke you personally find harmless, but the other person becomes offended. Even after apologizing, the interaction keeps replaying in your head. During the review you may suddenly realize the discomfort came from wanting approval or from disliking being misunderstood. Without reflection, these patterns usually remain unconscious.

This exercise slowly reveals how mechanical many reactions are. You begin noticing recurring emotional patterns, roles you play, and thoughts that repeat automatically. Some people discover they are constantly trying to appear intelligent, helpful, spiritual, funny, or important without realizing it. The moment that image is threatened, emotion appears immediately.

Neville Goddard later expanded on a similar idea through what he called revision.

While mentally replaying the day, if you come across an unpleasant event, you consciously reimagine it the way you would have preferred it to happen. Instead of reliving the event exactly as it occurred, you replace it in imagination with the desired version and fully experience it that way.

At first many people think revision means making reality only slightly better. But the idea is to imagine the experience exactly as you wanted it to happen, not just a small improvement of the original event.

The most difficult part of all these exercises is keeping attention from wandering. The mind naturally moves from one association to another automatically. You begin reviewing your day and suddenly find yourself thinking about something completely unrelated.

The practice makes it very clear how little control most people actually have over their own thinking.

With consistency, however, memory improves, concentration becomes stronger, and awareness of yourself deepens naturally.

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Spend around 10–30 minutes a day visualizing a version of yourself that you are deliberately trying to build. Do it when your mind is already calm, especially in the evening or just before sleep, because the mind accepts imagery more easily when it is not being pulled in different directions.

The basic idea is simple. The brain treats repeated internal experience as something important. When a certain kind of situation is lived again and again in imagination, with enough detail and emotional weight, it starts to lose its “imagined” quality and becomes something your mind recognizes as familiar territory.

And what becomes familiar stops feeling impossible.

Old patterns weaken in this process not because you fight them directly, but because you stop feeding them the same mental rehearsal. At the same time, new patterns begin to stabilize because they are being repeatedly experienced internally before they ever exist externally.

Start by settling your body. Slow breathing. Less tension in the face, shoulders, stomach. You are not trying to force anything, you are just lowering internal noise.

Then choose one specific scene. Not an abstract goal. A moment. Something you can step into mentally.

If it is health, do not think “I want to be healthy,” instead see yourself moving through a normal day with physical ease, walking without effort, breathing clearly, feeling your body light and responsive.

If it is confidence or success, see yourself in a real situation where you would normally hesitate, but now you speak without that hesitation, you are steady, direct, and things unfold without internal resistance.

If it is discipline, see yourself already inside the routine, doing the work without negotiation, as if it is simply what you do.

Always stay in first person. Through your own eyes.

What is directly in front of you. What is under your feet. The texture of the environment. The light in the space. The small details your attention would normally skip.

Then sound. The way voices actually enter the space. The rhythm of your breathing. Any background noise that belongs to that environment.

Then physical sensation. The weight of your body. Temperature on the skin. The sense of movement. The way you occupy space when you are not resisting yourself.

Emotionally, you are not trying to force excitement. You are allowing a quieter set of states to appear. Relief that things are simple. A sense of “this is already how I operate.” A quiet internal stability that does not need justification.

You are not building a fantasy. You are rehearsing familiarity.

At the end, stop adding detail and just remain in the general felt sense of it for a short moment, as if your mind has already accepted it as normal.

Let that feeling continue lightly as you move into the rest of your day.

Repeat it often enough that the scene stops feeling like something you are trying to reach, and starts feeling like something your mind already knows how to do.

[Taste of Cinema @davidcinema]

The 100 Most Profound Movies of All Time

[Adrian F. Pascal 🇻🇦 @deusimpera]

“Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”  

— St. Francis de Sales

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

If you want to change your life and you say im trying, you have lost. God never blessed trying, he blessed going. Abraham did not try to leave his home, he got up and left. Noah did not try to build the ark, he built it. every man in Gods book either obeyed or did not, there is no third option. you are either on the path or on the ground. stop saying im trying, God is hearing you, and he does not reward that word

[Modern Dad @ModernxDad]

She just explained men in the best way possible

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Everything around me is rotting, so i build. that is it, that is the whole reason. God built six days and rested one. he could have stopped at function, he could have given us eyes that only see useful things, but he made color. he made sunsets. he made the shape of a woman's back. he made the sound of rain hitting a dirt road at night. beauty was not an afterthought, it was the first thought, everything else came after. i build because the world is falling apart, and a man who does not build is just watching a fire. i lay bricks straight, i put flowers where nobody will see them, i sand wood until the grain is smooth enough to hold without a glove. these are prayers. and the man who says beauty does not matter has never built anything, he has only consumed, and consumption leaves you hollow. everyone i know who only takes has the same eyes, empty, always hungry, looking for the next thing to swallow. hold a hammer instead. hold wood. hold stone. make something that does not need you to survive, and then walk away from it, and feel what that is. that is the closest i have ever got to being alive, and i am not giving it back.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.

[Aporia @0xaporia]

Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. That’s for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!

[Jibher @Jibher1]

@zitounaille Une astuce qui fonctionne pour moi, c'est d'aller flâner dans une librairie ou une bibliothèque, de regarder les couvertures, de lire les 4e de couvertures, les premières pages et de s'imprégner de l'ambiance. Les recommandations du personnel sur place peuvent aider aussi.

[Katyayani Shukla @aibytekat]

He literally explained why practicing art grows your soul—not your status.

[Academy of Ideas @academyofideas]

Nietzsche - "Whoever wants to achieve something great must not seek to satisfy or please anyone but himself in his work..."

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[Jono Read @jonoread]

Those #WinterOlympics titles on the BBC? Not CGI, not AI.
700+ physical props. Real fire and models. Stop-motion footage, frame by frame 🔥

[Self Upgrade @selfupgrade222]

THINGS TO TELL YOURSELF EVERY DAY:

1. I am the best.
2. I can do anything.
3. My future is bright.
4. I am getting better each day.
5. I will work hard.
6. No excuses.
7. Life is precious.
8. I was born to do great things.
9. People's opinions don't affect me.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

kind of crazy how being given one of these books as a boy growing up basically guarantees youll turn out smart and technically proficient in a variety of fields

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

The most fascinating documentary I’ve ever seen is called The Up Series.

It followed the lives of a group of 7-year-olds - and filmed them at age 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, and 63.

Biggest takeaway:

Who you are at 7 is likely who you are at 63.

[Jibher @Jibher1]

@ick_real I write, walk, read a nice books, listen to music, go outside every day, whether it's sunny or cold, and exercise regularly

On occasions, I call a friend or my brother, cook them a nice meal, and spend a good time with them over a good bottle of wine

Beauty and laughter heal

[Say My Name @Say_My_NameYT]

Le rythme de #Pluribus est parfois critiqué. La série est jugée trop lente. #VinceGilligan est revenu sur sa gestion du rythme. Voici ce qu'il a déclaré :

"Je n’ai pas nécessairement une grande confiance en moi, par contre j’ai confiance dans le public. Je pars toujours du principe que les téléspectateurs sont plus intelligents que moi, ce qui m’a été bénéfique pour Breaking Bad et Better Call Saul ! On dit qu’aujourd’hui, plus personne n'a la capacité de se concentrer. Que tout le monde souffre d'un trouble de l'attention avec hyperactivité à cause des réseaux sociaux, des smartphones et de la rapidité avec laquelle les films et les séries sont montés. C’est sûrement vrai pour certains, mais ceux que je souhaite attirer vers une série comme Pluribus sont des gens très intelligents et patients, à condition qu'ils sachent que l'histoire va quelque part. Si c’est le cas, alors ils iront au bout."

"Donc ma philosophie dans la salle de montage est de ne pas passer d'un plan à l'autre tant que ce n'est pas absolument nécessaire. C’est ainsi que j’aime raconter des histoires, alors que tant d'autres films et séries télévisées sont très ‘’caféinés’’. Je pense que Pluribus peut être un bon antidote à cela."

"Dans l’industrie, j’entends constamment ce conseil autour du rythme. Je plains les scénaristes, réalisateurs, showrunners qui doivent se conformer à cela. J’ai la chance de travailler avec des entreprises et des dirigeants très intelligents, qui me donnent leur avis, mais qui ne m'obligent pas à faire les choses d'une certaine manière. Je compatis avec ceux qui se font dicter la manière de raconter leur histoire."

"Cette idée reçue que le public aurait une capacité d'attention très limitée revient en fait à dire qu’il est stupide. Et ça, je me refuse à le croire."

"Si l’intégralité des séries se met à fonctionner avec un montage et une narration artificiellement dopés, alors les personnes qui imposent cela à leurs employés vont finir par se demander pourquoi plus personne ne regarde. Tout le monde en aura marre. Toute forme de narration, quelle qu’elle soit - un roman, une série, un film ou une histoire au coin du feu - doit faire varier son rythme, pratiquer l’alternance. Parfois on doit aller vers la lenteur, mais ça ne peut pas être toujours lent. Comme la rapidité ne peut pas être constante... C’est intenable et pas du tout souhaitable pour le bien de l’histoire. Pensez à un tout de montagnes russes : le meilleur moment, c’est la montée. Clac, clac, clac, clac… Ça avance tout doucement, la tension s’installe graduellement, vous arrivez en haut… et boom ! Vous filez à la vitesse de l’éclair mais vous êtes déjà en train de remonter un autre sommet."
Source : Premiere - https://t.co/BkLbQyMVyZ