Most people don't know this, but Salvador Dalí built his entire career on tapping into his unconscious mind on purpose.
Dalí's most famous trick was a micro-nap he called "slumber with a key." He'd sit in a heavy Spanish-style armchair, head tilted back against the leather, both arms hanging completely limp off the armrests, and in his left hand he'd hold a heavy metal key pinched lightly between his thumb and forefinger.
Directly under that hand, on the floor, he'd place an upside-down plate. He'd then let himself drift into sleep. The instant he actually fell asleep, his muscles would go slack, the key would slip out of his fingers, hit the upside-down plate, and the clang would jolt him awake.
The whole nap was meant to last less than a quarter of a second. He called that half-second window the "taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from waking," and he'd immediately sketch the hallucinations he saw in that flash.
The melting clocks, the elephants on stilts, the burning giraffes, a lot of that came straight out of those quarter-second naps. He picked the trick up from Capuchin monks and wrote it down as one of his "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship."
As a society, we need to return to the protective and proactive healing modalities of daily :
Healing bouncing
Arm swinging
Kidney massaging (palms warm & friction over)
Arm slapping (cupping up and down)
Ear massaging (every inch of them until warm, bending them, stimulating points within)
Tongue tip biting (heart point and great for hydrating body with saliva production - redistribute it)
Jade nectar (Taoist practice for fluid nourishment and gut healing, something more treasured than water)
Teeth clicking (just chew more and click tips of your teeth together)
Heal only walking (kidney healing) with a largely straight leg.
Foot scraping out with a guasha tool (keep the body lightly treated and flowing, so many points are here)
Inner thigh, sides of shin & ankle massaging
Self stomach massaging (start directly around navel and work way out to larger circles up to diaphragm, then back to tiny
Morning Star gazing
Evening spent outside at sunset
Warm water upon waking to stir up the yang
Daily meditation
Stretches with long, still, silent holds (as seen in yin yoga) to effect the fascia
Pore Breathing both in and out - every pore at once (this regulates and reorganizes entire body)
Earth tendon scraping (searchable on my page)
Inner thigh scraping (searchable on my page)
Humming with waters for vagus nerve & tone
@OrevaZSN my bus driver taught me how to do it with two hands when I was 8. flip your tongue upside-down and press it down with both your pointer and middle fingers.
Una volta la nonna mi aveva dato consiglio:
Nei periodi difficili, vai avanti a piccoli passi. Fai ciò che devi fare, ma poco alla volta. Non pensare al futuro, nemmeno a quello che potrebbe accadere domani. Lava i piatti. Togli la polvere. Scrivi una lettera. Fai una minestra.
Vedi?
Stai andando avanti passo dopo passo. Fai un passo e fermati. Riposati. Fatti i complimenti. Fai un altro passo. Poi un altro.
Non te ne accorgerai, ma i tuoi passi diventeranno sempre più grandi.
E verrà il tempo in cui potrai pensare al futuro senza piangere.
Elena Mikhalkova, La stanza delle chiavi antiche
Beethoven counted out exactly 60 coffee beans one by one every single morning before brewing his cup, not roughly sixty, exactly sixty, and he'd pour pitchers of cold water over himself in the middle of his room while singing loudly, pacing around with his eyes rolling, scribbling music, then pouring more water, his neighbors constantly complaining about leaks through the ceiling, meanwhile Nikola Tesla demanded exactly eighteen freshly laundered linen napkins at dinner every night, used one by one to polish his already-clean silverware, calculated the cubic volume of every dish before eating it, refused to shake hands, found pearls physically repulsive, and slept only two hours a night.
Benjamin Franklin took "air baths," sitting completely naked in his bedroom for an hour every morning regardless of weather, reading or writing with the window open because he believed the cold air sharpened his mind, and he'd happily receive visitors mid-bath without bothering to dress, while Picasso slept until 11 a.m., handled visitors until 2 p.m., then locked himself in his Paris studio and painted in silence until past midnight, he said "while I work I leave my body outside the door, the way Moslems take off their shoes before entering the mosque," and he could stand at the canvas for hours without feeling tired, so to protect his work time he crammed every social obligation into a single "at-home" Sunday.
If you are suffering, remember that you are a pattern of consciousness that is reborn moment to moment, breath to breath, heartbeat to heartbeat. Between every one of those there is a pause and a new field of awareness that can enter you or be born from you and come into being. Allow a space for it to enter. This field of awareness is the embodiment of true freedom. Let your story and your emotions and reaction to your story become as blank as this pause between breaths so you can be filled with new futures.
Practice states of true emptiness. True absence of thought. Extend them.
This paragraph by Haruki Murakami hits very hard:
“Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Not this year, but soon, I want to spend at least 6 months in some remote desert village somewhere, Rumimaxxing. Dates. Coffee. Bread. Olives. Pomegranate. Wool coats. Prayer beads. Reed flute. Poetry. Zikr. Sema. Fana.
Uncommon advice: If you don't know what to pursue in life right now. Pursue yourself. Pursue becoming the healthiest, happiest, most healed, most present, most confident version of yourself. Then the right path will reveal itself.
Spend about 10–30 minutes every day seeing a picture in your mind of the person you want to become. Do this when you are already calm, like at night or just before you go to sleep. Your mind takes in pictures much better when it is not busy thinking about too many other things.
The main idea is simple. Your brain thinks that things you imagine over and over again are very important.
When you see the same situation in your mind many times, with lots of small details and strong feelings, it stops feeling like a fake story. Your mind starts to feel like it is a real place you already know well.
And when something feels normal, it stops feeling impossible.
Old, bad habits get weak during this time. This does not happen because you fight them. It happens because you stop thinking about them and stop practicing them in your head. At the same time, new, good habits start to stick because you are practicing them inside your mind before they ever happen in real life.
Start by making your body quiet. Breathe slowly. Let go of the tight feelings in your face, your shoulders, and your stomach. You are not trying to force anything. You are just turning down the noise inside yourself.
Next, pick one real moment. Do not just think about a big, blurry goal. Pick one short moment you can step into with your mind.
If you want to be healthy, do not just think "I want to be healthy." Instead, see yourself walking through a normal day easily. See yourself walking without getting tired, breathing clearly, and feeling like your body is light and ready to move.
If you want to be brave or do well, see yourself in a real place where you usually feel scared. But now, see yourself talking without stopping. You are steady, you are direct, and everything goes well without any bad feelings inside you.
If you want to have good control over yourself, see yourself already doing your hard work. You are just doing it without arguing with yourself, as if it is just a normal thing you do every day.
Always look through your own eyes. Do not look at yourself from the outside.
Look at what is right in front of you. Look at what is under your feet. Look at the walls and the room around you. Look at the light in the space. Notice the tiny things you usually do not look at.
Next, listen to the sounds. Hear how people's voices sound in that room. Hear the sound of your own slow breathing. Hear any background noise that belongs in that place.
Next, feel your body. Feel the weight of your body on the floor or chair. Feel if the air is warm or cold on your skin. Feel yourself move. Feel how good it is to sit or stand when you are not fighting yourself.
Inside your feelings, do not try to force yourself to be super excited. Let a quiet feeling come to you. Feel happy that things are simple. Think to yourself, "This is already how I live my life." It is a quiet, steady feeling that does not need to prove anything to anyone.
You are not making up a fake dream. You are just practicing a feeling so it feels normal to you.
At the end, stop adding new things to the picture. Just sit with the quiet feeling for a short moment, as if your mind has already said "Yes, this is normal."Let that good feeling stay with you gently as you go through the rest of your day or night.
Do this so many times that the picture stops feeling like something far away that you are trying to catch. Instead, it starts to feel like something your mind already knows exactly how to do.
Grind and shred more nutrition and prana into your food :
Shredded carrots
Shredded orange and lemon peels
Rolled up and sliced leaves of basil
Gingers
Fresh rosemary powder
Cumins, fennel, etc etc
Don't do this unless you're prepared to have your life completely transformed in a matter of weeks, you're actually doing magic, the good kind of magic
not even joking, this is one of the reasons why sagittarius, pisces, 9th house & 12th house placements manifest such INCREDIBLE things.
nothing is off limits. they know the power of their mind & what they’re capable of.
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You should study what makes you defensive. The topic you avoid, the joke that irritates you, the question that feels insulting, the feedback you instantly reject. Defensiveness is usually the guard dog sitting in front of a weakness you have not trained yourself to face.