Lost My Mindfulness Blog

Category: Natural World

  • Savage Camping Safety Tips

    Savage Camping Safety Tips

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    You never know when you may find it necessary to bivouac or camp wild. (check out this guide for all you need to know about the camping laws in Europe. Thanks Mom) Sometimes this means camping with wild animals.

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    Things That Go Bump In The Night

    Large cats, Wolves, Bears and even wild boars may be closer to your camp site than you think.

    Most of the time they will not bother you unless you have something delicious and tempting in your tent or backpack.

    Cost Benefit Analysis

    Animals are naturally curious to see who or what is in their territory. These same wild animals are also intelligent and much like humans do a cost benefit analysis of attacking an unknown creature in the middle of the night.

    This means the risk/reward ratio is often too great unless the wild animal is very hungry and desperate for food.

    If a larger animal gets even a small wound while fighting you for food it could get infected and be trouble. Most animals prefer to wait until you leave before raiding your fridge.

    Wild Boars Can Be Quite Tame

    William’s most frequent encounter iin Europe are with wild boars who are extremely intelligent and wait for you to leave your campsite to gorge on your food.

    You will quickly learn the signs of a wild boar raid but rarely see one in the flesh!

    Scat and torn up patches of earth and over turned boulders mean you will be going back to the market for more bread and muffins.

    Animal Attractions

    Be warned ! All rules may change during mating season! Much like humans, wild animals can act a little crazy when looking for love!

    If you hear a lot of noise from male animals breaking tree branches or mating calls at night, you may wish to lay low and keep the lights off.

    Good luck and happy camping makes happy campers.

  • Darwinista

    Confounded Interest

    It begins at the cellular level. If Darwin was correct and the one cell demonstrates the signs of a life form. It eats and drinks and excretes itself while responding to external stimuli.

    Now imagine 31 trillion of those cells stitched together in better form than Frankenstein’s monster.

    That conglomeration of life forms, form the form of you. The Human Being.

    Mind Over Matter, Does It Matter?

    This walking, talking, ever-evolving collection of living and dying cells living and dying together are all striving to survive.

    When the sun burns your skin cells they send signals to the brain cells through nerve cells. All of these cells are differentiated but working together as one system.

    It is a wonder we can even think at all! Do you ever wonder when the first collection of cells decided it would be a great idea to live and work together?

    Who decided who is in charge? Did they hold a blind vote to stuff the smartest cells into the skull for protection?

    Loosely Correlated Coalition

    This ponzi scheme of the human body wakes up every day with only one thing on it’s mind.

    To keep the organization of organisms alive for one more day.

    Separate But Equal

    These single cells demonstrating signs of life are amazingly similar to the cells that compose all other life as we know it.

    The bee is the tree is the flower is my trick knee is the answer to the riddle of why?

    Many forms of life form coalitions to mutually benefit and exhibit remarkably similar social structures on both a micro and macro scale.

    The Will To Survive

    Can you feel the power of thirty one trillion cells alive and striving for survival inside you?

    What will you do with your 24 hours today?

  • Mind Melting Meditation

    Mind Melting Meditation

    Be sure you are in a safe space before you practice this mind melter. You will remain conscious but intensely focused enough to not notice other objects or people around you.

    Take a Deep Breath and Count To Infinity

    We like to begin our meditations with a deep breathing or progressive relaxation technique to get us into the zone,

    After enough practice and training yourself you will be aware of when and if you are in a good meditation space and the onset of the zone, so to speak, comes quickly as you have created and changed neural pathways in your brain..

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    Focused Breathing

    This is our favorite method for releasing your relaxation and feel good neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and GABA.

    Another you may be familiar with is DMT or the Bliss chemical or God particle .The ever increased popularity of ayuhasca is again in the headlines.

    The debate continues over the reality of it’s existence but we are living proof!

    Target Those Neurons

    Place the tongue against the roof of the mouth behind the teeth and pull in a slow breath you can feel behind and between the eyes to bath the prefrontal cortex in oxygen and love. This is your Third Eye.

    Sense the air moving slowly over , under and around your prefontal cortex or Third Eye.

    The Sensation You Seek In Meditation

    Armchair scientists love to claim the brain feels no pain or anything at all for that matter.

    We Sense our thoughts and sometimes they are painful. With practice you will be able to feel around inside your brain and sense the parts of the brain responsible for receiving sights, sounds, smells etc.

    Deeper And Deeper

    Notice how you can steer the breath around the inside of your brain.

    Behind the prefrontal cortex, directly between your ears is the beginning of the limbic system. This is where meditation starts to become fun.

    You communicate with your limbic system through the breath and here you can bath the hypothalamus and pituitary gland with oxygen and they will reward you with relaxation!

    Going further behind the pituitary sits the amygdala and spend a few minutes massaging it with the softness of the breath.

    The Moment That Lasts One Thousand Years

    By this time you know your way around the inside of the brain and we will not leave you hanging here.

    Finding the pineal gland for the first time is an intensely gratifying and rewardingly rich experience.

    You will exclaim, where has this been my whole life? Then you will keep going back for another hit of the super natural , supernatural , DMT trip you created with your own brain! Isn’t that ecstatic?!?

    Again, Make sure you are in a safe space before attempting This Experience. You will be focused in a state of relaxed concentration and will not wish to be disturbed.

    If you are disturbed you will be able to switch your awareness and focus to anything needed your attention.

    Thank you for being you!

  • From Tende To Menton France And Back!

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    Every day can appear to be an uphill climb if you are not aligned with your Selfs true purpose.

    Again William tells himself to return to Menton, France and the Universe responded with punch to his belly that left him flat on his back and gasping for air!

    Hell Is For Children

    God turned up the heat this weekend of June 19-21 in the south of France in what can only be a scorched earth policy decreed from above.

    William pedaled desperately uphill towards Tende as his brain melted like margarine in a cerebral skillet.

    Free Phone Company Does Not Honor Contracts

    There was no water or food to be found as the markets were closed and the Free.prepaye.com company did not honor the thirty day contract William purchased.

    This leaves William unable to access his bank accounts as the Free.prepaye company Defaulted on the contract.

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    Stay True To Your School

    William found rest and respite despite the heat when reaching Tende and the higher elevations of the nearby mountains.

    William is grateful for this as well as everyone can expect.

    Ironically, William finds more of nature thriving in thick, full, green along with all the colors of the rainbow near the mountain tops..

    The drought is fierce near the lower latitudes as well as altitudes

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