Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Know an empath? Why not tell them they are one?
There’s a lot to be said about empaths. There are so many about, and it seems that many don’t even know they are one. I have to wonder about how much difference it would make to this world is all the empaths were self-realized. Imagine, for a moment, that there is someone you know who…
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Depression Series: Diet (part 1) or this depressing food is making me want more of it.
Diet – Part 1. I have found diet to have a profound effect on depression. When I eat certain foods, I find that it can make me feel depressed and sluggish afterwards. Below are my own observations on the subject and should not be taken as nutritional advise. There are a million diet books out…
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Depression Series: – Apathy or I couldn’t be bothered writing this.
Apathy Check List: Do you feel heaviness in your limbs? Do you have trouble getting started on an activity you wish to do but you just don’t have the energy? Every movement is an effort, even though you are well rested. Apathy is when you don’t really care too much about things. It’s a kind…
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Spirit Guides – Part 8 – Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. (Showing my age here!)
Contacting your guides – part 2 The following blog is a 8 part series on Spirit Guides, my experiences, and what you might do in order to contact your own. Enjoy Guides can communicate in other ways. Sometimes they might throw a sign your way (such as a shooting star at a critical moment or maybe…
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Old dog, new tricks for longevity.
Longevity in dogs. Large dogs are prone to health problems. I’m told that the majority don’t live past 11 or 12 years of age. It’s rare to get to 13 and above. Today our Doberman, Jerry, celebrates his 14th birthday, and he’s not doing too badly. Yes, he’s slowed down a lot, but he still…
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My occasional random thoughts: Fear
Fear is not a good enough reason to not do something.
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Depression Series – Anti-depressants or how depressing, they’re screwing me up.
Anti-depressants It’s fortunate that depression is finally recognized as a real problem. There are help lines out there, organizations (Where I live, there is one called Beyond Blue, which is a wonderful initiative) and they are developing drugs to help us cope. Medical treatment is still in the early stages, though, in my opinion, but…
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I’m having a bad day and I DON’T want to talk about it!
Sometimes things don’t go right. You know those days where everything seems to go wrong in clumps? You might have had a rotten night’s sleep and the traffic was unusually bad on the way to work. Your car chooses that day to develop some problem. Your co-worker or staff rings in sick so you end…
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Depression Series: – Exhaustion or I’m too tired to read this right now.
Many depressed people have more than just depression going on with them. They also suffer from exhaustion. I’m not talking about the kind of gosh-I’ve-been-up-all-night-and-I-really-need-to-get-some-rest type of exhaustion, I’m taking about long term, utter weariness, where everything is a struggle and just getting up and facing a new day is a challenge that is almost…
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Being ridiculed is a small price to pay for helping even one other.
As an Empath, I’ve come across a lot of strange things that I would have sworn could not be true. As a sceptic, I tend to not take things on face value. As a cynic, I tend to look between the lines. As an intuitive, I have learned to trust my feelings completely. Logic, as…
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Spirit Guides – Part 6 – Many guides: Handle them – (A reference only World of Warcraft players will get!)
The following blog is a 8 part series on Spirit Guides, my experiences, and what you might do in order to contact your own. Enjoy Having written all that, it’s worth noting that the Dakini don’t appear to be my only guides. I do appear to have one main one, and he feels very different…
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Empath series – Spirits, ghosts, negative entities and all those fun things that can’t possibly exist.
Psychics and the spirit world. Here’s the problem with empaths and other sensitive people: They see and sense and even hear things that others generally do not. Scientifically, such things are hard to prove, if not impossible, as what we experience cannot always be recreated and tested under lab conditions. I was listening to an…
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Spirit Guides – Part 5 – Some guides just have no sense of humour…
Discovering the Dakini – Part 3 Guides are certainly not easy to proof that they exist, though I think I’ve had more than my fair share of proof over the years. For instance, in regards to the Dakini, I remember when I was 12 or 13, I would see these beings flash into existence around…
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Depression Series – You’ve done great! So why do you feel so down about it?
The pressure of success You’ve done well. People love you, and some even hate you (which probably means you’re doing something right.) So why do you feel so depressed? Why do you have a sense of anxiety and foreboding that something bad is going to happen? The trouble with success, and more importantly, reputation, is…
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