To say that BJJ is empowering would be an understatement. The deeper you get into training BJJ, the more patient, calm, and calculated you’ll be.
Thanks to its popularity, you can probably find a gym that can teach you BJJ in your city.
2. Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana is said to be the meditation style, which led Gautama Buddha to enlightenment. Needless to say, it requires a lot of physical and mental effort.
However, do it right and you can look forward to feeling invigorated, relaxed, refreshed, and calm, especially after finishing your first course.
In practical terms, this means being able to simply observe both the pleasant and unpleasant sensations brought on by deep meditation without either craving or aversion.
In essence, it aims in achieving a state of true neutrality. Practitioners of Vipassana see equanimity as the key to living a genuinely happy and content life.
3. The Five Tibetan Rites
This relatively simple set of exercises has been credited as the foundation of the well documented and long lifespan of Tibetan Lamas.
These exercises are called The Five Tibetan Rites and it’s reported that they are over 2500 years old.
The Rites are basically a singular yoga routine that takes around 20 minutes of your day, and is easy enough for people of all ages to attempt.
By performing these rites in succession on a regular basis, you can achieve the famed youthfulness and health of Tibet’s iconic monks.
4. Ikigai
Also known as the Japanese secret to a long and happy life, the philosophy of Ikigai is described by Lottoland as the pursuit of what you love, what the world needs, what you can be paid for, and what you’re good at.
It’s the lifelong goal of finding that sweet spot between mission, passion, vocation, and occupation.
Apart from that, Ikigai also postulates 10 simple rules for living a happy and fulfilled life.
They staying active and never retiring, not eating too much, living in the moment, surrounding yourself with good friends, and reconnecting with nature.
Its rules may sound rudimentary, but you’d be surprised at how much your life can change when you reacquaint yourself with such simple and fundamental rules for happiness.
5. Digital Nomads
The path of the digital nomad can be difficult as well as extremely rewarding.
This practice refers to taking on jobs that can be done completely or almost entirely online, while living and working at your ideal destination.
It can be a small beach town in the Philippines or a mountain escape in Bhutan, as long as you have a stable connection to the Internet, you can walk the path of the digital nomad.
The challenge lies in securing and maintaining connections that will allow you to have a steady income while you’re traveling the world.
This can be very difficult to establish, but once you do, you’ll be able to work from anywhere on the planet, the ultimate telecommuting lifehack, which some also call the secret to modern health and happiness.
The pursuit of health and happiness can be a long and confusing road. Don’t get discouraged if you find some of these methods difficult. But pursuing happiness itself is an endeavor that’s worth being happy about. So just by starting to walk on the road leading to happiness you will be happy.
Superhuman is any regular human who has discovered their Super and has transformed themselves through it.
But you probably wonder, what is your Super? Where can you find your Super? Do all humans have a Super?
The answer to the third question is ‘Yes’. We all have a Super because we are all a unique perspective of The Universe.
The answer to the second question is both simple and complicated, the simple answer is ‘Within’ and I will explain the complicated answer later.
And I will now reveal to you the first thing you need to know for becoming a Superhuman, I’ll elaborate on the first question, “What is your Super?”
What Is Your Super?
Your Super is your uniqueness, your YOUness within you that you need to discover, unlock and embody.
The creation of your Super is a mix of your genetics, your environment, the way you were raised and the choices you have made till now.
It’s your special ability underneath your talent, a way of seeing the world, a mold for producing your unique fruit, a unique color you can paint with.
If these descriptions seem vague it’s because your Super should be intuitively understood and sensed, not mentally defined and labeled.
Your Super is what comes before your power, the taste of your power. And when you discover, unlock and embody it, you can create your Superpower.
Where Can You Find Your Super?
You are a simple being and a complex group of systems depending on the perspective you look yourself from.
The complexity of your being creates a nexus, a center for everything that you are. This center is where you Super is really discovered.
The complicated answer is that your Super is found at the center, between your Physical, Emotional, Spiritual and Mental being.
It’s between the source of your Energy and Consciousness. It’s near the center of your Soul. It’s within your Truth.
From the place of your Super you can sense your Wholeness and from there you can unlock and embody your Super.
How To Become Superhuman?
In order to become a Superhuman you need to discover your Super first. You need to embrace it, unlock it and embody your uniqueness.
When you do this you will start living through your YOUniqueness and you will start transforming through your Super.
You will embody, use and express your Super and by doing this you will start becoming a Superhuman.
The complete guide and step by step blueprint of How To Become A Superhuman is something I have been working on for years.
If you want to discover your Super, integrate, embody and use it, learn how to create your Superpower and how to become a Superhuman, click here.
This whole year was an year with a theme for emotional transformation and making yourself into a better version of you.
You might not recognize how much you have improved yourself throughout the year but if you followed this program you certainly did.
This month is all about finishing the things you have started, letting go of what no longer serves us and reflecting on how much we improved.
We started with an intention to become a better version of ourselves, we created goals and resolutions. We finish this year with getting the fruit.
We have been leveling up each month, but this one we are finally flourishing into a better version of ourselves.
3 Things To Do This December To Be The Best Self:
1. Finish things you started.
We have started many things throughout this year, many projects and habits. Some of this things are still on hold. Evaluate what projects you want to complete and what are no longer interesting for you. Focus on the ones you would like to finish and sprint this month on finishing them. Put a lot of action if you need to.
2. Let go of things that you don’t want to carry.
The things you have started, the projects you created but are no longer interesting for you, all the things that are just unnecessary weight for you, evaluate them and let them go. It doesn’t matter if they are not finished. If you don’t want to finish either of them don’t carry them. Let them go. This applies to emotions, desires, habits and activities that just waste your time.
3. Reflect on all that you achieved till now.
We go throughout all these missions but we rarely see how they change and improve us. That’s why we need to reflect on who we were and who we are right now so we can see the transformation. Through reflection we can see how much we have improved. This will give you rewarding feelings and positivity to keep becoming even better version of you.
This year was an year of big introspection and examination of our emotional self.
The last couple of months we were forced to face our emotional turmoil and deal with the old wounds we have been postponing.
December is giving us the opportunity to cleanse our emotional self even more. It’s really a month of leveling up.
This means that your wounds, fears, resistance and inner turmoil will have bigger intensity so you will locate your wounded self more easily.
This is with an intent to find and heal your inner wounds faster and release the things that no longer serve you so you can be better version of yourself.
Here Is What Astrologists Say December Has In Store For Each Person:
December brings a new vibration and a chance to bring closure and resolution to the year of 2018.
For the first part of December, we still have Mercury, the planet of communication, in retrograde.
Under this energy, we are being encouraged to reflect, pause, and wait before rushing ahead.
Mercury goes out of retrograde on the 6th of December, and at this time we may be feeling a little lighter and at peace with where things are at.
Around the same time Mercury goes direct, we have a New Moon on the 6th and 7th in the sign of Sagittarius.
This is a really positive New Moon that is going to bring some fresh inspiration and a wave of optimism into our lives.
Instead of trying to force or push things, this energy asks us to surrender, trust, and allow ourselves to be guided by our hearts.
This New Moon carries a free flowing, loving energy that we can use to raise our vibration and boost our mood.
This will be a much welcomed energy and will help us to lighten up as we enter the holiday season.
Following the New Moon, we have the special day of 12th. In numerology, 1212 is associated with advanced consciousness.
Paying attention to our dreams, meditating and observing the signs and messages of The Universe around this time will help us open to this energy.
Next up, on December 21st we have the Solstice, which is marked by the Sun’s move into the earth sign of Capricorn.
With the Sun in Capricorn, we are going to be encouraged to get grounded and to take a more practical view on life.
We are also going to be able to take the inspiration and adventure that we gained while the Sun was in Sagittarius so we can relish it for the long term.
Capricorn energy wants the good habits to stick, so it’s also a perfect time to set goals, make plans, and think about your new year’s resolution.
The month wraps up with a Full Moon in Cancer on the 22nd. This Full Moon is highly sensitive and emotional.
Even though there is a sensitive tone to this Full Moon, it is actually a great time to reflect and to release all that you no longer wish to carry.
This is the perfect time to spiritually and emotionally cleanse and purify yourself and to really practice self love and self care.
As we move through December, this reflective energy is going to amplify so we can cleanse the most of our emotional being.
We are really going to be able to feel how far we have traveled, how we have grown, and how we have spiritually evolved.
Relationships are complicated things. And people who try to act as relationship experts make them even more complicated.
Each relationship is different and unique. That’s the beauty of it. The same advice that worked for one relationship might not work for another.
That’s why it’s of crucial importance to not lose sight of what really matters in one relationship, the love between both you and your partner.
Every rule, advice, a piece of information comes second to your love. And it’s ok to ask for advice sometimes. Especially from your friends.
However, most people have no idea what a healthy relationship is so they give bad advices. Here are the worst advices you should watch out for.
10 Worst Pieces Of Relationship Advice:
1. “You can find someone better.”
First of all, if you think like this you shouldn’t build a relationship with someone in the first place. Your partners are not to be measured, you enjoyed different aspect of a relationship with each of them. If you are in a relationship with someone you should see them as human beings, as imperfect creatures just like you with a potential to grow and change.
2. “Don’t let them tell you what to do.”
Relationships are based on mutual respect not on who is better. Moreover, everyone is better at something and each should take charge of their field of expertise. So if you know about something more than them, by all means, tell them what to do. However, id they know about a subject more than you, get off of your ego train and listen to them, let them tell you what to do.
3. “Demand that they show their love by romantic gestures.”
Not everyone shows love the same way. For some, expressing love is indeed through romantic gestures, through buying flowers and little gifts. Others express it through physical affection, through hugs and kisses. Some might joke with you, for others watching a movie and eating popcorn is the highest form of expressing love. Let others love freely the way they know.
4. “Don’t increase conflicts further.”
If you argue with your partner and the issue is not resolved, do not stop the process just so the conflict does not continue. Relationships have conflicts because we are human beings and we disagree with each other in most things, we misunderstand each other and get hurt. That’s why we communicate, to resolve this. Don’t let your feelings bottled up inside.
5. “You have every right to go through their private staff.”
No and no. Just because you are in a relationship together it does not mean you don’t need your privacy. Trust is not build by checking whether or not you are right to trust them. Trust is a leap of faith. You jump and you have faith in them to catch you. And if they don’t, it will hurt, but at least you gave them the chance of real trust. And you still have your dignity.
6. “You should be their highest priority.”
Hmm why? You both build and grow your relationship through mutual love, your highest priority should not be another person. You are your own highest priority in your life. If they can’t fill their own cup, how can they sincerely love you and build a relationship. If you are their highest priority, you will not build a relationship together, but a throne you will sit on.
7. “Don’t let them go out without you.”
This is where most people get it wrong. A relationship should not deprive you of things that give you fun and joy, it should add up to them. A relationship is not a prison, but a partnership that makes both members a better version of them. You are still free to do the things you like on your own, as well as they. You shouldn’t do everything together, that’s not honest.
8. “They should earn more.”
Probably one of the worst advices. Not because it implies they don’t earn enough, but because it projects the value of your partner through how much they earn. Your partner should not earn more, your partner should be happy. They should do what they are inspired to do in this world, and if you don’t support them through this, they are better off without you.
9. “You should not be with someone who doesn’t agree with you.”
Not two people on this planet can agree with each other all the time, even if they are clones of each other. It’s normal to argue with your partner, it’s normal to disagree with them. In fact, some experts suggest that exactly this type of arguing strengthens the relationship. You both open your mind to different perspectives. You should be with someone different than you.
10. “Cheat on them so they will realize how much they love you.”
This wins the list of worst advices. I mean cheating so they will realize they love you, or cheating to get back to them for not showing enough love, is like going to war just so the people can realize there was peace. Instead of doing such unreasonable act, try having a real conversation with your partner. Tell them that you feel unloved in the relationship.
Our psyche is one of the strangest things you can examine. When you start to dive deep within you realize that you are actually in a magic show.
The world we live in is a scene and we are watching a magic show. The magician, the trickster who fools us, is actually ourselves.
You are the audience and the performer, the trickster and the one being fooled. Yeah, like i said, the psyche is the strangest thing you can examine.
Countless smart people spend their entire lives studying the psyche and this mystery we are all a part of.
One such person is Carl Jung, a profound psychiatrist and thinker who unveiled many secrets of our subconscious mind.
20 Profound Quotes By Carl Jung:
1. ”One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”
2. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
3. “Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming.”
4. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
5. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances, if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
6. “If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.”
7. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
8. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
9. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
10. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.”
11. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
12. “Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul.”
13. “Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.”
14. “Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
15. “What you resist, persists.”
16. “We may think that we fully control ourselves. However, a friend can easily reveal something about us that we have absolutely no idea about.”
17. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
18. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
19. “Everything about other people that doesn’t satisfy us helps us to better understand ourselves.”
20. “A dream is a small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens up to that primeval cosmic night that was the soul, long before there was the conscious ego.”
Most people experience some form of trauma when they are a child. These experiences shape most of who we are today.
These traumas don’t have to be big. Most people don’t even know they have experienced something that stayed within them and shaped who they are.
The way a child observes reality is much different from our adult perspective, and most often that misunderstanding creates the trauma.
The child part of ourselves is at our center and as we grow we just put layers on top of this part.
That’s why you need to revisit your child part and let go of things that prevent you from unfolding and being the best version of yourself.
3 Childhood Experiences You Need To Let Go Off:
1. Experiences of fear.
We know that fear is a normal part of the process of growing. But for kids fear is fear. It’s something that evokes intense and painful emotions. Even adults struggle to accept fear as a normal part of their emotional being.
Most of the people in the world are afraid of speaking in front of others on a stage. When we were in school most of us were scared of failing our exams or asking out our potential date for our prom night.
But for a kid, fear can arise by being in a dark room. A kid can be afraid if they fall down and there is nobody to pick them up. Small things we don’t even think about when we grow up can be terrifying for any kid.
That’s why it’s important to connect with this childlike part of you and see if there are any experiences of fear that still linger in there. Even though you don’t consciously remember any, there might still be small moments.
Fear changes as we grow up, but the problem is not fear, it’s the resistance of fear. The experiences of fear still linger within our unconscious mind because we resist the fear we experienced in those moments.
Fear is part of us and we should accept the fact that fear will always be there. The purpose of life is growing. Realize that fear is the key ingredient in the process of growing. It should help you, not stop you from growing.
2. Experiences of “not good enough”.
From the grades we have at school to our sense of fashion, it is entirely reasonable and normal for parents, teachers, mentors, as well as role models to judge us while we were growing up.
We look up to these people and their opinion means the world to us. So if they judge us about something, we fragment out the judged part of ourselves and stop identifying with it.
Let’s say we pick up our hand because we want to answer something in school, and our school mates ridicule us for being a geek. So we dissociate with this part of ourselves.
The next time we feel the urge to act because we know an answer, or to learn because we want to learn, we suppress this urges. This continues to happen as we grow up.
We feel as if we are being continuously under the microscope of the people we admire, or the people with authority. This makes us feel unease and nervousness every time we are around people we like and idolize.
These fragmentations of yourself only justify your idea that you might not be good enough. But living with this idea makes you into something you are not. You need to embrace the wholeness of you and realize you are enough.
3. Experiences of trauma.
Most people think experiences of trauma need to be really big and sudden life changes, but an experience of trauma can be as small as being lost in the supermarket.
It’s not about the adult perspective of the event, it’s about the child’s perspective and experience of the event. The child part of you has a different perspective.
For an adult, a child being lost in the supermarket might be funny, but for the child it might feel as if it’s the end of the world. The emotion might be so strong that the child is unable to process it.
These emotional traumas stay with us being unprocessed within our emotional body. They stay there even though we grow and change. They reflect in the outer world in many different forms.
So for the example of the child being lost in a supermarket, a reflection of this traumatic emotion might be a resistance toward being alone, going out alone or being far away from home by ourselves.
These blockages give you comfort but they prevent you from really growing, following your purpose and living the way you really love to live. Letting go of the emotional traumas will liberate you to do what you want.
