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Do you want to build a better brain that generates self appreciation and productive positivity? Independently improve your emotional and mental health? Fighting Utter Nothingness offers mindful, entertaining, philosophical processes that help you perceive yourself peacefully, and live with more internal accuracy. To find joy in life and move forward. Inspired by Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Alan Watts and Leo Buscaglia, host Mark Gilliland gives personal examples of ongoing independent mental and emotional evolution. Offering insight into the act of self perceiving. Learn how to treat yourself better. Enjoy a new episode of Fighting Utter Nothingness every Sunday, on a major podcast platform near you.
- 81 - ZEN QUOTE NOTES - Pity AndThe Wind w/ guest Peggy Johnson
My guest Peggy Johnson and I explore the Ojibwa saying "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky."
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 33min - 80 - Positive vs Negative Processes
We have to improve our previous negative processes before trying to build new positive processes on top of them. It's hard to climb a mountain while you're digging holes.
Sat, 22 Jul 2023 - 08min - 79 - Happiness Willingness Test
You have to be willing to be happy inside to find reasons to be happy outside. Happiness is a choice we've got to consciously make before it can consistently occur. I've found three simple tests to discover how willing you are to be happy at any time of day.
Sun, 16 Jul 2023 - 15min - 78 - Talking Self vs Writing Self
For a long time, there were two forces battling inside of me to be the dominant resource of my creative output. I'm learning how to help both of them work together to create a greater good.
Sun, 09 Jul 2023 - 08min - 77 - Fearing You Don’t Exist
It can be easy to feel like you don't exist to the outside world. But existence has to be built from the inside out for you to be perceived. To believe yourself to be perceivable, you have to find and project your unique combination of internal specificity, otherwise you'll live as an external reflection and blend into the background. You have to perceive yourself to become visible.
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 - 06min - 76 - Accepting Life’s Imperfection
It's difficult to move forward until you can accept that the world is imperfect. We have to erase our fantasies of perfection. Not being trapped static, waiting for an ideal state.
Sun, 25 Jun 2023 - 07min - 75 - Clearing Mental Clutter
It's important to be able to clear space in your mind to psychologically stand. Somewhere where you're not tripping over your cluttering thoughts, and projecting that mental mess upon the world around you.
Sun, 18 Jun 2023 - 12min - 74 - Be Now To Move Forward
Until you can reliably Be, right Now, it's hard to perceive yourself as being anywhere, or anywhen, else in the future. You have to believe in your Current Moment, for the future to be solidly perceivable. For it to be achievable!
Sun, 11 Jun 2023 - 12min - 73 - Becoming Perceivable
To become perceivable, we have to practice perceiving ourselves. Finding processes that bring us to the surface of our existence.
Sun, 04 Jun 2023 - 12min - 72 - Evolving From The Inside OutSun, 28 May 2023 - 06min
- 71 - Being Your Accurate Inner Self
We often edit ourselves too heavily and lose access to the accurate inner us. Practice relaxing your external facade, letting the true You through.
Sun, 21 May 2023 - 14min - 70 - Writing Clarifies Mental Muddle
When our heads gets cluttered and unmanageable, relaxed random writing can help bring your pieces back in line.
Sun, 14 May 2023 - 08min - 69 - Should I Punish Myself
Punishing yourself is rarely actually useful, so it's important to ask "Should I punish myself" before punishing yourself, because the answer is probably No.
Sun, 07 May 2023 - 12min - 68 - Showing Emotions
You can use emotions to communicate better once you realize that they're constantly coming out of you.
Sun, 30 Apr 2023 - 05min - 67 - Choosing BetterSun, 23 Apr 2023 - 06min
- 66 - Proactively Using The ”Family” Word
Using the "Family" word, silently to yourself, can change how you perceive potentially annoying peripheral people. Join me in attempting its proactive usage!
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 - 12min - 65 - Video Game Meditation
Video Game Vision can reduce the stress of chaotic, random human interactions. Consciously turning our challenges into meditations. Join Me!
Sun, 09 Apr 2023 - 07min - 64 - Be Yourself Every Morning
If you consciously practice being Yourself every morning, it's much harder for anyone else to Tell you who you "are". Join me in being yourself!
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 - 07min - 63 - Why Stop Criticising?
Why Stop Criticising? Criticism is a burden we carry around, pretending to be a strength. I'm severely reducing my criticising to improve my mental health.
Sun, 26 Mar 2023 - 08min - 62 - Living In Detail - Zen Quote Notes
For Zen Quote Notes, I'm looking into the saying - "We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - by Alfred North Whitehead
Sun, 19 Mar 2023 - 07min - 61 - Looking At Yourself
We've got to learn how to look at ourselves and like it. no matter what we look like. With one simple trick, you can make reflecting a much more enjoyable experience!
Sun, 12 Mar 2023 - 11min - 60 - Nothing Is ”In Your Way”
Nothing is In Your Way. "In My Way" is just a thought blockage process we practice. With effort, everything can Be Our Way. Let's find out how!
Sun, 05 Mar 2023 - 10min - 59 - Learning Emotional Flight
It's important that we learn how to fly inside ourselves, instead of constantly emotionally falling. Giving ourselves the choice of internal levitation, instead of living upon the whim of endless gravity.
Sun, 26 Feb 2023 - 12min - 58 - Dating ProfileSun, 19 Feb 2023 - 03min
- 57 - Temporal Fractures
It's easy for our brains to become fractured into multiple time zones at the same time. We have to bring ourselves together into one time and place. Right now.
Sun, 12 Feb 2023 - 08min - 56 - You First
Be you first. Get in the practice of being yourself, before immediately becoming the reflection of some random external expectation. You owe it to yourself.
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 - 08min - 55 - I Killed A Bug
I'm poetically dealing with the emotional aftermath of unkindly killing an unsuspecting insect. Join me!
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 - 02min - 54 - Ease The BeginningSun, 22 Jan 2023 - 05min
- 53 - Misery BragSun, 15 Jan 2023 - 02min
- 52 - You Are Meant To Be Here
You are meant to be here! That is a fact you have to accept, before you can move through the current experience.
Sun, 08 Jan 2023 - 04min - 51 - Accepting Silence
My head has always been a noisy place. As I work to identify and reduce my negative thoughts, I'm learning to make silence useful.
Sun, 01 Jan 2023 - 04min - 50 - What Is ArtSun, 25 Dec 2022 - 02min
- 49 - Non-Existent Temporal States
Anything that isn't happening right now, and I'm still emoting into, is a Non-Existent Temporal State. It's easy to get trapped in N.E.T.S.. If you can label a thought as a Non-Existent Temporal State, it allows you separate your reality from your imagination.
Sun, 18 Dec 2022 - 03min - 48 - ClaritySun, 11 Dec 2022 - 04min
- 47 - We Do The Best We CanSun, 11 Dec 2022 - 01min
- 46 - Proving You Exist
Do I exist? Do you exist? Despite being visibly three dimensional, it’s easy to feel like you don't exist sometimes. It can be hard to perceive yourself as perceivable. With effort, we can start to find ourselves.
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 - 04min - 45 - Exercise Your Whim
You've got to exercise your Whim regularly. Whims happen all the time, and unless we're attuned to perceiving them, we can go our whole lives without being inspired by their subtle yet powerful guidance.
Sun, 27 Nov 2022 - 03min - 44 - Be ”Yourself”
People often say "just Be Yourself", like that's an easy thing to do. It sounds simple on its face. In theory, Being Yourself only requires two things: A) Finding who "Yourself" is, and then B) Being it. This often ends up being more difficult than it sounds. Let's explore!
Sun, 20 Nov 2022 - 05min - 43 - Action Precedes MotivationSun, 13 Nov 2022 - 01min
- 42 - Avoiding ”Should”
Should is a good word to stop saying, if you can. It's arguably useful, in small quantities, but, unrestrained, it becomes a blanket condemnation with little helpful practical process.
Sun, 06 Nov 2022 - 03min - 41 - Don’t Become CompleteSun, 30 Oct 2022 - 01min
- 40 - Fear Makes My Farts LouderSun, 23 Oct 2022 - 00min
- 39 - Zen Quote Notes: Nap Pounds The Rice
I take a nap, making the mountain water, pound the rice. - Issa - Join me as I reflect upon this wordful wonder.
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 - 03min - 38 - What Are Problems?
There's a difference between a Challenge and a Problem, and if you can tell the difference, then you can react to them appropriately. A challenge is supersedeable. A problem is broken.
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 - 03min - 37 - SMALL IMPROVEMENTS
I've often worried that I'm not making enough BIG improvements in my life. Seeing the small improvements as unimportant. But, I had to realize that, big improvements don't just happen spontaneously. All big improvements are the result of multiple smaller efforts coming together.
Sun, 02 Oct 2022 - 02min - 36 - Resting Negative Face
Our resting faces give bias to future emotions. A positive facial position can keep us from becoming unconsciously angry. Your thoughts wrap around your current facial expression.
Sun, 25 Sep 2022 - 04min - 35 - Inner Beauty Power
Our inner beauty needs to be powered separately from our outer beauty. Ideally balancing both simultaneously. If how beautiful you feel inside is powered by how physically attractive you currently feel, your entire emotional reality will fluctuate depending upon your physical layer. Our inner beauty needs to remove the anchor of our ever changing external appearance.
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 - 02min - 34 - Epiphany Evolution
We have to have our realizations in the proper order. We all want to understand the universe. We want to understand how life works. We want all the Answers to our Questions, without having to wait around. But the truth is, we can't. We have to have our realizations in the right order, to be able to comprehend them.
Sun, 11 Sep 2022 - 03min - 33 - Make Your Head A Gentle NestSun, 04 Sep 2022 - 00min
- 32 - Beware Of Imaginary Interactions
We've got to beware of engaging emotionally with our imaginations. If we can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, we won't respond appropriately.
Sun, 28 Aug 2022 - 00min - 31 - ZQN: Water Which Is Too Pure has No Fish
Water Which Is Too Pure has No Fish - Ts'ai Ken T'an - Join me while I ponder this rich zen wordfulness.
Mon, 22 Aug 2022 - 02min - 30 - WorthfulnessMon, 15 Aug 2022 - 03min
- 29 - Zen Diesel
We can gather spiritual insight from cheesy action movies. This is something I discovered from Vin Diesel.
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 - 05min - 28 - ZQN: When The Student Is Ready
When the student is ready, the master appears. - Buddhist Proverb - Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordful zen wonderment.
Mon, 01 Aug 2022 - 02min - 27 - Worry Not
Worry is a problem that disguises itself as a solution. We have to recognize when we're caught in its insidious grasp.
Mon, 25 Jul 2022 - 03min - 26 - These Words Begin
Other people's words can guide you, but they can't be you. You need to find the words and answers that are specific to you. These words are only a beginning. They’re not an answer.
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 - 04min - 25 - Sacrificial Episode
It's hard to get beyond self preconceptions. Sometimes, we have to sacrifice our preconceptions to accept what and who we are. Learning the power of conscious release to achieve our secret self.
Sun, 10 Jul 2022 - 03min - 24 - Zen Quote Notes: Do Not Grasp
How do I grasp it? do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the self - Panchadasi - Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordful zen wonderment.
Sun, 03 Jul 2022 - 02min - 23 - Right Person, Place And Time
To live happily you’ve got to become three things, in the correct order. The right Person, in the right Place, at the right Time. This is how.
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 - 03min - 22 - Zen Quote Notes: Lake Laughter
Ten years searching in the deep forest, today great laughter at the edge of a lake. - Soen - Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordy zen wonderment.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 - 02min - 21 - LeapOf Thought
Practice allowing your thoughts to leap. We can escape our plodding, linear mental paths. By learning to leap in our minds, we can jump out of our psychological ruts.
Sun, 19 Jun 2022 - 03min - 20 - An Old Poem: BeginningsWed, 15 Jun 2022 - 01min
- 19 - Slowbulance
I like walking fast, but sometimes get stuck behind incredibly slow people. I've learned how to justify their necessity in my life. This is how.
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 - 03min - 18 - Knock On The Sky
Knock On The sky, and listen to the sound. - Zen Saying - Join while I ponder my way through this rich, wordful zen wonderment.
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 - 02min - 17 - Reflected Consciousness
We are seeking reflected consciousness in other people. There are things we look for in other people's minds, that we seek to reflect off of our own. Using others mental reactions as justifications or encouragements to your own internal processes. Our consciousnesses resonate, which makes it important to choose the right ones to reflect off of. It's important to be aware of what kind of consciousness you're reflecting.
Sun, 05 Jun 2022 - 03min - 16 - An Old Poem: OverthinkingWed, 01 Jun 2022 - 02min
- 15 - Is Everything Necessary?
IS EVERYTHING NECESSARY? Can we be consistent in gauging the "necessity" of everything that happens to us in our lives? If we understand our unconscious belief in the necessity of our causality, it can help us be more aware in our reactions.
Sun, 29 May 2022 - 03min - 14 - Catch The Vigorous Horse Of Your Mind
Catch The Vigorous Horse Of Your Mind - Zen Saying Join me as I give my random interpretation of this zen quotation.
Wed, 25 May 2022 - 02min - 13 - Perceive Your Positive
We can train our brains to think well of ourselves, beyond identifying through our unconscious negative aspects. How positively do you habitually and unconsciously perceive yourself? How much do those unconscious negative applications affect your every action and reaction? We can consciously alter any unconscious negative bias, to improve the quality of everything we do. To improve our life.
Fri, 20 May 2022 - 02min - 12 - An Old Poem: What Is Beauty?
I've been trying to figure out what Beauty is. Beauty is easy on the eyes. A living landscape built to bloom. lighting up the room with pure pleasance, removing the apocalypse with your presence. The opposite of repulsive, it's viscerally compulsive. Like opening a heart without surgery, of witnessing truth without perjury. It's the reflection of your inner image of perfection. An institution. A visual, yet musical revolution. A credit to your species evolution.
Sun, 15 May 2022 - 03min - 11 - Evolution Despite Knowledge
Sometimes, knowledge held too hard can get in the way of our evolution. We want to be quantifiable, to prove we exist by accumulating a Known Quantities to reflect ourselves visibly from, We have to create spaces between our looming, static, existing mental definitions, to see light and grow through.
Wed, 11 May 2022 - 03min - 10 - Be A Ball
Watching people move in patterns i couldn’t fathom. Detached from the overall responsibility i felt great relief in discovering that i’m not their juggler at allI’m just a ball!
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 02min - 9 - An Old Poem: What Is Purpose?
You ever feel your life has no purpose? Like a stringless kite, waiting for the wind to decide your way. Or an unformed block of clay, praying for fate to shape your surface. Believing that inside, you have a purpose, but not knowing what it could be.
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 02min - 8 - Don’t Stand Under A Challenge
Don't unconsciously stand underneath your challenges, allowing them to loom over you large. We have to position our consciousnesses to be our challenge's equal.
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 04min - 7 - Zen Quote Notes: The Only Joy In The WorldSun, 01 May 2022 - 02min
- 6 - Morning Amnesty
We can grant ourselves the blessing of Morning Amnesty, allowing ourselves time to wake, before taking upon ourselves our daily psychological burdens. We need to develop a process of granting ourselves… ease in the morning, psychologically. Gently permitting ourselves to achieve consciousness, and become an appropriate vehicle to process reality, rather than immediately falling in the deep end.
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 04min - 5 - An Old Poem: I Love Words
I love words Verbally forming intelligible allusions from ephemera. Allowing every thought to be made audible and real. I love the way words feel - when coming out of my face as they race to make a connection. I have quite a collection.
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 01min - 4 - Happiness Equation
What if Happiness was an equation that could be applied to every situation. Once you understand the math of happiness, it becomes progressively easier to achieve. This is what I think the equation is.
Sun, 01 May 2022 - 03min - 3 - Zen Quote Notes: Great Faith, Great Doubt, Great EffortSat, 30 Apr 2022 - 03min
- 2 - Action Precedes Motivation
Action precedes motivation, while sitting around precedes more sitting around. Physical momentum can guide our psychological momentum if applied appropriately. We can become philosophically inspired by action. Internal motivation will always reflect your current external momentum.
Sat, 30 Apr 2022 - 03min - 1 - Touch The Moment
It's important to be able to touch your moment. Without access to what is actually happening, right now, you can get lost trying to attempt living. Our moment must be touched.
Sat, 30 Apr 2022 - 04min
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