What is something you are currently pursuing in order to improve yourself?

These are the aspects of my life in which I am trying to improve my condition and state of being. I meditate, hopefully with ever increasing intensity. I do yoga, hopefully with ever increasing attention. I moved aboard a thirty-two foot boat that requires electrical, mechanical, nautical, electronic knowledge that I have little knowledge of. I'm beginning to learn new languages that I will need when I leave this country and sail to other places. I've studied Spanish, Hindi, Sanskrit, Portuguese and Malayalam. Probably the most important effort I make is in the attempt to still the mind which is the greatest interference to awareness.

Namaste'

Well my recent efforts have been to design a online forum for discussion about the mind, but no one seem to wander onto my page, and over to my video's where I talk about things such as flight-fight, affection-love, and reward and punishment, which all are the very operations behind most every experience. I thought I would start with that framework, and see if I could build on it, and have little through introspection. Attention curiosity and ignorance are something I can add to it. I am just trying to design a conceptual framework to better understand how to control emotions, and know what they mean when they are present in consciousness.

And than I am trying to go back to school to study neuroscience, so I can work on teleoperations, controlling machines using brain-waves. That will probably take me more years of mental drudgery than a solid theory of mind.

Along with this, I am waiting to take some biology classes, and try to put together a theory of biological dynamics for the brain and the body, that is more advanced than our current theories.

I'm am trying to eliminate unnecessary stress from my life. One of the easiest ways was to get rid of my aggression. I've limited my road rage. I yell less at my children. I don't speak to my exes unless absolutely necessary. I listen more. I sit still once a day and do nothing from head to toe. I spend a few minutes once a day doing some basic movements from Tae chi, or dancing, or singing at the top of my lungs off key and laugh at myself.

I am trying to enjoy life. It offers its own bumps and bruises I don't want to make more.

I'm learning to speak French just for the fun of it. At first, people kept asking "Are you going to France? Is that why you're studying French?" And I'd say "no, just for fun." But now that I speak the language, I want to go to France so bad, even though I don't have the $$! So now when people ask if I'm going to France I say "yes... someday!" :-)

i know this sounds weird, but i get easily distracted when doing anything. but i found that music helps me focus... for example: when working out, like gazing out the window and loosing count or concentration and therefore not doing situps or whatever i'm doing correctly, but i find if I put on rocky music i feel way more motivated and it helps me to focus on exercising. i find the music works in relation to what activity im doing, like putting on fast paced music makes me happier and more alert, whilst slow paced music makes me relaxed and a bit more sad. Listening to recorded football chants gets me in the mood for my football game etc.

i am still trying to find new songs to help me focus on new things so thats what im doing :)

I practice non-self-improvement daily. I think of it as self-acceptance. I really don't believe that it is possible to make one's self over to the extent that one becomes socially acceptable to one's self. It is easier, and I think more rational, to learn to like (and perhaps love) ourselves. But, the bottom line is people tend to seek distraction from what and who they are, and self-improvement is as good a distraction as any.

Kuma

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