I almost wept the first time I saw the view from the top of Tokyo Skytree - it was like something from a Star Wars film. I was weak because I never knew people could create something so vast beautiful... and yes, I felt the same way about the Japanese women that I do about American and European women.
Four things I recommend everyone add to their bucket list:
Experience high altitude hiking where you climb up above the clouds. Witness a storm from above the clouds. Feel as if you would tumble into space if you lost your footing. Witness something that seems sacred and scary, as if it's something you're not supposed to experience.
Learn to appreciate minimalism from the most used room in your home (office / lounge room). Spring-clean that room. Remove all the clutter, all the souvenir, the photos and cabinets full of DVDs, the drawers full of things, the wedding photos, the Diablo 2 figurines, the Diablo 3 figurines, the pack of playing cards, all of the coasters, the computer game boxes, those 10 year old video cards in the desk draw... everything. Clean slate. Remove the empty bookshelves. Remove the empty storage containers. Reintroduce the essentials: your computer or your TV or your stereo and nothing more. Add a single potted plant or a platter of three candles. Nothing more. This is how you live now. Clean. Simple. Peaceful.
Go for an hour long walk during a rainstorm. Become totally saturated so torrents of water run from your chest, all the way down the inside of your legs and over your sneakers. Appreciate the beauty of something most people flee from in terror.
Make a list of 20 jobs that you've been putting off for ages. Spend ten minutes every day addressing each of those tasks. Time yourself. Ten minutes of dedicated, uninterrupted focused work and then stop. Resume your progress the next day for precisely ten minutes and then STOP! See what happens.
Add to that list watching the sunrise every morning, our retinas are optimized to make use of the early AM solar spectrum with perfect balance red and blue in the non visual pathway for dopamine production (UVA later) and hormone optimization, essentially setting our central circadian clock for health AND enabling us to be better decision makers and pattern recognizers.
The corollary is minimizing/avoiding long wavelength blue frequencies at night (screens) which destroys neurotransmitter balance as well as melatonin release.
I almost wept the first time I saw the view from the top of Tokyo Skytree - it was like something from a Star Wars film. I was weak because I never knew people could create something so vast beautiful... and yes, I felt the same way about the Japanese women that I do about American and European women.
Four things I recommend everyone add to their bucket list:
Experience high altitude hiking where you climb up above the clouds. Witness a storm from above the clouds. Feel as if you would tumble into space if you lost your footing. Witness something that seems sacred and scary, as if it's something you're not supposed to experience.
Learn to appreciate minimalism from the most used room in your home (office / lounge room). Spring-clean that room. Remove all the clutter, all the souvenir, the photos and cabinets full of DVDs, the drawers full of things, the wedding photos, the Diablo 2 figurines, the Diablo 3 figurines, the pack of playing cards, all of the coasters, the computer game boxes, those 10 year old video cards in the desk draw... everything. Clean slate. Remove the empty bookshelves. Remove the empty storage containers. Reintroduce the essentials: your computer or your TV or your stereo and nothing more. Add a single potted plant or a platter of three candles. Nothing more. This is how you live now. Clean. Simple. Peaceful.
Go for an hour long walk during a rainstorm. Become totally saturated so torrents of water run from your chest, all the way down the inside of your legs and over your sneakers. Appreciate the beauty of something most people flee from in terror.
Make a list of 20 jobs that you've been putting off for ages. Spend ten minutes every day addressing each of those tasks. Time yourself. Ten minutes of dedicated, uninterrupted focused work and then stop. Resume your progress the next day for precisely ten minutes and then STOP! See what happens.
Can confirm, it's magical. And not Disney Sex Magick, either.
Add to that list watching the sunrise every morning, our retinas are optimized to make use of the early AM solar spectrum with perfect balance red and blue in the non visual pathway for dopamine production (UVA later) and hormone optimization, essentially setting our central circadian clock for health AND enabling us to be better decision makers and pattern recognizers.
The corollary is minimizing/avoiding long wavelength blue frequencies at night (screens) which destroys neurotransmitter balance as well as melatonin release.