SUMMARY KEYWORDS
consciousness, mania, bipolar, life, feel, state, brain, part, energy, universe, manic, people, glial cells, neurons, learning, create, prefrontal cortex, happening, exercises, oneness
I think part of it is getting back to focusing on the positive aspects, I've been focusing on the negative because I work in mental health, and there's a lot of negative stuff going on. I think I could talk about that for years. And there's positive stuff too, of course. But I feel like I want to focus on the gifts and and one of the gifts is this hyper learning, and what does this hyper learning want to learn? And move towards? And is there a sustainable way to be in that consciousness. And I actually feel like manic consciousness is the new consciousness. It's playful, it's joyous. And if you look at the scale of consciousness by Dr. David Hawkins, those are the higher states of consciousness, and our brain goes there. But it's difficult to actually stay there. Because Ken Wilber talks about how states are temporary. And you can, you can by states of consciousness, you can be in a state a high state just by taking some kind of illicit drug. Whereas the stages are actually earned. So how do we embody our mania and harvest our mania and move towards practicing it to actually get to the stage of joy and playfulness and love, not just having that as a state? The state, we get a lot of times just organically through our own endogenous bio molecules, it's all we can create them ourselves. And it's a matter of I think it's a matter of how do we design our life? That is that joyful? that we're creating those biomolecules endogenously automatically. And that's part of manic lifestyle design. How do we design our life? Because when we're in that consciousness, we act in different ways. We're random or spontaneous, we're creative, we're playful, how do we design our life to just be that way. And then we're, we're almost earning that state, by creating our life in that way. And by creator creating our life in that way, we're actually in alignment with the universe and what the universe would want for us. The universe doesn't want us to be habitual, programmed, robotic drums. It wants us to be one with life. And I was listening to a talk by Eckhart totally and somebody asked, What's the significance or what's the point of mental illness or something and, and he sort of, was beating around the bush for a while. And then he actually talked about it in terms of suffering, because his things about how suffering leads to awakening, or it can. And then something he did talk about, was that it's all one life, it's all one consciousness. It's not separate, like, it's not my life and your life, it's just life. So I liked that reminder of, of the whole oneness thing, it's life. And I think that's what actually happens when we go into manic consciousness is we're just one with life. Like, that's actually the energy of life. That's the energy that feeds the plants. That's the energy that feeds all creatures on earth. But we've sort of separated ourselves from that life energy by by thinking. And I think in the end, we all get returned to that life energy, because it is just one life. It's like, I'm life and somebody else's life, and we're interacting, well, are we interacting based on the principles of life? Are we interacting based on these rules of thought that we've created with our dividing minds to keep ourselves separate? And I was thinking about how lately I've been struggling with some so called anxiety. And I haven't really created any stories in my mind about it. So I felt it mostly as pain in my body. And then sometimes I'll have a little bit of a story come up as to what it could be related to, and it could be something from years ago or now or, or whenever. And what I'm thinking though, is usually I don't feel this kind of anxiety. I go into a state of terror pretty quickly and then I dissociate and the
