Ancient Philosophy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan27_Post.mp3 Stoicism has been around for a long time. Since at least 300 BC. Invented by a guy named Zeno of Citium. Plenty of Romans were also stoics. Notably, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome. He’s the guy that came up with the phrase, “The Obstacle Is The Way.” What does this mean? Every […]
Anti-Clown Frame
Deep Protection https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan15_Post.mp3 Imagine you have a friend. A potential romantic partner. You’ve been on a couple of dates and your slowly getting closer. You really like this person. You are starting to really care about this person. You feel good when they are happy. You feel bad when […]
Pre-Qualified Social Love
Dismal Science https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan14_Post.mp4 Everything has costs. Most things have benefits. Whenever we do anything, we do a cost benefit analysis. Most of this is subconscious, most of the time. You can imagine a group of monkeys a long time ago. Living in banana jungle. Maybe there might have been […]
Anti Demon Pancakes
Haunted Lady There was this crazy woman that lived alone. Her husband died, and she was financially taken care of, but she imagined that ghosts were coming to terrorize her every night. Until one night, she hallucinated a guardian angel who came to her and told her what to do to keep herself […]
Inner Game Superhero
Weird Joke Teller I’ve had this really weird friend since elementary school. He’s got this really, really deadpan sense of humor. But the jokes he makes with this deadpan sense of humor never make any sense whatsoever. But because he is so serious, and he says these really weird things with such […]
Trading Fear For Money
Horrible Horror Movie I saw this really messed up horror movie the other night. It was about this guy who was an insane killer, that pretty much lived inside of a hallucination. It started out with this guy jogging down some country road. And then a guy pulled up in a van, […]
Toothless Nightmare
How Many Cavities So the other day I went to the dentist. I hadn’t been to the dentist in a long long time. Normally this hasn’t been so bad. Occasionally I would get these pains in my teeth. Usually they would go away in a couple days. While I have the pain I would […]
Fear Of Abandonment
Reunion Party I went to a reunion recently. It was a reunion with people that I hadn’t seen in a few decades and because I’m from the generation X, we grew up, we were raised in an environment with no Internet and no social media. Generation X people are a lot less likely to […]
Why Is Money So Complicated?
Money is a huge problem for most people, but in conception and practice. For one, we never seem to have enough. On another level, we’ve got all these messed up ideas about money. Money is evil, or making money requires some kind of horrible selfishness. Sure, if you’re some kind of con artist, swindler, or […]
How To Integrate Your Parts And Respect Your Healthy Fears
There’s a theory in NLP that everybody has all these different “parts.” Most of the time, we’ve got all these parts that are trying to pull us in different directions. One part of us wants to sleep in, for example, another part knows it might feel good to get up early and get some work […]