Simplicity – Breakaway Consciousness

Simplifying For The Sake Of Health | #Mindset | #Health | #Mindfulness | #SocialMedia

“Our life is always frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Simplify your thoughts, desires and life. Complexities and confusion make a hell out of heaven.”
– Philip Arnold

BreakawayIndividual.com
Zy Marquiez
May 30, 2019

What follows is part vent, part blog post on simplicity, but it’s going to be a bit longer than my usual blog posts. Although it might seem that I am meandering a bit, there’s a logical sequence to certain steps I (and others) took yesterday across various social media platform. More on that in a moment though.

Yesterday, I wrote about meeting someone that just moved here that was a family member, and that was my uncle. We got to talking about a variety of things, but one moment stood out most of all.

Sometimes in life, while you are talking to someone you get to a point where the conversation takes a very serious tone, the type of tone when you just have to shut the @#!$ up and let someone vent their heart out; this was one of those moments. I let him vent about his health, life, and him not having too much time left, and then the conversation leveled out to less dismal topics. This conversation left me incredibly emotional, though I masked it rather well (I hope) and I knew I just wanted to go home. Why so?

Because it reminded me of a circumstance that took place when I was much younger, though both scenarios aren’t exactly alike, but you will understand why it reminded me in a second.

In the early 2000s, I visited Puerto Rico for the first time since we moved as a family to Arizona. In a nutshell, at one point I wanted to take a picture with my grandma. And anybody that knows me personally knows that I hate taking pictures. I don’t mind it, but most of the time I don’t (usually) like taking pictures for reasons I will not get into here. And a lot of the pictures that I have taken are always on my phone, mostly pictures with friends, family and so on. This is because if I do end up taking a picture, it means a lot to me, which is why the pictures always with me. That, or you have to be one of my conniving friends (bless their hearts) and sneak a picture when I least expect it. Taking pictures of friends? Sure, I love that; I love photography in general, and I love taking pictures of my friends. But I’m not usually in a lot of the pictures.

The reason I say that is because even though I hate pictures where I’m in them, I wanted really bad to take a picture with my grandmother when we visited; so you know, I had to want to take a picture with my grandma really bad for me to even bring it up. That last day, for hours, I hounded her about taking a picture with her and she wasn’t having it. Her reasons were, because she didn’t look ‘good’ and so on. I told her that I didn’t care, but she wasn’t having it. In any respect, I gave up because she was getting annoyed and I didn’t want to bug her any longer. Now when leaving, I just had this overwhelming feeling that I would never see her again. I had never had a feeling like that before, and I thought it was stupid. In reality, I didn’t know when we (or I) would be back to visit, but I just felt really overwhelmed. It turned out that she passed away a couple of years later, all because a medical mistake in which the medical personnel didn’t read a damn chart.

I’ve searched everywhere, but I don’t think I ever took a picture with my grandma, at least not one that I can remember. I’ve gone through family photos and so on, and all I’ve seen are her and I when I was much younger, a baby for instance. Anyways, the point of this whole (lengthy) preamble is that, although I do have a feeling I will see my uncle again, he’s already on borrowed time.

This whole scenario with my grandma flashed in my mind, which made it hard for me to keep my composure because well, knowing that someone’s ticket with the reaper has already been punched will make anyone sad, if not downright depressed.

After we were done having dinner, we said our goodbyes, and I went home (and couldn’t get there fast enough) because I just wanted to lay down and not think, not that that’s possible but I just had to get home. I get home, and after changing my mind, I write the blog post that I did, which involved my uncle because that was my way of sort of venting on the issue, but I held a lot back as is evident now.

From there, I end up deciding not to lie down, and instead opt to get on a variety of social media platforms to see if I can just talk to some friends and vent. Lo and behold, it’s nothing but fire and brimstone everywhere, people arguing over the most inconsequential and trivial things that, in the grand scope of things, don’t really matter. What’s worse is how everyone were treating each other (or me) in a few respects, so I was about to make a call and get some friends to do our usual Facebook mass purge of all of our accounts as well as on other social media, but someone beat me to the punch and was seeing if we wanted to start a group on Skype to do it all simultaneously while catching up.

Before going on, why would it be important for me to purge accounts on many social media platform? This is because (1) I have already lost a few friends this year and it’s been the toughest year emotionally speaking yet that I can remember. Moreover, as mentioned before, (2) my uncle is dealing with stage 3 cancer that can’t be handled and is already on borrowed time, (3) there’s a family member in a coma (not joking) that my lovely father just happens to tell part of the entire family weeks later because (you just can’t make this stuff up) he “didn’t think it was important”.

Predictably, I’m till downright furious about that. ANY family member being in a coma, HELL, ANY HUMAN BEING, being in a coma, is as real as it gets. Not only that, but there’s also (4) the issue of my Mom’s health where she doesn’t seem to be getting completely better even though the doctors say “everything is okay” and “the cancer is gone” (we’ve heard that one before). Lastly, (5) I have been out of remission with my disease for months, and any stress affects it greatly, which is why I often seek a mindful approach, as well as employ yoga when I can at home or the gym.

My own personal reason for purging (or muting) accounts was due to stress and my goal to simplify where I can in my attempts to regain my health and get back into remission. I can’t be the best me if I’m not healthy, and I can’t be healthy if I repeatedly expose myself to things that are stressful, no matter how mindful I am, and expect for significant progress to take place. These were the vanguard reasons for me purging accounts of myriad types yesterday.

With this personally in mind, myself and others all started on Skype, but when the room got really crowded we moved to Discord, and we just began purging accounts for 6-7 hours or so. It’s exhausting removing hundreds and hundreds of accounts from multiple Facebook accounts that I use for activism and the like, dozens on Instagram, WordPress, Twitter, you name it.

I just wasn’t having it any longer, my health’s too important for me to subject myself to things I don’t have too. Some people, the ones I’ve known for a long time, I either told the straight up that I’m muting them because x,y,z, reason, and they understood. Others, if we didn’t know them in any way shape or form, or had never even realized they were on our friends list, then they got removed, while also removing accounts that are constant negativity for the sake of negativity; that was the main approach for myself and my friends. And people that I ‘kind of’, ‘sort of’, knew, it was fifty-fifty based on judgment calls for me personally.

It’s not like I don’t care about some of these people, I do. But the bottom line is that, to a great extent, we are a product of our environments, History and Epigenetics have taught us this much. If you end up subjecting yourself to stressful situations, negativity, and lots of things that you don’t have too, it’s just going to have detrimental effects on your being on an overarching basis.

Given that, at an emotional level, my plate is incredibly full and I’m already significantly stressed about many circumstances, I’m just going to be incredibly selective to what I expose myself too. It’s not that I don’t care or simply won’t talk to people and debate, or that I will not at all read things that might seem dismal and so on; it’s just that repeatedly doing so when there’s no need to doesn’t make any sense.

This year has already been incredibly tough, and I know it’s going to get tougher with time given all the above and more. I just don’t want to get to a point where I irrevocably shatter and can’t pull myself back together again is all.

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#Quote Of The Day | #Mindfulness | #Thoughts | #Mindset | #Simplicity #QualityOfConsciousness

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
– James Allen, Author of As A Man Thinketh

25 Simplicity Quotes: Simplifying Aspects Of Your Life | #Mindset | #Organizing | #Clutter

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Zy Marquiez
April 21, 2019

Do any of you have any clutter whatsoever? It’s always a sight to see a space that was immaculate turn into the earthquake child of a tornado and a volcano.

My desktops (both my actual one, and my digital) each had enough clutter to film separate episodes of hoarders. Truly. Okay, okay, not that bad, but bad enough that I can see it affecting my ‘Zenvironment’ as I like to say.

An individual’s Zenvironment is any place that brings them peace in one form or another. For me, my home office is one of them, but my home office is also the quickest place to clutter given that its my own personal ‘lab’ of sorts. Since it brings comfort, in a sense, I think it makes me lazy as a default. It’s kind of my “I’ll get to it later” zone. Yeah, uh huh. Random clutter in such a case is incredibly mentally suffocating default, but one I am willing to admit and I need to work on. A lot of work on.

As I was out getting sun today, it occurred to me to get back to my weekly routine of attempting to simplify aspects of my life in one way or another and be proactive about it. That way instances such as random clutter won’t just ‘come out of nowhere’ as if its a finished product. And that’s the thing, a little clutter is one thing, but anything more than that gets to be distracting and inefficient. That’s just the antithesis of streamlining.

But simplicity comes in many forms. It doesn’t only come in the material form, such as organizing an office. It also means organizing one’s thoughts, creating ‘simple’ habits that are positive. With that in mind, one of the simple habits I believe is helping me a lot mentally is actively doing puzzles on the phone when taking short breaks throughout the day irrespective of what I am doing. I have opted to do Sudoku, Kakuro, and Wordscapes. I strive to do one of each every day and I believe its helping my thoughts and mental faculties quite a lot.

There are many other areas in life in which simplicity will help all individuals. Below are several quotes I collated from respected individuals which allude to the importance of simplicity.

The reason for these is to contemplate them deeply and ruminate about what prompted them to make such statements. This should gives us an insight, no matter how limited, into the thinking/understanding that these individuals displayed in their daily lives:

“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“If you can’t explain it simple enough, you can’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
– Plato

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
– Coco Chanel

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
– Paramahansa Yoganda

– Simplicity will stand out, while complexity will get lost in the crowd.”
– Kevin Barnett

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
– Hans Hoffman

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
– William Golding

– “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
– Albert Einstein

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
– Bruce Lee

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
– Isaac Newton

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.”
– Clement Monk

“How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart.”
– William Wordsworth

“Today’s complexities demand greater simplicity.”
– Elder L. Tom Perry

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
– Mother Theresa

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…it takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
– Albert Einstein

“Embrace simplicity…Be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.”
– Chris Prentiss

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
– Joel Osteen

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
– Laozi

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
– Walt Whitman

“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
– Papa Ramadas

“Simplicity is realizing what you need rather than what you want.”
– Apoorve Dubey

In our current day an age, there is an excess of complexity which plagues the populace. We have all dealt with many issues which harbor extreme complexity to the hilt. Much of it is out of our hands; not all however.

If the complexity is overdone, this leads to all manner of detrimental circumstances which are harmful to the individual, waste their time, and increase their stress.

As is often the case, for many issues there are solutions that can be viewed far easier if one just takes a step back and analyzes the situation from a detached point of view. Although not taught in conventional schooling, the mental tool of seeing things from a detached macro-POV is extremely useful for being able to see how different things interlock in the grand scheme of things rather than viewing things from a 1st person limited perspective

Allow me to repeat Paramahansa Yoganda’s incisive quote that might be of great use to most of us in the current world we live in: “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

If there ever were a quote that precisely relates how people could be best served, this one would be one of them.

Its so simple, its elegant. And it would solve countless problems and ameliorate stress as well. At least for me that is the case, which is why I often remind myself to reread these since I oft-overlook them.

So why not implement simplicity into your repertoire?

It doesn’t cost anything, but it may yield everything.

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Note:

The bold letters in one of the quotes was how I found the quote; I find it fitting to keep it that way. Its intriguing that the same way the quote hearkens at simplicity, so does one word: simple. This goes to show that many times 25 words accomplish the same as one, just as an example. I tend to be quite verbose myself, but the point of simplicity remains and its a salient one at that.

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About The Author:

Zy Marquiez is an avid book reviewer, inquirer, an open-minded skeptic, yogi, and freelance writer who aims at empowering individuals while also studying and regularly mirroring subjects like Consciousness, Education, Creativity, The Individual, Ancient History & Ancient Civilizations, Forbidden Archaeology, Big Pharma, Alternative Health, Space, Geoengineering, Social Engineering, Propaganda, and much more.

#Quote Of The Day – #Simplicity

“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci