In 2021 a calming gentle stroll without an implant in your ear driving a song, book narrative, blog, etc is the best thing you can possibly do to reboot your mind and restore your soul [see photo].
I remember as a five year old running down the hill to our local beach [Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia] with my three siblings. Is it a dream? Is it an illusion? Is it a false memory? I do not know for sure that it ever happened but the very thought of it makes me calm and happy. Perhaps this is the reason that I love to go for long walks here, there, and everywhere but especially on a deserted beach in the middle of winter. Today, I go walking around my town [Prague] with the same joy. Along the way I see people jogging, riding bikes, pushing prams, etc - many of these folk are connected to some device and wear a mask. Oh my how the world has changed.
I advocate walking for the exercise [no matter your age] but even more importantly because it can act like a transcendental meditation session as in those carefree moments you can refresh your mind. You can jettison a lot of the noise, and interference, that has built up inside your otherwise rational mind. As a five year old running, swimming, building sandcastles, etc down on Bondi Beach I possessed a rational mind and as such I was a highly creative being. But in the years since the combined presence of governments, media, and corporations has piled on layer upon layer of irrational gibberish. Fortunately as a minimalist I have created a quick, and positive, way to jettison most of that gibberish. First I recognise gibberish as primarily the madness associated with "collective wants". Second I separate and bundle up all that "collective madness" much as one does when he or she separates garbage into recyclables and hard-core trash. Most of the "collective wants" that float by me today I categorise as hard-core trash.
On my walks I take in the environment around me [I wear no mask and definitely have no audio buzzing in my ears]. I consume the beauty of Prague and its ever present historical setting, the little kids with the shy glances towards me or their beaming smiles, the pretty young women who prance around knowing they are in their prime, and the general feeling of "goodwill" that prevails around me as I walk around this place. At the end my walk I may be slightly fatigued however I am always replenished. I have had a mind transplant that is good for me. I have regained some of what I had when I was five years old playing aimlessly on the sands of Bondi Beach.
Richard
My mind as a minimalist is developed on a unique sense of what I call minimal-you which, in turn, is based on individual needs not collective wants. For instruction on how to establish your sense of you: go to minimal-you.com and hit the "become a minimalist" button in the banner heading. This will take you to a payment scheme for a 10 day programme that will teach you how to design, enforce, and live with mind filters: these help you to be the best person you can be.
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