The Futility of Passive Consumption: Why Just Reading a Blog Isn't Enough

In the age of information, blogs have become a ubiquitous source of knowledge, inspiration, and entertainment.

They offer insights on everything from cooking and travel to spirituality and self-improvement. However, the act of merely reading a blog and doing nothing else is akin to window shopping at a bookstore—you admire the covers but never delve into the content. This passive consumption may feel fulfilling in the moment, but it does little to contribute to the blog's mission or your own personal growth.

The Illusion of Productivity

Reading a blog can give you the illusion of productivity. You may feel like you're gaining new insights or becoming more informed. However, this is a passive form of engagement that doesn't require you to apply what you've learned or contribute to a larger cause. It's like reading a self-help book and never implementing its advice—you gain theoretical knowledge but make no practical changes.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. When you read a blog and feel like an expert without putting any of the knowledge into practice, you're falling into this trap. You think you know more than you actually do, and this false sense of competence can be detrimental.

The Importance of Active Engagement

Active engagement means not just consuming the content but also interacting with it and applying it in real life. This could be as simple as sharing the blog post on social media to spread its message, or as complex as starting a community project based on the insights gained. Active engagement benefits both the reader and the blog's mission, creating a synergistic relationship that enriches the community as a whole.

The Karmic Perspective or the repeat of “Why should I help them?”

From a spiritual standpoint, the act of merely reading without contributing is a missed opportunity to generate positive karma. By actively engaging, you're putting positive energy into the universe, which not only benefits you but also helps to fulfill the blog's mission of spreading knowledge or awareness to ALL on Earth.

While blogs are a valuable resource for information and inspiration, passive consumption of their content is a futile exercise. To truly benefit from a blog and contribute to its mission, active engagement is crucial. Whether it's by applying the knowledge gained, sharing the content, or starting a dialogue, taking that extra step can make all the difference.

After all, knowledge is power, but only when it's put into action, again and again and again…..

Helena and Brian

Embracing the unknown

Embracing the Unknown: A Journey of Discovery and Growth

Life is full of mysteries, uncertainties, and unknowns. Sometimes, we find ourselves at the edge of our comfort zone, staring into the abyss of the unknown. Many people react to the unknown with fear and anxiety, choosing to stay within the familiarity of their comfort zones. However, embracing the unknown can be an empowering and transformative experience. In this blog, we will discuss the benefits of embracing the unknown, share some practical tips on how to do it, and inspire you to step out of your comfort zone and into the world of endless possibilities.

1. The Benefits of Embracing the Unknown

The unknown can be an exciting, liberating, and enlightening experience. Here are a few benefits of embracing the unknown:

a. Personal Growth: Facing the unknown pushes you to develop new skills, overcome fears, and broaden your horizons. Every new experience can teach you valuable lessons about yourself and the world around you.

b. Creativity and Innovation: Embracing the unknown forces you to think outside the box, explore new ideas, and find creative solutions to problems. It's the driving force behind innovation and progress.

c. Building Resilience: Confronting the unknown and overcoming challenges makes you stronger, more adaptable, and better equipped to handle life's inevitable curveballs.

d. Finding Your Purpose: Venturing into the unknown can lead you to discover your passions, find your true calling, and build a more fulfilling life.

1. Practical Tips for Embracing the Unknown

a. Cultivate a Growth Mindset: Embrace the idea that challenges and failures are opportunities for learning and growth. This mindset will help you approach the unknown with curiosity and a sense of adventure.

b. Take Small Steps: Start by stepping out of your comfort zone in small, manageable ways. Gradually push yourself to take on bigger and more unfamiliar challenges.

c. Practice Mindfulness: Engage in mindfulness practices such as meditation, yoga, or journaling to stay present and aware of your emotions and thoughts as you face the unknown.

d. Seek Support: Surround yourself with supportive friends, family, or mentors who can provide encouragement and advice as you embark on your journey.

e. Be Patient and Kind to Yourself: Embracing the unknown is not an easy process, and it's essential to be patient and gentle with yourself as you navigate through challenges and setbacks.

1. Inspirational Stories

Countless individuals throughout history have embraced the unknown and achieved greatness. Here are a few examples to inspire you:

a. J.K. Rowling: Before the success of Harry Potter, Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. She faced numerous rejections from publishers but persevered and eventually became one of the world's most successful authors.

b. Sir Edmund Hillary: Along with Tenzing Norgay, Hillary was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Despite facing extreme weather conditions and the unknown terrain, he persevered and made history.

c. Oprah Winfrey: Oprah faced numerous hardships in her early life, but she embraced the unknown and became a pioneering television host, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Conclusion

Embracing the unknown can be a thrilling and transformative journey. By stepping out of your comfort zone, facing your fears, and learning from your experiences, you can unlock your potential and create a life filled with growth, adventure, and fulfillment. So, take a deep breath, and venture into the unknown with curiosity and courage.

The possibilities are endless.

Helena and Brian

WW3 or ?

Ascend or descend, it is your choice, through your actions.

Pretty simple but profound blog, don't ya think?

Helena and Brian

Never again, again ( and again and again)

“Linda’s performance was unexpectedly sultry and funky, which might have been why the panel hadn’t guessed that t

his was the 63-year-old artist formerly known as Regan MacNeil.”

Now unless you are Dorian Gray,

you are aging at this very moment.

Society allows replays of old energies ( which include accepted judgments) and deems certain topics bad and others usable in conversations. Now we do not watch regularly television and haven't done so for years, but we do know of many shows that the public watches. The Masked Singer is one of them. Re-read the above critic quote from a recent episode with Linda Blair and ask yourself if it doesn’t exude agism and judgments.

Why can't a 63-year-old be sultry and funky? Is Chaka Khan either? How about Gladys Night? They seem to cover both categories quite well...

Is Cher sultry?

Angelica Huston?

Helen Mirren?

Angela Basset?

Society imprints categorical controls on the psyche and places a stamp of relevance on the said topic based on what exactly?

What group of people decides when a person is no longer a valid part of the world based on age or a younger person’s perceived attraction? Racism, sexism, ageism, baldism, heightism, fashionism....the list can go on and on and will until statements like the one above that are accepted are things of the past. You cannot have a balance on earth if the scales are tipped by "accepted" outdated schools of thought. Time ticks daily and we are all getting older despite creams, surgery, drugs ( medical or recreational), and denial.

Do you know what sultry is?

An “old person” who has lived a life of passion and discovery is one that can teach you about the triumphs of ascension and missteps of aging and how to live a long life...hopefully a sultry and funky one.

Do you want to know yourself and help diffuse collective judgments and help to diffuse collective thought stagnations?

Then take action! Study with us ( Hey we are old and getting older by the minute so we must know our stuff!)

and discover some amazing secrets, the more the merrier(world)!

Helena and Brian

www.lifeinsynergy.com

Flow or Undertow?

Water is an amazing teacher and

meditative aid.

If you are willing to take the time and remove your thoughts from “reality” for a bit then I ask you to sit by some moving water. If you do not have access to a river, shoreline, etc….then how about an aquarium? No? Then how about a faucet or toilet? Don’t allow yourself to be trapped into one concept of consciousness where all things must be perfect in order to achieve some sense of ascension.

Humans just love to hold onto releasing….

I mean if I see one more “star” talk about “It’s not about the money” and how they let go of the desire to succeed and now are “all” about the oneness of being in the moment of the self where they can let go and simply “be”….( whatever the hell that means)…I will truly shit myself. Of course, they can let go…because they have already amassed huge fortunes from the latest digital fan hero fest saga or overpriced sage-scented face creams carried over sacred mountains by a golden yack or made the riches of Solomon from a pop tune that is ear wormed into your head for time eternal.

They already have the freedom to sit on their asses and tap into the facade of many “self-help” Gurus and feed into an industry that truly sells a person a bullshit bill of goods. Don’t get me wrong, money is important in this world but it has NEVER been my personal focus throughout my entire career. Even though we had a HUGE rent at our swanky studio in Boston’s Back Bay, I would treat roughly 35% of clients for free and did so for years. Why? Because who am I to deny the gifts given to me and not “allow” someone to visit with me because they were “poor”.

Fuck that….as I will always remember where I come from ( a shitty violent South Boston inner-city Housing project). So I know deep inside what it is like for someone to feel “less than”….it was my job to then change that frequency to “greater than” and I did…frequently for countless people. Now I am not up a high horse, but it is also what it is, so when I see people acting like walking prophets but are only concerned with “profits” then I have to speak the truth. I so want to have a meeting with these people/gurus/podcasting know-it-alls and say “ Hey bucko, show me your superpowers!” and if I am asked about mine? Well, which instances?

Curing the blind?

Ending depression?

Making infertile women have children? 30 years migraine ceasing after 1 visit? ( which I have done…..and on and on)

See “about us” and read some clients’ testimonials if you think I am bullshitting.

Water time

Now, what should you do with water?

Well, 1st…observe it.

Appreciate the fluidity and motion and its ability to change its state into liquid, solid, and gas. 3 states of being as one.

Hmmmmm? Triune state as one… Somewhat “Holy” don’t you think? Now ponder that for a second if you are dwelling on an issue or “problem”. This Hydrogen and Oxygen substance changes states based on surroundings and yet humans hold onto situations and want “others” to change vs seeing the connection to the whole and taking the time to transmute inner stagnations…water seems to know itself more than most humans.

Watch it support and move items that live in it, see its willingness to become whatever vessel shape it is poured into…It doesn’t “poo poo” a situation, it simply flows and becomes the situation. As you are watching ( whether it is a stream or running faucet) enlighten yourself with the FACT that you are roughly 60% water and your consciousness either impedes the flow or allows the state of change of ANY “problem”.

You are water….so stop running from yourself, you are a natural flow.

Brian

Knowing thyself

Who are you inside?

Are you a person others consider “even”?

Yet you broadcast a reality that is built on pillars of sand?

Do you hold old energies within that replay year after year and then ask “Why does this always happen to me”?

Have you read countless self-help books? Gone to the imposing figure at a seminar that screams at you to MANIFEST WHAT YOU WANT!

Do you simply want to know more about the true you?

Well if bullshit was a commodity then boy oh boy there would be a ton of extremely rich people. At Life in Synergy, we spent our decades in service of the ascension of both body and mind consciousness at our multi-award-winning studios in Boston’s Back Bay. We aided countless clients and changed the course of their entire lives.

Was it easy?

Nope….and anyone that says looking at the self will be is yup, bullshitting you. Now, does that mean that it will be hard? Nope. For us, well we took on TONS of energies from TONS of people…some good, some not so good. But even the not-so-good deserved a chance to be free and we gave it our all to aid them. With our online programs, all you have to address is you…focus on you with our amazing programs.

Life is a huge crested wave and the shore awaits us all at the end, whether you just hopped up on the surfboard and began the journey, or you see the surf break coming, you owe it to yourself to end the ride at peace.

Discover who you can become, and come study with true mentors of consciousness,

Helena and Brian

Lies Lies Lies (Yeah)

If you are as old as dirt as we are, you may remember an 80s band called “The Thompson Twins”.

One big hit they had back in the day was called “Lies”….( see video).

Lying is not Godly or God-like in any way, shape, or form. The act does embrace negative forces however and does so impeccably by making a believer believe that they are not causing disruptions in the formation of peace when they lie. Some levels of lying actually feed the addictive natural hormones within, you know such as the energies of unsolved issues with parents or a deep lack of belief in self so a fabricated personality needs to be developed vs during the needed work to walk the walk of peace within to discover the inner self.

Lies bring a world of lies…the truth?

Yup, ah, duh, it sets all free.

Us

ps

Enjoy the pop synth throwback…..

Each day can crush or ascend

Did you know that all this “woo woo” stuff isn’t “woo woo-ey” at all?

I mean look at the world and step back for a moment.

What causes all this bullshit that we are experiencing on Earth?

What is the source of all the hate? war? deceit? greed, envy? Now before you think I am going to get all bible thumpy, I am not…what I am going to say is something much greater than the concept of any religion, any understanding of deities, icons, etc.

I am going to show you the 1st and most important “God” that ever existed in your life and when you read about it, you will either say “Bullshit” and click away or accept the knowledge and desire to learn more. The funny thing about either of those actions? they directly correspond to the truth I am about to say.

Ready?

Your thoughts are your God.

How did that sit with you?

Well, if you are still reading then you probably want to learn more.

My thoughts are my God? What the hell does that mean?

Well, if you have thoughts of money all the time….yup, that’s the God you worship in your heart. You will do anything to acquire a deeper connection to that God despite any negative realities that come with it. You will close down factories and put people out of work, you will cheat and steal from a co-worker, lie to acquire more of it, or work yourself to death your whole life to try and survive because your reality begins and will end with coveting this earthly concept of “wealth” and security.

You will pray for more of it, feel good when you have it, and bad when you don’t have “enough” of it. Money is something that should indeed have a surgeon general warning on each bill, credit card, Venmo, etc. The warning should read something like :

“ Warning: money will never make you feel satisfied, use and acquire with great caution”.

Your thoughts ( Your God) are focused on money ( in this instance) 1st, then all else.

Hate, violence, fear, homelessness, rape, religious wars, racism, saving the planet, sexism, etc…all come 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th if at all. The assignment of money to God thought is only made as a tool to show you dominant energies within yourself, you may or may not share this trait, but that is your duty to see where your dominant “God” is.

Regardless of which energy pops up, the only way you can identify it, is by being HONEST…..and we all know over the past x amount of years, that vibe is not the dominating force for humans on this planet. Also, if you say you pray to God, the big God….well, have you asked that one for money? relationship? etc…….hmmmm>

This is your chance to really discover yourself….study with us and find your true you.

Brian

4 Tips to Destress

Stress

I wanted to repost my tips that I was interviewed by Boston Magazine a few years ago…..with so much stress in the world, I wanted to give a few tips to help with body energy and ascension from life-sucking levels of anxiety and doom.

Scenario One: Yet Another T Breakdown or Mass Pike Traffic Jam

Instead of stewing about how late you’ll be, use your stationary time to think of something positive, Collins says.

“If you are frustrated, then create the energy of pleasure in your head. Replay a positive scenario that you have had in the past over and over for three minutes in your mind,” he recommends. “This personal life experience mantra will help to change your overall vibe and make a crappy situation more tolerable.”

Scenario Two: Work Stress

Whether it’s a tight deadline, a demanding boss, or an always-annoying co-worker, the office is rife with stressful situations. When dealing with the irritating desk-mate, Collins suggests looking inward.

“You have to realize that you can never change the other person,” he says. “If they are annoying, could you be producing annoyance energy in any way?” Take a minute to take stock of your own internal state and the vibes you’re putting off.

Scenario Three: Dealing with Rudeness

Next time your barista snaps at you or a stranger jostles you out of the way on the T, Collins says to analyze where in your body you hold that stress—maybe you make a fist or hunch your shoulders—and let it go.

“Everyone has a specific storage bank in the body that stress makes deposits to when you encounter people that pull your ‘rude trigger,'” he says. “Next time you encounter a rude person, simply adjust this area by taking a long breath, hold it for a moment, exhale, and focus in on your storage bank and relax this affected zone.”

Scenario Four: The Seat-Kicker

It’s a rule of the universe that a child will kick the back of your seat on every long flight, ever. Collins insists the annoyance can be spun into a positive.

“What I do is envision the kicks as a release mechanism,” Collins says, adding that this mindset may take a while to adopt. “With each kick, I see my tension subsiding versus increasing. I use the child’s actions to bypass a normal emotional response.”

Enjoy the above and check out our amazing mindfulness programs available to you.,,,they contain some really really good shit.

Brian