Friends good morning and welcome to Day 28 of the #30daymentalchallenge. As always, join any time with link in bio. Today is a true return to basics. I was inspired by something posted yesterday by challenger @KaraDemetropou1 (used with permission): “Day 1... 1/8 
2/8 of the #30daymentalchallenge was a success! Mainly just made me aware of how shockingly often my mind defaults to seeing the negative sides of life… It's been so much more powerful than I could have imagined. I'm struck by the fact that, prior to the last few days, I let...
3/8 all these negative thoughts just run rampant, unopposed in my mind. It's challenging, to be sure, but viewing it as mental calisthenics is helping…Anxiety and general feelings of being overwhelmed is one of my main mental hurdles. But now I notice when I'm in an anxious...
4/8 loop, I counter the overwhelmed feeling with excitement (‘How incredible it is that I have so many projects / interests!’) and just keep moving forward.” Part of the premise of this exercise is that thoughts are causative, a theme I cover in The Miracle Club and elsewhere...
5/8 If that is so, then the very sustained act of mental focus changes things—we actually have material proof of this emergent from the field of neuroplasticity which uses brain scans to demonstrate how habitual thought alters neural pathways. I have two suggestions for...
6/8 today: 1) Select a book of classic New Thought literature and see how it speaks to you. Fuck the snobs: I believe that popular metaphysical literature contains rejected stones. Today I am reading “You Too, Can Be Prosperous” by Robert A. Russell (1950)...
7/8 2) If Christian iterations of the term “God” are not for you, when you encounter them in such literature (as you often will) try substituting “Nous,” which is the Hermetic term for Higher Mind...
8/8 Today’s graphic comes from artist @tim_botta who produced it in 2016. Wishing you all good things today,
-Mitch- #PMA
-Mitch- #PMA
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