PODCAST · comedy
Fighting Utter Nothingness
by fightingutternothingness
Do you want to build a better brain that generates self appreciation and productive positivity? Independently improve your emotional and mental health? Fighting Utter Nothingness offers mindful, entertaining, philosophical processes that help you perceive yourself peacefully, and live with more internal accuracy. To find joy in life and move forward. Inspired by Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Alan Watts and Leo Buscaglia, host Mark Gilliland gives personal examples of ongoing independent mental and emotional evolution. Offering insight into the act of self perceiving. Learn how to treat yourself better. Enjoy a new episode of Fighting Utter Nothingness every Sunday, on a major podcast platform near you.
Episodes
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ZEN QUOTE NOTES - Pity AndThe Wind w/ guest Peggy Johnson
My guest Peggy Johnson and I explore the Ojibwa saying "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky."
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Positive vs Negative Processes
We have to improve our previous negative processes before trying to build new positive processes on top of them. It's hard to climb a mountain while you're digging holes.
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Happiness Willingness Test
You have to be willing to be happy inside to find reasons to be happy outside. Happiness is a choice we've got to consciously make before it can consistently occur. I've found three simple tests to discover how willing you are to be happy at any time of day.
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Talking Self vs Writing Self
For a long time, there were two forces battling inside of me to be the dominant resource of my creative output. I'm learning how to help both of them work together to create a greater good.
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Fearing You Don’t Exist
It can be easy to feel like you don't exist to the outside world. But existence has to be built from the inside out for you to be perceived. To believe yourself to be perceivable, you have to find and project your unique combination of internal specificity, otherwise you'll live as an external...
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Accepting Life’s Imperfection
It's difficult to move forward until you can accept that the world is imperfect. We have to erase our fantasies of perfection. Not being trapped static, waiting for an ideal state.
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Clearing Mental Clutter
It's important to be able to clear space in your mind to psychologically stand. Somewhere where you're not tripping over your cluttering thoughts, and projecting that mental mess upon the world around you.
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Be Now To Move Forward
Until you can reliably Be, right Now, it's hard to perceive yourself as being anywhere, or anywhen, else in the future. You have to believe in your Current Moment, for the future to be solidly perceivable. For it to be achievable!
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Becoming Perceivable
To become perceivable, we have to practice perceiving ourselves. Finding processes that bring us to the surface of our existence.
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Evolving From The Inside Out
We have to be ourselves more to move forward accurately in our lives. Evolving from the inside out.
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Being Your Accurate Inner Self
We often edit ourselves too heavily and lose access to the accurate inner us. Practice relaxing your external facade, letting the true You through.
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Writing Clarifies Mental Muddle
When our heads gets cluttered and unmanageable, relaxed random writing can help bring your pieces back in line.
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Should I Punish Myself
Punishing yourself is rarely actually useful, so it's important to ask "Should I punish myself" before punishing yourself, because the answer is probably No.
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Showing Emotions
You can use emotions to communicate better once you realize that they're constantly coming out of you.
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Choosing Better
Our choices make us, so we've got to learn how to choose better and more.
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Proactively Using The ”Family” Word
Using the "Family" word, silently to yourself, can change how you perceive potentially annoying peripheral people. Join me in attempting its proactive usage!
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Video Game Meditation
Video Game Vision can reduce the stress of chaotic, random human interactions. Consciously turning our challenges into meditations. Join Me!
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Be Yourself Every Morning
If you consciously practice being Yourself every morning, it's much harder for anyone else to Tell you who you "are". Join me in being yourself!
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Why Stop Criticising?
Why Stop Criticising? Criticism is a burden we carry around, pretending to be a strength. I'm severely reducing my criticising to improve my mental health.
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Living In Detail - Zen Quote Notes
For Zen Quote Notes, I'm looking into the saying - "We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - by Alfred North Whitehead
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Looking At Yourself
We've got to learn how to look at ourselves and like it. no matter what we look like. With one simple trick, you can make reflecting a much more enjoyable experience!
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Nothing Is ”In Your Way”
Nothing is In Your Way. "In My Way" is just a thought blockage process we practice. With effort, everything can Be Our Way. Let's find out how!
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Learning Emotional Flight
It's important that we learn how to fly inside ourselves, instead of constantly emotionally falling. Giving ourselves the choice of internal levitation, instead of living upon the whim of endless gravity.
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Dating Profile
I'm working on my online dating profile, and who better to share that with than you?
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Temporal Fractures
It's easy for our brains to become fractured into multiple time zones at the same time. We have to bring ourselves together into one time and place. Right now.
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You First
Be you first. Get in the practice of being yourself, before immediately becoming the reflection of some random external expectation. You owe it to yourself.
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I Killed A Bug
I'm poetically dealing with the emotional aftermath of unkindly killing an unsuspecting insect. Join me!
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Ease The Beginning
Beginnings are always hard. we need to be extra kind to ourselves during.
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Misery Brag
De-insperation from a world renowned Misery Coach.
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You Are Meant To Be Here
You are meant to be here! That is a fact you have to accept, before you can move through the current experience.
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Accepting Silence
My head has always been a noisy place. As I work to identify and reduce my negative thoughts, I'm learning to make silence useful.
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What Is Art
Daring to answer this endlessly debatable question.
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Non-Existent Temporal States
Anything that isn't happening right now, and I'm still emoting into, is a Non-Existent Temporal State. It's easy to get trapped in N.E.T.S.. If you can label a thought as a Non-Existent Temporal State, it allows you separate your reality from your imagination.
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Clarity
We have to strip away unnecessary layers to find our clarity.
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We Do The Best We Can
We do the best we can, with what we've got.
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Proving You Exist
Do I exist? Do you exist? Despite being visibly three dimensional, it’s easy to feel like you don't exist sometimes. It can be hard to perceive yourself as perceivable. With effort, we can start to find ourselves.
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Exercise Your Whim
You've got to exercise your Whim regularly. Whims happen all the time, and unless we're attuned to perceiving them, we can go our whole lives without being inspired by their subtle yet powerful guidance.
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Be ”Yourself”
People often say "just Be Yourself", like that's an easy thing to do. It sounds simple on its face. In theory, Being Yourself only requires two things: A) Finding who "Yourself" is, and then B) Being it. This often ends up being more difficult than it sounds. Let's explore!
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Action Precedes Motivation
Action Precedes Motivation
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Avoiding ”Should”
Should is a good word to stop saying, if you can. It's arguably useful, in small quantities, but, unrestrained, it becomes a blanket condemnation with little helpful practical process.
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Don’t Become Complete
Don't become complete.
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Fear Makes My Farts Louder
Fear Makes My Farts Louder
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Zen Quote Notes: Nap Pounds The Rice
I take a nap, making the mountain water, pound the rice. - Issa - Join me as I reflect upon this wordful wonder.
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What Are Problems?
There's a difference between a Challenge and a Problem, and if you can tell the difference, then you can react to them appropriately. A challenge is supersedeable. A problem is broken.
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SMALL IMPROVEMENTS
I've often worried that I'm not making enough BIG improvements in my life. Seeing the small improvements as unimportant. But, I had to realize that, big improvements don't just happen spontaneously. All big improvements are the result of multiple smaller efforts coming together.
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Resting Negative Face
Our resting faces give bias to future emotions. A positive facial position can keep us from becoming unconsciously angry. Your thoughts wrap around your current facial expression.
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Inner Beauty Power
Our inner beauty needs to be powered separately from our outer beauty. Ideally balancing both simultaneously. If how beautiful you feel inside is powered by how physically attractive you currently feel, your entire emotional reality will fluctuate depending upon your physical layer. Our inner...
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Epiphany Evolution
We have to have our realizations in the proper order. We all want to understand the universe. We want to understand how life works. We want all the Answers to our Questions, without having to wait around. But the truth is, we can't. We have to have our realizations in the right order, to be able…
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Make Your Head A Gentle Nest
Make your head a gentle nest, where ideas can be safely born and nurtured.
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Beware Of Imaginary Interactions
We've got to beware of engaging emotionally with our imaginations. If we can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, we won't respond appropriately.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do you want to build a better brain that generates self appreciation and productive positivity? Independently improve your emotional and mental health? Fighting Utter Nothingness offers mindful, entertaining, philosophical processes that help you perceive yourself peacefully, and live with more internal accuracy. To find joy in life and move forward. Inspired by Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Alan Watts and Leo Buscaglia, host Mark Gilliland gives personal examples of ongoing independent mental and emotional evolution. Offering insight into the act of self perceiving. Learn how to treat yourself better. Enjoy a new episode of Fighting Utter Nothingness every Sunday, on a major podcast platform near you.
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