I’ve also never been one to really do a “resolution” I think I’ve tried it a couple times but it’s nothing really serious. I don’t need a specific day of the year to bandwagon the idea of making a change when we could do that same thing April 17th or something. It seems silly to me.
I do appreciate and understand the need to focus on our attention and what gets that. It’s not something we talk about much but I wonder if that’s intentional because the massive companies want to monopolize our attention and the more people don’t realize their attention is as important as it is, the more they can harvest it.
Giving up something to then try something makes sense, we have to balance the scale and with someone as busy as yourself, that scale needs balancing more than it needs another weight on one side.
Have you considered going passive on something like Splinterlands? I know that consumes a fair bit of time and it’s certainly fun and can be rewarding in a number of ways but the time trade off is also rewarding if you wanted to devote it to something else. I don’t know what that else is but thinking of the extra time I’m adding to my day to do other things by not actively playing at the moment. It’s a tough balance!
Coming back to the ghost thing -
We raised our son in the most natural and chemical / toxin free environment we could. My wife pumped her breast milk and he ate that for 3 years of his life. He also consumed organic, cow and lactose based formula mixed with ultra filtered reverse osmosis water. My wife ate almost all organic and we basically kept his body as pure as we could.
At about 1.5 or 2 years old he would look to this one corner of our living room and stare at it, and interact with it a bit. He would laugh and babble, do the baby talk towards the corner and have a bit of a genuine conversation with what was in the corner.
He got a little older and we didn’t say anything about the things happening, we just let it play out as a natural experiment and made no deal out of it so that he would keep doing it and we could watch him go with it. He eventually got to talking and using real words and we asked him about it one day and he said that the person he was taking to was the man with the hat that was from the ship. I don’t know who that could be and it may not have rung a bell with my wife on her side of the family but the person he was talking to and interacting with seemed docile and good natured.
Our son would be over there and look up at the corner and say something or would extend his hand up to it and hold it while walking over to his toy box or something as if it was a real person. He played with it, showed it toys and things. It was the most surreal experience that we had ever witnessed and it was absolutely fascinating.
We let this go on for as long as it would and it ended about when he was 4 years old or so, and we backed off on the very strict diet, strict ultra filtered water and things since it was fairly expensive to keep that up. He was drinking more filtered water from the fridge that is likely added with fluoride and that is known to calcify the pineal gland which many say is how we have the capability to do these extra spiritual things.
It proves to me that there are so many things we have no idea about as adults and babies are exposed to, with the full wonder and ability that they do. Their bodies and minds aren’t bogged down by the crap we are so they can be completely open to these wonderful things, and also not be subjected to the toxic soup of crap that adults have years of exposure to.