Augusto do Carmo

10/06/2024

Controlling thoughts is crucial in managing anxiety because our thoughts have a direct impact on our emotions and overall mental well-being.

When we can control our thoughts, we can prevent ourselves from spiraling into a cycle of negative thinking that fuels anxiety.

By being mindful of our thoughts and actively challenging any negative or irrational ones, we can regain a sense of control over our anxiety levels.

This practice can also help us develop healthier coping mechanisms and reduce the intensity of anxious feelings.

Ultimately, mastering our thoughts allows us to navigate challenging situations with a clearer and calmer mindset.

If you need help with this, just let me know in the comments below 😜

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03/06/2024

Discover the Power of Your Thoughts: A Journey to Self-Understanding and Control.

The topic of Thoughts is the most taken for granted topics of social sciences in the world. Thoughts shape the world like nothing else and yet, are so hardly spoken or studied.

From personal decisions to global events, thoughts are behind every major event in our lives.

On this article, let's explore the impact of conscious awareness on creating a joyful life. Uncover the truth about thoughts and their role in shaping our reality.

Are you ready to learn what thoughts are and how to monitor them?

Check: https://www.consciouslivingcounseling.uk/post/the-power-of-thoughts or visit the link on my bio!

28/05/2024

"The first thing to do: don't get worked up. For everything happens according to the nature of all things, and in a short time you'll be nobody and nowhere, even as the great emperors Hadrian and Augustus are now. The next thing to do: consider carefully the task at hand for what it is, while remembering that your purpose is to be a good human being. Get straight to doing what nature requires of you, and speak as you see most just and fitting: with kindness, modesty, and sincerity."

-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.5

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"A primeira coisa a fazer é: não se preocupar. Pois tudo acontece de acordo com a natureza de todas as coisas, e em pouco tempo você não será ninguém nem lugar nenhum, assim como os grandes imperadores Adriano e Augusto são agora. A próxima coisa a fazer é: considerar cuidadosamente a tarefa em questão, lembrando-se ao mesmo tempo de que seu propósito é ser um bom ser humano. Vá direto ao que a natureza exige de você e fale como achar mais justo e adequado: com bondade, modéstia e sinceridade."

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Não torne a vida mais complicada do que ela já é. Aceite-a como ela se apresenta. E lembre-se de que a sua missão no mundo é apenas uma (e por isso a vida deve ser simples): ser uma boa pessoa para você, para os outros seres humanos e para TUDO o que não é humano.

30/04/2024

You surely have heard the word "ego" before.
But do you really know what the Ego is and what it is made of?
Today we are going to investigate that.

To begin with, the word 'Ego' simply comes from the Latin word meaning 'I'. So, let's start from there. 'Ego' only means 'I'. Forget, for now, about Sigmund Freud's confusing theory of the functioning of the human psyche. The ego means the 'self', the individual and unique "I".

That being said, when seeking to know more about ourselves, we tend to seek to investigate our 'ego', our 'self'. And at that moment, we are faced with questions like: 'Who am I?. And here is where the problem begins because when we seek to investigate anything, we ought to ask 'what', as in 'What is that blue dot in the sky?' or 'What are you doing here?'. So the question one has to ask when seeking to investigate themselves is 'What am I?, not "who". And here is where our journey begins.

Picture this: Jack and Joana are a couple. They have just had dinner at a restaurant in Central London where they discussed what they would do on their next holiday. Visit parents? Go hiking in the Lake District? On the way back home, at the traffic lights, they spot a billboard at a bus stop for a promotional holiday package to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Then they remember they have always wanted to visit Brazil. Done. They decide to go on holiday together to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Driving back home, Jack starts to think of things to do in Rio, soccer matches to watch, and bars to visit. Joana, however, grabs her mobile and starts to look for the safest and least dangerous areas of Rio de Janeiro to visit. Not for a second does she think of places to visit in Rio. Why?

Why did Jack and Joana, motivated by the same idea, start working on their minds on entirely different subjects? This is the very interesting level of yourself.

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10/04/2024

Are you mature like a child?
Have you ever stopped to think about what maturity means?

I fully agree with Osho who defines maturity as "childhood recovered".

But I also like to think maturity as a fruit. Think about this:

We say that a fruit is "ripe" when it is at the right point to fulfill its mission in life, which is feeding another being.

And now I ask you: isnt it the mission of all individuals to make life and the world more pleasant, safer, cleaner, more organized and etc for the children that will live thereafter? If it is not, then what is it?

Indeed I feel compeled to think that a "mature" human being is one who is supposedly ready to fulfill his role in society.

By saying that maturity is "recovered childhood", Osho leads us to reflect on who we are in the deepest part of our being, that is, what we are before being formatted by external social standards such as our culture.

Would Joseph Smith Jr have founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints if he had been born to Muslim parents? Or would Osama Bin Laden have attacked the twin towers if he had been born in Christian America? Certainly not.

But then who are we? Who are you?

Or rather, who were we before we were born, since when we are born we have our opinions, worldviews, lifestyle, political beliefs and religions delegated to the whole that surrounds us?

Maturity, therefore, is nothing more than the ability or quality to look at yourself in the mirror of life and perceive the ties, handcuffs, seals and plugs that tied, blinded and deafened us throughout our journey. Only a mature being is able to perceive and break with limiting beliefs and ideological, political, religious and social standards imposed on him by the environment.

Who remembers seeing a child on the playground refusing to play or interact with another child due to the clothes they are wearing (which in many cases betray their beliefs)? Never, right?

Children do not know what beliefs are and care little about them. That's why they hate accompanying their parents to any "formal" commitment like masses, services and the like. They can barely keep quiet and don't care to understand about the ideology they try to impose on them; their minds and especially their hearts are elsewhere. They are where it really matters: out there, on the pebble, on the earth, on the flower, on the ant, on the smile of the beggar who passes on the other side of the street to whom they would have no problem giving a hug or extending a hand.

Being mature is, therefore, I think... just BEING.

Far from everything that has been imposed on you, just being: being able to find and know your own essence.

Discover the innocence, humility and compassion that dwell in the center of your heart and approach life with love and peace, refusing to cause harm of any kind to the world.

Maturity is, in fact, the greatest of life's paradoxes, because...

Continue on my blog... Link in the bio 😉
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05/04/2024

In January 2023, NFL players, personnel, and fans around the country — including Los Angeles Rams linebacker Bobby Wagner — watched in shock and horror when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after tackling a Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver. Medical staff intervened quickly to save Hamlin’s life.

While addressing the media in the days afterward, Wagner urged players to take time to process their feelings about what happened.

“You have traumatic experiences, you have to find a way to deal with them,” Wagner told reporters. “The best way to deal with them is expressing those feelings. The thing that we’re taught to do in this sport because it’s such a quote, unquote ‘manly sport’ is to hide your feelings, hide your emotions, and any expression of these feelings and emotions makes you less of a man. I think that’s a myth. Talking about your feelings, talking about things that affect you mentally, physically are more manly than anything because it takes a lot of courage to talk about those things.”

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As I always say: those who believe they are too strong to undergo therapy are often the ones who suffer the most from mental health issues. You may be brave, but even bravery has its limits. Or have you forgotten the lesson you learned from Superman? Yes, we all have our "kryptonites," my friend.

Be courageous enough today to reach out to a counselor or therapist to discuss everything that you've been keeping to yourself before it's too late.

Here at CLC we care for mental health more than anybody else for we believe mental health is not an isolate system; rather, it is intrincately connected to the body/physical and the spiritual/energetical/moral well-being. And we are the only ones who see things this way.

Get in touch now to find out this groundbreaking new approach to mental health treatment.

03/04/2024

When was the last time that you allowed yourself mental health therapy or treatment?

Think about this for a moment 👇

Since birth, you learned to eat and evacuate. Exercise, then shower and sleep. How about your mind? Were you taught to evacuate or cleanse your mind? 🤔

Fact is: 99.99% of the world population does not know how to detoxify or cleanse their minds. Is it merely a coincidence we live in a very dangerous and chaotic world?

You might think that you don't actually need mental health support, but here is a very important tip for you: those who think they don't need are the ones that actually need it the most!

Are you one of those?

If this rings any bells over there, just send me a private message and let's talk about how mental health counselling can help you improve your social, financial, and professional life.

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12/03/2024

Whats is the differente between religiosity and spirituality?

If my mission is to raise consciouness in society, there probably is no more important subject than this. In the west, at least in Brazil, we grow up hearing that there are 3 mains subjects one should avoid arguing about (unless of course you feel like starting a bout): politics, religion and footba...

27/08/2023

Surreal!

Olha essa foto que tirei hoje em Londres (distrito de Camden). Me chamou demais a atenção.

Tá aí, um perfeito exemplo de como a falta de estudo pode construir a hipocrisia e a ignorância individual e social.

Quem aí lembra da "Cia das Índias Orientais" das aulas de História?

Era uma empresa privada utilizada de fachada pelo Reino Unido para colonizar e explorar os povos do Oriente, sobretudo a Índia.

Muito se fala de Hi**er e o Nazismo que escravizou e assassinou 8 milhões de judeus, ciganos, homossexuais e etc no séc 20 ...mas quase ninguém sabe que essa empresa, com o aval da coroa britânica explorou, escravizou e assassinou (principalmente de fome) mais de 100 milhões de índianos.

Hi**er é até hoje visto como a encarnação do demônio pelo mal que fez por uma ideologia.

Mas a coroa britânica é até idolatrada por muitos hoje mesmo tendo feito algo 100x pior igualmente por uma ideologia, o liberalismo econômico.

Será que se Hi**er tivesse vencido a 2° GM os alemães e toda a Europa estaria nas ruas como os britânicos abanando a bandeira nazista? 🤔