The are many ways to live life, physically/behaviourally and symbollically. There are things to remember, and rituals to perform. Different ones in different cultures, yet all in service of the “good life”. People read scriptures and listen to holy folk, to try and learn a greater meaning, an easier path, to make sense of this chaotic series of pseudorandom events we call life. Is there any “secret knowledge”, a nugget that transforms the recepient, from a flailing near-drowner into an orca with wings? And I don’t want it to be a complicated password that I need to memorize, I would rather it be something I can do easily with minimum effort, and have it improve over time. I want guarantees for effectiveness, evidenced by logical theory and experiments. So, is there an optimal attitude? Indeed, me thinks yes.

To steal Carl Roger’s famous maxim of how one is to treat other humans, it seems to me that “Unconditional Positive Regard” is indeed an optimal attitude, and can be extrapolated to apply to the universe as a whole.

Attitudes can be adopted. Attitudes apply not only towards others, but towards oneself as one perceives all of life through their attitude. So try treating the Universe with Unconditional Positive Regard, maybe you will find it kinder to you in return.

We are all the Universe experiencing itself. Life is a lucky dance of mysteriously mingling matter and ever-flowing effervescent energy. If you are reading this, much of the difficulties in life are man-made, much of our suffering is adopted (a notable exception being the existential issues of a conscious mortal). Yet everything gains a glow when perceived via Unconditional Positive Regard.

Can we think our way into craziness? Collectively, the answer seems to be yes for sure, but what about on the individual scale? Can our thoughts affect neurological function and regulation of the brain enough to induce changes and errors in the system of producing thought? If yes, how can we use thought to ‘fix’ ourselves, and if no, what are those robust and reslient neurological systems? (Maybe we should start with simple cases like being tired?)