Fighting Utter Nothingness

Fighting Utter Nothingness

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

August 16, 2023 33 mins

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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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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July 16, 2023 15 mins

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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July 9, 2023 8 mins

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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July 2, 2023 6 mins

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 reflection and blend into the background. You have to perceive yourself to become visible. 

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June 25, 2023 7 mins

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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June 18, 2023 12 mins

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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June 11, 2023 12 mins

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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June 4, 2023 12 mins

To become perceivable, we have to practice perceiving ourselves. Finding processes that bring us to the surface of our existence. 

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May 28, 2023 6 mins

We have to be ourselves more to move forward accurately in our lives. Evolving from the inside out. 

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May 21, 2023 14 mins

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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May 14, 2023 8 mins

When our heads gets cluttered and unmanageable, relaxed random writing can help bring your pieces back in line.

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May 7, 2023 12 mins

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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April 30, 2023 5 mins

You can use emotions to communicate better once you realize that they're constantly coming out of you. 

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April 23, 2023 6 mins

Our choices make us, so we've got to learn how to choose better and more.    

 

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April 16, 2023 12 mins

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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April 9, 2023 7 mins

Video Game Vision can reduce the stress of chaotic, random human interactions. Consciously turning our challenges into meditations. Join Me! 

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April 2, 2023 7 mins

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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March 26, 2023 8 mins

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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March 19, 2023 7 mins

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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