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Ok, over the next couple days I will wrap up the 31-tool-giveaway. It will remain up here on the blog indefinitely. I may record a DVD and PDF available for purchase/download from this blog and my other site very soon. Would it be useful to have these tools recorded in video format? Let me know and I will deliver the goods!

Today I will be giving you a quick shotgun blast of techniques for you to get more powerful, real, and authentic with yourself. Let’s get started!

After too much time out of my body, I came back to find my brains exploding out of my head.

24. In-The-Body Experiences: Perhaps you have heard of having out-of-body experiences. Well, I propose that those experiences have actually replaced in-body expriences as the norm. Did you remember your body sitting there in front of the screen right now? If not, this technique will help you remember to remember your body.

Again, the simplicity of this exercise probably makes you think it won’t do much for you, or that you already knew all about it. Well, I assure you, try this one for long enough and you will reinherit your body in all its glory. All it takes to have an In-body experience is to take your mind from wherever it happens to have drifted and bring it back down into the body, right where you are.

Technique 23 will help to re-boot your awareness into the space you find yourself in. Just ask, “What the Hell is Going on Here?” Next, focus your attention and awareness onto your body itself. Go ahead and whisper a little something to yourself about your bodily circumstances as you find them. “I feel my ass sitting in a chair. I feel my hands typing across this keyboard. The palms rest of the edge of the computer.”

Make it a point to do this exercise all day long. If you must, set aside three moments; once upon waking, once during midday, and once before you go to sleep. Turn the mind back on the body and you will find yourself more alive and real than you may have ever thought possible.

25. Real Sweetness:

My homemade, raw, sugar-free, delicioso plate of bliss.

This may prove difficult for some, but give it a shot. You will find yourself full of energy and happy that you went through with it. First, get yourself some REAL maple syrup. Make sure the only ingredient is maple syrup. Alternately, get yourself some honey or agave nectar. Next, throw out all the refined sugar and refined sugar products in your home.

That’s right, throw them all away. Now. Don’t just sit there reading this and not taking it seriously. You can improve your health by the end of the day by getting rid of all the corn syrup and refined sugar products from your home right now. Who cares if you still feel addicted to eating them. Just throw them away. The discomfort you feel is you gaining power over your surroundings.

Use the maple syrup, agave nectar, or honey sparingly. All three of these substances taste wonderful, even more wonderful than refined sugar and corn syrup. Learn to make your favorite recipes with these as substitutes. Your bones, teeth, blood, and brain will thank you with higher and higher level functioning the longer you stay off refind sugar.

Trust me, I know how difficult it can seem to get off sugar. I have found myself at 7/11 stores late at night with doughnuts and snickers bars in my hand. I used to go buy a whole pint of Ben and Jerry’s and eat it all in one sitting. I love the stuff. But, there is no time like the present. In fact, there is nothing but the present, and in this present, I have made powerful decisions to keep myself away from refined sugars and corn syrup. You can too. Feel the difference for yourself.

26. Ambience Administrator:

With what will you infuse your reali-tea?

A network administrator administers computer networks and makes sure they flow properly. A school administrator (supposedly) makes sure schools function and operate smoothly and properly. It follows that an Ambience Administrator makes sure that the ambience of any given location flows properly and serves the people who find themselves in it.

All who aspire to Creative Deconstruction must take up the role of Ambience Admin. What does this mean? It means becoming more and more aware of your body in every situation. Second, it involves becoming more and more aware of the places and people surrounding that body at any given time. Third, it involves injecting and/or removing influences into or out of situations to create an empowering and authentic experience.

It doesn’t really matter whether or not other people know what you are doing. Most of the time, they will not notice anything but a subtle raise in their mood and some delightful sensations in their bellies.

There are many ways to Administrate Ambience. One example is to hack your own emotions. If you find yourself a victim of some mood or limiting perspective, you can hack the mood and turn it around in your favor. You can do this by injecting a dose of authenticity into the situation. This can be as simple as looking other people in the eyes and smiling at them. Remember that everyone you see is caught in the ambience with you. Most of them are not aware of the dimension of ambience.

You, being the fully aware and awake Creative Deconstructor you are, get to infuse the situation with whatever mood or emotion you wish. Remember this next time you feel compelled to complain, talk shit, or to sit around feeling bad for yourself. You are infusing the ambience around you (and it is always around you) with negative crap. It can be likened to shitting on your own plate of gourmet food. You have to be in your ambience, so why not make it the way you like it?

Just like shitting in a toilet or a composter, you can throw tantrums, complain, and have pity parties all by yourself in a contained space. You can yell into a pillow and punch a mattress instead of yelling at and punching other people. Once you flush the toilet, let the shit disappear. Don’t go slinging it around the metaphoric walls of your life. If you sling it on your friends, it will be there for you to clean up or smell later.

Think of the ambience like a higher level of decoration. It is like the paintings and drapes in the background that everyone takes for granted and no one pays much attention to. By paying much attention to yourself and the ambience, you have already taken charge. By standing on your unshakable foundation, you may then paint your insides and outsides with the ambience of your choice. Practice in your own home. Try it out wherever you spend time.

After all, you get to choose what kind of “reality tea” you make, and with what teas and herbs you infuse it with. What do you want to experience? Go out and create it.

27. Arms as Strong as Legs:

This is a very simple strengthening exercise. If you have not worked your arms for a long time, it can help to have a partner for this part. Make sure to be safe and careful with yourself. Do nothing that harms you. All you have to do to begin training your arms to be as strong as your legs is to do handstands.

In the beginning, do your handstands against the wall. You can somersault your way up to the wall, or you can start facing away from the wall on your hands and knees and walk your feet and body up the wall until your face and chest are nearly against the wall.

From there, try holding the position each time until you can comfortably hold it for 3 minutes. After that, try one arm only. Try walking around along the wall using your hands on the ground. After a couple weeks, you can even try handstand pushups against the wall.

You will find that over time the handstands will train and strengthen all the big and small muscles in your wrists, arms, chest, and even your fingers. Try having a friend hold your legs for balance when you attempt to do the handstand without the help of a wall. Over time, it will get easier and easier for you to balance. You might even notice some subtle changes in your perception over a long period of doing the handstands. Or perhaps you won’t. In any case, they will take place.

Ok, infuse everything you experience with joy. In other words, Enjoy Everything!

Love, Wildness, Chaos, and Joy…….

-Garrett Daun