Awake by Mario Rui Santos

01/07/2025

07/03/2025

"There is no truth, there is only perception."
Gustave Flaubert

Those who work with the human mind, its emotions, its challenges and problems, the behaviors that are created by it, know this premise: we are constantly creating within ourselves a map of what we observe and experience.

However, without this awareness, we very often delude ourselves and confuse our map with reality and make our map reality.

Understanding this dimension of our human experience is fundamental for us to be able to change these ways of looking at a reality that is always relative depending on who and how observes it.

It is also from this perspective that we should approach what afflicts, worries, or frightens us - because nothing and no one has this direct effect on us, it will always be our own perceptions that condition us in this way.

This is also the case with those who fear death.
It is never death that scares us directly, but rather the way we perceive it.

Read my latest article "The Fear(s) of Death," published in "Saúde Actual" magazine - Mar/Apr 2025: https://lnkd.in/dXWcNnQF : .
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14/02/2025

Thank you, People Of Lisbon, for your friendly visit and fantastic report. ☺️🙏
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05/02/2025

It is quite likely that we often have to go against what we feel is our essence or go against what is most natural within us, to defend ourselves, to preserve or protect ourselves.
And that doesn't mean we're betraying ourselves, it means we're loving ourselves. : .
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21/12/2024

We don't have to wait for someone to do good in return.

We don't have to demand that someone do for us what we are willing to do for them.
We don't have to place conditions on our availability and support.
But...

If in a relationship, whatever it may be - romantic, family, professional, friendship... - this energy of support, shelter, availability, support or affection only flows in one direction, it is good to stop and think.

Because this gift of ours can easily turn into a kind of "black hole" that tires and wears us out.
And at these times it is important to remember the respect that we should always have for someone, and that someone is ourselves.

Ceasing this giving may not be easy and often those who start doing it have the illusion that they are going against their essence.
Contrary to their kindness, their availability or their affection.

But doing this, with awareness of what we are doing, does not mean that we are going against our essence, it means that we are protecting it or safeguarding it for those who will need it most. : .
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05/12/2024

“The little things?
The little moments?
They're not small."
-Jon Kabat-Zinn . .
It's worth looking and seeing.
Leave aside the obvious, the superficial, the futile and delve into the seemingly insignificant detail that transports and elevates us.
That's where the Truth finds us and speaks softly in our ears. : .
Observe. Awaken. Change. . .
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17/10/2024

"I begin to know myself.
It doesn't exist.
I am the gap between what I want to be and what others have made me,
Or half that interval, because there is also life...
So, anyway…”
-Álvaro de Campos . .
(Re)Getting to know ourselves takes work.
Between disappointments and undoing mistakes, there are those who regret doing it.
But it's good to do it. Because no matter how painful the process is, it is in this process that we really begin to Exist.
And we will realize that we don't make sense any other way.
However, we live.
Anyway...

We are here to remember what we really are, what we can become - in peace and love with ourselves.
Not to be what they told us we should be, what they taught us, what indoctrinated us, what they imposed on us...
Let us remember!

And of everything we need to do to survive, to be alive, we will only count the gratitude and understanding we can have to know this more or less difficult path we have taken. . .
Suggestion of music to feel, reflect and open the soul:
Omkara - "Remember"
https://youtu.be/WnOBwEmRwhk?si=wEMYlAoUwmtvNSDk : .
Observe. Awaken. Change. . .
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19/07/2024

Sooner or later, all those who spend their lives demanding of themselves, being hard on themselves, reproaching themselves, criticizing themselves... will have to learn to be more fair and gentle with themselves.

However, before they can do this, they will need to understand that this greater fairness and lightness towards themselves will not lead them to carelessness, negligence or self-indulgence - but rather to greater peace with themselves and something closer to their happiness.

Until they understand this unconscious trap they have created for themselves, they will not allow themselves to make this change. And they will continue to suffer - unnecessarily. : .
Observe. Awaken. Change. . .
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05/02/2024

Agenda/Calendário de acções Mário Rui Santos . .
Webinar/Seminário online "Relacionamentos Tóxicos Família" (online)
- 15 Fevereiro - 20h30-22h30

Seminário "Quietude & Silêncio" (Presencial) - LISBOA
- 20 Fevereiro - 20h30-22h30

Clube de Leitura - "O Mestre" (online)
- 23 Fevereiro - 20h30-22h30

Seminário "Quietude & Silêncio" (Presencial) - PORTO
- 24 Fevereiro - 20h30-22h30

Seminário "Quietude & Silêncio" (Presencial) - ALBUFEIRA
- 2 Março - 20h30-22h30 . .
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Lisboa - Porto - Leiria - Albufeira - Online

09/08/2023

Be a dream seeder.
Not a dream killer.

14/07/2023

Every now and then ask yourself who you are.

Ask yourself who you are beyond what you do, beyond what you are in a family or a group of friends, in a community or what you supposedly are or are not in this society.

Ask yourself who you are beyond what you do or don't do, beyond what you did or didn't do, beyond what you achieved or didn't achieve in your life.

Ask yourself who you are beyond the things you supposedly have to do or to do, who you are beyond your dreams or projects.

Ask yourself from time to time.
Ask yourself who you are.
Ugly, bad, heavy or dense things can come...
But keep quiet @ and silent - let them pass, they are not yours.
Give it some time.
Maybe you have to be patient and wait a while.
But it's worth the wait.
Watch... . .
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Teilhard de Chardin . .
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Art by Alex Gray

20/03/2023

The smoking cessation protocol using hypnosis is a package of 3 sessions:
1st - Interview and self-hypnosis learning
2nd - Hypnosis and suggestions for stop smoking/start breathing
3rd - Follow-up - for any possible relapses or reinforcement

The 3 sessions should have an interval of one week between each of them.

Cost of the total package: 300,00 euros
These sessions can also be made online (skype, google.meet, whatsapp...) although the in-person format is preferrable. . .
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