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    Kratos Guide—Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit
    Kratos Guide—Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit
    Kratos Guide—Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit
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    Kratos Guide—Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit

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    Unlock the secrets to a better you with 'Kratos Guide—Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit'. This book compiles the best blog posts from the legendary Kratosguide.com, once the go-to hub for self-improvement from 2009 to 2016.

     

    Inside, you'll find practical tips and profound insights to help you get fit, sharpen your mind, and find inner peace. It's your roadmap to personal growth and empowerment!

     

    Discover why Kratos Guide was a must-read for millions, and take the first step towards a better life today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKratos Guide
    Release dateMay 1, 2024
    ISBN9798224857401
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      Kratos Guide—Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit - Kratos Guide

      Kratos Guide

      Define Your Body, Master Your Mind, Guide Your Spirit

      Kratos Guide

      Kratos Guide

      Copyright ©2014 by Kratos Guide

      All rights reserved.

      No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

      Contents

      1.The Curse of Man

      2.Your Life

      3.25 Questions To Ask Yourself

      4.The Warrior Diet

      5.The Benefits Of Cold Showers

      6.Ego: The False Center

      7.50 Life Lessons From Marcus Aurelius, Emperor Of Rome

      8.Self Transformation Through Meditation

      9.Hack Your Brain: Polyphasic Sleep

      10.Hours Unclocked

      11.Meditation and Familiarity

      12.The Benefits Of Meditation

      13.Tesla’s Instructions

      14.16 Habits You Should Do Every Day

      15.Distorted Thinking

      16.How To Live A Limited Life

      17.Keep Goals To Yourself

      18.Never Settle For Average

      19.Bushido: The Way Of The Samurai

      20.The 48 Laws Of Power

      21.Understand That Good Things Take Time

      22.Osho’s 10 Commandments

      23.Zeno’s Paradox of the Arrow

      24.5 Training Myths Dispelled

      25.Ten Rules For Being Human

      26.Never Fear Death

      27.Aging

      28.The Mind Muscle Connection

      29.Money and Happiness

      30.The Power of Visualization

      31.Knowing Ourselves

      32.The Mystery Behind Dreaming

      The Curse of Man

      You wake up. The hour does not matter to you anymore, because you have nowhere to be, and nothing to do. This is the curse of man, you think to yourself, as you do every morning. Waking up. Consciousness. Death would be preferable, if only you had the courage to seek it out.

      You stumble towards the kitchen and make a dull mockery of what was once known as breakfast. The less effort you put into it, the better. You make your coffee, without which you couldn’t bear to attempt the long walk between your kitchen and your computer room, and then you enter your prison.

      8 hours later, you realize you’ve wasted the best part of another day. You’ve done nothing, attempted nothing, learned nothing. Deep inside of you is a man, a real man, a screaming person in chains. He hates you, and you’re afraid of him. You once wanted to be this man, but along the way you decided his path was too difficult. You chose a different road, of safety, and comfort, and hatred towards those who do what you can’t. You followed this road as far as anyone can follow it and remain sane. And too late did you realize that it was a downhill road, covered with a slippery layer of frost, and the further you go, the steeper it gets. With every day you don’t stop, you make it harder for yourself to crawl back up the mountain. And it’s a long, hard crawl.

      So, you surrender yourself to the descent, letting it take you as deep as it can, and you ignore the desperate screams of the suffering spirit chained inside you, but ignore it as you will, it’s echo still reaches you.

      This is not the way that you’re meant to live.

      And then, one day, you stop. You stop long enough to appreciate the strength of will it takes to stop, and then you’re off again. You underestimated how hard it would be.

      But even that little effort gives hope to the prisoner inside you, and hope is the only sustenance a man truly needs. You stop again and again, and relapse and fail, but every time you stop, you last a little longer, and the man inside you comes closer and closer to breaking his chains.

      And then one of the chains break. Hope gives way to fury. You stop.. But you don’t resume sliding. You begin the upwards crawl. The mountain still looms enormous, but now the man inside is breaking his chains in a demented rage and you feel his strength carrying you up. You climb, and climb, and then without expecting it, you realize the prisoner inside you has broken his last chain some time ago. You have let him take over, and you have become the man you had in you since you were born. And now you’re at the top of the mountain, fitter and stronger than you’ve ever been in your life, and you see that it’s only the first mountain in a range where each coming mountain is taller than the last. The range has no end, the peaks climbing eternal into the sky. Each one is a hard climb. Each one intimidates you. But now the man inside you is running the show, and the difficulty is a challenge you’re only too happy to take on.

      You wake up. It’s 6am, and the hour matters. You wouldn’t sleep past 6 for anyone or anything. You’re out of the house by 7, fresh and clean and energized by a freezing shower and a well made breakfast. You’re on the road, and you know where you’re going. Maybe to the field, to race against yourself, the most difficult opponent you will ever face. Maybe to the water, once again, to race against yourself. Maybe you’re on the bike, or on the rock, or on the mountain, or in the river. Maybe you’re in the air.

      You know this is what you’re meant to do. This is living. This is courage. This is confidence. This is what it means to be alive.

      At some point, however, you stop and ask yourself.. Where is the coward? Where is the doubter? Where is that old deformed being who dragged me into the darkness and kept me in chains so long ago? Does he also exist deep inside me, a prisoner but still alive, still hopeful, still waiting for his return?

      And the answer comes to you in the silence – you can’t hear him anymore. You haven’t heard him for a long time. You were sustained through the darkness by hope, and hope is a brave man’s mistress. The coward had nothing, and starved to death long ago.

      Author: Aljosa Popadic

      Your Life

      How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? How about a computer screen?

      What are you being screened from? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously?

      How are you affected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movements with those of millions of other people?

      Who or what controls your minutes and hours that add up to your life? What are you saving up your time for?

      How are you affected by the requirements of efficiency, which place value on the product rather than the process, on the future rather than the present, the present moment that is getting shorter and shorter as we speed faster and faster into the future?

      How many dollars an hour does it take to pay you to stay inside and sell things or file papers?

      What can you get later that will make up for this day of your life?

      Many of us go throughout our daily routines on autopilot, without a single thought about what our lives actually consist of. I know this because I am 100% guilty of this as well, but realize that society and the media has played a large part in conditioning humans to be this way.

      Every day millions of people turn on their TVs or computers and live vicariously through the fictional heroes and heroines that the media chooses to influence us with. While there is nothing wrong with looking up to someone with positive traits which you wish to inherit, whatever happened to becoming someone yourself?

      The next time you watch TV, pay attention to what is going on and you will see that people are literally being brainwashed since they are kids to want and consume unnecessarily. Society needs to maintain this cycle of consumption, or else how would multibillion-dollar corporations make money from selling us useless material objects, which we slave for our entire lives until we retire in our 60s?

      Tactics such as planned obsolescence, where goods are intentionally produced to be defective within a certain amount of years, are used to keep us coming back for more and more, until we realize that we don’t really need 90% of the crap that fills up our houses. Unfortunately, by then we will be too old to actually enjoy our lives.

      It starts when we are children and forced into daily routines, which serve to suppress our individualities and to constrain our thinking to fit with society’s needs. We move through preschool, kindergarten, grade school, and high school at the beginning stages of our lives, always told that we could begin to enjoy ourselves at the next stage. We go through college with the same mentality, and are quickly pushed into the workforce. Now we work our way up the ranks of the corporate ladder, still blowing through life and waiting to start actually living.

      By the time we realize we have been duped, we are usually well into our 50s and 60s and do not have much time left to actually live. It is then that we truly realize that we were supposed to enjoy the present moment of each beautiful stage. I believe that this is why midlife crises often occur, and why they are attributed to western society as well. Not many other societies in the world place so much emphasis on material wealth and the importance of individual social status. Why else are modernized countries like the United States, which is supposedly one of the best countries, not even ranked in the top 100 happiest countries in the world?

      Your life here is limited; so don’t waste it trying to live by someone else’s expectations or as a result of other people’s thinking. Every day when you wake up, get to work on accomplishing what you were put on this planet to do.

      Ever since I began contemplating these thoughts, I started to ask myself this question at the end of each day, If I died today, would I be satisfied with what I have accomplished? I don’t even have to think of a response, because deep down I know what my real answer is. Since I started to do this, I have found that my life started to head in the right direction.

      Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. -Steve Jobs

      25 Questions To Ask Yourself

      Take a little time from your busy life to ask yourself these 25 thought provoking questions. There are no right or wrong answers, just thinking about the answer is enough.

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      The Warrior Diet

      Quick, what do you think will happen if you don’t eat for 20 hours for a

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