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            <title><![CDATA[It’s only Thursday?]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Moore]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:16:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you feel like you are ready to give up? Yet another week into the Mundane depths of life. Mentally tired from all of the constant self-analysis and psychiatrist role-playing. I can’t help shake the feeling I am supposed to be doing something else. Do I hang on to the belief that I’m in the right place at the right time?</p><p>I don’t want to drift along in life. Without any awareness of the time, I’m wasting. Though while trying to combat each day on its own leaves me to miss out on life. “life” is happening whether I enjoy it or not. So many times, I catch myself wasting my energy. My joy, worrying about facets of life I can’t control. A need for control sheds light on deeper problems. Though things that aren’t meant for us to grip are usually the ones that bring us to our knees.</p><p>Sitting in front of my computer, I just want a break, with a side of the solution. I just want things to be fixed.</p><p>I could spell out my worries in many ways, but for now, I am grateful to be alive.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=4822ad05026b" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Maybe speak less]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Moore]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:54:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*wMcsfe9rYwa7fihf-zBF-Q.jpeg" /></figure><p>As of late glanced back at all I’d suffered in 2020 — and long before it — I was glad to shout that not just had I endure, I was flourishing! On account of a progression of intense choices that must be made as my family and I arranged for at any rate two years of a seething pandemic, racial and political disturbance, and financial precariousness, we finished the year on a rise. For sure, as a result of our arranging and a few tremendous individual movements — including a cross-country move — numerous new and promising individual and expert open doors had emerged as of late.</p><p>I’m a solid devotee to the moving of energies, that when we make even one minuscule advance forward, the universe reacts in kind and steps forward in support of ourselves. I trust in zeroing in on arrangements and not issues, turning in an emergency, making conceivably difficult forfeits now as a way to a more upbeat future, and remaining forward-centered as opposed to glancing back at a past that can’t be adjusted. These convictions caused me to move through which began as a year full of individual and expert misfortunes, even before the pandemic hit.</p><p>Presently, toward the start of another year, I’m in a peppy attitude, confident for what’s to come — even as the nation proceeds with the agonizing yet fundamental interaction of spinning through a portion of its most squeezing difficulties, as it generally has. As I microdose the quickly developing everyday consistent pattern of media reporting, I don’t have a clue how any of it affects what’s to come. All I know without a doubt is that nothing keeps going forever. Not long after something horrendous occurs, something awesome has its spot.</p><p>Did I notice how hopeful I am at this moment?</p><p>Nonetheless, my irritating confidence and trust, later on, aren’t coming off on everybody around me, and I totally get why. We will not all be in the same spot simultaneously, particularly not while the world is ablaze. So I’ve gotten myself alone in my cheer, and this has incited me to hush up about my positive thinking from here on out. This isn’t to imply that I feel as though I can’t discuss my bliss, favorable luck, and confident designs for the future, however, I would prefer not to any longer.</p><p>As a general rule, when I telephone a relative or companion trying to spread a little cheer and talk about all the astounding open doors that could be practically around the bend for us, I am met with profound moans and bookkeeping of how horrendous everything is, and has been, for as long as 10 months. Then before I know it, I’ve blown my regular high and am rather in a guiding meeting, attempting to help the beneficiary of my call locate the silver linings and turn focuses in their own and expert lives. Before the finish of every discussion, I’m spent, wishing I would’ve kept my uplifting news and forward-centered viewpoint to myself.</p><p>I have confidence in the appearance of conditions and the disadvantage of squandering my positive energy and confident direction on individuals who have neither at this moment. We as a whole develop and change at various paces, at various occasions, and in various headings, and a large portion of us will wind up voyaging alone on our own excursions.</p><p>As far as I might be concerned, this is such a period.</p><p>There is something to be said about the harmony that comes when we practice quietness when we keep even our most glad expectations and accomplishments to ourselves, wanting and shielding them from the individuals who can just empathize as opposed to compliment. There is something to be said for making and getting a charge out of the enthusiastic and fiery security of a self-care bubble in which one is encircled simply by what and who carries them delight with their similarly high vibrations. Also, there is something to be said for realizing when it’s an ideal opportunity to go inside, plan your work, work your arrangement, and talk about none of it with anybody.</p><p>The fish kicks the bucket by its mouth is a maxim that cautions of saying a lot of in case we part with bits of ourselves, data others shouldn’t or don’t have to know. It rings a bell as I venture into another year as well as another course, energy, and form of myself. With my choice to pull out from sharing my confidence and high expectations when, naturally, not every person can appreciate or respond to them, the expressions of my 90-year-old grandma ring a bell. A private individual who abhors casual banter and intrusive neighbors, when asked, “How’s beginning and end?” she regularly answers, “Express gratitude toward God for any way it is.” Moving forward, I’ll take my lines from her and other people who have discovered an incentive peacefully.</p><p>Sam Rayburn, the forty-third Speaker of the House of Representatives, when said, “Nobody has a better order of the language than the individual who keeps his mouth shut.”</p><p>Author, writer, and visual craftsman Khalil Gibran wrote in 1923’s The Prophet, “You talk when you stop to find a sense of contentment with your contemplations. Also, when you can at this point don’t abide in the isolation of your heart, you live in your lips, and sound is redirection and leisure activity. What’s more, in quite a bit of your talking, believing is half killed.”</p><p>Ultimately, and all the more clearly, entertainer Will Rogers once offered this piece of guidance: “Never botch a decent opportunity to quiet down.”</p><p>Quietness is perhaps the most respectful of practices. At the point when it serves us, it reinforces our determination. It constrains us to zero in on our relational and early-stage needs, musings, and wants. In our quietness, we discover the solidarity to help and applaud ourselves and manage without the awards or assessments of others. In our quietness, our energies are tackled rather than squandered in unlimited barrels loaded up with fish that kicked the bucket by their mouths. Also, for what it’s worth with a wide range of energy, our high vibrational frequencies are duplicated when outfit.</p><p>Pushing ahead, I trust that keeping my arrangements and realizations to myself will just fortify my indication and carry me nearer to my objectives. A portion of individuals I realize will, at last, go along with me for this piece of my excursion, while others will not have the determination or favorable luck to make the outing.</p><p>This is life. Say thanks to God for any way it is.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=6a5b14343f57" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Your Opinions don’t matter.]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Moore]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 04:05:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*_UixpNGcsss0f0PVK8AriQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>There’s a great deal to differ about nowadays: legislative issues, closures, veils, travel limitations, immunizations — and so on. And afterward, there are the more commonplace differences in regular daily existence, the easily overlooked details, such as setting the indoor regulator.</p><p>Somebody needs to turn it down. You need it up. Somebody says, “It’s excessively hot in here.” You say, “It’s not hot. It’s a virus.” Before you know it, you’re in a senseless contention. None of us need more exacerbation, particularly at this moment.</p><p>To communicate deferentially and defuse contentions before they start, you should comprehend the contrast between realities, sentiments, and poisonous feelings.</p><p>Reality is a thing that is known or demonstrated to be valid:</p><p>The Earth is round.</p><p>Google is a web search tool.</p><p>Water is a basic particle of emphatically charged hydrogen molecules and one huge contrarily charged oxygen iota.</p><p>An assessment is a view or judgment that relies upon your evaluation:</p><p>I like pizza.</p><p>I feel cheerful when I go for a stroll.</p><p>I like to wear dull tones.</p><p>A poisonous assessment is an assessment masked as a reality:</p><p>That undertaking won’t ever work.</p><p>There’s an overall deficiency of occupations at the present time.</p><p>There’s no expect a superior life today.</p><p>Here’s the reason poisonous suppositions are hazardous: When somebody says “It’s excessively hot in here,” it’s not difficult to get guarded, on the grounds that the assertion prohibits any likelihood that your experience may be unique. It doesn’t consider that you may be cold. “Excessively hot” is a relative term. It is anything but an all-around acknowledged truth.</p><p>It very well may be charming when a kid says “Brussels sprouts are gross.” But it’s not adorable when grown-ups talk in poisonous assessments.</p><p>Communicating an assessment masked as reality makes it poisonous in light of the fact that it decreases any other person’s viewpoint. This is the number of contentions that start: one individual forces their assessment on another person. The commonplace response is to push back forcefully, turning your own assessment poisonous accordingly: “It’s not hot in here. I’m freezing!”</p><p>Poisonous sentiments welcome preventiveness and open the entryway for contentions.</p><p>At the point when I show this idea to my customers, I request that they contend with me. I say, “The room is hot.” They say, “No, it’s definitely not. The room is fine. What’s up with you, in any case?”</p><p>At that point, I say, “Contend with me now: ‘I feel hot.’” I get numb looks. Individuals attempt to contend, however it’s difficult to contend with “I feel hot.” You can differ by saying “I feel cold,” yet that is not contending. That is simply expressing how you feel. By saying “I feel hot,” I’m not proposing every other person should feel that way. I’m just depicting how I feel and what I’m encountering.</p><p>“I” articulations exhibit individual proprietorship, responsibility, and assuming liability. By utilizing an “I” explanation, you can defuse a contention before it occurs. Exploration has shown that “I” explanations can diminish protectiveness and hostility.</p><p>Harmful conclusions welcome preventiveness and open the entryway for contentions. Haughtiness and trusting one variant of the real world — yours — is the solitary conceivable view underlies poisonous assessments and could be the single biggest maker of contentions.</p><p>There are two sorts of harmful conclusions: indifferent and individual.</p><p>Indifferent:</p><p>“Traditionalists couldn’t care less about poor people.”</p><p>“Innovation is destroying our lives.”</p><p>“Well off individuals are self-centered.”</p><p>Individual:</p><p>“You’re sluggish and surrender all the housework to me.”</p><p>“You don’t hear me out.”</p><p>“That is the dumbest thought I’ve at any point heard.”</p><p>You can reword a harmful assessment by saying “I think…,” followed by supporting realities or by expressing what you experience and how you feel. An assessment or your perspective, when grounded by current realities as you see them and the information that others may see in an unexpected way, is an amazing, direct, and aware approach to convey. It’s enabling to say, “Look, this is my assessment regarding the matter. You may deviate, yet I need you to understand my opinion.”</p><p>For instance, “I feel hot. The indoor regulator says it’s 75 degrees in here,” communicates your experience and expresses a reality. “I think innovation is destroying lives. I read an examination from Harvard referring to cellphone use by little youngsters lessens psychological cerebrum work.” “When we consent to plunk down to sit in front of the TV together, and you get on your iPad, I feel affronted and undervalued.”</p><p>The motivation behind an assessment isn’t to refute somebody or persuade them regarding your perspective. The objective is to talk honestly and precisely about what you know or accept without limiting others’ encounters. Without assessments, we would have no inventive exchange or critical thinking. We would be unfilled shells with pretty much nothing or nothing to say.</p><p>Rather than making protectiveness, an assessment welcomes discourse, since you assume liability for your perspective by saying, “I think, I accept, I propose, I recommend.” When you talk along these lines, it urges others to do likewise. Regardless of whether they take cues from you is up to them. You’ve done your part.</p><p>Everybody is qualified for their assessment, and we as a whole reserve the option to communicate our perspective. We may concur with one another or not. In any case, nobody is qualified to force their assessment on any other person — regardless of whether about governmental issues or the indoor regulator.</p><p>My better half and I have had various discussions about the indoor regulator in our home. She regularly feels more blazing than I do, and we’ve had our minutes. Presently I wear an additional layer on cool days. She dresses all the more daintily. When she says, “It’s excessively hot in here,” I grin and say, “Goodness, so you’re feeling warm? How about we turn it down for a piece.” She takes a gander at me and chuckles and says, “Right, I am feeling warm.”</p><p>I grin on the grounds that despite the fact that we both show this stuff professionally, we don’t generally hit the nail on the head. We’re only people, all things considered, living, learning, and attempting to be simply the best forms.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d8e5a7bbc82a" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine.]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Moore]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:03:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*3TgFrvXL-a4NhD2djk6WAQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>Psychoneuroimmunology and Neuro/Cellular reprogramming is energy medicine or energy psychology. We choose to describe it as “reprogramming the mind” since we view the body/mind as an electromagnetic biodynamic computer.</p><p>All healing is self-healing. The power of the mind does the healing. All we are is software developers. Our software is affirmations. They must be installed by the individual that is seeking our help.</p><p>All we seek is the original base cause, core issue, and the catalyst or activator that created the malfunctioning program. Our intent is to delete, erase, and clear the malfunctioning program or sub-personality and rewrite a new effective program that will support healing along with peace, happiness, harmony, joy, abundance, and unconditional love and acceptance in an individuals life. In this manner, we can detach from needs, wants, and asking others to tell us we have value.</p><p>It is my intent to empower people so they can reclaim their personal power, rebuild their self-esteem, self-worth, and self-confidence. In this way, they can become self-validating individuals who can step onto their life path in peace, happiness, harmony, and joy. All success is self-motivated. We can begin our spiritual journey as self-actualized people who have reclaimed their personal power and have a need to control, manipulate, or have power or authority over anyone or anything.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8da36ce56104" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[My thoughts over theirs.]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Moore]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*WecGoHYy5_jLp4hqhxJQ8A.jpeg" /></figure><p>We live in a review culture, I am unsure whether its value can be upheld. When looking for a place to advance the culinary education. I searched the web for culinary schools within the United States and worldwide. I visited a few and wasn&#39;t too impressed and for the rest, I was forced to read comments affirming my inner thoughts about culinary school. It is just a ploy to make you “feel” like a chef. I have already worked in a kitchen for 7 years. Continuing education for myself shouldn&#39;t cost 120k.</p><p>Do I focus on my desires or do I pay attention to the obvious red flags I’m seeing?</p><p>I even flew across the country to visit one location. Didn’t approve at all. Plus, upon visiting the surrounding areas. I took up some conversations with locals saying all of their friends said that the culinary schools here were a waste of money.</p><p>Then I ran into a chef, who owned his own restaurant in Breckenridge, Colorado. Called <strong><em>Yo Mommas Cantina.</em></strong> He explained to me that at this pace culinary school isn&#39;t worth it because even at that level I am still only being taught with the “idea” of being a chef. That being said I’m not even looking to really work under a big-name chef. The lifestyle of slaving through restaurants for years before earning a chance to breathe has completely evaded me.</p><p>At the end of this search, I end up not wanting to go anywhere. Spend all this money without any promise of further attainment of success. I use to hold an adverse perspective on institutionalized learning. I switched, applied to every culinary school I saw interest in. Obviously “got in” to all of them. I started to question whether or not I will actually learn anything I cant already on my own.</p><p>I was a bit discouraged, this move was supposed to be the next step into helping my mother advance her restaurant ideas. Though when I look at the whole situation, I have the experience to accomplish what I want. Without having to pay so much money.</p><p>The lesson learned here is to have confidence in your ability now. Don’t always rely on the common “next step”. Sitting down and waiting for outside validation to take action will only impede your growth.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=1c8c506296cd" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[I can smell the success]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Moore]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:29:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Why pick just one life path?</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*npA5qYinLG0mc20FKqgV0w.jpeg" /></figure><p>At this point, I’m waiting to start my professional culinary experience through culinary school. I have worked in the hospitality industry for years, from busboy to head chef in Miami. Took a while for me to realize how serious, fun, and creative food can be.</p><p>Don’t let me convince you that I am now just a chef! If only my mind could focus on just one thing. During these past few years, I have touched the highest levels of so many industries. Though not “claiming my stake” in any one sector. These sectors include Music, Energy, Financial management, Cryptocurrency, Hospitality, Technology.</p><p>With such a vast network to key players in these industries, the possibilities are limitless. The amount of product, service, and mental innovation that stems from the confluence of these experiences actually blows my mind.</p><p>I am overjoyed to have the opportunity to share the knowledge, experiences, and tastes of my world. Along the way, I will provide space for you to engage with the plans I have in store.</p><p>Thank you for accommodating my story. Enjoy!</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=25ae0d5b77e8" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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