Hey Bro, live like a Pro: Metaphysical Life Hacks (Maelinhon)

All this time I’ve been writing about all sorts of smart stuff – karmic mechanics, planets, cards, combinations, and other metaphysical topics. But, I often get questions about, let’s call it, the “down-to-earth” stuff. No money, leg hurts, no one wants to marry me, and so on. It all seems related to my topics, but from the outside, it looks like by the time you figure out those natal charts and dive in, you are old already and the question is irrelevant. Okay, challenge accepted. Let’s tackle the trendy topic of life hacks, meaning, non-obvious tricks for solving sore situations quickly (or at least making them easier). What can you do QUICKLY at home and on your own to relieve pain or add money without diving into complicated natal chart adjustments? Look no further – here are some quick and easy solutions, no strings attached!

Of course, those methods won’t magically solve chronic problems or things that are seriously broken, but even in those cases, you can still improve your situation a bit.

Here it is, Metaphysics in Life Hacks.

Problem: Something hurts / Always cold hands and feet / Uneven weight

Think of it this way: You have a gas tank full of Qi energy, like fuel that powers your body, helps you make money, and allows you to heal yourself. If something hurts, your body CAN heal it, if it has enough resources. There’s a mechanism that delivers this fuel to the injured area, and the healing process starts. In a healthy body, Qi flows freely everywhere, and if anything hurts, the body naturally heals and cleans itself.

Why does something hurt? There are two reasons only, both related to your body’s resources: either you don’t have enough resources for healing, or there’s a blockage in the energy flow, and the fuel can’t reach the affected area.
For 8 out of 10 people, the energy never reaches its destination. But why would there be a blockage? You have enough energy, but your feet are still cold and painful.

Look, from a metaphysical perspective, the elements create a single, global grid of “cells” across your entire body. This means your psyche and your physical body are one and the same body, just different ends of the same spectrum. If you have a “short circuit” caused by fear, then your kidneys will automatically start to hurt. It’s all one composition of subtle and dense fabrics, and it deteriorates simultaneously in both planes. For example, imagine you were 12 years old and you asked a girl/boy to dance at the school disco for the first time, and you were rejected and sneered down in front of everyone. Shame, humiliation, tears… Your psyche remembers this failure and tries to prevent the same situation in future. A mental block forms as: “With your face, don’t ask girls to dance, you’ll definitely get rejected.” This mental block then crawls into your energy, eventually reaching your physical plane and “locking” your facial muscles. You might not notice it, but your face is constantly tense and static, your jaw is clenched. Five to seven years later (sometimes sooner), your jaw starts to ache for no apparent reason. Or your eye. Or you get terrible acne. Essentially, the healing fuel can’t reach this part of your body; the hose is pinched, and from the constant tension (which has become habitual), your body starts to hurt.

This is how most diseases begin, except for cancer and injuries.

A blockage can be triggered by anything and everything. A parent yells at you and insults you – your stomach tightens. A close friend betrays you – your chest feels constricted. You get injured – your leg gets locked up. You experienced abuse, or even just watched a sad movie and gotten depressed or scared – your kidneys are affected. People who have experienced sexual abuse or any kind of shame related to sex often have their genital energy blocked, leading to decreased sensitivity. Then, these “disabled” people tell everyone they don’t need it and that being asexual is good and normal… An old block becomes perceived as normal; people may not feel the tension and wonder why they’re even in pain. There are five major energy planes, and they are pretty much the same for everyone. The part of your body that is blocked becomes de-energized, often cold, weak, and prone to pain. In severe cases, it might start to accumulate fat or wither away.

Life Hack: Focused Attention!

No matter what’s causing the pain, your body can still heal that area if you simply point it directly at the problem. If you have cold hands or feet, or something hurts, focus your attention on that area and hold it there for as long as possible. Just internally “feel” the painful area. You can massage or gently stroke it with your hands at the same time, but the key is in focusing your attention: where your attention goes, your Qi energy flows. Even if the condition is severe, practicing this 3-5 times a day will improve the situation and reduce pain.

The same principle applies to people who are always cold, with cold hands and feet: focus your attention on your feet or hands and hold it there. After a few minutes, they will warm up. You can even focus on 2-3 points at once, which will speed up the Qi flow throughout your body and you’ll feel warm within 10 minutes.

This practice can also work with spot weight loss, but it’s a very slow process. You can focus on your abdomen or sides, and they will start to warm up, and your body will gradually melt the fat away in those areas.

Helpful Practice: Observe Others
Watch people, especially older people. Notice how they move, which parts of their bodies seem immobile when they walk. Often, those who was yelled at as a child may have learned to pull their head into their shoulders, making themselves appear smaller. After 20 years, those people will turn their whole body but not their heads: their neck remains immobile in any position, and there’s a 99% chance it will hurt for the rest of their life. Identify these spots in others and assess yourself. Which parts do you feel less, which are cold and move less, where do you hold tension? Record a video of yourself walking – are there any unnaturally immobile parts, or any awkward, tense movements? Relax those areas and focus your attention there, this can help prevent or even eliminate illness at all.

Note: The body is the body. Physical ailments have their own points of no return, after which it’s impossible to cure them, but you can still ease their progression. So, if you’ve reached the point of surgery or collapses, this approach won’t completely solve the problem.

Problem: Can’t sleep / High blood pressure

The state of nervous tension, where your head feels like it’s going to explode, filled with a constant monologue, making it impossible to sleep due to thoughts, occurs when you transfer all your processes to your head, draining your body of energy. Remember, energy follows attention. To fall asleep, your attention needs to be in your feet, not your head. Your Qi should flow evenly, but in your case, 90% of it is stuck in your brain, causing a literal overload and a boiling point, while your body feels disconnected from life. Your head is burning, and your feet are ice-cold.

Life Hack: Focus on your feet!

Feel and “touch” both of your feet with your attention, every toe, every nail, your heels. Move your toes and mentally explore them, holding this focus for 2-3 minutes. Shift your attention to your hands and feel them for 2-3 minutes. Bring your attention to your head for a minute, then bring it back down to your feet. Hold your focus on your feet for as long as possible. If you’re tired and can’t sleep, it is likely that you’ll be knocked out like you took a sleeping pill within a couple of minutes. The Qi will flow down from your head, reducing intracranial and arterial pressure, and your brain will simply switch off into a healthy sleep. This hack also works for lowering blood pressure. And it can work in reverse – to raise blood pressure and wake up quickly, focus your attention on your head.

Problem: Nothing happens in my life, no events, just a dead end and routine.

Qi is a kind of stuff that is abundant around you, but it won’t come to you and ask for your attention. You need to move on your own to receive this energy. Where there is energy, there is movement; where there is movement, there are new lines of probability and change; where there are lines, there is energy. All that functions as a single mechanism, so the more you remain amorphous and immobile, the more depleted your pathways become, and the less new things come to you — fewer acquaintances, fewer events.

Every person, every place and object are parts of a line of events, and to have more lines in your life, you need to introduce to your life as many new objects and people as possible. In any form, in any format. If you feel that life has started resembling gray gum stretching along the same tracks, it means you have exhausted the supply of new event lines in the sector of space where you currently are. Change your sector.

Life hack: Change your routes and activities, travel, and talk to new people. Do you walk to work the same way? Start walking a different route. Do you spend your weekends doing a similar set of activities? Shift your schedule, change your habits, start new hobbies, and visit places you’ve never been. The more unfamiliar things you do, the faster the events will change. It’s very useful to meet new people, especially those who are far from you. Even just chatting online with a foreigner is already an influx of OTHER lines and events.

Take a trip, even if it’s just a couple of hours away: visit a nearby town, explore it, check out a museum, or just have lunch there. Many people think of travel as something long, expensive, requiring a lot of money and time… but it doesn’t have to be. To add fresh lines, any trip will do, because a place you’ve never been to will automatically have triggers and lines that don’t exist in your current space. Even if you can’t travel abroad, almost anyone can take a half-day trip to an unfamiliar city or fly to another region for a weekend. And if you can afford a trip abroad, even for 3-5 days, go for it!

The more unfamiliar places and objects you visit, the more fresh lines Mercury and its plane bring in. Events accelerate, and within a couple of weeks, you’ll find yourself swept up in a whirlwind of new acquaintances, opportunities, events, and a fresh breeze.

Problem: No Money!

Finances are a sore point for many, and people often start looking for curses and energy theft, when in reality, most money problems are related to the same thing as illnesses – resources. Money is something that materializes from the external world when you give there a piece of your fuel. You give resource, space gives you money back, simple as that.

But there are three pitfalls along the way. First, you might not have enough resources. When you’re pushing through illnesses, not sleeping, and wasting your energy on nonsense, it doesn’t translate into money. You simply won’t have enough for what you need. Second, simply having money energy doesn’t guarantee earnings. You still need to get it out of the space, which means (oh dear!) you still need to work and find ways to manifest your finances. If you have no skills or don’t do anything, or do it wrong, your Qi will hang around like dead weight. Third, resource is a container, and often it’s simply not big enough to hold the amount of money you need. You don’t have the pockets for it. You have the energy, the talents, but nowhere to put the earnings. Let’s look at a hack for the first scenario.

Life Hack: Buy new things more often, toss out clutter and old junk, and make your home ergonomic.

Resource is a specific amount of specific energy. Besides fueling your body, you also give resource to other people, things, space, and even your home. Energy is a substance; it decays, depletes, and can become dirty. Dirty, used-up Qi is called Sha Qi – stagnant, dirty energy. It’s prevailing in old things and junk. The more Sha Qi you have, the harder it is for fresh energy to reach you. Fresh, nourishing energy that flows directly into your resource is called Shen Qi. New things, new homes, new experiences, and creativity have a lot of Shen Qi… That pleasant feeling when you’ve had a good wash, put on fresh pajamas, and slipped into crisp, clean sheets – that’s the influx of Shen. You feel it when you’re passionately working, immersing yourself in creativity, and your body is generating resources in abundance. This is what essentially creates money in your pocket and fuels your health.

When things are worn out, broken, washed out, accumulate dirt and dust, they release their Shen completely and absorb Sha from the space. You become trapped in stagnation.

So, to jumpstart the energy flow, you need to throw away or sell everything that doesn’t bring you joy. Old, torn, dirty, and “oh, I can still wear this around the house” items – they’re all ballast, draining your resources. Throw out those mountains of old socks and worn-out t-shirts, broken items, and things you probably won’t use. Dispose of old cleaning cloths, brooms, sponges, rugs, dusty old curtains, etc. as often as possible.

Replace everything as much as possible with new items or at least leave the space empty. It’s better to have an empty balcony than one cluttered with junk. We think it’s about owning things and saving money, but in reality, these things impoverish and drain you. If you can, do a small renovation, paint the doors, renew wallpaper, replace all your household knick-knacks, dishes. If you’re really short on cash, replace the cheapest things: buy yourself new socks, t-shirts, underwear, a new tablecloth or oilcloth, a new broom, pillowcases, a new mug. Cover surfaces with new, store-bought napkins, etc. Shen is in ALL new items and substances, regardless of their price or quality, even if it’s just a cheap oilcloth from the market. That’s why you can do the new-socks-hack even weekly. They’ll provide you with a bucket of resource for the first two washes, and then you can throw them away and buy new pair again.

Clear out your storage rooms and balconies of clutter, sell the old things, and buy new things (even if it’s less, but new). Think of how you can change your room’s ergonomics: move the furniture so that you don’t bump into corners or handles, and keep clutter out of sight behind doors or in boxes. If you often bump your foot or elbow on a corner, it means that object is out of feng shui alignment, and the incoming energy will also be obstructed and lose momentum. And once again, the flow of resources won’t reach you. By the way, human clutter takes even more energy – think about that.

The more Shen = The more resource = The more money and health.

It’s a simple formula. So, to get more money, you need to paradoxically spend a little more, not save at all costs. Try it, it really works. By the way, this also applies to health and depression. And if you’re sick, change your underwear to new, store-bought items more often, wear only new and clean clothes whenever possible, change your bedding more often, and wash yourself more frequently. Even a small influx of Shen and the removal of Sha will improve your situation.

Helpful Practice: We’ve explored the hack for the first problem, although finances are more complex. If you don’t have money, review the entire cycle: how much resource do you have? how and what do you earn? can you accommodate the money that comes your way? Rethink your goals: what do you want money for? Money doesn’t just magically appear (well, it does for some, but not everyone), it needs a specific goal. So, the option “let the money come first, then I’ll figure out where to invest it” is a recipe for failure. First, you plan where to invest and what to do with it, and then it will be drawn to those goals. Don’t think in terms of “I wish I’d win the lottery and then do nothing,” think “I want to open a small restaurant with a unique concept, and here’s how I’ll run it.”

Problem: The same situation keeps repeating itself, I meet the same type of people/ I constantly see the same time on the clock, like 11:11.

Life Hack: Consider your behavior, traumas, and complexes. These signals are a “code red” from a specific planet and element; something goes wrong.

Every love is one-sided? Every boss is an aggressive jerk? You look at the clock and it’s always 22:22, and every package has 22222, and this (or another) number haunts you in your dreams and waking life? Speaking of planes and the universe, the elements don’t have a convenient website like Archaic Heart to send you messages and clearly explain what you’re doing wrong. The Universe is a conglomerate of elemental planes, including people, objects, numbers, colors, and everything in between. And if your PC has technical glitches, it displays an error message. If a planet has technical glitches, it sends signals through people and numbers, showing your supervisory interference is needed.

Every type of person is a specific planet and its elemental imprint for you. For example, if you have self-esteem issues, then you will attract people who, through (let’s say) Saturn, will point out your problem to you. Again and again, until you cry out and reconsider the problematic area. It’s not like “Oh, I’ve been cursed, I only meet alcoholics”. It’s your body system works to make every alcoholic you meet motivate you to stop meddling in other people’s lives and focus on yourself (that’s an example only, of course). Change your behavior, and you’ll change the people surrounding you.

And the repeating signal is just a reminder to deal with your clutter. The signal can be anything. What’s important is that the signal repeats and you pay attention. Make an upaya (practice) to adjust the work of certain planet that gives signals to you, review the area it provides you.

A cheat list on numbers and approximate meanings:

1 — Sun/Uranus (ego, personality).
2 — Moon (psyche, mind).
3 — Jupiter (status, all that is familiar).
4 — Rahu (the future).
5 — Mercury (mental, lines, finances).
6 — Venus/Neptune (the new, feelings, creativity).
7 — Ketu (the past).
8 — Saturn/Pluto (karma, fate, changes).
9 — Mars (Qi, balance of power).
0 — signal from the subtle plane.

For example, you keep seeing on the clock (or in a dream) 14:08. 1 + 4 + 8 = 13 = 1 + 3 = 4. Rahu is signaling to you; reconsider your attitude toward the future, your plans, and everything else; something is going wrong.

Problem: Life is unbearably hard; I can’t handle the load anymore. Everything is too bad; I feel like I’m falling apart, and there are enemies all around.

This state arises when you do not accept transformations and changes. The world changes every 2 hours, every day, every year. One thing comes, another goes; what is familiar becomes outdated; people and the world constantly improve and transform upward, information is updated and refuted. If a person clings to the old with his nails and teeth, does not let go of anything out-of-date and constantly speaks in the past tense, then ALL his resources begin to go into adjusting the irrelevant picture in his head to the relevant one on the outside.

The world has simply changed, but you don’t accept it and start looking for explanations: why doesn’t the picture match, and why do I feel so bad? Maybe it’s enemies causing harm, maybe it’s just fate, and so on. Metaphorically speaking, you’re trying to hold onto the handrail of a bus that is slowly pulling away from you, while you are already standing in a new vehicle. Either your arms will be torn off, or you will get so tired of holding on that by the time you let go, you’ll be indifferent due to burnout.

There is a Taoist principle: The essence of balance is not to cling. The essence of relaxation is not to hold on. The essence of naturalness is not to make efforts.

Life hack: Don’t cling to anything! Relax and accept EVERYTHING that comes from the world. Change and embrace the new if the old is no longer relevant.

Life will instantly become significantly easier, and you will gain strength if you don’t perceive the new as hostile, but rather relax and think: well, if that’s the case, then so be it. Don’t categorize incoming events as bad, good, shameful, or beneficial — whatever comes, let it come. The easier you accept what has arrived, the faster the bad will leave. If you try to accept the good only, the bad will still come to you, but it will break through with even more intensity, like trying to shove a spoon into a tightly closed mouth: it will hurt you more. That state when you literally feel the world collapsing around you is like closing your eyes, clenching your teeth, tensing all your muscles into a stone, and sitting like that, wondering why everything hurts.

Relax, straighten up, breathe, and let go of all the nonsense more often. Consider the thought that many things don’t concern you at all, and there’s no point in getting worked up over them. New things can actually be more convenient and better than the old ones if you take the time to sit down and understand them.

Changes are coming — then try to adapt on the wave, be among the first pioneers, they usually reap the rewards. Embrace the new, discard the old, leave places where you feel bad, and don’t cling to static objects. Otherwise, once the environment changes, static objects will crumble to dust along with you. The world is a dynamic mechanism, it destroys monolithic blocks that stand still on the way. You don’t have the strength to resist the entire Universe, so it’s better to move along with it.

Change is normal and good. Reconsidering your behavior and changing your mind is also normal and good; finding mistakes, admitting them, and asking for forgiveness is a strength, not a weakness. And by no means should you shove others’ past actions or words in their faces — people have changed, and they are entirely different now.

More hacks. Caution, some parts are Captain Obvious!

— Give a chance to improve. If someone offended you but later (even after 50 years) realized his mistake and repented — accept this. Don’t play the offended silence game; give even the last jerks a chance to atone. Sometimes even jerks see the light and change; this can happen. You shouldn’t erase events and people from your life without giving them the opportunity for redemption or change. At the same time, stop communicating with those who are a great burden to you as quickly as possible, gently, without aggression, again, with the right to recover if the person changes.

— Ask yourself various questions more often, reflect. Is this my problem? Whose problem is it, and did they ask me to intervene? What if I’m wrong, and people are not rude or tyrannical, but are genuinely pointing out my inappropriate behavior? What if people are rude and tyrannical, and my behavior is actually correct and normal? What do I really want? Not what Mom, Dad, or society want, but what do I want? What does my ideal life look like and why? What do I want to achieve? Do I truly want to achieve this, or has someone implanted these desires in my mind? Do I really consider this good/bad, or is it some dogma from the mental plane? And similar questions.

— If you don’t like something, if you like something, if you want something, or if you need help — speak up and say it directly. Always express everything in words, clarify relationships down to the core, discuss grievances and problems, and never, NEVER decide for others. Don’t assume what they wanted or felt based on your own version, don’t think that anything is obvious to anyone, and don’t decide anything for anybody. When leaving, always explain the reasons — don’t leave the person suffering in ignorance.

— “I (don’t) want” is a sufficient reason for anything; it doesn’t require additional reasons or explanations.

— If you find it hard and feel scared, don’t tense up; instead, relax and balance your behavior. Don’t stay in one mode 24/7; use willpower to switch between polarities. For example, in the morning you behave like a “Man-John,” but starting from 7 PM, no phone calls are accepted; you watch series, cry over anime, and eat ice cream. You are a girl. During this time, your inner fighter rests and recovers strength. Then the girl goes to sleep, and the fighter, with renewed energy, goes to work. Or vice versa.

— If you have the opportunity to do something good, just do it; if you can avoid doing something bad, don’t do it. Always try to imagine yourself in the shoes of the person you are interacting with. How would you feel if someone treated you that way?

— Most of what happens either lacks a clear cause and occurs by chance or is the result of planetary activity. Therefore, don’t dig into the reasons behind events, don’t look for who is to blame, and don’t dwell on the past for years. You have little time here.

— Don’t concentrate ALL your interests and activities around one event or person, or (gods forbid) around dogmas and concepts. During times of change, you are very likely to lose that one thing or that thing will be changed, and then your entire life will collapse. Spread your attention and energy evenly across 3-5 spheres; don’t just “live for X.” Live for X at 20%, for M at 20%, and so on. Then, if you lose X, you will preserve yourself and your mental health.

— Detach from other people; focus primarily on YOURSELF and YOUR problems. Mind your business, your issues come first; offer help to others only on a residual basis and only if someone asks for your assistance. It is easy and pleasant to delve into someone else’s life, while examining your own life is difficult and unpleasant. However, your own affairs should be your primary concern. Others will figure out how to live, what to wear, what to eat, and with whom to sleep.

— Value your comfort and don’t boast about your suffering. Always try to get enough sleep and avoid overworking yourself to the point of exhaustion. Take breaks during long journeys and pauses at work. To preserve your well-being, don’t push yourself to the limit; get a normal amount of sleep, and allow your body to rest and recover when it’s unwell. This way, you’ll conserve more energy and won’t start falling apart by the age of 40. Trust me, your torment and sacrifices are unnecessary and uninteresting to anyone else, and it will be you who suffers in the end.

— Don’t go where you must – go where you want. The world operates in an emotional spectrum, and the Universe creates paths where there are emotions and feelings, not where it is beneficial and sounds rationally. Therefore, the Universe doesn’t hear your rational requests — this is a foreign signal to it. The Universe doesn’t understand words but comprehends emotions very well. So, if you feel drawn to do something illogical or head in a certain direction, go there; it will definitely be rewarding and exciting, unlike the false confidence based on rational calculations. Listen to yourself and your feelings. In general, engage more often in pleasant small stuff and hobbies, even if they seem silly or strange — this also brings in energy.

— Express and do not suppress your emotions: this is your way of exchanging information with the world. It speaks to you through people and numbers, while you communicate with the world through your emotions and feelings. Only weak and pitiful people always maintain a facade, never cry, do not express emotions, and do not engage in joyful foolishness. It is easy to hold back and hide from view; it is difficult to bring to light and work with.

The strong one is strong precisely because he has overcome himself and do hard things. In our reality, strong means being soft, relaxed, and easy.

Mylene Maelinhon (c) Archaic Heart \ Material of the Marginal Metaphysics Project