The Zer0% Blog - Part 1 - Definitions

As I sit here, this article contains nothing; zero; zilch. But wait, my typing this means it now contains something. Right?

Hello and welcome to the world of Zer0%. I'd like you to try an exercise for your brain. To see what a state of mind can be defined as if we want to start from Zer0.

Enter into a place that you can clearly visualise but is intentionally plain. For me that is a vision of outer space with me sat comfortably on a flat rock just wide enough for my arms to hang freely at my sides. Zer0 judgements here, OK. That's my flat space rock and I like it just like that.

Be comfortable, calm and breath deeply, taking longer on the out breath than the in breath. Ease into this, eyes open and mind open too. When you are ready, consider the below. Read it slowly...

"Start by saying your name, really saying it with all your knowledge of what that name means to you and those around you. Then visualise your name disappearing off into the distance, until it no longer can be seen or used or known.

Define yourself in nouns; father, mother, brother, teacher, bus driver. Whatever you feel are the key things that make you who you are. Who are you seen as by others? What roles do you fulfil. Visualise each one taking place. Now, slowly remove each of these definitions from your mind and visualise it being pushed away out of sight, out of mind and out of you.

Repeat this until you have removed all the definitions that make you you. Take your time...

Now remove your favourite colour. You no longer have one. Favourite season; seasons don't exist here. Repeat this for whatever comes to mind. Don't fight it, let it flow. Be steady and at ease...

Detach from your physical body. Start with the part you least like about yourself, because here they simply don't exist. Now continue this until each and every atom of you has gone. Breath steadily...

Then I invite you to just sit. As you are. Thoughts are welcome to drift on by without every touching down. Hold that space. Be what you are. Let it last as long as it wants to...

Welcome to the Zer0% version of you".

How does that feel? You still existed right, but what has gone? Definitions.

I want you to really consider the following before you move on.

How do you define yourself now, once all the extrinsic viewpoints are extinguished.

Now the really positive change can occur. Now you get to rebuild this image.

In the same place in your mind. Put back only that which you intend to achieve. If you visualise it returning, then I want you to be crystal clear on the fact that you are choosing something that you ABSOLUTELY WILL go on to achieve. Let the physical ones in absolutely last. I want you to build up yourself as you want to be defined not just how you want to be seen physically. Not as you are viewed by others, but as the very best version of yourself. If you intend to be an early riser who has 20 minutes to have a coffee and stare out of the window in calm bliss 3 days a week, visualise that with all your energy. If you truly want to focus on an artistic pursuit that brings you pleasure, see that in your mind until it feels real. Want to be a writer and consistent podcast producer, then visualise that happening. Keep doing this until you feel whole.

If we learn to strip back what we have become, right back to the Zer0% version of ourselves, then we open the door to rebuilding our true selves in our own image. From that starting point of Zer0, great things can happen. Just like beginning a podcast and blog from a blank computer screen.

-Please let me know your experiences of the exercise above. What did you find in there! Comment below.-