#mentalnoise

[2nus0]

“I thought everything that shakes would eventually settle, but I’m still shaking.”

This is a vlog about the quiet war inside my mind — not burnout, not chaos — just… a silent kind of unrest.

I don’t have an answer. But maybe… just continuing to shake is okay, too. 🎥 Video in Korean — English subtitles available.

[bzyrq]

X MARKS THE SPOT...❌

The BZYRQ-X METAVERSE is here!🤩

Featuring digital artwork curated from BZYRQ & BZYRQ-X Collected...

200+ Tokens

40+ Artists

100+ Cells

29,000+ Archis

A year in the making...and much more to come!✨

❌🌐 Zone 1/6

External zones will be launched as I finish them!

DIRECT LINK:

https://protoworld.io/ufwZ1j

THE CUBE: CITY CENTER

MartinjoSs

(BZYRQ Metaverse Collaboration)

Aleksey Osipenkov

(BZYRQ Metaverse Collaboration)

cello

MarcelMuntyanu

GummyLSD

Brain Pudding

davidvnun

RITUAL

G6D

byviki

moranicol.exe

amato.tez

MickRenders

Myujii

_ex_mortal

disQtible

Nivvvo

Strangepeo

Art_vildtgrube

wadada

Protoworld

PLATFORM: ALIEN FASHION SHOW

Strangepeo

(BZYRQ Metaverse collaboration)

Kika Nicolela

viscous

House of The Model

Void Vision

PLATFORM: CYBER MUTATIONS

Art_vildtgrube

ShadowNemesys

cello

Klaw Machine

Bluetent

Aleksey Osipenkov

The Computer

xlaaam.tez

PLATFORM: GLI-I-I-TCHED

PHOSPHOR OPERATOR

_ex_mortal

Natived

TamasAntalART

XNA

Risotto

PLATFORM: FUTURE FLESH

abhominal

JPBilowus

CORRIDOR ARTISTS:

Mentalnoise

kuken

GummyLSD

moranicol.exe

IvnHgo_

MartinjoSs

Milindevil

UDntKnwWhoWeAre

Cyber Ocelot

disQtible

Dehiscence

RITUAL

PORTAL ROOM ARTISTS:

MartinjoSs

Needless One

BZYRQ

THANK YOU: I want to thank MartinjoSs, Aleksey Osipenkov & Strangepeo for collaborating with me to help put this space together. I also want to thank dpupperr & the Protoworld team for their endless enthusiasm and support.

Thank you to the artists and the Tezos community. I truly love this blockchain!💖 I appreciate how collaborative and fun and uplifting so many of you can be!✨

The BZYRQ-X METAVERSE was inspired by, and built as a tribute and home to MartinjoSs along with other artwork I have collected. Its purpose is to showcase underrepresented artists and onboard new people to web 3. It's also a place to hang out and enjoy the art.

The metaverse is a group effort.

I would like to encourage you to share this space, explore, take some selfies, visit the artwork profiles and support these artists. I hope you will enjoy the digital art I have collected as much as I do.😊

FOR BEST EXPERIENCE:

Desktop ONLY. Wait for the zone to fully load before exploring. Chrome browser & fast internet suggested. Dedicated graphics card ideal. The cell system loads incrementally- your experience may slow or speed up as you travel. This space uses a lot of memory, which builds up- refresh your browser or restart your computer as needed.

[zenwords]

[trishprattle]

Just For Existing by @mentalnoisee

Love their work so much. @mentalnoisee

[soulvedamagazine]

How to silence the mental noise

An average human being is believed to have about 60,000 thoughts a day. Sometimes, we deliberately think about things, but often, we are simply unaware of the thoughts in our heads. Irrespective of whether or not we are aware of our thoughts, they consume energy and form the ceaseless chatter in our heads. All this noise creates distractions and prevents us from concentrating on the task at hand. Just like a monkey that swings from one tree to another, our mind too jumps from one thought to another, ruminating over the past and worrying about the future.

When we silence the mental noise, we will find that our mind becomes still. It becomes calm and peaceful. Our brain begins to function better, and we become more creative, efficient and alert. We begin to feel as if we are in control. And instead of reacting to stressful life situations with fear and anxiety, we begin to face difficulties with a positive attitude.

But how do we silence the mental chatter? How do we take control of our thoughts? And how do we live life positively, experiencing abundant wellness and happiness? Soulveda explores.

Breathe with awareness

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need.” – Rumi

The practice of bringing the mind to stillness by anchoring ourselves to the present is called mindfulness. Of course, mastering mindfulness requires effort and practice. One of the simpler ways to become more mindful is by being aware of our breath. Meditation is one practice that allows us to pay attention to our breath. But often, when we sit down to meditate, we might find that random thoughts interfere. Author Stephen Richards offers a solution to this in The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation: “If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.”

The more we concentrate and pay attention to our breath, the more we’d be in sync with the present moment. After all, we can neither breathe in the past nor in the future. We can only breathe in the present—here and now. Therefore, focusing on our breath helps us become mindful, and quietens our busy mind.

Reconnect with nature

“The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it.” – Ted Trueblood

It seems our brains are wired to recharge and rejuvenate only when we are in the midst of nature. Be it by walking barefoot on earth, swimming in the sea, or listening to the song of the birds at dawn, connecting with nature helps us feel peaceful. It calms our minds and slows down our thoughts. How does this happen? David Strayer, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Utah has an explanation. According to Strayer, nature recalibrates our senses. In the Ted Talk Restore your Brain with Nature, the psychologist talks about the invigorating power of nature on our prefrontal cortex, which is the cognitive centre of our brain. He says, the more we spend time in nature, the more our overused frontal lobe revitalises. By overcoming mental fatigue and burnout, our frontal lobe heightens our senses. Hence, we become more mindful and perceptive of everything that surrounds us.

Often, we find that we are absorbed in our own thoughts that play endlessly in our heads. But by constantly ruminating, we end up amplifying the tiniest of problems.

Immerse in work

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it” – Gautama Buddha

Perhaps one of the easiest ways to still our minds is to immerse ourselves in work—be it a chore or a passion. Ironic as it might sound, the more we concentrate or indulge in something wholeheartedly, the less our thoughts are likely to be scattered. We in turn become more in sync with the present moment, and we automatically develop mindfulness.

It is, as mystic Osho writes in his article Work as Meditation: “Work and relaxation are not contradictory. In fact, the more you put yourself into work the deeper you can go into relaxation. So, both are important. The harder you work the deeper you can relax. Work is valuable. It will bring humbleness and silence. (…) Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it— whatsoever it is!—irrelevant of the fact of what it is.”

Detach from thoughts

“Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.” – Elsa Barker

We are all thinking beings. But not being able to stop thinking is a disease which allows the thoughts to overpower us. Unable to find silence within us, we begin to identify ourselves with this mental chatter. The more we begin to identify ourselves with our likes and dislikes, judgments and interpretations, the stronger our emotions grow and ruin our peace of mind.

So how do we detach ourselves from our thoughts and emotions? By neither paying attention to the voice in our heads nor suppressing them. By constantly reminding ourselves that we are not our body, we are not our mind. Of course, this isn’t easy. But the more we manage to distance ourselves from our thoughts, the more we become a spectator, a mere witnessing presence. And then, eventually, we would discover a sense of calm beyond all the mental noise. As mystic Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev says in the video How do you stop the mind’s chatter: “Once there is space between you and the mind, then what the mind is not doing… what the mind is doing is not even an issue.”

Shift your focus

“Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind.” – The 14th Dalai Lama

Often, we find that we are absorbed in our own thoughts that play endlessly in our heads. But by constantly ruminating, we end up amplifying the tiniest of problems. In the end, we lose perspective and create bigger problems for ourselves. In order to calm the mental chatter, one can shift their attention towards others. This has several benefits. One, we’d realise that we’re not alone in our pain. Everyone deals with some problem or the other and chances are, we’d even be inspired by their courage. Two, when we help others, our focus shifts from our gnawing problems to other’s problems. It provides us with a much-required distraction from the thoughts in our head. Three, by helping others, instead of stewing in negativity, we’d become agents of positivity who bring about a change in the world around us.

[davidlucker]

Felt like there’s no choice ...

[undrgrnd-nft]

UNDRGRND ARTIST: MENTALNOISE

BY CHAMALAND, ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 7TH, 2022 ON UNDRGRND.IO

UNTOUCHABLE

(This article is the result from a conversation between Mentalnoise and Lucasoxx on the PRTL Mezz, his Twitch Channel)

Born and raised in Caldas, a little town one hour away from Medellín, Colombia, Mentalnoise’s youth was conflictive, under the gaze of a traditional Christian family, most of her identity has been denied or judged even by her most inner circle. But when injustice constantly crosses you and hypocrisy prevails in the institutions of power claiming to dictate "the world's morality", there is a voice inside that emerges with more strength to fight against that impunity. There isn’t any speech that can overshadow what we see and feel every day when we go out on the street.

It's been a year since her first best-selling NFT came to light, in a wonderfully friendly event on Tezos, Objkt4Objkt. This was an impulse and a revelation to understand her work had a place in a new market prepared to see and consume her art. Recently, she quit her job as a designer to fully dedicate herself to NFTs.

The quarantine ended up consolidating her artistic project as we know it today. Mobilized by the high flow of information during the isolation, Mental encountered several cases of corruption in her country and a society that showed its different facets from the most supportive to the most cruel. It was at that moment that the idea of the mask, the evil bunny, emerged as the structure and concept of her next pieces.

Committed to the political, social and cultural reality of her country, art allows her to express what moves her; allows her to denounce evils in society; allows her to raise her voice in social networks with impact and generate critical thinking in the spectator. In her work we discover references to Colombian popular culture, the media show generated by politicians, and the injustices that surround us, added to her own internal universe, "the mental hole".

Mental says she likes "to generate images from the noise of my mind". The windows function as an analogy about observing the outside world during isolation or a mobile phone connected to the internet in which we observe constant information as if it were a window to the world. We live with our own mental noise and externalize it in one way or another. In her case, art functions as that nexus that connects what happens emotionally inside her with an external world in constant contradiction.

Undoubtedly, her journey has made her reflect on her place in the art world, the construction of her voice and the empowerment of her message. In her pieces, every detail is thought out and shared with her peers to generate a sincere and honest debate. The questioning is not only towards others, but also inward. In her own words, "it's not just about creating art and that's it, it's about generating interaction around the art created. Talking through the images and exchanging opinions with the community.”

The w3b has allowed her to reach goals she never thought possible and to express herself freely in a collaborative environment of artists and collectors from all over the world. It is very important for her to connect with colleagues, generate feedback on her pieces and share knowledge, even though she considers that she has a "paisa English" and that this is a barrier that at the moment prevents her from expanding her interaction even further. However, this does not stop Mental in her quest for construction. Today she is part of ArChain NFT Lab, La Creme de la Creme and Tokenómeno, spaces where artists and communities from all over the world come together.

As a woman artist, lesbian and Latin American, it is very important to be able to think about the impact that the w3b can have on an artist like her. The intersectionalities as inhabitants of the so-called "third world" often make our voices invisible. The cultural impact (real and virtual) that we can generate today from this technology is something that we are just building, but we bet that it can be the ideal place of expression not only for us, but also for future generations. From the "underground" of the world, from tezos and from our own realities we build a future in which we can work, formalize, identify problems and propose solutions to our art and culture. Mental is a great companion on this path, an artist who is definitely worth getting to know, and whose passing will not be forgotten in the path of the blockchain and posterity.

[mentalnoisee]

http://www.instagram.com/mentalnoise._

[mentalnoisee]

👀@artbagnft invited me to make the Artlist of the artists we exhibited at the opening of @teatroripio.co 🔥 My first mentalnoise animation🚀🎮🌌🐰🕹️ #NFTs #nftart #artbag #teatroripio #animation #illustration #draw #space https://www.instagram.com/p/CjbjGqrpvrr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mentalnoisee]

⛪✝️🖕🏽Conspiracy of silence erased the childhood of thousands of children Piece in collaboration with @undrgrnd_nft They created an article about my mentalnoise project, written by @chama.land and @lucasoxx_ 🧡👊🏽 I'm going to leave the article pinned on my profile #NFTs #nftart #NFTdrop #undrground #hipocritas #ilustration #enviadosdedios🖕🏽 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cja9xg-uHNw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mentalnoisee]

⚡Puma RS-Dreamer x Mentalnoise⚡ Edición especial para @thugdao La encuentran en @exchgART #Solana #sneakers #solanart #jcolepuma👟 #jcole #NFTs #newmint https://www.instagram.com/p/CZF4WXjp8VI/?utm_medium=tumblr