What operating system are you running in your mind? You have one, but perhaps haven’t thought about it.
The whole technology world that we are now immersed in is an echo of our mind itself, and works in similar ways. The rapid expansion of technology is because it mimics and recreates systems already present in how our mind operates.
The Internet, including all our laptops and phones, is a vast system of interconnected apps, all running on operating systems, with all sorts of communication networks sending messages between them. It has energy running through the whole system. Uses water to cool the big data center organs. Sometimes gets viruses and needs downtime to get over them. Sound familiar? It has developed into a copy of how the mind and body operates.
The operating system is the main software that runs on the hardware. It’s the set of instructions that interface to the lower levels, and set up an environment for all our favorite apps to run. Your family app, your work app, your sex app, your be-husband app, your hang-out-with-friends app and so on!
You have created in your mind a complex web of apps, just like the internet! Clicking from one to the other, like you get lost down the YouTube or Netflix rabbit hole - that’s just how our minds operate. We get lost down one app (working), then suddenly click over to another (thinking about how mean our boss is) and then lose ourselves down in that app (thinking about how mean our partner is also, and how awful people in general are, and on and on). We have our favorite apps that we keep going back to, just like we keep going back to scroll on Facebook, or whatever our favorites are.
You don’t see the operating system because you’re almost always using your apps, but it’s always there, running in the background, and without it nothing would work. It fades into the background because you don’t pay attention specifically to it, but it actually defines how everything operates. The way your mind apps look and act is defined in great part by which operating system you are using, and how that is built.
So, back to the question - what is your operating system (OS)?
There are two choices, just like you have a choice of iPhone or Android… The Fear OS, or Loving-Kindness OS. I’ll leave it to you to interpret which one is which!
Here are some of the most popular apps available in the human app store! What are your favorites?
Default Apps on the Fear OS
These come pre-installed until you re-install your Loving-Kindness OS:
- The “They’re-So-Mean” App - runs constantly in the background, even when nobody’s doing anything.
- Why-Does-This-Always-Happen-to-Me - logs every disappointment, syncs automatically with victim-mode cloud storage.
- Compare-and-Despair - endlessly scrolls others’ highlight reels, drains energy fast.
- Should-Upgrade-Myself - pops up updates promising worthiness if you just try harder.
- Angry-At-Traffic - makes the whole world your enemy at 5 p.m.
- If-Only-They-Would-Change - refuses to uninstall even though it never actually works.
- Doomscroll - pulls you down the endless feed of human suffering.
- Future-Catastrophe-Simulator - consumes 98% of CPU when trying to sleep.
- Perfection-Pro - offers the illusion of control while freezing all creative functions.
- Emotional-Avoidance - disguises itself as “I’m fine,” suppresses all error messages.
Premium Apps on the Loving-Kindness OS
Available instantly once you upgrade:
- The “Everyone-Is-Doing-Their-Best” App - auto-translates judgment into compassion.
- Thank-You-Deluxe-Edition - sends spontaneous gratitude notifications to random moments.
- Gentle-Restart - one tap returns you to presence after a crash.
- Curiosity-Explorer - expands awareness bandwidth through wonder.
- Self-Soothing-Studio - generates warmth, safety, and inner touch.
- Kind-Speech - autocorrects harsh inner talk to tenderness.
- Shared-Humanity - syncs your heart with the collective.
- Breath-Messenger - delivers calm straight to the body network.
- PlayMode - reintroduces joy as your default workflow.
- Update-Now: Loving-Kindness OS v∞.0 — continuous background upgrade, no download required.
Some of the apps run on both operating systems, which do you prefer?
- Productivity
- On Fear OS: runs on anxiety and self-criticism. Automatically syncs with the the other most popular Fear OS apps, especially Compare-And-Despair, and Should-Upgrade-Myself
- On Loving-Kindness OS: becomes Creative Flow, outputting from the heart.
- Relationships
- On Fear OS: keeps score, waiting for the moment you can get them back.
- On Loving-Kindness OS: continuous flow of connection and intimacy
