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@StarStruck @innerchild I share a similar problem with being addicted to content I don’t believe one should install apps, what’s negative is the willing action to visit a site, if you make it more difficult to do that, you’ll generally just find a workaround, it’s the intention that matters, what instead you should do is set notes and reminders for why it is you are doing what it is you are doing, so when you have the desire to visit a site you’re reminded as to why you shouldn’t The issue with overindulging in books, podcasts etc... is that you never really have a thought of your own, you’re always spoon fed your ideas Its interesting that you see that self help content is addictive to you, it’s generally easier to sit around and contemplate than it is to actualise your theories There was a Leo video on the topic of addiction were he’d said something along the lines that a good definition for self help is removing addictions, the less youre addicted to things the more self actualised you are as a man or as a woman, so it’s quite paradoxical to be addicted to self help, am I becoming more self actualised by stopping my process of self actualisation No, obviously not, because when you sit around and read and listen to self help content, you’re not really self actualising, you’re just fart sniffing, because you’re not implementing what you should be doing What needs to be do is actually real simple, exercise, meditate, read, pursue something recreationally creative e.g. music etc... and don’t indulge base impulses e.g. mindless television, drugs, junk food etc... The mind likes to complicate things as justification to not do what needs to be done, but at the end of the day, your only shooting yourself in the foot I believe one of the main benefits to journaling is to make that abundantly clear to yourself, so you stop fucking yourself There are no excuses for your own failure, that applies as much to me as it does to you, we just have to put in the work In the great words of Abraham Lincoln “nut up or shut up”

@WHO IS good luck doing that, I’ve tried several times and I feel as though I’m going to pass out, maybe I’m doing it wrong but the longest time I can get up too is about 30mins ish, and by that point it’s really difficult to continue deep breathing

@StarStruck If you want to be more aware of your thoughts, set reminders on your phone to notify you to write them down occasionally, that’s personally what I do If your struggling on what topics to write about read more You can write only about what you know, so learn something BUT, don’t read too much, reading too much robs the mind of elasticity, the best way to make sure you have no thoughts of your own is to read/listen to a podcast etc... every time you have a free moment Read to kindle thought, and then when thoughts dry up, then you can read some more That way your thoughts are your own and the journal is your own I’ve had issues when writing about topics where I’m practically just putting down the opinions of someone else. Also screenshot video timestamp and specific quotations in articles or on blogs, and organise those photos in to distinct categories for your journal, that way you don’t lose interesting thoughts when they presents themselves Ypull get your ROIs way later on with a journal, it’ll come in the form of greater clarity throughout your day, just stick with it

@Nash_Octavius Thanks for the recommendation, if youre interested in morality I just read a book could the Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt who looks at morality from an evo psych perspective, I thought it was really interesting And recently I just finished reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and it really stumped because the book is a dystopia, yet there is practically no suffering in that world, that’s a pretty good description for a utopia isn’t it, a world without suffering Yet in the dystopia genre, Brave New World practically follows right after 1984, because in Huxleys novel all the people are class regimented, brain washed from their creation (not even birthed) to love their predestined position, and they’re all drugged so that they don’t feel pain or fear death, theyre practically all sedated with sex, drugs till the day they die, just pure endless hedonism But even in this society, which is far better objectively I would argue from were we are today, from an ethical perspective, you still feel as though it’s immoral because it’s take away our humanity, which made me question whether or not suffering is a moral imperative and necessary for the soul. So Brave New World has got me thinking a lot about morality lately because I was rooting for the savage throughout the book the moment he was introduced So I might give that book a read because everything I’ve read of Nietzsche’s thus far ive loved and that book could probably help settle some questions I have on morality

The serenity prayer “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change what I can and the wisdom to know the difference” Theres a recent post made here which links to your post @Malken if you’re interested it’s linked here

@Malken You’ll deal with it as long as you’re alive Just try not to see yourself as a victim in the meantime Read some philosophy Look into Stoicism, Existentialism and some Eastern Philosophy Listen to this lecture And start meditating, exercising and reading daily It’ll get easier All men die but not all men die whining

@Malken Heres the secret Stop seeing yourself as a victim The world owes you nothing

@Espaim No problem buddy, hope it’s of help

@flowboy Exactamundo dudearino Amen Godspeed in making that ?

@a e l i It’s a drug, let’s see in ten years if you feel the same way

@Leo Gura Really only 125ug, youre a lightweight lol Though it effects different people differently, those dosages I put were personal The most I’ve personally done in one sitting was 400ug of what I was told were individually 2 200ug tabs, that messed me up, practically left me catatonic, dangerous looking back, considering I was out in the woods alone, but that was a fucking spiritual experience man But one of my most intense LSD experiences I had though was on about 70ug ish, though it was mixed with cannabis, that too almost left me catatonic, because I still was somewhat in touch with my sober self, so I was more articulate and could better analyse what was happening to me, which elevated the experience and left me struggling to speak because of the intensity, especially with cannabis, as cannabis put you more in touch with your body heightening your senses, mixed with LSD it’s really as if it’s a stimulant @Peo Peo I personally only recommend doing a small dose of about 50-150ug for your first sit, just to dabble your toe into the pool, so when you move up to the heavyweights you know what youre doing Though you can be ballsy and jump right into the deep end of the pool, though I’d recommend not doing that if A you don’t have anyone you trust to trip sit you and B if you want to do it outside

@kindayellow It’s not an exact quote but I can remember Alan Watts saying something along the lines of - attempting to stop thinking with more thoughts is like trying to sooth water with an iron, all you end up doing is stirring it up Stop telling yourself to relax and just relax Meditation is not something that is done Meditation is what you are You just need to realise it Keep doing the Wim Hof method and especially start taking cold showers while doing breathing

@kindayellow Sounds like you need heroin Just joking, I think you need to stop setting so many expectations for yourself, and saying that only once these are achieved that you can relax Just relax, learn to meditate and do it consistently, and you’ll gain better control of your mind Practice some breathwork as well, I find that’s the best way to relax yourself Here are some videos to help https://youtu.be/cZ6cdIaUZCA Heres an audio book I found useful

@Ethan1 ? Good post

@JosephKnecht And the smaller mind becoming the bigger Mind is achieved by dosing the fuck out of yourself with high powered psychoactive hallucinogenic drugs But still, you would be god if you had an infinite DOF because you would be all there is and isn’t, you would simultaneously be all dimensions

@JosephKnecht Aren’t all of the dimensions our reality, just some can be easily experienced by the senses and others can’t, we’re still subject to them And how do we know the mind is 0D, because the mind constructs reality = has infinite DOF? If so how do we know the mind has infinite DOF?

@mmKay funny

4D Tesseract

@Member That’s an interesting passage, even more interesting thought to relate it to dimensions 2+ points to you @Member good stuff

@Principium Nexus Caveat, I’m uneducated on dimensions, so you can pretty much dismiss what I’m saying, I found this interesting to read anyway so I’m going to look into dimensions From what I know there are different trajectories through space time, Einstein’s theory of Proper time, is that every individual has there own time as they move through the universe, we don’t operate on a universal time, so I don’t think it invalidates the axioms, as I think that if we operate on our own time then the dimension is still unique, so it’s space time still counts as a fourth dimension https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_time I don’t think the mind necessarily has to even operate in the fourth dimension, I think that lacks imagination, the mind is much more elusive than just a fourth dimension, probably 6+++, because it is the mind that (according to materialist science) generates consciousness of which all dimensions exist within, yet again there could be an infinite number of dimensions which would invalidate the entire purpose of trying to mark a singular dimension Do you consider a specific thought to be a specific place in the universe, the universal mind that can be fully mapped out and explored as though it is a place, and when we think a thought and act upon it we are in a sense travelling though various dimensions as a sort of ripple through dimensions https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/science-discovers-human-brain-works-up-to-11-dimensions/amp Just did some googling and found this, I’m probably going do some googling and research into this, it’s pretty interesting It’s seem to me, this might be stupid, but the study of dimensions is really the bringing of science into the realm of philosophy and epistemology etc... But the study of dimensions is entirely speculative, but really what isn’t at the end of the day right?

@Peo 100ug for abstract thought 200ug for self analysis 400ug + for transcendental experiences

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@JessiChell Refer your questions to my bald headed friend @Leo Gura I’m in no way qualified to answer them, and this shits for you to figure out sister godbless

@JessiChell You’ll still be hurt when a relationship fails or someone you trust betrays you I don’t think that being conscious is necessarily about the avoidance of pain, although that’s part of it I think what being conscious really is about is helping you when you are in pain or when you have been hurt, and to help you avoid being hurt in the first place I don’t think you’re ever going to transcend suffering unless you’re the Buddha, even Jesus Christ was hurt by things he couldn’t control What matters is how you deal with that, and the more conscious you are the better you’ll be able to

@StarStruck Hey buddy, I did a post on this linked here if you’re interested When I journal I do it on my phone mostly, in a common place book, with an app called OneNote. When I want to polish my OneNote yo I use my computer (currently broken and I can’t get it fixed with covid). “Physically writing out your journal entries activates your brain more and leads to greater beneficial effects for behaviour change.” So if you’re interested in journaling that seems like a good idea, but I feel it would be a pain in the ass. And you can’t link articles, or quotes, images, videos, podcasts, studies etc... with a physical journal so that’s a downside. As @Lyubov mentions Affirmations are good, though I think there is no need for a journal necessarily for this, I find affirmation better to be said in front of a mirror as though they are a mantra so they really sink deep into your fucking head Writing what your grateful about is a good way to appreciate life more, and the things you have Setting goals are good / visualisations etc... ”Honest feelings journal” - is good, what I do is I have a topic or question than I either do long form writing to that who immediately appears in my mind. Or sit down and record myself talking via voice memos and play it back and distill and writes about the best bits. That coupled with marijuana I find to be where I do most of my introspection. There’s no need to over complicate the process of journaling, just keep it simple and intuitive.