BipolarGrowth

I’ve been focusing a bit more on cardio lately, but I’m looking to prioritize my strength training workouts again starting this week.

?❤️? I appreciate how reading your posts gives me new vocabulary words to learn ?

If you spend more than 10 minutes of your life arguing about spiritual nonsense on the internet, your ass ain’t enlightened ???

I did a 5 mile run in the rain today. It’s kind of odd that the activities I am doing to “callous the mind” as David calls it actually become pretty enjoyable when I know that it’s training me to become more resilient and relentless in my approach to life.

This is pretty typical. The easiest way to reduce soreness is to just work out with less intensity or volume. Creatine won’t likely do much to help with soreness. The main purpose of creatine is to improve your strength and endurance during your sets so that the muscle is pushed closer to its true limit.

So I’ve been shown through following David’s suggestions that I’m not actually in complete control with my bipolar disorder as I previously thought. I also have realized that even though the dragon is not yet completely slain, I have developed a much better skill set in managing symptoms more successfully. David’s “taking a soul” tactic worked so well to help me manage the 2 ER visits I had in the past week much better than I would’ve handled them in the past. I’ve been listening to more of David’s content that talks about balance and recovery, and I’m starting to find a much healthier groove in life than before I started going deep into his life story and mental tactics.

@Inliytened1 does taking it to your further step past mine actually do something? Or is this also an ego game? ?❤️??

@Leo Gura looks like I’m clearly unenlightened by this metric ??❤️

@Inliytened1 it’s also not really about being free from the pain sensations but rather being so non-resistant and the self illusion being seen through to such a degree that pain is not interpreted as an issue. To make it simple, attachment to the personal identity structure is so diminished that such a thing as the chainsaw coming toward your leg can be accepted if there’s no way out. Of course this is a bit silly in practice, but I was just using it to make the point that I think we often are lying to ourselves about our levels of “attainment”. We have much more solidified self structures (egos) than we’d often like to admit. That’s the purpose of this video/thread. To just remind people that there is much more that can be realized oftentimes.

I ran 7 miles at 3 am back to the high school I was first wrongly accused of being a school bomber/shooter at because of my bipolar manic episode when I was 18 while I was listening to this beautiful communication. I can’t express how thankful I am for David Goggins and his message. I’m crying tears of joy as I write this message. With Love and Shredz, Brandon

@Inliytened1 everything you’re saying is correct and fine but also misses a bit of the point of the video. If I made a longer video on the topic, I probably would’ve covered much of what you said. The general idea of the video is that we should throw ourselves into challenging and beneficial circumstances regularly to find out how enlightened (free from suffering) we actually are. This still applies even if you have a different definition of enlightenment. Just put that one in as if the word enlightenment is just a placeholder. You could just as easily use God-Realization and all the baggage that comes with that. Are you God-Realized when the chainsaw is revving up and inching toward your leg?

I’ve never heard of this one before. I greatly appreciate the information!!! ?

@Adodd yes, I have the audiobook. I actually don’t have a physical copy yet.

@Gabith if it doesn’t resonate, then I’d advise against using it until when/if it does resonate

@Tyler Robinson ❤️❤️❤️??

I’m realizing quickly that my idea that I had conquered my suffering was kind of bullshit. There are still skeletons upon skeletons to clean out. And now it’s a daily practice. I’m feeling now that I can truly just relentlessly attack my weaknesses until they no longer control me.

Time for a working vacation https://youtu.be/ytrJjnqczCY

Good fucking job Brandon. I think Trump is better for our country than Biden.

When you rep Jesus Christ in a hospital full of entitled egos feeling as if they are intelligent, sometimes you’ve gotta channel your inner Nazi to skull fuck their weak levels of care.

@BlessedLion I get it man. At least now. I can live in that mode till I’m physically broken down. But I’ve gotten feedback that this has triggered some bipolar symptoms from people who really have my back and know me. I’m gonna take a week to focus on easier cardio and developing that while finishing some career stuff that is less physical. Ironically, this is all stuff Goggins covers. I love being in the sympathetic mode so much. It’s fucking amazing, but true growth isn’t just pushing the easy barriers that everyone else might think are extreme or hard. It’s effortless almost to push myself physically whereas that used to be my weakness. Now I’ve lost my center, and that has become the new weakness to attack in an intelligent way.

Thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️

“It’s not sustainable” is bitchanese for actually trying to say “I don’t think I’m capable of doing this because I haven’t discovered my true limits yet.” Btw, to any of you doubting your own potential, I just landed my first opportunity to teach a meditation class due to David’s message showing me what I am capable of. You’ve gotta get hard and stay hard for this message to have any hope of working, and I can bet you’ll be glad you did once you’re on the other side of diving deep into the pool of samsara and suffering willingly and consciously. Don’t be fooled. It took me 8 years of life risking work to get here. Go check out my channel on YouTube - Brandon Rohe, and you’ll find I was a lot more dangerous to myself and others while also less beneficial to the world and others when following Leo’s unbalanced message. No offense Leo. I love you. You’re a hard ass motherfucker.

Training for my 5:00 minute mile goal went well today. Getting a ride back to the gym by some nice police officers definitely felt like a sort of graduation compared to the times I was in the back of a cop car as either a criminal or mental health patient. #jesusisking #stayhard

@Razard86 we’ve all got our own shadow and limitations, but you’ve gotta admit he’s not necessarily underperforming.

That’s the right mindset man. The concept of the cookie jar described in Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins would help in these moments. You can look it up online and probably find a good summary of the “insight” side of it without the story if you search for it.