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I would agree with what many have said here that what you’re referring to is more in line with psychic abilities rather than pure mysticism. Most serious mystics regard the psychic abilities as distractions and lower forms of attainment, but they certainly do arise from going down the mystical path.

Walking for hours without a doer at the level of base sensations appearing in fresh new configurations completely on their own. When every tiny sensate particle is impermanent faster than you can even notice the change, there is no self. There is no control. Life itself is living itself out, and things actually go better this way, conventionally speaking.

Can a mod give this user a warning for misinformation please? ? 2,100 calories per day is not that low. As long as you’re not getting too much of your calories from fat, you shouldn’t be too hungry. Eating food high in fat is bad for trying to lose weight as fat is more calorie dense than protein and carbs. Fat is 9 calories per gram whereas carbs and protein are 4 calories per gram. This means you can eat over twice the amount of food made of carbs or protein and feel fuller while still consuming less calories than something which is made of fat. Eating less without quantifying how much you are eating is laughable. If you want anywhere close to the best results, counting calories and protein is a minimum requirement at least until you actually have a solid idea of how much you’re consuming and have the ability to eye ball somewhat accurately. If you want to half ass things, you can just exercise and try to “eat less” and get some results, but this is going to waste time and effort. It is far better to spend an extra 10 minutes of your day tracking your nutrition (which actually leads to healthier eating habits on its own) than it is to wait months longer for the same results. A very simple calculation of maintenance calories is BW in lb. X 15 = your calories needed to maintain your weight. This is based on being fairly active. With your activity level, you might have a bit higher maintenance calories than this calculation will produce. You’d be at 2,475 calories based on this calculation. I work out 3x per week and work about 35 hours per week while being on my feet the entire time I’m clocked in at work. I calculated my actual maintenance calories based on my weight loss progress and the amount of calories consumed which were tracked meticulously for that period, and the simple calculation I gave above was within 50-100 calories of my true maintenance needs. A 400 calorie deficit is ideal in most cases. A more aggressive deficit than that will result in more muscle mass loss and often leads to people giving up on losing weight as they are simply too hungry to want to stick with their new diet. This is not good as building muscle takes far more time and effort than losing fat. Make sure to get at least .8-1g of protein per lb. of body weight if you’re trying to lose weight and retain as much muscle as possible. Your calisthenics training should be applying progressive overload (more reps each week put simply) in order to keep the muscle you have or gain a small amount of muscle while in a caloric deficit. With apps like MyFitnessPal out nowadays, there’s really no excuse to not count calories if you want to transform your physique. It’s pretty damn convenient.

After death, mental masturbation on things which have yet to be accessed stops. I hope so at least.

This was the day in which I first felt a palpable sense akin to the 10th Ox herding picture’s imagery. Having reached cessation a number of times and being ridiculously higher in baseline consciousness, I was re-entering the public world while consumed by the Nibbanic bliss the Buddha spoke about, or at least the memory of the cessation “moment”. It is ultimately the most distinct memory of nothing anyone can never have. Taken to full introspection, the state or rather non-state of cessation can unravel experience into whole new directions I highly doubt any other path would produce out of common spiritual practices which are not entirely individual processes.

I had a permanent perceptual shift in Starbucks where the visual field was noticed to be infinite and all containing with no sense of self within it. There were no more edges to vision.

Using $100k in the right market along with the BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) method of real estate investing could do a lot. My business partner and I bought and renovated our first place for about $55,000 in early 2018. We invested another $20-30k of our own money up until now, but any other costs were covered by using part of the rent to do renovations on new properties. Now we have about $200,000-$250,000 of property with a bit over $4,000 in gross rent coming in each month which will go up as soon as someone moves out as rents have increased here by quite a bit. We have about $80,000 in mortgages right now and roughly $30k cash in the bank. The mortgage cost is only about $550/mo. Getting started with $100k in other markets might not be the easiest or scale as well just because property values might be much higher creating a more significant barrier to entry. I live and invest in Indiana, USA. The small portion of our profit that I take out each month is enough to pay my entire mortgage on my personal residence. Depending on the market, it might be best to buy a 2-4 unit building and live in it while renting the other units out. This would likely at least cover your costs if not generate profit while giving you your own place away from your parents. This is how a lot of people have compounded their wealth very quickly just starting off.

Experience works in fundamentally the same way for you whether solipsism is the case or not. Holding a certain belief is not awakening.

The Queen of Bhakti ?

Most coaches these days are recommending a 200-500 calorie surplus for optimal muscle gain without gaining an unnecessary amount of fat. I would question if you’ve really been eating 1,000 calories per day though. It is very easy to underestimate calories, even if you are trying to track everything. Foods often have more calories than they say. Make sure to track all condiments, oils, butter, etc if you want accurate numbers.

Nice man. Great job. Keep it going ?

You’re likely going to be far healthier doing exercise rather than avoiding it. Things like running or deadlifts might do damage in some ways, but it is usually susceptible individuals or people who have trained consistently for many years who have problems. There are always lower impact alternatives like cycling, swimming, or substituting exercises on a machine when barbell exercises like squat or deadlift are hard on your back.

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Thanks for this ?

I’m interested in getting a mild boost to my memory. Preferably it would be something with little to no side effects and fully legal in the U.S. The main purpose for this is that I find myself occasionally having a word right on the tip of my tongue, and it might take 15-30 seconds on average to remember the word I’d like to use in the situation. This happens rather infrequently, but it’d be nice if I wouldn’t have to break the flow of my speech or supplement a weaker word for the situation to keep the flow going. Any suggestions?

I’ve been following much of the general advice that is given on this YouTube channel. I think that Greg’s methods and advice are very beneficial for people who want to improve their physique. He mainly recommends intermittent fasting for the first 4-6 hours of the day, focusing on strength improvement in the key compound exercises, and eating in a caloric deficit. The advice is really easy to follow. I also think he has a point that most people are focusing too much on protein as a macronutrient as natural lifters. Having either carbs or fats too low can easily crash testosterone, especially while practicing a reduced caloric intake. Having high protein but low fat or carbs while also in a deficit will make dieting quite hard to follow as foods will not taste nearly as good, and your body will be craving those other macronutrients as you are not consuming enough for optimal functioning. He recommends 0.8g of protein per lb. of body weight as a general ceiling based on the results of some scientific studies. Intermittent fasting allows for an easier time reaching a caloric deficit for me and many others. Starting to exercise again was a great decision. I used to really enjoy weightlifting when I was 16-17 years old. Getting back into it again has given my life a lot more balance than just focusing on spirituality/awakening all the time. I’ve got way more energy throughout the day even in a caloric deficit, and I am way more productive and driven than before I started lifting. This is the difference in my physique from May 2nd to May 27th. After photo is in the next post due to image file size constraints.

To be fair, I looked like this at age 17, so I think that is what has helped the progress come so fast.

I was eating somewhat healthy, but not really. I just didn’t have much of an appetite naturally. Lifting and intermittent fasting has helped to give me a more normal appetite and fix stomach pain/nausea. Tracking macros and calories has shown me I was eating way worse than I would’ve thought before.

This is what my workouts were this week. I update every set/rep each week with the goal to go up 5-10 lb. on every compound lift. “Track your lifts of you won’t stay on track.”

This is in better lighting obviously.

This is in the same lighting as the before photo.

The first mystical experience was somewhere around 5-7 years old. I know it was before age 8 because my family moved to a new house when I was 8. It probably only lasted somewhere between 30 seconds and a few minutes. The next notable mystical experience was at age 18. The first experience of God Consciousness was around 22-23. I’ve seen several people in their early 20s who have had their daily lives and survival essentially put on halt due to spiritual practice and insights. I think it would be optimal for people, generally speaking, to have quite solid financial stability and independence before getting into awakening, whatever age that happens to be for the person.

What should I be focusing my life toward at this point? What is the best area of my life to develop right now?

You’re “supposed” to gain insight into the nature of these sensations. This is not a bad way to do spiritual practice. I would recommend spending time with each physical sense, then with the mind, then be with all six simultaneously and see what that does for you.