King Merk

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    On 22/10/2022 at 10:50 PM, Manny said:

    @Adodd i dont care what anyone says buth if you want to be mentally tough you HAVE to WORKOUT hardcore. No meditation or yoga practice wil do that for you. Whether it is lifting,boxing,swimming,bodywheight. Idealy you do both hardcore training and meditation.

    Bullshit.

    Go do any long meditation sit.

    Seriously, go sit for 8 hours straight. I bet you’re not tough enough to do it. 

    Same with an intense yogic practice.

    These require mental toughness.

    Now I do agree with you that intense exercise is good for developing mental toughness.

    Personally I like rock climbing and jui jitsus because you’re so close to death in both of these activities. Very intense mental sports. That said I’ve also done marathons and those are amazing for developing mental toughness too. 

    @Adodd mental toughness is simply one’s ability to be comfortable with discomfort.

    Most people squirm at the very sight of discomfort. Others relish in discomfort.

    Which do you think have a higher likelihood of being successful in life?

    You develop mental toughness through exposure to uncomfortable activities.

    Examples are intense exercise, cold exposure, saunas, hard conversations, psychedelics, etc.

    All you have to do is consciously experience stressful situations to develop mental toughness 

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    It helped me to read books on others who have had much hard lives than me.

    That’s huge for breaking victim mentality

    Look into the books “man’s search for meaning” and “can’t hurt me”

    Your problems seem a lot smaller when you’re comparing them to those of a holocaust survivor 

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    I did pretty strict 18:6 IF for about 3 years and felt great on it. I often combine the ketogenic diet with it as the two go together like peanut butter and jelly.

    Now days I just skip breakfast 5-6 days per week and naturally eat within a 8ish hour window. That’s what my body like the most.

    I’ve found the degree of bloating I experience has more to do with the actual types of food I eat and less to do with the time window of my eating.

    However if you’re bloated due to overeating then IF will likely help with that 

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    20 minutes ago, LSD-Rumi said:

    Diphenhydramine is a deliriant, very dangerous, like datura.

    Yes, very dangerous.

    I DO NOT recommend ?

    @newbee I was able to shrug off the diphenhydramine trips as “weird hallucinations” about what “being crazy” is like. So they were actually a net positive for me because I was more grateful for my sanity afterwards

    The more traumatizing thing for me in regards to the insanity had more to do with LSD.

    Long story short I’ve watched a specific close friend completely black out and become “insane” on multiple trips.

    For example,

    I’ve seen him run down our neighbors in their cars at 6am yelling about Jesus (like a jehovas witness on steroid LOL).

    I’ve seen him lose motor control of his body for over and hour and locked into a scary hyperventilation like state

    I’ve also had to wrestle him down and physically restrain him in a bathroom as the cops searched our dorms in college during one of his blackout episodes

    So whenever I feel that “non-locality” or feeling of lost-ness come on, I instantly flash back to looking into his eyes and seeing no one home.

    Then I realize that’s what I’m diving into and it’s scary as fuck.

    Defintely traumatizing but not in a death way.

    Insanity is different from death. I’ve experienced real death on DMT before and it’s not the same.

    Not sure how to explain it but insanity has its own flavor.

    With regards to processing/integrating I’m just really grateful to have the brain chemistry I have now. To be able to fit into society and be normal and healthy

    That said, due to these experiences I do have a much greater degree of empathy for those who are clinically “crazy” and/or mentally ill 

  12. Posted · Edited by King Merk

    I experienced some sort of insanity while tripping on diphenhydramine.

    I’d have full blown conversations with groups of people who weren’t there.

    I remember spending 20 minutes sitting in my chair and typing a paper for my college course only to then realize that my laptop was never in front of me.

    I’d talk to walls and respond to my friends in a sort of English like gibberish that they couldn’t decipher.

    I’d also undulate between being as heavy as a boulder to as light as a feather which was tortuous when it came time to move my body.

    Most annoying & physically uncomfortable trips of my life were on diphenhydramine. I do not recommend unless you’re into torturing yourself (in the name of conscious exploration).

    I’ve also experienced an entirely different kind of “insanity” on LSD

    I’ll start loosing control of my mind & body and forget who or what I was.

    It’s like the most intense feeling of being lost ever. Like the perception of central grounding in who & what I am will start dissolving away completely. But not exactly ego death because there’s still a sort of non localish sense of self.

    Think of being so lost that you can’t tell the difference between up/down or left/right. You can’t remember your name, life, face or anything.

    Idk if y’all would technically call that insanity but it sure felt like it to me. 

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    Man I’ve had some terrifying shit happen to me while tripping on the woods.

    That said I’ve also had some of the most amazing blissful states out there.

    However I find that I can’t fully surrender into the experience because I’m the back of my mind I’m still worried about my survival needs.