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I love Frank Yang but Metta is about the fastest-acting technique there is, after forgiveness and gratitude.

Background practice -- meditation/technique that can be done every waking moment: Self inquiry -- if you're still experiencing, find who does it Noting mental states throughout the day, more or less every second or Metta -- send well-wishing and hope for happiness to everyone you come across, your self or a person you look up to when you're alone, and see them as God. Works very fast By far the quickest is forgiveness and gratitude, but they cap out pretty quickly relative to the first 3 listed

@Dhruv Psychedelics are super weak when you're on serotonergics. The intensity won't come back until about a month after you've been off them. Supposedly it can actually be dangerous to combine them anyway. If you get serotonin syndrome you will want to die -- shivering so hard you look possessed, pouring sweat and feeling like you're falling out of an airplane.

SSRI wd is mild compared to SNRI wd (Effexor/Cymbalta/Kratom). You're lucky. It only lasts a month though so hang tight. I came off Cymbalta a few years ago. And kratom a few times. The emotional lability was the worst part for me -- inability to keep from laughing or crying in inappropriate situations. And the brain shivers when I was trying to sleep, etc.

This has nothing to do with recovery. Delayed onset muscle soreness is tangential to recovery. It means you're doing too much at once, but there is no reason to not train sore unless it's literally so painful you can't do it. No reason to train less than 3 times a week. Keep waiting until you aren't sore, and you'll continue to get sore. You need to train sore or ease into it.

If you have access to a chin up bar and dip bar you can get started on weighted chins and dips asap. They are basically like DL and SQ for the upper body. You can do sprints or some kind of weighted carry or even max incline walking on a treadmill (or climbing stairs) with a heavy backpack on (facing forward; on chest rather than back) to have decent lower body development while waiting on the gym. Yeah I'm much more concerned about health these days, rather than brute strength. Leanness is fun to play with too, and the girls love it and it's pretty easy to do by just waiting as late in the day as possible to eat, and getting at least 100g of protein a day.

@Lyubov Starting Strength is a fantastic program but it's not the end-all-be-all, and especially not if one isn't willing to eat a rather unhealthy amount of food. This is a spirituality forum, not a get-strong-at-all-costs forum. Not doing weighted chin ups as a novice is generally a mistake. The program you illustrated has no scapular retraction (until DL stalls, but that generally takes a while), but basically if one is simply progressively overloading (via additional reps or preferably weight on the bar) every session (at least once a week but most preferably 2 or better yet 3) in the 5-15 rep range on the press and the deadlift, and preferably the chin as well, everything else is basically just details. And the 2 sets of curls are optional, as stated. They're easy and aren't going to cause one to over-train, and many guys simply enjoy doing them. They are pretty much unnecessary, but at least do chins to get scapular retraction.

That's exactly what seemed to happen to me. Like I was no longer looking out, but in, from nothing. Sometimes feeling God-like, sometimes feeling like the center-ness to experience was falling away (very scary). You might possibly be in for a bit of a shift.

As a novice you will never need longer than 48 hours to recover, you just might get really sore if you come in and blast a particular lift once a week. Do it 3 times a week and you will very quickly no longer get sore. I highly recommend a standard proven linear progression program like Starting Strength (not my favorite but it's better than 99 percent of programs out there). Here's an example of a good program, 3 days a week, these sets are after at least 2 sets of ramped warm up immediately prior for each lift: Chin 3x5 (weighted, obviously) Dip (or bench press) 3x5 Deadlift 1x5 (eventually alternate with Squat 3x5, once you're unable to add 10 pounds to the DL every session) Press 3x5 Curl 2x8 (strict, standing with barbell) (optional) Add weight or reps every time or as often as you can. Always stay in the 5-15 rep range; 5-10 is better. ~3min rest between work sets

The adaptation response only lasts 28-48 hours after a session, so if you aren’t training 3 days a week for the same lift, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. After training for 2 weeks like this you will no longer get sore. Soreness is not a marker of recovery, just so you know. Just don’t work out so hard that you’re unbearably sore. Soreness on a proper program should not persist much past the 2nd or 3rd week

Great take. I've broken the ice with girls (who would seem to be) way out of my league at the gym by honestly inquiring into how I can get a butt a large as theirs, provided I see that they're doing exercises known by people in the know to specifically work well for giving you a big butt. If they're actually doing it, then clearly they have to know someone else does it or is looking into it (whether or not they're a guy or girl), and that person is me, and I'm asking her about it, talking about something few guys have the audacity to talk about to her face, and now she can honestly coach me on what she's learned. That's resourcefulness. It helps to exude an extremely friendly, care-free, and humorous attitude and personality. If they're doing a bunch of butt-blasting 20-30 rep light weight toning shit with machines, I skip them. If they're doing deadlifts, deep squats, and especially, glute bridges (because those are notorious for doing almost nothing other than making the butt thick and juicy), and they indeed have attained a huge muscular butt, that's who I'm after.

6-7 days a week

@acidgoofy Almost every heroin user I knew also used crack/coke (same exact thing the way we were using them), simply bc dealers nearly always sold both. Speedballs.

Interesting... At least where I live in the SE USA, there is absolutely no shortage of super attractive women of various ages.

I definitely had that too.

Yeah I like Ray Dalio. One of the good billionaires imo, lol. Not that I think billionaires should exist, truth be told.

Happened my first time. One night stand. She performed oral on me which fixed it. It never happened again. In fact the opposite often happens -- I get hard just watching whoever my current girlfriend is bend over, etc -- ultra horny, heavy breathing and all, at inconvenient times / in relatively inconvenient situations too!

I for one think it's a fantastic idea.

I don't really see a problem with it either. I may have came across the wrong way. I've been a jhana junkie in the past -- can't say it did anything other than benefit me, but that's because it was coming from within and actually opposing neediness, rather than reinforcing it. I was also a legit heroin (and crack) junkie a while back, so yeah, I ain't judging by any means

@deci belle Interesting take. I kind of agree, but it certainly is a very illuminating experience, ime. Shows the emptiness of the mind. And it is easily achievable by just noting over and over (viewing all experience as not-self) until there's less and less available to note until... GAP... then the bliss wave and insight. Of course, that is only the beginning, as I think you were getting at. Are you pointing to the fact that what arises dependent upon conditions does not actually arise? What is empty, is not empty? What is unfabricated, is not unfabricated?

Yes, it is 4 hours or more often, but since ALA is often combined with it in the protocol (because it's the best mercury chelator by far), and that must be taken every 3 hours or more often, I just said 3 hours. Even for DMSA, 3 hours is better than 4.

The jhanas will help you understand nirvana. Noting can actually get you to it as well -- I mean serious noting for hours at a time, every single second. Objectifying every sensation like the mere experience that it is, causing your mind to get tired of experience, and incline to nirvana. When nirvana happens, it is perceived after the fact as a gap -- you jump forward in time as if that space didn't exist. You can never enter nirvana -- its value lies in the experience of the last thing the mind does before nirvana appears: the mind stops projecting, and immediately there is nirvana, revealing the emptiness of experience. Nirvana is extraneous to the realization of emptiness (awakening), but they often go hand in hand.

I no longer do this, but what brought me into spirituality was recreational use of psychedelics. Particularly combining psychedelics like LSD with dissociatives like ketamine. Recreational use of anything that produces a powerful change in consciousness is called being a junkie.

Hmm. Now that is interesting. Make sure you take them on an empty stomach. I would highly recommend 5-MeO-DMT (rectally or smoked) in that case -- I cannot imagine 10-40mg of that not working for you or anyone ever. It's possible you're just immune to serotonergic psychedelics? I've never heard of that, but who knows... If that's the case, dissociatives are the next best thing (apart from meditation). Ketamine can give you ego death just as illuminating as most 5ht2a psychedelics, ime. It can awaken you to infinite consciousness just like traditional psychedelics, though you are more likely to get that from 5meo. With ketamine you MUST be stationary in a comfy chair or laying down somewhere -- it is far more inebriating than 5ht2a psychedelics. Disso's are tricky though, because the dose required for insights is just below the dose that will cause memory loss of the experience -- however one could argue the same is often true for 5meo and lsd. I'm actually surprised how little dissociatives like ketamine are mentioned on here -- they seem to have great utility ime. Combining dissos and 5ht2a psychedelics even seems reckless to me, but I've had great success doing just that.

Daily mindfulness meditation. Eventually self inquiry will solve this. IME self inquiry is a much more advanced and fruitful technique than many give it credit for. It isn't even mentioned until stage 8 TMI, 2 stages after jhanas become possible. Self inquiry can lead to states that rival 1000ug LSD.