Natasha Tori Maru

Anyone seen 'The Substance'? Body horror. Went too long, but well done. But also 🤢🤮

@Joshe This is why I said they need a trained professional. Taking action toward small, positive outcomes is not dangerous. It builds momentum.

Fuck, he's full into Oompa Loompa mode isn't he? Are toupees conformity? Just into bald mode and get it over with. Accents are conformity.

Too true! It's... Too quiet. Haven't had to use the administrator kiss of death (instant 20 points) in a minute ay? 💀

I don't claim to understand exactly how it works. It felt like engaging in the radical allowance of feeling/emotion led to some *thunk* moments of gears clicking into place. And over time all those little gears coming into alignment smoothed out the operation of the machine. Precisely as you say! Practice. Everything follows 🎯

The context is construction. Try asking it how to design an anti-ligature hardware doorset with a master keyed cylinder with proper cam and have it all be compatible using different brands of hardware. ChatGPT has no access to standards databases so it will give the most busted answer that wont work in the real world. You can use it for many other things effectively. I never said that was not the case.

The thing is - OP cannot think their way out of a problem the thinking mind created. The one thing possibly not tried is to just act, and asses internal change following action. Not try to internally change and then act. You need to act out, do the thing. Execute. Physically. In reality. The internal change will follow. Trust and surrender. I was taught the method of Kaizen (Japanese Dad): The core idea behind Kaizen for personal development is that making tiny, consistent improvements helps bypass the brain's "fight-or-flight" fear response that often derails large, overwhelming changes. By focusing on a single, almost trivial, action, you build momentum and gradually form lasting habits, with the cumulative effect leading to significant transformations over time. I have always used this method to slowly build momentum out of a funk.

@Carl-Richard No shit, I got this notification as I drowning the giant peace lilly that was looking sad.

I've come across those 2 sources also - great stuff 🤍 Many people misunderstand Ralston's work and interpret what he is saying as bypassing or repression. This is not the case at all. You must radically ALLOW the emotions and move through them. You cannot understand and know them without this step. Repressing them will move one further away from grasping how we generate their heightened activity. I view it as unconsciously white knuckling a ball in our hand without being aware. If you cannot move sensation awareness to the hand that is gripping, how will you ever be able to let go of the ball? You don't even know you are holding it! This is why your awareness needs to go to the emotion, not bypass it. Through it. Allow. Follow it to it's root in thoughts. Reverse engineer the process by investigating so you can stop the mechanism prior to it gripping you. In before all the Ralston/No self haters who claim bypassing 😈😈😈

Hmmm. In my head I ask myself this frequently. I receive many comments I am earnest, genuine and authentic. I wasn't always this way. The transition has occurred over the last 5 years since rekindling the relationship with my father. When I think on the reasons for this feedback, I return to my character being perceived as true expression in the moment. I ensure words align with action. I think people can feel this integrity as power, truth - and humans are drawn to power like moths to a flame. We instinctively reach for power due to conditioning from the survival domain, as it represents safety. When words and actions align and are expressed without need for censure in the moment, it broadcasts strength and resilience. Self confidence and efficacy. That alignment and congruency is like the powerful integrity of carbon atoms in a lattice that make up a diamond. Resilient. Strong. Able to withstand force. Compare that to the higgledy-piggledy out of order carbon atoms in a lump of coal. Brittle. Weak. Breaks under pressure. Both are made of the same stuff - carbon. But the diamond draws you in with strength, power & luminosity. Magnetic radiance. So I think words & actioned aligned, expressed without censure, are a sort of embodiment of personal truth. This truth is powerful. It draws others in with fascination. A responsiveness to reality and a quiet refusal to lie about who you are in order to be accepted. Shame is the protective mechanism that blocks authenticity.

Oh, I wouldn't expect that. In fact, I wouldn't want that! ⁠(͡⁠°⁠‿⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)🖖

Anyway, do not want to derail. More conformity? Houseplants. Can't think of a gift? Generic plant will do 🤣

Zero segue 🙃 I work in the building industry - as a general contractor. I had no skill in the domain prior to joining this business. I learned it all from experience & just applying myself (as well as couching from someone with 35 years in the industry) I am rather persistent even following failure - making an error tends to force me to drive for corrective measures in my knowledge and application. I feel like this is really main quality I have that has lead to success. Resilience. It is really a challenging job that pushes me to my very limit. The best parts about it are creative problem solving & working with hard constraints and variety: no 2 builds are the same. Ever. Many ways to skin a cat. How well you choose the skin the bastard is a function of skill, knowledge, communication & experience. On time and within budget. We do not do domestic - and when I think on it, I wouldn't be half as invested if we did; one of the biggest drivers for me is supporting society by building hospitals, medical centres, science and education facilities. Very, very rewarding and difficult field (to excel in). Which is probably why you see so much bad construction

Through the fog of thoughts and concepts. The human condition that mostly arises from the social domain. Useful, for sure. Valid. But not without the drawbacks of occasionally presenting a distraction from the beauty of being. The beauty of raw feeling, emotion. Sensation. Perception. I think concept and thought is required to arrive at a place of peace after the journey of life. Just my thoughts and experience 🤍

Hiding in plain sight

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@Joseph Maynor How do you define 'direct experience', in your personal view? I admit, mine is a work in progress because at the end of the day I gave it a crack - but I really do not know. I just have some sprinkles of inkling toward it, based in meditative experience

@Joseph Maynor Ha! I was waiting for someone to drive into the assumed definition that would unravel this subject. Speaking for myself 'direct experience' is the codependent subject/object arising of what I constitute 'reality' absent of any interpretation. The closest thing I can get to words pointing to the idea; pure being experience or 'isness'. Subject/object arising beneath thought. Beneath the label. Beneath the interpretation. It is sensation & perception. Thoughts about the experience immediately remove the 'direct' portion of experience. This is why when I reside in a state of 'being' absent of thought, I feel I am closest to nature, existence, reality. Truth. Because nature does not think about itself. Myself absent of thought is the closest I can get to this 'direct' experience. Closest to true nature and reality. This is just my current understanding. So mathematics, to me, is the additional syntactic language humans have created to express natural rules that groups of 'things' adhere to. This is why it feels simultaniously 'discovered' and 'invented'. The patterns appear whether we choose to notice them or not. But noticing them and applying the conceptual 'rules' or language immediately removes one from the direct, sensation based experience of the thing. There is one banana. Now there are two bananas. Mathematics for this reason, to my view, is not direct. This is not to say it does not exist. But that it as a conceptual overlay to explain the playfulness of reality.

I think I am being a bit flamboyant with my language. I think it is more accurate to say I was dejected I was trying to be cheerful, and it was like someone popped my balloon with a giant cinderblock of blunt truth!

Haha I appreciate this! Leo's comment made me so depressed

What is all this reality shit? Incessant questions spawned from there 😃

What?

Is it? Or is it a language? A language is a concept. Or overlay. Added onto experience. The operations surely aren't direct experience: plus, minus, power, root, factorial.... These are man made concepts for observed behaviour.

...As a nootropic Tell me your protocols? I've been taking 10g creatine monohydrate (unflavoured) a day (I am a small person) for brain benefits for 2 months. So far: increased focus increase memory retention zero energy dips through the day attention and complex task application + cognitive ability has improved MARKEDLY. Especially scheduling projects (working with lead times, processes, contractor schedules, delivery timing and dependancies) and unusual problems. I am finding solutions faster and able to execute with more efficiency. This process always involves research and learning as well as formulating a solution so it can be quite taxing. mood regulation lowered incidence of negative moods, especially stress resilience I smash a ridiculous amount of water with it. I haven't noticed any side effects - I am not experiencing any anxiety or water retention. For whatever reason my particular physiology is responding to it VERY well. Weights and running capacity are up. I eat only vegetables, fish, eggs, cottage cheese, nuts and some chicken. Occasional red meat. Drink tea and coffee. I do not consume a lot of meat. Other supplements: Liquid iron, K2 + Vit D + Magnesium & fish oil.

@Shermaningeorgia Do you have many people close to you? Intimacy with family and friends? Do you socialize and get out a lot? Nature? Exercise?