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@Martin123 Logical for what?

There's one big flaw with this that still hasn't been cleared up. "After making logic your core value you have emotional drive to do what makes most sense, instead of persuing emotional attachments". This itself does not make any sense, because you need context for any action to become logical / 'make sense' (which has been provided, hold up). So there must be a purpose for action to become logical or illogical in the context of, otherwise its just action. The purpose outlined as innate: "Evolutionary biology shows how our purpose emerges from our drive to evolve". Woaaah there. We do not have a biological drive to evolve. Nothing does. Evolution just happens from random DNA mutations and death/birth. Purpose is mind made, not based on objectivity. Things just are, we exist as a result of being randomly structured well for existence & things don't exist because they aren't. Simple, no purpose there. Therefore if no purpose is innate, then no action is logical or illogical innately. For example, what makes solving humanities problems any more logical than worsening humanities problems? helping humanity wouldn't be logical, if you wanted to wipe out humanity and be the lone survivor. So if after clicking we become emotionally driven towards taking logical action, but no action is logical as a standard, what action are we driven toward exactly? It sounds great up until this point, but this doesn't make sense.

Hmm I dunno man, i've visualised for around 15 minutes each day after meditation pretty consistantly these past few months. Bought in after reading psycho-cybernetics yeah. I don't think i've noticed much deep change. I do notice short term changes sometimes e.g. if I visualise running to the gym with energy I often get the urge to run to the gym when I leave my house that day. Maybe recovered from the flu faster. Maybe I haven't created deeper change because I often have a problem visualising something emotional enough. I experience anhedonia pretty often. There are studies that back it up though and many people do get results, so it's definitely worth trying. @jenna I'm gonna try this guided visualisation out. Cheers.

Whats your most vivid dream you can remember? I have insanely vivid dreams almost every night and it's interesting as fuck. 2 nights ago I was being tortured for information with electricity and felt my whole body lock up and sharp pain everywhere each time a man pulled the lever as if it were real life, crazy stuff. I do think they're connected to life at times but a lot of the time they're just random as fuck. One of my craziest ones was where I had my legs propped up in front of me, and I was straining and screaming for ages. All of a sudden a baby slid out from between my legs. I had to lunge after it to stop the baby sliding off of a long table in a stream of gunge that came out of my vagina lol (I'm a man). Then I was crying about being a single mother before I woke up sweating and tried to contemplate what the fuck just happened. It's a pretty big mindfuck to jump from being 100% convinced that you're a woman who's just given birth as a single mum to being a man in your bedroom again the next moment.

blackhatworld, onlinedimes and sourcewave are some good resources.

Pretty chill track & video

@Electron Yeah mate. They are both amazing and the visuals are done way better in the new one obviously, but the way Carl Sagan puts everything is top level. There's something about the age of it that makes the whole thing comfy as fuck, I like watching it before I sleep. That's incredible too if you haven't seen it

I'm experimenting with doing all of this in one go in the morning for 10 days from tomorrow instead of spread out like usual to see what's better (apart from exercise later and another 2 affirmations while I stretch). Then i'll review it and see what changes I want to make for good. I usually switch on at night so we'll see how this goes. - Start with an audiobook / self improvement or inspiring video on my phone that I loaded up the night before as I get up and eat. Helps shift into a positive mindset right away. - Go outside and get 15 mins sunlight if available or use SAD light if not. Repeat 2 affirmations for 4 minutes each ( I am always driven to succeed & I am always focused on the positive ) - Meditate for 15-20 mins (mindfulness based), followed by 15 mins visualisation (currently around energy and succeeding financially) - Read 'You are the placebo' or 'The willpower instinct'. Either one, alternating if I want. - Finish up and ask "What do I want to do right now that's in allignment with my goals?", then act with a clear purpose. Total time should be: Around 1 hour 30 mins out of 16 hours wake time

@Henri I aint caught up on it really, just interested. Think it was a glitch in the matrix you know. If I don't post again tomorrow the Agents wrecked me.

Nah no point. Just cool while it lasts if you manage to live / create a good life. And if you do leave something behind for people it's cool for them while they get to exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lFPMZrYLHQ

In think and grow rich when he talks about affirmations he says to combine it with elevated emotion in order for it to work. Leo says that just the repitition without emotion is enough over time. I've only done affirmations by repeating words without emotions and it's defo worked for me. Probably +30% +40% improvement in whatever I affirm after like 3 - 6 weeks and I do each for 8 weeks before moving on to reinforce them. I tried visualising while doing them but it's distracting and hard to focus on the words. Maybe just saying the affirmations with hightened speech would accelerate the process. Could be a good idea.

Eckhart tolle is good advice. I recommend you get the book 'Feeling good' By Dr David Burns. It's self-done cognitive behaviour therapy with some great insights and real practical helpful advice. Our suffering is caused by our thoughts, and there are ways we can work with them to lessen suffering / improve happiness. It talks about a shit load of great topics from do-nothingism to self-esteem, approval seeking, perfectionism, love addiction and more. A huge number of our thoughts are illogical / inflated / distorted without us even realising until we disengage from them. I think this book will help you out, its cheap on Amazon. We all still have a very active primitive part of the brain in a modern world. It can't see past the short-term so positive habits that will help us in the future are a no go when we're identified with this part of our brains impulses. The key is to be able to recognise the impulse to put things off as the primitive mechanism to minimise effort and also probably a habit conditioned from the past. This then gives us a choice to follow the impulse or choose a different option from a different place of mind. Meditation helps with this by building awareness. Also it helps to reframe the situation (or any situation) as something you want to do rather than something you order yourself to do. This takes away the pressured slave mentality mindset and the procrastination that comes with it. Here's a great video on it. You can skip to 22mins if you want the main point, but he puts it well. Our brains are luckily highly adaptable (brain plasticity). Over time they get re-wired so any habit you carry out for a few weeks gets ingrained deeper and deeper in our subconscious. This makes positive habits way easier and more automatic to carry out in the future, often all that's needed is the initial momentum. I think its good to feed your mind some positive knowledge / inspirational stuff every day to give it something to play with instead of over-analysis and negativity building up and looping around. It's a good idea to start each morning with an inspirational video or a good audiobook loaded up on your phone, often I find it helps align my actions right. Maybe even addict yourself to positive information intake instead of negative intake. RSDtyler relevant video about downward & upward spirals Elliot hulses older videos great video If there's one thing to take away from this post it's to read Feeling good. It's as effective if not more effective than taking antidepressents proven by studies. It also lasts longer as anti-depressants are usually just a temporary fix where this helps to create real changes in daily living.

I'm also allergic to Whey like Leo said, didn't realise for a while but it gave me hightened anxiety and was fucking with my digestion. Good news though, you don't need a lot of protein like most people think. A lot of lifters will go for 2g of protein per lbs of bodyweight or some shit, really it's superfluous. You don't even need 1g / lbs of bw. I go for 0.8g / lbs of bw which is enough. Read more here http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/the-myth-of-1glb-optimal-protein-intake-for-bodybuilders/ EDIT: And yeah, it's bullshit that you can only absorb X amount in one sitting. Think about this RATIONALLY. Do you think our bodies wouldn't have evolved to digest as much protein as possible from one meal considering when we were hunter/gathers and we wouldn't eat a big meal for hours and hours until we chased down a prey for one big payoff? What Thomas said about the inner game is spot on. It's important to remind yourself consistantly why you're doing it rather than just going through the motions otherwise your primitive self will be more likely to take you over and minimise effort by quitting. Here's some more benefits that you can read about here http://www.bodbot.com/Cognitive_Health.html: - Enhanced memory, - improved brain plasticity and possibly 3x more brain cells created when you exercise than when you don't, - Lessens stress, anxiety and depression - Improved attentional processes, regulates gender specific hormones, impacts neurotransmitter systems favourably - Helps to prevent diabetes, alzheimers, parkinsons, and heart disease The daily energy it creates is cool (as long as you aren't going overboard). Pratical advice For volume / frequency you'll have to experiment and see what works best for your body. I used to lift 5-6 days a week with 20+ sets each and it was too much. I actually grow better from 4 days a week and keeping volume around 17-20 sets. My favourite routine is push/pull/legs. 8 - 12 reps on your lifts (most optimal for gaining muscle). Compound movements (Squat, Bench, DB Incline bench to hit upper chest, deadlifts if you're strict with your form from the beginning but pullups are just as good if not better, etc.) supported with accessory lifts (curls, tricep pulldowns, lateral raises etc.) Also TRAIN YOUR REAR DELTS seperately every back day, they don't get hit enough usually and this helps to stabilise your shoulder to keep it healthy (learned this the hard way, still kind of fucked) You can eat whatever you want and you'll lose weight for cutting as long as you go under your maintenance intake (find this out through trial and error, different for everyone). Obviously eating good foods will keep you fuller for longer so will be the better option. You can eat whatever you want as long as you eat over maintenance and hit 0.8g / lbs of bw protein from complete protein sources. I'd recommend limitting junk food though unless you like feeling like shit, and eat a decent amount of fibre to keep you shitting smooth logs erry day. Also there's really no need to go more than 300kcal over maintenance when bulking. Some people go 500kcal+ and get fat as fuck for no reason. I like to stay lean so I go 100 - 200 over. Some people say gains are slower (doubt it) but even if they were you don't have to cut as long as someone who bulks way over so it would work out the same. Channels Scooby - Best for beginners by far Strengthcamp (The older videos are better) Omar isuf Frank yang (ish)

An amazing watch for whenever you lose perspective.

Carl Sagans Cosmos is the GOAT documentary by far. Also amazing: Home Planet ocean (the shots are incredible in both of these, especially liked the plankton. Alien as fuck) - Almost anything BBC (Life story, Planet earth, Life, Human planet, The blue planet and Wonders of the Solar system especially) - Our secret universe - the hidden life of the cell if you want to know more about our complex inner workings (fucking crazy) - Into the universe with stephen hawking - Journey to the edge of the universe - Also liked inner worlds, outer worlds.