Btw, if anyone is interested -  it seems that there are some videos uploaded on Ralston's Vimeo channel that arent uploaded on his youtube.
https://vimeo.com/peterralsto

I want to share my experience of moving to the amazon jungle to live a simple, healthy life in the ecovillage called Terra Frutis, located in the beautiful rainforest of South Ecuador.
 
Why did I come here?
There where many reasons that motivated me to leave Germany to start a new life here. Here are some of the most important ones:
I wanted to live a simple and healthy life in beautiful nature
I was visiting this place a year ago and fell in love with the jungle
I wanted to escape wage slavery in Germany
I wanted to live in a place where I have access to psychedelic plants and to live in a culture, where doing psychedelic journeys is nothing unusual
I wanted to live in a sustainable way

 
Ways of living
There are different possibilities of how you can live here. I am curently voluntering. Which means, that I work for 20 hours per week and therefore I get a cozy cabin to sleep in, unlimited bananas and a portion of all the other fruits that we harvest here.
There is also the possibility to buy a piece of land here and live like a neighbour. The land is much cheaper then in most countries. I believe 5000$ for 1 hectar is realistic. You can also hire local workers to buid you a decent cabin for 3000 – 5000$. (If you want electricity in your cabin, then it will be more expensive).
 
Cost of living
200$ per month is realistic. The only expenses that I have here are for buying food at the local market on Saturdays and the 25$ monthly utility fee. Most people here have some kind of online job like teaching english, swedish, python or mathematics.
 
Work
Monday through Friday we meet at 7am at the Community Center and usually go to a field where we have planted a lot of fruit trees. The area here is very big and there are hundreds of fruittrees. The most common task it to take a machete and clear the area around a fruittree so that it can grow better. It is not necessary to go to the gym when you are doing this kind of work. It is a good workout and a great way to start the day. Other tasks include harvesting, mapping the area and the trees and working in the plant nursery (watering and planting seeds). Besides that there are is other kinds of work that you can do if you are not working on the land: cleaning the kitchen area, taking care of compost buckets, preparing cugarcane juice (very delicious), drying bananas, preparing sacha inchi nuts, construction work, creating social media content and others. We work for 4 hours, until 11am and then the rest of the day is free. You have a lot of free time when living here. I usually like to work more because of that, doing things like creating and uploading videos for Instagram, where I document the daily life here.
 
People
I really enjoy this simple way of life. There are around 9 long term residents here, several people that live nearby as neighbours and a few volunteers who come and go every now and then. The people are really chill here, they come from different countries like England, Sweden and USA and are mostly in their 30s.
 
My impressions
I can not possibly describe with words how beautiful the nature, the sounds and insects and how delicious some of the tropical fruits here are. Sometimes we harvest a fruit that I have never seen and tasted before and it just blows me away. It is like a new world of tastes that I can explore here. I love the sounds of the jungle as well. When I lived in Germany, I had a problem with tinitus, but here I do not have it at all, because the jungle sounds are always present. I feel healthier, stronger and happier since moving here.


 
Some important information about the Ecoviallge (from their website):
( Mission
Our mission is to be a vegan intentional community, taking inspiration from agroforestry, permaculture and syntropic agriculture to produce abundant and diverse food for a healthy, high raw vegan diet, in an environment where animals and humans thrive together. We hope to be an inspiration and to share our knowledge and methods.
We practise sustainability, non-violent communication and consensus based decision-making, and seek self reliance.
 
Our land
The Terra Frutis project is located in south-eastern Ecuador, 18 km from Gualaquiza, on 136 hectares (330+ acres) of land which slopes upward towards a mountainous western border, with the eastern border being the Zamora river and then two smaller streams along the north and south as general locations for the other respective borders. The elevation is 720 meters at the river. The majority of the land is between 730-900 meters, and the top of the mountain is about 1200 meters.
Most of the food forest project is located on land used until some years ago as a cow pasture (in other words: grass). Right now there are about 40 hectares of open pasture land that we are systematically clearing and re-planting with food forest pioneers. This land can/will be re-forested with trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs that provide food in a sustainable way, using agroforestry practices that work with and encourage local wildlife species. There are also bamboo forest sections, which can provide supplemental material for numerous residences and utility buildings.
 
Access
The land is reachable by pick-up truck via a gravel road. To get to/from the town of Gualaquiza involves a 40 minute taxi ride, or a 40 minute walk to a nearby village and then a 20 minute bus ride.
 
Accommodation and Facilities
We usually have plentiful rooms and/or private structures available for you to sleep in. You are also welcome to set up a tent, hammock, or other temporary accommodation. We charge 25$ per month for utilities (electricity, internet, kitchen...). We have: hot showers, hot water, a washing machine, a clothes dryer, blenders, dehydrators, a juicer, a cooking stove, a freezer, a fridge, internet, a hot tub. We also have a community center building for recreational activities or just hanging out.
 
Food from the land
We usually have more than enough bananas (several cultivars) all year round.
Often we have papaya, plantains, jackfruit, canistel, rough lemons, naranjilla, hot peppers, and noni. Seasonally you may enjoy biriba/rollinia, peach-palm, abiu, guava, iñaco, peanut butter fruit, mandarins, starfruit, marang, ice cream bean, apai, and cacao. Sometimes soursop, pineapple, limes, miracle berry, cucumber, cherry tomato, squash, jaboticaba, breadfruit, and matoa.
We are constantly planting and have planted hundreds of fruit-bearing plants throughout the property including: durian, mangosteen, mamey sapote, canistel, breadfruit, white sapote, custard apple, blackberry jam fruit, matoa, tangelo, pomelo, avocado and more.
Beside fruits, we have a fairly good amount of katuk and turmeric, sugarcane, a little bit of taro and some cassava. Sometimes: tropical lettuce, sweet potato, ginger, corn, and nuts.
It is currently not possible to get a healthy diet 100% off the land. So you’ll need to buy food. We either order food together to be delivered, or take a trip into town on market day.
 
Climate
Temperature is fairly steady throughout the year. The warmest month of the year is November with an average temperature of 23.8°C (73.84°F). The coolest month is July, when the average temperature is 22.1°C (71.78°F). Overnight lows tend to range from 16°C to 20°C. We have rarely seen as low as 13°C. )
 

I balance my coffee with about 50ml of coconut cream which provides a nice amount of naturally occurring MCT's and fats to slow the metabolism and lengthen / smoothen the effect. I also add 1/4 - 1/3 of cacao powder, and often use cardamon, clove, cinnamon, vanilla to balance out coffee's potential negatives. You can also add ashwagandha for grounding and lions mane for brain boost. 
Matcha has naturally occurring L-theanine and caffeine so i feel that would be best to get a feel of L-theanine but with less of a spike or kick than coffee.
It is also best to take caffeine, especially coffee, no sooner than 11am and no later than 1pm cause of how circadian rhythms work.
 

Become conscious that depression is you comparing yourself to an idea that doesn’t exist.
And if it’s not that, then it’s physical, "dopamine withdrawal" : remove all drugs, porn, dead scrolling.
Avoid every substances, fact only : drink water, eat properly, meditate, read books/audiobook chill, draw.

you'll feel in hell quickly for some months but after 3 months you'll already see the benefits.

all substances that goes up will take you down, all of them, psychedelic included, your body evolved millions of years to a certain context, even using internet is already too much - information dopamine overload.

Cup grasping chad vs "I feel like I know what a cup is" beta male
 

I did psychedelics every weekend for 2 years. They didn’t raise my consciousness. My consciousness has always been expanding (which I assume is natural for those interested in the riddle of reality), and it still expands, even without psychedelics for 5 years.
What makes it expand is seeing that which was previously not seen, and understanding the mechanics of the vail - how it was hidden and how it came to not be hidden. That’s what expands consciousness, IME. And the “what” behind the vail is always my own mind. Psychedelics showed me some things about my mind but after a while, it’s a one-trick pony. 

One trap I can see clearly is some people will think they’re expanding their consciousness with psychedelics when in reality, all they’re doing is using the data from previous trips to construct even grander trips in the future, creating a feedback loop where trips become more pronounced and profound over time, which feels like conscious ascension, but in reality, your fleshing shit out sideways. 100% this is super common, and I wouldn’t rule out it being universal. 

You experience reality differently for a while because you’re discombobulated or traumatized or intensely perplexed. This does not = expanded consciousness. It’s easy to accumulate and stack these feelings and use them to trick yourself that they represent expanded consciousness. 
 

I'm reading The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston. It's on the book list here on actualized.org. I'm confused by something said in the book. On page 48 it's said that "not-knowing"/consciousness may appear to some as emptiness, ignorance or as a sense of disconnectedness from the source and absolute nature of life and being. This confuses me because I understand not-knowing aka consciousness without form as the source of all life. So why would it appear as a sense of disconnectedness from the source of being? In the paragraph previous to this one it states that not-knowing is the source of knowing. This seems to contradict the statement I'm questioning. Is anyone familiar with this book and can you help to bring clarity to my confusion? Thank you.

This is just gibberish. It takes someone that knows the Absolute to know the Absolute for what it is and also for what it is not. Namely that which has nothing to do with states of mind. This has been said again and again and again and again and AGAIN for thousands of years. You guys think you're really discovering something new with this whole psychedelic thing. Explain to me why EVERY enlightened teacher that's had enlightenment experiences that have also done lots of psychedelics over the course of decades always and unanimously point out that THAT IS NOT IT. Explain to me why that doesn't sink in. They're not dismissing whatever value you may have derived or whatever emotional "healing" may have taken place. They're pointing out that that is just shit that comes and goes and that the mind makes up shit about whatever arises and passes away in experience and becomes yet another conditioned experience that is largely tainted by people's philosophical presuppositions, conditioning, and so forth and that people don't tend to realize that's what they're doing. 
Are you not aware that Brendan, Peter's assistant, that's taking over Cheng Hsin, that's had an enlightenment experience literally drove over to meet Leo to do 5-MeO and still reported "That's not it"? I mean, how much more do this really need to be made clear? Why can't it just be fucking acknowledged that nobody is dismissing the usefulness and power of psychedelics yet just call it for what it is and also what it is not and put it in it's proper place? 
No there isn't. Enlightenment isn't caused by anything. There are certain things we can do to help facilitate Realization. That's not the same thing though as saying though that enlightenment is caused by something. It isn't. The Absolute transcends causes and conditions. 
No it isn't.

In his recent newsletter Peter Ralston was asked about psychedelics.
Question (roughly):  how come you promote states like clarity, openness and presence as necessary prerequisites for fruitful contemplation yet dismiss psychedelics as useless when it comes to consciousness work stating they are just states and not direct consciousness. Can psychedelic states not also be used to enhance contemplation, not to do it for you but help do it for yourself?
I am interested in what this forum thinks about his answer. Keep in mind though that he is deeply awake and also did have his fair share of psychedelic experiences.
Ralston:
I disagree with your argument. I hear the logic, but the truth in this case is different from the logic. The first thing we should notice is that the drugs are not of your own making, they are chemically induced. Whereas creating a state of focus and presence is an activity you generate. This is significant.
There are many states you can generate that are not at all helpful to pursuing consciousness, even ones that seem like they are. You could have a state of anger or distraction, which probably don't help much. You could also have a state of feeling one with the universe, and that doesn't help either, but you could easily think it does. So, it is with psychedelic states. You might think they help or produce some beneficial state because you experience something awesome or unusual. But that doesn't help at all. Like I have said, you can become directly conscious while being angry or on drugs, but I'm also saying the anger or drugs have nothing to do with it. People fool themselves into thinking drugs can help. A mistaken notion. I lived in the late 60's in Berkeley, California in an era of a great deal of drug taking. It was probably the beginning of the whole psychedelic attempt to become more conscious. We even called them "consciousness raising drugs." I did more than my share for a while. So, I tell you from a personal experience of both drugs and consciousness, the drugs don't help.
That isn't their purpose, and I think those using them to attain enlightenment are mistaken or lazy, wanting something else to do it for them or help them. This is nonsense because "direct" means only YOU can do it, nothing else. As for states that help in contemplation, they do so simply because they support your intent and efforts to contemplate. Drugs don't. And you are the one generating the states. Drugs aren't generated by you. States helpful in contemplation aren't random they are simply what creates the activity of contemplation. Without focus and openness you really can't contemplate. They are simply part of that effort.
The contemplation itself is an activity, it is not enlightenment. It is simply more likely for you to become directly conscious if you intend to do so, and you give it your all. Drugs just provide a different experience by altering the chemicals in your brain. Neither chemicals or brain activity has anything to do with enlightenment. You can do them if you want, I am simply asserting there is a flaw in your logic—it doesn't work that way. You seem to be trying to convince yourself by getting me to go along with your beliefs. Sorry to disappoint, but I won't. Even if I had no counter logic to offer, I'd still say no. Simply because I know the truth directly. Peter

You guys overestimate what a Joe Rogan appearance really does. It does not make you insta super famous, rarely. It does not instantly convert a huge swathe of people into a distorted copy of your worldview, not any more than what you see on this forum.
Joe Rogan's audience is arguably as a whole not more biased or corrupt than the rest of the world. The world is corrupt, and in fact, his audience is the world (he is the world's largest podcast, with guest from all walks of life and parts the world). Posting videos on YouTube as a whole or posting videos on Joe Rogan's channel is virtually the same thing.
So if you want to stop your ideas from coming into the wrong hands: stop posting on YouTube, stop posting on your blog, close your forum, or just stop talking about those things you don't want to fall into the wrong hands (which you can do on the podcast as well). People who become curious and dig deeper will be exposed to your worldview in its fullest, but these are certainly not different from the people in your core audience.
Becoming a true believer requires it to resonate on a deep level. If you see corrupt people in your audience or on your forum, unless you see a huge increase after Rogan, maybe it's your ideas that are corrupt, or maybe again, it's just the world that is corrupt.

What you're trying to do is understand reality intellectually, through AI, you think it can give you TOE, but awareness itself is knowledge of another level, it can't be put on paper, you cant explain it away with maths, waves and circles, all those appear in it. (Ive studied maths and computer science at University level and was a competitive mathematician in my school years. )
It (awareness of awareness) is next level knowledge if you will. Direct knowing is important here, not intellectual knowing. 
But even intellectual knowing here should be less mathematical and more experiential, like the Consciousness only model of reality. 
Here's a nice vid, please don't skip, its a good watch, talks about the difference between the Consciousness only model and actually knowing the Truth non-intellectually. 
 
 

Leo does this unfortunately a lot - where he equivocates. As far as I understand, he uses two different notions of consciousness. Under one notion, its a property agents can have (which makes it possible to apply the norm  "more and less" to it  - generally goes for what and how much you are aware of ), and under the second notion: you cant have it, because 1) its not a property, 2) because you are it,  its basically the thing you are describing.
These are clearly two very different things and should be named differently.

I have thought about this and I think focusing on doing what is closest to the test that determines your grade is the smartest.
 So for example, im  studying chemistry right now. And the exam that determines my grade (except for lab reports but there you can only get  approved vs disapproved result, don’t know what it’s called in English) is 90% just doing calculations , and just a small amount of theoretical explanation of something.
I did the mistake of focusing too much on theory, so I read a lot before the exam, thinking if I just understand it theoretically then l’ll be able to do calculations on it.
But it was not a good method, because all the theory didn’t translate to being able to do the calculations, and with theory, reading just once isn’t enough, you need repetition, but I didn’t have enough time for that so most things I just read once. So it didn’t really stick in my brain.
It would’ve been smarter to do many calculating tasks, and old exams, to practice that skill. And only learning theory when listening to lectures and if I’m really not understanding something then I can look it up online or in a book.
So basically doing things similar to the exam before the real exam, if you’re shooting for a good grade.
Also depending on the course, our teacher says that if she doesn’t mention something, we don’t need to know it. So basically all the theory needed comes from listening to lectures (taking notes and reading the PowerPoint)
We also have a book for every course. But I found I had spent too much time in the book, and I read things that I didn’t even need to know so it was a waste of time. So if you know the teacher says all you know, reading extra might not be much necessary .
I will try out this theory of mine irl and see if it goes better in next exam 

Don’t fall into trap of spending too much time thinking about how to study rather than just doing it. 
 

Psychologically speaking, it's actually detrimental! Look up the intention-behavior gap.
The more you talk about something you haven't actually done, the more the brain is tricked into believe it's done something.
The dopamine release you get from talking about becoming successful can give you the same reward you'd get from actually working towards your goals, it's wild.
That being said, if you're actually taking action then talking about your goals is a good support to that, to keep you focused.
In general though, act first, brag later.

Sephalopod intelligence is the closest thing to alien intelligence, we have on earth.
Here are some of the things that  struck me as I was researching about them:
They have twice as many neurons as a cat but 2/3 of them are distributed in their 8 arms and only 1/3 in their head. Each of heir arms has basically its own brainstem and sense organs. Their arms can act independantly but also concertated.  They can change the color and texture of their skin to match their surrounding within an instant despite their eyes being color blind. They do this with photoreceptors in their skin. They can solve compex problems and mazes, they have memory and the capability of abstract planning and can recognize people. They exhibit play despite being an antisocial and solitairy creature. (Play as a form of learning is usually only found in species that form social relations.)  
Contemplating this is valuable to realize just how many aspects of our mind and our intelligence we take for granted!
Realize how radical this becomes: It's not a given, that your body is one entity. Imagine the possibility of your left arm, just going on, doing its thing for a while, grabbing, managing and learning stuff, while still allowing for your body acting as a whole if one of arms fins some information that would necessitate that. This ability to switch between centralized and decentralized intelligence is something that humans are not good at at all.
How would it be to have an octopus awakening and become octopus-god? Realize what aspects and what believes about yourself and your intelligence would need to be dropped?
 
 
More Resources:
My Octopus Teacher (Neflix) Inside the mind of an octopus, interview with Dr. Jennifer Mather (Youtube) Dr. Jennifer Mather about Octopus Intelligence (Youtube)

@Leo Gura I just read through this interesting thread, and I wonder:
How can you be so certain of the truth of your insights through psychedelic experiences? Sometimes I wonder if you are actually considering that (some of) those insights could just as well be your own fantasy interpretations which may be false. Couldn't that be ego being so deceptive that one doesn't see it? This is not an attack but a genuine inquiry.
Informative on this topic: Quoted from the book 'consciousness dialogues' by Ralston:
''First, drugs don't increase consciousness; they only shift one's state of mind. Such shifts can be dramatic and might assist someone who is otherwise completely stuck or close-minded to open up. But when all is said and done, whether an "insight" is accompanied by a drug or meditation or bumping your head, you need to ask: what are you actually conscious of now that you weren't conscious of before? In other words, beyond the phenomena, what you believe, thoughts you have, visions you might have had, etc., what are you actually and presently conscious of?
The answer is frequently: nothing. Meaning there is no increase in "consciousness"; there is simply the memory of dramatic experiences. Dramatic experiences come and go. Some are really neat or fascinating, some are very pleasant, some are frightening, but a perceived experience means little more than itself. In other words, it is what it is: a dramatic episode in one's mind and perceptions. From these we sometimes have new thoughts or make conclusions, which may or may not be useful, but they are not anything more meaningful than that.
It is possible to have a real insight or even an enlightenment experience regardless of the circumstances (the word "experience" in this case is not accurate, but it is used to hold the place of a true increase or awakening in consciousness that does not occur as a perception). And if this is the case, it does not disappear when the drug does or when you stop meditating, or you recover from your concussion, or whatever. The ability to conveniently interpret our perceptions - and so virtually "create" a world that we believe in or wish to be so - is very strong in humans. We do it all the time, especially with " spiritual" pursuits. It is a much more powerful direction to strip as much belief and fantasy from our experience as we can. I recommend doing so without replacing them with more assumptions or beliefs about what is true. Try instead to float in a sea of not knowing for a while, being open to an experience of whatever is actually true."

I am a few days in and brain fog got so strong that I ended up napping for like 6-8 hours in the day, then waking up at night. 
Seems like probably just have to accept a week of mediocrity, if not possibly longer. 
Unexpectedly, I'm enjoying the disrupted circ rhythym rebalancing, something oddly blissful just waking up at 10-12PM and being awake at night, with no agenda or desire to achieve anything, zero discipline, just letting your brain follow its random curiositiy 
I watched alex beckers illuminating series on caffiene 3 years ago and it made me rethink, but I failed and forgot to give it up
3 years later I am finally ready to try it out. 
Caffiene is amazing if you're not addicted and can ritualize or control it, if its a social thing or 1-2 per week max, but I have always spiralled. 
Alex beckers series on it is pretty good, I love how he expalins it in such a dumbed down, relatable way that is scientific but just grounded to its basic core : "it floods your brain with cortisol and blocks adenosine, the receptor which is supposed to naturally signal fatigue" ect.. Andrew huberman could learn from this guy, he loves to make things as complex and academic as possible, like he's almost flexing his devotion to thal mighty PHD Club  

Lie horizontal with no stimuli for 8 hours every night at the same time, even if you can't sleep.
Dysregulated sleep patterns are the primary contributor to dysregulated emotions and are the only consistent pattern among all people who attempt suicide.
If you feel like killing yourself again, just tell yourself you can put it off until tomorrow and go to bed, then repeat.
Doing some exercise is the next best thing. It helps you sleep and improves brain function.
Then eating well.
Then human contact. Even if it's not friends, get a massage if you can afford one.
Then you can start taking care of practical things.
Then spiritual things.

For a rapid state change, there are many different breathing exercises you can practice. Here is a simple, safe one:

Also, initiating natural tremor responses is a very effective way to release stress from your nervous system. If you practice daily, there are more risks depending on your specific psychological and physiological circumstances, but for most people, it's fine:
 
 

I am more interested I discovery wft happened during 500 years of Dark Age after the Rome Empire fall. 
 

Please be careful. I did LSD once right after kriya yoga and activated my kundalini by mistake. Was awake for 48 hours running around in my apartment because I couldn't fall asleep.

@Thought Art
James Nestor wrote a book where he basically tried to put together a "theory of everything" for breathwork and synthesize how all the different techniques come together.
Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown is interesting for a more scientifc POV, very Buteyko inspired.
Also, Brian Mackenzie talks a lot about breathwork from more a fitness POV:
 

"Let me a grab a random set of metrics and then let me assume that the data the AI will present me with will be accurate"
Wow, not all practicing doctors conduct experiments and doing research and spending their time studying philosophy of medicine on a daily basis?
1) If you don't want to create a world where each practicing doctor is freely allowed to come up with their own epistemic and ethical norms when it comes to treating patients, then you will eventually end up with a system similar like this.
2) You probably don't want all doctors to do experiements and to do research - in a working society you want some doctors to spend their time treating patients.
 
 
 
Its very clear, that some of you abuse the fck out of the buzzwords that Leo shared with you like "holistic" or "appeal to authority".
 
With regards to the appeal to authority - yes it can be said that its fallacious reasoning , but thats not the enire story, because it can be used as a heruistic (where given that you have low info and low knowledge in a given field, you assume that whatever the experts or the expert consensus concluded will be probably your best bet). You don't know how to even properly contextualize and what kind of norms to use to properly evaluate the data infront of you, because you are not trained in the field - so the question is why dont you ever question your ability to make reliable inferences about fields that you have 0 training in?
The funny thing is that almost everyone can recognize this when it comes to fields where your assumptions are tested immediately (like engineering jobs and roles). You cant just come up with your own set of metrics and norms and then build a bridge or put a car together. "Bro you haven't directly tested how flammable gasoline is, you just believe in the dogmas that the stupid and unconscious experts  feeding you with, get more holistic and wake up from the matrix".
Given the complexity of medical fields and given that you cant conduct experiments on a  big sample of people and given that you have no ability to even begin to isolate variables , you can infinitely bullshit yourself and pretend that you are smarter than everyone else and that you have some kind of special insight.
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When it comes to the holism and holistic part, just because you use more norms from that doesn't follow that you will be more accurate. I can have an epistemic norm of observing the grass for 10 seconds and if the wind blows the grass within that timeframe then I will infer that the answer to my question is yes and if the wind doesn't blow within that timeframe then I will infer that the answer is no. I can then integrate this epistemic norm with my  other epistemic norms and pretend that Im more special and im smarter than people who havent integrated as many epistemic norms as I did.
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When it comes to the direct experience criticism - what do you think you are saying there? Should all doctors try all the treatments and all the pills on themselves before they prescribe anything to patients?

There are many things that can contribute to ADHD although not a single cause so natural remedies can be limited but there are things worth looking into
Nutritional  vitamin D deficiency has been associated with higher incidence of it, that one is worth exploring.  low Omega 3 status in childhood also has some association - also worth looking into  Overstimulation  through substances which is more apparent like drugs and alcohol  but also things like too much reel content, video games etc  Sleep  people with ADHD are more likely to suffer form dysregulated sleep. If you find your sleep being irregular or too insufficient that's worth looking into Exercise can stimulate release of neurochemicals that help calm the mind and slow down the overifiring between synapses. It is also a potent stimulant of BDNF and NGF, both which can sometimes be dysregulated in ADHD. notice how your mind shuts up once your heart rate goes up during a HIIT session.  kids who exercise regularly are statistically less likely to receive ADHD diagnosis but that could be a proxy of overall healthier lifestyle rather than direct effect, personally i find sauna quiets my mind too especially after exercise microbiome some evidence shows higher odds of dysbiosis which could potentially lead to gut-brain axis disturbances. Also worth exploring. Evidence on probiotics is mixed tho  glucose regulation it might help to eat diet that helps prevent rapid glucose spikes as in some people with ADHD it can worsen symptoms. So think high fibre, less high GL, moderate to higher protein, complex carbs  toxins some evidence shows presence of neurotoxins but this is too complex to put in a comment. Best ask GPT  i haven't even gone into environment, childhood trauma, growing up in a family with addicts with common fights, living in noisy environment, needing to optimise workspace, getting rid of major distractions, moving out of parents house if needed for quiter life etc, Those are all potentialy major contributors.  Hope some of it helps. It goes without saying that you should practice meditation or something similar regularly and limit exposure to extremely dopaminergic activities like video games and scrolling reel for hours at a time.
If ADHD is really messing with your life then getting some sort of professional help can be of benefit.

This thread is meant to be a concise list of exercises pointing to the truth of enlightenment -- the truth of no-self.
All of the exercises listed herein are PRACTICAL! They are NOT philosophical or theoretical. They are not to be debated or pondered intellectually. They are to be actually done! Do each exercise carefully and notice what direct experience reveals. Often times direct experience will reveal something counter-intuitive, something that goes totally against all common-sense and any models you have of how reality works.
Feel free to contribute your own exercises to this thread. But do so in a concise and practical manner, so whoever is reading this thread can focus on LOOKING or CONTEMPLATION versus debating or asking theoretical questions.
This document is a work-in-progress. I'll keep adding more exercises to the list.
Here are some of my favorites so far:
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Exercise #1: Drawing An Imaginary Line
 
Exercise #2: Noticing Space As Unitive
 
Exercise #3: Noticing That All Phenomena Is Democratic
 
Exercise #4: Noticing Objects Exist Only Where They Are
 
Exercise #5: Sensory Field Connection
 
Exercise #6: Noticing There Are No Objects
 
Exercise #7: Noticing The Self-Image Isn't You
 
Exercise #8: Noticing You Are Not A Point-Camera
 
Exercise #9: Noticing The Gap Between Thoughts
 
Exercise #10: Noticing The Source Of Thoughts
 
Exercise: #11: Noticing That Sound Occurs Exactly Where It Is
 
Exercise #12: Noticing The External World Doesn't Exist
 
Exercise #13: Noticing Other People Do Not Exist
 
Exercise #14: Noticing That Nothing Is Hidden
 
The above exercises are true enlightenment work. This is where the rubber meets the road.
Keep practicing all of these exercises diligently, for months, until all your imaginary paradigms of reality break down and you are left only with direct experience. When you start to feel like this silly creature below, you're on the right track:

Enjoy