Psychonaut

@Abeo Maria I do my morning as the first thing. I do meditate as the last thing in the morning. Basically before I go and do other tasks. This gives my mind enough time to wake up. Meditating while still feeling a bit drowsy is not as effective for me because I sometimes doze off. Meditating in the morning is good because the effects can persist through a substantial amount of the day. If you exercise in the morning that is a good start already. As exercise is mostly just repetitive tasks you can also get s similiar effect to meditation. I got into meditation because of swimming. I usually swim a hour of freestyle while fully concentrating on swimming and not thinking about anything. Not even about counting my lanes. After a while you can feel the water flowing past your body. It's beautiful. I wanted the calmness I got from swimming every day, that is why I started meditating.

@Abeo Maria Mostly I do normal Zazen (Zen) meditation in the morning. Sit on a chair, close eyes, don't move, focus on breath and think about nothing. I find that one is rather easy to do because my mind is not so filled with stuff right after I get up. Yes and some days, I just sit there and my mind goes complete monkey. But the point is to sit down and try to calm it down. I think of my meditation time as special "reserved" time that has to be spend meditating. Just like you reserve time to speak to a good friend of yours.

I think that I'm a candidate that should really do NoFap. I watch so much porn every day and the porn has gotten so extremely sick and perverted to get me off. The worst thing is that I have zero motivation to get a girlfriend or even think about getting one. This works why should I even try getting a gf? It's a vicious cycle of self deception in which I'm ultimately cultivating more and more weird fetishes. I wonder what happens if you don't fap at all? Aren't you extremely horny all the time?

Drink a glass of fresh water, straight from the tap. Shower. Now that I'm refreshed, medidate 30-60 minutes. I think I could still add making a plan for the day or something like that. So I don't spend the day aimlessly. And eating something would be also good, I usually only eat lunch and no breakfast..., verrrry bad.

What are good ways to improve empathy towards other people? I think I know what other people are feeling, but I somehow don't care. I don't accept that others get upset over things I wouldn't even bother about. I find it especially difficult to deal with children. When they are upset, like they just broke something and are crying I don't know what to do. I have given up on trying to calm children because I just make them cry more, so I just ignore them.

I actually started getting into self development just because of psychedelics. They showed me the potential in me and gave rise to lots of questions.

Have you tried meditating? I have found it helps with the urge to always do something. Even if it just scrolling through your apps mindlessly. I used to always listen to music and stare at my phone, but after I started meditating I can appreciate the things around me more and I don't really use my phone that much.

I can also relate to your problem. It is very easy if you are already procrastinating, to procrastinate even more on weed. It makes you totally forget about the actual task at hand. I had a similiar issue with my exams this year. I was procrastinating on starting to study and started a bit later than I used to because I was smoking every day. But luckily my weed ran out 2 weeks before the exams and I didnt buy more and the pressure was high enough that I actually studied. I wouldn't totally blame weed for the problem of not studying. You could try think about the importance of the exam and what all the benefits of the exam are going to be in the future of your life. Try to motivate yourself for the exam and smoke less.