Psychonaut

Try to study together with other people. That was the only way for me to have fun while studying ;-)

10 years ago my parents decided to get rid of the TV. My dad used to come back home from work reaaaaly exhausted. He works hard. Often he would just plant himself in front of the TV and sometimes even fall asleep in front of the TV. Eventually he just removed the TV and we had no TV anymore. I was still a child at the time and was ok with it. He said he wanted to spend more time with us and talk to his wife instead of becoming a vegetable in front of the TV. Best decision ever. Just get rid of the stupid thing.

I have been wondering if you can replace meditation with a session in a sensory deprivation tank? I haven't tried a Sensory Deprivation Tank, but want to and then eventually build or buy one myself. Just have to make sure I have space for it in my next flat.

I'm looking for a notebook to carry in the pocket of my pants, it should be sturdy (hardcover) and last a few months. I want to write down ideas, plans, goals, how long I've meditated and so forth. Do any of you carry a diary on you? What do you write in it?

Do you carry your diary around with you or do you keep it at home? I could use my phone as a diary, it's a Samsung Note 3 and even has a pen. But I want to use my phone less and my diary shouldn't need a battery. I'm not sure if I want to write a real diary, but I'd like to write my todo lists, goals, random thoughts, etc on real paper and not have them in my phone where I can just click them away with a single press of the home button. I have just found if I actually write things on paper I am more likely to do them.

I'm in a similiar position as you are. Eating meat has bothered me for quite some time and a few weeks ago I decided to stop eating meat. I was also researching a bit about veganism vs vegetarianism and decided to go vegetarian. I think it might be easier to start with a vegetarian diet, at least that is something you can pull through with. You can get a vegeterian dish in almost any restaurant, but not always a vegan dish. Lot's of vegans quit. But if you start with vegeterian, you can always still go vegan and go back to vegetarian if vegan is too hard. But if you start with vegan right away you might not even try vegatarian afterwards.

I'm interested if someone has tried it or is doing it consistently? I usually only do Zazen meditation, like Leo showed in his videos.

@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.