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Sorry, but this makes no sense to me at all

@Carl-Richard I do both of these and they indeed have helped a lot. Both things I really notice increase the performance of my working memory @Michael569 ohh, will definitely give that a listen! ty

This video on the topic seems quite interesting. I do think my brain has issues with dopamine function. Why? Because every time I do or consume something that increases dopamine, my working memory problems eleviate somewhat. Now, I might be linking things together wrongfully, I'm a layman so that's certainly possible, but it's at least a hunch that deserves looking at. Are there any sustainable ways of increasing dopamine function?

It is prudent before tearing down a house, that you have a provisional house in the meantime. - Rene Descartes I've been with this community since I was about 16 (I'm 22 now). At that age I started getting very heavily involved with spiritual practice; I meditated every day for multiple hours, contemplated, read tons of books, etc. Parts of this journey was very helpful and got me a solid grasp for things I now want to spend the rest of my life trying to figure out. But, I was not ripe yet for spiritual awakening. I came into this work with a background of serious mental health issues and, of course, this really affected how spirituality unfolded for me. Multiple times when I was met with a slither of Truth, my mind went into uncontrolled hysteria and I had panic attacks for days. Unable to function and the most anxious I've ever been. Now, retrospectively, I can look back and see why all this happened the way it did. I did not have a solid foundation to fall back on, and I came at this all from a broken mind. Though I didn't take any psychedelics, I think calling it all a bad trip isn't that far off. Throughout my time, I've seen the same thing happen in this community and others. People getting seriously hurt, mental health problems, bypassing and avoiding important areas of their life in the name of spirituality. All this had led me to now wanting to make this post. I think I found something really important that most interested in spiritual and personal development work should do before they get really deep. Create a tenable philosophical position from the perspective you currently have. This, I think, is crucially important, especially for those that have mental health issues. If you don't have a set way of how to make decisions and make sense of the world from your current perspective, any spiritual work has a huge potential of throwing your entire being into uncontrollable disarray and will open you up to serious mental health issues and their consequences. Like Descartes beautifully put, you need a provisional house to reside in, while you are building a new one from the ground up. Unless you have thick coat and perhaps a campfire, those cold sharp winds of nights on the streets aren't exactly comfortable. For me personally, I had to come from a persective of nihilism and deep suffering. Existentialism and their solutions have given me that temporary house to stay in. I turned hopelessness and the harshness of the world into personal hope and kindness. Creating my own meaning in the face of meaninglessness has saved my life. I strongly advice those of you that can find yourselves in my message to create those conceptual framerworks and personal meaning that can you fall back on while you explore life. All the best, Max

@KH2 You're not a simpleton, you just haven't found why supression is bad in your own experience. Of course, you might always find the opposite to be true, for me though, I have found it to be bad. Why? because I find every emotion to have it's own beauty and experiencing them fully enriches my life, then next to that, even if you supress your emotions they will always come back later, they hide within your subconscious and then come out even more intensly. When you supress, those emotions go somewhere, but where? that's something you might wanna think about. All the best friend

@Tyler Robinson Attacking toxic masculinity is certainly deserved, but you are doing so in threads that are discussing cultivating healthy forms of masculinity and how to integrate them. Though of course, I have said so myself in this thread, Goggins does seem to encourage supression to some degree and that isn't good.

@Tyler Robinson I’m not talking about Goggins specifically, I mean the ‘alpha male’ movement type thing you’re referring to. No if course I’m not neglecting one over the other, I’m saying some need to lay their focus more on for now and than the other but of course find a healthy balance eventually

@Tyler Robinson While vulnerability is definitely important for men to learn, a big chunk of the new generation of men struggle with things like discipline, independent self-worth, work ethic, coming into healthy malehood/masculinity Perhaps you are not connected to that as much because you are a female (I presume), but it is important for a lot of this new generation to work on these things.

Though supposing it comes from good intentions, I don't think complimenting her is worth it. Why? because it will be misunderstood and cause discomfort 9 times out 10. Better to just keep it to yourself and if you do want to practice complimenting people, find situations that are less open to misinterpretation.

This guy recently popped up in my recommended feed on Youtube and I really enjoyed his videos. As someone that is working on getting their stage blue to a healthy and complete state, I’d say this is a good example of what that looks like: enjoy

I could be wrong, but the sense I get from David Goggins is that without all the hard work and extreme feats, he would be without self-worth. Sure he things he is able to accomplish are amazing, but I feel the extremeness about it all is neurotic and dismisses other important areas of life. If you temper his mindset somewhat before you take it on though, there is benefit to be gained in the area of discipline and work-ethic, etc.

@Tyler Robinson it’s not only ethics, it’s also discipline, integrity, etc. there is no moving up the spiral if you don’t fully embody the the previous stages

@Tyler Robinson You’re right, the shadow aspects to the stages lessen as you move up the spiral. But that doesn’t make their healthy aspects any less important. try to imagine this, how does a person that has a weak stage blue look like, or a weak stage red? What kind of person are they?

@Tyler Robinson Do you really not understand the fact that a stage itself is not toxic? There is also excess stage red, purple, orange, green, etc.

@Tyler Robinson Just because there exists a lot of toxic blue doesn’t mean blue itself is bad, it just means our culture doesn’t have a healthy relationship to it. I’m talking about integrating the healthy parts of it. Things like integrity, discipline, respect, virtue, decency.

@Tyler Robinson You are not responding to any of my questions or comments, there is nothing more I can do. I don’t think you are looking objectively at the spiral and what each stage means.

@Tyler Robinson You are only mentioning very, very unhealthy forms of blue. I myself have a stage red blindspot that triggers me, so I kind of understand why this all upsets you, but I invite you to look at spiral dynamics objectively and see that there are healthy parts of blue that you need to integrate if you want to fully embody higher stages. What do you think about the traits I laid out in one of my previous posts?

@Leo Gura Hell yeah brother

@Carl-Richard I find it so beautiful to see. In my mind this man is no different than a buddhist monk, a shaman, etc. Though through a lens of tradition, this man has found wisdom, while not being completely shut down and close minded.

@Tyler Robinson I think almost all stages have their limits and their excesses. All the things you’re talking about are definitely the toxic sides of blue, which most of us are met with every day on social media and so perhaps feel very reactionary to. But from my point of view you cannot deny the importance of discipline, respect, decency, and virtue. These are the healthy parts of stage blue. This video above shows a good example of that.

@Irina Wolf How do you deal with it?

Dan the content man is my favourite

it’s peak finding meaning in the mundane and laughing about dumb shit. I absolutely love it, one of my favorite shows.

@Leo Gura You should be able to instantly see through that shit

@Gabith That’s good to hear