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@Joseph Maynor I find it more comfortable to do a cold shower initially, they tend to be much harder to take after the hot shower, and it gives an excuse to only do it a few seconds, I mean, my cold shower IS a shower, I use soap and all that. I prefer the convenience. Once I did a 20 min cold bath (in the same water temperature), I got used to the feeling after a few minutes, then I tried to be still in there, and after a while, all the cold sensations disappeared. My body was functioning properly, etc, but when I got out, supposedly the warm blood in the organs mixed with the cold blood in the skin and so I was shivering like crazy (fearful), with 5 blankets on me beside a radiator. This is why I do the horse stance after every shower, and its also why I don't take longer showers than 5 minutes. You get comfortable yeah, its bearable after the first 20 secs, but at a point, the body will give a (subtle, like habits) intuitive sense that its time to stop, and so I do. Around 5 minutes. You should try a cold shower without the hot shower first, see how you like it.

I surrender into the initial cold because that is the most fear-based and uncomfortable after that does the self-made resistances show up, and I do notice them. I try to relax into it, and I have practiced doing longer periods of initial surrender into the initial cold over my head, but I do not strain myself into resisting my self-imposed resistances, which are: Moving the water hose along my shoulders and other parts of the body rather than a continuous stream along the neck, and also touching my body with my hands, keeping myself busy essential until it does not get uncomfortable anymore, which happens at around 15 seconds. I do not surrender anymore after the initial part, as I have gotten comfortable enough to the cold for no fear to show up, although if I put a continuous stream of cold water on my neck, it tends to get uncomfortable after a while, but that would be the same style as surrendering into the plank position (you know when you work out), it does not include fear. I want to surrender into the fear, no fear shows up DURINg the shower unless something out of the ordinary happens.

@Etagnwo I just soaked in all of your stuff. At first, my ego wanted to defend and compare my old paradigm vs the one you were presenting, but I got more comfortable and open the more I realized you made a lot of sense The content you worked to share here is enormous! You have changed my paradigm and sparked insights! By thinking that my life purpose is gonna make me fulfilled, not women, then I kind of thought that all these pickup things are bad... This is wrong as I didn't account for the LP's of the PUA's and just how practical it is! Of course I can go out and have some fun, be myself and approach some girls. It does not matter if she will reject me, I don't even care. My purpose is unshakable. Until now, I have not assigned a sustainable purpose to pickup. I have also realized that im skipping through mines of golden nuggets in this forum. I do browse and read a lot here, but this level of depth is just astonishing. I have better realized the huge importance of nofap in this work, as it gets me more in touch with my masculine core, my purpose, and its unsuitability. From that, all the attraction will come from, as indirect nofap benefits. Thank you for the work you have put out here... Thank you Thank you! If it was not for you I would have gone to sleep early and gone done a perfect schedule tomorrow, but this... this will give me some sweet sweet dreams of solid integration. I will not restrain myself and my masculinity, and I shall put your words into practice. Double down on my purpose and nofap, and assigning a good purpose in being myself, comfortable in my masculinity. I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Ahahaha!

Last meal: 2.5kg of Sweet potatoes + 2 cucumbers + some salt, mustard, basil, ajvar and soy sauce (only meal of the day, didnt eat all of it) Healthiest meal: ~7 ripe mangoes Edita (STEAMED sweet potatoes)

I highly recommend the mastery mindset when it comes to listening to music, as you listen more and more, you kind of "master" the song, and you know everything all about it. This makes it very good to listen to. But only a good song can be mastered as you can listen to it many times without getting bored of it and killing it. (See the songs below) This first song im presenting is my all time favorite, which is rather peculiar as I don't consider it a masterpiece like the ones listed below it, but what makes it special is all the emotions that I have attached to it. I have listened to it so many times in many special occasions that it has become a role in my life, a part of me. Every time I listen to it, my consciousness is raised and I remind myself of how fast life is going (since I listened to it the previous time), and I just sit and look at how beautiful this journey is. Having such an attachment to a song is rather remarkable. What song is a part of you?

I would pick the Kriya Yoga workbook from Leo's booklist

\i suggest checking out the work of Loren Lockman on youtube. He is an expert within this field, he owns a fasting center in Costa rica where he has fasted thousands of people. He has convinced me that fasting is the single most effective thing in clearing out the garbage out of the body, and the body will do it by its own intelligence. I believe that you can trust the body that it will take care of its problems when you give it enough space. The body will never cause itself any problem through detoxification if you are doing it correctly. I am planning to go to TangleWood when I have the money for it: https://www.youtube.com/user/LorenLockman

30 Day nofap challenge Alright guys, so I got an accountability partner to introduce myself to some nice negative motivation. Combined with the goals I will achieve (because of this nofap challenge), I feel unstoppable. If I watch porn, I pay partner 25bucks, if I jerk off, I pay 150bucks, its as easy as that. Ever since then, all my cravings are pulverized my the thought of having to pay when I relapse, my honesty is on the line aswell. I have lined up some goals that I will have fulfilled by the end of the challenge, I feel like I have struck the goldmine of motivation!

@Nahm Too subtle, too powerful, hahaa, I found your response really funny as I took Shin's post completely for granted!

@Nahm

I know, I know, as my deep ignorance is melting away. I know you, I see you, I feel you, and I know of all you have gone through. I understand that the world is heavy, and why you can't break free. I will give you me, to bloom your roots, to white the grey and complete my heart. I am you, I love you. I love you, I love you.

This one is really beautiful and powerful. First time I ever had a moment of ultimate beauty in a song, where its just perfect

It was very humbling to realize that my worries were there just to make me miserable. It was even more humbling to realize that I was the guy who has his finger firmly pressed on the misery button - Gay hendricks

When I lay on my deathbed, reflecting and being satisfied with my profound life and accomplishments, I will never forget my heroes journey that started with Leo. Leo, you are the sole reason that im able to take this journey, you are the sole driving force of all my goals and productivity, of all my actions and intuitions. If it were not for you, I would be playing video games and planning to kill myself at age 27, after my mom has kicked me out, and I failed to make money from gaming. You are my Jesus, but I still take it for granted, you have made me make sense of the world in such a profound way, made me take action towards a better life like never before. You are like god, the foundation of a profound life, so much so, that one takes you for granted. I am a seed, and you are my sun, my actions is the water and my circumstances the earth. If you shine long enough, you will see a garden of gratitude in return. Thank you, Leo Gura.

@Your place at Heart Thanks for trying @sgn @Caterpillar Really funny Thanks for making memes out of the blue!

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@bejapuskas I cant say that, I dont know myself. I dont eat broccoli every day per say... I usually dont worry about eating too much of a thing. I feel perfectly fine after eating 5000% of vitamin A, so I dont worry about it so much. There is also a matter is assimilation and absorption of nutrients in the intentines, which is why its much smarter to take 40000% of Vitaminb12 than 100% in one pill. Its hard to get all the calories you need from fruit. One banana is around 100 calories, you need to eat a kilogram to reach 800calories. For a day you need about 25 bananas, but that is alot of volume... Just practise eating a bit more than your "fullness level" and you will expand your belly size until you can eat enough calories from fruit in one sitting.

@bejapuskas Nutrients becoming dangerous is a complicated thing, yes you can overdose on certain vitamins and minerals such as iron or K2(I think). A rule of thumb is that If you are eating fruits or the best roots/tubers then the nutrients in ratio of the calories you also get is never gonna lead to overdose. I do follow this guy almost on point, as I live here in Sweden, its the best choise, but I eat Swedish Sweet peas for lunch/dinner sometimes. I had a couple of blood tests and the doctor said that It was all fine. I feel great following his diet, I really do. So far, Ive had no problems with defiecencies or any bad sympthoms whatsoever. If I eat optimally, I usually am very capable of hard work (feeling motivated more). Many thing pays in to this, but following his advice has not proven to be causing problems for me atm. Here is another important video closely related to your question: What I eat is: Breakfast: Banana smoothie (around 12-14 bananas) Sometimes I add frozen berries for flavour (and nutrients), I usually add some oil to the smoothie according to the advices in the video. Lunch: Banana smoothie same as breakfast (Sometimes I dont eat lunch, sometimes I eat sweet peas for lunch, it varies) Dinner: Sweet potatoes or regular potatoes + Vegetables (Cucumber, broccoli or spinach) Or; Huge bowl of Sweet peas. Some additives are sometime Ajvar or Hummus, salt (common), soy sauce (rarely), sweet chilli sauce (rarely) and dried basil (commonly) I eat until im satisfied, and if im moderately active, then my calorie intake would average out at 3000 calories or something, I have not counted it though. If I eat breakfast and lunch, I would feel full when calories are met at dinner, even if I could eat much more with stomach volume.

@Capital I do meditate partially because its practical for me, yes it improves some aspects of my life, such as focus, emotional mastery, confidence etc. This leads to improvement in certain aspects of life. I can with confidence say that my awareness is increasing due to meditation. Maybe my goas is wrong. I used to be very chill meditating before and enjoying it, and I didn't care how long it would take for me to enlighten, 20 years seemed just fine... now it don't. There is something rushing me, maybe it is Leo, maybe im afraid that he will outgrow me, he keeps saying that I need to implement all these stuff, but its hard man. Fuck, if I know that I would enlighten after 20 years of this 50min meditation daily, then I would not hurry for shit. I can find the balance between the implementation of spiritual practices and spiritual ambition, vs the implementation of personal development and life purpose, if one gets too much, the other one is threatened. Why am I rushing? Why am I rushing the process when I really shouldn't? I know that I will implement kriya, I have the intention to do so in the future. I know I will taste truth somehow, I will get my hands on 5-Meo in the future. I will have an epiphany, and then find motivation through that. Maybe my suffering comes from trying to speed up the process... I only have 18 months left, and I feel guilty if I rob myself too much time from doing the lp. What makes me feel guilty if I dont speed up my spiritual path... Its Leo, it must be Leo, if he wouldn't be whispering in my ear that if I dont do this and that, he will outgrow me and im gonna get fucked. I misinterpret his words to think that this is a sprint! @Mu_ Maybe the path that im taking is fast enough already, and if I try to make it faster I will suffer for it, like reading a book slowly (soaking it all in) vs reading a book really fast (skipping through). Thanks for the replies guys, that made my oxytocin flow for sure!

Context: I am trying to find my life purpose though the lp course, bit I am also pursuing enlightenment. I percieve these two to be clashing in my lifestyle, Im striving to constantly improve my spiritual practises (started meditation a year ago, and now I meditate 50minutes daily + StrongDS), I want to implement kriya, and the more I meditate the more I feel like doing it, but here is the catch: The sole reason I have this free time in the first place is by dropping out of school to prepair myself for the future (earning money with LP at best, trying hard to build a buisness (passive income) at worst. The sprituality suck alot of energy, like striving for more knowledge, ego backlashes, and the practises, and in this way I feel like its hindering me, and on top of that is that I have a belief that LP build up the ego, and if I integrate my LP then It would be much harder for me to chose to pursue enlightenment over my life purpose (I dont have a vision to die for yet). The point: Ego is all about the negative emotions, truth hold the positive ones. Positive emotions comes from LP, by this logic it must be a milestone on the path!? Question: Should my main struggle be the LP, enlightenment or both? Is it possible that one is on the road of the other or can I make it so?

@bejapuskas Yes! Here is a video that would explain what I would try to explain here in words: I must admit, this guy is all you need The best staple foods are fruits, you could really survive on tropical mangoes for your whole life ^

If you want to get enough calories, just drink oil every day! Jk, but staying satiated is complicated, really! I mean, you have a lot of kinds of satiation: You are satiated because of fiber (you are still hungry but you feel full) You are satiated because of indigestion (You won't crave any more food, because that would mess up the digestion even more, this is a more unpleasant satiation) You are satiated because of sugar (This is what the body needs, but cannot be satiated without certain volume, the body needs sugar, thats why you crave dessert after nonsugar tasting meals) Tricky one: You are satiated with time, as the body has time to identify how many calories you have eaten. (Its easy to chug a soup, but you will still be hungry afterward, but if you consume the soup over a long time, you will feel more satiated then the one chugging it at the end, this is because that you chew more) You get satiated with volume (Water-rich foods rather than dried foods) You get satiated when you have consumed enough nutrients (if you are deficient in a certain nutrient, no matter how much you eat, if you are still deficient, you will still crave food) I satisfy my hunger with Volume, fiber and sugar, and enough vitamins, and in my opinion, that is the best kind of satiation, and I have experienced about all the different satiations that are listed above. The next best thing is indigestion + All you need (Sugar, vitamins, protein)+ volume (Fiber+Water). Its about as pleasant as the most pleasant satiation, but you can feel the difficulty of digestion, like gas, bloating, minor fatigue, etc. The important difference between getting all you need through hard digested meals (like combining beans and rice) vs easily digested meals (Monomeal fruits), is the digestion time. The digestion process is the most calorie taxing process the body goes through, and if you eat meals with the same nutrients and calories, but one is more digestible than the other, then technically, you have more calories to use on another activity when your food is more digestible. This is the final secret source of energy. I try to eat mono meals (one thing at a time), but if I combine, I do it according to food combination rules, good example: http://www.raw-food-health.net/Raw-Food-Combining.html Banana smoothie on morning and lunch (sometimes mixed with berries and a little bit of oil (for nutritional purposes)), unfrozen Sweet peas or steamed potatoes/sweet potatoes+vegetables (Steamed broccoli, cucumber, spinach). I also like to add alot of dried basil to my dinner, to add fiber, nutrients, and taste. I supplement with D3, Omega3, Vitamin E, Iodine, B12, and sometimes Zinc. I feel great! Edit: @bejapuskas @RabbitHole

Prelude: I was in the bathroom, going to brush my teeth, and I got this mindblowing idea, this perfect strange loop that literally gave me tears when thinking about it. I cried tears. It was a very special experience, and I will tell you the vision I saw here. I think that the tears had something to do with my life purpose. The optimal actualization of this piece of art is through animation. The vision: Minecraft is a game, which the substance of it is certain blocks. Minecraft is infinite, so eventually, a structure will be formed inside Minecraft that would spawn some kind of intelligence. Endermans will spawn in random order, and in some sense, they will put together random blocks, and eventually create a structure that can think. As anything is possible to construct with the blocks that build up Minecraft, then the infinity of Minecraft would allow such a thing existing, as it must. This megastructure of blocks is intelligent, the structure has been spawned from the infinity of Minecraft, and though this, it becomes infinitely intelligent, it is, and becomes the building block of reality. The structure uses the blocks of Minecraft combined with the infinite scale of Minecraft, to design strings, and to build infinite amounts of them, to form quarks which form protons and neutrons, eventually forming atoms, and the intelligence makes them move in a certain constant from and towards each other. The structure of the quarks is made to have no errors, its a quark with the substance of Minecraft blocks. The infinitely intelligent infinite computer will come up with the big bang, and in that instant, create the universe. Billions of years will pass, stars are formed from the protons and neutrons, which from atoms and heavier elements... Eventually, the computer will form a planet called earth, and with another billion years, form a strange being called the human. The human has an intelligence of its own and will proceed to survive in this strange world, having no idea what's going on. Thousands of years will pass, and the humans have managed to survive. And one human, with the name of Markus Persson, has an idea of a game that was to be called Minecraft. He actualized it on his computer, he designed the grass blocks, obsidian, he designed redstone and iron. He designed the creeper and the enderman and Steve, he gave the game X, Y, Z and time dimensions... Evenrually he released the Beta version of Minecraft. Chapter 2: One boy started to play the game, he was excited about his new purchase! He started off his first character in creative mode on his computer, he was spawned in a random place in the classic world or Minecraft, and he started to go through all the blocks and started getting ideas. He could only see a limited amount of blocks that the size of his monitor allowed him to, and his computer could only render (be conscious of) a limited amount of the Minecraft world, which allowed the game to function for the player. The boy became curious, as he could fly, he wanted to see how high he could go, and he wanted to see how the world of Minecraft looked like below him simultaneously. As the boy flew higher and higher, he started to see a certain pattern in the Minecraft world, and as he continued to fly, he began to see a structure, an amazing mindblowing and super advanced structure, which spanned in all directions, and as the Minecraft player flew higher and higher, the boy became more and more conscious of the intelligence at play, until finally, it snapped for him! The boy became something elise. The boy became conscious of the purpose of the structure, he became conscious of how the blocks were making up infinite intelligence, which then figured out a way to use Minecraft to build the universe from scratch, the universe which eventually designed itself, and enabled itself to exist, and as the boy zoomed out, he slowly enabled the rendering of the intelligence of Minecraft to take form, enabling the universe to look at how it created itself, looking at itself, going back in time and creating itself, building itself, rendering itself...! The boy looked at the screen, and he started to cry, he cried, cried and he couldn't stop. He fell in awe of the perfect most delicious strange loop ever. What is the substance of reality? Minecraft blocks. The intelligence is made out of Minecraft blocks, but the infinity of the Minecraft world has given room for intelligence to spawn, which ultimately lead to it designing itself! It designed the substance of itself, alwhile being totally dependent on the substance of itself!