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Give me an example of overthinking.

I think you're the closest to my explanation. @NoSelfSelf @Michael569 The type of rigorous empirical approach you guys are presenting is generally much more useful than whatever my explanation is (e.g. for finding specific health interventions), but I just think it's interesting and reassuring to have a highly generalized birds-eye view of it: Everything in life is technically a form of stress. All the processes in your body; your lungs breathing air, your heart contracting 100,000 times a day, your muscles contracting, even when doing normal things like walking, sitting, standing, even when resting; are forms of stress. It's just relatively unnoticeable, and you tend to only see the effects over long periods of time, namely through age-related damage and diseases. So about that: how does exercise reduce age-related damage and diseases (and thus increase health and longevity)? Well, it's a bit counterintuitive at first (maybe not for you health-aware guys), but exercise is also a form of stress, just in a different way than the stress mentioned above (if you're exercising correctly, of course). Exercise is essentially elevated stress in manageable doses over manageable spans of time, in a way that allows for rest, adaptation and growth. When your heart is pumping really fast, or you're breathing very heavily, or your muscles are under a lot of strain, this will cause these systems to adapt to this stress, for the mere reason that you evolved to adapt to changes in the environment. This means that the systems will become stronger and more able to tackle the chronic stress of everyday life: of pumping your blood, of moving your limbs, of maintaining your posture, etc. So the reason exercise causes a reduction in age-related damage and diseases, is that you're training your body to handle the various sources of stress in everyday life that cause these things in the first place. It applies to everything: from performing daily activities, to the functioning of organs at rest, and down to the molecular level. It can help to imagine some real-life situations to understand how everyday activities are a source of stress: imagine being in an accident where you have to sit in a wheelchair for several months before you can walk again. When you try to start walking again, what used to be seemingly effortless has suddenly become extremely hard and taxing on your body. Taking a few steps suddenly becomes incredibly stressful, and you have to keep exposing yourself to that stress before you can return to your normal state where walking is effortless again. It's of course not completely effortless, as it's still a form of stress, but it's relatively unnoticeable. This applies to everything: when you exercise correctly, with optimal challenge and optimal rest, life becomes effortless. So it's not that all stress is bad, but it's that unmanageable and chronic stress is bad. And because everything in the body is interconnected, your whole body will benefit from one part becoming stronger, especially for very central structures like the cardiovascular system (as almost everything in our body is connected with blood vessels). But also things like strengthening your muscles will help with tackling the stress associated with things like walking, sitting and standing, which again will impact your entire body in some way. So yeah, that's basically it: life is stressful, and exercise makes you more able to handle that stress, reducing the damage and risk for diseases that you accumulate over time as you age.

If it's more potent, is sex then healthier than exercise? Certainly, there must be more to the health and longevity-inducing effects of exercise than just endorphins (I know I'm asking stupid questions, but I'm trying to prod you towards my explanation :D). Is a standardized correlaton coefficient of 0.070 not weak? ? Sure, that is certainly true during the exercise itself, but how does this translate to a general health/longevity effect?

How does it release tension and stress? (which physiological mechanisms are involved?) Ah, mindfulness and physical activity. I wrote a bachelor thesis about that . I did find a very weak but statistically significant correlation between mindfulness and exercise frequency in a sample of 545 participants using questionnaires in a cross-sectional design, so the science could be on your side How does it increase blood flow, elasticity of blood vessels and oxygenation?

Like others have stated above, Buddha was a prince, not a priest.

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@Yimpa Twitch is a city now? ?

Unless you're routinely taking GABAergic substances, your report makes no sense. The one time I drank maybe 40 cl of 40% alcohol vodka over the course of 3 hours, I was sent down a set of stairs without knowing it (and I'm a beefy 80kg guy). 25 cl in one hour has to do something.

The 13 IQ increase guy said in the comment section to his video that the progress is logarithmic, meaning you could probably achieve a 6-7 point increase in the first 40 hours. But he also said that the last few points are more valuable (for the reasons I stated previously), so the 400 hours are still worth it according to him.

The first time I watched this episode, I died ?

Take some time to chill

It's basically like fasting, just a less boring version. You'll feel good, for a while. Some years ago, I did some kind of intermittent fasting where I had a simplified version of Leo's blueberry smoothie for breakfast and then whatever my family served for dinner (and something before bed as well). I went from like 80kg to 70kg in a few months. Then, I slowly reintroduced eggs and bread into the routine, later replacing the smoothie with a smaller amount of solid fruit, and that is what I still eat today. Your body is really not meant to drink food.

I notice that when I play guitar and get really intensely into it, afterwards, it's like my brain is switched off and I can't think straight (I'm unable to see my thoughts and their logical structure clearly). It only takes around 10 minutes until I'm back, but it can be really pronounced. I guess it could have to do with the right brain being strongly activated while playing guitar, and that it takes a while for the activity to stabilize again. The complete opposite happens when I do a couple of sets of Dual N Back (a game that trains your working memory). Then, it's as if my thoughts turn into visible objects.

@undeather ?

What are atoms made out of? What are the things that atoms are made out of made out of? At some point, you reach the unknown, or nothingness, or infinite regress, which means there is nothing to limit it. For every limitation you can identify, there is the unlimited lurking in the background.

Reality is limited and unlimited.

Blue and red are different, but they're both a part of the same reality.

Suffering is cyclical. Suffering will decrease by creating some direction in your life, whether that be through creating a life purpose, daily routines or goals, or by transcending the egoic self. You should also work on various meta-techniques or values that aid towards creating direction: Learn to commit to things for a set amount of time (you can always change your mind later if it doesn't work). Have faith in your commitments as long as you carry them. Be consistent. Don't make compulsive exceptions to your plan; plan the exceptions! Actually listen to your mind. Your mind is amazing at identifying problems in your life, but you've developed a habit of ignoring it, and you start to dislike your mind and experience it as annoying or useless instead of the brilliant tool it is. Don't let it go to waste. Write down every problem that your mind keeps reminding you about, and find a working solution for any given problem (it doesn't have to be a final solution, just one step in the right direction, and of course, commit to it!). And you'll be surprised to find that maybe your mind shuts up for once. Tell the truth, or at least don't lie. Your mind needs as much transparency to itself as possible to work properly. By engaging in lies and deception, you're creating division, disruption and eventually self-deception. And the state that lying puts you in (paranoia) is inherently chaotic and cyclical. Paranoia is poison for minds that value direction. Keep things ordered at all levels: your room, your notes, your files, your clothes. Clutter outside means clutter inside. Be punctual, use timers for remembering things, eat consistently, sleep consistently.

Spiral Dynamics is roughly about culture and cognition. Spirituality (or more specifically mysticism) transcends culture and cognition. Imagine being a Norwegian who goes to a cabin in the woods every winter, who studies in a liberal university and who votes in all local and national elections. You can still awaken to the same truth as someone who lives in the Amazon, who spends their days hunting and gathering and who takes commands from no one else than their tribe elders. Spiral Dynamics describes what is different between those two individuals. Spirituality describes what is common.

Why?

Metabolism is one of the great wonders of the universe, after supernovas. And you would still find something to complain about without it. I thought about this some days ago, and I know there are many hypotheses out there, but I thought about the fact that everything moves in cycles (the Earth, the Sun, etc.), and that especially the day-night cycle would have to be deeply reflected in biological organisms somehow, as all life depends on energy from the Sun. Your job here from a biological perspective is to conserve as much energy as possible for furthering your survival. If nighttime is generally less in your favor (e.g. you're more vulnerable to predators, cold weather or low light conditions), then you would be better off spending the night conserving your energy and doing something else (and opposite if you're a night animal). You should also consider that the animals in the lower levels of the food chain are ectothermic, so they're much more sensitive to the day-night cycle for maintaining their activity levels than endothermic animals (generally birds and mammals), which would dictate the activity of a large amount of both prey and predatory animals, meaning that most animals would be active during the day. I would therefore think that the evolution of endothermy was a big bottleneck for creating nocturnal animals, which is consistent with the fact that endothermy evolved only 100 million years ago (when birds and mammals arrived), while sleep evolved 700 million years ago. Now, this is funny: there is actually something called the "nocturnal bottleneck hypothesis" (which is a little different than this, but still related), which explains how the ancestors of mammals were exclusively nocturnal due to having to avoid large diurnal predators like dinosaurs. This hearkens back to my previous hypothesis about sleep (avoiding periods that are against your favor), and of course the fact that nocturnal life evolved in mammals (due to being the first endothermic animals, along with birds of course). (I might re-write this when I'm not so sleepy hehe).

Diet, exercise, friends and meaningful work. Do you have these things sorted? if not, it's hard for life to not be a nightmare.

Did it feel good to say that?

When you're in the business of transcending the ego, self-deception becomes even more sinister.

What stage do you think they were in and why?