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Yes. Exactly. Can body react Physically to the events exactly like it as but at is and at the same time put the consciousness in bliss mode all day?

toomuchtodo 2y ago
The paths to success are either pharma to adjust brain chemistry or mindfulness to improve emotional and executive function response around negative stimuli and events. I leverage the latter, but I fault no one who chooses a pharma intervention. There is no extra credit for making life harder than it already is. "The horrors persist but so do we." Once you realize that no one is coming to save us but us, we all live a short, brutal experience on a spinning rock in space that will not matter once we die, it becomes straightforward to "saddle up" and optimize accordingly. I hope my input helps you with your lived experience. I have also found the below writings useful. Emotional pain management is a an acquired skill. I strongly encourage its development and cultivation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations > A central theme to Meditations is the importance of analyzing one's judgment of self and others and developing a cosmic perspective: > You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgment, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite. > Aurelius advocates finding one's place in the universe and sees that everything came from nature, and so everything shall return to it in due time. Another strong theme is of maintaining focus and to be without distraction all the while maintaining strong ethical principles such as "Being a good man." > His Stoic ideas often involve avoiding indulgence in sensory affections, a skill which will free a man from the pains and pleasures of the material world. He claims that the only way a man can be harmed by others is to allow his reaction to overpower him. An internal orderly and rational nature, or logos, permeates and guides all existence. Rationality and clear-mindedness allow one to live in harmony with the logos. This allows one to rise above faulty perceptions of "good" and "bad"—things out of your control like fame and wealth are (unlike things in your control) irrelevant and neither good nor bad.
- RGamma 2y ago
  Any specific program you recommend? Reading stoics is nice and all, but that alone won't make intellectual and emotional space coincide, I feel. In fact having the suitable brain chemistry may make you a stoic, but can you influence that?
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    Seek out opportunities to suffer, or allow them find you. A night guard is also helpful if the stress causes you to grind your teeth while you sleep to where you might lose them otherwise. Live life, that's the program. When the suffering happens, that is your opportunity to put what you've learned into practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgv4iPgQ2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgv4iPgQ2o > "You learn how to suffer. If you know how to suffer, you suffer much, much less. And then you know how to make good use of suffering to create joy and happiness. The art of happiness and the art of suffering always go together." -- Thich Nhat Hanh I will try to write something more substantive for your inquiry.

toomuchtodo 2y ago

The paths to success are either pharma to adjust brain chemistry or mindfulness to improve emotional and executive function response around negative stimuli and events. I leverage the latter, but I fault no one who chooses a pharma intervention. There is no extra credit for making life harder than it already is. "The horrors persist but so do we." Once you realize that no one is coming to save us but us, we all live a short, brutal experience on a spinning rock in space that will not matter once we die, it becomes straightforward to "saddle up" and optimize accordingly. I hope my input helps you with your lived experience. I have also found the below writings useful. Emotional pain management is a an acquired skill. I strongly encourage its development and cultivation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations > A central theme to Meditations is the importance of analyzing one's judgment of self and others and developing a cosmic perspective: > You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgment, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite. > Aurelius advocates finding one's place in the universe and sees that everything came from nature, and so everything shall return to it in due time. Another strong theme is of maintaining focus and to be without distraction all the while maintaining strong ethical principles such as "Being a good man." > His Stoic ideas often involve avoiding indulgence in sensory affections, a skill which will free a man from the pains and pleasures of the material world. He claims that the only way a man can be harmed by others is to allow his reaction to overpower him. An internal orderly and rational nature, or logos, permeates and guides all existence. Rationality and clear-mindedness allow one to live in harmony with the logos. This allows one to rise above faulty perceptions of "good" and "bad"—things out of your control like fame and wealth are (unlike things in your control) irrelevant and neither good nor bad.

RGamma 2y ago
Any specific program you recommend? Reading stoics is nice and all, but that alone won't make intellectual and emotional space coincide, I feel. In fact having the suitable brain chemistry may make you a stoic, but can you influence that?
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Seek out opportunities to suffer, or allow them find you. A night guard is also helpful if the stress causes you to grind your teeth while you sleep to where you might lose them otherwise. Live life, that's the program. When the suffering happens, that is your opportunity to put what you've learned into practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgv4iPgQ2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgv4iPgQ2o > "You learn how to suffer. If you know how to suffer, you suffer much, much less. And then you know how to make good use of suffering to create joy and happiness. The art of happiness and the art of suffering always go together." -- Thich Nhat Hanh I will try to write something more substantive for your inquiry.