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Don't slouch when sitting keeping your lower back in a state of flexion for long periods of time (recliners are bad for this.. people who spend countless hours gaming in a soft chair) because this will cause the disks to bulge outward and hit nerves over time.. usually it won't affect you until your 30's though. Also lifting sloppily.. trying to squat or deadlift with bad form does the same thing. You don't really want this to happen. Work out smarter, not harder. Fortunately at age 19 your body should jump back from injuries quickly assuming you develop some healthy habits. Get an office chair with good lumbar support or a kneeling chair. Sleeping in firm beds is preferable to soft ones also. Move around every half hour to 45 minutes when you are sitting.. get up.. do a couple of cat cows and sit back down. The spine likes movement. Hanging from a pullup bar, doing press ups and extension exercises to work the back the opposite direction and push the bulges back in, core work to support the lower back such as planks, side planks, hip flexor, hamstring, and piriformis stretches, not sleeping on your stomach... all good things. https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/Bibliotik/8/8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back - Esther Gokhale.pdf There's lots of yoga that can do more harm than good if you don't use perfect form also such as forward folding. Core work is more important than static stretching for back pain anyways. Focus on hip hinging or squatting when you lift things in life instead of rounding the lower back. Get these healthy habits in place at your age and you'll be good for life. Most people don't make major habit changes unless faced with a crisis... be proactive in this regard. https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/5-best-and-worst-exercises-for-back-pain-mens-journal/

On top of the gay crowd you have the increasing number of MGTOW and incels.. the less attractive men with boring personalities who used to make the cut back when women were more dependent on men and there were less men to compete with due to wars, but don't really make the cut today because they lack the traits that turn women on like crack (confidence, humor, indifference, edginess, and wild dirty sex) Our society is emasculating men in the school system and demonizing masculine traits but the problem with that is it doesn't mesh with what women's biology tends to see as "sex appeal" so a growing number of men are becoming frustrated with the dating market and society as a whole. They tend to be the target of hate and ridicule when society and culture and biology/DNA helped to produce them. As someone who used to be one, a little bit of sympathy might be better given to them but I understand human nature... we like to bully. I'm fortune to have dug myself out of my hole and am transforming myself, but a lot of them are stuck in their habit loop. A look back at history shows that this is nothing new.. you can see the majority of males never did breed with females during the evolution of our species... the "alpha fucks beta bucks" as it's been known.. it seems like monogamy is a relatively recent thing. We still have a lot of animalistic/tribal characteristics wired into our biology/DNA which is not surprising for anyone who's researched all this. https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success Also, homosexual behavior was far more common than some would have you think. In fact if you look at other mammal species homosexual behavior is common. You can also look at our closest genetic ancestor, bonobos, for hints on behavior, as well as the few remaining indigenous tribes that remain largely untouched by humans. It's fascinating.

Agreed... to grow requires eating the vegetables and discomfort. One of my issues with the progressives, and I see it here, is too many of them want to give people a fish, rather than teach them to fish. I acknowledge I'm still too addicted to political forums and much of my own egoic dogma as well. You either choose to embrace new habits and the emotional labor involved or not. There really is no quick fix or magic pill for this. It's going to require discomfort. We live in a society that wants to be comfortable all the time and I think that's one of the challenges we need to look at. It's a balancing act for me.. the ying and the yang.

This seems to be like a great topic to discuss here. Perhaps many of you have heard about it, many of you have not. Some of you would call this conspiracy theory, but it's something the global leaders are not shy or secretive about giving their opinion about. I didn't watch the whole video. I really should before I make any judgment call. I've only seen the comments, read a few websites, and looked at the Time magazine piece on it. I don't want to present a bias in my original post so I'll leave it at that. I see there is one topic in here from August that didn't any bites. It's only recently that this initiative has seemed to go "viral" on other parts of the internet so I made a new thread to discuss.

I found this article quite informative, as I actually had an anxiety disorder at one point, my sympathetic nervous system was stuck on most of the time. https://www.unlearninganxiety.com/amygdala/ There's a star trek TNG episode where the more power they dump into the shields trying to stop this anomaly from hitting them, the worse it got.. sometimes you have to lower shields, and just face whatever fear you have... run towards your assailant rather than away from them... in fact there's a clip of that segment on youtube... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_QrHTLWwk A good video. You need to expand your comfort zone. There's no substitute for doing.

I know how I react when I see an awoke progressive on reddit telling me that I should embrace allowing pre-pubescent children decide to be a different gender and encourage the process even using hormones before they reach puberty. It makes me think they are fucking nuts with screws loose in the head. Actually it doesn't... I've come far enough on accepting "what is" to allow them to have their point of view. I still have my orange/blue beliefs that may or may not change. I'm not too concerned about it... aside from the amount of time I waste on politics.

I love this video. Humans in general are so obsessed about people's personality when personality is a very impersonal aspect of someone's life. I see this here of course with people bashing Trump... it's not easy for a person with a well established personality to just go and change... it's like telling a depressed person to just "be happy" ... you aren't doing them any good. It's not that easy. People's personality is a result of upbringing, habits, culture, friends, etc. Psychopaths are very good at playing whatever role they need too in order to win people over to their side. They can be quite charming. Trump is clearly not a psychopath by this definition.. he has the maturity level of a little kid, but I try not to attack him for this because I understand he's not going to change, assuming he's even capable of doing so.

Humans used to eat far more roughage than we do today, everything from exotic forms of plants and roots we don't even consider food today, to bones and organ meats for certain nutrients, along with insects such as grasshoppers (which is in fact why they try to escape from us), which is why we have supplements today. Heck even many supposedly healthy plant based foods are fortified with vitamins, and milk has been fortified forever as have cereals. Salt has been fortified with iodine forever also. I would agree most supplements are not required, but some are, and if they aren't hurting anything I don't see the big deal. I think certain forms of medicine such as Chinese medicine are perhaps overlooked.

Bloodwork isn't enough to test the heart, you should get an echo to check the size of your ventricles, see if your valves are working properly, etc. I have a bicuspid aortic value that regurgitates moderately. At some point it will need to be replaced. This can cause the symptoms you describe. You could also get a calcium CT score but if you are under 35-40 it's fairly pointless to do so. It could be thyroid, stress, any number of things. It might not even be heart related, it could be GERD, ulcers, gastritis, high sodium diet, mineral deficiencies, etc..... Stress causes many modern illnesses, but if you have a congenital issue, it's unlikely any amount of "acceptance" or other spiritual work will fix it.. for example Leo's thyroid issues, my bicuspid valve, type 1 diabetes, etc. Acceptance will allow you to be at peace with what is, which in itself helps. Resisting what is, creates stress...

I don't necessarily think Trump is the best president and thought Obama was a good president but the left and their emotional instability scare me more, so I did vote for Trump again. (He would have won South Dakota anyways so it doesn't matter.) Also I'm not in support of them allowing these protesters to just burn away cities without arresting them and I don't agree with their whole "black lives matter" movement given most of these people who were shot by police were resisting arrest or doing foolish things to bring it on. Now they are talking about stacking the courts if they get elected. I just don't trust emotionally unstable people and the left as a whole seem quite unstable. Yes Trump is unstable too. Both parties are terrible, however I see the left in their current state as trying to undermine the system of checks and balances and take the power they want. I see them brainwashing people in college campuses and not allowing conservative opinion or any sort of political debate. It used to be about freedom of speech and coming to a consensus, now it's all about doing it their way or you are a racist, hater, and get ostracized from society. The polarization is just obnoxious. People act like whiny spoiled brats these days. Honestly I don't particularly care who wins, I'm more interested to see if Amendment A, the legalization of marijuana, passes in my state (South Dakota) I would really like the left to "be that which they wish to see in others" but that's not how I see the party.. I see them to be a dysfunctional, emotionally unstable mess that doesn't have a clear vision they are trying to project.. just "wear masks" and "allow protesting" along with preaching and moralizing to the masses about how racist and bigoted they are (when most of them really aren't) ...until they get some vision, I'll pick the party that is at least psychologically stable (minus their president) .. in the end I usually hope for gridlock.. that way neither party can get much done. Honestly I wish we had 3 or 4 viable parties like in other countries. I won't lose much sleep if Biden wins though. In the end the world won't come to an end either way. I just find stage greens emotionality to be... somewhat off-putting. I am curious to see what this emotionally unstable party would accomplish with Kamala at the wheel and both parties under their control and a stacked court. I would enjoy seeing the result just for curiosity sake.

You know what's so fun? Zelda, Breath of the Wild on a powerful PC using texture mods. Replaying Final Fantasy 10 HD steam version... Far Cry Primal... but I can't. I have different priorities now. I can revisit that stuff perhaps in a decade. In the meantime, enjoy the fact that in 10 years I'm going to have super powerful hardware to use and tons of new content to discover, that will likely surpass these two favorites of mine. No, I probably won't buy that 3080 or Big Navi... why tempt myself to game more? Winters are long and cold though.. I may set up some rule that allows me to game during certain time periods.. for example if the temperature is under 10 degrees F... that way at least I can set limits to make sure I don't backslide into addiction.

They don't take life too seriously and can see things from another person's perspective without getting all butt-hurt by their opinion. It's actually possible to have this ability and be stage blue/orange/green, but it would be more common going up to yellow methinks. I try to accept all points of view and find the nuggets of truth in them if I can.

I don't read 15 page threads and thus tend to be a "hit and run" poster but from what I have read it seems like most of this thread is bickering about things that don't really matter. Like I've said in other posts, "world events" are a distraction, and everyone here just confirms my statement. True growth is seeing how unreal all this is... why make it real? Were the true masters out there campaigning for causes? They lived by example... they didn't preach and moralize to others how wrong they are and engage in bickering. I have to believe listening to all of Leo's spiral dynamics videos that he is aware of this also. "world events" are ego candy. If you want ego candy for your dream, by all means eat away, stage green tards.

Here's where I think much of the forum goes wrong.. trying to wake other people up via causes and preaching and moralizing to them... if you work on yourself, your higher vibration will naturally emanate to others. All these causes just serve to distract the ego, make it bigger, and fill it with negative emotions which doesn't help the cause in the end if you are all depressed and angry about the state of the world.... I get there's lots of stage greens here and that's fine... if you feel like you need to get all political and campaign for causes, I wish you well, but it's not the only path that can be taken... and if you are angry and depressed about the state of the world, I would ask yourself why... "world events" are a distraction. All of nature just Is... God Is... it's one reason I limit my time here.... for me it's a distraction.... it just gives me a bigger "spiritual ego." http://goo.gl/cl1Jjz

World events are a distraction.. I wouldn't try to change his mind... ever try to give anyone advice? Most people tend to resist it. Focus on your own goals. My father is big into the idea of Germany winning world war 2 (starting their own government run bank and eliminating all the existing privately run central banks of the time) and jews controlling the planet also, and I used to share his beliefs until I came to the conclusion that it doesn't really matter if they do or not. Many big breakthroughs in science have been by these "ashkenazi" bloodlines. They clearly possess above average intelligence. I give them credit for their achievements. He's also big into "How not to die" and plant based eating.. go figure from a guy who believes in a worldwide jewish conspiracy. He ignores that too much fructose in the diet can be harmful and just because sugar is "natural" such as from dates, doesn't mean you should eat half a bag. To him the book says chicken contains cancer viruses and dates are fine, so he won't ever eat chicken again. I'm not going to try to change his mind on anything. I love him and ultimately I'll let his experience be his guide. He is happy, has a stable girlfriend, and a good retirement though. He doesn't overindulge to begin with so he'll probably be fine. He's more open minded that most and we throw ideas back and forth to each other. I'm glad to have someone as open minded to deeper topics of conversation as he is. My mother browses godlikeproductions, a conspiracy forum. Likewise I can throw quite a bit of unusual shit her way. It's all in good fun though. Her husband (step father) believes in bible prophesy and "Jack Van Impe" is something they used to watch in year's past. It doesn't really matter what they believe as long as it isn't harming anyone else. They are happy together also. They don't take life too seriously, which is perhaps something most content people have in common.

Some jobs are genuinely stressful. I find it's best to practice self acceptance of the stress.. my job is not really stressful most of the time I just have a stress prone brain wired to trigger the sympathetic nervous system more easily. It's a long process to reprogram this and exposure therapy is the best way to manage fear and anxiety... https://www.unlearninganxiety.com/amygdala/ If the job really does push you to the bone... for example I hear they give UPS delivery drivers about 12 hours worth of deliveries and expect them to finish in 10, or you work at an amazon warehouse or somewhere that really pushes productivity, or they want overtime you don't want to work, I would quit. It's not worth it. Find an easier job that pays less, live a cheaper lifestyle. Move to a more boring part of the country and start over. Having a good network of friends or finding a way to cultivate playfulness within yourself is very important to psychological health also. Watch funny movies, not violent ones. Expose yourself to playful content, not stuff that makes you angry. Do things in your free time that strengthen the parasympathetic. I found Leo's "body awareness" video really stress relieving, the first part where he guides you to relax all your body parts. I know this is nothing new but for some reason the way he talked through it, and the rest of the video, was quite helpful.

I enjoyed his video on libertarianism. It confirmed many things I suspected about the philosophy but couldn't put into words. He has a conspiracy video? I'll have to give it a watch, given I hold some beliefs that might be considered "conspiracy" though I fully admit it doesn't really matter if 9/11 was an inside job or not.. "world events" don't really matter, they are a distraction that fuels the ego, in my opinion. I still think some here on these forums hold positions that are too strong and dogmatic in some respects, and they'd be better served by relaxing a bit and realizing that they can't force the entire world to be like them, nor should they get upset if they can't. It does no good to "hate the haters."

Dopamine stimulation and consumerism. Corporations play on our inbuilt biological drives and market products around them. This is especially true in the US where Hollywood, Media, and corporations sensationalize and play on our emotions even moreso than in foreign countries. It's one reason half the population thinks the world is 'going to hell' .. because they watch the news. All of it is based on Freud and Yung and evolved from much of their works. Give people what their inner ape inside wants... leo's video on the happiness spectrum correctly talks about the types of happiness that would be more worth pursuing, but really what makes something "worth" pursuing? Are we just kidding ourselves? Maybe the people who stuff themselves and watch Football all day have it right.... maybe most of us here are the neurotic ones and the "sheep" are the ones doing it right... something I ponder from time to time... Would you take the blue pill? I often ask myself that....

The way I look at conspiracy theories, is it doesn't really matter if they happened or not... I personally think 9/11 was an inside job but I really don't care... it doesn't matter in my personal growth. Just a distraction from what I'm trying to accomplish in my life. I used to be into that conspiracy stuff more. The one mistake I think people make here in this forum is getting too caught up in world events... especially if they fill you full of negative emotions... they distract you from personal growth, unless you were put on this planet in this life to help others and fight for a cause, then by all means I wish you the best. As history is written by the victors, I do believe a lot of conspiracies end up being true. But again, it doesn't really matter what is true or not in our "history" ... it's done. I've learned in part thanks to Leo I'm too analytical for my own good. The biggest progress I've made has come in moments when I quiet the thinking mind and go into a complete state of mindful self acceptance of the present moment. From there I build my house on a solid foundation rather than one made of quicksand.

We are animals. As a guy who believes in evolution first, you just have to look at the animal kingdom. Nature is not really pure and innocent. In reality the roots compete with each other for resources.. some trees are better equipped to handle an area than others. If you get a hard freeze in an area not equipped to handle it, massive amounts of plantlife can die. Lions kill zebras to eat. Nature basically recycles itself through a harmonious process that can appear from an outsider's perspective to be immoral. What human beings do is take nature and try to make it fair, like that song "The Trees" by Rush talks about. In my opinion nature is amoral.. it's only our human perception that gives it morality, and since everyone is developing at their own pace, I don't sweat the so called bad things that happen in society nor do I worry about waking other people up. If a human being acts "evil" it's because their brain chemistry is fucked up. Chances are they might not even like the person they are and wish they could take the "blue pill" .. Leo posted a great video on psychopaths vs sociopaths vs narcissists.... I suggest watching that one and related videos to get an understanding of human psychology. Our brains are complex and it doesn't take much for them to get messed up with such a complex species. These are the people who have no remorse for what they do.... so they are wired that way, sometimes from birth. The media takes the worst cases and bombards them with you daily, which is why I recommend limiting how much news and media you consume. It really makes the world seem worse than it is, when in reality our species has never been more peaceful and tolerant in it's history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr04gHbP5MQ Pretty dry material for most of the video but provides more evidence that the progressives simply run with this pandemic stuff as though it's gospel and think anyone who disagrees is flat out wrong and immoral, and they seem to think we should lock down the entire world for a year over a virus that mostly affects the elderly. There in fact some very powerful corporate interests that are making a killing off the reaction to the virus. I'm not staunchly anti-mask but I like to keep an open mind. It's easy to use the media to manipulate people. See this much better video (not related to covid) that talks about that... BBC documentary that has 4 total parts, the first 3 in particular are quite good. These guys were the pioneers of modern psychology...

CDC COVID-19 Survival Rates Age 0-19 — 99.997% Age 20-49 — 99.98% Age 50-69 — 99.5% Age 70+ — 94.6% I don't like to argue about wearing masks or not but as a guy who has always been into science, survivial of the fittest, natural selection, and psychology, it seems like a lot of the response to this virus such as taking away kid's childhoods is doing more damage than the virus itself. To me it seems like an over-reaction when the better idea would be to make sure high risk people try to take extra precautions and open society back up. I just wonder how long a vaccine will take, how effective it will be, and how long they expect kids to learn from home and people to wear masks and social distance and shut all of society down, and how many people will be psychologically affected by it versus how many people we save. I see far too many progressives that have taken this lockdown stuff and ran with it as though their position is gospel, the only right position, and anyone who challenges or questions it is evil or immoral. I've even heard articles that say this is the new normal, that when we go on a bus or into a store we are just going to have masks on... forever. Um, no, not happening, sorry. I like to do a cost benefit analysis before I take certain actions and to me this is a gross over-reaction to something that mostly affects people in nursing homes. I won't reply to any criticism of this post because I've tried with progressives in the past and get nowhere. I just wanted to give my opinion.

As a moderate I see the opposite.. I see democrats cheating with mail in ballots and voter harvesting, condoning these riots and violence, censoring moderate and conservative views within the media (I believe in total freedom of speech... let people make up their own minds) ... an ideal democrat party would be what they wish to see in others, rather than this tactic of dividing people up into groups and getting them to play the victim card. I see them promoting a welfare state and giving people fish rather than teaching them to fish. I see a lot of "neuroticism" among the left that is brought on by their own thinking. I get it, stage green types think they are right and will attack orange and blue... I do get it.. this is why it's important to have a stage yellow president that has mastered their emotions more and is more moderate and not the radical left that gets so much media attention. We need a diplomat as president.. someone who can see both side's points of view and come to a consensus. Obviously that is not Trump, but I'm kind of disappointed with the democrat party lately.. they are letting Trump troll them basically. They can't see it's all a game to him to get them to react... but I suppose it takes some level of stage yellow to see this. It be nice if we had "honest politicians" who believed the end didn't justify the means.

There's some things that God Consciousness will never heal.. it will heal mostly stress related ailments because spirituality of this sort tends to strengthen/restore the parasympathetic, but type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, or in my case, a bicuspid aortic value.. it's not going to magically become tricuspid from this sort of healing. Genetics are what they are... part of having to incarnate in these bodies is deal with their primitive emotions and ailments. Look back at some of the genetic disorders some of these people who practiced inbreeding like "king tut" had... they were bad. No amount of God consciousness can do anything.... The big thing to remember... this stuff has always been around. We just never had names for them before. A lot of people are under the mistaken perception all these ailments are exclusive to modern times. For this ailment: If Hashimoto's disease causes thyroid hormone deficiency, you may need replacement therapy with thyroid hormone. This usually involves daily use of the synthetic thyroid hormone levothyroxine (Levoxyl, Synthroid, others). You really need these hormones if you have this disease. Also you mentioned stomach pain... you can ask for a gastric emptying scan to see if you may or may not have gastroparesis. If you are stressed out for any reason, say like a lot of lefties they are stressed out because they see humanity as not advancing fast enough for them and get too caught up in world events or life drama, detach from world events.... turn off the news, stay away from politics... make sure you are truly relaxed.... I would also try getting a blood glucose tester and test your blood sugar 1 hour after a meal or get an A1C test. Celiac disease tests? Hepatitis tests? Ferritin test? B12 test? These will rule out a few things.... Have you ever tried Traditional Chinese Medicine by chance? Just curious.... I haven't but I've thought about it. It's on my bucket list. David Hawkins has a book "Healing and Recovery" that deal with radical acceptance of your ailments if nothing else works. He talks about healing various issues from it. You already read one of his books I noticed. Sorry I know you said to not give you suggestions but medicine is one of my interests. You can remove the post if you want.

It's all a matter of habits, which are things that are repeated enough times that they become automatic. The subconscious mind is the domain of habits. If you have a habit of sitting on the computer hours a day browsing forums, it will take effort and you will feel discomfort (I see it being called emotional labor in this thread... very accurate) when you try to do something else, even if that something else makes you feel good, because your body has this old habit ingrained in it like a groove in a record. It's almost like an addiction. Not everyone enjoys smoking or fapping but they do it anyways because they are habits that create cravings and stimulate the dopamine release when thoughts about doing them are made, which increases dopamine until the activity is done.. basically the more you think about doing it or try to resist doing it, the more you are going to want to do it. Replace old habits with new, do them every day, until they become automatic. Replace thoughts of the old habit with something more productive. Good luck.