Danioover9000

@unreal8 Breathwork is good to do, to improve one's breathing in general. It's a bit different from shamanic breath work or Wim Hof's version of shamanic breath work, those specific practices involve higher rates of breathing and slightly more forceful inhale to exhales of breath which can be dangerous if you have ussies with your lungs, or with the diaphragm, or with high blood pressure. Why high blood pressure? Well, Wim Hof's version involves, in one part of the process, inhaled hold for as long as you can. If you hold the breath, and you don't realize that you are holding the full inhale while being a bit too tensed in your stomach to chest area, then you can inadvertently increase pressure to your neck to head which adds internal stress to the cardiovascular system. You can also develop tinnitus if you do this too forcefully. Just general improvement for how you breath is enough. Breath through the nose, hold the inhale for 3-4 seconds, breath into your belly and let you solar plexus and chest expand with air a little bit, then breath through the nose for 5-6 seconds and let the chest, solar plexus and belly deflate naturally. Good for re energizing the body in general..

For those of you wandering what she sort of looks like, I found an image with similar appearances to hers:

Sorry this is the video:

@MarkusR Which one you value and do first, do the other as well. Ultimately, having both broad and specific knowledge is great.

@Ulax Thanks. I always tell myself if I talk to strangers 'maintain eye contact, maintain eye contact. Keep looking at their eyes'.

Hello all. As I mentioned, I had two other materials I would cover. Here I'm covering compressed charcoal, and some soft pastels. With the compressed charcoal it's the same company, and in it is a set of 6 charcoals, 2 hard, 2 medium and 2 soft. Here is the image below: On the left page is compressed charcoal. From top is hard charcoal, the middle is medium charcoal and the bottom is soft charcoal. Each piece has a length of about 1 inch, a width of 1 centimetre and a height of about half a centimetre. Each piece looks almost jet black, and has a weak shine from the compressed nature of it. They also feel very solid and smooth in the surface. Each piece, because of it's rectangular prism shape, is held not using the tripod grip like a pencil, but is modified grips, from overhand to underhand, with some modified tripod grip at the far end of the piece. Also, there's still charcoal pigments left on my fingers from holdingthe pieces, but not as much as willow charcoal, and is cold to the touch. On the left column was me doing a few lines, using the corners and the short edges at the end, to see hear and feel what the tools is capable of. I learnt that for most grips, if you want to use the corners for details is doable, but if you want to use the edge to construct a line, like a horizontal line, then placing the index finger on the end being drawn from does keep a consistent pressure for the line, but even there I still apply lighter pressure and pay attention to how my drawing implement is rubbing against the paper here. The feeliing of the friction between the paper and charcoal tells me a lot, and I sometimes get into a meditative state from that. In the middle column was me using the edhe not parallel, but perpendicular to the direction, which produced the broad strokes you see. When I was using overhand grip, after a few strokes I tested the degree of smudging using my middle finger pad, which was quicker with that grip, and it has an oily greased feel. It smudges better with the medium to soft charcoal. The right columm is a partial construction of faces, to see how the materials do when I create lines, shade in, render and smudge for values.

@Phil777

@Gregory1 I have seen all the videos, and contemplated the advanced topics and basic topics. You're post is mostly blaming, which was what I was pointing out. You parroting points against a movement, while lumping me into that group, which I am not a part of nor support. Don't include me into a delusional group, despite how my personal problem matches their talking points about the vaccine. My problem is real, while theirs are mostly parroting each other, with a few being actually experienced, which may have originally started from actual cases where vaccine side effects, dating back to the traditional vaccines that contained aluminium as a base, which correlated to some developing cognitive decline faster, and a percentage of the population being born with autism and ADD disorder, which is partially true. You were barging in here being generally negative isn't helpful at all.

Every perspective has some partial truth.

@Gregory1 It's not the complete picture.

@RMQualtrough It's an interesting topic, a bit different from free will vs determinism/fate. Yes, it feels like you are moving your hands and choosing that way, but really focus on that impulse while remembering how the hands have been moving. A series of movements in time past, and not a thought arise of 'I'm moving these hands' when you were roughly 3 or less old. You had 3 years of thoughtless practice of moving your body, without too much attachment to the body or self awareness for the most part, until you were conscious of your reflection plus mimicry of sounds that a thought of the self is formed. What is real is stuff that has more permanence versus less permanence in the physical domain. Then there's non-physical stuff, which is where you can label as hallucinations or imagination in the common sense. Here, what isn't imaginary is the physical stuff relatively speaking, but that's also consciousness elements too, just like illusions.

@BlackPhil Figuratively speaking it is a few. for every 100 to 1000 cases, there are roughly 100,000 to 1,000,000 who don't have that kind of reaction to vaccine. Figuratively speaking only. Thanks, I will get better soon, for the doctor's sake I better get well soon, or ask for a refund.

@Phil777 Yep, there are spiritual benefits to the practice, as long as spiritual practices are done alongside the celibacy.

@Pavement I don't know what's missing, but we should definitely have anti bodies at this point, of course for those who have survived the covid virus. I don't know whether the virus has evolved a way around due to the spiked proteins it has. it surely is an abnormal virus.

@rnd But Ivermectin is an anti parasitic drug though...

@Consept I can agree, that on pure anecdotes and being dogmatic, just talking dogmatically like conspiracy theorists isn't helpful and just parroting talking points without the experience is being a blind sheep which can cloud the issue of which member is just believing versus which is genuinely experiencing a problem. While the main issue is psychological identity and attachment to the narrative and fear mongering and misinformation, the person/group's cognitive, moral, ego development, personality typing, and these exist at the level of collective, I'm more concerned with this key issue of life experiences at the individual level. Especially when, an individual has directly experienced a side effect of such a treatment with little warning beforehand that effect half or more of that person's life. The main problem in that situation is what does that individual do then? You can't just give a blanket advice of go see your doctor, because chances are that most traditional doctors are in the middle of a psychological, social, political, economical and cultural warfare of misinformation, specifically coming from anti vax, alternative medicine paths and other related ideologies that are not just anti vax but anti traditional western medicine. In that ecological context, the individual's problems relating to the vaccine will likely get swept aside in facor of searching for other factors to narrow down, zoom in on and reduce to as the cause instead of the particular vaccine reaction. It could lead to a waste of time. I wasn't warned about the potential side effect of the mRNA spike protein in the Pfizer vaccine, and now I have to deal with heart arrhythmia, which consequently led to me reducing my overall physical output in other parts of my life at the moment. This also consequently led to my emotonal fitness being lowered, being more depressed. This is real and directly experienced by me, and it is not just mental narratives in my head. I hope this problem gets resolved soon and I get some compensation one way or another, cuz now I'm dealing with that and exploring other potential factors as well. Again, I'm speaking not just for me, but for the very very few who have experienced those side effects. I'm not speaking for or support anti vax related ideologies, and hope that some of you see past this ideological warfare and just help the individuals who have those problems with the side effects. I have received some help from some users here already for my ongoing healing of my problem, so do so for someone who asks help for what to do insteadof shutting them down. This part I'm speaking broadly to those reading.

What are the alternatives for the few negatively effected by the vaccine? That's the main issue that needs clarifying, not anti vax ideology and virus conspiracy theories. What do you do if you're negatively effected in your direct experience??

@SgtPepper Was this because of your career choice as a nurse, or they do a general check if you're vaccinated?

@Lyubov I get this is tiring, which is mostly coming from users who spin this into anti vax and conspiracy fear mongering, but the vaccines do have side effects, a few people do actualize them, so to me it's worth having a discussion about them openly to a certain degree on it's effects and how to manage them. It's just that topics like this get derailed for the most part, so instead for a valuable discussion, we end up getting derailed to nothing. Keep in mind, for the very few who are effected, the effect can alter their lives to sometimes negative extent.

@Lyubov Ok, no need to get hostile towards uneducated Gurus. Most of them are not that privileged and have access to the same education as somebody else who has that and more.

Epic rap battle of history. Not a positive piece of art, but pretty good acting and video production.

@DocWatts @Carl-Richard I wish we could have discussions about the health aspects of vaccination and the virus openly here, without it derailing into heated back and forth plus repetitive talking points from anti vax and conspiracies around the virus itself. It's a very low probability that the vaccination side effects is more lethal than the effects of virus, but for those very few that have actualized those side effects, it would be helpful for those few negatively effect to discuss and share resources in handling such effects. Unluckily I'm one of the very few myself. As for vaccination mandates, it mostly depends on the country and population and that society. If those places in general do not have preparations nor are sensitive to germs, versus places that are more prepared and more aware of germ effects, then enforcing mandate on just those countries that are not prepared is justified. The main issue is that needs a bigger system to oversee smaller systems that can adjust quickly, which is pretty difficult in practice.

@Preety_India Again, thank you so much for the sharing of sources, I will check them out later.

@hyruga It's related to the recent shot I had taken yes, but it's not the direct cause, it made an underlying subtle condition I had worse. Of course, don't take this as anti vax speak, I'm not telling you not to take vaccine. but treat this as a heads up if you have a similar condition, and lreally look after your health.

@Yarco Never smoked tobacco, tried once and didn't like the taste at all, but I occasionally drink tea, and my main drink is coffee so I'll consider limiting the coffee down. My max pulse, in the past, was roughly 170 to 180 beats per min. My resting beats per minute is around 90 to 94, and depending on activities, can raise to 110 to 120 and sometimes 140 for more demanding physical work, stress or mental exertion. I do have high blood pressure as well. The heart arrhythmia is what I'm having lately, and in the past the heart fluttering was random but not as frequent. The specific event in question is the first week of my Pfizer jab, that one triggered my frequent heart fluttering. Before the jab, my fitness levels were above average, I exercise like 2-4 times a week strength based, body weighted isometrics, and once a week I do steady state cardio and not high intensity interval training. I mostly get 7-8 hours of sleep, but 6-5 depending on stress. I do try to nap, if I can 1 hour. My health/diet is much cleaner now than in the past, like I used to drink soda frequently but I cut that out over time, replaced it with honey and tea/coffee, and I used to eat meals that were moderate in fat and carbs but high in protein, but I lessened that over time. In terms of mental fitness/cognitive performance, I'm average but sometimes I can focus really hard on something, and that sometimes effects my heart rate so I'm taking it easy. I terms of my emotional fitness, it's below average because I experience more negative emotions more than positive ones, plus this heart fluttering has me more depressed than usual. I had to work and study as easily or more relaxed than usual. Some of my hobbies I can perform well, like dancing or martial arts, I have to take it easy, and drawing isn't that effected. The heart fluttering were random and not as frequent in the past, but sometimes there's pain and sometimes not.