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I remember couple years ago I was on one new-age holotropic breathwork retreat, where you breathe heavily for 1-2 hours and then talk about your experience with a group of people. It was that new-age conformist environment where all they talk is about chakras, and magical healing. Most of them told amazing stories like how they had mystical experiences, out-of-body and healing experiences. I didn't experience shit, it was just monkey-mind and blackness. And out of conformity, I also came up with some bullshit story of what I experienced and what it meant, to conform to what all the other people were telling. At the end of the event, I was disgusted with myself. Later I was wondering if some of those people also exaggerated their experiences just to conform.

I always cringe on watching those. Wearing a white dress at a wedding. Couples cutting cakes together at their wedding. Basically, any wedding tradition

Not really, no. Just in theory. Spirituality seems to be an area that provides you with an ability to simply just be without chasing some endless cheese and be okay with that. But I think that only comes after lots of suffering through life and training yourself and your nervous system a lot.

@OBEler Yeah my friend who was also there told me there was definetely something to those temples, Dhyanalinga made it easier for him to access altered states through meditation. Interesting stuff.

That sucks. How did you injure yourself? Lifting too much weight without proper form?

Prioritizing protein is important, also being in a caloric deficit if you want to lose fat. So it's not like eating anything goes to build a nice body.

I remember him promoting that book on Dr. Mike's podcast a couple of months ago. It sounded sketchy the first time I heard about it. He's probably jumping on the looksmaxxing bandwagon with that book (I haven't read it), but some of the points he made on that podcast were reasonable, for example, that looks matter, as opposed to not mattering at all. But his claim that everyone could get an attractive body through surgery sounds like bullshit to me. One more thing: I also criticized him from an ontological standpoint and assumed that he should have looked at the issue from an existential standpoint, at least to some degree. But then I remembered that he's just a bodybuilder YouTuber. I was asking too much. Maybe surgery is what someone needs to realize that, ultimately, it was never really about the surgery.

I love that track ❤️ Didn't know the author though. RIP 🙏

There are lots of things. Hard to list them all. Understanding spirituality is one of them. I don't want to add more survival pressure on me by having a wife and children.

Fitness / health influencers eating off a wooden cutting board

@stephenkettley I'm 30. I think marriage and children isn't my thing, but relationships in general yes. You can learn a lot from relationships, and enjoy creating them.

@stephenkettley I feel the same way. How old are you?

Hearing my own voice in a recording is so cringey 😬 Also, thinking back on how I acted in the past when I was clearly ignorant about something but thought I knew it all... ugh.

Yeah for me 21 was like yesterday, time flies like crazy. Aging happens much quicker than you'd expect. My 20s went really fast. Make sure you use it well.

Non-addicts often underestimate how hard it is to break addicitons. It's a very humbling experience when you yourself get addicted to some unhealthy substance / behavior, then trying quitting and finding out that you can't. Then you deside to take much more responsibility for it, and sooner or later (often much later) you overcome it. But the lesson stays for the lifetime.