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🟠30-day Microdosing Journal: DAY #1 (dose day) So, yesterday I decided to start microdosing magic truffles, which are legally available in the Netherlands. I bought the Golden Teacher truffles. I bought 15 grams, so I can take 1 gram every second day for a month. Yesterday I woke up with some negative thoughts. I was not feeling great. But then I remembered a passage of a book that I am reading, which says that I can choose to be happy. And I understood that the kind of sadness and bad feeling that I was having was not because of something that happened, but just random thoughts that were happening in my brain. I decided then to think of positive things and nice things that happened the day before, the things I am grateful for. And I spontaneously and immediately started having great feelings of happiness in my chest. It has never happened so much that I would feel so much after just changing my thoughts. I was really surprised. Before going to buy the truffles, I ate a smoothie with frozen berries. And it was good, a little bit cold. And that made me feel a little bit weird in my stomach. But that's fine. At 3 I had to start working, so before that, I went to buy the truffles. And around 2.50 I ingested the first gram of the microdose. I was working from 3 to 8 and the experience was really nice. I didn't have any strong effects, but I could feel it. The colors were the same, maybe slightly more vivid. But somehow I was enjoying them more, I was enjoying my surroundings way more. And just looking at people that usually I don't particularly like or dislike, both physically and personally, I could see something more, some kind of different spark. I was happy the whole time I was working. And yesterday was not a really laborious day. And everybody had a positive energy, so that really helped me keep my positive energy. After this, after work, then I went to do some groceries with my girlfriend. And after when we came home we discussed pharmaceutical companies. And we were not agreeing on the topic. And it was really not nice, the conversation. I lost the kind of mindfulness that I was keeping more or less through the whole day. And after this discussion, I didn't manage to get back this awareness and mindfulness. Overall it was a good day.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Five: Getting started Position: Meditation should be done sitting with a straight back, the specific position doesn't matter, as soon as the spine is straight. Eyes open or closed: In general, people meditate with closed eyes, but to some extent, it's better to do it with open eyes: like this, you don't get as sleepy, and you don't associate meditation with a dark image. With open eyes, you get used to meditate seeing something around you, this means that you're training your awareness and you can more easily learn to be more mindful in day-to-day life. Timing and frequency: you can start with a 10-minute alarm (with a gentle sound), and slowly build it up to 30 minutes. Once or twice a day is fine, when you get more experienced you can do it multiple times per day. Method: Observe your body, focus on the touch - the contact with the seat, floor, clothes, etc. Body Scan: from toes to head, and then back to the toes - focus on each small part of the body, slowly moving upwards/downwards like a scanner. Try to meditate without judging and labeling thoughts, feelings, etc. Don't question whether you're meditating or not, just observe what you are feeling.

🟤 Quote by Osho: An Echoing Place The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back. Love should not be demanding; otherwise it loses wings, it cannot fly. It becomes rooted in the earth, becomes very earthly. Then it is lust and it brings great misery and great suffering. Love should not be conditional, one should not expect anything out of it. It should be for its own sake-not for any reward, not for any result. If there is some motive in it, again, your love cannot become the sky. It is confined to the motive; the motive becomes its definition, its boundary. Unmotivated love has no boundary: it is pure elation, exuberance, it is the fragrance of the heart. And just because there is no desire for any result, it does not mean that results do not happen. They do, they happen a thousandfold because whatever we give to the world comes back, it rebounds. The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back. But that is a natural phenomenon; one need not think about it. One can trust-it happens on its own. This is the law of karma: whatever you sow, you reap; whatever you give, you receive. So there is no need to think about it, it is automatic. Hate, and you will be hated. Love, and you will be loved.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Four: Meditation and Mindfulness Nowadays we tend to blend the concept of meditation with the one of mindfulness, but in reality, meditation is when we sit down and use specific techniques to train our mind, while mindfulness is the awareness that we use to bring back our attention to the exercise, and this can be applied to the everyday life. Meditation then is not about emptying our minds, but about being aware of its thoughts and not getting caught up in them; it's about leaning to observe what happens in our mind, and applying that to our day to day life means feeling our feelings and emotions but not getting attached ad carried away from them.

i believe in you, you can do it!

🟤 Quote by Osho: Amateurs and Experts All great discoveries are made by amateurs. It always happens that when you start new work, you are very creative, you are deeply involved, your whole being is in it. Then by and by, as you become acquainted with the territory, rather than being inventive and creative you start being repetitive. This is natural because the more skilled you become in any work, the more repetitive you become. Skill is repetitive. So all great discoveries are made by amateurs, because a skilled person has too much at stake. If something new happens, what will happen to the old skill? The person has learned for years and now has become an expert. So experts never discover anything; they never go beyond the limit of their expertise. On the one hand, they become more and more skillful, and on the other hand they become more and more dull and the work seems to be a drag. Now there is nothing new that can be a thrill to them-they already know what is going to happen, they know what they are going to do; there is no surprise in it. So here is the lesson: it is good to attain a skill, but it is not good to settle with it forever. Whenever the feeling arises in you that now something is looking stale, change it. Invent something. add something new, delete something old. Again be free from the pattern that means be free from the skill-again become an amateur. It needs courage and guts to become an amateur again, but that's how life becomes beautiful.

I'm grateful for: Starting to eat more healthy starting practice trying to be more aware and conscious

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Three: Stress in the 21st century Our society is based on doing, not on being. We constantly want to achieve something, and when we do, we move on to the next thing. We are scared of losing what we have and what we love, we have attachments to things that are not forever. Our food is filled with chemicals that make us eat the whole package, and want more and new food. The more technology evolves, the more our stress level rises. We are working in and for a society where we constantly want to achieve something, likes, a certain status, or other. Meditation can help us tap into our inner-wired happiness, instead of looking for it outside.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Two: Hard-Wired to be Happy Our natural state of being, our essence is free, is to be happy, but since we get too caught up in our thoughts and feelings, we are not able to be the way our true nature is. We can then learn to simply observe our mind so that we can be aware of the "clouds passing by", but remain the free and still blue sky.

🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter One: What is happiness? In today's fast-paced world, we seek instant hits of happiness through our technologies, and we are constantly chasing happiness as if it is something external to find when it is already inside of us: "[...] we are hard-wired for it at a deep level". With meditation and mindfulness, we can choose to be happy and be free. Everyone can meditate, there is no prerequisite, and it doesn't matter if your mind is more or less busy than others. "Meditation [...] is a way to connect with our essence and to become who we truly are. Mindfulness is how to bring awareness into every situation".

🟤 Quote by Osho: Illumination The moment you are illuminated, the whole of existence is illuminated. If you are dark, then the whole of existence is dark. It all depends on you There are a thousand and one fallacies about meditation prevalent all around the world. Meditation is very simple: it is nothing but consciousness. It is not chanting, it is not using a mantra or a rosary. These are hypnotic methods. They can give you a certain kind of rest-nothing is wrong with that rest. If one is just trying to relax, it is perfectly good. Any hypnotic method can be helpful, but if one wants to know the truth, then it is not enough. Meditation simply means transforming your unconsciousness into consciousness. Normally only one-tenth of our mind is conscious, and nine-tenths is unconscious. Just a small part of our mind, a thin layer, has light; otherwise the whole house is in darkness. And the challenge is to grow that small light so much that the whole house is flooded with light, so that not even a nook or corner is left in darkness. Then the whole house is full of light, then life is a miracle, it has the quality of magic. Then it is no longer ordinary- everything becomes extraordinary. The mundane is transformed into the sacred, and the small things of life start having such tremendous significance that one could not have ever imagined it. Ordinary stones look as beautiful as diamonds; the whole of existence becomes illuminated. The moment you are illuminated, the whole of existence is illuminated. If you are dark, then the whole of existence is dark. It all depends on you.

🔘 Surroundings Observation The whole sky is gray. In this, I see groups of small light clouds moving fast. In the grayness of the sky and clouds, I don't see any specific shapes, the wind carrying them away makes them change and more distant, Today is cold and rainy, usually I don't like this weather, but now that I sit and observe it, I see something more in it: I see calm uncertainty, I see change in the stillness. I hear cars passing by, which remember me of the fast paced world, running to chase something that is never found. I see the light drops of water, that fall fast from the sky; they're tiny, almost impossible to see, but if you focus, you can perceive the movement. In this moment of stillness I remember how difficult it is in this world to just stop. But now, I did stop. And I'm grateful for these little moments.

I'm grateful for: Sara Open communication with Sara Dinner with guys I practiced

Trump said that when he will become president he will call Putin and the war will stop.. so that problem is off the list😂😂 We still have some time till climate change problema become irreversible. I am optimistic about this topic and I think we will take action. Maybe last minute, but we will.

Truly a great video. Thank you Osho❤️