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Isn't it better to eat the whole fruit / vegetable and not just the juice? By drinking a smoothie you will get all the fibre too.

I really like just a litre of water with a bit of lemon juice. That's a great start in the morning.

This thread is a great idea. Here you can find great in formation regarding the integral theory from Ken Wilber. If you find the spiral dynamics model interesting, I would hightly recommend learning more about the stuff Wilber teaches.

I would be interested too, but how would you manage it with the timezones. I am living in Germany, so almost at the other side of the world

Sometimes when I close my eyes during meditation my body slightly moves back and forth. But I think the reason for this is that my body wants to balance itself out. Your experience sounds more dramatical.

@machine-less Ideally you should do it with recovery days in between each workout, e.g. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday the strength training. And then I would ideally do cardio, in my case running or biking on three other days, here Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. If this is too much for you, I would do a bit less cardio workouts. Or you could do one day this strength training, then the next day cardio, and then a recovery day, and repeat this until you feel like you could handle more workouts. But don't do too much. If your body needs a recovery day, give him one. This routine with six workouts a week is pretty intense, and in my case hard to schedule with school. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I for example have school until 4 or 5pm. So you have to look that the workout fits with your other schedules. Just look, that you do at least two strength workouts a week, and more if its possible. Like I already said, I do running and sometimes biking as a cardio workout for about 45 to 90 minutes. My goal with this is to build or keep my endurance level high. Sometimes I also do a few intervals while running. But you don't need to go running, just do something that you enjoy. I personally don't really like HIIT workouts. Aerobic endurance is at the beginning more important than anaerobic endurance, which you build through intense workouts. But if your goal is rather to burn more calories / fat, HIIT workouts are also fine. You should still be doing some aerobic workouts, not just HIITs because those are a really intense for your body.

My full body workout looks like this: I firstly do a proper warm up, not just 5 minutes of jogging, but also preparing your joints for the workout. A good example could be this. Then I do a kind of circuit training. I do about for about 3 to 5 minutes exercises for each muscle group. I firstly do exercises for the back and biceps (pull movements), then exercises for the abs and lower back, then chest, shoulders and triceps (push movements), and at the end my legs. When I am done with one circuit, I make a short rest and repeat this for 3 to 5 times. The number of repetitions depends on how I feel that day. I only use bodyweight exercises. For me weights are really unnecessary because there are so many hard exercises you can do with your body, e.g. a planche. I like it to workout outside instead of a gym with weights. Especially as a beginner bodyweight is more than enough to build a lot of strength and muscles. Here is a short list of which exercises you could do for each muscle group. Pick yourself some Back and Biceps: Pull ups, chin ups Easier: Reverse Row Sit-Back, negative pull/chin ups Core: Plank, Side plank a use full video Chest, Shoulders, Triceps normal push ups, variations of push ups (video) Legs body weight squats jumping lunges I do this workout for about three times a week.

I eat so much when I don't try to suppress this eating-more-urge. I am used to eat a lot of healthy stuff. Even though I am full, I still eat more. Normally I would make myself down because of that. Now... I just think that I could gain weight. But I don't really care about that. With the time I think I will eat more raw stuff and less grain, nuts and dried fruit. Then I will be at the place I think is really healthy. I meditate less and as a consequence I recognized that my tics become more. While the meditation my monkey mind thinks about stuff that I could do after the meditation. And a few minutes later I simply stop the meditation. I watch way more YouTube videos about travelling. A few days ago I learned about 'wwoof'. Now I am so excited about the opportunity that I could take a year of to travell with little money around the world in a year's time. Every morning I think about that and become so happy. I'd get so drastically out of my comfort zone. I could learn so much about other people, cultures, working on farms, green stuff, social skills... The only obstacles will be my relatives. They will tell me that a young 18 year old girl will be kidnaped, raped...

I think I have reached the stage yellow in the last couple of months. I see how I am genuinely not interested in any of my school friends conversations. These are just monkey conversations about monkey stuff. Almost everybody around me is just like that. Everybody is blue or orange, while I am green and yellow. I also think a lot about what I could do in my future. I want to help the world somehow, but all normal jobs are orange or green. I dont want to have a green job, because I can see how yellow stuff will influence the minds of the people in a much more positive way. And I also want to find more yellow resources to learn. So do you know how to find more green or yellow friends, or how I could build myself a yellow career / find a yellow job? And can you recommend some yellow resources, for example books or films?

@oats I've had really similar thoughts today. And it feels so good without the pressure from all the should statements.

@Vishal be openminded and question everything

I see that my opinions are not the only and best ones. There is so much out there in the world, that I cannot possibly have all the right views onto the world. I also see how there are all the other stages. I am fascinated by all the stuff you can do... Everything in the world makes sense and I slowly judge the current systems of the world less and less.

I always have been confused since I was introduced to enlightenment. Why should I work on anything as soon as I am enlightened? Why should I try to self-actualize when I am a state of perfect bliss all the time? When you are enlightened you are totally happy and content all the time. Isn't his everything a human being need? One the other hand you can work hard to self-actualize. And at the end of the process you are totally happy too. So isn't enlightenment and self-actualization the same? Or would someone become self-actualized by getting enlightened, and the other way around?

How can you know? I always thought that as soon as you became enlightened you have accepted everything, and you live in peace with reality. How could you have still psychological issues? That is neurotic. And why should I still want to grow? Isn't that contradictory to the idea of enlightenment? If there is no ego, who should do the 'self'-growth?

I technology in harmony with nature would be so nice. But I doubt this becoming reality in the foreseeable future. As long our society is in sage orange of the graves model I think it won't happen. You can see how we are polluting our environment... Neurotic businessmen don't care about nature and at the moment these people have the money, the power. Probably in the future when we all are already dead - and humanity still alive - the majority of our society might become green. Then they care about where the resources come from and go to.

Here I want to report about my path to acquiring the think I call super-habits. This is a state where I just have beneficial habits and no bad ones. I wanted to start working on them for almost 6 months but I always procrastinated or made excuses. This public journal will hopefully force me to work on my habits. I will update a check list of my habits daily. The list will become longer with the time. Cold Shower: done Eating no raisins: failed Eating no cashews: done Eating no "oatmeal crunchies": absolutely failed Stretching: done Working on my side split: done

Cold Shower: done Eating only once snacks: done Eating no "oatmeal crunchies": done Stretching: forgot it Working on my side split: forgot it Watching only three YouTube videos: done Exercise: running Learning for diver licence: done Doing something different: done 30min+ meditation: done The cold showers aren't very hard anymore. Just my head hurts in this freaking cold water a bit. this was my third and last video of the day. I also watched a documentary about maths. So cool

Cold Shower: done Eating only once snacks (one hand full of raisins, dried fruits or nuts): failed Eating no "oatmeal crunchies": done Stretching: done Working on my side split: done Watching no useless videos: failed Exercise: quick full body workout Learning for diver licence: done Doing something different: failed 30min+ meditation: done I am having problems with the 'eating only once snacks' and 'watching no useless videos' habit, everything else works out quite well. I have to be a bit more precise. Firstly I will only eat after dinner snacks. This snack will consist out of two Brazil Nuts, 3 Cashew nuts, a few Pumpkin seeds, and 15-20 raisins. It is hard for me to watch no useless videos, especially while I eat lunch. Lets say I may watch useless videos, but on the whole only 3 videos a day, the length doesn't care. Then I have to be careful which videos I want to watch, because I also want to watch some useful ones.

Simply build a basic stretching habit. You can find great routines anywhere around the internet. Try some different routines out and look which exercises you like the most. Then build your own routine And this guy knows everything! https://www.youtube.com/user/EmmetLouis/videos

Cold Shower: done, it felt like the coldest one yet Eating only once snacks (one hand full of raisins, dried fruits or nuts): done Eating no "oatmeal crunchies": done Stretching: I'll be doing it right after writing this Working on my side split: look above Watching no useless videos: failed a bit Exercise: running Learning for diver licence: done Doing something different: I ate something different 30min+ meditation: done

The only thing that really bothers me is that its so boring and uncomfortable. I dont really feel a lot of pain, only sometimes at the end of a 2h strong determination sit in my knees. I don't sit cross legged, it hate that. I sit this way:

I kind of figured out a plan. I got out of my depression of yesterday evening. For one or two years now I've been having a vision of my dream life: I want to live somewhere in nature, on a relatively big property where I will grow all the food on my own. I am living there with a few very close and like-minded friends. We all are on our spiritual path and work together in harmony in the garden. We are physically very active from the work in the garden and also play around e.g. on a slack line or gymnastic rings. Then somewhen I will be enlightened, love everybody / everything, am connected to everything, am totally mindful and constantly in a state of bliss. On the property is a little cabin / house where we live in. It is very minimalistic but we have everything we need. I sleep on the floor, use only natural products and am super healthy. Through fasting I cleaned my body so much. I eat only the self grown food and sprouts, so I am raw vegan. This would be my plan A. I have no idea yet how I will realise it. Firstly I need to find those like-minded friends. Then I/we need money for the property. And afterwords there is still a money problem. I still need assurances and stuff like that. And if I don't work normally, what's about retirement when I am old? The plan B would be having a job, maybe part time. And my free time I spend outside in nature. Then I looked at these 'Kick Ass Goals' for the self-actualized life from Leo. Here they are unfiltered: no worry about money work is play, greatest joy developing full emotional control and being emotionally grounded deep understanding of how the world works successful intimate relationship and amazing sex confidence, deep self love travel, hobbies physical vitality, energy rewarding and inspiring friendships leader of others, being a role model and inspiring others being creative and advancing humanity breaking free of the 9 to 5 jobs, of the pupculture living in integrity, with principles enlightenment having time to contemplate life and savour the beauty dying with a smile on my face But I have to filter them firstly because I cannot do everything of it now. What I can do not is: This is inner work stuff which I think I can work on through a self love / confidence growing habit. I still have to research a bit about emotions developing full emotional control and being emotionally grounded confidence, deep self love Learning stuff deep understanding of how the world works This will be hard for myself. At the moment I have just one good friendship. The others are just people in school which I like a bit, because they are different from the mass. To communicate with them I have to play a bit. Almost everybody in school is in a negative mood, they don't want to be in school and hate learning... I have to play like I think in the same way. Then I talk with them about school stuff, mostly in a negative way. I have to look outside of school for friends. But that is so far out of my comfort zone. rewarding and inspiring friendships I am pretty good at this goal. I have a relatively healthy diet and exercise regularly. physical vitality, energy being creative and advancing humanity living in integrity, with principles I could do a lot of enlightenment work and meditate. But somehow I don't want to meditate so long. I rather want to surf on the internet. enlightenment having time to contemplate life and savour the beauty I'll work on figuring out this plan later today. Now I will go running outside in the rain. I just need fresh air.

I have a dream of being able to live independently in nature, growing all my own food, being active, planting... while I have like-minded people around me. I just want to be super healthy, live in nature and be happy. I got so inspired by these guys. Living in Hawaii would be awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvfl2HWbDG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzXv6SFBBI

Cold Shower: no Eating only once snacks (one hand full of raisins, dried fruits or nuts): no Eating no "oatmeal crunchies": done Stretching: done Working on my side split: done Watching no useless videos: failed Exercise: 30min cardio and quick full body workout Learning for diver licence: a lot Hearing less music: failed but I didn't get nervous of it like in the last days Doing something different: somehow 30min+ meditation: guided meditation by Rupert Spira Today was a bit of a shitty day. It was my grandmas birthday, I ate cake and stuff, I always feel physically horrible after that, I hate it. I hate these rainy winter days in cold Germany. I stay almost the whole time inside the house. I get sick of this not fresh, warm air. I want to be outside. I feel like I am stuck. My home here is a cage. I am not free, cannot do what I really want in life. I want to sleep on the floor, I want to be a minimalist, I want to be vegan, I want to fast, I want to travel and go wherever I want to. And what do I do? I do the same stuff week after week. I go to school, come home, do sports, meditate and do something at home. Everyday, exceptions happen very rarely. I don't have a hobby like team sports, I never meet friends outside of school, I never go somewhere else. I am stuck in a fucking comfort zone. I have 1.5 years left until I am done with school, then I could break out of this cage. But I probably won't. I will probably study and stay at home. I could have a bit more of freedom. But if I stay doing the same things over and over again, I won't. I am creating myself a cage, I hate this cage, I hate this comfort zone. I have to break out of it, I have circulate new energy, I have to do something else. I'll look for solutions tomorrow. I am too tired now.

Of course there is the difference with the consciousness... but consider this I read somewhere that humans are like herd animals. Then I looked at my unconscious classmates and observed their behaviour and conversations. It is so funny. They all want the others to like them, they want prestige, they want to know who is in a relationship with whom... chimp behaviour. Like animals we want to follow the path of least resistance. For animals in nature it is good to survive, for us in our unnatural environment it is very toxic.