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I think this whole experience goes to show the importance of introducing and experimenting with different diets and foods to find one that works for you.
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Cheers. Ya, makes sense.
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"I accuse myself of sloth and unprofitableness day by day; but when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time. I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year; for these moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration, but sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done, without time." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. From his essay "Circles".
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If I invent a mindfulness app, this is what it will be called.
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I went for "Urban Mindfulness". Though I think Urban Monastic sounds better and more "catchy" and more sleek, I think those that mentioned the importance of incorporating "mindfulness" to indicate what the business is about had a point. So I smashed the two together and voila; Urban Mindfulness. It'll do for now. Definitely want to use Urban Monastic at some point, maybe when I develop a more expansive organization or something. Cheers
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Ok folks... so far it's between... 1. Urban MOnastic 2. Naturally Mindful 3. Mindly 4. Urban Mindfulness Feel free to let me know what you think. Thanks again for the help.
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I like this.
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Matt23 replied to Matt23's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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@Michael569 Cheers man! @Adodd Fair. Thanks for the tips and feedback
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Matt23 replied to Matt23's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
There are many benefits to mindfulness. Here's a few. Firstly, it helps develop your ability to stay focused on things at hand without being pulled away by distractions or positive or negative emotions (like boredom or excitement). Mindfulness has also been reported to increase empathy towards others. It can help with sleep, stress reduction, as well as reducing depressive and anxious symptoms. Finally, it can also help people see reality more clearly, rather than seeing reality through their own filters. This can help in many aspects of life, including performance, memory, and interpersonal relationships. I'll also mention that it can help in giving you more choice in your life. It does this by allowing you to accept and experience anything, be it unpleasant emotions or difficult situations, without being pulled by any reactive emotions or behaviors that arise in you. This can heighten your ability to think clearly and make more wise decisions. And remember, acceptance doesn't determine behavior. So you can simultaneously accept that a loved one is being attacked and accept the fear or rage you feel while also acting in ways that help save the person being attacked. -
Matt23 replied to Matt23's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Absolutely. As long as you're able to clearly feel the anxiety (noticing where it is in your body, what it feels like, etc.), have equanimity around it (you aren't pushing it away or reacting to it), and are able to concentrate on it, then you are developing the 3 attentional skills in the U.M. system. Was that clear or do you have any follow-up questions? Cheers! -
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I remember reading a study (abstract, I didn't go full-depth I think) concluding that the most important factor for successful therapy isn't, as is widely believed, the amount of connection between the therapist and client, but is rather the degree to which the client can become aware, track, and have clarity around their internal feelings during therapy.
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Ever looked at Objective Personality? Good typology duo putting the MBTI up to scientific rigor... as best they can I suppose. They say people are usually attracted to opposites of their type in terms of their function stack. This might be more-so for romantically, but I bet it's across the board. For example, I think I'm an ISFP jumper, so my stack is Fi-Ni-Se-Te. Meaning I'm more attracted to and get along more with ExxPs, ideally with stacks that go Se-Te-Fi-Ni. (Jumper Means... out of the several thousand interviews and people they've typed in their system, they found that for about half the people, their 2nd dominant function is actually the 3rd function in the stack. So, if I'm a jumper and have a stack that goes Ti-Ne-Si-Fe, then my first dominant function is Ti, but then my 2nd dominant function isn't Ne, it's Si).
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This points to how the term "mental illness" comes loaded with lots of assumptions about what is actually happening in the person, which could be inaccurate. I think that the concept or perspective of mental illness is flawed quite a bit, though it has been an improvement from the labels and ideas about what was happening prior to psychotherapy. Things like seeing and calling people just "crazy" or "demons" or "witches" n' stuff. Though, in some cultures (I think in some Islamic ones), they treat people with mental illnesses (severe ones) as "closer to God" and view them with reverence. John Verveake has a great series on his channel called something like "Psychology and Pathology" where him, Gregg Henriques, and another guy discuss the ontological, philosophical, and psychological aspects of mental illnesses and the issues that can come from how we label and thus perceive these issues. First video of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-eHKAIi1cE&list=PLND1JCRq8Vui0kp13pMiOCFoC-Vl0yk84 Another interesting perspective John Vervaeke advocates is how labelling addictions as mental illness is really inaccurate and not well-suited for the job. He prefers the idea that addictions are like negative feedback loops which arise from a person believing, thus perceiving and experiencing, their options in the world as diminished, which then causes pain, which leads to consumption of addictions, which in turn reduce one's ability to have a larger perspective, which in turn leads to not seeing all the options, which leads to more pain, addictions, lesser perspective, and so on.
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@Leo Gura Are you talking about pesticides, fertilizers, n' such used to grow them?
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There could also be different "lines" of development we're looking at within writings like Homer's Odyssey and Think and Grow Rich. Like, maybe you have a point in regards to the Odyssey being higher in terms of spirituality, perhaps even morality (though I dunno). But maybe Think and Grow Rich is more developed in terms of economics, personal development, cognition, language or something of the sort. Also, perhaps development is more of a stepwise thing where one stage leads to the other (I'm not totally 100% bought into this idea that development occurs only in a stepwise fashion), such that, even though one may value one stage over another, the point is that A leads to B leads to C. Such that, even though, yes, the Odyssey may contain some profound and great lessons and truths, it formed the bedrock with which later, more developed/complex/loving/all embracing, or w/e adjective you want to use, books and ideas like Think and Grow Rich could emerge out of. We may also get used to books written in our generation and view them as trivial since we're so used to them. So when we see books not of our generation, like Homer, we see them in an idealized fashion. Spitballin here. In the end, it's probably wise to hold these models and ideas of hierarchy and development loosely and not rigidly cram things into their boxes too much. Like, I'm sure there's far more complexity, subtlety, and nuance happening within all these books and ideas than we can see; let alone that one model can see. I view the SD model as a pretty broad and rough categorical and explanatory tool, similar to how we distinguish between animals, reptiles, and plants. But, as we all know, there's a plethora of diversity within each of those super broad categories. Could be similar for humans and human development (though maybe not as rich... though could be richer... dunno).
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Thinking videos are enough and the same as reading books. Even if the videos and the books are about the same thing.
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Has anyone tried their Emotional Mastery course? If so, what did you think? Results; good, bad? Any behavior changes long-term? Thanks for any info and reviews.
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Matt23 replied to Someone here's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
@Oeaohoo I'd watch the video. -
I always got weird vibes from her.
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Matt23 replied to Someone here's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
A newer stage yellow philosophy designed for the future human. I haven't delved into it fully (they also said they just scratched the surface of the philosophy in this talk), but a big thing that stood out for me in this was their take on values: They are attempting to integrate the traditional and modern-postmodern views regarding value so as to take what's true about them while avoiding what they got wrong. Where each perspective got it wrong: traditional: values are unchanging and fixed. modern-postmodern: values are subjective human creations. The universe itself is ultimately meaningless. Where each perspective got it right: traditional: values are inherent aspects of the universe. Not simply human creations. modern-postmodern: values change and evolve. They seem to be attempting to create a new philosophy adequate enough for the future; a future that makes the universe sacred again by pulling the truths that traditionalism had regarding values (i.e. the universe has inherent values and is itself sacred), thus avoiding nihilism and meaninglessness, while also integrating the modern-postmodern truths of value which see how values change and evolve, thus avoiding "stuckness" of the traditional views. Sum metaphor/example: The "mother" archetype has been around since humans existed. Yet it's obvious that that archetype has changed immensely from the first humans to modern societies, even though its foundational form as "the mother" has remained the same. -
Matt23 replied to Virtually's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Cheers. Ya, just wanted a general explanation as AI seems like a relevant topic going forward into the future. -
Matt23 replied to Virtually's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is this how all AI basically works; that being a more "basic" (compared to a biological mind) mechanism of linear associations? Is the whole "hoopla" about AI that it can make these associations or decisions on its own, even if those associations and decisions are fairly simple? As opposed to previous forms of computation which just ran on algorithms and codes that just told it what to do. Such that the codes needed to get more and more complex in order to do more and more complex things.