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@dmwrss good one!

When i was a student 16-20 years old, i had more crushes on my male teachers than the boys my age. i would totally have dated a 37 years old male teacher. That probably woudlnt be a good idea haha

@Leo Gura @BakeJeyner thank you Leo for your answer and thank YOU bake for sharing. your words cannot describe what i experienced 1 year ago better than my own words. it is exactly how i felt and i still have to integrate those experiences. i also jumped in way too deep too quick and i have avoided strong doses ever since. but we have all face it some day best of luck . and thank you for sharing. you will get through this you will eventually forget about it at the least

Hello everyone. I started (almost) daily stretching back in April: here is the original post : I have now been stretching for 7 months. Here is a quick progress report/time lapse I made Other than flexibility, I am really proud of myself for making this into such a consistent habit. I never missed more than 2 days in a row and never felt any resistance towards doing it (unlike meditation where I tend to dread it). My longest consistency streak is 8 months when i did daily meditations, but i wasnt enjoying it as much so stopping it almost felt as good as keeping it up. I will soon beat that streak and i foresee no issues in continuing it forever as it just is so enjoyable. not exactly sure why this is so much easier than meditation. i guess its because im less bored when stretching because im feeling the pain, and im moving around. My progress in stretching itself is pretty slow but steady. Will make an update for 9 months soon. Please let me know if you guys have any suggestions for increased flexibility, any favorite stretching routines that you have? and any similar experience with aversion towards meditation? haha

@fridjonk thank you! @Flexible damn lucky you!!! do you have joint hypermobility haha ? thank you for the kind words

@acidgoofy i did actually follow some of his routine !!

@Consilience yaza = meditation at night ?

Wanna revive this thread. Any other book recommendations anyone ?

@Marten could you elaborate on how you use the dreamboard

wooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww people are so young. quite pleasant surprise

for those who cannot do that (renting appartment and stuff), what tap water filter do you recommend? @Leo Gura

I just finished watching the netflix documentary Wild Wild country. it was pretty good, but i found that it actually painted a pretty positive picture of Osho (it demonized his secretary Sheela). I was expecting some Jones Town shit to go down in his ashram, but it wasnt nearly to the same extent and the series didnt really explain who was behind the illegal operations. Like, if there was a rajneeshpuram today, i might join even after watching this show, cause it just doesnt seem that bad. Does anyone has a more in depth understanding of Osho and his teaching ? im curious

great story. thank you for sharing. i had the most profound/mindfucking experience on ayahuasca and your story brought some memories back. i need to revisit soon

@Bogdan thank you! i actually started doing loaded stretching after you shared those videos! it did help a lot

I am one of the most inflexible people you will ever meet, especially in my lower body. Just by sitting against the wall with my legs straight, i can feel a pull. does anyone have any tips to improve flexibility? I do 10min of stretching after my workouts but it hasnt helped me improve my flexibilty. It mostly helps to prevent injury. I really want to be visibly more flexible, eg. to be able to touch my toes, to be able to open up my hips so i can sit in a semi lotus position. Should i stretch for longer time periods like 30min or even one hour? I know many lower body stretching exercises, should i do them for longer, or are certain exercises better than others? send along any videos or advice thanks in advance!

an update. i am now 4.5 months in. id say there were 2 months of plateau where if i stretched, i notice a slight difference, and if i didnt stretch for a day, id be back to day 1. ive finally gotten past that hurdle and starting to see some improvement again!

Hi still a newbie in psychs here, but after tripping on mushroom (light dose), i have this hangover feeling that lasts the whole day where im just feeling groggy and headachy. the trip lasted 3h ish, but the grogginess continued on for the rest of the day. I was wondering if you guys have similar experiences on mushrooms? i havent explored many other psychs, but dont remember being this groggy the other times. any hangover cures lol? i have some 5 meo DMT and AL-lad that i will be trying out soon. which psychs do you guys find have the least physical hangover effect after the trip?

what have you tried so far in terms of diet change and pharmacological treatment? are you overweight ?

@Nahm it happens immediately following the comedown of the trip. , last the whole day. i took a nap then slept 10hrs the night, and felt better the next morning. i was taking the vitamins you mentioned and drinking water and eating fruits. whats BMI?

which vitamins and nootropics do you recommend? time for experimentation then thanks for the input everyone. seems like headache is pretty common with mushrooms.

@dflores321 I tripped at 9:30am after a good night of sleep. Ive tripped in the evening before and it doesnt feel like that time thanks @Leo Gura i will try some supplements. For me it wasnt even the next day. It was immediately after the come down of the trip . I tripped in the morning. After the comedown, I had to nap, then that night i slept 10hours and the next day i felt better. Dont thiink i was sleep deprived the day before either.

@exhale great advice. i appreciate you taking the time to read my story and write back much love

***This is a big deal for me but everything is relative so keep that in mind *** i am still recovering psychologically from this huge "relative" failure. i finished medical school this year and i did not match into my specialty of choice. i wanted to become a psychiatrist. unfortunately, it did not work out (it was a very competitive process). i matched in family medicine and had to face a lot of doubt and rejection during a brutal 5 months application period. i worked hard all throughout medical school to build my CV, extracurricular, spent 100s of hours drafting my motivation letter, working on my file, getting the connections, then i got rejected by 10 programs even before the interview. i traveled across the country to attend 10 interviews, and ended up in my 7th choice. it was a big slap in the face. it was one of the shittiest feeling ive ever felt. the day that i found out , felt like the world crashing down. we are now almost 3 months since, i dont know how many times i cried over it and there are still days where it hurts me to think about how things unfolded. i worked a lot on myself during the past 3 months, meditating, contemplating, accepting my reality, but the more i think, the more confused i get. So i stop thinking, because then i feel more at peace. but stop thinking doesnt help me move on because the psychological wound still sits inside me. overall i am better, but there are still days where i break into tears, days where i feel like a failure, i feel dark and lost. i have a few options ahead of me. i could try to match in psychiatry again (chances are slimmer, but present. i could even try forever, i can reapply every year... but how far can you really go... how long can you keep the hope up... or i could accept and move on. so far i have tried to accept to move on, but i dont feel happy. i havent started working yet as a family medicine resident, so my opinion about it might change. i might actually love it and be okay with it. (i dont hate family med, i just feel bad about doing something that i didnt choose). i can tell i have a lot of resentment towards this whole process, the medical system, and even my peers (many of my friends are in the same boat or worse than me). i want to know: how can i really dig into this emotional resentment and release it? there are days where i feel a ball in my chest and i just wanna cry but cant. how can i truly grow from this experience? i am still hung up on the failure? its 5 years of my life where i just did medical school stuff, 5 months of intense stress that ultimately brought this emotional baggage of not getting what i want. how to deal with this ?? the wound is deeper than i thought. how do i know where my heart is ? how do i follow my heart in this situation? @Leo Gura could you give me some words of wisdom and inspiration?

@Nobody_Here thank you its an eternal battle inside of me. i will see where my heart leads me but i do wanna give psychiatry another try. I feel like i didnt try hard enough you gave me a different perspective so thanks for that

@amyjackson @ArslanGhaffor seems like 2 bots here. @bejapuskas @allislove @Michael569