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I'll go have seizure now, thank you.

@Scholar That's the one I watched as well. She came off as a bit preachy by bringing it up the way she did, which may have prompted the somewhat dismissive response. 1:05:40 Here he conceded that he doesn't deny the potential benefits of it, but again, the way that meditation was brought up in the discussion was somewhat of a distraction from the main topic, and he tried to steer it back: "you have to know what you don't know."

@Kksd74628 Just some advice: I don't know if other people feel this way, but the rainbow layout makes me not want to read what you're writing (it's hard on the eyes).

I'm similar in the way that the true ramifications of spiritual practice really took me by surprise, but I didn't have quite the same reaction as you, which sucks to hear. This is a general danger with the internet and fragmented, open-source information. You can easily get in over your head with almost anything. It's not much else you can do than to apply the precautionary principle to whatever you find.

That would be to put the cart before the horse.

There also exists various empirically supported techniques for establishing habits and goal-commitment that health psychologists use to help patients with chronic illnesses with compliance to treatment, like implementation intentions and mental contrasting.

Years.

Read up on each stage and see how many aspects of it that you clearly understand and have no questions about. Maybe sit down and write a mini-essay about each stage and see which one is the most detailed.

You're talking about sub-urbs. Yeah the American sub-urbs are much more spacious than other places in the world. I could see how the fact that the settlers had a lot of space to build on shaped the building practices of today.

Find out what you desire in life, work on your physical and mental health, and do your day's work when you're the most alert and relaxed. Work ethic is just a means to an end, and it requires a firm baseline of vitality and resilience. I've found that it works both ways: implementing some basic structure into your life increases your mental health. Habits are efficient and simple. They outsource articulated mental activity ("self-talk") to inarticulated behavior patterns and long-term-oriented self-regulation strategies. For example, If you cheat on your schedule or even procrastinate for just a few moments, you will spend a lot of mental energy thinking about it, which is completely inefficient, as you will have to do that work sooner or later anyway if you're going to achieve your goals. I've also started to be very disciplined in immediately taking notes on my phone whenever I notice any repetitive thoughts regarding some upcoming task (e.g. work ideas or grocery shopping plans), because once I write it down, the thoughts stop, which saves me from a lot of mental noise. Likewise, if I have some thoughts pertaining to personal stuff where I feel I need to express something (e.g. set boundaries or fix some disagreement), I will try to do that as soon as possible instead of endlessly thinking about it and eventually ending up repressing and ignoring it.

It is superficial.

Watching the time can be stressful too.

What did he say exactly? From what I heard, I thought he had a nuanced response, pointing out the problems of spiritual bypassing and emotional repression, and then maybe dismissing some of the positive aspects.

He also has a degree in psychology and has been in therapy himself.

Why do you watch the time? To keep up with the world. Why do you watch the news? To keep up with the world.

Let's see what the ethics board says (Mr.Girl filed a report).

Watching the news is like watching the time(s).

Agreed. Some form of individual activism has to precede and initiate policy change, which then impacts the individual level again (forming actions, beliefs, more activism etc.). This initial activism is a hard process, which is what some ethically challenged meat eaters will use an excuse (which is the status quo justifying itself by saying it is the status quo).

I specifically brought up that individual meat eaters are able to use the fact that meat is deeply established in our society as a last cowardly retreat from having to recognize their fallible reasoning and change their habits. No. I said this is the reality we have to face. Activism on the individual level is one thing. Structural change, policy change, is another. And I'm saying black abolitionists played a crucial role. I get it. You interpreted my points as a hostile dismissal of veganism rather than the neutral assessment that I intended it to be. I should've been more cognizant that you were already in defense mode earlier in the thread and worded myself differently.

General life experience and introspection. Reading systems theory can speed things up, but it's not the main driving force. https://www.amazon.com/Community-Psychology-Pursuit-Liberation-Well-Being/dp/1137464097

Yes it is. Rape doesn't have a trillion dollar financial market. But hurdles are not mountains. My mind? I said you shouldn't stop trying. Were there no black abolitionists? Are free range farms vegan? I'm not dismissing it.

Just play your own video game on the side, join in on the fun

This conversation has everything: natural flow, authenticity, enthusiasm, mutual understanding and original thinking (structure), and relationships, politics, philosophy, ethics, meaning of life and psychedelics (content). The title and the intro severely undersells it.

A main hurdle is the idealism aspect. There is no way meat is getting phased out anytime soon, no matter how hard you push, and meat-eaters can always default to that when their dialogue tree gets deconstructed. It's not like Women's rights. The cows won't rise up to defend themselves. You won't be able to hold the policy makers' feet to the fire in the same way with regards to ethics (but there is always the more sexy environmental argument). That doesn't mean you shouldn't try though.

How do you know subjects exist?