Silas

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Believing that you CAN infinitely increases the likelihood that you WILL.

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Learning to remain calm under pressure is a skill that will serve you your whole life long.

[Silas @brokeneven]

@WeebXanadu @dom_lucre I’m intrigued. The mall world in my recurring dreams was futuristic. The moon base was a constant recurring dream. And would explain this perfectly. I Vividly remember looking through a window at earth. What is the SSP?

[Electra @Electrarythm]

You can literally hypnotize yourself into success

Start by sitting or lying somewhere quiet, close your eyes, and take three slow breaths, exhaling longer than you inhale. Relax your body from feet to head, tensing each part for about 5 seconds then letting go.

Count down from 10 to 1, going deeper with each number. Then deepen it further, picture yourself going down, a staircase, a lift, sinking into water, one step deeper on each exhale. When you feel heavy, you're in.

Now the visualization, this is the main event. Pick one specific scene of the success already real, and step into it through your own eyes, not watching yourself.

You're closing the deal and shaking the hand. You're checking your account and seeing the number. You're walking into the room and everyone takes you seriously. Build it with detail, what you see, what you hear, what's around you.

Then load the feeling. Feel what you'd actually feel if it were real right now, the pride, the gratitude, the confidence. The scene plants the picture, the feeling is what makes your brain file it as real. A scene with no emotion does almost nothing.

Sit in that feeling as long as it stays strong, and while you're deep in it, press two fingers together. Every session. Soon those fingers alone bring the state back, before a meeting, a call, a decision.

Count up from 1 to 5, and with each number tell yourself you're coming up more awake and energized, on 5 open your eyes feeling sharp and refreshed.

Do it twice a day, right when you wake up and right before you fall asleep. In those minutes your brain slows into theta waves, that sleepy in-between state where the part of your mind that argues back and doubts is switched off, so whatever you tell yourself goes in deeper. Stick with the same scene for two to three weeks before judging it. Some people feel it right away, others need more time.

[🗽 @verritass]

Doomscrolling is a black magic ritual. You lay in the same position. Turn off the lights, deeply focused on the feed. You’re shown memes, tragedies and “useful” information (it’s all slop) and before you know it you’re stuck in a trance. Your thumb moves without thought. You’re in flow but it’s artificially engineered by the dopamine loops the algo was built to trigger. You remember you have things to do but the black mirror pulls you in deeper by showing you something that stimulates you more. Before you know it, all your free time is gone. Every original idea you may have had is gone. You’re polluted with open loops and feel restless all the time. Every day you go to your altar (your bed), pull out your rosary (your ig feed) and you endlessly worship slop. Time blurs together and years have gone by yet you repeat the same pattern. Why? because you’ve never been taught how to engage with your own boredom, with your own pain, with your own discomfort. You resist it like it’s killing you, but what’s killing you is what you’ve turned into a part of your life (scrolling). It’s inverted. If you simply learned how to be courageous and face your immediate discomfort with pain and boredom. You’ll allow your natural wisdom and creativity to rise and begin living a life you truly want to live.

[Silas @brokeneven]

@DejaRu22 I am one of these men

[Charls Carroll @goodcharls]

I am trying to convince God to drop tungsten rods on all data centers please help.

[Charls Carroll @goodcharls]

It is easy to forget that every day is Mother’s Day.

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Voting in an election is giving an entity permission and consent to rule and have authority over you

[HowlingSheboonSimulator @void_post]

@goodcharls I really hope this is isnt ironic.
@TheOnion could honestly come back from the dead if they fired Tim and hired you.

[Da-Prophet Ω 🌞🪬 @DaProphe7]

New software… downloaded

PRΩGRAM or be PRΩGRAMMED

LAMBROS Ω

[Silas @brokeneven]

@goodcharls @9mmsmg I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THIS

[Silas @brokeneven]

@DejaRu22 Read the Ill Made Knight a bunch the other day. Makes you think about your own weaknesses.

[Silas @brokeneven]

@DejaRu22 Thank you kindly. So much love to you Master Rubi

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.

The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software.

The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check.

Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance.

Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.

Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else.

A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

[Silas @brokeneven]

@k1rallik @Fallen_Heero Absolutely legend game series

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

“All the success in the world is not as important to health as the ability to make a friend and be a friend.

Friendship is a greater treasure than can ever be put in a bank balance.”

- Manly P Hall

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Rest in Power John McAfee