This idea occurred to me while watching Shangri-La Frontier on Netflix yesterday. Ultra-realistic VR gaming might be a great way to reflect upon the human experience itself.
This will sound egotistical but the only creations I enjoy right now are my own. Consuming other peoples posts, especially in the feed dilutes my energetic level. I can also tune out while scrolling and let them pass through. But then, why even bother? Passion.
That's a lot of hate for a single person. I get your frustration but if you're looking out into the world with hate, all you will see is greed, fear and corruption. You are the lense shaping how you see the outside world. Who could ever stop you from hating? No one. That is a power that only you hold. Hating is optional just saying. But there is also such a thing as healthy anger which wants to empower you to bring about change. If you want someone to talk to, hit me up.
@WarSageX I do think the best way to answer this is with Silence. It's where all potential answers lie, so might as well use that. To single out an answers can be done but eventually all forms fall back into Silence anyways, probably including the mind itself.
This again. I'm terming this the exaggeration-error. It's about over-interpreting internal signal. Time and/or volume-wise ("do none of ... ever again / do nothing but ... always"). Two extremes. Goal? Moderation. One actionable fix? Reduce the time-interval to "once, today or right now".
By the way, it has been exactly two months since publishing the original post. Talking of cycles.
The error works both in the negative as well as the positive. Let's say ... sucks and I want to quit doing it. Exaggeration: quitting entirely, burning all bridges. Moderation: Let ... be for today and focus on something else instead. Or the other way around. Exaggeration: I love ... I will only do ... always. Moderation: Embrace the euphoria once, today.
Well, that's revealing. Especially the negative error wasn't clear to me in this way. I can see it as anti-planing which helps because to stop planing has been a nice fix on the positive error side. Therefore, also don't anti-plan based on lower life energy for a day. Got it.
What makes all of this even stranger is that I know how to consciously manipulate my life energy π To come to an insight like this, I will consciously lower it and bring myself into a prone to compulsion state. When I'm there, I pay attention to the patterns while simultaneously being dragged down further. Why do I do this? My passion goes there. I'm at a point where I no longer question this.
Of course, all of this is a heavy intellectualization of a rather simple phenomenon. The conditioning/pattern part is what makes it difficult.
Summed up: Go day by day.
π
This again. I'm terming this the exaggeration-error. It's about over-interpreting internal signal. Time and/or volume-wise ("do none of ... ever again / do nothing but ... always"). Two extremes. Goal? Moderation. One actionable fix? Reduce the time-interval to "once, today or right now".
By the way, it has been exactly two months since publishing the original post. Talking of cycles.
The error works both in the negative as well as the positive. Let's say ... sucks and I want to quit doing it. Exaggeration: quitting entirely, burning all bridges. Moderation: Let ... be for today and focus on something else instead. Or the other way around. Exaggeration: I love ... I will only do ... always. Moderation: Embrace the euphoria once, today.
Well, that's revealing. Especially the negative error wasn't clear to me in this way. I can see it as anti-planing which helps because to stop planing has been a nice fix on the positive error side. Therefore, also don't anti-plan based on lower life energy for a day. Got it.
What makes all of this even stranger is that I know how to consciously manipulate my life energy π To come to an insight like this, I will consciously lower it and bring myself into a prone to compulsion state. When I'm there, I pay attention to the patterns while simultaneously being dragged down further. Why do I do this? My passion goes there. I'm at a point where I no longer question this.
Of course, all of this is a heavy intellectualization of a rather simple phenomenon. The conditioning/pattern part is what makes it difficult.
Summed up: Go day by day.
π
- do the thing ONCE, TODAY -
some patterns go so deep
this one I discovered for the first time two years ago and only now I'm coming to grips with it
it goes like this:
I find out something, gain a new insight, a new sense of inspiration, knowledge, body or mind feedback, ...
THEN
the need/compulsion arises to PLAN it out into a SYSTEM for weeks, months, years to come (not in reality but intention-wise)
which is f*cked up
I (begin to) realize that this is actually a signal to do the damn thing ONCE, TODAY
so DUMB π€£
I CAN'T
also, the plans I would come up with would always "fail" since I always planned at the theoretical optimum and therefore always failed eventually and STOPPED ENTIRELY
I will no longer allow this non-sense
I fix it, TODAY
- do the thing ONCE, TODAY -
There is no one coming to do it for you. That also means, there is no one coming to stop you. The full burden of responsibility is on you but therefore also the power. Stop doubting yourself and you will succeed.
Comfortable in this scenario is pretty hardcore despite the common meaning of the word. Being effortlessly comfortable in the face of fear, doubt and suffering is the end result of dedicated practice. It's also instant at any given moment.