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Project Mastermind- Are you in? 2
#18470677 - 06/25/13 04:35 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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What is Project Mastermind?

The goal of project mastermind is to catapult human performance from its current level to a much higher level within a short period of time. The timeframe of project mastermind is four months. By following the program for four months, one will achieve happiness, excellent physical, mental and emotional health, greatly improved intelligence and cognitive function, excellent dream recall and frequent lucid dreams, better strength, balance, flexibility, endurance and coordination, inner peace and enlightenment.
The project has the following platforms
1. Diet 2. Supplements 3. Yoga 4. Meditation 5. Brain training exercises 6. Nootropic Drugs 7. Things to avoid 8. Dreaming 9. Psychedelics
I will now elaborate on each platform:
1. Diet:
The mastermind diet is based on first eliminating refined sugars. Candy, donuts, icecream, cake- all these kinds of things are absolutely out.
Next, eliminates heavily processed foods with many additives such as preservatives. Pizza pops, frozen instant meals, potato chips- all that kind of heavily manufactured unnatural food is out.
Third, the diet aims to heavily limit carbohydrate intake. For the most part pasta, bread, and white rice are all out. The diet is basically no wheat, no refined simple carbohydrates. Only a small amount of complex high fiber all natural carbohydrates will be eaten, specifically oatmeal.
Fourth, the diet is very high in fresh , uncooked fruits and vegetables. A wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables will be eaten every day, raw.
Fifth, the diet Is very high in protein. However, only specific forms of protein are eaten. The diet emphasizes elk, bison, turkey and freshwater fish for protein. Ocean fish such as sardines and anchovies may be eaten (but not tuna or salmon). Beef, chicken and pork will not be eaten.
The diet will emphasize superfoods. The following superfoods will be eaten daily: Spinach, broccoli, raw garlic, raw cacao, hemp oil, coconut oil, olive oil, spirullina, white tea, kombucha, chlorella, apple cider vinegar, raw miso, vega all in one and vega protein.
2. Supplements:
The following supplements will be taken daily : Vitamin C, B vitamin complex, Norwegian kelp, milk thistle, N acetyl L Cysteine, Reishi mushroom, Chagga mushroom, cordyceps mushroom, Fish oil, Coenzyme Q10, S adenosyl Methionine (SAMe), melatonin, creatine and vitamin D. These are not necessarily taken all at once, but five or six of these will be taken at a time, then cycle to a different set for a while.
3. Yoga will be practiced for between one hour and ninety minutes a day. For the most part this will be Moksha style hot yoga, but various other forms of yoga will occasionally be included. The yoga will be done shortly after waking up, before work and the other duties of the day. The yoga will be under professional instruction as part of a class.
4. Meditation will be practiced for between one and two hours a day. Three styles of meditation will be used in alternation. In all three forms of meditation, begin by assuming lotus posture.

The first style of meditation is the one used and taught by the Buddha himself when he gained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. In this style one focuses the attention on the nostril openings, then inhales and exhales while keeping the attention locked on the inflow and outflow of the breath, thinking to oneself “I am breathing in… I am breathing out”. The eyes should be closed.
In this style the hands rest in the lap, one on top of the other, with the thumbs touching evenly. This is an essentially Buddhist meditation.
In the second style of meditation one chants or sings out loud the Mahamantra or supreme mantra, which is “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Kirshna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”. Ideally this should be chanted 108 times, while counting on a Hindu rosary called a mala, which has 108 beads (occasionally with a 109th master bead that is not counted). For this meditation the hands rest on the knees, palms up, tip of the pointer finger touching the tip of the thumb.
For this hare Krishna meditation, one can stand and dance if one prefers, or one can play the bongo drum while one is chanting. One can chant together with a group or alone. One may wish to play a youtube video or music track of other people chanting the mantra and chant along with them. You can be very loud or just loud enough to hear yourself. The eyes may be open or closed.
This is an essentially Hindu meditation.
The third and final style of meditation that will be used in project mastermind is simply chanting the mantra OM. One takes a deep, full breathe, then chants a long, drawn out vibrating OM until the air is completely gone from the lungs. Then another long, full inhale and repeat. The mantra should be chanted 108 times while counting on a Mala and sitting in lotus position with eyes closed or half closed.
This meditation is shared equally by Hindus and Buddhists. All three styles will be practiced, for a minimum of a half an hour each. You could do all three for half an hour, or you could do two for an hour each, then switch the next day. Any combination is acceptable as long as all three are used and at least 90 minutes (aiming for two hours) of meditation occurs each day.
5. Brain Training Exercises:
Brain training exercises are specifically designed cognitive tasks based on the principles of neuroscience that help rewire the brain in order to improve various factors of cognitive performance, including concentration, memory, problem solving, mental math, response time, etc. A good example of these are the lumosity brain training games available online or on an Iphone. Use these games or others like them for one hour a day, in order to improve the strength, resilience and capabilities of the brain.
6. Nootropic Drugs:
Nootropic drugs are substances that can improve various capacities of the brain. They can prevent or undo brain damage caused by drug use, alcohol, physical trauma or oxygen deprivation. They can also prevent alzheimers, raise overall intelligence, and improve concentration, memory, problem solving, response time and other elements of intelligence. Two nootropic drugs will be used. First, Noopept will be taken three times a day at recommended dosages for 2 months. Then Piracetam will be used for the next two months, then switch back. Noopept and piracetam will be cycled in this way, so that one takes first one, then the other, then repeats.
7. Things to avoid:
Alcohol is neurotoxic and kills brain cells. Harmful to the heart and liver and is carcinogenic. Therefore no alcohol will be consumed. Methamphetamine, cocaine, crack, amphetamines, heroin- all pose unacceptable risks and cause damage to the heart, brain and body. Therefore no such “hard drugs” will be consumed. Caffeine will be consumed only in the form of green or white tea or the occasional small coffee. No energy drinks or caffeine pills will be consumed due to the cardiac risk and agitation involved.
Candy, sugar, chocolate bar, breakfast cereal, cakes, chips, fast food, and junk food of any kind will not be consumed. No pork or beef will be consumed.
Cigarettes and nicotine will not be consumed due to the high addiction risk and multiple serious health risks. Also avoid negative mental influences such as mainstream news, stupid mind-numbing television (the Ricki Lake show, etc), violent slasher torture movies (hostel, etc), and degrading, violent sexual pornography. As much as possible, monitor your thoughts and steer your mind away from unwholesome thoughts such as thoughts of violence, rape, murder, torture, greed, etc. Also avoid MSG, aspartame, soda pop etc. Marijuana may be used but only as edibles or with a vaporizer.
8. Dreaming:
A notebook and pen will be kept beside the bed and all dreams that can be recalled will be written down in maximum detail first thing upon awakening each morning, or if one awakens during the night. Each entry is to be carefully dated with day month and year. Later in the day the dream is to be read over and one is to spend a few minutes reflection on what meaning it may have to them. If no meaning is apparent that is fine, if some meaning suggests itself write it down. This practice will develop excellent dream recall until multiple dreams are remembered each night.
Once dream recall is mastered, lucid dream training begins. This involves three simple training exercises.
The first is the “reality check”. This means regularly checking to see if you are asleep while awake and attempting a specific test. The tests I use are sticking a finger through the palm of my hand or flying. In dreams I can do both of those things, awake I cannot. So multiple times a day when awake I will ask myself “am I dreaming” and then attempt to stick my finger through my hand. Eventually this will become a habit (try to do it every hour, ideally set a watch to beep every hour to remind you). In time you will do your check and find that you ARE dreaming. You are now lucid.
The second lucid dream induction method is the interrupted sleep technique. In this technique when you wake up in the morning get out of bed, walk around your house, have a glass of water, wait about 3-5 minutes awake, then return to sleep. The interrupted sleep technique will induce lucid dreams in the majority of people after a time.
The third lucid dream technique is to focus on achieving a lucid dream as you fall asleep. As you lay in bed falling asleep, focus your mind on the intention “tonight I will have a lucid dream. I will be aware that I am dreaming. When I fall asleep, I will have a lucid dream. I will realize when I am dreaming”. Continue to think thoughts like this until you fall asleep. Set the intention.
Combining the daily dream journal with these three lucid dream induction techniques will lead to perfect dream recall and regular lucid dreams. Once that state has been achieved there are other high level dream training disciplines to do some truly extraordinary things, but those are too advanced for this description.
9. Psychedelics At the end of each successful month of the program, having followed the diet, yoga and meditation program, and having abstained from all the things listed as unacceptable, one may choose to smoke a single dose of DMT, after ritual preparation including meditation, in order to connect to the multi-dimensionality of being and commune with the entities of hyperspace. This is optional. If available, an Ayahuasca ceremony under the guidance of a shaman should be participated in.

Summary: Project Mastermind is a full-spectrum strategy for achieving optimum human performance within a condensed four month time frame. It is an intense program requiring significant alterations to many aspects of lifestyle. Many things must be avoided altogether, many other things must be sought out and ingested regularly, and multiple hours must be dedicated each day to yoga and meditation. Other forms of exercise such as running, weightlifting and martial arts are highly encouraged but are not part of the core program and are considered beneficial extras to be added in whenever possible.
The benefits of following project Mastermind are as follows: Inner peace, reduced stress, increased mental and physical performance, better strength, balance, flexibility, coordination, improved mental, physical and emotional health, happiness, spiritual growth, improved intelligence, concentration, memory, problem solving, and improved cognitive performance, better dream recall and the ability to have regular lucid dreams. It will also ultimately lead to enlightenment, satori and nirvana- spiritual awakening and liberation. Project mastermind will also lead to enhanced longevity and a greater likelihood of a longer lifespan. It will lead to the realization of your own multi-dimensionality, and you will become a shaman, able to enter other realities at will and commune with the beings that inhabit them. Finally you will achieve peace, joy, bliss, resilience and equanimity in the face of hardship.
I have outlined the details of project Mastermind here for my own reference, as I am now beginning this process myself. Today is the first day of my four month process, and I wanted to post this here so that anyone who wants to can adopt it in whole or in part for their own use. Note that although this is a four month program, it can and should be practiced indefinitely for the rest of ones life.
Namaste.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe] 1
#18470690 - 06/25/13 04:37 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Shit im in i already do all those things anyway
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Mushroom94] 1
#18473801 - 06/26/13 08:49 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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I did the very same thing for two-three months. Well, very much along the same lines, I recognise a lot of the supplements.
At the time I was working very few hours and working just to eat and meditate, and meditate I did.
I would say that the best benefits from meditation can be reached by sitting in meditation for a very long continuous period of time and actively peering deeper into the meditation until you reach Samadhi at which point you dive into absorption and turn your awareness onto itself even more so than it already was (this will make a lot more sense if you do it and see what I mean).
You can learn some incredible things in this state. I have some powerful psychedelic insights that will stay with me forever and have infused into who I am now so I am not even capable of forgetting them.
Sitting down (or standing or moving, whatever!) for a long uninterrupted time is what produces the most transformative changes to your inner experience IME. And these changes, they can be things like learning where a long dormant stress resides in your body and releasing it, or finally seeing the reason for a particular addiction and eradicating its root.
Or my favourite, there is this little channel of energy flow somewhere near the soft fleshy bit of the roof of your mouth, your inner nasal passages and the brain-stem itself and the core low-level part of the brain around it. If you pay close attention you will notice that your thoughts originate from this point. So by spending a long time actively controlling the flow of this circuit and watching how each time it fires a spark a new thought is generated, you begin to *learn* how to switch off the thought-generator at its root, just as you learn to walk.
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The first style of meditation is the one used and taught by the Buddha himself when he gained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. In this style one focuses the attention on the nostril openings, then inhales and exhales while keeping the attention locked on the inflow and outflow of the breath, thinking to oneself “I am breathing in… I am breathing out”. The eyes should be closed.
In this style the hands rest in the lap, one on top of the other, with the thumbs touching evenly. This is an essentially Buddhist meditation.
This is actually exactly how I came to that point of awareness myself. The flow of air through the upper/inner nasal passages corresponds to a flow of blood/life-energy through the brain-stem. Careful modulation of the breath focusing on the points where in becomes out and out becomes in, will lead to a distinct cultivation of control of the origin of thought. Without breath, there is no thought.
The position comes naturally... this is my default meditation posture. When you silence the body by making it 100% comfortable, you also silence the prime reason any thoughts originate. With a comfortable body you are fighting a smaller army of impulses that arise!
Then with that switch turned off, you become less like a cup holding water and much more like a canyon through which a river of life runs, like everything comes in to your body and goes straight through instantly, your mind acknowledges it all but does not hold onto anything because it is immediately fixated on the ever flowing stream.
This marks the beginning of meditative CONCENTRATION. Now you can use your brain to sharply focus on a single object at a time, which works wonders for all sorts of life activities that demand perfect concentration. The key point is that by this time, your mind is now impervious to distractions. You are now the master of the horse, the horse has been tamed. Now it will not jump and thrash wildly in directions, it will calmly look towards wherever you point it and take heed instantly.
I would very strongly recommend full celibacy (Brahmacharya) for anyone wishing to undergo such a cocoon-like transformative experience. When you release sexual energy you lose a massive amount of meditative concentration power. You lose the "oomph" or inner fury that actually POWERS concentration in the first place. Without this oomph, you will not be really looking properly at objects, your eyes shall go in such a direction but they will not truly see. Your mind will be hazy (prolactin is a dopamine antagonist AFAIK and dopamine => wakefulness), and haze is the opposite of concentration. I noted that I only really entered Samadhi after building up sexual energy for a few weeks. Though however AFAIK this is only required to help enter the state. When you are aware of how to enter, then releasing will not quite stop you from entering but it will still make it much harder.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: crkhd] 1
#18473883 - 06/26/13 09:17 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow, thank you for that inspiring and educational post!
I do not think I can go full celibacy , as I am Married and it would not be fair to my wife.
However, I will resolve not to masturbate, which will reduce the frequency of my orgasms substantially.
You have strengthened my resolve ! I will also try to meditate for prolonged periods (longer than 2 hours) when possible.
Thank you!
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe] 1
#18473887 - 06/26/13 09:19 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been doing something similar for almost 40 years now. I do fall off the wagon occasionally. But at 60 I have the body and skin of a 40 year old and I haven't been to a doctor in many years and i have enough energy to be really active all day, day in and out. I'm also a mental giant. 
I'm not enlightened however and most everyone on this forum disagrees with my pov.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe] 1
#18474594 - 06/26/13 01:01 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Wow, thank you for that inspiring and educational post!
I do not think I can go full celibacy , as I am Married and it would not be fair to my wife.
However, I will resolve not to masturbate, which will reduce the frequency of my orgasms substantially.
You have strengthened my resolve ! I will also try to meditate for prolonged periods (longer than 2 hours) when possible.
Thank you!
The world of Tantra beckons... celibacy does not mean you stop sexual relations with your wife! That's the best thing about the nature of the body. Total union of the male and female is as far even as used want to go do look more like.
-------------------- "Everything there is, and all that there is, is a Pattern of unspeakable proportion. The Pattern contains everything that is, completely fixed in succession, all the minimal particles interconnected in every way that is. Every way that is is not every conceivable way, because not everything that can be conceived is manifest in the pattern." "THE Human, you, is a miniscule but essential part of that pattern. In it lies complete fulfillment. It will never become something it is not, but it will never need to be anything else." - Wiccan_Seeker "If boring drudgery was the way of the universe, everything would have killed itself long ago." - Spacerific
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: crkhd] 1
#18474682 - 06/26/13 01:27 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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crkhd said: The world of Tantra beckons... celibacy does not mean you stop sexual relations with your wife! That's the best thing about the nature of the body. Total union of the male and female is as far even as used want to go do look more like.
If the goal of tantra is incoherence, you can save yourself the effort and inhale some glue like the other 4chan users
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe] 1
#18474808 - 06/26/13 02:00 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice post. A small quibble re: your prohibitions as far as alcohol and other "hard" drugs, though: Personally, I've grown the most spiritually whenever I've followed the road of excess rather than that of moderation. Life shouldn't be about timidly adhering to some illusory ideal of safety out of death anxiety or some similar fear--instead it's only been by accepting the fact of my inevitable mortality that I've been able to truly experience all that life has had to offer.
After all, the most extreme stresses produce the most durable metals: I'll take the highest highs of euphoric bliss AND the lowest lows of intense agony over the mundane mediocrity of myopic moderation. 
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokeable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. -Mark Twain
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: deCypher] 1
#18474941 - 06/26/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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After all, the most extreme stresses produce the most durable metals: I'll take the highest highs of euphoric bliss AND the lowest lows of intense agony over the mundane mediocrity of myopic moderation. 
Do you think if you saw a psychiatrist that you'd be diagnosed as bipolar?
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: deCypher] 1
#18475232 - 06/26/13 03:39 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well said. Maybe ill compromise and allow alcohol in moderation.
Edit: I am sticking to the strict no alcohol in accordance with the fifth precept of Buddhism.
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#18475243 - 06/26/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Well said. Maybe ill compromise and allow alcohol in moderation.
It's only 4 months IMO.... You created the terms of this experiment, and now you're back peddling on actually performing it. Was your original idea to never use alcohol again?
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: Moonshoe] 2
#18475353 - 06/26/13 04:08 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Well said. Maybe ill compromise and allow alcohol in moderation.
What about Heroin then? In moderation of course.
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#18475591 - 06/26/13 05:08 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Posting to save this as a guideline. The cost of supplements and food would be taxing.
OP please keep updating as you take this on, let us know about the good days and the difficulties you run into.
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Cutting processed foods out of your diet is not going to be expensive. Your diet may not be as optimum as the OP's diet, but you can do it.
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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Re: Project Mastermind- Are you in? [Re: CosmicJoke] 1
#18475664 - 06/26/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been meaning to stop eating potato chips, but I just had some... ugh, the tasty temptation. 
I find the best way to cut out a food is to just not have it around me. Eventually, you can say no to it in public and you'll have the social support of friends to help you, but in private is a different story. If it's easily accessible is usually my downfall.
I like the idea of the OP, but some of it seems too exclusive. For instance, I practice yoga daily, but I don't have the opportunity to practice in a class because I live in a small town that doesn't offer classes. I also don't see why nootropics are valued over other substances.
But I do like the idea of the OP, there are many ideas I've been trying to incorporate into my daily/weekly ritual. I may just modify the rules to meet my specific abilities.
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Beside the Garden said: Posting to save this as a guideline. The cost of supplements and food would be taxing.
OP please keep updating as you take this on, let us know about the good days and the difficulties you run into.
The supplements are completely unnecessary. I speak as a supplement salesman for over 20 years. Eat lite, eat colorful unprocessed food and you are good to go.
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#18475732 - 06/26/13 05:42 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, we all have different sets of stimulus conditions, here in Portland we have nearly endless opportunities to practice whatever variety of yoga you can think of. But there are literally three places I could access 24/7 by throwing some flip flops on and walking for less than a minute to get Ben and Jerry's ice cream. I basically live immersed in public, amazing food is always within my reach as a temptation.
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
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#18475767 - 06/26/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Same here. I have the best food store I've ever been in within a five minute walk from my house.
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#18475849 - 06/26/13 06:09 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Im sure. I have very little processed food as it is, the expensive part comes from all the raw food, 3,000+ calories seams difficult to maintain. Maybe i will start a recipe thread.
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The supplements are completely unnecessary. I speak as a supplement salesman for over 20 years. Eat lite, eat colorful unprocessed food and you are good to go.
Agreed food is medicine, but his post was to optimism in 4 months so that's where the supplements come into play. I don't know if they would be advantageous or not. I've been taking a multivitamin and 3 fish oils every day for 7 months now and have noticed a difference over time.
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#18476103 - 06/26/13 07:03 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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CosmicJoke said: Well, we all have different sets of stimulus conditions,
Definitely true. I think identifying which conditions work best & which are triggers for undesirable behavior is the key to success.
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here in Portland we have nearly endless opportunities to practice whatever variety of yoga you can think of. But there are literally three places I could access 24/7 by throwing some flip flops on and walking for less than a minute to get Ben and Jerry's ice cream. I basically live immersed in public, amazing food is always within my reach as a temptation.
That sounds awesome, and I could deal with that (I'm actually getting sick of being so isolated). It's when I invite the potato chips into my house that they turn into vampire energies.
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