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Pinkerton
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Living healthy!
#27024274 - 11/06/20 01:50 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Basically I've started exercising regularly, eating healthy, go to bed early and wake up early - normal sleep cycles, started deep breathing, on the path to quit nicotine, stopped biting my nails et.al.
Pro-tip: I've been exercising my abs quite a lot lately and it certainly works wonders on my breahting, my breath is much cleaner and I can breathe deeper without feeling like there's a blockage in my belly. Shout-out to Ferdinando, if you're not doing this already it may help with your meditation. 
This might fit better in the well being-forums but the psychology-part comes in where I want to say all of this seems to help on my depression. So if you struggle with depression, make an honest attempt at living healthy and do it for as long as you possibly can. I'm not saying it will cure your depression but it might alleviate the struggles.
Stop abusing your body and mind; live healthy! 
Peace!  
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I'm climbing stairs. 200 risers/day. It's more like a goat path that I fabricated out of concrete blocks to access the bit of flat land for a garden on the bank of a creek. And I'm carrying 50lb loads/300lb/day of mulch down that I'm harvesting from a disused bridge that became awash with debris 4 years ago in the flood on the route where I walk my dog. And I quit coffee and sodas again and trying to restrict the alcohol to once or twice a month. Did you hear? I'm starting a commune in the Dominican Republic but the title is proving difficult; the lawyers being more costly than they are here. I imagine I'll have to go there myself and read them the parable of the vineyard. (LOL)
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sudly
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Can you recall what went through your mind the minute before you jumped in to activity?
We're you planning in 10 minutes before? Or thinking about it throughout the day?
I'm interested how you went from concept to feet hitting the ground.
And how it is when you're in the grocery isles choosing things that don't gave sugar, what you tell yourself when you see the bag of lollies you like. Or do you not feel like you like them?
I stopped biting my nails by using my teeth to clean our underneath them. And when they grow too long I use flippers. I used to bite them all the time but just 'cleaning my nails with my teeth' tended to stop me from biting them over time.
With exercise I've done it with a gym partner and I think it was a lot to do with not disappointing my gym partner rather than entirely doing it for myself.
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Pinkerton
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Re: Living healthy! [Re: sudly]
#27024925 - 11/06/20 12:09 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Can you recall what went through your mind the minute before you jumped in to activity?
It was certainly more of a hassle before my mood was uplifted but I'm often worried of evil intrusive thoughts and if I feel symptoms of them I wait to exercise. And in regards to the exercising I feel an urge to do it moments before doing it. As for the other activites I feel productive one minute before doing it.
We're you planning in 10 minutes before? Or thinking about it throughout the day?
In regards to the exercising I do it every day but at different times per day, I guess it takes me around 1 minute to get the urge and fully commit.
I'm interested how you went from concept to feet hitting the ground.
I think I've been on the right path for 10 years but never fully commit until 2 - 3 months ago. I guess most of us foresee a better more healthy living when tripping but we rarely commit. It was around 10 years ago I began tripping so I think tripping motivated me.
And how it is when you're in the grocery isles choosing things that don't gave sugar, what you tell yourself when you see the bag of lollies you like. Or do you not feel like you like them?
Well, I can eat some jelly or chocolate pudding with vanilla sauce but yesterday I bought dark chocolate (86% cocoa I think) - it tastes delicious, I will stop consuming the jelly, chocolate pudding and vanilla sauce and only consume dark chocolate once I run out of jelly, chocolate pudding and vanilla sauce. Actually dark chocolate is one of the healthiest foods you can eat, it is one of the best sources of antioxidants on the planet.
I don't really have a problem consuming too much sugary foods so it's of no concern to me but I want just a little of it in my daily life and so the dark chocolate seems like a good deal. 
Today I ate two apples, three carrots, one orrange and 5 crispbreads with lots of fiber in it. Drank lots of water throughout the day. I will eat some jelly or chocolate pudding with vanilla sauce later on. Today I skipped eating dinner to clean the system a little.
I stopped biting my nails by using my teeth to clean our underneath them. And when they grow too long I use flippers. I used to bite them all the time but just 'cleaning my nails with my teeth' tended to stop me from biting them over time.
Are you sure cleaning your nails with your teeth isn't bad for your teeth? From a quick google search I found this site:
https://www.puissegurfamilydentistry.com/dental-blog/nail-biting-oral-health/
With exercise I've done it with a gym partner and I think it was a lot to do with not disappointing my gym partner rather than entirely doing it for myself.
Why have you not started exercising regularly?
It will greatly benefit your mental health and obviously your physique. You will thank your efforts put into the exercising when you get older if you're around 30 or 40 now. I.e. less injuries, it may prolong your life with many years if you exercise the right way.
I bought myself a workout mat, not the yoga one but much thicker. Now I do all different positions for legs and abs, I do 20 - 25 minute sessions. I also have rubber bands for arms and shoulders around 20 minutes per session. A workout mat and rubber bands is all you really need. Search on youtube for ways to use a workout mat and rubber bands if you feel for it.
If I were you I wouldn't hesitate starting to exercise, evolution tells us we're ment to be physically active. Walking for an hour a day is good but not enough IMO. I think we need to sweat a little and feel physically exhausted but not to a great extent. 
Heck, just do it man. Nike is right.
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Pinkerton
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Today was the first day I folded my clothes relatively nicely and put them in the closet for a very long time, many years I reckon. I'm not laying in my bed 22 hours/day anymore, nuh-uh, now I'm sitting in my living room. Big steps for humaneity.
And Makoto's label "Human Elements" released a new track which is magIQ.
Mirai - "If This is it":
https://humanelements.bandcamp.com/album/you-bring-me-joy-if-this-is-it
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I'm starting a commune in the Dominican Republic but the title is proving difficult.
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Buster_Brown
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Quote:
NipFantasy said: I'm starting a commune in the Dominican Republic but the title is proving difficult.
Time being the essence is not a difficulty.
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sudly
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I guess it takes me around 1 minute to get the urge and fully commit
Oh how a simple line means everything.
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Buster_Brown
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NipFantasy said: I'm starting a commune in the Dominican Republic but the title is proving difficult.
For your amusement:
T'im-e being of the essence is not a difficulty.
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Quote:
Pinkerton said:
This might fit better in the well being-forums but the psychology-part comes in where I want to say all of this seems to help on my depression. So if you struggle with depression, make an honest attempt at living healthy and do it for as long as you possibly can. I'm not saying it will cure your depression but it might alleviate the struggles.
It's become popular to advocate various behaviors (such as exercise, healthy eating, and taking up new hobbies), as a way to avoid engaging in depressing. I think we need to get to the root of our motivation to depress (and to understand what it's doing for us), before we can truly choose to not engage in it.
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Loaded Shaman
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RJ Tubs 202 said:
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Pinkerton said:
This might fit better in the well being-forums but the psychology-part comes in where I want to say all of this seems to help on my depression. So if you struggle with depression, make an honest attempt at living healthy and do it for as long as you possibly can. I'm not saying it will cure your depression but it might alleviate the struggles.
It's become popular to advocate various behaviors (such as exercise, healthy eating, and taking up new hobbies), as a way to avoid engaging in depressing. I think we need to get to the root of our motivation to depress (and to understand what it's doing for us), before we can truly choose to not engage in it.
100% agree.
It's also a lot easier to face your own issues when you have good hormones and endorphins backing you up. Clarity of thinking is easier if you're in better shape and eat real food as well. That's not a conspiracy or placebo effect, your body does good things naturally when you treat it good and run it clean like the biological Lamborghini it truly is.
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depressing one's self can be a self sacrificing method to invoke efforts from one's community or family to pitch in better to prevent self harm such as depressing one's self.
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sudly
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What if you live on your own and don't have family dinners and didn't even when you lived with your parent?
Family to me is a distant concept, a father who followed his cult like brother, and a mother, friendly and caring, yet letting loose on the leash eventually.
A good upbringing, but a decidedly lonely one.
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Re: Living healthy! [Re: sudly]
#27036720 - 11/13/20 09:44 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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anti-destroy
anti-destroy others
everyone
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sudly
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Well that's some pretty basic shenanigans..
But yes.
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Re: Living healthy! [Re: Pinkerton] 1
#27037228 - 11/13/20 02:53 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm glad you shared this here and not in physical & mental wellbeing, OP. It's a simple message that we've all heard a lot, but it's true and can at times, for some people, be more beneficial than most of the discussions we have here.
I can't ever seem to get the routine down - there's something in me that likes depressing and/or self-sabotaging. Part of me is on autopilot flying towards darkness and entropy and I can't bring the rest of myself to bring it under control.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Living healthy! [Re: Lion]
#27037913 - 11/13/20 11:16 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Twas never in your control. The “You” you speak of plays the part of a magical illusion for the illusion of enlightenment, that is all. No attainment of it , nothing to attain. You’re perfectly all right just now.
Grander things are happening beyond our feeble small minds. Let’s just do our best to each live healthily and be role models to others - making earth a sanctum of sorts.
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Re: Living healthy! [Re: Lion]
#27038143 - 11/14/20 03:04 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lion said:
. . . there's something in me that likes depressing and/or self-sabotaging.
Amen - I hear you Lion!
There are always motivations for our cognitive behavior.
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Pinkerton
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Re: Living healthy! [Re: Lion]
#27038338 - 11/14/20 07:38 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lion said: I'm glad you shared this here and not in physical & mental wellbeing, OP. It's a simple message that we've all heard a lot, but it's true and can at times, for some people, be more beneficial than most of the discussions we have here.
I can't ever seem to get the routine down - there's something in me that likes depressing and/or self-sabotaging. Part of me is on autopilot flying towards darkness and entropy and I can't bring the rest of myself to bring it under control.
Hey, it's my pleasure.
Just do it, brother! You will thank yourself for the effort you put in. The delight of sweating after a 25 min long session and then taking an ice cold shower right after and then drinking water and eating healthy is priceless. It's sort of a high IME. Feeling fresh and productive which results in confidence.
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