Diploid said:

Garlic mashed malanga (a sorta Cuban potato), brown rice, steamed asparagus, and stir fried tofu with peas, julian carrots, onions, garlic, and shallots... all topped with fresh cilantro.

You and your other half are a bad influence on me.

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Good work my boy. Now comes the raw food diet.

cavemate_A said:

When sensing the stress coming on, how do you diffuse it?

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Deeper, slower, more conscious breathing. I'll start to move in ways that really flex and stretch my back around in a slow manner. I think stress effects your physical body as well - a lot of tensions in muscles and perhaps in one's back. Stretching and breathing with mindfulness takes it leap and bounds.

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A goal of my life is to have all my primal/mental needs satisfied consistently. Looking at Maslow's heirarchy of needs, I want all those needs fulfulled on a daily basis.

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In that state I would be unable to experience stress. So I guess the question is - how to manifest my thoughts in order to create an enviroment where stress is unable to be experienced.

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I think the question is how to resolve the mental causes of stress instead of finding a path (one that I think is doomed, by the way) by which one would consistently have one's sense of need fufilled. You're only setting yourself up for more stress when reality rolls by its own accord and pulls you out on a rip-tide that you cannot struggle with. That struggle might be stress. Being mindful and aware would be going with the flow and using one's relaxed, purposeful manner of interaction with the flow to direct one towards the tropical island on the horizon.