CRAIBaby is back: HSNL, Mindtraining & Self-Optimization
04-22-2019
, 12:05 PM
04-24-2019
, 03:40 AM
Ah, the internet. How far we haven't come...
The mask argument is
because I haven't even mentioned anything like that at all.
The ad hominem is even weaker. I repeat once again: just take what has value to you and toss out the rest. Why care who said it and how they said it? It either makes sense or it doesn't. This is the internet, not some niceness contest where I have to please you; unless I somehow messed up the URL and ended in some pussy version of what looks like 2p2.
Peace and mucho love
CRAI
ps: there is no one behind the mask, nor is there a mask.
The mask argument is
because I haven't even mentioned anything like that at all. The ad hominem is even weaker. I repeat once again: just take what has value to you and toss out the rest. Why care who said it and how they said it? It either makes sense or it doesn't. This is the internet, not some niceness contest where I have to please you; unless I somehow messed up the URL and ended in some pussy version of what looks like 2p2.
Peace and mucho love
CRAI
ps: there is no one behind the mask, nor is there a mask.
Last edited by CRAIBaby; 04-24-2019 at 03:46 AM.
05-03-2019
, 09:58 AM
First of all, thanks for your previous reply, much appreciated!
Also reading already your recommended book and it seems pretty methodological which gives me some hope that the content might indeed work xD
I want to quote this post, since as interesting it is, it also creates questions.
First of all, the hypothesis is that self-actualization is only realistically (for most) achievable when you have basically
mastered /booked(to an enough satisfying degree) the previous stages of the pyramide of needs and that without selfactualization,
transcending or "waking up" (you also did mean waking up?) is not for most , realistically possible, right?
If so, then is it true, that for some people "waking up" will be never possible?
Examples might be, that one is born into poverty without any realistic chance to escape it (1st stage already - physiological needs).
Another one might be, that one has an accident which lets his face being extremely deformed - such an individual might have trouble with stage 3 and 4.
Especially with stage 4 within the standard pyramide of maslow where afaik stage 4 is Self-esteem and has the side aspects recognition, validation, respect, etc...
Maybe such a person would also never be able to book the stage "aestethic needs" or what is meant with this stage?
There are likely many other examples, you could imagine where an individual simply cannot book all underlying stages which do come before and hence which are mandatory for the stage self-actualization which in itself is the condition for having a realistic chance for enlightenment.
Hence many individuals just will not be able to "succeed" on this path?
@Poker
How can I imagine you, when you are in a long downswing?
I mean, to be honest, I simply have major difficulties in buying it that there is no suffering at all.
I have grinded myself for a living, for almost an entire decade.
Have worked with several pokermindset-coaches together, and what not.
But the suffering which poker provides in terms of its many tilt-forms have never gone away.
And I think that this is just perfectly normal, since certain situation in poker do activate certain biochemistrical reactions which do lead to suffer.
And this is true for every human brain.
So imo, even your brain should release lots of stress-hormones when you face a congnitive-difficult situation, where you need to decide finally for an action, although you do not 100% know the right solution to the spot yet (unless realtimesolver is on xD) and the outcome will be resultsorioned negative within aa time, where you already run like sh it for the last 50k hands.
I mean, your brain cannot be so different from ours and should also treat you in such situations with a biochemistrical cocktail of various stress-hormones?
Hehe, by all respect, I simply cannot imagine (my phantasy is not large enough) that you now (after your comeback) are able to experience all this sideeffects of poker 100% without any suffering.
Would be interesting to install a hidden camera in the room you have your grindstation and see how it is xD
As said,
my imagination just is not enough to believe it, especially combined with my knowledge about how human brains are working in regard to this context.
Also reading already your recommended book and it seems pretty methodological which gives me some hope that the content might indeed work xD
Quote:
Since today is my day off, I decided I will make a little post on a topic of my choice. Perhaps this can be a regular thing. Eventually, I will probably get a website done where I can structure everything better.
Not so long ago, I was pondering why so many people are not interested in transcendence; especially when phrased in the "end of suffering" kind of way. Clearly, there is a lack of recognition of incentive.
Maslow's 8 level Hierarchy of Needs
I find this model remarkably accurate when looking back at my own development.
This also explains why some people are not interested in self-actualization at all; they simply have some other needs to take care of.
This pyramid can help you evaluate where you are in your own journey:
Which needs appear the most important to you at the moment? Work on those first.
How do you work on a need?
1. Evaluate your need in-depth. (Often we have needs that are based on belief-structures that are evidently flawed.)
2. Adapt your need.
3. Fulfill your need.
You can repeat this process multiple times.
As you clear up your deficiency needs, growth needs will naturally arise.
Ultimately all roads lead towards self-actualization, and finally, transcendence. Having a strongly developed self-actualization aspect will help a lot. This is the reason why there are laypeople who make rapid progress, while some monks never become enlightened; the latter never went through self-actualization and just got forced into having to transcend, while they still had all kinds of other issues they subconsciously needed to deal with. Same goes for spiritual seekers who never went through self-actualization; they often haven't developed the skillsets required for exponential growth.
One note that I would like to add is that "aesthetic needs" is entirely aesthetic. So, if one tries to look better in order to gain esteem, a feeling of belonging, or love (so, most cases), it is not an aesthetic need. One should work on these aspects first. There can be mixed needs though.
Not so long ago, I was pondering why so many people are not interested in transcendence; especially when phrased in the "end of suffering" kind of way. Clearly, there is a lack of recognition of incentive.
Maslow's 8 level Hierarchy of Needs
I find this model remarkably accurate when looking back at my own development.
This also explains why some people are not interested in self-actualization at all; they simply have some other needs to take care of.
This pyramid can help you evaluate where you are in your own journey:
Which needs appear the most important to you at the moment? Work on those first.
How do you work on a need?
1. Evaluate your need in-depth. (Often we have needs that are based on belief-structures that are evidently flawed.)
2. Adapt your need.
3. Fulfill your need.
You can repeat this process multiple times.
As you clear up your deficiency needs, growth needs will naturally arise.
Ultimately all roads lead towards self-actualization, and finally, transcendence. Having a strongly developed self-actualization aspect will help a lot. This is the reason why there are laypeople who make rapid progress, while some monks never become enlightened; the latter never went through self-actualization and just got forced into having to transcend, while they still had all kinds of other issues they subconsciously needed to deal with. Same goes for spiritual seekers who never went through self-actualization; they often haven't developed the skillsets required for exponential growth.
One note that I would like to add is that "aesthetic needs" is entirely aesthetic. So, if one tries to look better in order to gain esteem, a feeling of belonging, or love (so, most cases), it is not an aesthetic need. One should work on these aspects first. There can be mixed needs though.
First of all, the hypothesis is that self-actualization is only realistically (for most) achievable when you have basically
mastered /booked(to an enough satisfying degree) the previous stages of the pyramide of needs and that without selfactualization,
transcending or "waking up" (you also did mean waking up?) is not for most , realistically possible, right?
If so, then is it true, that for some people "waking up" will be never possible?
Examples might be, that one is born into poverty without any realistic chance to escape it (1st stage already - physiological needs).
Another one might be, that one has an accident which lets his face being extremely deformed - such an individual might have trouble with stage 3 and 4.
Especially with stage 4 within the standard pyramide of maslow where afaik stage 4 is Self-esteem and has the side aspects recognition, validation, respect, etc...
Maybe such a person would also never be able to book the stage "aestethic needs" or what is meant with this stage?
There are likely many other examples, you could imagine where an individual simply cannot book all underlying stages which do come before and hence which are mandatory for the stage self-actualization which in itself is the condition for having a realistic chance for enlightenment.
Hence many individuals just will not be able to "succeed" on this path?
@Poker
How can I imagine you, when you are in a long downswing?
I mean, to be honest, I simply have major difficulties in buying it that there is no suffering at all.
I have grinded myself for a living, for almost an entire decade.
Have worked with several pokermindset-coaches together, and what not.
But the suffering which poker provides in terms of its many tilt-forms have never gone away.
And I think that this is just perfectly normal, since certain situation in poker do activate certain biochemistrical reactions which do lead to suffer.
And this is true for every human brain.
So imo, even your brain should release lots of stress-hormones when you face a congnitive-difficult situation, where you need to decide finally for an action, although you do not 100% know the right solution to the spot yet (unless realtimesolver is on xD) and the outcome will be resultsorioned negative within aa time, where you already run like sh it for the last 50k hands.
I mean, your brain cannot be so different from ours and should also treat you in such situations with a biochemistrical cocktail of various stress-hormones?
Hehe, by all respect, I simply cannot imagine (my phantasy is not large enough) that you now (after your comeback) are able to experience all this sideeffects of poker 100% without any suffering.
Would be interesting to install a hidden camera in the room you have your grindstation and see how it is xD
As said,
my imagination just is not enough to believe it, especially combined with my knowledge about how human brains are working in regard to this context.
05-04-2019
, 01:32 PM
Quote:
With regards to the poker thing: it's not a mindset thing. Personal gain/loss is simply not processed anymore; these concepts don't actually have any ground in reality. When I lose a big pot or receive a 2-outer, that's not experienced as a personal loss. It's just the way it is and could never be otherwise. Anything that we experience as personal is entirely mentally constructed, and strictly speaking, delusional.
How is it trainable? Get to stage 10 of TMI.
Hopefully I will one day xD
Re meditation practice. I'd prefer doing 50 minutes straight. First thing in the morning after a cold shower to get you fully awake.
all right, sounds good to me.
Don't have any experience with caffeine but generally recommend getting off that.
Many practitioners seem to not mind it in regards to meditation, but when you recommend generally to get off it, due to health reasons, then to be honsest by researching you might fin that your current educational level on this aspect is simply false.
In short, if not crossing a daily dosage of about 400 mg/day (on average - it varies a bit on how much one weights, but not a lot), there is no risk as many people have thought in the past in regards to for instance cardiovascular context and in fact there are plenty of beneficial aspects for health, such as caffeine is rich in antioxidiantes, good for brain etc...
Aesthetic needs are things you want to do simply to express beauty, whatever that means to you. This could be learning the piano, poetry, art, etc.
ah, I think I got it. For me its programming/coding maybe and just general stuff.
Also I find beauty in lifting weights which is my choice of sport for many years now.
Interesting enough, when working out, I oftentimes get in some pretty good mindful moments (as i define it as noob, currently) which can easily compete with the moments within my meditation practices.
I have even a theory why this might be the case:
Blood moves from brain to the muscles you are working out -> less blood in brain -> maybe less cognitive activity -> less mind****/less thinking/ruminating and less "monkey mind" -> more mindfulness and more peace.
Chances are that my theory is just total bs xD
Don't worry too much about sitting the same amount of time everyday. The most important thing is that you do it every day (or close to). I'd recommend for beginners to move from 10 minutes everyday towards 30 minutes everyday. Then eventually you can move to 45, then 1 hour etc.
Yeah, I have started few months back indeed with 10 minutes.
Now I am on 5 days at 20 minutes and at weekends or days where I have no lectures at university at 45 minutes (mb will copy your 50 min^^).
Is there for you a daily cap in terms of how much time you want to spend for your daily meditation practice?
Maybe in regards to benefit(progress)/cost(time)-ratio?
Other than that, I also believe that doing it daily without any exception is very important in order to make it a habit - I do it also after my bathroom-routine post waking up.
Unfortunately Im a bad waking-up-guy and cold showering does the job for me, when my practice would have the length of 5 minutes, but not 20min+
So my wake-up drink is still my good coffee, which I honestly do not mind due to above posted aspects, but still was wondering if it is for serious practitioners legit or "allowed" - hope that John Yates will cover also in his book such noobish basic concerns for beginners.
I stated my opinions on psychedelic drugs on page 1.
Have read it and it cleared it up - thanks.
Hope that helps,
Wey
How is it trainable? Get to stage 10 of TMI.
Hopefully I will one day xD
Re meditation practice. I'd prefer doing 50 minutes straight. First thing in the morning after a cold shower to get you fully awake.
all right, sounds good to me.
Don't have any experience with caffeine but generally recommend getting off that.
Many practitioners seem to not mind it in regards to meditation, but when you recommend generally to get off it, due to health reasons, then to be honsest by researching you might fin that your current educational level on this aspect is simply false.
In short, if not crossing a daily dosage of about 400 mg/day (on average - it varies a bit on how much one weights, but not a lot), there is no risk as many people have thought in the past in regards to for instance cardiovascular context and in fact there are plenty of beneficial aspects for health, such as caffeine is rich in antioxidiantes, good for brain etc...
Aesthetic needs are things you want to do simply to express beauty, whatever that means to you. This could be learning the piano, poetry, art, etc.
ah, I think I got it. For me its programming/coding maybe and just general stuff.
Also I find beauty in lifting weights which is my choice of sport for many years now.
Interesting enough, when working out, I oftentimes get in some pretty good mindful moments (as i define it as noob, currently) which can easily compete with the moments within my meditation practices.
I have even a theory why this might be the case:
Blood moves from brain to the muscles you are working out -> less blood in brain -> maybe less cognitive activity -> less mind****/less thinking/ruminating and less "monkey mind" -> more mindfulness and more peace.
Chances are that my theory is just total bs xD
Don't worry too much about sitting the same amount of time everyday. The most important thing is that you do it every day (or close to). I'd recommend for beginners to move from 10 minutes everyday towards 30 minutes everyday. Then eventually you can move to 45, then 1 hour etc.
Yeah, I have started few months back indeed with 10 minutes.
Now I am on 5 days at 20 minutes and at weekends or days where I have no lectures at university at 45 minutes (mb will copy your 50 min^^).
Is there for you a daily cap in terms of how much time you want to spend for your daily meditation practice?
Maybe in regards to benefit(progress)/cost(time)-ratio?
Other than that, I also believe that doing it daily without any exception is very important in order to make it a habit - I do it also after my bathroom-routine post waking up.
Unfortunately Im a bad waking-up-guy and cold showering does the job for me, when my practice would have the length of 5 minutes, but not 20min+
So my wake-up drink is still my good coffee, which I honestly do not mind due to above posted aspects, but still was wondering if it is for serious practitioners legit or "allowed" - hope that John Yates will cover also in his book such noobish basic concerns for beginners.
I stated my opinions on psychedelic drugs on page 1.
Have read it and it cleared it up - thanks.
Hope that helps,
Wey
You ever use or have used earplugs for your meditation practice and/or have any thoughts on it?
Other than that, thanks for answering
05-06-2019
, 01:58 AM
Week 3
Life
Health & Exercise
- Prehab: injury spoofing the body
- Establish daily stretch and posture fixing routine
- Then, work towards setting up a workout & nutrition regime for muscle growth
Meditation
- Continue working towards stage 10 Samatha
- Continue investigating the subtlest signs of self-clinging in terms of illusoriness and unsatisfactoriness
- Maintain strong metacognitive awareness throughout the day, abide in agentlessness
- Study Abhidhamma
Random
- Clean up the apartment and discuss with gf what you both can do in order to keep it very clean all the time
- Optimize your schedule
- Read Essentialism
- Start setting up coaching business
Leisure
- Read Future of humanity
- Read Order of time
Taking my girlfriend out to onsen tomorrow followed by a bicycle ride around a little isle in the city. Looking forward.
Also, my meditation cushion for which I paid 70 USD shipping (!) is arriving today or tomorrow; looking forward to getting my butt imprint printed firmly into it.
Good luck this week everyone and take it easy
CRAI
Life
Health & Exercise
- Prehab: injury spoofing the body
- Establish daily stretch and posture fixing routine
- Then, work towards setting up a workout & nutrition regime for muscle growth
Meditation
- Continue working towards stage 10 Samatha
- Continue investigating the subtlest signs of self-clinging in terms of illusoriness and unsatisfactoriness
- Maintain strong metacognitive awareness throughout the day, abide in agentlessness
- Study Abhidhamma
Random
- Clean up the apartment and discuss with gf what you both can do in order to keep it very clean all the time
- Optimize your schedule
- Read Essentialism
- Start setting up coaching business
Leisure
- Read Future of humanity
- Read Order of time
Taking my girlfriend out to onsen tomorrow followed by a bicycle ride around a little isle in the city. Looking forward.
Also, my meditation cushion for which I paid 70 USD shipping (!) is arriving today or tomorrow; looking forward to getting my butt imprint printed firmly into it.
Good luck this week everyone and take it easy
CRAI
Last edited by CRAIBaby; 05-06-2019 at 02:13 AM.
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, 09:42 PM
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