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[–] CrustyBeaver52 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

In answer to your last question - I have accumulated this "theory" over the years from a variety of sources - I was "forced" into this lifestyle due to health concerns related to ageing. I have learned that the best way to be healthy, happy, and drug free, in my opinion, is to follow as natural an approach as is possible in our modern era. Not to say that that is easy. Since my health reacts strongly to certain toxins in the environment, I am suitably motivated to eat right, and I do go out of my way to avoid most of the chemistry found in our modern supermarkets.

Except for some aspirin here and there, I am able to live a normal life, drug free, with my health pretty much stabilized - which is a good place to be. I have found that deviating from this lifestyle, in my case, carries some pretty severe consequences, enough so that I usually return to the path pretty quickly.

Another note - concerning willpower and exercise - you'll know this but for the others here who may be reading along: So at first the exercise is a burden - you have to work at it and it is an uphill climb. After a while your body changes - the chemistry changes - and your "will" changes along with it - eventually such that you feel good by doing the workouts and you begin to "crave" the adrenaline and endorphins generated from it - and it is sitting still that makes you unhappy.

My point being is that so much of our current emotional state, our urges and desires - actually springs forth from our chemical state - that a lot of our "logic" feels logical because of our chemical state - that the subconscious is playing a much larger role in our mental state than we have the awareness to see.

That's my opinion - not sure if it is true, but I believe it.

So here is another Jedi mind trick - I do a lot of meditation, and this comes from there - Neural pathways.

The brain is like a kind of muscle - and it adapts to the heavy lifting requirements it encounters. It does this by forming neural pathways - literally electrical and chemical signals along neural pathways. These pathways, when used frequently, grow stronger. Pathways which are not used eventually shrink, atrophy, and die off. Over time, through this mechanism, the brain adapts to meet the challenges of it's environment - reprogramming itself as it goes along.

So, why not engage in active reprogramming - strengthen the all of the pathways associated with happiness, and avoid all of the pathways associated with sadness. This requires a deliberate approach - you have to intervene to deliberately choose to pursue activities and information that promote a happy and cheerful state of mind - and just keep doing that as much as possible.

Over time, the neural pathways associated with this emotional state will become the dominant and default emotional pathways in use by your brain. The pathways associated with the other emotions fade to the background - and are seldom used unless specifically triggered. Once your happiness pathways become the dominant ones, literally you are pretty much happy all of the time.

That's me.

I still have all of that violent killing emotional state associated with combat, etc. Deep and powerful anger - but it doesn't come out on it's own, I keep it under glass - it is not my default state. That stuff is more like, in case of emergency - break the glass, dominate and win. Then put it away again.

Choose happiness, practice deliberate happiness, and over time, that becomes your default emotional state - and the subconscious mind reinforces that state - healthy mind and body together as one. Just like that.

It's science. Another kind of martial art - emotional judo. You have to train to achieve it. It's worth it.

My life isn't perfect - far from it, but whose is? Mine is pretty damned good the way I see it. I am, for the most part, content.

People think I'm crazy because I laugh - TFW I smirk like Pepe:)

None of this was accidental.

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[–] WhiteRonin 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Awesome stuff!

It's hard to comment besides that I agree on the majority of it. I don't have the anger issues but I do smile a lot and people think I'm weird too. :-) fuck em! Lol