Part 1 - https://www.teamblind.com/post/tpWmGizK ::: The Practice ::: Here’s how we do it. Your brain has been conditioned to respond to certain cues, so you’ll deprive it from them. You’ll no longer give it the feedback it gets from *anything* you enjoy, like a good video game, good music, from going online, from tasty foods, and even from the nice people you love. You’re wasting precious and limited neurotransmitters here, creating an addictive pattern towards wasteful ends. Even if the activity itself is not particularly damaging and it’s something you’d like to continue doing later, such as music, you should cut it with the rest for now, because we’re trying to get rid of everything that feels pleasant. The purpose is to send your brain into a “adapt or perish” mode, as if you were suddenly deprived of all the means to give it the cues it is waiting for, and that it must look for new sources. You’ll pull the plug off so it can be reconnected to new things. Make no mistake, the reason it has learned to respond positively to such cues is a flaw in itself, a legacy of your primitive state. We respond positively to food that is junk and makes us fat because our brains evolved in a context of scarcity, so it learned to think that accumulating fat is a good strategy for survival. Other strategies include the desire to mate, to be a part of a group, to improve ourselves in supposedly vital tasks through repetition, to accumulate. But our brains cannot tell context apart or a good source from a bad one, so it now thinks that the endless cycle of porn, junk food, media consumption, internet boards, idleness, video games and online stalking that some of us are in fit the purpose of evolutionary needs. Your brain only cares about abundance, and in civilized society the bad (and often illusionary) source is always easier to find. So you’re going to send the signal that these sources have been depleted and we must adapt. You’ll cut those pleasant hobbies, stock many books, make a strict meal plan for the next several days that consists of healthy ingredients (more details later), you’ll empty your room of most things that make it feel “yours” like posters, computers, personal objects, anything that is aesthetically pleasing to you (this post will get way too long if I get into this, but trust me, this is super important). You will not use a phone, no internet, no masturbation, no regular contact with people you like, no music you enjoy (more important than you think), no TV, no watching the news. Spend most of the day on your bed. If you have to go to work or school, leave your house late and get home early. If you have any reading to do buy it, print it, send it to an e-reader (not a tablet), it will be your main activity. Your only hobbies will be lifting and reading, maybe meditating, and trust me you’ll love doing them even if you hate it now. You’re going to keep this up for 7 days. Also very important: avoid idleness, walking around doing nothing, daydreaming, avoid having imaginary conversations, avoid thinking about the past or people you know. Don’t lose yourself in thought, maladaptive daydreaming show that those things can become the “bad, abundant source” on their own. Part 3 - https://www.teamblind.com/post/ybR8uYOp
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