EternallyBlissful

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EternallyBlissful Nov 14, 2024, 10:54 AM
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in reply to: Alexandra’s comment on: Self-administered EMDR without a therapist is very useful for a lot of things!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this comment! It feels really good to read this! :))
You might want to check out my other mental health posts as well!

EternallyBlissful Mar 4, 2024, 9:34 AM
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on: How I internalized my achievements to better deal with negative feelings
Have a positive experience
Here is what I’ve written down in my H.E.A.L summary re. positive experiences. Maybe helpful for some:

A positive experience could be anything that feels pleasant, it is useful, and that you want to cultivate in your mind.
Some examples:
feeling good about yourself
being proud of something you’ve achieved
feelings of being liked, loved, loving, grateful
feeling safe, calm, relaxed, joyful
getting a hug, compliment, etc.

A positive experience could be:
intellectual understandings, Intentions, Skills, Moods, Abilities, Attitudes, Feelings
The key is to get something like a Felt Sense, some emotion, some feeling in your body, etc, so you can move beyond just some intellectual understanding towards an implicit emotional understanding in the following steps.
You can look for good facts in:
Your immediate situation
Current or recent events
Ongoing stable conditions
Yourself
The past
The future
The lives of others
The good in bad situations
Your imagination (things that have not yet happened or even things that will never happen)
Produce Good Facts: e.g. be kind and caring to others; share about good facts with others.

EternallyBlissful Jul 15, 2023, 3:44 PM
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in reply to: Matt Goldenberg’s comment on: I bet everyone 1000€ that I can make them dramatically happier & cure their depression in 3 months!
I’ve done 5 10 day long retreats and just eye-balling how many people were still there at the end, I’d say at least 95% managed to stay till the end.
I also know two people with ADHD who say they struggle a lot with discipline, yet they both managed to meditate 6+ hours everyday on said retreats.
My only data is personal anecdotes like this.

EternallyBlissful Jun 27, 2023, 12:50 PM
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in reply to: Ustice’s comment on: Can you prevent negative long-term effects of bad trips with sleep deprivation?
No it’s NOT simulated danger! The danger of permanently and seriously reprogramming yourself in a bad way during bad trips is real. It does sometimes happen. It’s not guaranteed that psychedelics change you to the better. If bad trips were only extremely unpleasant and maybe very destabilizing for a few weeks or months, I wouldn’t be afraid of bad trips. But this is not how it is.

EternallyBlissful Jun 27, 2023, 12:47 PM
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in reply to: bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv’s comment on: Can you prevent negative long-term effects of bad trips with sleep deprivation?
Well, obviously the idea is to only sleep-deprive yourself right AFTER (and only IF) the bad has already happened. So instead of going to sleep after being completely sober again after the trip, you would take some uppers instead and keep yourself awake for as long as possible

EternallyBlissful Jun 5, 2023, 10:06 AM
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in reply to: JBlack’s comment on: I bet everyone 1000€ that I can make them dramatically happier & cure their depression in 3 months!
Yeah, I agree that this is one (I feel a little bit too harsh) way to put it. But I feel that in a certain important sense it still is a bet.
Also, saying I “charge” 3+ months of people’s time seems a bit missleading, like saying a restaurant charges their customers’ time when they eat at that restaurant.
Anyway, I see lots of down votes, so apparently quite a few people are annoyed by my way of putting it!?

EternallyBlissful Jun 4, 2023, 6:13 PM
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in reply to: Matt Goldenberg’s comment on: I bet everyone 1000€ that I can make them dramatically happier & cure their depression in 3 months!
It’s all about creating the right conditions! For example, almost everyone can meditate 5+ hours a day in a silent meditation retreat centre. Yet very few can do it outside such a setting.

EternallyBlissful Jun 4, 2023, 1:07 PM
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on: I bet everyone 1000€ that I can make them dramatically happier & cure their depression in 3 months!
What’s a better term for “brute-forcing happiness” program?

EternallyBlissful Jun 4, 2023, 10:46 AM
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in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: Don’t waste your time meditating on meditation retreats!
Yes. I agree. Yet, there is this:
I’ve spent the last 3 years averaging around 3 hours of meditation a day. I’ve had many months with 6+ hours meditation a day. I had times when the boundary between formal practice in daily life was indeed very thin—in other words, it was relatively easy/automatic to be mindful more or less ²⁴⁄₇.
Yet, in these rare times when I did not meditate at all for, say, 2 weeks (mostly because of health issues), I very quickly lose that ability to automatically be mindful throughout the day. I would guess that if I stopped meditating for a year and would not bother trying to be mindful throughout the day, my “mindfulness throughout the day” level would go back to basically zero.

EternallyBlissful Jun 2, 2023, 6:01 PM
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in reply to: EternallyBlissful’s comment on: Don’t waste your time meditating on meditation retreats!
But the question remains: Did these new traits persist even years after these people have stopped meditating or reduced their meditation to less than 30 minutes a day?

EternallyBlissful Jun 2, 2023, 4:50 PM
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in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: Don’t waste your time meditating on meditation retreats!
Fascinating! Really cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Okay, I concede! Amassing many hours of just meditation on and off retreats over many years is definitely not “useless”. Some effects definitely persist! That is actually also my experience with 5000+ hours of meditation and many retreats. I guess my key point is that those changes are overrated—especially given how much effort they take, and that in general there are far more effective ways to reach very similar goals! But there are some important exceptions to this. If you for example do manage to get enlightened and stabilize that state, that’s just absolutely amazing, and no amount of ordinary therapeutic progress will ever get you the kind of beauty and certain mental superpowers that come with that.

EternallyBlissful Jun 1, 2023, 4:10 PM
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in reply to: Elizabeth’s comment on: Product Endorsement: Food for sleep interruptions
I’ve read that in multiple sources, e.g. the book “The Gut Health Protocol”. The general recommendation is to not eat 4 hours before going to sleep.

EternallyBlissful May 31, 2023, 3:47 PM
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on: Product Endorsement: Food for sleep interruptions
Eating at night/before sleep is supposedly not good for your microbiome, so I’m unsure whether this is a good solution.

EternallyBlissful May 28, 2023, 12:13 PM
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in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: Self-administered EMDR without a therapist is very useful for a lot of things!
These are all excellent questions! Unfortunately, I don’t have definite answers. I’ve read somewhere that the idea is to tax the working memory as much as possible such that you can just barely hold an emotional felt sense at the same time as well.
I’d be very interested if someone does some more reading and research on this!
What I personally do: The more intensive the felt sense feels, the harder I focus on the EMDR “distractions”, and vice-versa.

EternallyBlissful May 28, 2023, 12:08 PM
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in reply to: RHollerith’s comment on: Self-administered EMDR without a therapist is very useful for a lot of things!
I’ve started doing self-administered EMDR about 6 months ago, and I’ve been using it very regularly since then, maybe 4 times a week. About half of the time that I do it it feels like it does “something”, and maybe every 1 in 10 times it feels like a bigger breakthrough. I’ve noticed big changes in my behaviour and emotional life over the last 6 months. However, I’ve been combining a lot of therapeutic stuff, not just EMDR.

EternallyBlissful May 28, 2023, 12:05 PM
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in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Self-administered EMDR without a therapist is very useful for a lot of things!
That’s true. However, it’s hard to know in advance how severe a trauma is.

EternallyBlissful Jan 14, 2023, 9:15 PM
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on: [Book Review] “I Contain Multitudes” by Ed Yong
Nice review! Deserves more karma than it currently has!

EternallyBlissful Jan 9, 2023, 3:10 PM
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in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: (DIY) FMT for Anti-Aging & Biohacking
Re. your first question: Not really known, but you can make educated guesses after reading Human Microbes FMT wiki.
Second question: There is a pretty active FMT online community. E.g. there are several facebook groups. Ppl have been doing this privately for a while now.

EternallyBlissful Nov 29, 2022, 1:30 PM
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in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: (DIY) FMT for Anti-Aging & Biohacking
No. First of all we don’t know which microbes and in which quantities we want. We have more or less no clue what constitutes a good microbiome. Bacteriophages also seem to play an important role that we know even less about. That’s the beauty of FMT—we don’t need to know!

Second, most microbes in the gut are anaerobic and thus cannot be grown easily. There is not a single anaerobic probiotic available at this point. That’s why probiotics don’t come even close to replacing something like FMT, which is done suh that bacteriophages and anaerobic microbes survive.

The problem of “growing artificial poop in the lab” for e.g. FMT pills, is similarly difficult/impossible at this point like growing ordinary “dirt”.

EternallyBlissful Jul 30, 2022, 10:48 AM
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on: Focusing
One trick helpful to me: Do this in your native language. Many aren’t native English speakers, but because so much they read about emotional growth and many of their “emotional growth conversations” are in English (bc most EA/LW meetups are in English, even e.g. here in Germany), it can be tempting to do Focusing in English as well. In my experience, this is a mistake.