/sig/ - SELF-IMPROVEMENT GENERAL

Today's topic: Meditation.

I bet most you faggots think meditating is some new age bullshit. You're not totally wrong but it's time for a redpill.

>When you learn new skills your brain physically changes to make you more adapt at doing said skill

Now what is meditation? You try and clear your mind and think about nothing, but that gets hard and your mind wanders and you fail, right? WRONG BITCHES! The very act of catching your mind slipping off in some random thought and starting over IS the point of meditation. You are training your brain to be more focused, and over time you will become more efficient at this because your training is "re-wiring" your brain do to so.

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When should you mediate ?

You should read Brian Enos's "Practical Shooting - Beyond Fundamentals". He does a great job of discerning between concentration and focus. His main point he made was answering your question. You do not meditate BEFORE you shoot - the shooting is meditation. If you want more then I will expound.

Wasn't meditation used a tool of the ussr to weaken western society?

No matter what I try to do or how I try to do it, I always give up. Why?

You are probably referencing attempts to replace the standing religious framework. Meditation does not need to fall into a religious context.

do you guys have any books to recommend
and what happened to this sig discord server

I'll tell you, idleness is a toy of the devil, it's firstly.
Secondly, go in for sports, don't smoke, gettin high on corners, masturbate, jerk off there, of course, that's the same, there is life, itis. Simply, idleness is a toy of the devil, I repeat once again, itis. The whole world will be against me - I'm right about it, I'm inspired by these, itis. And so do not lose your head off to the first, fellows, and all the best to you

Yoda had this one covered: Do or do not - there is no try. Do not be discouraged by failure. Put it all in the context of the greater effort.

>When you realize you have a high verbal IQ ability
>but its main use was formed on shitposting, racial lore, and many different sciences

I get to be a watered down mollyjew, without the half jew charm I bet. But I found out that I am at least capable of some of data interpretation since I have little trouble reading scientific journals, interpreting them and even mostly understanding them. But now I have 10 years of knowledge that is mostly useless in the real world, tied to this ability. What a shame. Whats the use of being good at expressing things easily when the things that you are good at expressing, will get you fired and imprisoned everywhere lol.

I've been working out for almost two years and still not any bigger I keep hitting certain weight and then have work my way back up.

I don't know what to do with my life.

I hate my job.

Meditation can help with a lot of mental problems, reduce anxiety, depression etc.
Also meditation is the practice for death

Brian Enos: Beyond Fundamentals. It is an amazing piece of work, whether or not you are a shooter. Shooting is only his context. The wisdom carries to any walk of life.

>I've been working out for almost two years and still not any bigger I keep hitting certain weight and then have work my way back up.
I'm in the same boat, bro. You have to eat more than you've ever eaten in your life. And drink tons of whole milk.

Meditation happens when you garden, when you're reading in silence, or when your focusing on a lift. The whole point is to clear your mind of noise.

become the next hitler

Quitting masturbation is a necessary prerequisite to be able to meditate.
To do so, you need to desexualize your mind:


1.Read classical books. Watch TV series you know have little sexual content, for example AMC's Hell on Wheel's and BB are ideal. They have some extremely infrequent sexual content but they never stimulated me because they were not designed to arouse like most other programs are.
2.Stop browsing news websites, do not watch local news if they allow cleavage. Realize this world is out to get you and trying to make you live a life of mediocrity.
3. Divert your eyes away from provocatively dressed women in real life.
4. Do not fantasize.
5. Make solid resolve to NEVER browse moving pornographic pictures/videos ever again as these infect the subconscious like nothing else and leave a lasting impression for days. Those who meditate will know this because we see what goes on in the background of the brain.
6. Cut out all toxic people in your life that talk openly about sexual filth. You are the average of the people in your life. You cannot have an outlier destroying everything. Even no human contact is better than a stumbling block.

Meditation reveals what is going on inside your head and if you are slave to a masturbation habit, you will see how insidious it is and how you will need to cut it out of your life. Good luck to everyone moving forward.

What do you exactly mean by shooting, actually curious

>happens
Maybe.
>clear your mind of noise
This is not automatic.

Is the pua community still a thing?
I’m pretty much on a solid path to sorting myself out spiritually, physically and financially. I just need some poon

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>mods deleting/moving these threads because they're ''not political''
>meanwhile threads about Morrowind are allowed
Really makes you think

most people here in the west are even afraid of just admitting that they want to exist. Have you looked recently at the "its okay to be white" threads? Yea reality is so bad. Basically one sentence...and I am eligible for prison.

Have you seen sam hyde talking about homos? Can you imagine if I did that about jews, niggers or any other kind of minority lol? I am forced by my own nature to find refuge in these shitty boards where I can learn, and "grow". Jesus.

>Quitting masturbation is a necessary prerequisite to be able to meditate.
I disagree. Though I agree with your basic premise that over-sexualization is negative, sexuality itself could be transformed into meditation - like most other activities.

Maybe I can help
>thewayofmeditation.com.au/blog/hindu-meditation/
>Yoga and Meditation have emerged as popular spiritual practices in modern times that stem from the Hinduism.
>Here are some of the most well-known mantras from the Hindu tradition:

•om
•so-ham
•om namah shivaya
•om mani padme hum
•rama
•yam
•ham

>Make solid resolve to NEVER browse moving pornographic pictures/videos

this, especially on Sup Forums is near impossible. surprisingly enough ive found that Sup Forums has much less porn than most other boards, even blue ones

You just need somethig going and be consistent in it. Try to plan 3 mini goals you want to achieve today and every day and don!t stop working on them. Stay consistent.

>Do not fantasize.

all your other points are correct...well for all. But this one...why not fantasize about real women around you? I recon that it would be a good way to remove the porn programming, and make you more willing, and able to fuck normal women. Plus it would put your programming in correct order again as to wanting to attain them. Since the mechanism that may have made me care less about bland porn, may be the same one that may force me to get ever more brash to satisfy my hunger for sloots.

I'm overweight, not under.

Also, /SIG/ see this screencap. This is a testament that it is not only possible but ideal.

Kelly McGonigal: power if self discipline. Or something like that.

squint your eyes, use an adblocker. I know I do.

Enos's book revolves around firearms because that is his profession. I mean literally firing a firearm. His entire book explores the analysis of dynamic competitive shooting scenarios. His premise is for the shooter to relax and not cognitively analyze the targets that are presented, but to let the timer buzz and let the amygdala process the solution and directly physically solve the problem - bypassing the upper brain function.

>only meditation worth doing: speed reading with your finger for eye motion while focusing on breath to quiet your inner voice

>Managed to get my brother and a few nerdy friends (internet and real life) to start working out and reading more often
>Volunteering at a local animal shelter regularly
>Eating very healthily
>Playing guitar again
>Not watching porn (haven't done this for a while)
>Still no job but unemployment here is sky high and very few people my age (22) have meaningful or even menial jobs with good hours so it's a bit out of my control
>Waking up before sunrise to work out and meditate
>Playing fewer video games
>Still not feeling good but I at least have bursts of happiness instead of feeling nothing

I think the animal shelter and helping people around me improve are my favourite things in my life. Being at an animal shelter with sad, abandoned animals is emotionally difficult, but it's better to feel something bad than nothing at all. Suffering and struggle can give you strength.

By the way, if anyone here needs beginner workout advice from someone who managed to lose about 35kg (nearly 80 pounds), feel free to ask.

>dont masterbait
Hahah, you do know this is a russian meme right? It's a psy-op to radicalize ideological deviants such as yourself and ANTIFA. How come this bullshit is always found in the far right/left corner of the meme spectrum?

youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU

LOL

Someone make a discord!

It does nothing for you but stimulate the sexual centers of your brain which are counterproductive to growth and cause you to make bad decisions on the basis of "muh dick". When you look at a woman, you should only determine whether or not she is worthy for marriage/procreation. If she isn't, move on.
Because of how overbearingly strong the sexual instinct is, after becoming aroused for even a brief moment, you'll have effected the need for release and will be horny. This is designed to prevent that from occuring in the first place.
You also are wrong, fantasizing reactivates the same pathways that were created as the result of the masturbation and pornography habit, thus reinforcing them once more and beckoning you back.
>Plus it would put your programming in correct order again as to wanting to attain them.
You only want to attain a single candidate worthy of future procreation. If she does not fit the bill for this, have nothing to do with her.

Never make a discord. It creates a rift.

>only meditation worth doing:
Convincing me of this will be difficult. I use meditation in dynamic situations. I have had two situations in which I "blacked out" - afterwards standing victorious in the aftermath of manual combat. My amygdala served me better than my higher brain functions ever could. Are you negating the benefit of these results?

What a load of fucking shite haha.
I mean I'm not gonna stop you from doing something that works for you, but pretending like it's some sort of go-to solution for lots of if not all people is ridiculous. Just conflating ideas and pulling shit out of your ass.

There is more to this aspect but this user is on point.

That guy just conflated his own experience of watching mainstream mindless flesh on flesh porn to the experience everyone else has.
Is mainstream pornography an unhealthy indulgence of many virgins? I believe so.
Should you constrain yourself because a guy on a fucking Ted talk of all places told you to? Absolutely not.
Think for yourself. Think about your experiences, and what to do about them. Do you want to change your consumption of pornography? Do you want to quit it altogether? Try it out and reiterate. Don't take anyone's word for gospel, please. Nobody's.

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How can I find friends(Or atleast people to talk with), without going outside?

i use hypnosis files for better concentration. is that good? it feels like guided meditation

Find a forum dedicated to a hobby of yours, if you have any hobbies. Ask people questions: people love answering questions about a subject they are familiar with or an expert in. Friendships will normally form naturally out of these interactions.

don't avoid the problem, but deal with it

Then why are you claiming you're not any bigger? If you want to lose weight, cut cals, lift low weight/high rep, and do cardio.
If you want to get more brolic, eat more cals/protein, lift height weight/low rep, and don't do cardio.

I have a problem of relapse where i try to stop masturbating for a couple of days then go back and feel like total shit afterwards. It feels like all my energy is drained away and I get lethargic for the rest of the day.

The one great that it does however. Is to lower standards to more realistic levels. The human habit is to search for the hottest of babes. On the internet this is so easy to do...that automatically you do not want to look at other women anymore.

So if you dont do porn. The brain will start to look at normal women again. Also...what is wrong about fantasizing about normal women who are clothed? At least doing so in real life will mean that the woman may see you. And may react. Which is quite natural.

Yea the trouble obviously is that you may want to fuck her, and eventually it may succeed even...but shit. I dont know mang. I saw a really hot babe one on this streak with a thick as fuck under body, but with a somewhat average face, with acne...even though she was incredibly thick...you know I just knew that she was beckoning social kind of love. Which I cannot give to such a face. Quite a weird thing to experience I may say! Had no idea what to do!

So I think I am still on the right path. To restoring natural function. As soon as the porn pathways are gone (and hopefully my fantasy fappings dont trigger them as you say, as it seems fairly unlikely lol...), then the next step would be at a level of a 16 year old lol!

>Don't take anyone's word for gospel
Always good advice.
Even my word.
Anyones's.
This is harder than it sounds. Most of us lack the necessary leadership to even guide ourselves. This makes us easy prey for those that would destroy us.

>use an adblocker

i do, but when half the pictures in a thread are some sexy girl its hard to squint that away
especially on /fit/ where these girls are in shape as well

It isn't full of shit, the real research has proved that sexual excess damages health and worse, perverts and corrupts the mind. It makes you less productive and most men of science and medicine until (((They))) took it over and just said "IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT".

All great figures in history were, especially in their heyday and peak, totally abstinent from sexual activity. Hitler, Tesla, Pythagoras, Newton, and so on.

Your post on the other hand IS full of shit, as you didn't even make a single coherent argument against what was said.

You must become the master of loose eye sight thread minimization! Watch them at the corner of your eye! Try to avoid their curves! Look for that tiny minus, or "hide" in the other chan! Good luck!

>without going outside?
Go the fuck outside.

How does one meditate?

Tips for avoiding (((erotica)))?

Sounds more like aimless depression than a problem of masturbation.
Do you have anything you're working toward?

Do not let a relapse bother you. You are only responsible to yourself. Stand fast, brother.

Not any muscle mass. I routinely stall on all my compound lifts once I hit a certain weight. I guess I'm not getting enough calories but I'm also afraid of eating too much and get fat again.

Genuinely go outside. You can't jerk off in public. Besides that, find hobbies to fill your time or exhaust yourself. Idle hands are the devil's playthings is a true statement.

This just moves to fast and I don't want to be going though the archive to find something, discord has a neat search function

By engaging in an activity and letting the amygdala control the physical process rather than using your higher brain function.

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The problem with Discord is it creates an "in-group" that's no longer anonymous and has its own ridiculous drama and cliques. It separates between the thread and the Discord. Plus, Discord records everything to sell to the government and businesses.

How do I fix my sleep schedule? I work late and don't get home until midnight, but I still want to go to bed early and wake up early instead of staying up half the night.

Don't use a computer before bed. Read a physical book.

I do have some depression and anxiety issues since experiencing the passing of my mother 2 months ago.

I feel as though I use masturbating and vidiya to escape from my depression and anxiety.
I'm working towards become a commercial pilot now and will start more of my training in January at an Aeronautical University.

So basically, do something but instead of using logic, use my emotions and my memories?
That is part of what the amygdala controls, after all.

What is /sig/'s opinion on almond milk? It seems like a healthy alternative to overly processed dairy.

/natsig/ discord server is here
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It's often loaded with sugar.

>The one great that it does however. Is to lower standards to more realistic levels
Pornography doesn't raise people's standards, it lowers them. It turns every one, even fat ugly cows into fuckbuddies.

The point of self-improvement is improving yourself so you do not have to lower your standards.
If you read voraciously, work out until trim and fit, eat well, and work hard to earn money, assets, you can have almost any woman you desire.

>Also...what is wrong about fantasizing about normal women who are clothed?
I explained in this post: , the problem of that.

The rest of your post is truly nigger logic about 'gettin sum pussy'.
You need to get out of this mindset and view women as a means for procreation. If you wouldn't want to be engaged in a long-term relationship with her, then get the fuck away from the skank and don't look back. I wouldn't want to fuck, let alone have a kid with some fat woman with acne.

Not only this, but fear of embarrassment is fatal to the study of meditation.

The hardest thing is the solitude.
I have friends but the closest ones are actually far away.
Got new friends where I live now but it's hard to tell if they actually like me, especially with girls.
Sometimes I feel like I am between having everything and having nothing at all, bootstrapping courage isn't easy.

My condolences.
Escapism has its place, but you can take it too far very quickly.
I think the best thing to do in your situation may be to channel that need for escapism into something productive. Try to find something that helps you and find out if it's meditative for you.Whether that be informing yourself about aeronautical engineering, lifting weights or painting. Anything that creates something, whether that is knowledge, muscle, or physical objects, try it out.

I always had something going for visual arts, so when I needed to take my mind off of things or channel my depressive episodes, I would draw. Now I have a wall full of art that I am proud of and I have improved my skills in it.

I can't just point at something for you to do, you need to do the heavy lifting. That shit is hard. But even if you fail, don't give up on yourself. You're worth trying hard.

Designated Mantras

>part of what the amygdala controls
Yes - but only part. Enos uses an example he gleaned from a golf pro: Toss your keys several feet upwards and catch them. Afterwards, try to analyze what you were thinking while you were in the process of catching. Preferably you were not "thinking of anything. You should not be considering the angle and speed of rotation or the position or size of the keys. You should be bypassing cerebral function - instead just catching the keys.

It's a Shame OP doesn't understand or didn't explain meditation well.

Pro tip: lookup mindfulness meditation

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>bootstrapping courage isn't easy
No, friend - it is not. I have found that physical courage carries to emotional/social courage. Besides it does not hurt to have your friends telling everyone, "Fuck. Did you hear what user did?"

Whenever you feel that you should.

It's not like prayer. It's not about the ritual itself, but where it takes you.

I usually did it really late at night or in the early afternoon.

You'll want as much quiet as you can get until you learn to control your awareness.

Thanks user, I've been trying to lift weights regularly recently and have been going out to a river near by to fish as a type of meditation.

The big problem I still need to do is get my financial stuff done for this Aeronautical Uni. but I find I start to ignore it more often then not or when my father brings it up I start to completely shutdown.

Yes, friend. That is what I have been discussing. Using the mind - escaping the chains of the brain. There is no need for this to be foreign or "Eastern".

What's your opinion on soy milk?
I tried it the other day, tastes fine. Had some vanilla in it, so a little sweet naturally.
Heard the estrogen meme is bullshit, and that cow milk actually has lots more.

>Preferably you were not "thinking of anything.

Ironically, this is what enlightenment feels like.

The nanosecond you orgasm, or lose your train of thought. When you cease being attached and simply become the moment.

>You'll want as much quiet as you can get
Checked - but I still disagree.
Searching for serenity in which to meditate abandons so many opportunities for meditation and can enforce the habit that serenity is necessary. I find meditation in chaos - where it benefits me the most.

>Heard the estrogen meme is bullshit

Nope.

>and that cow milk actually has lots more.

It does, these days it's pumped full of all kinds of extraneous bullshit on top of that.

I can pour a glass of milk, and still have viscous hormone shit stuck on the glass after I rinse it a dozen times. Wasn't like that when I was a kid.

>I find meditation in chaos - where it benefits me the most.

Yeah, but for a person that's never done it before? Gotta set them up with the easiest path to dip a toe.

>promoting masturbation and soy milk

>Ironically
You missed. This is the goal. There is no irony.

Go work for the Hillary 2020 campaign, they need quailty shitposters

You don't need a book. Literally just sit with your eyes closed for 5 minutes. Then increase the time gradually.

I think it's all irony, but that's my perspective :^).

Constantly struggling against an infinite current until you inevitably get swallowed and float back to the start?

The universe is lulzy.

Estrogen meme is very much not bullshit. On my OB/GYN rotation there were cases of post-menopausal women getting all sorts of conditions (endometriosis, high risk uterine cancers, etc) related to abnormally high estrogen and the main culprit was a soy-heavy diet. Articles now actually warn about dietary phytoestrogens in patients as it could interfere with other hormone replacement therapy. God knows what it's doing to the male population, research on that is suspiciously scant...

If you're that desperate for not-milk, just go with almond or coconut.

You, perhaps, raise a good point. The chaos is not unfamiliar to me, so there is comfort in it. I recommend that anyone that is beginning meditation start within a framework of what is familiar to them. Enos specifically addresses this. That is why it is called "Beyond Fundamentals". He assumes that the reader is already familiar with the basic mechanics of using firearms - now he is free to explore his mind during the application of the basic mechanics. I agree that the context should be familiar to the student. I disagree that it needs to be quiet.

As a board certified physician I attest to the benifits of meditation and recommend doing so for 20 minutes every day followed by reading the very much underrated Master Key System by the late charles f. haanels... also complete cessation of visiting this degenerate homosexual board.