Walking meditation is just walking while bringing your attention intentionally to your body and your breathing as it’s moving through space.

It’s like walking while really enjoying walking. Minimizing distractions like thinking or a radio or conversation or whatever.

But seconding just walking all the same. As a teenager I used to put on my walkman and go for walks when I was pissed off at my parents.

It’s not work it’s more like a hobby. Work is what people do to survive. See working class vs owner class.

Wealth hoarders can either obsess or not obsess about hoarding more wealth, like any person with a hobby.

So, how much time they spend on their hobby and what hours they spend on their hobby really depends on their temperament.

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Beta blockers - they don’t cross the blood brain barrier and help calm the adrenaline response. If you’re prone to panic, anxiety, trauma triggers, etc. They’re very helpful for my CPTSD triggers.

Qi Gong

Listening to a Plum Village dharma talk.

Walking meditation is good when very restless or anxious. Body scans when trying to build deep states of physical relaxation. Sitting meditation for deep mental calm.

Pendulation works well when working on an overwhelming task. Permission to take small bites/small steps out of something difficult essentially.

Reminding myself that the stressor and the sensations of stress are all temporary is good for acute stress, but chronic stress can require radical acceptance instead and changes in lifestyle/habits/thinking patterns.

Oh I almost forgot, switching from coffee to tea. Although I don’t do that most mornings. When I skip the coffee my anxiety is much less.

It was the combination of the two.

There’s no correlation between drinking alcohol and weed consumption. Generally the inverse is true.

Adding marijuana in parenthesis like that coupled with disinformation made me think cop tbh.

Trump looked pretty weak to me tbh. Can’t even own a gun.

Cool people can have mental problems.

Cool people can have mental problems rather or not they like drugs.

One of the uncoolest things I think people do is ask black and white questions like this while acting like alcohol isn’t a drug.

Weed does not increase alcohol consumption. Generally we’re finding the inverse is true in large samples like CO.

Drafts usually are of young men for the logistic reasons you mentioned.

So, if all men ages 18-24 are being drafted, the President’s kids should be first on the list.

In other words, if you’re going to send my son to war and you are president you need to send your’s first. Otherwise I’m telling my kid to dodge because his life isn’t worth less than some rich assholes.

When everyone is being drafted. Including the children of the oligarchs and political class.

Otherwise it’s never right. It’s just feeding the poor to the war machine.

You can do it on your floor if you take enough ketamine.

In all serious though, not really. I think other people already pointed out why.

However you can also learn to close the sense gates, without drugs or a bathtub. Later Jhana meditations do this.

And even just you relaxing in your bathtub with your ears under the water, that’s a step towards that stuff. The whole idea is to get very relaxed and minimize the stimulation from your senses, so that your mind can just relax and drift and be.

It doesn’t need to be full sensory deprivation to get the benefits in other words.

Yeah my mom bought into the narrative. I was telling her what a disaster the debate was and of course she doesn’t want to accept that.

So she latched onto headlines like this one.

I opened lemmy a few days ago to check the news after taking a break for a few days.

I hadn’t even read anything yet and I felt my adrenaline start.

Buddhism defines metta as loving kindness, which also requires understanding because if we don’t understand another person’s needs it’s difficult to be loving and kind towards them.

In the show, what the person was trying to say is, I am feeling insecure that you may be more attached to her than you are to me. I.e., I’m scared you’re going to leave me for her.

Which is what we generally mean by love in our culture. At least what we mean by romantic love. A sense of attachment to the other person.

This isn’t always a bad thing. I can be a little shy so when I am in public I tend to show a lot of attachment to my girlfriend, at least until I get comfortable in the space. But it can be a bad thing, if someone is so attached that they let it get in the way of treating their partner with kindness. Act manipulative or aggressive when the person pulls away, for example.

Likely.

We have ‘muscle memory’ in our visual cortex as well. So, we can train ourselves to spot stuff that is normally pretty difficult to spot with practice.

The morels being brown, and fruiting in leaves from last fall, it makes them pretty difficult to see.

Aside from that, they probably have a good idea of what spots to hit because they’ve been hitting those spots for years. As well as a understanding of good conditions to look for them, without having the knowledge of those conditions that I just gave.

And… Mushroom foragers are usually pretty sketchy about giving up their good spots.

Morels have a symbiotic relationship with the plant that they grow with. Most often elm trees.

The colony can live a long time. Depending on the species of morels 100 years, you know like as long as a tree will live. During this time they store nutrients in what is commonly called a truffle, mycologists call that a sclerotia. It’s essentially a knot of mycelium packed full of nutrients, that they will fruit out of once they are separated from their food source, i.e. the tree.

Areas that have been hit by Dutch elm disease end up seeing a lot of morels fruiting, because a lot of trees are dying. Additionally morels like to fruit when the ground temperature is around 50 to 60°. Usually this will be on a south facing hill early in the spring if you are in the northern equator. As well as areas not getting so much direct sunlight later on in the spring.

Aside from that, like all mushrooms they enjoy fruiting after a rainfall. So the best time to look for them is when the ground temperature is 50 to 60°, it’s just rained, and the best place to look for them is in areas with lots of elm trees. Especially elms that are dying from Dutch elm.

Yeah, I made a post up thread about microdosing, and how what we know from animal studies is that it’s a really small amount.

Additionally mushroom gummies being sold online are likely not psilocybin. There’s several other species of mushroom that are psychoactive and have other pharmaceuticals in them. Amanita is one, chaga is another. Both of these are common in mushroom gummies and chocolates that I’ve seen being sold in head shops.

They’re not psilocybin mushrooms. Shipping psilocybin across state lines is absolutely illegal.

If you want to pick my brain about any of this squid feel free to shoot me a direct message. I’m a mushroom nerd and drug nerd. And have some college credits in pharmacology.

I’m also a frog. The frog that enjoys reading your posts.

Most people microdose way to high. What we know from animal studies on microdosing is the the dose for humans should be like 0.5 mg every other day.

That’s equivalent to like 0.1 g of weak cubensies. And a quarter of that for penis envy or other strong cubansies, and then you can half that amount again for stronger species such as pan cyans.

It really doesn’t take much to promote neurogenesis, and dosing everyday will have negative effects on the heart .

Which is why a lot of people start growing them themselves.

Drug is a word with a lot of double speak/propaganda around it. Like, the war on drugs. The meaning of the word drug in that sentence is to be drugged, as in like alcohol drugs you, heroin drugs you, and if we call mushrooms and LSD drugs we are saying that they do what alcohol and heroin do, which is take you away from yourself.

Drugs can also mean medicine. But that’s not what the Nixon administration meant by the word drug when they passed the controlled substances act.