I've recently noticed how detached my consciousness from my physical body: often I can't quite control what I do. This manifests in bad habits, such as not eating enough, masturbating, oversleeping etc. This morning I actually decided to test how strong my self-control is. I woke up very early and tried to keep my eyes open. It was very hard, I badly wanted to fall asleep. Even keeping them open for just a few seconds was really hard, but I kept repeating to myself: "It's my body, I decide what it does!". It didn't take long before I was asleep again... That's when I realized I have virtually no willpower. How do I improve it? One thing that really helps is meditating. I currently use headspace dot com, helps clear the mind a lot. But how do I improve willpower and self-control?
fuck you, you pompous nerd. I bet you can't even name three of those formulas without looking them up.
t. applied math graduate student.
Jackson Jenkins
First is the limit :)
Mason Rivera
Fucking cathegorists, there is nothing wrong with topological spaces, and not everybody can make a use of your muh chategories.
Go choke on a fucking snake diagram you arrow-cock-sucker.
Eli Bailey
People often fear and loathe what they don't understand. >cathegory Including spelling in this case.
Samuel Russell
>click on thread to learn about increasing willpower >faggots talking about math Get out of here nerds
Carter Smith
Is there a good website or book that can teach me how to do these sums?
Brayden Garcia
Depending on your level you could start with Baby Rudin
Liam Gutierrez
>name those formulas
what is there to name? they're all definitions, brainlet
it is rather amusing to see a mathematician make the classic logical error of affirming the consequent. You say people often fear what they don't understand, with the implication that the poster you're replying to fears categories for this reason. yet simply because someone fears something, it does not follow that they do so because they do not understand it.
Angel Harris
How ironic that the one who's trying to talk shit about mathematicians is the autistic one who doesn't understand contextual semantics and sarcasm. >inb4 merely pretending
Jack Sullivan
if you couldn't see that my post was actually highly sophisticated satire, then your the autist.I guess i shouldn't have expected the dumb meatheads on this bored to be able to handle my razor-sharp wit. *sigh*
Elijah Gray
High school level?
Brody Robinson
mental fitness > physical fitness
EVERYTHING IS MENTAL
you can have the best body in the world and still be fucked if your mind is shit
meditate people, meditate
Nathan Taylor
Start with Euclid then lmao
Isaac Rivera
The book?
Robert Jackson
Meditating just made me more depressed desu senpai
Camden Walker
The person
Mason Russell
that means you have things to deal with
its bringing them up
its a good thing
face it don't be a pussy
you'll be better off once you do
Jaxon Hall
>"Detached my conciousness" Pretending to be on some spiritual plane >Lots of complicated numbers which really don't mean shit Kek
Op, I know your type. You're a huge up yourself nerd. Work on that.
Anyway, disassociation is a psychology thing. Get enough sleep, and also try to deal with anything causing you stress or anxiety. Your head can do what you described when you're under a lot of stress. When the stress and anxiety start to subside in your life, these symptoms will subside too.
I've gone through this shit myself multiple times, and alcohol doesn't help, since I'm guessing that's gonna occur to you soon. Don't try to drown it in whisky.
Exercise also helps. When you're pushing yourself your mind seems to flick back into your body a little. This is anecdotal though. The only non anecdotal part is to deal with your shit so the stress starts to abate.
Brody Williams
I would but I have shit to do It's hard enough for me to give a shit about my shit job and shit school without bringing up all my subconscious mental demons and shit Maybe if I ever get a year or two off when I'm 80 or something
Hudson Kelly
your mental health should be your #1 concern
honestly
this might sound weird but its true ... your mind is your reality
it's your entire world, making it nice and comfortable and cleaning out all the shit is way way way more important than school or some shitty job
Dylan Thompson
Where's my awakened niggas at?
im like mid awakening now, mini ego deaths at night when im sleeping , weird shit happening, strange perceptions
can feel my ego crumbling
shit is honestly wild, i used to not be spiritual or believe any of this shit but im experiencing now its crazy
i had no idea it got this intense lmfao
ima keep floatin tho, see where it goes
Sebastian Morris
Well when it comes to that waking up bit you were taking about, literally pounce out of bed and start moving, don't lay there. Also increasing your will power is easy. You have a choice...you always have a choice at every decision point you come to. Ex. Do I wake up now or lay in bed?, do I watch tv or do I read and study? Do I go to the gym today or don't I? Literally at every decision point you have a choice and by recognize that each and every time you have a better chance at making the right decision the one that you know in your own mind is the step in the right direction. That choice in the right direction is made easier if you have a goal and by recognizing that and remembering it at each decision point further reiterates that goal and makes hitting the mark on that next decision point easier and easier until it becomes habit or until you have reached your goal. Start with small goals and set yourself up for success. If you cave in ever don't beat yourself up just recognize it and make up for it at that next decision point. Also once you've reached a goal you've set for yourself immediately set another so that your always reaching. Stay hungry. Good luck
Evan Scott
Tell me more. As in breaking down barriers from earlier in your life?
Zachary Ramirez
not really barriers, more like structures
my belief structures and perceptions of the world and myself are kinda falling apart because they don't make sense with what im experiencing
it's all just dissolving
i would think im going crazy but from what i re-searched online this is actually a normal experience
from practicing meditation and mindfulness i've sunk into my own awareness and am able to step back from myself and just watch
this started small, i used to be only able to watch my mind while meditating but now it's something i'm always aware of
which was kinda freaky at first because thought loses all its solidity, when you're aware of your mind thought isn't so captivating, it used to be my whole world in sense but now it's just like background noise
thought just get swallowed by silent awareness and in the beginning your left there like "damn"
it feels like the ground just drops out from under you
its a very strange feeling and somewhat scary feeling but once you see it you can't unsee it so you just have to accept it
Wyatt Howard
Good post, listen to this guy OP
Ian Powell
tips to get to this? How long did it take from when you started? how long do you meditate each day? what is some good reading/resources to look into?
Is there a difference from meditating and "mindfulness meditation"...i never understood which to do.
Jonathan Clark
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Bentley Stewart
the power of now by ekhart tolle is a good starter book
zen mind beginners mind is a good book too but it a little advanced
allan watts lectures on youtube are good too
all these resources will give you intellectual understanding
there are two levels of understanding the first is intellectual, where you can grasp the ideas with thought
the second is understanding without thought, silence, just feeling
i do mindfulness meditation 30 min everyday, i started with 2 min a day and worked my way up. all meditations achieve the same goal of focusing the mind and becoming aware. the only difference is the colors
daily meditation is necessary for waking up
you're also going to want to practice mindfulness when you are not meditating, it's basically just being aware of your mind and body. it will be hard at first but if you're persistent in cultivating awareness you will gradually become more and more aware
you probably won't be able to do mindfulness until you start to get the hang of meditation, you have to get used to being the observer of your mind. it's a skill and takes some time to develop
don't try to rush anything, it won't come through force
Nolan Allen
So you gain more willpower by using it, that's what I thought. By the way, that's how focus works too: a neurobiologist told me about that. By being focused on your current task you develop parts of your brain corresponding to ability to focus. It sounds like you finally discovered MDMA or LSD. If you did all this without drugs, good on you! >implying applied math has anything to do with math You sir are a pretentious faggot and should stick to finding deltas for any given epsilon.
Christopher Brown
LSD helped but it was more so just a point in the direction, meditation is what actually did it
Nolan Ortiz
>tfw in Calc 2 right now. >tfw can't fucking do basic antiderivatives. >tfw every single homework problem takes me 30 minutes with a lot of dedicated handholding >tfw can tell that this stuff is actually very easy and basic, I just physically cannot comprehend what the fuck I'm supposed to do when looking at a problem. >tfw there's a fucking test tomorrow >tfw I'm browsing Veeky Forums instead of studying
We're not all gonna make it guys.
Zachary Stewart
Just wait until you start feeling like youre floating. I have to watch my marijuana intake because if I get too stoned I lose my "sense" of being grounded and end uo feeling like Im walking on air or having the walls shift on me as I make my way through the room.
All perception is mind, truly.
Once you begin to entertain the notion of vast emptiness, reaching forward and backwards non-linearly through time God starts to fuck with you, but its mostly because he cares. Take care of yourself bud.
Carter Morris
>tfw im in calc 1 and feel the same way about a test I took this morning i am nigger tier at math for some reason
Ryder Bennett
Hope you guys are done with math at calc 2, otherwise your next class will be diff eq and it'll probably make you want to kill yourselves if you're already like this
Jayden Scott
haha weed fucks with me too, i pretty much stopped smoking because it gets too intense, kinda sucks i used to love weed. i'm better without it tho so it's all good haha
can't say that god fucked with me but at this point i wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened desu
Elijah Sullivan
I'd like to get into meditation a bit more. I only really do it throughout the day to collect myself and very rarely at night.
I'm a pretty mindful dude, though. Alan Watts is definitely a good reference. Have you ever heard of Terrence Mckenny? I'm sure you'd enjoy his lecture titled: "nobody is smarter than you."
