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On Serotonin

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Quick Facts

-While serotonin makes us feel good, it also helps reduce depression and anxiety, it helps us sleep, it helps us form blood clots, it reduces your libido (in a good way), and more!

-We can produce more of it with exercise, manual labor, and meditation!

Intro 

Serotonin is almost a household name at this point! We’re told it’s good for us and that we produce it through exercise and meditation. We usually associate the feeling of a good level of serotonin with confidence. And, it’s more important than most of us realize!

Why Is Serotonin So Important?

The main reason we find it so interesting is that it’s thought to regulate our mood. It’s also thought to regulate anxiety and decrease depression. 

I say thought because, according to the source I’m deriving my information from, we don’t know if serotonin does this for sure. However, we do know that SSRIs usually help cure depression, and the way they do that is by keeping some of your serotonin from going from your brain to your bloodstream, which means they just regulate the serotonin you already produce. So, by using a bit of logic, we can say that serotonin 100% helps with depression and anxiety. 

It’s also helpful because it helps you regulate your bowel movements, it helps you up-chuck when you’re sick, it helps you sleep, it helps you form blood clots, it reduces your libido, it helps you be more emotionally stable, calmer, more focused, and generally happier.

It really is a miracle molecule in a lot of ways! I remember working in Texas and sorting out my mind; I was very, very depressed at the time and I did a lot of mental rearranging and healing so that I could be mentally healthy. But I wasn’t very physically active with my job, so I didn’t have a lot of serotonin flowing through my system! If I had known that upping the flow of serotonin through a healthy diet and exercise was so important I would have exercised a lot more than I did – it would have been very, very nice.

How Can We Produce More Of It?

If you’re feeling depressed, chances are you’ll benefit from producing more serotonin in your body. I don’t think many of us need SSRIs since there are some things we can do to naturally produce more serotonin in our bodies. We can:

-Expose ourselves to sunshine and sun lights.

-Exercise regularly.

-Consistently partake in a healthy diet.

-Meditate. I will personally vouch for this because I can meditate while repeating “I choose to produce more serotonin” and I will instantly feel better! I also say “I choose to produce more DMT” and that definitely works as well 🙂

Final Thoughts

I’m hesitant to encourage you to take SSRIs for two reasons in particular: they lose their effectiveness over time and they may be a cause for stomach issues. The reason I think this is because SSRIs prevent some of the serotonin your brain produces from going into your bloodstream. That’s all well and good, except your intestines use serotonin to regulate your bowel movements; if less serotonin is reaching your lower body via your bloodstream this could be causing some problems. Seeing Jordan Peterson have so many stomach problems while taking SSRIs makes this a solid hypothesis, in my opinion. 

Also, if you naturally produce less serotonin than you feel you need, it seems like it’s a constant effort to manually encourage the correct amount of production. That means consistently exercising and meditating for the rest of your life. But hey, life’s pretty good when you feel good! 🙂

Conclusion 

Thank you for reading my article! I encourage you to produce as much serotonin as you feel is right, and I’ll see you in the next post!

Sources

This post was written with some help from:

Healthline, twice!

What Is Honesty and Dishonesty, Truth and Lie?

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Quick Facts

-Honesty and dishonesty are both parts of the moral structure, which is a man-made psychic structure/belief system.

-Living with a strong sense of honesty and morality is “middle-of-the-road” in a vibrational sense!

-There are states of being that are beyond morality, some of which include love, communication, seduction, and understanding!

Intro

I created a previous post detailing truth as an intensely-felt portion of reality, however, I’ll love to create another post about honesty and dishonesty because I left a couple of important parts out in my first post. 

What is honesty? Why be honest? More importantly, how do we transcend honesty, and why? These are the questions that we’ll answer below 🙂

The Essence of Truth and The Essence of Dishonesty

I always like to compare honesty and dishonesty with the hero and the villain – you can’t have one without the other. An honest man is only an honest man if there are other men who are dishonest!

This isn’t a full and complete explanation – in essence, truth is regenerative and dishonesty is degenerative. One builds and the other destroys, and I argue that these are felt realities experienced by many people who are alive today. In a spiritual context, honesty is a bright yellow whereas dishonesty is a combination of dark colors (especially dark purple).

I’m almost 100% certain that we’ve created this part of reality for thousands of years. That is, we told/tell ourselves that honesty is good and dishonesty is bad so, so often that now it’s a deeply held belief in the collective unconscious. Just like any creation, it has a substance that comprises it, but there was also a creator that created it – and in this case, there are those who carry the belief structure forward into the future!

Honesty is definitely middle-of-the-road in a vibrational sense. Being honest is much better than being impulse-driven, but it’s not quite comparable to spiritual enlightenment. It’s best for many of us to understand what honesty is and why we should be honest because it would help bring us out of (at least some of) the misery we’re in right now!

Honesty and Morality

Honesty is a part of the moral structure. Good and bad, right and wrong, honest and dishonest. The hero and villain archetypes play themselves out on the moral level and so does almost everybody on one level or another!

That’s not to say it’s a bad thing – there are many of us who find infinite meaning in conforming to moral structures, and even the villains enjoy going against the heroes because of the meaning it holds for them. In fact, having good morals and acting them out can be seriously amazing for your life! 

Beyond Morality

However, there are states of being that are beyond morality! This is not an excuse to rationalize being immoral while feeling a sense of positive morality, however, there are simply metaphysical places to be and games to play that have nothing to do with the structure of morality. 

One of these games happens to be the game of seduction. Often in seduction we say and do things that would be considered immoral if we viewed them from a moral perspective (for example, saying something like “I’ll always be there for you” simply to produce the feeling of love in another).

One state that is beyond morality is the state you move into when you question the existence and purpose of morality. And now that I think about it, Nechzie wrote an entire book about what is beyond good and evil (beyond morality) that goes into much more detail than I do here! Music transcends morality until someone sings lyrics that conform to the structure of morality.

Now, please note that it is not wrong or evil to stop subscribing or adhering to this man-made metaphysical belief system. You won’t become a killer just because you stop choosing to be on the level of morality because you’re disidentifying from immoral as well as moral actions and beliefs! In fact, you may even receive more well-being if you move to a better overall perspective since you won’t be so stressed about moving towards the light and away from the darkness.

If you do this, I highly recommend acting/being moral when you’re around other people since that’s what they respond to; they don’t tend to respond to individually-cultivated/adopted perspectives that are outside of the moral perspective :).

Final Thoughts

There isn’t too much to say about honesty! I started this post thinking it was going to be much longer but really I just wanted to promote the idea of moving away from morality since it’s a viable option for highly-developed individuals. I’ll probably receive a lot of push-back against this idea but I’ve personally benefited from living outside of the lines of morality so I’ll definitely vouch for it.

If you don’t know where to start and you plan to “step outside” as I call it I recommend putting your wellbeing and other people’s wellbeing at the forefront of your priorities. So, if you don’t want to subscribe to the belief system of morality, I recommend striving to be well and to help others be well 🙂

Conclusion

Thank you for reading! I appreciate your time and consideration, and I’ll see you in the next post!

Monogamous or Open Relationships?

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Quick Facts

-Monogamous relationships partially go against our primal biology called The Coolidge Effect! Interestingly enough, monogamous relationships complement our primal biology in other ways, almost as if we were living in a paradox!

-More and more people are having an open mind when it comes to relationships, and you may want to consider which kind of relationship is best for you.

Intro!

I’ve observed many different kinds of couples, some of whom were in a monogamous relationship and some of whom were in an open relationship. It seems to me that many people who agree to a monogamous relationship only do so because they believe they should, they don’t necessarily make their decision with basic biology or their own desires in mind, which leads me to ask an important question; monogamy, or openness?

Monogamous Relationships

Monogamy is the traditional way to have a relationship. One man, one woman, marriage for life with no sexual or romantic conduct with anyone else except for your one person.

My conclusion is that monogamous relationships work especially well with people who are type D: low-energy, meticulous, detail-oriented, steady, and unchanging. Many men and women love the idea of settling down with one person for life and raising a family with them, and these people tend to push their beliefs onto other people as “the way it should be.” Monogamous relationships open the opportunity for trust and steadiness within a partner but also the opportunity to break that trust by having romantic interactions with others. 

Open Relationships

Open relationships are almost the same as monogamous relationships except both partners can have romantic interactions with other people. People in open relationships share their lives with each other, they create memories, raise a family, and love each other, but they also have sex and go on dates with other people.

Being in an open relationship is an amazing option for those who are psychologically and emotionally healthy because it goes along with our primal biology! We have biological wiring that encourages and motivates us to have sex with as many partners as we can. It’s called the Coolidge effect, and it’s the primary reason why we can be so easily “addicted” to porn. I recommend watching this video series on it, it’s super interesting!

Type A, B, and C dominants can find open relationships intriguing, especially Type Bs! I don’t recommend being in an open relationship if you’re prone to jealousy or if you’re emotionally immature as a whole because, in this case, a fling can be considered something more than such.

Is There One, Correct Answer?

First, I recommend pondering what your personal desires are. What do you want? Why do you want it? Coming up with your own, personal preference is far better than any advice I can provide to you here. Maybe it turns out you want neither kind of relationship! Maybe you want something different, or you desire to be single.

Second, I recommend being in an open relationship more-so than a monogamous relationship. I secretly want you to become psychologically and emotionally mature enough to have a healthy open relationship, and if you’re already there I recommend staying open. Why? Because of our primal biology, but also because of how good it feels to be free. You can talk to and do whatever you like with whomever you like without any judgment from your partner! This alone usually makes life healthier than believing you can or cannot act in certain ways, which is always present in a monogamous relationship.

Conclusion

Which will you choose? I can’t wait to find out!

Thank you for reading my article! I’ll see you later! 🙂

How The Educational System Should Be Improved

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Quick Facts

-Our current educational system in America isn’t very effective! We don’t teach many things that we should be teaching.

-There are many ways of letting a child learn without having to rely on an institution to teach them.

-We should teach our children how to think, speak, and write. We should teach them all about mental, emotional, and physical health. We should teach them how to build and keep healthy relationships. And more!

Intro

The educational system has a lot of potential in America but it doesn’t live up to it, often through no fault of the teachers themselves. I’ve personally seen and met many teachers who say what the problem really is, and I’ll take the next step by offering some pieces of information we should teach our children and by offering some systems that work by replacing the educational environment. Enjoy the read!

Why Institutions At All?

It’s a good question. After all, children naturally learn everything they need to as they grow up and discover the world! We never needed schools to begin with and we still don’t, especially with how terrible many of them are in America – all we really need to learn is language and (maybe) mathematics.

Let’s think it through – if we had no schools then children would stay at home. Since they’re naturally curious they would ask questions and the parents would answer them. But since they’re naturally curious they’ll want to see the outside world. The patents let them see the outside world and, of course, they meet new people who teach them new things, often naturally. 

Depending on their level of curiosity they’ll ask more and more questions and learn more and more things as everyone around them educates them and as they educate themselves. As they grow up they’ll probably have many connections and have at least a few marketable skills, and they’ll have enjoyed it in the process since they were naturally being themselves all along.

Schools are not a need, but a want – we like to build these complex corporate environments and tell our children to educate themselves so they can make money in a complicated world. But what if the child did better by spending their time building a skill instead? What if they take the time they would have spent in school and use it in ways that benefit them more than school would? Many of us don’t consider these questions because we tend to assume that we know best and that they need to be taught what’s right (with some key exceptions of course)!

My answer is this: having these institutions can be beneficial if we are teaching our children the right things. This is the reason we have them, not because they’re just a place to send our kids to every day. We certainly shouldn’t make them mandatory, but a choice, and a choice that would benefit them if they made it!

Things Worth Learning

“Okay then, what are some things that are actually worth learning?”

There are some things that are worth learning early on in life! These things include:

-Language and math. If we cannot speak we may have a hard time communicating, and being able to count things and perform calculations is quite useful. We don’t need to overdo it, but if the child can and wants to excel that’s fine too!

-How to be psychologically, physically, and emotionally healthy. We should definitely teach our children some basic (and possibly in-depth) information about how to be and stay healthy on these three dimensions. This is one of if not the most important part of my post – I really want to see our schools teach this vital information to our children as early in their childhood as they possibly can, especially when it comes to the value of healthy food and how to cook healthy food.

-How to think, speak, and write. There are many ways to think, learning how to speak is an art in and of itself, and being able to write effectively opens up all kinds of opportunities!

-How to form and maintain healthy relationships. This. Is. Huge! If school taught us how to form healthy relationships instead of throwing us into the fire we would probably be okay for the rest of our lives regardless of the skills/talents we have/develop. Everyone has their friend type(s) and being able to stay within those friend groups (and to approach new ones) with great socialization skills taught in school is a solid solution to the lack of socializing that social media has brought upon us.

-Emotions and emotional intelligence. Can you imagine how far we’d go if school gave us an accurate description of every emotion, how it feels, what the long-term effects of holding onto that emotion are, which ones are positive and which ones are negative, and that we can more or less control our emotions at all times? We’d never have any questions about passion, confidence, fulfillment, meaning, love, happiness, intuition, understanding, or sexual desire because we learned about them and how to feel these things in school! This part is very important too not only because emotional fulfillment is important, but also because many of us in America are actively searching for it.

-Speaking of sexual desire, we should go above and beyond our normal sex-ed and give them basic information on how to genuinely please men and women. This will save some frustration from both parties later on in life!

-Intelligence and spirituality. I want our schools to show our children the works of intelligent and spiritual people, and what it really means to be intelligent and spiritual. This way they at least see the sides of life that, if they develop, will help them live better and more fulfilling lives.

-Real-life, tangible skills. Some skills that come to mind are woodworking, welding, driving, gardening (and generally tending to the earth), mechanical skills, and the option to transfer to a trade school for the last 1-3 years of high school.

-How to self-improve and how to self-realize! If you know how and which areas to self-improve in you’ll be just fine when you get out of school, and knowing how to realize yourself (opening your 3rd eye, psychedelics, strengthening your mind, etc) is… Well, the thing to do.

-Beliefs and intentions. Since beliefs and intentions are so f-ing powerful we should be learning about these within our first week of starting school! We should teach them what they are, what they do, how they can use them to live in well-being, and all about negative beliefs and intentions as well… As a start! As an extension to this, we should teach them how to distinguish between positive and negative (regenerative and detrimental) behavior and feelings since these are offshoots of what we believe and intend.

-How to stay strong in hard times. So many people just blow in the wind when a trial or a hard time comes around, but we should be teaching their children how to stand up during hard times and how to be successful while doing so.

-How to live a healthy, balanced life.

Our school systems should definitely be focusing on teaching these things instead of what they’re teaching now. Schools in America have gotten so lax that they’re producing graduates who don’t have a single clue about the things they should know, and this should’ve changed yesterday.

Systems That Work

I also want to give some alternate systems that work just as well (if not better) than the current educational structure we see in America. 

-First, we can have a system where we don’t change anything from what we see now except anything that is needed to teach our children what they should be taught. This is probably the most pragmatic solution because we can keep the structure the way it is and only make changes to accommodate the fact that we’re teaching our children all of the things I mentioned above.

-We can have no schools altogether. This also works as I mentioned above – we don’t have to make life so complicated, and I assert that letting life become simple again is healthier for us and the environment.

-We can build a system where no part of school is mandatory and everything’s optional, kind of like college! Does your child struggle in math but excel in woodshop? Pull them out of math and put them in woodshop! School doesn’t have to (I argue shouldn’t) be mandatory, and having school/parts of school be optional seems to be best for the child as well.

-Depending on the child/children in question we can give them the option to self-educate. This will work if the child is ambitious and expresses a unique interest in a subject or two, they should be allowed to pursue it/them and receive credibility for it. This can also work in combination with sending them to school!

-Also, we as parents can simply do what’s best for the child overall. I understand this requires attention and effort, but each child has their own wants, interests, strengths, and weaknesses, and helping them go in the direction they naturally want to go without interfering too much (IE, forcing them to participate in a broken school system) is definitely a better option for your precious child!

Conclusion

The educational system largely shapes how well and successful our children are for the rest of their lives. Right now, at the end of 2020, the school system in America is setting its own children up for failure by failing to teach them the proper things and by failing to encourage the parents to treat them in the proper way. It’s truly a mess, and I encourage you to take some of the mess upon yourself and clean it up as best as you can.

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On Competition

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Quick Fact

-We normally engage in competition to feel good, however, we can obtain the same feelings by other, more effective means! 

Intro

Competition, as we very well know, is extremely popular in our modern society today. It comes in forms varying from sports to conversations to partners to wars, and it seems like we can’t get enough of it. Watching sports in America is so popular that it almost defines America, and of course almost every country values war, an extreme form of competition… So what gives?

You know, there’s a person in my life who is extremely hypercompetitive. He’s the most competitive person I’ve ever seen in real life or TV, and it’s ruining (or otherwise greatly inhibiting) his life on every possible dimension. I began to question the point and goal of competition before, but meeting this guy made me question it even more… Until I arrived at my stark conclusions! Let’s take a look at the nature of competition, shall we?

The Nature of Competition, What The Goal Is

So, we have two basketball teams trying to win a game. Why?

Part of this is simply a biological urge. Testosterone, to be exact – the higher your level of testosterone the more competitive you’re likely to be. 

I’m fairly certain that we developed this chemical because we faced a lot of threats in our primal years. It helped by giving us the “alpha” mindset, “I deserve to live and you don’t,” and this mindset combined with physical strength made it possible for us to kill enough oncoming threats to survive into the modern age. We probably developed serotonin and/or dopamine alongside testosterone because our bodies wanted us to feel good right after we defended our families, almost as a source of motivation!

So nowadays we have many men who know how it feels to “win,” to be the alpha, to be dominant over others. We enjoy feeling good, so we compete in sports and try to win because we know winning feels good. Or we try to dominate the conversation. Or we boss our partner around. Or… Well, it can be a number of things. Plus, we feel other endorphins while our body is moving, and these feel great as well.

Competition is a very primal, biological state of being with a simple goal – survive and feel good. Often we don’t even know why we compete, but so much of our country and our world is so obsessed with it because we want to feel the good stuff, and because we don’t understand better ways of obtaining said good stuff.

The Positives and The Negatives

The positives are:

-Competition (competing in sports, etc) makes us feel good through physical movement and teamwork

-Competition where there isn’t much physical movement still feels good via winning and teamwork 

-It’s easy and simple to initiate and carry out consistently.

-Almost everyone on the planet enjoys watching or participating in some form of competition, which means it’s a great way to relate to people.

And the negatives are:

-As it stands many of us are far too obsessed with it, some of us even going so far as to ignore our spouses and/or children to watch the game.

-it’s very very pushed in almost every single country in one form or another, we love to prioritize it over literally everything else. Consequently, many of us weren’t raised right and yearn for “the thing we can’t explain.” 

-The majority of us who are consumed by competitive spirits often stay there for life, and that life is often a low-vibrational and unfulfilling life.

In my opinion, the negatives are far too detrimental to be ignored! Some of us have a healthy view towards competition and we take it quite lightly, but it’s worth continuing for the same of those who are simply enraptured by the competitive spirit.

How To Reach The Goal In Better (More Effective) Ways

Feeling good and surviving isn’t very difficult! It especially doesn’t require us to be consumed by competitive spirits – a healthy balance between healthy competition and doing other things in life will often be the best way to reach our goal of “surviving and feeling good.”

I encourage you to ask yourself, “in which areas of my life do I want to take action? Where do I cut back and where do I move forward? And why, exactly?” Once you know exactly where and why you want to take action, taking the action itself will probably feel more meaningful overall.

There are other ways such as deep meditation. You can choose to feel good whenever you want, and I especially direct this next point to the militarily-minded among us – psychedelics. Ironically, the ones who make and enforce the law against psychedelics are the ones who need (and benefit from) them the most!

Don’t discount a healthy diet, a healthy social life, and a healthy relationship. Learning how to build the necessary skills to have these things will take some time but I 100% recommend that everybody do this as well as you/they possibly can.

Conclusion

In the end, being too obsessed with competition isn’t very healthy for you or anyone around you. If you’re already healthy and you enjoy watching the game then that’s fine! But there are always different (dare I say, better!) ways to achieve the goal that competition wishes to achieve, especially when it comes to war. Every soldier should meditate and take psychedelics, period! Then they’ll see how great their war really is!

Thank you for reading! I’ll see you in the next article 🙂