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           <h2><b>How to practice Cold Exposure </b></h2>
 <p>There are a few methods to do Cold exposure, you have Ice baths, Cryotherapy, jumping into the nearest lake, <b>or more simply (and cheaply) Cold Showers.</b></p>
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 <p>How cold ? Resistance to cold temperatures varies from person to person. So we'll go with the following scale : </p>
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 	<li><p>Pleasant temperature</p></p>
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 <p>What we're aiming for here is <b>your current "uncomfortably cold, yet safe" temperature</b>. If you were to try my current "uncomfortably cold" temperature (as i have been practicing cold exposure daily for more than 8 months), your heart would probably stop immediately, so stay within the safezone, do not force yourself.</p>
 <p>How long ? <b>At the minimum 11 minutes per week</b> is what you need to be able to have positive results. </p>
 <p>If you want to see more benefits, try to make it even more. My daily shower is approximately 10 minutes long, and now, i take it ice cold right from the beginning, the whole time. For me this amounts to a little more than 60 minutes of cold exposure per week, where for me the benefits are undeniable (for example remaining in contact with my entire family (that caught colds) without getting any of it for 2 whole weeks, remaining OK the whole time and after).</p>
+<p><b>WARNING VERY IMPORTANT:</b> You are reinforcing your immunary system by breathing in and out as much air as you possibly can, <b>so you need to intentionally slow down and deepen your breathing</b>, while undergoing the cold exposure. Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BNejY1e9ik">Wim Hof's breathing method</a> for more details on that:</p>
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+<p>At first when you are starting to adapt to the cold, you'll have to breathe intentionally as described above, but later down the road you won't need to do it anymore.</p>
 <p>As the goal is to gradually work up your cold tolerance, if you want to do it like i did, put the shower temperature at the "slightly cold" temperature, and every day, <b>very slightly turn it down, to a slightly lower temperature, without ever turning the temperature up again.</b> The temperature either stays the same (at that slightly cold temperature) or goes down, but it must never go back up again.</p>
 <p>You'll probably be suprised to see after a while, that the heat you usually sought when entering the shower no longer needs to come from the water, <b>the heat comes from your own Body.</b> That's when you know the brown fat is being activated. <b>This is a clear reminder, that what can be achieved from outside, can also be achieved from within.</b></p>
 
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           <h2><b>Digging deeper</b></h2> </br> </br>
 <p>If you want to see faster progress, and are willing to dig deep into it like i did, directly switch to that uncomfortably cold temperature, You will see that your body is going to make you breathe through your mouth instinctively. it's going to be a vivid reaction at first, the typical fight or flight stress response. </p>
-<p>Look at how your body is reacting: gasping for air, and instinctively breathing deeply</p>
+<p>Look at how your body is reacting: gasping for air, <b>and instinctively breathing deeply</b></p>
 <p>Listen to what your mind is saying: "Get me out of here! Turn the temperature up!"</p>
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 <p><u>Controlling the Body:</u></p>

productivity/nihilism/index.html

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 <p>Suppose you are on the road, driving at full speed. Are you more at peace when you see that there is nothing obstructing the road, or when there are obstacles on the highway ?</p>
 <p>Suppose you are trying to enjoy the sun outdoors, do you want there to be anything obstructing the sunrays from reaching you? </p>
 <p>This is all you are doing when taking up identities, beliefs, compulsions, and allowing them to permanently stick to you.</p>
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 <p>You have taken up masks after masks, placed it on your face, one on top of the other, and now they have begun to stick to your face. You are unable to take them off without being in pain. Over time you may have even given up trying to remove them, and probably you have even started to accept this mess as your new normal.</p>
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 After all, everyone's like that, why does it matter if i become like them aswell, i'll fit right in !
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 <p>All you need to make use of them is to sit comfortably in one place, to close your eyes, and to intentionally and repeatedly, mentally utter each sentence in synchronisation with your breath.</p>
 <p>Each thought being mentally uttered, must last the entire duration of the Inhalation or Exhalation. Given the level of focus it takes to maintain it over long stretches of time, if you are doing it correctly, you shouldn't be able to fall asleep while doing it, especially if you are intentionally slowing down your breath the whole time.</p>
 <p>Give it a solid try (do it <b>once a day for at least 5 minutes at a time</b>) if your mind hasn't stopped producing internal suffering for a long time. </p>
-<p>One of the first signs that this is working, is if when you stop uttering the mantras, and just breathe normally without eyes still closed, <b>your mind should be able to remain at ease, without thinking unecessarily.</b> You will be able to enjoy the sunrise in the morning, you may rediscover small things that you may have forgotten about, such as how beautiful nature can be, and how peaceful it can be. </p>
+<p>One of the first signs that this is working, is if when you stop uttering the mantras, and just breathe normally without eyes still closed, <b>your mind should be able to remain at ease, without thinking unecessarily.</b></p>
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+<p> You will be able to enjoy the sunrise in the morning, you may rediscover small things that you may have forgotten about, such as how beautiful nature can be, and how peaceful it can be. </p>
 <p>Keep in mind that this is to remain a daily practice, it can be practiced whenever you have a few minutes to sit by yourself, quietly with your eyes closed. </p>
 <p>Make no mistake, it is very easy to fall back in the trap of being identified with things that you are not, believe things that you do not truly know, and fall into new compulsory behaviors. But at least when you are taking a break from the madness, you are able to see when you are stepping into it and when you are stepping out of it.</p>
 <p><b>The virtue in annihilating everything that is not truly you, is because in the end, Only the real you will remain</b>, and the real you, while being ineffable, and impossible to describe with words, is perfect in every way.</p>

productivity/scio-nihil/index.html

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           <h2><b>Microcosm: What is it that you truly know ?</b></h2> </br> </br>
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 <p>Most people nowadays have given into the "I know it all" attitude, mainly due to the false identities they have taken up, which have reduced their perception of the universe, down to a very narrow view. </p>
 <p>But tell me, what do you truly know ? Words are just words, they can't possibly encapsulate the intricate complexity of reality.</p>
 <p>If i mention the word "Apple", that doesn't mean i know what an Apple is, from the inside out, on every layer, with all of it's intricacies. Nor do I know why exactly it is there in the first place.</p>
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-          <h2><b>Macrocosm: What is it that you truly want ? </b></h2>
+          <h2><b>Macrocosm: What is it that you truly know ? </b></h2>
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 <p>Alright, microscopically this is too complex. Macroscopically, how is it so ?</p>
 <p>Do you know how big that universe is ? Do you know where it begins, where it ends ? Or when it began, and when it will end ?</p>
 <p>Do you know which side is up ? Hell, do you even realize just how huge our sun truly is ? Or how small it actually is?</p>

productivity/sum-nihil/index.html

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           <h2><b>Which is more important ?</b></h2>
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 <p>There is a reality everyone seems to forget, a context to be more precise:</p>
 <p>Do you know how big this universe is ? Do you know Where it begins, and where it ends ?</p>
 <p>So in this Vast universe there are a few grains of sand that you call the milky way</p>
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 <p>How many trillions of humans have walked the earth before you ? Tell me, do you think you are doing anything new ?</p>
 <p>Humans have done just about anything for survival, for pleasure, and for control, since the beginning of time.</p>
 <p>Just like you and me they were all born, they worked, they reproduced, and they all died at some point.</p>
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 <p>They all did what they had to do to survive, they reproduced, they got themselves a place to live in, and then they died.</p>
 <p>How are you different, from all those people ?  Take a good look at the reasons behind what you are doing currently.</p>
 <p>As far as i'm concerned, more than 90% of the people on this planet are all doing things for their own selfish interest, one way or the other. Be it for Survival, Pleasure, or Control.</p>
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           <h2><b>Who / What am I ?</b></h2> </br> </br>
 <p>We as humans we are able to accumulate many things. We accumulate money, we accumulate trophies, we accumulate movies, whatever staircase we have found we try to have just one more. </p>
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 <p>All of that effort to try and accumulate more and more of something. Tell me are you going to be able to carry all of it from this world to the next ?</p>
 <p>No you're not even going to be able to take a small needle with you after you die, everything you try to keep to yourself you will anyway have to release it sooner or later.</p>
 <p>Let's say you are a very successful businessman, your staircase is to accumulate monery, by selling oil. You managed to become a millionnaire, and you have all of the money you'd ever need for multiple lifetimes. </p>
 <p>Luxurious lifestyle, lamborghini, house on the beach. From society's standpoint life is settled and you've got everything. Now the neighbor is a multi-billionnaire with a much bigger house and 4 lamborghinis, for some reason you're not satisfied anymore with what you have isn't it ?</p>
 <p>All that is happening is that you are looking at life from the minuscule keyhole vision that society prepared for you, and you believed that was all there was to it.</p>
 <p><b>What's happening is that you have become identified with things that you are not, and have never been.</b></p>
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 <p>You are not your house, you are not your lamborghini, you are not the clothes you wear, you are not that sum of money, you are not even special in the end.</p>
 <p><b>If you look at it correctly, you are not even this body and mind of yours.</b></p>
 <p>The body is a heap of food, and the mind is a heap of impressions. Back when you were 3 years of age you had a small heap of food, and a small heap of impressions</p>
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 <p>As the identities are the hands that wields the intellect, the more identities you pick up, the least able you are to stop yourself from thinking.</p>
-<p>This mantra is designed to trim out and get rid off of all the false identities you have picked up, the first thing you may notice after using this mantra for a while, is that you are able to sit still without a thought in your head. If you have gone on for years without having been able to stop your thoughts like i used to be, you'll see that this is going to feel like a huge relief, like a weight has been put down from over your head..</p>
+<p>This mantra is designed to trim out and get rid off of all the false identities you have picked up, the first thing you may notice after using this mantra for a while, is that you are able to sit still without a thought in your head. If you have gone on for years without having been able to stop your thoughts like i used to be, you'll see that this is going to feel like a huge relief, like a weight has been put down from over your head.</p>
 <p>Too many identities also distort your perception, to get rid of them is to bring back your clarity of perception, to see things as they are once again. </p>
 <p>You'll see also that it is very easy to fall into the trap of getting identified with things that you are not after that, which is why this mantra is to be practiced very often, to be able to maintain your peace of mind. Over time you'll need to do this less and less as your mind gets used to it.</p>
 
+<p>If you try to do this mantra extensively for more than 10 minutes, you may even experience Ego Death (as this is the actual goal of this mantra), here is the description from <a href="https://www.effectindex.com/effects/ego-death">effect index</a> to highlight what it feels like:</p>
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+Ego death (also known as ego suppression, ego loss or ego dissolution) is the temporary experience of a partial or complete disruption of a person's sense of self, which often results in a range of profound changes to how the person perceives and interprets their own sense of identity and the nature of agency and self-hood.
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+there is a profound experience of no longer having an “I” experiencing one's sensory input; there is just awareness of sensory input as it is and by itself without a conscious agent to comment on or think about what is happening to it.
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 <p><b>A little distance is all it takes</b>: Suppose you are stuck in traffic for more than 3 hours, from your perception traffic is a horrible thing to be in. But if you go in a hot air balloon, go way up and then look down upon the traffic, you'll now think that traffic is looking preety good!</p>
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 <p>In the same way, if you spend your whole life on the ground over time you'll end up thinking that the earth is flat, but if i put you in a space rocket to go up in space far enough, with enough distance you'll be able to percieve that the earth is round.</p>
 <p>To distance yourself from your thought process is essential to have clarity on what it is doing, and to have clarity on what it should be doing aswell. <b>Yes we're talking neuroplasticity, you don't need to be taking psychedelics anymore with this mantra.</b> With this you are effectively rewriting your way of thinking, trimming out the unecessary patterns, leaving room for the ones that truly matter to you.</p>
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           <h2><b>Anonymity, when you don't matter anymore.</b></h2> </br> </br>
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 <p>Suppose you want to start your own blog like i did, what are you doing it for? <a href="../rightthing/index.html">what is the reason behind it ?</a> Are you doing this out of self interest, to grow your fame a little, to get recognition, applause, external validation, squeezing money out of your viewers, or perhaps improving your CV for your IRL career ? <b>Or are you doing it because this work needs to be done ?</b></p>
 <p>Who are you ? Are you someone that works for personal gain ? Or are you someone that works because the work needs to get done ?</p>
 <p>If you go through my blog a bit, you may stumble on anonymous contributions, people that contributed to the blog anonymously. <b>For them, it doesn't matter who did the work, all that matters is that the work gets done.</b> </p>