The rest of us call this camping.
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Try going outside!
Yeah not for nothing, but as cliche as “touch grass” sounds…some days you really just need to.
Don’t necessarily have to touch the grass, directly, with your hands. That’s kinda gross. Animals poop there. But like…walk on a trail somewhere. Or a park. Fresh air. Nature.
As an entirely non-spiritual person, it kind of does “mend the soul”, as they say. Not a literal soul, but your metaphorical, metaphysical, psyche.
I suddenly feel real bad for people who don’t have adequate “nature” an accessible distance from their home. That must be actual torture. Humans need to move, to explore. We need to breathe fresh air. Being stuck in a concrete jungle a few blocks wide is no different than being a caged hen, or a bunny in a tiny hutch…with the outdoors surrounding you constantly…freedom taunting you openly.
Or maybe I’m just high. Idk.
Humans evolved to be in nature. We can function without it, but it’s very easy to throw our minds out of kilter. Spending time in a natural environment provides a mental reference. It’s a level and type of stimulation we are optimised for. It’s a lot easier to later hang onto that balance, back into modern life, than re-establish it under those stresses.
- Zero stimulation
- Going outside
Choose one
There’s no such thing as zero stimulation
But being out in nature makes it much easier to just sit and exist. Or wander around and exist
Black room, no light, no noise, close eyes. Dont even have to leave the house, even easier with less stimulation.
I don’t know about you, but the quiet only makes things louder for me. I hear the building creak, the wind pushing against everything, the hum of electronics, cars in the distance, voices carried on the wind…
Even if you can cut off all that, even in a sensory deprivation tank, your body is full of noise and sensation. If it’s quiet enough, you can hear the blood pumping through your body
And then there’s the tinnitus
Its called vypassana, it takes 10 days and it does wonders
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It is a great thing.
It is a quite empiric meditation technic without any mystical stuff.
It is all over the world and it is free
It is actually written vipassana. Google it.
PS. There is food, I missed that part :D
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I think that the experience is very unique for each person, so I will not get into that.
I think the main idea is that the sensory deprivation exposes how your brain works, to yourself.
It is very scientifical because it is all about leaving your mind empty and observing what happens.
This is where the experiences differ.
However, it is almost like a physical training on controlling your brain, of empowering you on what you think and how you think it.
We were about 60 people when I did it, only 1 left before the end, only one other said at the end that he did not find it very useful.
For me it was life changing, I must also say that when I found out that something like this existed, my first thought was “I have to do this”
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