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Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
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#22I think I've said this before but its 3 things that all end up having the same effect. 1) Meditation to get my mind in check 2) Fitness/Diet, making sure I'm at an appropriate weight and fitness level 3) Sleep, shouldn't require any explanation. Having these 3 things in check is the equivalent of 10+ IQ points. The last two items shouldn't require any explanation but Meditation is one that people often have issues se…
Do you have any advice on how to build the meditation habit? I tried reading and following Search Inside Yourself, but it didn't stick.
I’ll expand on “do it every day”.
Do it anytime you remember to. You can take one conscious breath right now. Two or twenty when you’re driving. A few more when walking.
My takeaway from meditation is that it changes my perception of me and the mind — from a thinking machine limited to and suffering of the limitations of that — to a much more expansive being for which thinking is one of many modalities, a modality occupying a tiny part of a vast, vast space.
Dwelling as this entity is infinitely more productive and joyous than dwelling in the tiny (by comparison) confines of the thinking one.
Spending more and more of the time as that is where it’s at for me.
The way? Remember that I am identified with the thinking one and use my attention to resensitize myself into the rest.
I recommend “Turning your mind into an ally.” Excellent little book.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#23Stop eating processed sugar(s), white flower and meat. Learn to let go of opinions I am attached to and become open to alternatives faster (it is actually a body trick). Embrace myself fully with all my “defects”.
What's the body trick?
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#24i3wm. I thought it couldn't be that much better, it just a window manager. Now it's hard to imagine using anything else.
If you want to get started the long exhaustive way, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#25Stop eating processed sugar(s), white flower and meat. Learn to let go of opinions I am attached to and become open to alternatives faster (it is actually a body trick). Embrace myself fully with all my “defects”.
For the last week I've been making a conscious effort to only eat foods with no sugar.
It turns out, this is way easier said than done. It seems like this limits your diet only to vegetables and meats (or meat substitutes).
Things I would've never expected with sugar nutritional facts. Things like whole wheat loaf bread, plain unflavored yogurt, and cottage cheese. One would think they would have sugar-free options if you look hard enough, I can't seem to find any.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#26i3wm. I thought it couldn't be that much better, it just a window manager. Now it's hard to imagine using anything else. If you want to get started the long exhaustive way, start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4 .
Definitely a technical thing... but I agree using a tiling windows manager has brought new and improved changes to my work flow as a developer. The thing no one ever talks about is you must also have a standard (gnome, kde, etc) windows manager handy to use at a moments notice because there are things that will be hidden in a tiling manager and you won't know they are gone if it is the first time running a program. Setting up a VPN, doing heavy duty network config, and system administration I would advocate are better suited trying for the first time without a tiling manager. After the steps have been mastered and the command are known is when i3wm really shines. I'm sure there are many counterpoints speaking to how easy it is to use i3wm to configure XYZ but after years of using it I am drawn to launching new programs without it to get a feel for them until I learn the requisite commands and switch over to i3wm.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
#27Stop eating processed sugar(s), white flower and meat. Learn to let go of opinions I am attached to and become open to alternatives faster (it is actually a body trick). Embrace myself fully with all my “defects”.
What is white flower? Carbs?
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#30Stopped believing authority figures.
Listened to myself and my own intuition -- both informed and "gut reactions". Acted on same.
Learned to defend myself. Mentally, physically, emotionally.