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Do You Physically Exercise to Help Improve Your Insights?


If so, what particular exercises do you do and why?




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What the hell is it with you and excersize? I already told you the secret to insight, why do you think the devil is regarded as a bringer of bother suffering and knowledge? They are related. Most of the living in bliss have lots of things they don't wanna lose, so they don't open themselves to things or other ideas because they easily get hurt. Commonly as "attachment."

You know the saying "Better keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than remove all doubt?" That statement is actually keeping civilization from progress. Many ideas go unnoticed and silenced because of that statement. People are too afraid to risk being hurt slightly, so they never do anything or say anything, or even think anything.

Bill is fat and stupid.

He hopes to improve himself.

Bill, I'll say it again: heavy, one-arm, snatches...do them...your flesh will become like a god's.

Probably won't do too much for your head...one out of two....*shrug*.

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In my defense, I'm fat and stupid.




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That type of insight comes from allowing two-arm snatches to pass through me.



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Bill Wiltrack wrote: If so, what particular exercises do you do and why?

Not those exercises in those GIFs, I can tell you that.

"In my defense, I'm fat and stupid."

HA!

Bill Wiltrack wrote:
Do You Physically Exercise to Help Improve Your Insights?

Hell, no.

Lack of physical exercise doesn't prevent insight. Thinking does. If you want insights, stop thinking.

That will be a lot harder to do than the most strenuous physical exercise, BTW.

Breath

I do two five kilo gramme dumb bells daily eighty times when ever I get up [ my body clock
does thirty to thirty five hour days as I do not work ] Every other week I walk between four
to six miles on one day and average twenty miles a month give or take. I am in good shape
for a man of my age : fifty years old and six foot one and two hundred and thirty six pound

Breath wrote:

Bill Wiltrack wrote:
Do You Physically Exercise to Help Improve Your Insights?

Hell, no.

Lack of physical exercise doesn't prevent insight. Thinking does. If you want insights, stop thinking.

That will be a lot harder to do than the most strenuous physical exercise, BTW.

Breath

I think what you are talking about is strenuous thinking. For example, just taking a rest and letting the thoughts flow freely rather than forcing them would give good insight. Automatic thinking, vs. forced thinking.

Exercise is good because it releases pleasure receptors in the brain known as endorphins
I find it beneficial as well to just let thoughts flow freely for it stops one from becoming
mentally rigid and therefore having fixed opinions. Only have those on anything which is
both objectively and demonstrably true and for everything else I maintain an open mind

GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:

Breath wrote: Hell, no.

Lack of physical exercise doesn't prevent insight. Thinking does. If you want insights, stop thinking.

That will be a lot harder to do than the most strenuous physical exercise, BTW.

Breath

I think what you are talking about is strenuous thinking. For example, just taking a rest and letting the thoughts flow freely rather than forcing them would give good insight. Automatic thinking, vs. forced thinking.

What you suggest is good, useful, a great start for those neurotic compulsive thinkers amongst us.

But my suggestion doesn't end there. Thinking is equivalent to subliminal speech, and when I say that if you want insights, stop thinking, I mean stop talking to yourself. Because that is what thinking is - it is talking to yourself. Now we readily acknowledge that a person who mutters to themself might be a bit loopy, thinking is no different, except that other people might not notice it. Thinking is a bit loopy.

What could be a useful function of a thought, given that the author and audience are one and the same?

Breath wrote:

GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:

Breath wrote: Hell, no.

Lack of physical exercise doesn't prevent insight. Thinking does. If you want insights, stop thinking.

That will be a lot harder to do than the most strenuous physical exercise, BTW.

Breath

I think what you are talking about is strenuous thinking. For example, just taking a rest and letting the thoughts flow freely rather than forcing them would give good insight. Automatic thinking, vs. forced thinking.

What you suggest is good, useful, a great start for those neurotic compulsive thinkers amongst us.

But my suggestion doesn't end there. Thinking is equivalent to subliminal speech, and when I say that if you want insights, stop thinking, I mean stop talking to yourself. Because that is what thinking is - it is talking to yourself. Now we readily acknowledge that a person who mutters to themself might be a bit loopy, thinking is no different, except that other people might not notice it. Thinking is a bit loopy.

What could be a useful function of a thought, given that the author and audience are one and the same?

What insights has that given you?

GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:
What insights has that given you?

Silence is golden (bliss)..............

Breath wrote:

GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:
What insights has that given you?

Silence is golden (bliss)..............

I mean anything new, a rarity, or we haven't heard before?

GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:

Breath wrote:

GreatandWiseTrixie wrote:
What insights has that given you?

Silence is golden (bliss)..............

I mean anything new, a rarity, or we haven't heard before?

As long as you are pursuing the new, the rare , the unheard you are not silent.

At that level of inquiry, you are still only going to drown in your own shit.

Enjoy the gurgling.....