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Laughing at my thoughts instead of judging them

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Me in the forest

Hi 🙂,
with video games I used to repeat a cycle over and over again. It went like this: temptation, followed by a downward spiral where the games suck me in more and more and everything else in my life falls into disrepair, things get out of hand and I stop myself, uninstall and swear to never touch video games again, then I repeat it from the start.

After the last time in my life that I played video games, something was different though. No big drama, I just knew I was done with it. It was not something I did consciously. The idea of it does not tempt me anymore. I now feel a mix of contempt and disgust for it.

The video games are in the past, but with entertainment media I had a similar cycle going just until this week. Coming off my no media challenge, I lost two days to entertainment. I had tried in the past to combat my desire for entertainment on an analytical level: creating rules, restricting access, understanding what lays behind it and banning it altogether for a time (= no media challenge.) To no avail. Despite making the experience that I was much better off without it, I would always returned to it.

I think I successfully engineered a change similar to what I unconsciously did with the video games. I went into my unconscious and negotiated the decision to forsake entertainment and wholeheartedly accept all that comes with it. I have not been drawn to entertainment media since. What I consumed habitually with entertainment as the intent, I quickly aborted, because I found it to be dull and tasteless. A great success indeed🙂

Commitments #

My ongoing commitments are:

What I’m working on #

For context, see /now.

  • Eating raw is no problem at all. Even in a social occasion I was not tempted by the non-raw food and bringing my own food was fine too.
  • I had and have some maintenance stuff to do, before I can jump into my next trading focus challenge.

Challenges #

Applying a specific learning or philosophy for a week (see project.)

Next one #

Don’t judge my thoughts. Laugh at them and dismiss them.

Most all of my thoughts are unhelpful and distract me from the moment. To have one thought after the other, even though I keep dismissing them, can be disheartening at times. I would imagine that taking a more cheerful attitude by laughing at them would help to improve my state and presence level.

New articles #

  • Updated my raw definition 🇩🇪 , though it’s still not complete🥲

All the best,
Jonathan


PS: Please let me know if you have any comments, feedback or criticism.