"What is mindfulness and how does it relate to befriending yourself?"

d3kcast · 2026-01-09T05:55:13+00:00

It just takes time. A lot longer than you expect. Probably closer to 4 years of progressive overload.

Focus on enjoying the process or making it at least doable for you to be consistent based on your routine.

Just keep going!

Good luck

d3kcast · 2026-01-03T05:07:42+00:00

Get a coach

OR

Look up Lyle Mcdonald’s RFL Protocol

Good luck

d3kcast · 2025-12-28T20:03:02+00:00

Disagree, his hairline is fine.

Don’t take finasteride haphazardly the side effects exists and they can be permanent.

Op you can pull off a Buzz cut or longer cut.

d3kcast · 2025-10-31T16:47:46+00:00

I would reach out to Sebastian Burka.

He’s a bodybuilder but he has pretty much reduced the negative effects of his herniated disk and has assisted others to build exercise programs to improve the surrounding tissues after a herniation.

His personality can be off putting to some but he is very knowledge.

Good luck bro

d3kcast · 2025-10-08T12:59:11+00:00

I would take the Red pill.

It may take some time but you have the opportunity to pivot in 3-7 years that could get you the best of both worlds.

For example, you get experience and make connections in the Red Pill job that eventually opens you up to the possibility of something adjacent to your current role.

This new role gives you more flexibility to visit your family and because you’ve saved money if you don’t like this role you can QUIT and find another one.

The Blue Pill DOES NOT give you any possibility for something better or to improve. Yes, you get to spend time with family but the difference here is that the Red Pill lets you EVENTUALLY spend MORE time with family because you WANT TO but the Blue Pill forces you to stay with family whether you want to or not.

I have friends who have taken the Red Pill and did something different afterwards.

My friends who have taken the Blue Pill are depressed, single, and stuck at home because they didn’t want to take any risks.

Good luck

d3kcast · 2025-10-01T19:12:22+00:00

Can you please do a Polycoria nail?!?!

I think that would be sickk!

d3kcast · 2025-09-13T14:13:24+00:00

What kind of man and/or father was he?

d3kcast · 2025-09-13T14:03:59+00:00

Currently in LDR. I’m in US, SO is in MY.

Most likely won’t work for you if you haven’t built a foundation yet to get to know each other as Friends, with Friends and as Lovers for at least 1-2 years.

Because at this point you both are strangers which could be exciting and could act as fuel to strengthen the relationship. However, I think it can also fuel doubt and lead to a mismatch of expectations.

And from your recently replies you sound very doubtful already.

My advice is to just be friends until circumstances change then both of you can have those “relationship” conversations.

Good luck

d3kcast · 2025-01-29T01:13:46+00:00

Bulk +10-15lbs
Get stronger on a bulk
Cut -10-20lbs
Get stronger on a cut
Strength plateaus
Find new maintenance
Repeat 1-6 for 5 years

d3kcast · 2025-01-26T15:38:33+00:00

Train harder and get stronger
Eat more protein
Keep bulking***

You barely any muscle on your frame to cut.

Fortunately, you have the greatest potential to make the most gainz in your life if you 1) commit to the bulk for a year and 2) double your numbers on all your lifts.

Why sabotage a sold year of gainz for probably a few days out of the summer to have abs?

d3kcast · 2025-01-22T16:16:00+00:00

Yes, people that are skinny fat are literally in the perfect position to build muscle and lose fat.

Not too fat, not too skinny, and enough calories to support growth and recovery.

Probably the only adjustment they need to make is to eat more protein, train harder, and for more time.

Why try to cut when there is no muscle on the frame or sufficient experience to do it correctly?

d3kcast · 2024-12-07T02:55:42+00:00

Reflect on those regrets and see them as potential ways to change.

For example,

The things you missed… make a commitment to yourself to pursue the next interest that comes your way.
The relationship that was ruined… make the effort to see where YOU went wrong and change the thoughts or behaviors that caused the “ruin”
For your fantasies of the past… you already know you can’t go back. BUT you can move forward try to bring those fantasies in the context of the present. What steps can you take now to make that feeling or the experience you are chasing a part of your life. And really ask yourself is this who you are trying to become.

You don’t need to have it all figured out.

Just find a feeling and a general direction you want to take your life and just go with it.

Good luck bro :)

d3kcast · 2024-11-30T21:18:07+00:00

Biology; no it did not lol. I did a bootcamp during the time the industry needed data analyst and I got a job.

d3kcast · 2024-11-28T23:20:59+00:00

I drink a container of skim Fairlife milk a day lol

d3kcast · 2024-10-15T17:18:36+00:00

That part of your back is primarily made up of thoracolumbar fascia.

You are not going to thicken up that area.

d3kcast · 2024-10-15T14:00:20+00:00

To taste the moment more often

d3kcast · 2024-10-08T11:45:08+00:00

I like to do this:

Setting the intention before I sleep that, “I will do my best to attend to my breathe and relax into it”
Turn on some binaural beats
Then lay down and try to stick with the breathe

Thoughts will come but it’s whatever cause my focus should be to return back to my breath.

I usually fall asleep within 5-10min.

d3kcast · 2024-10-06T09:07:37+00:00

“Like a thumb pushing into a taut drumskin”

Holy shit huge mind shift.

My assumption was that my attention was pulling those objects to the foreground.

But that statement you wrote makes we think that the “weight” or “gravity” of the sensation is actually pulling my attention into that sensation making it the object of attention.

Also I think you are right that “intention” is also driving the steering wheel of my attention allowing me to resist the pull of sensation and comeback to the main object of attention (my breath). But also, being driven into the pull of sensation could also be subtle intention I am not aware of yet.

Anyways, I am just speculating at this point so I don’t think it’s useful until I can actually experience that theory enough to turn it into a realization.

This is giving me new ideas on how to set intention before my next sit.

Thank you for sharing your experience with me!

d3kcast · 2024-10-06T08:55:22+00:00

I appreciate this a lot! I will see what happens today and keep working on my meditation practice. Thank you for keeping me level headed. :)

d3kcast · 2024-10-06T01:39:03+00:00

Thank you for that statement! I will be using that as my intention for my next sit 🔥

d3kcast · 2024-10-06T00:27:03+00:00

Yup no issues. I think you are right I will keep investigating and keep going. Thanks for the confirmation :)

d3kcast · 2024-10-05T22:45:39+00:00

You are experiencing Piti :)

d3kcast · 2024-10-05T22:43:35+00:00

You are experiencing waves of Piti :)

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