c) Remember the teachings of Rob Burbea (“what you resist persists”) and Shinzen Young (“suffering equals pain times resistance, purification equals discomfort times equaminity, frustration equals pleasure times resistence, fulfilment equals pleasure times equaminity”)<ref>[[Purification and Fulfilment: Four Formulas ~ Shinzen Young - YouTube]([Purification and Fulfilment: Four Formulas ~ Shinzen Young - YouTube]([Purification and Fulfilment: Four Formulas ~ Shinzen Young - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u9nuSf9g1g))) Purification and Fulfilment: Four Formulas ~ Shinzen Young]</ref>. Essentially, resisting negative energies makes them stronger. This is doubly so on psychedelic states of consciousness. Instead, remember that high enough equanimity, where you don’t let positive or negative vibes “move you”, maximizes the rate of stress dissipation within your nervous system, and this accelerates the rate at which negative vibes flow through you and exit your system via some kind of radiative cooling process currently not understood by science. Practice taking cold showers without stalling or flinching, or eating relatively hot peppers without resisting or letting the pain get to you. 3. Concentration a) It is hard to tell “what you do” to increase concentration. As far as I can tell it requires a lot of skillful rhythmicity that guides awareness in a way that prevents its falling away. b) A rough metric for concentration might be: amount of energy of flow that is in phase, in harmonic relationship, and synchronized. Thus, for any level of concentration there are many possible “solutions”. Only on the very high-levels of concentration do experiences become constrained to only a few types. The combinatorial space becomes smaller as concentration increases. The holy grail here would be the creation of a high-entropy alloy that blends together all seven factors. It’s a bootstrapping process. As you start developing some of the factors, you can use them to weld the flow in such a way that developing the other factors becomes easier. Then you can start developing two or more factors simultaneously (e.g. “tranquil equanimity” or “joyous concentration”). In time, one climbs the gradient that fortifies the presence of the factors in the mind, making it a home for wholesome qualia computing. More resonant network." <ref>[[Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening | Qualia Computing]([Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening | Qualia Computing]([Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening | Qualia Computing]([Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening | Qualia Computing]([Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/04/04/buddhist-annealing-wireheading-done-right-with-the-seven-factors-of-awakening/))))) Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening]</ref> '''abcdef. Deconstruction''' Packets of consonant negentropy that when sent as messages are smoothening and dissolving bayesian markov blanket beliefs. The sharper (asymmetric) they are, the more they are something like dissonant knotted traumatic structures on the spectrum that can be healed by untangling. What all can be deconstructed? Senses can be modelled by 6 dimensions, different interacting fields: inner and outer visual, auditory and other senses in one field that include energy body, touch, taste, smell, feelings, thoughts. On jhanas or 5-MeO-DMT they can collapse to one field. To be more descriptive: Body, thoughts, breath, space, time, depth, sounds, objects, space around objects, attention, mechanisms of attention, energy, pressure, stress, pain, pleasant, unpleasant, contracted muscles, intent to meditate, anticipation, mental echo of phenomena - image and picture of the image, sound and mental image of the sound, intention of an action and the action (moving arm), intension to move attention and attention moving, anything we think is us or the other (subject and object), center, boundary, experiencer experiencing experienced, awareness awaring awared, personality, identity, social status, priorities, goals, thermostats, likes, dislikes, fun things, preferences, norms, morals, judgements, hiearchies, what is true, our ontology, ways of reasoning, concepts, categories, algorithms, body map, world map, anything discrete/dual in our sensory channels (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) or thoughts (image or language, assumptions, hypotheses, beliefs, models, narratives, beliefs learned by the the environment or by us, distinction between us and the environment), feelings, emotions, fear or love of uncertainity, hate, anger, frustration, friction, love, kindness, compassion, prediction error, mind wandering, spacing out, memories, planning, seeking, thinking about thinking or sensations or actions, metacognition, edges, flow, habits, reinforcement of activities by unpredictable rewards, biases, selection confirmation bias, seek, fight, flight, freeze conditioned reactions and behaviors created by past experience of pain or pleasure and basic needs and valence/unity/interconnectedness/agreement/harmony/connectedness of/with us, others, environment, universe, everything, and something/someone giving us hope and uncertainity/dissonant error reduction, the fact that senses are not seen as one unified sense door, the fact that sensations are aware of themselves at their own place and are coming from void to void timelessly spacelessly, contractions, expansions, vibrations, blips, sensations are made of infinite something that is made of nothing, all of those identifying labels are empty evolutionary useful dreamlike mental constructions, emptiness is empty, duality is nonduality, separation is unity, emptiness is form. Enter nondual awareness by objectifying, relaxing, trying to locate and dissolving the center of experience. Notice that the awareness, not the self from the head, is conscious of contents of awareness. Everything is made out of clusters of tangled sensations that can be untagled. Each sensation is coming out of void, vibrating, vanishing into the void. Contracting and expanding at the same time.<ref>[[How to Do Nondual Vipashyana - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TkVzzgT868) Nondual vypashanya guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> <ref>[[Jailbreak! Escape the Cage of Your Mind - Nondual Vipashyana on Thought and Feeling. - YouTube]([Jailbreak! Escape the Cage of Your Mind - Nondual Vipashyana on Thought and Feeling. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqhuto3SVpk)) Another nondual vypashanya guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> Dissolve the great attractor/contraction of iamness/existence by endlessly looking for it and what it's made of without using concepts and constantly not finding it.<ref>[[What Is Your Mind? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/Z9xz_U3JnPQ) Dissolving central attractor guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> Deconstructing, shifting between cortical hiearchy layers: 1: Narrarive self and projections into the past and future 2: Experiencing present moment self 3: Awareness Deconstructing experience: 1: Mindfulness of raw sensations 2: Open monitoring vipassana 3: Resting in nondual awareness doing nothing 4: Reified caught in mind wandering in episode 5: Less mind wandering and thinking 6: More experiencing 7: Stepping back from, letting go, dropping away experiencing 8: Deconstructing self experiencing idea 9: Awareness of experience 10: Taking away experience, ground without prediction, inference, categorization, conceptualization, nonverbal, nonlinguistic, no thought and self models as there are no regularities over time in sensory sensation channels, tracking in no seconds, timelessness, spacelessness, highest Jhanas, cessations, groundless ground, by symmetrification, increasing consonance, unviscosiziting, relaxing, unstressing, expading, getting out of of beliefs aka sensations through impermanence, no self, suffering qualities of all phenomena insights.<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind]</ref><ref>[[Like Wind in a Vast, Empty Sky - Nondual Meditation - YouTube]([Like Wind in a Vast, Empty Sky - Nondual Meditation - YouTube]([Like Wind in a Vast, Empty Sky - Nondual Meditation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZK80rg_ONo))) My favorite awakening guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> Then do nondual loving reconstruction, more on that later. '''abcdef. Center of awareness jumping out of your head/neck/heart/gut into vast space''' Find a hole in the back of your head/neck/heart/gut and make your center of awareness jump out of it into vast space. It's a very efficient way of literally making your brain activitiy jump out of your default mode network (resulting in quieting your thinking mind) into the central executive network making you more able to dissolve contractions (symmetrify asymetries) (decontruct generative model's evolutionary useful structures) from this point of nondual centerless awareness.<ref>[[Finding Space and Freedom - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/ThelxB7sFa8) Holes guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> <references/> '''abcdef. Jhanas as slowly lowering the information content of experience''' Mind induced build up of joy. Pure loving perfect symmetrical flow! Symmetrification process in brain symmetrifying all other processes. Focus on breath. Slow down breath. Smooth out breath sensations. Learn to see pleasantness in breath. Note it as many times per second as possible. Learn to see pleasantness in pleasantness itself. Stack this in feedback loop way into exponential explosion. That is first Jhanas, there is nine of them: 1st: Delightful Sensations, gladened mind, liking your experience 2nd: Joy: Cultivating rapturing joy by focusing on the pleasantness of breath 3rd: Contentment: Cultivating happiness in the background by being satisfied with what is 4th: Utter peacefulness: Letting go off joy and just resting in happiness 5th: Infinity of space by "imagining" or realizing absence of boundaries such as inflating baloon that eventualy pops 6th: Infinity of consciousness by becoming that space 7th: No-thingness by focusing on the nothingness of that space 8th: Neither perception nor non-perception by turning of all mental faculties, going beyond nothingness 9th: Cessation by turning off consciousness itself, restarting your whole nervous system, turning of all your proceeses in your generative model and blinking out of existence, sense of linear time of the story of your experience breaks down.<ref>[[How to Jhana — with Michael Taft - YouTube]([How to Jhana — with Michael Taft - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5ypXyF3dY)) How to Jhana guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> <ref>[[How Is Jhana Like and Iggy Pop Concert? - YouTube]([How Is Jhana Like and Iggy Pop Concert? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mkYlus3ZLY)) How Is Jhana Like and Iggy Pop Concert? guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> <references/> '''abcdef. Resting by doing nothing''' Anytime mind enters a thought, jump out of it into vast still spacious awareness and rest in it. "Sit down and do nothing. That’s it. Sit down and quite intentionally do nothing at all. Now keep on doing it. However, most people need a little more instruction than that, so let’s unpack it a bit. Even though the meditation is called Do Nothing, you’re actually doing a little tiny bit of something: you’re paying attention to the feeling of doing something. It doesn’t matter where your mind goes. It can go to all sorts of distraction, and that’s fine. You are not trying to meditate, focus, or concentrate in any way. You’re simply noticing when you feel that you’re doing something and letting go of that. If it feels like you’re getting caught up in a thought, let go of that. Don’t just sit there following thoughts, planning, evaluating, etc. That is considered to be doing something. Just let go of doingt hat. If it feels like you’re getting caught up in an emotion, let go of that. If it feels like you’re getting caught up in meditating, let go of that. If it feels like you’re struggling to let go, let go of that. If it feels like you’re constricting or tightening in your body, your emotions, or your mind, let go of that. Just keep relaxing away from all tightening, constriction, or sense that you’re doing anything. (Don’t) do this meditation for as long as you’d like. Make sure your awareness is bright and you are not fading or sleepy. Eventually the mind feels very spacious, open, and relaxed, but also bright, clear, and vivid. Important Note: Over time I’ve noticed that English speakers have two ways of understanding the verb “to let go.” One meaning is “to release.” The second meaning is “to get rid of” or “to push away.” Notice that the first of these is effortless, while the second implies a lot of effort. When I write “let go of that,” I’m talking about effortlessly releasing. You’re not trying to get rid of something, pushing anything away, or making a big effort." <ref>[[Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself](https://deconstructingyourself.com/do-nothing-meditation.html)))))))))))) Do Nothing Meditation by Michael Taft]</ref><ref>[[Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqE39Q4kBiY))))))) Looking into Groundlessness Guided Meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> '''abcdef. Solving trauma by healing the exile in loving nondual awareness''' In order to allow and unify everything in the brain, some dissonant patterns in the bodymind can be so strongly destabilizing that they need healing. [[File:Trauma.jpeg|500px|Alt text]] "To heal a trauma response is to activate it at the same time as another schema that contradicts the trauma schema's assumptions in its own frame. in this context "schema" roughly means "pattern stored in bodymind memory that you learned to execute in response to something". When you trigger a schema it gets retrieved and you automatically act on it. This is often useful learning and sometimes extremely maladaptive. In juxtaposing the 2 you unlock the first schema for a ~5 hour window where it can be updated permanently. The unlocking mechanism is precise and detailed but there's an infinite variety of ways of finding & retrieving the trauma schema, identifying & retrieving an appropriate contradicting schema, persuading the two schemas to juxtapose, providing new information to update on. Any given "standard" technique may or may not work for you depending on exactly what your trauma schemas are and "where in the bodymind" you've stored them, but there will be *some* way of unlocking it. 1. Identify an emotional belief 2. Dig for the original situation in which the emotional learning occurred that formed the belief 3. Make the inherent assumptions explicit in a non-judgmental way (i have to do X because of Y, or otherwise Z will happen) 4. Keep that belief in the foreground while presenting it with counterfactual evidence (e.g. Y is no longer true; better yet: i have not done X, but Z didn't actually happen this time) 5. Cognitive dissonance 6. Updated emotional belief system" <ref>[https://twitter.com/captain_mrs/status/1633841527951859714 Unlocking The Emotional Brain]</ref> New data can be contradicting the old ones with opposite scenario (different environment), love (interpersonal actual measured expression or "fabricated" one, MDMA or love and kindness to self, to/from others, to/from universe<ref>[[Mother Buddha Love - YouTube]([Mother Buddha Love - YouTube]([Mother Buddha Love - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglWhEga4UU))) Mother Buddha Love guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref>, meditation can help), or breakage of spacetime or self/other duality (transcendental deconstructive meditation or psychedelics can help). In bayesian brain its a bayesian belief (learned neurons' correlations with its environment stored in the neurons and connections between them) update using new sensory data making the old generative model obsolete, phase shift in the parameter configuration space hopefully to a more smooth symmetrical consonant dynamics. "While there may be infinite parts within you, there are three main types: firefighters, managers, and exiles. The firefighter parts are protectors that are activated when a trigger is present. An example of this might look like being reminded of a painful memory and using a behavior like substance use to put out the “fire” of the pain. The manager parts protect you by managing situations through intense planning to do whatever they can to avoid something that might bring you deep pain. Both the firefighter and manager, according to the theory, work to keep the exile from emerging and flooding you with memories of pain and trauma."<ref>[https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-ifs-therapy-internal-family-systems-therapy-5195336 Internal Family Sytsems]</ref> Inside everyone is a complex ecosystem of trees and flowers and animals that interact and influence one-another, they grow together, the sun shines on them and the breeze blows through them, rain seeps into the ground. "In parallel, it’s important to briefly mention the role that subagents typically have in us. Namely, what Romeo Stevens calls the “Mr. Meeseeks interpretation of subagents” (Hi I’m Mr. Meeseeks! I see your grandmother is emotionally abusive. I’ll pretend to be her inside your mind so that you can predict what she will do next and thus avoid getting harmed. Let me know when she’s gone so I can go *PUFF*.). The subagents are created to achieve a goal, they don’t really like existing, but will continue to hang in there until they’re convinced the goal has been met. The subagents are spun up in order to accomplish goals that would normally require you to spend a lot of attention but that cannot be simply offloaded to muscle memory (e.g. like driving a car). Typical examples are things like the response one may have to living in an environment with very negative people (say, dark triad personalities) where you need to spin up subagents that behave like them so that you can predict their next move. In cases of PTSD, it may be that part of the problem is that one created a lot of rather negative subagents (of people, situations, dynamics, actual physical hazards, etc.) and that as a collective they reinforce each other.