8 loops over the past month of new Limitless, and I think itās a keeper. Iāve been thinking about running a few loops of Daredevil though before heading to the mountain (and maybe while there), give me a boost in story-telling and adventuring type energy.
Ok while in between cycles, I decided to run Spartan + Legacy of the Spartan together, and the combo is nutsā¦ I had one of the best training sessions today and that was after Iād put in a couple hours of working out and running to purposely take myself close to fatigue.
The result kinda blew me away.
These two are going into a custom so running them this week in part to prep for the new custom, but mostly because I want the synergistic boost to have some effect before I head up to the mountain next week.
The dilemma now is: do I run a loop of Hero when I get to the mountainā¦or Daredevil? 
Noticed an increase in body temp last night, plus I forgot to turn off the heater, so I was up way early after only 4.5 hours of sleep.
Early energy was really good, but hitting a wall after being awake for 6 hours now. Makes sense since I only got 3.5 hours of sleep the night before last. Canāt escape sleep deprivation consequences foreverā¦yesterday I felt no symptoms until I had to do some teaching last night and noticed I had to pause a couple beats before communicating.
The overall soreness in my body today is surprisingly minimal. Itās mainly my lower legs complaining since I pushed hard on the run yesterday and did āhigh knee sprintsā on every hill for as long as it took to reach the top.
And the way I see myself in the mirror is already different: I had this internal sense of āyouāre a handsome māferā this morning, and that the physical perfection Iām looking to achieve is already there.
And the overall relaxation in my body feels great.
I ran Spartan last month, so these are all the new, instant changes that were most obviously not from Spartan.
Some fast results from only about 7 minutes of the LotS + Spartan combo.
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I think Limitless is blooming hard right now because I decided to create a spreadsheet to track and optimize everything Iām taking up to the mountainā¦and Iām not a fan of spreadsheets.
I wondered why the hell I was enjoying the tediousness of the process so much yesterday when it dawned on me that I was tapping into that side of myself that loves to minmax ALL THE THINGSā¦going all the way back to the tabletop 
I donāt tap into that side too often anymore, but Iām starting to think that if this is how it feels after only a month of running Limitless, thereāre going to be way more spreadsheets in my future. 
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In the last 18 days, a whole lot has happened. All of it seems to be benefitting my growth, even if at the moment it didnāt seem like it.
If I had to boil it down to a theme, itād be about: Death and Relearning Lessons.
So many good-feeling and interesting experiences were intermingled with a few not-so-good-feeling ones (visiting family definitely fueled some of the higher temp experiences)ā¦
Whatās most fascinating to me is at the end of it all, I feel sort of neutral but positive that it was all for the best.
It might have something to do with running Dragon Reborn Gold St1 for a couple loops before washing out for 5 days at the end of my tripā¦
But, Iām home now and today is the beginning of a new cycle with DRG St1 in the stack (only 3 minutes this time). Iām curious to see what I can do with it running alongside Nouveau RICH.
Forging internal refinement, leadership, and wisdom while innovating on and disrupting a market? Sounds like some challenging fun. Game on.
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Brought this to the journal so as not to derail the videos thread @Viktor ā¦
So, what do I think?
Light sparring is 100% the way to go for ongoing practice. It reduces the chance for major injuries and is basically āthe 80/20ā of hard sparring. Itās a different kind of fun too, a more relaxed and playful fun.
The video made a few good points, and a few I felt meh aboutā¦
What did you find interesting about it?
I think I remember you saying you started practicing with the sword when you started Hero. Do you have experience with other types martial arts or fighting?
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I thought people who practise martial arts professionally always duke it out routinely every workout. I was curious how people here approach it.
Yeah, 80/20 sounds more reasonable
Nope, i was never interested before.
I tried some movements that i saw from youtube, but i didnāt stick with them. Swinging a sword feels more fun to me. I guess thatās HeOās influence there, rofl.
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100%
Hero made training with swords feel almost mystical when I ran it. Super fun.
Have you found someone to swing your sword at?
I mean, someone willing and whoāll swing a sword back at you
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Surprisingly i havenāt.
To be fair, the sub did manifest some opportunities for me to have sparring partners, everything was laid out so perfectly that all i needed to do was to say āyesā.
But i didnāt, i chose to focus on my other goals instead. This is what happened when i used RM:UWX & WB too. I had to say no to keep my focus 
One day iāll accept the opportunity
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Finally posted some results from Dragon Reborn Gold in the discussion thread yesterdayā¦
I did a lot of offline journaling throughout the process due to not wanting to share many personal things here on a public forum while in a state of flux.
(Also, I wondered what the point of keeping this public journal wasā¦)
There was a sense of vulnerability in the first couple weeks with stage 1 that has since changed somewhat. Not that my sensitivity has decreased or Iāve āhardenedā up, but that I have a better grasp on how to navigate the greater sense of āopennessā I feel.
Anyway, I think Iām going to start making more āmicroā posts here to track relevant changes entering my awareness now that Iāve got a good sense of how DRG drives results for me.
I mightāve jumped the gun there, lolā¦
I thought Iād feel more like Saitama in the face of future adversity:
But something came up today and my initial internal response felt more like:
It took longer to subside than I expected as I noticed the little hurricane inside whipping thoughts around. What helped was being honest about feeling āoffā without going into details and not trying to act like everything was super cool. I kept my composure and professionalism though, and actually felt better after expressing that little bit of truth.
In the middle of the break between cycles today, and it feels like Iām on the precipice of some kind of changeā¦
Thereās a sense of exposure like walking a narrow path on a mountain side with a solid wall of rock on one side, and a wide open 5000 foot drop on the other.
The only thing to do is focus on taking the next step and breathing through it.
Interesting things happened yesterday where during a time set aside to study and explore spiritual teachings, all sorts of distractions and internet glitches started happening. One of the distractions got to me emotionally which made concentration and focus feel super tough afterward.
And today, during an hour set aside for spiritual practice and learning, a similar thing happened where something external triggered the emotions to stir, and made focus for the rest of the time a challenge. It wasnāt anywhere near as bad as yesterday tho.
Weāll see how tomorrowās scheduled time goes.
Dreams were wild last night. In one of them, I was on a secret mission but my luggage got lost so then that became my mission, lol. There was another part where I was driving and could willfully control the speed like I was partially lucid, that hasnāt happened in awhile.
my luggage got lost so then that became my mission
wutā¦rereading that triggered somethingā¦what if Iām not dragging āluggageā around anymore and more than able to ācomplete the missionā, but thereās a part of me that doesnāt āfeel rightā without it or thinks thereās some āimportanceā to having it, so I go in search of luggage to have??? (figuratively, in case that wasnāt clear)
I donāt know what the ādream interpretersā will say luggage is supposed to mean, and it doesnāt matter, lolā¦
I intended to make an entry about building a new identity (or mask) and practicing it today because it feels like itās not too far beyond my reach now, and the part noting how my dreams were wild was a ārandomā thought that came up when I opened the journal.
The lighting flash of insight into that exact part of my dream and how it correlates to what I intend to do today, with who I intend to be today, WHILE writing this entry is fkn awesome, lol.
Dragon Reborn Gold is 
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Todayās scheduled time for spiritual learning and practice didnāt bring along any weird glitches or distractions like the other days. But some outside construction-type noise started happening like 10 minutes before ā and continued for another 30-40 minutes or so into it ā so I just closed the windows and was able to focus really well regardless of some of the sound leaking through.
Afterward I felt uplifted and light. More than I had the previous couple days.
A thought that popped up now that Iām thinking about this is: it seems like āthe interferenceā is moving further away and becoming less effective.
Today was a good dayā¦
- got frustrated with a friend, regained my composure and acknowledged it, then moved the conversation along to having more fun ā I guided myself to the experience I preferred and it shifted the entire vibe so my friend willingly went along with it
- got to experience glimpses of some genius hidden in my subconscious
- was told I reminded someone of one of the main dudeās playing a viking on TV, which I took to mean that I was giving off a āviking vibeā or somethingā¦never seen the show tho
- picked up a weapon that I havenāt touched in over 6 months probably, and pulled off the sickest counter while looking at and talking to our instructor ā seems like tapping into flow state is easier since negative, limiting beliefs are breaking down with DRG st1
- experienced the nerdiest dirty talk Iāve ever heard today, so I amplified it and we had a good laugh and a very good time
- spent about 4 hours in my kitchen today purging, cleaning, and reorganizing ā something Iāve wanted to happen for awhile but put off because that stuff is not my jam, so I enlisted the help of that nerdy girl ā and it feels and looks mfkn awesome now
- this is where a shaming thought asks, āWhy did you wait so long, bro???ā To which I respond, āWhy you bringing up old shit, bruh?ā Iām a new man, I donāt defend that other dude
- this is where a shaming thought asks, āWhy did you wait so long, bro???ā To which I respond, āWhy you bringing up old shit, bruh?ā Iām a new man, I donāt defend that other dude
It was day 5 of the break between cycles today, so I start up again tomorrow for a second cycle with DRG St1. The results after a single cycle are pretty good. Looking forward to a second one.
First day of the second cycle with DRG st1 yesterday, and ran an 11 minute loop without any issue. No sense of it being ātoo muchā or an issue.
So far, Iāve increased loop runtime by a minute each listening day if I donāt feel or experience too much recon. Iām not trying to avoid recon, but I do prefer a smoother experience and starting at a 3 minute runtime and increasing by a minute each listening day seemed to work really well.
Sure, Iāve had some recon symptoms, but I work to process those things that come up in my private journal and taking a small action towards creating the identity/reality I prefer. That usually clears up any recon.
I think the key is to not have any fear of bad feelings or negative thoughts that might come up because thatās going to happen with or without a sub, especially when youāre pushing past comfort zones.
Expect them to arise when you least expect, and especially when you do expect.
Thank them for showing you where to focus your attention / take action to dissolve any negative belief / identity you have around that experience.
Then let them go on their way. Donāt give them energy. Reclaim the energy that itās been siphoning from you.
Direct your energy towards something you prefer. Let that deep inner wisdom lead you, even if you donāt understand why yet.
If you ask then listen, youāll know the way.
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Iām up to running 15 minute loops of DRG1, and it still feels smooth.
When Iām out and about I generally receive more deference and a healthy level of respect from people, even with people close who āpokeā at me, they still expect me to make the decisions.
And it seems that due to my nature to want to share knowledge and teach, DRG1 is helping bring that out in a different wayā¦
Iām raising all my standards so that I can properly lead by example instead of lecture.
Iād say these are a direct result of the virtue and regality scripting.
Iām beatā¦tired af from not being able to fall asleep last night, which I turned into a couple hours of prayer and meditation that felt great.
Had an early morning training session that dug deep into the subconscious connections I have access to, and was pretty mentally taxing but produced some really cool insights and showed that I have a TON more digging to do.
The only ācomplaintā Iād have about today is that I was inefficient with my time and energy.
Probably a factor of only getting 4 hours or so of sleep, but still, Iād prefer to do better regardless of how tired I feel. Which Iām thinking means that I need to add back in a little more structure to my daily schedule for a little while.
One of those things is going to be a stricter sleep time. Not sleeping enough blows.
Had a dream where I turned a personās attempt at disrespecting me into some good jokes that made me smile and other people laugh, which in turn made the guy escalate into wanting to fight, putting his hands up and doing the āmonkey danceā ā that bullshit where thereās a lot of shit talking and squaring up, but no one actually throws a punchā¦
I felt calm and ready, even when a second person jumped in the shit talking on the other guyās side. That got me even more āready to goā, but after a couple seconds of assessing how easily I could take them I said, āI donāt have time to waste fighting you idiots.ā
Sure not the best transition to peace talks, lolā¦but thatās exactly what happened next. I opened a dialogue and asked what was up with him, he blamed me for the jokes, and when I asked about the disrespectful behavior he came clean.
The dream ended and I woke up when I said, āItās all good. Iām at the point in my life where I understand that most problems are miscommunications and misunderstandings,ā and I walked away feeling good to have resolved things peacefully.
Dragon Reborn Gold is really helping me work on my empathy and patience, especially towards myself, and itās boosting my capacity for forgiveness and letting things go. Even if I might add fuel to the issue a little at first, lol ā it takes far more skill and awareness to communicate effectively and resolve things than it does to argue and fight, imo.
Situations have come up over the last several weeks that have brought awareness to the roots of some ādefaultā behaviors, so I can DECIDE to change them.
Some people from my past have āpopped upā recently, like an ex who reached out on social media a couple days ago, and itās like it opens up a time capsule in my mindā¦
They remind me of how I was back then, and offer a good point of contrast to who I am today.
And itās when I get the pings of stronger emotional responses to certain things that I know I have some digging to do.
The healing journey with the NSE is keeping me on my toes, in a good way.