@DarkPhilosopher I have been considering purchasing Spartan and running that with BLU and Ultima A/Executive Ultima to motivate myself to work out all the time or at least build the habit
Cyclical keto is when you intentionally exit ketosis on a regular basis (I do one “cheat meal” a week) by eating higher GI foods, but still mostly keto. My wife and I like doing hikes on Sunday mornings followed by brunch at a favorite restaurant, for example a few weeks ago we did that and I had a breakfast hash bowl, with steak & eggs and hollandaise sauce over hash browns. Normally I wouldn’t get hash browns as they’re high GI. I was back in ketosis in about 12 hours.
Clean keto is a less-defined term, so I’ll define it by what it’s not. The original Keto diet shared a lot in common with the old Atkins plan… just eliminating carbs. Little regard for the quality of the fats consumed, nor the amount of protein. Over time, a more moderate version of keto was developed, which came to be called “clean keto”. This focuses on maximizing vegetable intake as well as healthy plant-based fats, and reducing the amount of animal protein. In addition, it prioritizes grass-fed meat and wild-caught fatty fish over CAFO meat/farmed fish. The amount of protein ingested is important too; unless you’ve got a lot of muscle repair going on, such as with after regular intense strength training workouts (which I’m not doing at the moment), the excess protein can be converted into glucose with gluconeogenesis. I want my body to burn fat, so I eat the amount of protein I need for what I actually do, and no more. As a result, my protein intake is likely considered very low by many standards, here’s a typical day:
(any time between 8am-10am) Breakfast:
- 12oz Bulletproof coffee (decaf for me) made with 1.5tbsp grass-fed butter, 0.5tbsp MCT oil, and about 1tbsp of heavy cream just because that’s how I like my coffee.
(1pm) Lunch:
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- half an avocado
- 1 sliced up bell pepper
- half a tbsp of MCT oil
If I have any snack during the day, it’d be a small handful of sprouted walnuts, but that’s rare.
(6pm) Dinner:
- 3oz of cooked ground beef or a single chicken thigh or a 3oz wild-caught salmon fillet
- big salad
Done by 7pm, then fasting (except for morning coffee) until 1pm the next day.
In contrast, a “dirty keto” diet would just focus on the macronutrients with the goal of just getting as much fat as possible. Little regard is given to the quality of the fats, or to the vital phytonutrients, fiber, etc that low-GI plants provide. A McDonald’s burger without the bun is dirty keto, as is a plate loaded with nothing but bacon and eggs. Tasty, to be sure, but not too healthy long-term.
There are multiple variants of clean keto, I mostly follow the Bulletproof Diet, which is a cyclical keto diet that focuses on avoiding toxins, avoiding histamines, and subsequently reducing systemic inflammation. It’s 70% fat by calories but mostly plants by volume.
So, a cyclical clean keto diet is just cycling in and out of a “clean keto” diet. 
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Currently my plan is:
- Powerlifting 3x a week
- Intermittent Fasting (16/8 a lot recently)
This is definitely worth documenting somewhere. I’ve practiced EF before, although not quite as long. Would like to hear about your experience with this.
Such as listening to the hair sub from Saint whenever that gets released?
JCast running Mind’s Eye T2
beard is a side effect of time distortion
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Today, I decided to try listening to the sub earlier in the day, during the middle of the workday. What I noticed is that it wasn’t as stressing as it was before; I was able to watch an informational video while listening to it. The food probably helped there. However, I think I will be listening to it after work tomorrow. The effect of today’s listen wasn’t as profound as I thought it would be, likely because my conscious mind was already busy with work stuff (among other things). Tomorrow, I’m going to try this:
- BLU in morning
- MFH right after work, as a way to transition between work and personal time. If I absorb any other media, it’ll most likely be related to the content of the custom (e.g. videos on manifesting).
Current Challenges
- Finding a path towards manifestation. How do I cultivate the Mind’s Eye for Visualization-Manifestation?
- Getting the ball rolling for some of my interests once again. I noticed that I’ve been in a lull over the past couple of weeks and I think that is because I just didn’t even start progressing on some of my interests. Visualization is one of them (I need your guys help!
), a course to improve memory and learn speedreading is another. I’ve been particularly unenthused about the seeming fact that these initiatives won’t seem to pay off dividends until way after—sometimes, it seems that way until the post-COVID era. Does it have to be that way? Don’t think so. I need to get the ball rolling.
There are a lot of great visualization practices,
but the one that I like most because it’s so applicable to everything,
Is you right down on a piece of paper what you want your life to look like, what you want essentially, and what your life would be like in the present moment tense if you had that. Don’t think about how you will get there, just the end result. Every time how comes up let it go.
Then spend 5 minutes EVERY morning, imagining your already living that life, with as much detail as possible, See if you can see it, hear it, touch it, taste it, and feel it. You can go back and forth between first and third person perspectives. Consistency is key. This is also the single most life changing practice I think anyone can do.even if they have nothing else.
This way you practice visualization, aligning yourself with your path, feeling gratitude and the experience that resonates with what your looking to manifest, and it’s really fun to think about what you really want for your life, so it’s easy to do consistently.
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@Azriel, thanks for sharing this routine. This sounds great on paper (
), however…is this how you started? It seems like a big thing to work with off the bat. And is this your daily practice? Do you find that things from that visualization are materializing over time? I understand that these “ideal life” type visualizations generally tend to include a lot of details or things that people want manifested but I really wonder how long people stick to it before something happens.
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This was the first thing I got started with.
Now I do it throughout the day all the time rather than a set ritual
(Well technically from ages 6-13 I wandered around 2-8 hours a day imagining being in and creating other worlds and acting out characters. I also drew comics, paintings, and illustrations from my imagination as a kid as well. So I probably got some good practice then. )
However after years of life wearing me out, and to busy in survival mode to ‘dream’ I had to relearn a lot of it.
It’s not necessarily ideal life, it’s just a hodge podge of what you want now, it could be ideal life but it doesn’t have to. You could also change your list/what you want every day/week/month etc, when ever what you want authentically shifts.
Yes things manifest over time.
Specific results manifest the quickest since using subs, and when I am not focused on anything specific, but just thinking about and feeling like the kind of person I want to be and generally feeling gratitude for my life now.
However stuff more specific to this practice has manifested over time.
For example: I’m now working on my own schedule when I want, and working from anywhere I want.
These were two things I visualized for a year before they came true (I am not in my ‘ideal’ situation per say but elements of the freedom I imagined are certainly becoming more and more present in my life.
Also technically, visualizing something specifically is not what leads to manifestation, it’s an element of it that contributes if the image elicits certain responses in you, but there could be an all day discussion/debate on that-
Obviously it’s up to you what to start with or try. Others may have exercises more suited to you.
I’ll plead this practices case though for the sake of it:
- It doesn’t have to be perfect
- You will mess up and not getting clearly in the beginning and that’s ok
- Just sitting in silence with a focus on yourself and your life is beneficial even if nothing else happens initially
- Even just feeling excited or happy about what you wrote down on your paper, is beneficial towards manifestation
- Writing things down clearly starts the process of seeing your own imagination clearly and is generally good for your own clarity as well.
- If you think you can’t do it, pretend that you can.
- I believe limiting beliefs around visualization effect inability to visualize much more than an actual lack of ability to visualize. (excluding persons with legitimate neurological conditions.)
- I imagine you know what you want, you can’t to some degree experience it in your imagination? How would you know you want it if not.
- Lastly, not to be too uncouth, if anyone here has every ‘imagined’ anything while fapping, you have the capacity to visualize, and probably well…sorry. It just takes the same willingness and consistency to practice elsewhere
- It’s like meditation in the sense that you don’t do it for the result, to become enlightened. Like you log in enough hours on a cushion and one day you’ll arrive. The practice itself is the goal, it’s an ‘infinite game’ so to speak, to be done for it’s own sake to experience the ‘frequency’ or ‘center’ of someone who has already made it.
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Lol. I am suffering from this too at this moment.
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lol
I feel ya…
Hopefully Dynasties will teach you to dream-for generations to come.
I should add that’s the biggest reason this practice doesn’t work even faster for me currently.
The feeling of ‘survival mode worn out’ is the opposite of the feeling of ‘visualizing present moment living life with what you want now’. The ‘frequency’ of the latter must exceed the ‘frequency’ of the former consistently for things to shift in reality.
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I second the practice of doing a morning meditation where you spend 5 minutes imagining what your life would be like if you had accomplished one of your goals. Every day, pick one. And yes, it’s not an easy one. But hopefully Mind’s Eye will make it easier and easier.
I also occasionally do a journaling exercise by thinking of these questions:
- When am I the happiest?
- What’s missing in my life right now?
- What’s something I have always wanted to do?
- How do I want to feel?
- What does “living my best life” look like?
- If I could wave a magic wand, what would my life look like?
If Mind’s Eye is doing its job, the answers to those questions should be flashing by as you read them. While I was writing them, I saw myself in my forest lakehouse next to a small town where everybody knew and respected me, growing my own food, cuddling with my girl on the porch while my daughter was running around chasing butterflies. And lots of other things that financial independence and no limits would bring me.
You can also pick one question per day and journal/describe that answer in great detail. You may not experience it as such, but in order to describe it in words, you are visualizing it.
Oh, and always write by hand. There’s power in that.
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Those sound like questions you would hear in the superchargers…
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Pick a different one?
Why do you think there is power in this?
I can’t speak for @DarkPhilosopher, but for me, writing by hand brings about a sense of satisfaction of “putting pen to paper” so to speak. It is my way of connecting my conscious and unconscious to my physical self.
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Pick whichever one you like, same or otherwise. Maybe one of them “clicks” for you. Maybe you’ll come up with another. In my experience most answers are slightly different from each other. Same general theme, but different emphasis.
The act of writing by hand seems to send a clearer message of intent to the subconscious (and/or whatever else is out there). It also tends to give your mind time to offer up related thoughts that you hadn’t even considered yet. There is a communication with yourself going on there that doesn’t seem to be taking place when you type it. For most people at least.
Which is why we always recommend you keep a handwritten journal. Many self-development coaches do.
I decided to do a handwritten journaling exercise loosely based off this question and my writing—which went for two pages in my notebook—went quite wild as I honed in on a particular aspect of life that I’m looking for, with the end of that writing affirming my ability to manifest anything I want in my reality and that although I have limited time, I am making the best of it. That was quite unexpected!
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It’s now been more than a week since I started listening. At this point, my mind is able to handle the sub in the morning with ease. Quite a difference from the beginning. Soon I’ll be turning up the loops!
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Weekends are certainly a necessary break, both from work and from this custom. Though I’ll be trying out the new releases coming soon.
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First day of doing two loops. One hour break in between. I noticed that:
- My interest in manifesting has gone up
- I tend to utilize visualizations more, and when I do visualize I do it in the first person more.
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