Hello,
I am starting a new journey for this year. I will be running the new experimental microloop strategy and want to start the year with Lovebomb, Godlike Masculinity and continue with Dragon Reborn: Regeneration. I am trying to focus on self-love and authenticity.
Hope to share thoughts, ideas, insights, recon, growth and results with you here.
2026-01-21
Listened to 30sec of GLM, LB and Regeneration.
2026-01-22
Overall good day today. Woke up tired, anxious, but had many pockets of joy, peace and love throughout the day.
Love is through thick and thin, no?
Notice myself enjoying small moments. Like pockets of release, relaxation and soaking in the situation Iām in.
Even ānon-idealā situations, just because I realise the value in the contrast and how resisting one side of the coin, will inevitably also decrease the full experience of the other side. Enjoying the downtime just as much as the uptime. Is a subtly different experience of the world.
Life without contrast feels just bland. Thatās why I try to accept each situation as it is. Because resisting the bad will also decrease the enjoyment of the good.
I want to grow with the alchemy of life. Engage with it. Itās super important for me to have as much, if not even more, experience than knowledge.
Grounded. Deep roots into the earth.
In the Dao they speak of the heaven and earth.
Itās okay to feel negatives emotions. Itās okay to feel frustrated. Itās fine, you can love yourself anyway!
I feel more patient. More compassionate today. I can see how self-love can help processing and decreasing resistance to feel. If you love yourself, you allow yourself to feel, itās ok. And that will help process. For example suppressed emotions.
@heartmadeiron your comments about your journey with glm + lovebomb inspired me. Matter of fact, this is probably my motto for 2026: āMake personal development about YOUR happiness.ā. How did you engage with the process of cultivating authenticity and self- love in your journey with glm+lovebomb?
can you summarize your experience with Regeneration specifically? (results that youād attribute to it)
My intent with regen is to process emotions and feel what is authentically going inside of me, regardless if good or bad. This I believe will increase my authenticity, let go of suppressed emotions and actually know myself, my needs and genuine desire.
Feeling emotions, still got work to go, Iāve had to let go of alot of resistance first. The resistance is there for a reason, it feels bad and I want to avoid it, so resistance comes back. But after 4 cycles I feel more. Past less authentic motivators have lost their push, and Iām looking for authentic desires to motivate me.
Other:
Thank you! Iāve started using Regen a few days ago but have no idea what I feel about it yet, your reply helped me clarify a few things
Youāre welcome! If youāre like me, a good suppressor of emotions/sensations, youāll first have to commit to feeling again.
Apathy ā commit to feeling whatever is going on (even apathy is some sensation telling you or your brain that you feel nothing) ā resistance ā authentic feeling/sensation.
And back and forth it goes. I donāt know if you have the same challenge, but this āmodelā helped me.
I didnāt really feel any emotions until recently, to be honest haha
Had to change a bunch of things in my life to understand the reason
Lol, letās go! Weāre feeling emotions!
Howās it been like?
basically I think I was in so much stress that my body just shut down both emotionally and energetically
Taking adaptogens and calming stuff fixed it for me and I was met with a surge of anger and anxiety regarding my life situation and enthusiasm for fixing it lol
wby?
Good to hear you got to the bottom of it. Thatās the great thing about suppression, the emotions will never leave you until you experience them lol so kind of them.
Itās good man, excited for 2026. š«”
Sorry to chime in, but I know this just to well.
Until a few years ago, I thought I was feeling rather well 95% of the time, until my fiancee opened my eyes. Literally my whole world was burning and I didnāt feel anything going on in me.
That was the point when I discovered that I suffer from alexithymia (being blind to my own feelings, especially those directed at me).
I worked on the topic and got some good results before finding SC, but 17 months ago,
Iāve just started to use this custom again beginning this year and itās fabulous.
I think itās the combination of Emotions Unfettered and Way of Understanding.
Suddenly I start to recognize when I feel stressed, overtaxed. I also start to understand what makes me feel that way. Which enables me to slowly take care of myself.
10 days ago I had severe recon when the emotions hit me like Chuck Norris.
But now Iām dealing with them much better.
So if youāre looking for a good sub to fix this emotional blindness, I can only recommend a custom with the modules Iāve mentioned above.
Thatās awesome, thanks. Emotions unfettered have been on my radar since day 1 on SC. I should have trusted by instinct and ran with it.
Hey, I appreciate the recommendations!
Yes, I had that condition as well and I managed to fix it a few years ago through Image Streaming. I read in some book that alexithymia is a ālack of spontaneous imagining in the brain in response to stimuliā (something like that). Image Streaming is exactly the practice of that, and it worked wonderfully and permanently for alexithymia. And it did it quickly, in just a few months of consistent practice. I recommend it, just be aware that it can be an intense practice. Also, I havenāt seen any other alexithymic try image streaming so I canāt promise that it will work
The difference between alexithymia and my recent state is that in the former case I didnāt really feel anything because itās emotional āblindnessā (emotions occur but I donāt recognize them and think that Iām just feeling well, regardless of what is going on it my life) while the latter case is that I didnāt feel anything because I was so overstimulated by constant stress that emotions literally didnāt occur (and the thing is that because emotions didnāt occur, I didnāt perceive my life as stressful)
Interesting ideas 
January 23 2026
00:30 - Dragon Reborn: Regeneration
00:30 - Godlike Masculinity
00:30 - Love Bomb
Kept it 30 sec, to be on the safe side. 
Iām not concerned with rushing, so I will stay at 30 sec if Iām not ready and I have to minimise intense disruption. I need to quantify the recon, to compare. Anyone got a good system?
Fear and worries about negative feedback. Then I got great feedback, and I shed a tear. Perhaps Iām starting to believe positive feedback more and the imposter syndrome is losing its grip. Wowā¦ thank you!
Iāve definitely started to notice and acknowledge the emotions and different states I experience in a day. Which is probably how the profound (to me) realisation I had that I experience both good and bad in a day. Usually I get hung up on the groggy mornings and consider not only the day but me as a failure as well.
Performance reviews coming soon, weāll see how that goes. Feedback so far has been great.
I almost ran IG again because of the anxiety around performance review season. But, I believe the work I did running it for 11 months felt enough for now.
Overall feel more love and peace, I feel it growing each day too.
I recently came to conclusion that I canāt recognize strong recon in time so I just decided to increase exposure once every 60 days. This way I should build up to full loops in a year. Not sure how it will work, but in theory should be good lol
Tried this for a week or so, then my ADHD brain switched itās Hyperfokus object and I stopped practicing.
Did you try a title like Regeneration?
At first, I couldnāt believe that this is even possible, thinking you just fell back into alexithymia to keep you safe.
But Gemini proved me wrong.
Same thing for me. I mostly notice recon when itās to late. This time, recon hit after two or three loops of 5 minutes. That was the point when I reduced time to 3 minutes.
Interestingly, two titles I was able to use fully without recon before. But I guess, with the work and Iāve done in the meantime, they can dig deeper than before.
And I donāt think that QL1 gives heavy emotional recon, exactly like the one I got from the custom I started again.
So my āSystemā is to reduce time once I notice recon and then slowly build up again.
And I should mention, that Iām using only old titles without antirecon. But Iāll probably upgrade my custom once Genesis: Ascension drops.
Do you have ADHD? One of my core issues is Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. Meaning Iām always on the lookout for signals that could mean trouble and assume the worst.
Emotional nightmare since I started Emotions Unfettered.
I know the feeling. The longest I was consistent is 6 months but I burnt out. I donāt know of any other thing that is harder for me to be consistent at than image streaming and I have absolutely no explanation for that lol
Iām using it right now but I solved my problem before it.
My overstimulation problem is classical GABA-deficiency symptom. Even when I reduced stimulation, my state didnāt improve much just because my system didnāt have enough GABA to get into recovery mode
I talked about it here: Subliminals Season 5 - #20 by anon15812918
(this test is just a questionnaire so thereās no guarantee that it accurately measures deficits or anything, but it does give a rough idea and from what Iāve observed on myself and others, itās quite accurate)
Thanks for sharing guys. I was thinking a system for quantifying recon. I should have been more clear.
Probably, but I got through university and have had a job as a software engineer for 7+ years, so any investigation Iād have to pay for it myself because itās viewed as not a life limiting issue for me. What if I pay 3000$ just to find out I donāt have it? LOL that would destroy me. 
A therapist once told me I have signs of it (itās a spectrum), that could also be connected to trauma and other things according her. So perhaps I donāt have it.
Did you investigate?
That could be because of childhood trauma as well. People who grow in tough environments or with parents who are moody, reactive or physically/mentally abusive tend to have this. They always try to read every subtle shift because in childhood it could protect them. But not every person is unstable, and that habit works overtime. At the same time these kind of people seem very good at reading other people and subtle social cues, because they are hyper observant. My thoughts on it from my own experience.
I hear ya. These damn brain chemicals lol
I remember I got recommended books to eat right to fix most of the issues with brain chemistry being wonky. Sometimes of course they are too wonky. But Iām hopeful that most things can be maintained or reversed with the right input over time. Is it worth it though? Just give me the drugs doc!
Iām honestly not sure if just healthy eating, exercise and good sleep can solve all problems unless you live in a village, been doing TRE for years, buteyko breathing, eat very high quality food, arenāt stressed, etc. lol
(thereās a ton of other factors too)
I would like to prefer minimal supplementation and just relying on healthy lifestyle as well, but I see it this way: supplements are a compensation of bad living conditions, and if Iām living in bad conditions and have no energy and enthusiasm to improve it, supplements are a must for me
Sure once I improve my environment, Iāll stop the supplements, but Iām convinced that taking them makes me healthier than not taking them in my current environment
