Yep, I was hesitant to use DRR4, but AS’s effects are exactly what I need to be sure about using DRR4.
I moved the plan to use the customs for more than half a year. So now that I’ve given myself more time to use LE & EB, I have more breathing room to include both DRR2 & DRR3.
I plan to run DRR2 2 times a month for 7m30s each alongside LBFH & LE until I get no more recon from it. Then run it 2 times a month for 15m alongside DRR1 & EB/LE until no more recon.
After that, I’ll run DRR2 normally + EB/LE. Then DRR3.
I’m predicting that DRR3 won’t be as hard as DRR2.
But if it is, I’ll take longer & use the same method with LBFH.
Yeah I’m changing my plan even though I just made one a few days ago, but I didn’t expect Fire would drop a sub as hard as AS. It’s the sub I’ve been wanting all this time. So the plan gotta adapt to that, lol.
Yep, I guess I need to start doing some energy cultivation.
I want it to be separated from my meditation though, so I’ll look up more about qi gong.
I need to find a time slot to include it in my schedule though.
It has been a good run, but sword training has to go.
I’ll start the qi gong training with that one video @Jouissance shared.
I got this again after I saw someone getting things for free.
“Wtf? I worked hard and they got that for nothing?”
This is very out of character. I rarely get genuinely jealous like this.
It was not bad though, I was able to just be aware of it and observe.
It wasn’t overpowering like a normal recon.
I guess LE is digging up this side of me.
I wonder what it will unearth.
But I’m not gonna take any chances for another recon. Slowly dealing with DRR2 alone is tiring enough.
The last time I listened to LE was today for 7m. I’ll reset LE to 0 next month.
I have time on my side. Let it take as long as it needs to be.
I did a few 5 minute qigong exercises from youtube.
This is interesting.
I’m starting to understand what the “energy” feels like.
A part of my logical mind is trying to deny it, but I just watch & observe it.
There’s no need to get drowned in an endless “logic” battle inside my mind.
I’ll let the experiment unfold.
I think it’s also a good thing to build a good foundation of qigong before I start using AS.
1 year should be enough.
I decided to line up every 5 minute qigong exercises on youtube that i could find and then do one of them every time i do the session.
For now, I want to get quick bite sized knowledge about it.
The varieties, similarities etc.
Qigong will replace sword training that i usually do to keep my body moving every hour when i’m in home.
Practically, qigong will be more beneficial since it engages more aspects of my body than sword training.
So, in the worst case scenario, even if the whole energy thing won’t benefit me much, at least i get a good way to move my body every now and then.
But I’m unwilling to allocate more than 5 minutes at a time.
I would rather spend the time meditating if i have to do something akin to a ritual.
Visualization for manifestation is kinda redundant with subs.
The way i see it, visualization is just another type of affirmation but using all of your senses to change how you view the world instead of words.
If i have the time to visualize, i would rather use it for meditation instead.
Maybe i’ll try to do it briefly before sleep.
Mind palace is great, but it requires something to memorize. I need to prepare before using it.
Image streaming seems like the best option. It’s instantly available to use anytime anywhere.
I will use mind palace & image streaming whenever i can’t do qigong i.e. when i’m not home.
No overload symptoms at all since I started the 11 on 4 off schedule 3 months ago.
This is the endgame schedule for me.
It hits every checkbox I want.
LBFH is working extremely well too.
The contrast provided by DRR2’s recon & LE’s effects really makes LBFH’s effects shine.
It’s the perfect sub for me to use right now.
This is my verdict:
I need to use the subs long enough until I feel I’m done with them.
But the circumstances in life can be a valid reason to reintroduce them into the stack again.
I’m regaining control over my ability to just observe my thoughts & feelings.
The recon from DRR2 crept up so slowly that I didn’t notice I was losing this ability.
Something gotta give to pursue my goals.
But i think i unknowingly neglected something important too much this time.
LBFH is giving me back the balance i need.
LE is great too.
Unlike other subs with productivity scripting that I’ve tried before, it can stand alone without DRR1/DRLD. The productivity boost covers more than others.
Maybe i should run this combination longer to make everything stick better.
My mind is rejecting the concept of qi, but i’ll stay with the exercise earnestly and keep open minded. I plan to use Alchemist Singularity in the beginning of 2026. So that’s plenty of time to comprehend the qi before i start using AS.
I always feel more energized after i do qigong.
My breathing also gets deeper.
That’s all i know about it for now.
Maybe this is what they mean by qi. I’ll try to explore it from here.
For now, I’m trying to understand qi from my understanding of the world.
It’s like how we used to think that lightning is formed by the gods.
no, we later discovered that it is formed by static electricity in the sky.
either way, the lightning itself is real, regardless of the explanation of its origin.
Or the superstition that says “cover your mouth when you’re sneezing so your soul won’t escape”.
Obviously your soul won’t escape, but it’s still beneficial to stop you from passing harmful germs to other people.
Same procedures with different understandings, but they still produce beneficial outcomes.
I’ll try to imagine qi as a metaphor, or for lack of a better word, a bootleg explanation of the benefits of the movements & the act of trying to feel the qi.
This is the easiest explanation I can accept for now.
I’ll keep using this explanation for myself until I’m proven wrong.
Normally, I won’t think too hard about it, but AS is explicitly about “energy cultivation”.
I hope AS will still be beneficial for me later when I use it even if my belief about qi doesn’t move away from what I wrote above.
I just realized the revelation scripting about the concept of duality in AS is perfect for confronting that dilemma. Using AS will literally take care of my worry about using AS.
Well, that’s one concern taken care of. I don’t need to think too much about it anymore.
YES bro that’s literally what I’m saying. You are literally the Singularity.
Even here - AS is about balancing (polar opposites but also the self)
I think having a deep understanding of Qi before running AS is about as useful as having mastered swordplay before starting HERO.
Better to use it on the opening journey, and even something as simple as Tai-Chi with (or without) swords, or sword play even without taichi, is enough to be the “physical/energetic” aspect of an action-approach aspect to master AS with.
bridging the rational and energetic is a great examples of Polarities and Paradoxes.
Every day I get even more tempted to use the new AS & ME, rofl.
But I’m still milking many benefits from LE, LBFH, & DRR too. So I gotta stay with them for now.
I hope it will, I won’t have access to LBFH when I use the 2 customs I planned.
So AS should better act as the balancer of the stack or I’ll end up needing to use LBFH/HeO every once in a while to act as one.
Swordplay is more familiar to me, in the sense that I know the science, benefits etc of training with one even before I started it.
Qigong and the stuff about energy on the other hand is almost completely alien to me.
I have felt what it feels like to be around people who cultivate energies, but as a wannabe energy cultivator, I’m oblivious to how to implement it for myself.
I was worried that I’d end up not being able to understand anything when I used AS and wasting the energy scripting. That’s what I was truly concerned about. So familiarizing myself more with qi seemed to be a good way to start.
Unlike the other subs where the manifestations seem to work automatically without our “direct” meddling with the universe, AS seemed like a title that only worked for people who understand & play with energies.
At least that was my initial impression of it.
But the more I think & learn about it, the more I get assured that It won’t be a problem when I use AS.
I don’t need to understand how lightning is formed to know what lightning is.
AS will also take care of my worry about not being able to bridge the rational and energetic to reap the benefits as you said.
It’s like how there are still holes in my understanding of manifestation, yet it’s still working exceptionally well in my life.
My hypothesis is that the duality & the energy scripting will take care of themselves as long as I’m actively doing the energetic exercises like qigong.
