So i cam across a FB reel called Inner Index and have followed it recommendationms which uses studies in neoroscience techniques to make me happier.
I get up and do not check my phone for at least 5 minutes.
I read/set my intention for the day and write it down.
I step outside for a minute or so to receive the natural light.
I then do 5 minutes of vigorous movement. Today i did squats and arm movements and ran on the spot using a timer on my phone.
I clean my teeth and have a 4 minute cold shower.
Later on in the day I write three things to be gratefiul for in my gratitude journal.
There is another recommendation that is meant to help and that is connect with someone by talking or sending a meaningful message to someone, but I currently don’t have anypne to do that with so I skipped that.
All these techniques have various positive cognitive effects that last for 12 hours or so…
This is my first day and was wondering if anyone else wanted to try these scientifcally backed methods to brighten your whole day?
You never know it might help you too…
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That might benefit you having routine/ regime no matter what it is. You seem drawn towards determinism, so being in a wayward or indeterminate state of unplanned action might leave you ill at ease. I on the other hand would not last long in regime. Different strokes.
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the workout if you do within the first half hour of waking release BDNF chemicals in the brain which are the ‘fertiliser’ for your whole day. The natural light regulates dopamine factors etc.
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I’d have to look into that. I know theres definitely good habits and bad habits connected to neurochemistry. Im onky skeptical because I have selfdoubt in my own ability to be certain if it works.
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Ive read a bit about it. Its not like pseudoscience, but I don’t think I personally will be able to maintain a regime like that. How long will I last? Will the light be that stimulating etc…
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I’m not a true believer in free will, I don’t know for sure and can imagine the cosmos is sufficiently complicated for a determinism that has seemingly free action. Theres no way of knowing if anything is inevitable or not.
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Then was it written in the cosmos that your next action is to do the regime as I too was chosen to share it?
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Doesnt have to be written, only that things are ultimately inevitable without real possibilities imo.
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I am a sandbox type of guy in that I only have free will in the limited choices avaliable to me.
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I can see that too every event is a narrowing of possibilities to a final inevitable instant.
I’ve had psychosis about this topic.
Other topic that featured prominently in psychosis is if thinking brain is part of a universe ordered for thinking, so we think only what is determined by physical laws etc. Organic brains within a cosmologucal brain
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It all sounds very beneficial. I know cold showers are good, but no way am I purposely taking a cold shower lol! But I’m very impressed you’re doing it.
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I take two cold showers a day because if i don’t I feel way more depressed.
It is a lot easier in Summer though.
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I saw videos on YouTube about most of those tips. As long as you’re doing all that there’s one more simple thing you could add to your morning routine and that’s having a couple of cups of water when you first get up. It hydrates you, helps with digestion, replaces fluids lost overnight and a few other benefits. I don’t like drinking plain water so I mix in a single packet of Crystal Light in a 16.9 oz cup and drink it and that counts as water.
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