Am I a huge faggot if I did that thing where you think of your oneitis while attempting a new PB and blow right through it? I can't believe it actually works...
>>77297660I don't have a oneitis because there are literally no girls in my life.
>>77297711I am mentally ill, I have barely exchanged words with the girl I am calling my oneitis
Im a bigger fag because I keep a mental list of all the dicks I’ve seen in the gym sauna and a top 10
>>77297660I do something similar where if a female is in my line of sight I stare at her body parts while grinding out extra reps. It’s awesome because even if they notice they can’t tell if I’m just blankly concentrating or if I’m hyper focused on their vag. It works try it.
>>77297769so uhhh what does number one look like?
it'll be like that sometimes
>>77297660No but it’s not healthy
>>77301176Who are you, my therapist? Do you think I care what's healthy? She's the one for me.
>>77301213Sounds like you’re on the right track. Godspeed anon.
>>77297711This is a million times better than having a oneitis. I wish I could cure myself of the feelings I still somehow have for a girl who said she liked me in high school over a decade ago. There's something subconscious that's preventing me from becoming invested in pursuing other women, even those who express their interest in me, because I know they'll never be her. It's fucking embarrassing to be a grown man and still think like this.
A friend once recommended that I watch sexy music videos during training and I did worse. It's just distracting when you should be focused on form and effort.
>>77303767>when you should be focused on form and effortNo, this isn't true.There are times when you should focus on form and effort, as a golfer focuses on the form of his swing when he is practicing; but when he is at a major tournament, he does best if he does not think of his swing.Plotinus says as much in Ennead 1.4:, , [In a state of unconsciousness such as sleep] Perhaps we are not aware of the activity of thinking because it does not concern anything sensible. For it seems that sense-perception is like an intermediary in regard to sensibles when the activity of thinking is about them, too. But why will the intellect itself not be active along with the soul that attends it—the soul which is prior to sense-perception and to apprehension generally? For the result of the act should be prior to apprehension if indeed it is the case that "thinking and Being are identical". And the apprehension would seem to exist or to occur when the thought bends back upon itself and the activity which is the life of the soul is in a way reflected back just as in a mirror which has a smooth, bright, and still surface., , In these circumstances, then, when the mirror is present, the image occurs, but when it is not present or the circumstances are not right, that of which the image is an image is still present. In the same way, for the soul, too, when this sort of thing in us in which images of discursive thinking and of intellect are reflected is still, they are seen and, in a way, like sense-perception, known with the prior knowledge that it is intellect and discursive thinking that are active. But when this situation is shattered by a disturbance in the harmony of the body, discursive thinking and intellect think without an image and then there is intellection without imagination. So, thinking comes to be in this way when something is thought with imagination, even though thinking itself is not imagination.(continued next post)
>>77303882(continued), ,Someone could find that when we are awake there are many beautiful activies, types of contemplation, and actions such that when we theorize and when we act, they do not make us consciously aware of them. For it is not necessary for one who is reading to be consciously aware that he is reading—indeed, it is especially then that he reads intently. Nor is the man consciously aware that he is being brave and that he is acting according to bravery when he is acting. And there are thousands of other cases like this. So, the acts of conscious awareness risk making weaker the very activities which we are consciously aware of performing, whereas only when they are purified do we act more fully and live more fully and, I suppose, it is indeed in such a state that those who have become virtuous live more fully, not disssipated in sense-perception, but collected in the intentical thing, in oneself.
(I took the trouble of transcribing that out of my physical copy of the Enneads because I didn't like the translations online. Please read it if you are literate enough to do so, it is a fine passage)
>>77303891What translation do you have? I've never read any Plotinus and I probably should.
>>77303959The Cambridge UP Enneads, second edition, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson
>>77303767I think there's a world of difference between trying to focus on watching a video (takes effort involving coordinating use of the eyes, distracts by dividing control of the body which should belong entirely to the lift) and mentally focusing on an abstract impression of "the one" (requires no use of the eyes/body, takes one *away* from fussy micro-management of form/etc, allows one to act purely and simply without distraction)But even if you mean "watch videos between sets" and think about them, you still have novelty, so the experience is unparsed data requiring further mental work to digest, extricating any distinct impressions and ideas therein, discarding what is worthless; and this mental work is a distraction. "The one" is an already-thoroughly-processed simple idea which one holds in their view and allows to stir them. What new thought could distract me about the girl whose image is in my mind every hour of every day? I have almost thought them all.
>>77303886>in the intentical thingin the identical* thing
>>77303886I'm not kidding when I say that every single incel thing and most neurosis and self sabotage expresses itself because people can NOT tolerate risk or not having a guarantee. If you think about it deeply enough and understand it mechanistically... What is ritual but an attempt to guarantee an outcome? Why do u see signs like 444 or 777 when important stuff is on the line? it's your desperation for a overarching guranteeor of meaning. You need to leap towards what you actually want knowing you might fail and knowing it doesn't make or break you at all and ultimately nothing will complete you because that's how we work structurally. Nothing can complete us we retroactively make up a wound when we enter language to justify the feeling of lack which is what motivates you to do higher abstract things like seek meaning. Or seek doing something life affirming like building a masterpiece things like this are born from lack.
