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**Ch. 12. 4/5 Cooperation between thinking and survival brain,** ~dangers pf standalone mindfulness practice with no stress reduction techniques~. **Persist through weeks 3 to 7’s** difficulties as doubts as more issues are clear, but not improvements. Ends with **contact points (body and environment, seat, feet, etc)**
**Meditation**.

Ch 11 4/5 Warrior traditions, Be courageous and wise, no matter the which, where and when, like Malazan’s Cold Iron leaders. Best training, Domain general training, music training, aerobic, mental visualization and mindfulness focused and open monitoring and action video games

Ch 10. 4/5 Stuck on high, stuck on llow High is pushing hard and long, via caffeine, sleep deprivation and adrenaline, Low is d procrastination, Reasons for it, trauma or continuous stress during childhood, Shock trauma like car fender bender, which is acute stress that might simmer below and Challenge that goes on too long or comes up too often, aka chronic.

Ch. 8. 5/5 Shock trauma. Summary: An accident or event that traumatized the survival brain, creating physical symptons, instead of functioning, numbing, fight or flight or freeze.

Ch 9. 4/5 Everyday Life (Intervene downward spiral of harmful and compulsive, that is, deemed uncontrollable habits, Disorderly sleep, Junk food and Caffeine, Alcohol and Sedentary life for better metabolic (BP, Heart) and mental health

Beware of social norms for above.

5/5 Ch3. Grand Canyons in the mind body systems.
A top notch overview chapter with memntions of how cardio exercise (sweat over stretch) and mindfulness(meditation, but also single tasking) push annxiety and invite fun. Scary research mention that the change genes and are passable to next generation, the bad or good

Neuroplasticity - The repetition of any Habit or pattern makes it easier to do and harder not to do in the future. In short, Do right, again and again.

Many sections on alaskan adventure over boredom and hunger. Now to colon cancer

I stopped wanting you… I got fat… I forgot why I hated every long moment that was mine to fill

The Misogi challenge
is to set a goal which is hard and new enough that you have a 50% chance of failure. It should not be so hard that you die. And you don't share it, at least immediately as it's not for public praise or validation and specially not comparison to others. The latter is why it's good to have quirky ones rather than organized or predictable ones.

The crack in your life.. your great adventure of crushing solitude

Life of errands, if you are lucky. No complaints, no girl, no enlightenment

Comfort 2,3&4: cold weather, backpacking food and water from lower heights to 10k feet and elk hunted by arrow over slaughter house beef.

Genetic trait of looking for problems in same patterns and numbers, even when we have it good

Comfort 1, alcohol out, dog in

Meditate to get comfortable with your inner emptiness. Fear is a glimpse of inner emptiness if you notice it, stay with it.

Wonder more, at nature, at life, it’s source of joy (Extracted insight)

Maladaptive coping strategies include denial for long time, addiction including workaholic, busyness including charity, chemicals including alcohol, tranquilizers, tobacco and fat/sugar/caffeine.
Unhealthy as they avoid acknowledging and fixing issues. As they become habitual, they add to the overall stress load only numbing or distracting but with harm in return.

Chronic hyper arousal even for perceived stress is flight or flight internalized not expanded, leading to chronic muscle pain in neck, shoulder or back. This affects bodies to create diseases such as high bp, chronic pain, Moodiness and addiction.

The latter half is about studies including chronic stress, author’s views on non doing over visualization with results in mind

Week to week, formal and informal practice. Upto 8 and life

Hatha yoga, gentle, attentive yoga for 30 minutes. Walking meditation

On body scan meditation

Powerful, effective meditations. Grounding, energy centers, inner sanctuary and consult your inner guides