I NH to be happy, discovering on the way what that entails and what's the role of my reality in Reality, so to speak.

Hi dudes,

There's a fair selection right here:
http://www.neurohackers.com/index.php/e … es?start=1

But I guess that's cheating...so...

Originally, to live a long and healthy life while doing whatever I wanted to without any bad consequences. How to have my cake and eat it.
Now, quite simply, I'm addicted to freedom  :  )
Freedom from anxiety, freedom from being dragged about by hormones, mine or other people's, freedom from hassle, freedom from coercion...freedom to explore the wonderful universe...freedom from conformity to harmful systems...freedom to become whatever I'm able to be, do whatever I'm able to do.

Most of the real shit times in my life have been due to three related things: (a) Being drawn or  influenced by others into TE shit, (b) circumstances I set up/failed to set up in the past causing me hassle in the present, and (c) reluctance/anxiety over facing consequences stopping me from saying 'no' because nobody taught me how to say no without being rude.

NH has changed that. I've taken control of who I choose to hang out with and where -that solved most of the problem. The crap I can't avoid gets turned into determination to improve interaction. Keeping track of and control of my own state of mind and behavior is the key to stopping crap from starting, and I'm just getting the hang of doing this is real time.

It makes me optimistic for the future and much less hassled by nonsense. The other great things I'm practicing hard are forward planning and strategy. Need lots of practice yet  :  )  but I feel a lot more confident and like I am at the helm of my own life, and that's cool. Now I need to learn how to navigate through storms  :  )

Best,
AR
PS Oh I forgot also -to get wrecked and have a good time!

Hi dude, welcome aboard  :  )

This whole site is about neurohacking and it's a place where we all help each other to help ourselves. As this is a 'lifelong journey' you obviously have some experience, so follow up the areas of your own greatest interest and you'll find plenty of info here. The tutorials will give you an all-round briefing on the brain & mind and for particular areas of exploration use the search function. The sections for 'newbies' and 'community' will tell you more about us and about NH, and you are now in the forum where you can get first-hand experiential reviews of our own discoveries, successes and mistakes along the path  :  )

Nice to meet you! Feel free to share any of your own experiences or ideas, and if you have specific questions fire away.
Best regards,
AR

Hi dudes,

Wow I had forgotten about this thread  :  )
For those who answered (even if only to themselves) what were their reasons then, I find myself wondering what are our reasons now, and have they changed much?

In one sense it's got very simple for me at this stage: A>B where A = benefits and B = stasis or decline. As long as I find myself and my circumstances improving, I see no reason to stop learning. But that's common sense talking  :  )  What I really feel is nosey. Every answer, while satisfying in itself, raises more intriguing questions. There's an urge to 'complete this part of the jigsaw', or at least to get a glimpse of the big picture of reality.

Also, I haven't lost the urge to reproduce -although I don't want to reproduce my genes any more; -now I want to reproduce thoughts, ideas and information in creative ways. Bits of mind (or, as DeGrasse Tyson so neatly puts it, 'brain droppings')  :  )

Set course for Tutorial 13...
AR