I recently worked on an extension to disable Facebook's news feed completely since I (and probably many others) mostly use it for chat and groups. Might be helpful for some people in the HN community! :)
I think fasting helps relax your digestive system. By drinking juice, you don't feel out of energy and still get some (many?) of the benefits of fasting.
For me, it has been reading books. Although my reading speed is very slow right now (hopefully it will get better with time) but i still manage to read a book every month. So much to learn from them :)
My reading speed is slow and my to-read list is long. I used to force myself to finish every book I started but now I'll happily give up on anything that doesn't grab me fairly quickly.
I've also been working on only adding things to my list that I actually want to read and avoiding books that I add only because I want to have read them.
Is there a title in particular that triggered your interest in reading?
I started by reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Reading it was such a wonderful experience that I have read 2 more books since then. (Started reading 3 months ago)
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
<i> “The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!"
Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. it's that only that gets me. science is only in your mind too, it's just that that doesn't make it bad. or ghosts either."
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Law of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts."
...we see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.” </i>
To go a bit further, everything as one perceives it is necessarily in one's mind (or nervous system, to be precise). One consciously or unconsciously determines that something is happening outside of their mind, which makes that determination simply a philosophical one. This is a reminder to all, as to why the highest degree granted at any conventional institution is labelled a Doctorate of Philosophy in a given subject.
I would go as far as to say that just as the Uncertainty Principle prescribes a limit on what is knowable in quantum physics, so does philosophy suggest limits on what will ever be rationally proven through human perception, ideas, and knowledge.
One of the things I have found quite useful in loosing weight is to eat slowly. I sometimes observe people's eating habits and in general, obese people seem to be eating faster (sometimes as much as twice as fast) compared to average.
One of the reasons this works is because your body has enough time to feel sated. At least it works like this for me because if I eat fast I will be able to eat much more than if I ate slow.
I think it also helps with digesting since you chew longer.
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