(Part 2) Best health recovery books according to redditors
We found 280 Reddit comments discussing the best health recovery books. We ranked the 54 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Eine psychedelische Erfahrung (z.B. LSD) ist auch eine massive Störung des Gehirnstoffwechsels. Während dieser Störung wird die Konnektivität im Gehirn massiv erhöht. Diese erhöhte Konnektivität kann Erfahrungen verursachen, die man so schnell nicht mehr vergisst, und die prägend wirken. Häufig führt die erhöhte Konnektivität dazu, dass man komplexe Zusammenhänge aus einer anderen Perspektive erkennen kann. Dabei ist es von Vorteil, dass das Default Mode Network gleichzeitig auf Sparflamme steht, d.h. es funken keine alltäglichen kognitiven Verhaltensmuster und kein Ego/Ich-Wahrnehmung dazwischen, die die Erkenntnis stören könnten. In diesem Punkt (Bewusstsein ohne aktives Default Mode Network) ähnelt die psychedelische Erfahrungen den Effekten der Meditation.
Ein über Stunden wacher Bewusstseinszustand ohne Ego ist für die meisten Menschen etwas sehr aussergewöhnliches, was man nicht so schnell vergisst, und was prägend wirken kann.
Die erhöhte Konnektivität kann jedenfalls temporär von Vorteil für die Erkenntnis sein. Oder sie kann auch dazu führen, dass der visuelle Cortex aktiviert wird, wenn man Musik hört (Synästhesie, man sieht praktisch die Musik). Man beachte auch, dass höhere Konnektivität in einem nüchternen Gehirn die bessere schulische Leistung einer Person vorhersagen kann. Es scheint also einen Zusammenhang zwischen Intelligenz und Konnektivität zu geben.
Die psychedelische Erfahrung kann sich zeitweise so anfühlen, als hätte man eine vom Ego unabhängige höhere Intelligenz erweckt, bzw. ins Bewusstsein geholt, oder als hätte man einen unbegreiflichen Hypercomputer aktiviert und sich damit verbunden. Jedenfalls dann, wenn die erhöhte Konnektivität nicht zu absoluter Verwirrung und Chaos im Bewusstsein führt, was auch häufig vorkommt. Dann ähnelt die Erfahrung eher der kognitiv einschränkenden Schizophrenie, also das Gegenteil erhöhter Intelligenz und Erkenntnis komplexer Zusammenhänge.
Möglicherweise passiert bei einer Nahtod-Erfahrung etwas ähnliches, wie bei einer psychedelischen Erfahrung. Wobei da wohl eher die Konnektivität massiv abnimmt, also das Gegenteil einer psychedelischen Erfahrung?
Im Buch "Neues von der anderen Seite: Die Wiederentdeckung des Psychedelischen" sind übrigens einige Experimente beschrieben, in denen man versuchte, die erhöhte Konnektivität nutzbar zu machen. In Silicon Valley ist ja derzeit Microdosing ein Trend. Dabei werden kaum wahrnehmbare Dosen von LSD oder psilocybinhaltigen Pilzen eingenommen, was auch die Konnektivität im Gehirn erhöht. Dies soll die Innovationskraft erhöhen.
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Die psychedelische Erfahrung führt übrigens häufig dazu, dass man auf die Idee kommt, dass alles, was man bisher zu wissen glaubte, falsch sein könnte. Für einen normalen Menschen, der starr und verteidigend an seinem Weltbild festhält und Dinge ausblendet, die diesem Weltbild widersprechen, ist eine solche Erfahrung natürlich sehr ungewöhnlich. Die frühkindlichen Prägungen und Indoktrinationen werden aufgelöst, und man erkennt, wie die eigene Sicht auf die Realität zustandekam, wie die Wurzeln des Weltbilds bis ins Kindesalter zurückreichen, und kann aufgrund der neuen Perspektive und der Erkenntnis komplexer Zusammenhänge Fehler bzw. Probleme leichter lokalisieren, usw. Auch das kann sehr erkenntnisreich sein. Womöglich passiert bei einer Nahtoderfahrung etwas ähnliches.
I'm a little late to the discussion but hopefully this helps someone.
I only see one post about Alan Carr's The Easy Way to Stop Smoking and it is a shame because if you smoke or have quit it is immensely useful. It is a book, there is also an audio-book available. The book can be useful whether you've already quit, want to quit, smoke and don't want to quit. No matter your disposition after reading it you will see smoking in a completely different light.
You continue to smoke while you read the book, when you've finished the book you can decide to quit or read it again. I listened to the book once and still wasn't ready to quit so I listened again. After the second time through I quit and haven't had a cigarette in 37 days. I can smell things again, I can run further and faster, I freedive and finally broke my previous record of 55ft, now I can get to 60 and swim around for 10 seconds before coming up. I've saved over $200, I don't have a constant cough, and I don't smell like stale smoke.
The main points of the book are:
I quit cold turkey and all I had was a few times where I thought I would like a cigarette, the craving was easy to dismiss. I drank during the first week and unlike the other time I had quit didn't fail then and there, I didn't even realize I never felt like having a cigarette until the next morning. Buy the book - even if you read it and decide you want to keep smoking you will have a much better understanding of why you smoke.
tl;dr - One time I stabbed a guy for a cigarette.
> How did society even function before all of these poisonous drugs were produced to help us get through the day?
Unskilled labor requiring little to no formal education. Now a days to make a decent living requires a college education. Also, drugs were prominent in the early half of the 1900's to increase productivity. If anything, a drug free society is a modern day fallacy.
Good book.
Torrent of the ebook if your poor.
Try reading EasyWay to stop smoking by Allan Carr. It's my 9th day without smoking after 3 years. I know 3 years isn't 28, but it's worth a try. It really helped me understand my addiction.
Given that Daniel Dennett has recently published a book on thought experiments called Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, I thought it would be good to show one of Dennett's most famous intuition pumps.
This section of the movie is based on Daniel Dennett's though experiment first published in Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology and reprinted in his famous compendium with Douglas Hofstadter, The Mind's I.
The original paper is available here and elsewhere online.
The movie itself is a documentary and dramatization of several themes in the book The Mind's I and includes an interview with Douglas Hofstadter earlier on.
Actually yes. But I'm also going to tell you a whole other bunch of things about how smoking really is, beginning with it being a drug just like heroin and that there's no other way you should think about it.
That said, there is a faster way to prevent yourself from ever wanting to smoke. Buy a pack of 20, tape them together and smoke the lot in one go. I guarantee you you will never want to smoke again.
Or finally there's this.
Dad's Guide to Pregnancy for Dummies is a great for during pregnancy, planning for baby, delivery, & other stuff you didnt know to think about. My wife just enter third trimester this week and this book helped me. Good luck!
Buy this book called Easyway to stop smoking and read it. It was the only thing that worked for me. And do not put it off thinking that you will have to stop smoking if you buy it. You can keep on smoking as long as you are reading it. In fact, there are certain places in the book where the author will ask you to light up.
The book points out that the willpower method that we use to try to quit smoking doesn't work. It only makes you feel like you are sacrificing something you enjoy and makes you feel deprived. This feeling of deprivation makes it harder for you to quit. Which is exactly what I faced. The real secret to quitting is to not feel like you are depriving yourself.
I do not know how it worked or why it worked (I have my retrospective theories, of course) but it did. As I was reading the book, it became harder and harder to smoke a cigarette. By the end of it, I was not smoking because I didn't want to. Not because I had to stop. It really worked for me. Hope it works for you too. All the best.
P.S. I suggest you buy the book and a 20 pack of smokes and start asap.
> ...und gebe Geld meistens für irgendwelchen Schwachsinn aus, den ich meistens sowieso nicht brauche.
Was denn zum Beispiel? Und unter welchen Umständen?
> Ein großes Manko ist auch, dass ich rauche. Und da im Monat bestimmt 100,00 € für Kippen drauf gehen.
Aufhören ist das Beste, Empfehlung dazu der Klassiker von Allen Carr, gibt's gebraucht für unter 10 Euro. Ansonsten ist drehen finanziell ne Alternative.
It's good, innit? I went to a festival a couple of years ago and Howard Marks was reading there; he was treated like a god by the crowd :-)
You may also like Pot Planet - it's a jolly good and easy read :-)
https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Literary-Agents-2018-Published/dp/1440352666
"Some dude with an opinion" really denigrates the ability of the average person to grasp the situation.
It's been well over 100 years of the so-called 'War on Drugs'. An utter failure that has prevented neither people using or selling drugs in any way whatsoever. There has never been a shortage of drugs on the street nor dealers available to sell them.
These fantastic 'hauls' that customs officers and police take photos of, grinning about a massive seizure means absolutely nothing in the scheme of things.
Record breaking 2 tonnes of heroin found in old womans matress
Who cares?
All that time, money, man power the result is a newspaper headlien that says.. 'massive smuggling ring smashed'.
Not a single user noticed any difference waiting in the alleyway for their guy.
When you consider just one man, Pablo Escobar the archetypal model for what drug smuggling can achieve at its peak.. was making $62,000,000 smuggling 15 tonnes of cocaine per day.
He spent $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold his stacks of cash together and wrote off 10% of his earnings ($1.3 billion a year) on not storing it properly and having it either rot, get eaten by rats or just lost because he had hidden it in so many places.
People aren't going to stop using drugs. The police can't prevent that many people from using them and the whack-a-mole technique of quashing drug dealers only to have another two pop up in their place has never worked either. Where there's money to be made - there are people willing to take the risk in order to make it.
And that fact applies to any profession. Including sex. Which is another vice that will eventually be legal and regulated.
Answer to your question, this is a clear example of a situations were you don't even need to be an expert to see just how plainly the government has fucked the situation up. You only need to open your eyes and read the statistics to see a failure and desperate need for a new route.. Regulation is the only way. Just consider the money flying out of the country into the hands of terrorists, cartels, our enemies, general scum bags that fund other criminal activities - worse activities - ones that the police really ought to be focused on like people trafficking or anything to do with children. Who cares about someone smoking a joint when there are kids being harmed. The choice is clear as to which should take priority.
Whether you're living on the streets as a victim of addiction, a middle class blue collar worker that hurt himself on the job and is now absolutely stuck with a life on pain pills, high functioning self prescribing doctor to a rock star with multiple doctor signing off on your weekly supply of legal adult candies..
The drug usage and abusage is far and wide and the desire to alter out consciousness, experiment and drug supply and demand is so firmly written into our DNA its absurd to try and manage that desire with laws.
Okay - BOTTOM LINE
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This isn't just my opinion..
I arrived at my conclusion through my own dealings with people, my own knowldge of what its like out there on all sides of the fence but mostly, from reading.
My entire bookshelf is filled with books on the history of humans, out relationship with chemicals, our desire to refine and distil, to make stronger, to invent techniques to improve, to alter, to experiment - our entire pharmaceutical industry is built on fiddling with chemicals and experimenting with them to determine their effects - both for recreational and medicinal purposes. Asprin and Opium used as a painkillers - then as a weapon when we flooded china with it in order to conquer them while they were docile.
It's only now after all this time that we are allowing scientific work to be done on what seemed like recreational drugs - LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Ketamine (despite its uses in medicine already) that they are psychic medicines to be used in PTSD, Anxiety, Addiction problems..
All drugs are tools in their own way, but they need to be used correctly and in the right setting for the right reason.
Even amphetamines have their uses in ADHD, Cocaine in local aesthetic..
The fact that tobacco and alcohol - the two most useless, BIGGEST killers and cause of more than any other health problems (with obesity close behind - because sugar is an addictive drug, and people that don't smoke or drink are probably finding that they need something to alter the way they feel once in a while - and eating seems to have taken over their brain without them realising).. the fact that these are LEGAL is insane. While everything else isn't.
Its nuts. Totally nuts. It makes no sense. Hence the reason so many people chose to ignore the governments rules and laws on whats good and bad for you. And as soon as they smoke their first joint and it doesn't kill them - it probably is a gateway to realising the laws are people pushing them are full of shit and what else is there to try! I don't want to drink every weekend after work, a huge cancer risk, and peer pressure means that its all I have as an option with my friends. I'd say peer pressure to drink and be social, as its the only option available is worse than anything else.
Regulation is the only way.
All other methods have failed and for the fundamental reason that people don't want to stop using them and there is too much to be made from selling them. Full stop. Period.
The last century is a chapter of failed history on something we have only just tried to force on people. Humans don't want to be sober all the time. We want weekends, recreational time, an escape from the constant existential crisis that is living.
Some of my favourite and most interesting books on drugs in general from human history to the more lighthearted but nonetheless fascinating world of Howard Marks' smuggling misadventures:
Chasing the Scream is an excellent book
Writing on Drugs
PiKhal You can ignore the chemistry lesson, the beginning of the book about his contact with the DEA and his views on the essential therapeutic nature and benefits of psychedelic drugs in so much as it prompted him to pursue a lifelong career until his death into the chemistry and invention of thousands upon thousands of new drugs (all listed in this book and it's sequel 'Tihal') that he then tested on himself and friends, also writing quantitative notes and summaries of each new compound.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I found the comments on the police and the culture surrounding drugs in the era that this was written - just after the 60s summer of love and into the 70s, where the experiment failed, peaceful student protesters were beaten by police and the vietnam war started.. it felt like 'love' had failed, and this is a reflection more on that than getting high - although that is the haze through which the story is told!
The Doors of Perception Perhaps the most important book on tripping ever written - goes hand in hand with Heaven and Hell, the book he wrote shortly after as a reflection on the first book. They need to be read together.
Nobody has since done it better. the fact that it was legal at the time meant that its written with a completely clear and objective conscience about the effects. The stripping away of the filters than normally function in our day to day lives in order for us to cope with the floor of information that comes in through our eyes every moment of every second. Without dulling the beauty of nature down to a tolerable level, we'd get nothing done - as he points out after spending 20 minutes describing a tablecloth.
But from this you an infer that so many people are perhaps so overly dulled, lacking compassion and empathy for the beauty in life that they perhaps have more hate or lack or care for ripping up the countryside and covering it in highways.. you get the point. Sure, its a hippy perspective, but its true. Humans don't fit into nature, we pave over it in the pursuit of small, green pieces of paper..
I have MANY, more.. our history with drugs both natural and man made is amazing, culture surrounding it is facinating, hallucinogens in ancient culture is prolific, including native indians, shamans in puru, coca chewing, Khat chewing.. its everywhere.
And we only tend to think of the last 50-100 years because its all we are aware of, but its goes back 1000s of years.
You know all of those crazy dangerous and wrong ideas about germs and medical proceedures we have about the victorian era - well our drug laws stem from around that time too.
It's time to update our thinking about all of it.
We even have the skills to develop safe recreationsal drugs for the weekend, non addictive, better than alcohol, safer..
I mean, why not MAKE new safe drugs instead of regulate what is illegal right now? Psychedelics that only last an hour or have an antidote.. etc. The possibilities to quell the black market are huge.
Methland
It's about a small town in Iowa that was destroyed by meth. I didn't know anything about the drug problem, only the stereotypes, and I learned a lot. It was a page-turner, I could barely put it down.
They only way to know is to take a big sword and bisect her in half and look inside to find only human there.
Just kidding man.
If you are standing up for the current EIIR, then I believe you're account has been compromised or you need to hit the books, specifically this one
I also read the Allen Carr book, the one with illustrations, Allen Carr: The Illustrated Easyway to Stop Drinking. It really helped me with my mind set regarding alcohol. I'm in UK so I understand that not drinking is considered weird. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784045047/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
There's a workbook/therapist manual published that focuses on clients' stages of change. I forgot the exact title--something like "Group Treatment of Substance Use Disorders." I've used it a lot with co-occurring clients and appreciate the ability to target treatment for where the client is at in the session.
NB: Here it is.
I love this book . "Writing on Drugs" by Sadie Plant. No pun intended in the author's name! It's really fascinating in its discussions of drug use and their influence on famous writers and contemporary culture. It's one of my must-read recommendations to people :)
This book by Daniel Dennet comes to mind:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393082067/braipick-20
Hiya!!
I am not entering, but may I suggest [Methland] (http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Nick-Reding-ebook/dp/B002WU7TA0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397704961&sr=8-1&keywords=Methland)?
Such a good book. The author grew up in this town that he saw go to shit because of meth. Really good read.
I've been through this, I'm sorry to say.
I read this Relate book: Help Your Children Cope With Your Divorce.
I found it very helpful.
I believe it helped me avoid making some errors that would have had negative effects on my kids.
Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How Big Tobacco Affects Our Health, Pocketbook and Political Freedom--And What We Can Do About It
Except that the science doesn't all disagree with me.
Case in point: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2017200,00.html
EDIT: Also this book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Drinking-Enemies-Kari-Poikolainen/dp/1626526788