As I commented in Shannon's journal, I took a very long-haul flight a few days back. Since then I've been waking up with knee pain during the night, trying and failing to find a position that'd make the ache go away. It got so bad yesterday that I finally turned to the painkillers and sat at the table scrunching up my face waiting for them to kick in. I was limping around the house all day. I had to use my hands to bend my knee because moving the muscles around it made the joint too tender.
It's a weird injury. My guess is a combination of flight-related swelling and the twisted position I fell asleep in while jammed into a small seat. I'd had a bunch of drinks during a farewell gathering with my brother and I'm thinking I passed out in an awkward position.
Anyway, I threw on OPH 5.11G as I was falling asleep last night. After a few minutes, this strange lightness kicked in. I could tell it was doing something to me, and there was a little of that anxiety of not knowing what's going on, but then I felt really peaceful and comfortable and went to sleep.
The next thing I know, it's seven and a half hours later and I'm waking up. I'm on my side with my knee bent, which caused me pain on previous nights. For a while it felt completely healed. Over the course of the day the tenderness has come back, but at least now I can go about my business at home without a worry.
I've got the subscription now so I'm going to keep listening to get the knee fixed, then continue into "periodic tune-up" phase that Shannon says the product is good for, and see what other benefits I notice.
All in all, awesome work on this, Shannon. Kind of like the feeling I had from ME. Like, how in hell can this stuff be real?
If you felt good when you woke up and it started hurting after use, that means use is part of the issue. Minimize use while you're healing, or it will take much longer to heal.
How can it be real? It's just telling your subconscious to do the healing in a more specific way. This is all natural abilities you have. The subliminal's just a guide.
Yep, sound advice. Thanks so much for this. Way better than going through the medical system, or should I say the pharmaceutical system.
One negative this morning: the audio streaming cut-out last night part-way through. No clear reason why. I'm listening to the rest of the loops now.
No streaming issues last night. I went to sleep listening to OPH around 11pm. Around 12.30am I woke up in serious pain and took some painkillers before falling back asleep. My knee is clearly swollen today. Previously even though I was in pain, the joint wasn't obviously injured. So while not a magical pain-killer like the first night, this is a sign that it is going to work on me.
The knee was even more swollen on the 8th than it was on the 7th. Today it is back down to being manageable.
It occurred to me that the pain is in the same place as when I started having trouble with weighted reverse lunges in the gym, about a year and a half ago. So this whole scenario could be because I aggravated pre-existing tears or strain in those ligaments.
Tonight will be my 3rd night off on the ASRB cycle. I noticed new awareness of certain spots in my body: the point of my right shoulder, the inward side of my left shin, my stomach. So I'm hoping this incident leads to an overall tune-up.
Finished the first ASRB2 cycle and onto the 1st night of the 2nd. I will continue tracking progress, but unfortunately thanks to hassles with registering at the local doctor, I don't have a diagnosis to compare with
It's 23 Jan here. It will be the 1st day of the second ASRB2 cycle rest days.
The injury is getting better. I am able to walk again, gingerly. I can stand on my bad knee to put on a shoe, etc.
I haven't noticed the bit about feeling a sense of pleasure or well being in the area that is healing. I have noticed a strong desire for sleep coming on in the evenings, and getting to sleep faster than usual also.
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Shannon This is some niche psychosomatics, and it isn't super consequential aside from what we might learn from it, but here goes:
As long as I can remember, the outer half of my right eyebrow has always looked slightly raised. It looks like the hint of a consciously raised eyebrow. It's a facial asymmetry. It's nothing dramatic or freaky, but it's been there. Then after maybe 2 months or so of OF I noticed it was gone. And now, about four weeks on from OF, it's back. What do you make of that?
I'm not trying to up-end my listening schedule just to get my square brows back, but it'd be interesting to hear what it might mean.
A curious development at work that reminded me of @
Benjamin and his experience of being used as a punching bag at that one BBQ after switching to a grounding shield sub.
A few times last year, a colleague of mine who has hardly been on my radar has attempted to malign my work. I'm in academic social sciences, so this takes the form of virtue-signaling and ethical one-upmanship. The critique is no difficulty to counter because it's formulaic and you get so accustomed to it. Still, OF's DRS was surely helping me out also. Once, when this colleague tried to critique my work in front of a bunch of people after I presented at a public forum, I noticed she was trembling, struggling to get the words out and unable to look me in the eye.
Anyway, I switched off OF over Christmas and then began OPH. This month she has been trying out small jibes here and there, and just today she really overstepped with a direct criticism of my work conduct in a group email. Keep in mind this person is in no way my boss or supervisor.
I pushed back explicitly, which was fine. What I find interesting is whether people can be emboldened if they sense the energetic situation between you has shifted relative to what they've become used to.
(01-28-2025, 09:59 AM)thectexperience1 Wrote: [ -> ]A curious development at work that reminded me of @Benjamin and his experience of being used as a punching bag at that one BBQ after switching to a grounding shield sub.
A few times last year, a colleague of mine who has hardly been on my radar has attempted to malign my work. I'm in academic social sciences, so this takes the form of virtue-signaling and ethical one-upmanship. The critique is no difficulty to counter because it's formulaic and you get so accustomed to it. Still, OF's DRS was surely helping me out also. Once, when this colleague tried to critique my work in front of a bunch of people after I presented at a public forum, I noticed she was trembling, struggling to get the words out and unable to look me in the eye.
Anyway, I switched off OF over Christmas and then began OPH. This month she has been trying out small jibes here and there, and just today she really overstepped with a direct criticism of my work conduct in a group email. Keep in mind this person is in no way my boss or supervisor.
I pushed back explicitly, which was fine. What I find interesting is whether people can be emboldened if they sense the energetic situation between you has shifted relative to what they've become used to.
Yes, that’s exactly what I experienced with the grounding shield as well. Which sucks because problems ensue.
(01-28-2025, 09:59 AM)thectexperience1 Wrote: [ -> ]A curious development at work that reminded me of @Benjamin and his experience of being used as a punching bag at that one BBQ after switching to a grounding shield sub.
A few times last year, a colleague of mine who has hardly been on my radar has attempted to malign my work. I'm in academic social sciences, so this takes the form of virtue-signaling and ethical one-upmanship. The critique is no difficulty to counter because it's formulaic and you get so accustomed to it. Still, OF's DRS was surely helping me out also. Once, when this colleague tried to critique my work in front of a bunch of people after I presented at a public forum, I noticed she was trembling, struggling to get the words out and unable to look me in the eye.
Anyway, I switched off OF over Christmas and then began OPH. This month she has been trying out small jibes here and there, and just today she really overstepped with a direct criticism of my work conduct in a group email. Keep in mind this person is in no way my boss or supervisor.
I pushed back explicitly, which was fine. What I find interesting is whether people can be emboldened if they sense the energetic situation between you has shifted relative to what they've become used to.
Damn, those are the kinds of people I hate. It's good though that you stood up and pushed back, it can also be that you are increasing in confidence and such and it makes them insecure, I felt this was the case with this guy with me in that I was just laughing tons, being loud, having fun and he tried that shit. The first time (not the same night) I didn't say anything, but i'm glad I did the second time.
I now flat out refuse to hang around him. Sadly it's reduced my social opportunities. Another friend invited me to her birthday and I didn't come, then new years and now a bbq last weekend so I had to directly tell her why, and she didn't reply.
I've noticed patterns with dodgy idiots who manipulate things in that somehow they convince others they are good people, I don't know if this is the case or not. I'm hoping that he does it to my other mate there or someone else so they can see it, my other mate is way too nice so may not say anything back (and I think i'm too nice but I had a go back at this guy, when it comes to it I can get aggressive). Cos to me he really has the mentality of bringing people down.
But I think what triggered it was my high level of confidence, being loud and having fun on OGSF when I was in the flow that pissed him off so he tried to bring me down. Where my other friend is maybe a bit quieter in the group.
(01-29-2025, 02:38 AM)Benjamin Wrote: [ -> ] (01-28-2025, 09:59 AM)thectexperience1 Wrote: [ -> ]A curious development at work that reminded me of @Benjamin and his experience of being used as a punching bag at that one BBQ after switching to a grounding shield sub.
A few times last year, a colleague of mine who has hardly been on my radar has attempted to malign my work. I'm in academic social sciences, so this takes the form of virtue-signaling and ethical one-upmanship. The critique is no difficulty to counter because it's formulaic and you get so accustomed to it. Still, OF's DRS was surely helping me out also. Once, when this colleague tried to critique my work in front of a bunch of people after I presented at a public forum, I noticed she was trembling, struggling to get the words out and unable to look me in the eye.
Anyway, I switched off OF over Christmas and then began OPH. This month she has been trying out small jibes here and there, and just today she really overstepped with a direct criticism of my work conduct in a group email. Keep in mind this person is in no way my boss or supervisor.
I pushed back explicitly, which was fine. What I find interesting is whether people can be emboldened if they sense the energetic situation between you has shifted relative to what they've become used to.
Damn, those are the kinds of people I hate. It's good though that you stood up and pushed back, it can also be that you are increasing in confidence and such and it makes them insecure, I felt this was the case with this guy with me in that I was just laughing tons, being loud, having fun and he tried that shit. The first time (not the same night) I didn't say anything, but i'm glad I did the second time.
I now flat out refuse to hang around him. Sadly it's reduced my social opportunities. Another friend invited me to her birthday and I didn't come, then new years and now a bbq last weekend so I had to directly tell her why, and she didn't reply.
I've noticed patterns with dodgy idiots who manipulate things in that somehow they convince others they are good people, I don't know if this is the case or not. I'm hoping that he does it to my other mate there or someone else so they can see it, my other mate is way too nice so may not say anything back (and I think i'm too nice but I had a go back at this guy, when it comes to it I can get aggressive). Cos to me he really has the mentality of bringing people down.
But I think what triggered it was my high level of confidence, being loud and having fun on OGSF when I was in the flow that pissed him off so he tried to bring me down. Where my other friend is maybe a bit quieter in the group.
Yeah, like my situation yours is for sure just simple monkey-politics like that. He felt lesser in the social hierarchy and sensed an opportunity to make up for it aggressively. Other people now feel insecure that they've been friendly to him and never called out his BS like you did. So they'll stick to the guy and pretend you're the problem for making waves.
But f*** em man, honestly. You can have more friends by circulating and people-pleasing in the social circles, but they're never as satisfying as the friendships where you're wholly unapologetically yourself. Maybe the same attitude would help you with women? You can learn to please women, but the most satisfying relationship is always going to be the one where you're unapologetically yourself.
That's my month done with. I'm back walking around after my (self-diagnosed) medial ligament strain. The internet told me it would be 2-6 weeks, and without having the proper scans or diagnosis it's hard to quantify how much OPH helped.
I felt the effect on my knee the most the morning after the very first night of use, and then over the past week it seemed to improve quickly. I had some disordered dreams for 3-4 nights over the month (always when I went to sleep around halfway through the 3 loops). Other than those nights, I've been sleeping like a baby. Also, I never did get the pleasurable sensation that was meant to go along with the healing to show you that it's working. Overall I felt more content and restful just doing nothing than I usually would.
In 6G I'd be very keen for an anti-aging sub to improve joints and skin in combination with the energizing effect of HOY. But for now I'm going to take a week or so off, and then start a new journey.