Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

Hey Shannon, I remember you saying something recently about higher volume vs lower volume and how they relate to resistance, and the symptoms of the resistance, like depression and fatigue. If I'm remembering correctly, you said that if the user is feeling fatigued, volume should be turned down, and if you're feeling depressed volume should be turned up? I can't remembering exactly, so that might be wrong. Could you re-touch on that when you have the chance? I'm going to copy and paste it somewhere on my computer so I can save it, because it's great info. Currently the past several days, I'm feeling super fatigued and tired during the day. I'm running DMSI v2.2.

If the user is feeling fatigue, it means they're resisting the sub and/or processing some deep healing. You don't need to adjust the volume for that.

If you're feeling depressed, it means some part of you wants to escape the change, but knows it cannot, and begins to feel hopeless. Conscious awareness of this is depression. It also does not need a volume change.

It was anger and rage vs depression that we were talking about.. If you're having an anger and rage response, generally it's going to be because it's too loud and you're a control freak, and taking the volume as a command instead of a suggestion.

Just to clarify, do you mean fatigue caused by resisting dmsi specifically? Or subs in general?

Subs in general. Fatigue can also come when you overload your mind with input it cannot keep up with processing, or if you're trying to expend more energy than you have to work with.

I am having insane fatigue during stage 3 of BASE, and I have dark circles from hell under my eyes. I would think that going on 3 months of "improve your sleep quality" module would provide enough rest to avoid fatigue but I don't find that the case.

Not in the middle of the program. You'll probably want to reduce your hours of exposure, but keep going.

I also seem to be in a state of dozing consciousness, where I'm mentally not present in the moment at times throughout the day, which is very peculiar. Almost as if I'm phasing in and out of consciousness for miliseconds, but still being aware.

That sounds like microsleeps, which would happen if your brain were extremely exhausted.

My experience does fit your description of resistance, and BASE is by far the most challenging sub I have ever run, reinforcing resistance causing exhaustion

You would likely then want to slightly reduce the volume and run time, and see how that works out. What volume/run time per day are you using now?