10-08-2022, 03:26 AM
Cycle 6
ASRB2 5:1
A rough week.
For context, as mentioned elsewhere, I use the free version of a tool called MacroDroid to automate the loops on my tablet. I haven't set up the more complex programming that I thought about at the end of my first run of USLM. I'm using the same programming I did for that run.
For this run, I made one change. I used a built in command in MacroDroid to set the volume on my tablet before starting the loops, to prevent any accidental volume changes from affecting the loops. I originally set the volume at 75%. At the beginning of this cycle, I increased it to 80%. I'm don't remember exactly why.
BAD move.
By the day after the fourth night, I was feeling physically and mentally beaten. I had failed a couple of personal best attempts in my workouts. A couple of situations that started out positive wound up neutral at best, in a "one step forward/one step back" way. And I was open and vulnerable to a personal attack from an unexpected source - a minor attack, triggered when I attempted sarcasm in a text chat, and the sarcasm was missed by the recipient. A third party in the same chat caught the sarcasm, so it wasn't completely obscure. All of this suggests that my subconscious was either not executing or possibly even "reverse" executing.
Last night I cut the volume down to 2/3 and I slept a lot better. I plan to leave the volume at 2/3 going forward, unless otherwise prompted. And I won't go above 75% unless explicitly told to do so.
There's been a lot said here about volume levels, and how more is almost never better after a certain point. Sadly, I had to learn that lesson first hand.
Lesson is learned.
ASRB2 5:1
A rough week.
For context, as mentioned elsewhere, I use the free version of a tool called MacroDroid to automate the loops on my tablet. I haven't set up the more complex programming that I thought about at the end of my first run of USLM. I'm using the same programming I did for that run.
For this run, I made one change. I used a built in command in MacroDroid to set the volume on my tablet before starting the loops, to prevent any accidental volume changes from affecting the loops. I originally set the volume at 75%. At the beginning of this cycle, I increased it to 80%. I'm don't remember exactly why.
BAD move.
By the day after the fourth night, I was feeling physically and mentally beaten. I had failed a couple of personal best attempts in my workouts. A couple of situations that started out positive wound up neutral at best, in a "one step forward/one step back" way. And I was open and vulnerable to a personal attack from an unexpected source - a minor attack, triggered when I attempted sarcasm in a text chat, and the sarcasm was missed by the recipient. A third party in the same chat caught the sarcasm, so it wasn't completely obscure. All of this suggests that my subconscious was either not executing or possibly even "reverse" executing.
Last night I cut the volume down to 2/3 and I slept a lot better. I plan to leave the volume at 2/3 going forward, unless otherwise prompted. And I won't go above 75% unless explicitly told to do so.
There's been a lot said here about volume levels, and how more is almost never better after a certain point. Sadly, I had to learn that lesson first hand.
Lesson is learned.
