The Yoga of Becoming is a dynamic dance between inner world development and outer world engagement, unifying them in a virtuous cycle for sustained personal evolution.

🧠 The Fallacy of Mind-Body Dualism

• mind and body are NOT separate
  • they influence and interact with each other

🧬 Re-Enchanting the Human Organism

• the human body has been trashed by western culture
• yet it holds all the wisdom
• what if we instead worshipped the body as highly advanced

As you progress on the path of individual awakening and personal evolution, psycho-somatic body-based solutions should be your first choice, not your last option.

🔋 PEMS Energy Systems

4 energetic systems

• physical

  • focus, alertness, physical vitality

• emotional

  • how is your mood?

• mental

  • willpower, ability to handle complexity
  • how can you explain your thinking?

• spiritual

  • are you fulfilled?
  • is your life meaningful?
  • do you feel like you're a part of the great web of being?
  • do you wish you didn't exist and is sleep an escape from the suffering of life for you?

• we are most likely imbalanced in at least one of these

  • all of these influence each other, so our goal should be to balance all of them. to not let one of them overpower the rest

• When designing a hedonic engineering protocol — identify the areas here that are currently imbalanced, or an area you would like to develop further, and ensure that the following protocols serve this area.

🚦 The 4 Pillars of Hedonic Engineering

1. 🧠 Psychology: You can trigger and resolve internal conflicts by resolving things psychologically.
2. 💊 Pharmacology: External (to the body) compounds can have profound effects up and down the mind<>body spectrum.
   1. Intentional, safe use of pharmacological triggers can invite profound healing and deep states of Being to help you along your personal evolution process.
3. ️ ⏰ Technology: Floatation tanks, magnetic stimulation, resonance machines, and more offer initial glimpses to how technological intervention can be a powerful mechanism for inner development.
   1. Though be warned, outsourcing your healing sovereignty by becoming dependent on external tools is dangerous. You should master the basics first, then invite in external tools.
4. 🤸🏻‍♂️ Neurobiology: And of course, body-based practices are a powerful mechanism you can use here.
   1. Breathwork, movement, trance states

• you should ideally work with at least two of these pillars at once

🧐 The 5 Foundational Levers

different areas of embodied awakening growth stack

• Breathing

  • different ways of breathing can alter your physiology, psychology and spirituality radically

• Sexuality

  • Wondering where you're still traumatized? Try asking for what you want during sex.
  • the post-orgasmic state can bring you into states of unity and oneness in lfie

  An inconvenient truth for most dudes is that the majority of the male pleasure centers (million dollar point, vagal nerve stimulation, mixing power dynamics between partners, etc.) only begin below the ballsack, a territory most men avoid religiously. Working with your sexuality can trigger an immense number of pleasure centers, induce altered states, and surface hidden traumas you didn't even know about. Sexuality work is more advanced, and arguably not the place to start, but if you're ready, it can massively accelerate your process.

• Embodiment

  • Movement, dancing, somatic trauma release, and shamanic trance states all have deep embodiment as a core driver.

• Music

  • Shamanic drumming soundtracks can induce out-of-body experiences
  • chanting is practiced in nearly every indigenous tradition
  • binaural beats shift brainwave patterns to unlock insight, calmness, and healing.
  • If you want to change your energetic state, change your music.
  • If you want to amplify or stack the benefits/salience of your other practices, weave in rhythmic music patterns at different frequencies and varying BPM's.

• Substances

  • Nootropics
  • psychedelics
  • macrodosing vitamin stacks can all bring about exceptional state