TRP says go lift for your body. This post is going to teach you how to strengthen your mind. How to exercise your psychological fitness.

HOW TO FLEX YOUR FRAME PART 1

Ever take a contrast shower? If you have you know they are fucking buckets of fun. You turn the shower on how you would normally, probably equal parts hot and cold (maybe more hot if you’re a little stressed out pampered bitch who needs a day at the spa) and then you turn the hot completely off… and you wait. And when the cold fucking water hits your body and you begin to convulse, that is when your mental training has begun.

Then once you’ve stopped shaking, and the cold water has lost its shock to your body (after around 2-3 minutes of standing in the stream) then you switch to a hotter shower. Now for you idiots out there who are going to turn the cold handle completely off and the hot handle completely on and then tell the jury that SWTDO told you to do it, DO NOT FUCKING DO THAT. Just make the water hot enough that it is a bit steamy, but not enough to burn your skin. It should be comfortable.

HOW TO CONTRAST SHOWER WITH THE DOOR OPEN

In order to get the most out of your contrast shower, you need a certain frame of mind. When the water is cold the frame is “Is this it? This is what’s supposed to make me shocked? This is what’s supposed to make me feel bad? Wow… this is unimpressive Universe, try harder next time.”

When the water is hot the frame is “Is this it? This is supposed to please me? This is supposed to be desirable? This is the big payoff I was supposed to want? Psht, no big deal.”

This frame is the “Is this it?” frame and I fucking love this frame. If you’ve studied buddhist philosophy you’d recognize this frame as equanimity. It is the mind’s disposition when you are unimpressed by the pleasures and pains of the world. You see through them as just little minor events that have no ability to make you react. You view them with an open and detached mind, meaning you literally train yourself to not care about the alleged pleasure and pain.

One of the highest levels you can take it to is this. This is one of my fucking hero’s and inspirations, Thich Quang Duc, who poured gasoline on himself, sat down and lit himself on fire to quietly burn to death to send a message. More interestingly there was a photographer there to capture the moment and witnesses who reported that as his body burned, he didn’t move, make a sound, and furthermore the expression on his face was neutral. Once again, do not fucking try this at home kiddos, it is meant as inspiration and as a thought experiment for what your mind is capable of doing if you continue this training I am laying out.

Talks With a Chode

Ok so I hear the questions already:

Chode: But WTF does contrast showers and buddhism have to do with getting my dick sucked?

SWTDO: Just like you must have an strong, attractive body to get the bitches, you must have a strong mind.

Chode: Bullshit, I know dudes who are fucking idiots that pull hotter girls than me all the time.

SWTDO: true but fuck those guys. Are you trying to be BuffChode or are you trying to become Zen Master Chodicus?

Chode: What the fuck, fuck a Zen master! Stop calling me a Chode!!!

SWTDO: Dude I’m joking. Here’s what it has to do with getting your dick sucked. Monologue light comes down on SWTDO, stage left. Life is hot and cold. Life has pleasure and pain. When we go into the contrast shower we are training for life. We are training to meet the petty pleasures and pains of our daily existence. When we choose to put the water on cold and stand in it without jumping back, or reacting to it’s “pain” in any other way, then we show to ourselves that we will not react to the bullshit pains of our day to day. We will not flinch when the car breaks down. We won't react when our girlfriend throws a tantrum. We wont give a fuck when the boss makes a snarky joke at our expense. We wont give a fuck.

When we choose to put the water to hot without mentally indulging in it, we are training to resist all the seductive pleasures that can ruin your life if you let them. We are resisting addiction, we are resisting comfort, we are seeing through complacency, we are seeing through sugar filled shit and all the other low level pleasures that attract us. And I’ll tell you what, when you’ve mastered your desire for low level pleasures and your fear of non life-threatening pain through equanimity, you will have literal hordes of women banging down your door to suck your dick if you have an ounce of personality. The irony is that once you’ve trained like this, you naturally see the stimulation as empty, but who the fuck cares? You’ve now got a full harem of 9’s who treat you like a God. That’s what you wanted right?

THE END

Next time you’re thinking your little life with its problems is too hard to handle, man the fuck up. Better yet, Monk the fuck up. Contrast showers are a great tool, of many in your arsenal for training your frame.

Now go fucking break your water heater!

Peace,
SWTDO