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It’s 5 A.M still haven’t slept. Your not getting anywhere with your paper or project, the coffee’s starting to make your stomach sick and the sun peeking over your neighbors rooftop reminds you that you only have another hour or two before you have to catch the bus or walk to class. Your pipes sitting next to you with just enough herb to get you thinking differently. Should you hit it? Will your lack of creative inspiration become even more stagnant? Or will your fingers, thoughts and direction come alive?
More than half the people in the U.S. smoke pot. Perhaps even more young adults than ever before. However, every stoner has their own reason for their recreational tokes. Some smoke to relax, to ease stress, or to just forget about problems for a while. Other stoners smoke to fuel their imaginations and creativity. They smoke to help invent ideas and be more honest with themselves. But, does smoking pot help you become more creative? Does it have the power to end writer’s block, create original ideas and transcend the limits of your thinking?
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ASSOCIATION
A common measurement in eccentric/creative thinking involves how loosely your able to associate ideas, thoughts, words and objects. This is known as semantic- priming. If, for instance, I show you a camera, it becomes much easier for your mind to think about photos, polaroids, lenses, and possible poses. Your mind associates these thoughts with a camera. They are easily accessible by our minds.A recent study published in “Psychiatric Research” has shown that people who smoke marijuana tend to hyper-prime. Meaning they associate much more abstract and loosely related terms with a given concept. For example, the same camera remark could induce thoughts about homes in the 1920′s, rose gardens in Denmark or a western pool hall. The idea here is that your mind becomes more open to unrelated ideas. Your thinking isn’t as narrow and limited to only relative concepts.
FOCUS
Marijuana tends to transform our focus. Throughout our lives we have been conditioned to focus more on certain shiny bits. Mostly things we are taught to observe for our safety. If you take five random people and put them in a park, most of them will notice the same elements: the swing set, the tall oak tree, the jacket some child left behind, etc. Marijuana shifts your focus onto things that aren’t as apparent while sober. Suppose one of the five people takes a hit or two. They might then notice the small graffiti tags on the cinderblock, or the direction the leaves are blowing, thus determining the wind. They might even discover an answer to ongoing question in their head- for instance: “oh, that rock is actually there to redirect the child’s path, in order to execute safety.” A simple concept we would normally not recognize unless a student of engineering or park safety.
Hyper-priming along with a shift in focus is an ideal formula for original and foreign thinking. You are now observing different events in your environment and loosely associating them with subconscious thoughts. A powerful formula for creativity.
LET’S GIVE IT A GO
I decided to test this stoner, hyper-priming concept myself. First I made a free-association diagram while completely level headed and not under any influence.
I Started with one word and kept writing words that I would associate with the word before it. I started in the center of the page with the word ‘poetry.’ Next, I took a few hits from my trusty and did the same association diagram with the same starting word
The GREEN represents the diagram done while stoned.
I condensed the webs in order to focus on the most inner layer of words and the most outer/distant layer. In my personal experiment it seems as though my word choices had more depth and were indeed, more loosely associated while high. I also experienced a increase in momentum while writing, as if my words were coming from dictation and not logic.
The most enlightening realization during this experiment was that my associations while high were way less filtered. My mind was not shifting through possible answers to find the right one, it just “went with it” because I wasn’t trying to hit a narrow niche for the word and subject, I would consider my thinking to be more ‘free’ and unlimited.
How’s life going, you know, surrounded by Dubstep and Music all the time?
Life is some dope shit. It’s all one giant party for me. I play a show and then it’s on to the next one. Can’t stop won’t stop.
You do a lot of live shows, how could you possibly describe your live performances to us?
It’s like being being at a crunk house party right before the cops come, except when the cops come they start gettin crunk too.
What’s coming up for Crizzly in the next year? What can we expect?
More music!
Why do love music so much?
Cuz it gets the people GOIN
Do you have a greater motive in all this, some deep inner desire your fulfilling with your music?
I wanna rule the world
Whats your Piff, what do you use to get your mind going to create such original sounds?
Sleep
What advice to you have for the rookies, just starting out?
Don’t post unfinished tunes. You ain’t finished for a reason. FINSIH IT. and put as much effort into it as you can.
Last Question..Sweet or Salty?Sour
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We all love to sit and think, to ponder life questions, to let our imaginations dance and to be fully immersed inside of a moment. Nature acts as a stimulant for our minds and provides exceptional environments to escape “the daily” and free your thinking.
Best to be done alone.
Mindfulness is a state of present awareness. It is your natural state of being when your minds voice is muted and you are in the here and now of a moment. Take a second and breathe, inhale and exhale, feel the air going through your nostrils and be aware of the present moment. At this very instance of breathing you are mindful. You were completely in the present moment, aware of your experience. To be constantly mindful is a very hard task, buddhist monks spend their whole lives practicing mediation to increase mindfulness. Seated mediation requires both time, patience, and dedication. Sitting is the most important mental practice for achieving mindfulness in daily life, but we are going to go over 5 ways to meditate and practice mindfulness in everyday life without sitting.
Walking Meditation
Our everyday existence is filled with motion and activity. Walking meditation is just that, meditation in motion. Choose a private open space where you could pace back and forth. While pacing, take notice of the movement of your feet. Move very slowly, one foot lifts, moves forward, then lands on the ground. Then the next foot. Break the process of walking into these steps and try to align these steps with your breathing. Keep your whole body relaxed with your head up. Lift and inhale, land and exhale. Feel your feet moving and touching the ground, become aware of both your breathing and walking sensation as they intertwine into a single experience.
Postures
Your body is your main instrument. Throughout the day you find your body in a variety of different postures. Sitting, standing, laying down, contorted, stretched..etc. Take mindful notice of the different postures your in during the day. Feel your body as a certain shape and be aware how it feels and if you are resisting or accepting that posture.
Slow Motion Activity
All actions can be broken down to a process of individual components. Notice this process and become mindful of each step by pursuing the whole action in slow motion. For example, when taking a sip of coffee; Grab the mug handle, feel the handle, notice yourself craving the sip, slowly raise the mug to your mouth, notice the weight and the resistance in your muscles, again feel the craving, your lips opening, your arm wanting to move the mug closer, finally the coffee hitting your tongue and the feeling of relief. Be mindful of these subleties within a action. Every moment in life deserves awareness.
Stolen Moments
Stolen moments are what we perceive as wasted time. But these dead spaces in the day can be used for profit. They can be used for meditation. When you are waiting in a doctors office, focus your attention to the feeling of anxiety you get. When you hit a red light when in a rush, concentrate on the feeling of frustration and the emotions putting you in a rush. Whenever you think you are wasting your time, be mindful of the feeling. Be aware of your rejection of emotion and become aware of the present moment. It’s a lot more enjoyable to meditate in this situation then to sit there in angst.
Breath Coordination
Try and coordinate your breath with whatever activity you are doing. Your breath will create a rhythm and you will be more mentally ready to approach different problems and situations. When your breath is coordinated you have an easier time keeping your awareness of the present moment. Your breathe is forever, constantly present. You can NOT consume your mind with thoughts and past instances when you are aware of your present breath.
It’s difficult to try and incorporate all 5 practices in your day, but do try and incorporate different practices at different times of the day or different days in general. For instance, practice breath coordination in the morning and posture awareness at night. Whenever you think of a chance to incorporate one of the exercises do it. After a while some will become second nature and your overall level of mindfulness will grow.
I ride around at night on my purple mountain bike inside a neon lit city infused with fog swimming in the dull bright light.
All through the streets are the scattered ghosts who look like old cartoons of the people we know and once knew. All wearing fancy hats with canes and monocles, sipping whacky from rock glasses and strumming one string guitars.
They look more sad then angry, their cold ghost tails fishing for ankles of those still alive.
I reach as far and high as my body could reach trying to escape the floor where they reap as the sky continuously floats further into into the dark depths of the deep.
But I remember, I remember to channel the violent waves of passion crashing inside my veins and the hard piercing truths in the depths of my brain.
and I stop and I Listen, listen to the notes humming from my breath.
Suddenly my soul begins to cover up my skin.
I then realize my feet could pedal through the clouds that my mind is a motor vibrating inside my heart sending out pulsating sound waves inside my ribcage.
My hips swirling causing little tornadoes to run down my calves… my vision is cutting the world in half, leaving the sky above me to grab, Im a hop on my bike and hit my rooftop like a ramp make sure to give E.T a pound and a glance.
Don’t worry about me dude, Ill be back in flash
But first I got to turn this world upside down so houses will hang from the streets and we’ll be knee deep inside clouds.
The ghosts will smolder inside graffiti on white walls and silently hold up the words hanging on edges of notebooks trying not to fall.
Everyone’s gonna have to fly if they simply want to walk and I suggest spreading your toes if your in a hurry
See nothing will every hold us down the chains are already broken.
We just somethings cant snap out of the spell. Thoughts about death, illusions of failure and all these ghosts continue to fill our wet minds with the dust and wrong hope.
So Grab what you love and wipe it on off.
Stay open because there are drops of bliss dripping from leave tips, answers to mysteries drizzling from the moon ….and the wind doesn’t just ripple it rocks the fuck out.
We are walking communications of life.
Our songs are our pulses and they are forever dancing inside distressed radio frequencies of old beat up cars floating through empty nights
And they’ll never go away because our souls are untouchable and they found a place to stay
So amplify your signal of life
Deafen anyone who dares to look at you twice
Every single one of us was created, reborn, and always was…. somebody different then everyone else.
We are armed with some very powerful stuff.
An apparition of me once looked into my eyes and said , live life as if your already dead, and ever since little glowing ghosts continue to whisper out from the edges of my fingertips causing everything around me to come to life
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