🔥 Nietzsche’s Gymnastics of the Will: The Path From Hell to the Good Life 🔥

The raw truth of how to get what you truly want in life. 96.2% of users agreed: "30 Challenges to Enlightenment is a life-changing set of tools." [THIS WEEKEND ONLY: get 25% off ALL our spiritual tools.]( Modern life is addicting. In 2017, temptation is everywhere. Social media. TV. Alcohol. Drugs. Sex. Video games. Delicious shitty food. Consumer products. Porn. Sedentary lifestyles. From all angles, we’re bombarded with advertisements and signals urging us to give in to our lower impulses… “It’s okay. Everything is good. Who needs real goals and dreams? Who needs real health and physical vitality? Just let go. Sit back, be lazy, soak in this HD entertainment, chase that fleeting high, buy more shit you don’t need, lather, rinse, repeat.” In moderation, most of the things I listed aren’t bad for us. Hell, it’s healthy to make space in life for leisure time and a little Dionysian intoxication. But most of us aren’t good at moderating ourselves. We see the desolation of unfettered pleasure-seeking all around us, in the form of addictions. World of Warcraft junkies putting in 18 hours per day. Morbidly obese people stuffing more Wendy’s into their faces. Facebook fiends scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, 8 hours per day, looking for that next hit of dopamine. Shopaholics whipping out the magic Visa wand for the 100th unnecessary purchase in a month. Cannabis abusers taking their 13th bong rip of the day, lost in a perpetual haze. You think such people feel good about themselves at the end of the day? You think they go to bed fulfilled and excited about the wondrous possibilities they intend to explore in this world? Hell no. They’re lost, afraid, trapped, and on some level they know it. And it burns. Eats away at them, acid-like. Scalds the part of them that wanted something more. So why do they keep doing it? Because in the moment it feels good. Because they lack the strength and discipline to change. Because they’re suffering, running from something. From the fear of actually staring into their own souls and accepting what they find there. From the fear of gazing into the abyss of this life, seeing how little we truly know, seeing the immense suffering of this reality, and accepting it. Or better yet, affirming it. Saying “Yes!” to it and resolving to help improve this world. The task seems overwhelming. And in case you think “they” refers to some far-off group of losers who we can all just pity and chuckle at, I got news for you: you and I are not outside of this. And you know it, on some level. Reading this right now, you’ve thought about your own toxic habits and borderline addictions. How you feel like you’re wasting too much time watching Netflix and scrolling Instagram, how you need to get back to the gym and stop watching so many Sasha Grey videos. How you need to resuscitate that dying passion project. Some version of that. I know you, human. And I love you. Because I’m in the same pirate ship. Over the years I’ve had my struggles. Alcohol, weed, video games, Internet black holes, overeating. Oh yeah, I’m far from immune. We’re all caught up in this game, working every day to find a way out of the hell of soulless hedonism into the light of a more meaningful, noble, purpose-driven existence. And I have good news: escape is possible. I believe I've found a [way out](. Come with me and I'll show you. I'll show you how to exit Hades and discover a world that doesn't suck. Truly Yours, Jordan Bates [Nietzsche's Gymnastics of the Will: The Path From Hell to the Good Life]( The raw truth of how to escape from hell and get what you truly want in life. [Read More]( THIS WEEKEND ONLY get 25% off [30 Challenges to Enlightenment](... Carl Jung once observed, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” We created [30 Challenges to Enlightenment]( to help you do this. To become the strongest, wisest, and most honest expression of yourself. As you know, taking action is hard and scary. It’s much easier to cling to what you know, to what is stable and comfortable. And yet, on some level, you realize that the treasure you seek cannot be found in your familiar routine. You’re reading this because you want something more: Adventure. Authenticity. Confidence. Purpose. Enlightenment. Whatever it is you’re seeking, your well-worn patterns can’t get you there. They can only bring more of the same. And that’s why we created this epic course: to break you out of your old patterns—to give you room to become a stronger, wiser, more heroic version of yourself. One of the most powerful aspects of this course is that it is divided into six unique quests, which are based on the stages of enlightenment described in the Zen tradition. The quests form a natural progression toward self-actualization and spiritual realization, providing meaningful direction to your journey. This is just one element which sets it apart from everything else out there. Each quest provides another stepping stone to increasingly liberating perspectives, greater awareness, and more enlightened states of being. Our aim was to create a kind of “PhD in self-development.” The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche understood the utility of temporary challenges as well as anyone, and he was one of our greatest inspirations in building this course. Nietzsche recognized that in order to become stronger and wiser, it was necessary to overcome yourself—to leave behind your established ways and paradigms. Nietzsche thought we should engage in perpetual self-conquering, regularly transcending our current conditioning to become something more. In pursuit of this end, he developed the idea of a “gymnastics of the will”—a practice of undertaking temporary experiments of willpower, with the intention of strengthening, mastering, refining, and deepening our being. Friedrich Nietzsche understood that our conditioning runs deep. Even if you admit that you want to change your life, it’s damn difficult to override your habitual programming. The solution to this problem, for Nietzsche, was to regularly attempt a variety of life experiments—experiments that would push one to act contrary to one’s conditioning. If we could just make a habit of attempting life-transforming challenges, Nietzsche thought we would unearth our own greatness, that which lies beneath our conditioning, and become resilient masters of life. However, we’ll let you in on a sad secret: Most of you won’t accept the challenge. Even though you perceive this grand opportunity, most of you will find an excuse. And you will find reasons to believe this excuse. As Nietzsche proclaimed, self-mastery and greatness are reserved for the very few. Most are destined to spend their lives doing what is easy, procrastinating on what they truly desire. However... Some of you are different. Some embrace what is difficult. The rarest of souls delight in challenging their limitations and becoming doers, not mere dreamers. And they are rewarded. They unearth the hidden jewels of human existence. Are you such a person? Will you accept the challenge? [I ACCEPT]( Copyright © 2017 HighExistence, All rights reserved. You signed up to receive the top 5 top-voted posts daily from HE Our mailing address is: HighExistence 40 E. Main St. #1137Newark, DE 19711 [Add us to your address book](//highexistence.us9.list-manage.com/vcard?u=dd9bd4972680a66763ae32a9e&id=9298f81796) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](