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Meaningwave is a musical psychotechnology developed by Akira The Don with the aim of helping listeners to achieve their potential in this lifetime.
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What's Possible In a Month? or How I Accidentally Started CrossFit And Learned To Hang On To My Lunch

𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔓𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 ℑ𝔫 𝔞 𝔐𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔥? 𝔬𝔯 ℌ𝔬𝔴 ℑ 𝔄𝔠𝔠𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔡 ℭ𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔉𝔦𝔱 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔏𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔗𝔬 ℌ𝔞𝔫𝔤 𝔒𝔫 𝔗𝔬 𝔐𝔶 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔠𝔥

Just over a month ago I had no idea what CrossFit was, but the coffee shop I frequent here in Playa del Carmen is next door to a gym, and there’s only so long you can sit there sipping fine beverages watching people grunt and sweat themselves into a state of euphoria before you have to join in.

I thought I’d get a personal trainer and learn how to do deadlifts or something. So I wandered in, and spoke to a gentleman with a not dissimilar mode of follical arrangement to my own - bleached on top, dark beard plus classic strong-man twirled mustachios - and he didn’t speak much English, and I spoke less Spanish, but regardless, we discovered we were both DJs, and we arranged for me to attend a CrossFit class the next day, and I’ve been going 5 days a week without fail ever since.

Like I said, I had no idea what CrossFit WAS. Turns out not actually exercise at all, but instead a live simulation of an hour long extreme fight or flight episode. And so on my first day I managed to get through maybe two thirds of it before having to run outside and stop myself from vomiting all over the place. “Well,” I thought “now I know what CrossFit is”. And I came back the next day, and paced myself a little better, and managed to make it all the way to the end without having to run outside and decorate the calle with my insides.

I’ve mentioned before that one thing that amazes is me is that, after weeks and weeks of bafflingly elaborate fight or flight simulations, our instructor Jago never seemed to repeat himself once. Each day was a new surprise, and I have remained in a state of constant shock, awe, delight and mild terror to this very day. Indeed, this very day, halfway through week 5, was the first day I think something was repeated.

Jago is away right now. So another of the gym’s instructors, friendly bearded muscle-man Alan, is having his jolly way with us, which is a little different, and often comes to a crescendo with us engaging in something quite physically extreme whilst Eric Prydz’ OPUS blasts through the gym. This is a song I am used to hearing at midnight, maybe on New Year’s Eve, perhaps in one of my own DJ sets, and whist I was used to being sweaty when I heard it previously, these days I am practically liquid, and I now thoroughly associate it with transcending my mentally-imposed physical limitations.

Today was no exception in that regard - we started with 75 sit ups, worked up to 5 sets of weight-increasing 5 rep deadlifts (which I had never done before and fucking LOVED)… and then came something I’D SEEN BEFORE. Right back at the beginning, Jago had had us do these medicine ball-lobbing squat exercises - squat, launch the ball the wall as high and hard as one can, catch the ball as one depends into another squat, repeat. 10 of those, then 10 burpees, then 20 of those, 10 burpees, 30 of those etc all the way to 50. Last time I did that, I got up to 20, then had to go outside and hang on to my lunch for dear life.

Today, I fucking smashed right through it. Grinning like a mad person the whole time. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t EASY - there was plenty of arguing with the Inner Bitch, plenty of pushing through that Governor, that 40%, to the Other Side, where all the extra energy is stashed... But I didn’t have to go outside and be sick.

I SMASHED RIGHT THROUGH IT.

And afterwards, I realized why I’d been grinning so hard.

After doing this 5 days a week for a month, showing up, not knowing what I was supposed to do, or how to do it even when I was told... but always paying attention, and doing my best...

...after showing up 5 days a week for over month, a thing that I simply COULD NOT DO…

I now could do.

That’s it.

That’s all it takes.

Will.

Effort.

Humility.

Consistency.

In one month, I went from nearly throwing up after 40 minutes, to smashing through the thing that had seemed utterly impossible to me.

What’s possible in another month?

What’s possible in a year?

I am awash with joy and gratitude to have the opportunity to find out.

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TELL THEM NOW!

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STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW

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CHASING MEANING… With Scott Adams

“You can't pursue happiness
You could pursue a wild animal
You could pursue a ball
That's rolling downhill
You could pursue a car
You could pursue a dog
Because those are all real
But happiness you can't pursue
You could end up happy
But you can't pursue happiness
There are two things
You can pursue
That'll get you there…”

Make some noise for the grand return of Scott Adams () to the Meaningwave Universe! And with a song that couldn’t be more perfectly Meaningwave if it was synthesized in a lab by a team of 100 genius-level Meaningwave scholars 2000 years from now...

CHASING MEANING
(https://go.meaningwave.com/CHASINGMEANING)

…is out now!

I sent it to Scott last week, and he replied straight away, “I love it! But I am biased.” Which is fair. I love it too, and I hope you do too. Hey look! Here’s the music video!
(https://linktw.in/USRVHE)

Wonder where it’s gonna show up in next month’s MEANINGWAVE TOP 50, huh? SPEAKING OF THE TOP 50!

The MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 ...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK JOINS THE MU ON THIS FINE BLACK FRIDAY!

It’s Friday, which means NEW MEANINGWAVE, and it’s BLACK FRIDAY which means up to 75% off at meaningwave.com! Use code BF24 at checkout!
(http://meaningwave.com)

"Mr. Hitchcock
What is your definition
Of happiness?

A clear horizon
Nothing to worry about
On your plate
Only
Things that are creative"

We are joined this week in the Meaningwave Universe by a new voice, that of legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, speaking to us across space and time of happiness, on this soaring new instant classic, with vocals sampled from 1964’s CBS TV special, Telescope, A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.

A CLEAR HORIZON
(https://go.meaningwave.com/ACLEARHORIZON)

Is out now on all platforms!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/ACLEARHORIZON)

And you can enjoy the music video here
(https://linktw.in/BzBjIc)

MEANWHILE! It’s our biggest sale of the year right now at meaningwave.com. We’re offering 25% off EVERYTHING, including clothing, vinyl, posters, CDs… In addition, all digital bundles have been slashed by ...

LOFI CHRISTMAS VII

It's the most wonderful time of the year... I am blessed and proud to present your annual gift of low fidelity yuletide glory and wonderment...

LOFI CHRISTMAS VII
(https://go.meaningwave.com/LOFICHRISTMASVII)

…a cozy, crackling carefully crafted collection of Lofi Christmas perfection to soundtrack your holiday season.

As is only right and traditional, the mix is comprised of a smorgasbord of delightful new winter bumps, 14 in total.

As always, an instrumental version is available to stream (https://go.meaningwave.com/LOFICHRISTMASVII) and download (https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/lofi-christmas-vii) on all platforms (https://go.meaningwave.com/LOFICHRISTMASVII) … and a special vocal-sample-infused version will be dropping on Youtube at 1 CT (https://linktw.in/tFeIKl), and available to download for our supporters. This version is peppered with samples from some of my favorite Christmas movies and TV specials. Can you spot them all? (https://linktw.in/tFeIKl)

MEANWHILE!...

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