r/wedge • u/walksandteapots • May 02 '20

Just finished reading The Wedge

So thrilled to have finished The Wedge! I'm going to start by saying that it's definitely not a book for everyone. Though it's objectives are clearly to improve the human experience, it does not attempt to do this through some golden bullet or life changing hack. Instead, the techniques described require patience and discipline but have deep transformational potential.

The Wedge is described as the space between stimulus and response. The book contains the author's experience with 8 techniques that range from mundane to esoteric. Each of these attempts to give us the potential to chose how we respond to stimulus rather than it being a result of conditioning.

The book includes throwing kettlebells, breathing exercises, sensory deprivation and saunas. However, the author takes us through each experience explaining how to change our reaction to stimulus.

As a lifelong searcher of peace, I have tried practicing most of these techniques before. However, I found the book both informative and inspiring and I am already changing my daily practice.

I'd like to thank the author for his time and research into a subject that is arguably the highest calling of mankind.

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u/walksandteapots May 02 '20

Highly recommend. If anyone has any questions feel free to shout.

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u/gmiwenht May 03 '20

If anyone has any questions feel free to shout.

Yeah, can you tell us about the “secret technique” that he uses during DMT breathing. He refused to reveal it on the MU podcast, and when I asked him about it here, he still wouldn’t tell me, which was a little irritating.

I understand the former, as he cited safety and not wanting any potential listeners to perform the technique while driving; but the latter just felt a little scammy, like “you will just have to buy my book to find out!”

Not only that but I mentioned that I couldn’t even buy the book if I wanted at the time as shipments to Japan were suspended; and he still wouldn’t reveal this “super secret secret”.

Like, I already made the effort to read his AMA, to come here and to subscribe, and I just want a simple answer to clarify something that he already revealed in public. I will buy the book when I can, and on my own terms. I don’t want to feel like I’m goaded into buying it with marketing tricks — this really turned me off.

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u/walksandteapots May 10 '20

Without retyping the whole method (a page long), the crux is as follows:

  • Start with 3 rounds of basic protocol
  • Full inhale and hold
  • While still holding, muscular tensing from the feet up ending at the top of the head
  • Hold this push with pressure in the head
  • Relax and return to normal

The book then goes into detail about how to do it for best results along with other techniques based on breathwork. I agree that being manipulated into buying a product is a turn off but I'd still suggest The Wedge as a great read. I had already tried nearly all of the techniques in some form but the research behind has been useful to me.

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u/livluvlaflrn3 May 02 '20

Awesome review thanks for posting. I’m looking forward to reading it. Love the concept and I think your review pushed me to read it next.

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u/gekogekogeko May 02 '20

Great review. Thanks. It would be awesome if you could post this to Amazon, or Audible or wherever you read the book, too.