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Women Who Run With the Wolves

While a lot of it is to feel good, stay well in the short term, perform well, a lot of it has to do with this fear. We become obsessed because we are trying to avoid death.

@LfcCharlie4 why do you think they get reduced anxiety and stress? It's because they realize Truth at the experience of their body. It's not some random byproduct.

I don't think it matters what other people say about meditation and whether or not its useless. Go to a 10 day course, start a home practice, and figure it out for yourself. The technique and its results will speak for itself to you. If at that point you find it useless then you have your answer but it's foolish to take others' word for it before trying it out for yourself.

You could google why bread isn't good. But I'll list a few reasons, it's very dry and as such dehydrating, it's highly processed which can cause health problems in the long run, grains are not an ideal human food as they are difficult do digest, I think Leo mentions bread is bad because he doesn't do many carbs so, that makes sense from that perspective. Gluten has been shown to increase risk of autoimmune diseases, non organic wheat has glyphosate. Some health camps say sourdough is your best bet, and that's because the fermentation helps break down the grain making it easier for your body to digest. Personally, I don't eat it for the gluten reason, and the dry reason. But I sometimes have it and don't freak out about it, but overall I steer clear.

@remember lol! I am almost done with the book you suggested I read. It's been awesome! If you remember, remember

No worries, I am just now logging back in myself. Wow I totally see what you are saying. I haven't had the experience that the illusory self knows and that freedom lies in unknowing. We may be talking about different things, but to me, I was blind until I started to awaken. I see in some round about way that freedom is in unknowing, maybe unknowing all that I think I know, which would I think, come from a knowing itself:)

@remember the quote is from "Remember, Be Here Now" by Ram Dass.

@VeganAwake Example: when I first began to learn more about this work I kept wanting to always be in that place of knowing, so I would default to pretending when things weren't flowing, because I knew the state I wanted to be in, but wasn't advanced enough on the path to act that way. I would try to mindset my way there but that just resulted in the pretending. I first read about pretending in Remember, Be Here Now, where he has a quote that says something like, "they can always tell you're pretending" and boy that stuck with me haha.

You can't really just stop pretending through your mindset. You have to over time build to that point.

@Farnaby definitely not bad to focus on health. I just think it's an interesting aspect that can come into play during a health journey. Thanks for the response

Hmm maybe dont get too caught up in analyzing the feelings

There is one called "Women Who Run With the Wolves" that is about the female hero's journey.

It sounds like you found a good one, I too have recently had success with my now therapist, after trying many. She is a psychotherapist who specializes in contemplative psychology and she always asks me such good questions to get me thinking. She is very professional, never talks about herself and takes her job seriously. I think after a time though, therapy can be a crutch, and that we shouldn't be in therapy forever.

I think it goes full circle. Play IS serious business. Ever watch children play? It is a very serious endeavor for them. They become very focused, involved, enveloped in the experience.

The world most needs love. My life purpose is using my love of creative expression to help others discover their unique gifts. I am sticking my neck out for my business, for my creations, for my performances. I am creating what I am because I want to live a life that I am passionate about and that contributes positively to the people around me. The most important thing to do in the world is to love. Thank you for your questions.

Yes! 100%

Hands down, Leo's Life Purpose Course. There are many books I've read and courses I have been to that have shifted my perspective and helped me grow on this path, but the Life Purpose course showed me how to find my values. This has given me a base from which the rest of my personal development has flowed. Before, I was all over the place and things didn't really click for me when it came to having a direction. I knew I had a life purpose but had no idea how to discover it, and that was causing me a lot of suffering. I still suffer a lot now, haha, but things are different now, I have a track that I am on.

@Nahm wow that is beautiful ♥️

During a beautiful two gram mushroom trip last night I felt called to draw. I'm not a big visual artist, but in the last few preceding days have felt called to put writing utensil to paper and just create. The mushrooms intensified this experience and I sat for some time drawing and just followed the call. I noticed judgement continually creep in telling me all sorts of things to stop, that I'm not good, it's not worth it, I don't know what I'm doing, that my creation is stupid. But I didn't give in, and continually sent myself love and just drew. During this time God kept telling me to: create without apologies. It doesn't need to be perfect, it doesn't need to be just right, I don't need to be "perfectly aligned" to make art and that the creation itself is just so important. I love this lesson so much. In this age when we have so much information and entertainment at our fingertips it becomes so easy to just consume, consume consume, endless amounts of content. Creation doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to feel like it aligns with your soul or is your life purpose. Sometimes its important to just create, create without apologies.

@mandyjw thank you for reading

MDMA for me is a very social drug. I don't like doing it alone and whenever I have I find myself going out or calling a friend. This is not to discourage you at all, just be prepared to find some humans to talk with

Ok, makes sense. Thank you for sharing

@Angelite I'm curious, does this approach prevent you from creating then?

@Nahm thank you for your comment and for reading ♥️ @Angelite ? Maybe you will let yourself try it sometime