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@28 cm unbuffed It's good to be ambitious. But I think you're taking a lot on your plate. I know it's difficult to draw a line. Let the obsession be in doses. So you are obsessed only when you need it to progress. It's like the saying "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" Right now you're on mental steroids. You are super excited to achieve everything. But slow down. It can consume you. Tao is very good for balance. When you have to take a break, focus on the break, not on progress. Never think that you are missing out on something. You are never missing out on anything, it's only a mind trick. Learn to break your mental pattern. When you need the motivation, let the obsession come back. Keep a cycle. A cycle of progress and a cycle of slowing down. This way it becomes rhythmic and gets automatically balanced out. Waxing waning type.

I think you're dealing with a turmoil period. Can be incredibly frustrating. You are showing existential crisis symptoms. You're possibly looking for a structure or framework or a launchpad in life. It will neither come easy nor will it come any sooner. You need to slowly build your base to grow from, your substratum. Take it easy. Don't be upset because of the frustration. This frustration is necessary for some time to learn certain skills and to learn acceptance of failures in life. People who bypass this stage think that life is always perfect and therefore they can never actually face life when things go wrong. This period of frustration and uncertainty is a necessary conditioning to be able accept life in its full form. So don't feel bad if you are going through this. One thing you really need to do is let go of perfection completely. There will be obsessive thoughts about perfection. Detach that thought. Don't wait for a perfect time or perfect day for things to be perfect. Accept the imperfection of a day.. Keep a dream board. Also keep strict focus all the time on things that are really essential for your growth. But allocate your time properly. Like for example don't use all your time to learn about life purpose or dating or spirituality. Dedicate certain amounts of time. Use your important time for job skills and health related stuff. Do not take everything at one time, as a perfectionist you might feel like time is too short, but take it easy, there's a ton of time. Focus on balance. Try to keep a proper balance between all aspects of your life. Don't exercise too much. Don't distract too much. Everything in balance. Also be very positive. Perfectionists might assume the future to be negative. Remove that negativity. Calm your mind with positive hope.. Think that everything is going to get fixed eventually. One of the problems that I can see in your post is that you are too attached to your life. If you are passionate person, this is expected. However being so attached can create a ton of frustration and can be a constant source of torment. So detach. Learn to let go. Learn to be free of everything. Have focus when you need it but during other times learn to be just be free of all thoughts. Otherwise they will consume you. So the key points are Focus Accept imperfections Dreamboard as a base or framework Allocate time properly Think using abundance. Think there is lot of time Keep Balance Be positive Learn to be free

Animals have a higher level of intuition as compared to humans. Mind over matter. Can we influence matter with mind. The phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion, is it psychological or biological. You can hold a lecture on biofeedback technology... Mind over matter techniques used in biofeedback Look into this video for accompanying your studies ,

I had a dream about Selena Gomez and I was talking to a pharmacist in the dream. I gave them a few books and they kept it on their shelves. Selena Gomez's songs were playing in the background. I heard the song Broken Dreams being played over and over. I met a friend later and she put my head in her lap and I was listening to the Selena Gomez song. I was having an unnerving feeling with this song like it's a sad song and not giving me a good feeling. Dream abruptly cuts. I tried to look up this song on Google and there's no such song by Selena Gomez anywhere. Weird!

In another journal I wrote about koyosta. I define it as a way of living in which you take full responsibility for yourself. You fight for things. You develop your own survival and protection skills instead of blaming and lamenting your situations and conditions. Instead of seeing something as a source of depression and frustration and fear and stress see it as a source of fight to gain survival and breakthrough. Every minor or major obstacle or depressing or stressing thing can be considered as breakthrough. You just have to either jump through it and tolerate without getting impacted or bypass it I'll call this the koyosta method. It also means positivity and empowerment.

I think the most safe method is the most natural way. During tides, the water recedes and fishes struggle for water on the sands and die within minutes when they don't get water. So probably lowering a large box that has a slider beneath made up of holes, tiny holes. When this box is lifted by a crane mechanism and then loaded on the ship, they can push a button for the slider, this will separate the bottom of the box exposing the slider with holes and the water will flow out making the surface of the slider dry on which there are fish that will die immediately with no water, that looks to me like a quick and least painful.. This will reduce the possibility of nets getting stuck or lost in the waters that cause a lot of damage to fishes who get stuck in them. I don't think any chemical should be used. Because any type of chemical or drug deposit in a tissue is bad. Nets cause a lot of long term harm to sealife. Hooks can cause a lot of pain because the fish is alive when you are removing the hooks. So I guess the painless method is to allow the water to leave through a porous surface meanwhile the fish die due to suffocation. I found this another method to reduce ghost fishing. Use of biodegradable nets as in this article. http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/19/biodegradable-gps-tagged-fishing-net-could-help-save-dolphins-and-whales

The dunning Kruger effect Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.

The butterfly effect Hofstadter's strange loop.

The idea is to control the transmission especially during the peak of the curve. Every epidemic follows a curve where it has a peak and then a plateau followed by a significant downfall. However considering the daily count of deaths, it's not the best time to go out because it will rapidly increase the transmission rate of the virus. When the epidemic is at the end stages of the curve, the transmission rate will fall drastically and then going out won't be a problem because the number of infected people will be really low so rapid transmission will be less likely. The curve shows the daily count of new cases, during a peak, this count is really high, and once past the peak point, the curve begins to drop, plateau and eventually flattens out.. Now there are three things that need to slow down on the curve. The rate of virus transmission and the rate of dying or death count and the number of active cases. Usually when the curve begins to flatten away from the peak, both the transmission rate as well as the death count tend to be on the decline. There are less deaths and less new people infected. But the number of active cases can still be high which can mean that the number of patients who either die or recover is still lower than the number of new infections. The curve truly flattens only when all three parameters decrease. In order for the number of active cases to decline, the number of patients who either die or recover should be higher than the number of new infections. The lockdown can be lifted once the peak point has passed and the flattening is achieved, unless there is secondary wave of the virus transmission in which case social distancing will need to be enforced again.

Hofstadter's strange loop. From meaninglessness to isomorphism

Consciousness and reality Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it's the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter. ... Physics is just structure. It can explain biology, but there's a gap: Consciousness

Ways of problem solving

Going down a rabbit hole must feel like being in a backroom.. When you are on your spiritual journey, there are things that open and sometimes you realize you were always in that rabbit hole. It's time to come out.

So once again nightmares!! I don't remember a lot of details of this one. But it goes like this. I have a friend that I'm flirting with. We both get along really well. I am trying to be this creative artist and I have some good stuff, however my family is critical of me. They consider it a waste of my time. Weirdly my paintings are being stored in a mobile or portable fridge and all my works of art are being stuffed there with no more space to add more. I've some anxiety and fear about sling those paintings. Dream abruptly cuts.

You will never be a part of me and I'll never be a part of you.

@Anna1 that was so funny.

Slim pickings.. Koyosta.

I have realized one big thing today during my morning meditation. And this is the realization. Trust is a wonderful beautiful space of emotion. You can always forgive a person. You can always forget the scars. You can forget what they did to you. But you can't get back that trust again. You can never trust that person again like you did before. Trust once broken is broken forever. Trust is like a mirror. Broken then you can't mend it. Like a flower that wilted. You can't get it back. Like the milk that went sour. You can't undo it. I think this applies to all relationships.. Romantic or not. This brings me to another realization. That trustworthiness is the greatest aspect or trait in the universe. Because we can undo grudge and forgive and forget and love again and do good again but we can't trust again. What is your opinion?

I love this list. 6 years of self-actualization was a waste of time Started by Stretch, 3 hours ago Reply to this topic 16 posts in this topic Stretch Topic Starter Member 108 posts Posted 3 hours ago · About 6 years ago I discovered Actualized.org and became inspired by the concepts of enlightenment and self-actualisation. Gradually pursuit of these took over my life, as I focused ever more narrowly on consciousness work as a way to improve my life. Eventually, I let go of friends, relationships, careers, possessions, hobbies and interests. Did a lot of meditation, yoga, etc. Built a spiritual ego and did some spiritual bypassing, too. Had one awakening experience. 6 years down the line and I am depressed, lost, alone, purposeless and empty. Trying and failing to find a sustainable life purpose I’ve ended up in a much worse practical position than if I’d settled for something less ambitious, and now I've run out of the luxury to keep looking due to personal circumstances. Although my meditation at one point felt like it was significantly clearer, at this point I have to doubt if my concentration is really much better than when I started. I don’t feel any closer to truth, and have completely lost my playfulness, sense of humour and experience of fun along the way. You have to take a LOT on faith with this work. The guidance isn’t presented as a dogma so much as a ‘try it and see for yourself’ thing. How long an experiment is reasonable to run, however, before lack of willingness to accept ‘it isn’t working’ betrays treating the guidance as dogma nevertheless? I’ve wasted 6 years of my life on a totally pointless quest, I’m absolutely sick of it, and I’m leaving now to attempt to stitch my life back together again. One more thing… I have to ask… Leo’s been doing this thing hard for a while now too, right. Let’s detach ourselves from our beliefs about enlightenment and self-actualisation for a mo and look at this objectively. Anyone else think his life looks a bit sad? Waken Member 143 posts Posted 2 hours ago (edited) · Stretch, what is it that you want from life? Feeling love, joy, peace, transcendence, career, fame, beauty, profoundness, finding a lover.. what? And did you enjoy some of the practises you did? Also, was your business with the spiritual work a lot of mind stuff? A point on following your life purpose. For myself I find something that Bashar mentioned much more natural when talking about life purpose. See: https://bashar.org/handouts/TheFormula.pdf . This approach doesn't involve working on a purpose, but in short just doing what attracts you most in the moment. Apart from these questions, please consider the possibility that you've actually progressed a lot and now come into a struggle into your life, which could be seen as an important transformation point. I don't know if this is the case for you, but I suppose it's very common for people who transform into living from spirit/soul (or whatever word you like) will come into one or more points in their journey which involve a period of struggle. The way you interpreted your period of struggle makes a lot of difference in how you'll experience it. For example, relabeling depression as a natural process for turning inwards, as you've come to feel that the answers won't be found outside of you (not from Leo or other actualized.org people), will make you experience it with much more appreciation, instead of thinking you've ended up in a mess. Maybe your depression is a point of transformation for you, where you stop looking for answers and suggestions outside of you, and learn to live from inward out, instead from outward in. Throw away all you've ever heard, everyone's tips on how to live and what to do, throw away everything doesn't make you feel good (from actualized.org too), and start feeling what it is you want now ------------------------------------- Ya know Member 82 posts Posted 38 minutes ago · It's an ego backlash. Is it really a problem? Aren't all problems imaginary? Did you truly have a terrible 6 years of your life? Or are you only a bit pissed off and thinking it's the end of the world ? I do the exact same thing - most human beings do, so it's nothing to be ashamed of. If you've been meditating consistently for 6 years I can guarantee your life is better. Sure there are low points, and with more awareness can come some resentment of others if you don't keep letting go of stupid thoughts like that. Remember the most basic personal development mantras - '' YOU ARE 100% RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE'' Leo showed you the path, you decided to walk it. You can get off any time and enjoy life. There's a lot to do here. As for losing humor and joy, I've done the exact same thing. Realize spirituality is meant to enhance your life. You aren't supposed to become the grim reaper, condemning humanities lack of consciousness and living in a gloomy world. The work liberates you from feeling compelled to live a certain way, to conform to society. You can choose to be detached. Doing what YOU want. To cure your depression - eat healthy for the next 2 days (focus on only two, it's achievable. Plan 6 meals, 3 per day) Do 30 mins exercise per day Drink a bunch of water - Go out in nature (if possible) Continue your spiritual practices. Don't disregard them because of a foul mood. Then chill out and make intuitive decisions about what will be the most appealing thing to do. Talk to a friend as well. If your pissed off, be pissed off! Feel it fully and let go of it. -----__---_-------_--------_----- Leo Gura Administrator 17,799 posts Posted 16 minutes ago · Firstly, it wasn't a waste of time. The lessons you learned will serve you for the rest of your life. It will keep paying dividends. Secondly, it's important to do this work without making it a chore. It has to align with your passions. Don't do it if you aren't passionate about. It sounds like this work is too advanced for you. You probably have lower stages of the Spiral to work on, which means Tier 1 teachings like basic self-help, biz, relationships, etc. You won't be able to go for advanced spiritual work unless you take care of your more basic desires and burn through some karma. The stuff I teach nowadays is extremely advanced and not suitable for many people who struggle with meeting basic needs. Thirdly, there are much worse ways you could have used your time. Fourthly, don't underestimate how much you grew in those 6 years. It's easy to forget how ignorant, selfish, and fooling you were back them. Growth happens and is then taken for granted. Fifthly, you are allowed to have friends and relationships.

I've seen that video before. It motivates me. Imagine sitting next to that cat at home!

I forget that there's always a different world out there. This is my motivation video for today