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    @Faye, I did some research about chakras and how to balance the root chakra (Muladhara). The root chakra has relationship to fear and depression and we need to get grounded in order to heal it. Meat and every rooted and red food will help you to get grounded.

    Some examples of food that help you to get grounded and heal the root chakra:

    • Carrots;
    • Potatoes;
    • Parsnips;
    • Radishes;
    • Beets;
    • Onions;
    • Garlic;
    • Protein rich foods like meat and eggs;
    • Beans;
    • Tofu;
    • Soy products;
    • Chives;
    • Paprika.
    • Pepper.

    But there are also other ways to get grounded and heal the root chakra:

    • Physical exercises (walk for 40 minutes everyday);
    • Connecting intimately with the earth (walk on earth and dig your hands in it);
    • Learning self-reliance;
    • Discoreving your true needs and aspirations;
    • Going from a psychology of scarcity to personal abundance.

    I'm going to follow these tips and I post here the results (I still won't eat meat though).

  3. Posted · Edited by brugluiz

    I did keto diet for more than 3 months. I lost some weight, but still had some depression and anxiety (in the first month, I was happier though).

    I'm on a plant-based diet for 3 days and I'm feeling better.

    I just asked myself: do I have the courage of killing an animal?

    My answer is 'no', so I won't eat it for now.

    Edit: before being on plant-based diet, I was eating a lot of junk food.

    Edit 2: I took a look at Jordan Peterson commentaries about eating just meat. I don't know about it because I never tried it. I hope it doesn't destroy your health though.

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    17 minutes ago, Aakash said:

    @brugluiz i can sorta relate to what your saying to be honest, i'm not sure whether i would have called myself an empath. But what you write does explain alot of features i've felt in my life. 

    Do you go around saying after 

    how did this person not realise this or did you not realise how this person felt to another person 

    or thinking thats not really what she means ? 

    I don't know, maybe you want to take Judith Orloff test in order to clarify it: https://drjudithorloff.com/quizzes/empath-self-assessment-test/

    I didn't understand what you mean exactly.

    @Arhattobe thank you :)

  8. Posted

    @Smika thank you for your words! I lived a great deal of my life on unconsciousness but with a lot of suffering that I didn't understand. Many times my energy got drained and I couldn't understand why. I wondered a lot: "if I'm being kind, why I'm feeling so tired?" I also have natural inclinations towards environmental causes and other equality causes, but I never fall into being an extremist.

    When in psychosis, I could sense when someone was lying to me or when someone was simply unhappy. I also would cry a lot many times without understanding exactly why (despite sometimes I was crying due to my life traumas).

    Animals are very important to me and I feel their pain, but I lived a long time of my life on unconsciousness and I thought it was okay to just eat meat because my parents and family wanted me to do so. But I never liked the idea of doing bad things to animals and, when I did, I regret myself profoundly (I still feel the pain).

    Sometimes I hate being this way because of such suffering and I think: "it would be easier if I felt nothing." I don't know if I'm really an empath, but I can really feel what other people feel to the point of getting depressed. I attracted many narcissist to my life (especially family) and I felt guilty because of it (they say we attract what we think, but, what about empaths?).

    You can call me crazy or whatever, but, when in psychosis, I was able to do telepathy. I was really able to understand what other people was going to say before they saying it. Sometimes it happens even when taking antipsychotics to the point I got used with it,

    @Aakash empaths are people more empathetic than normal.

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    I hope you're in good hands @Aquarius because sometimes medicines are necessary. If they want to put you on antipsychotics, a good choice would be olanzapine (this medicine made me sleep for 13-14 hours a day). But, as you said, you're probably having hallucinations (or delusions, I don't know) due to your lack of sleep. Anyway, all of it may have spiritual meaning.

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    I just drink alcohol with my family and friends (I don't get drunk since 2014) because I just want to taste some beer (I realized last day that I have no joy anymore with even craft beers). When I go out to night clubs, I drink nothing because I like to be 100% sure that I was sober when approaching women.

    Your question is interesting because I'm wondering if it makes sense to quit alcohol completely for spiritual purposes (the same with night clubs).

  13. Posted

    Just now, Martin123 said:

    @brugluiz Hello fellow empath. Can I ask about your plans with the anti psychotics?

    Hi, @Martin123! I'm really thinking on quitting them, but I'm not sure when to do it. According to The Inner Compass Initiative, I should wean off slowly (very slow), but I can't split my tablet of antipsychotic in a very tiny piece that will let me taper off very slowly. Maybe I have to talk to my psychiatrist to have a liquid solution of my antipsychotic in order to stop medications the proper way.

    But, directly answering your question, I still don't have plans with the antipsychotics.

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    Hi, guys!

    I just found out about the term empath (empata here in Brazil) and realized that maybe I'm one. That's funny because many times I thought I was a psychopath or sociopath because I felt so detached from my emotions. I even borrowed a book about psychopaths in order to see if I was one. I remember once I took a psychopath test and the result was that I was not a psychopath and neither had tendencies. Then I just concluded that I was a human being with no emotions.

    What happens is that I take antipsychotics and, before taking them, I was a big wave of mixed emotions. But after taking antipsychotics, I became a little more dettached from my emotions.

    I just took the test of Judith Orloff M.D. to see if I was an empath and I scored 16 points of 20 (there were questions I didn't understand, then I jumped them and I didn't score). It says that I have a strong empathic tendencies.

    I'm reading about empaths and I identify myself too much, especially before taking antipsychotics.

    What I find it's funny is that a therapist warned me that maybe I didn't have schizophrenia and just was too sensitive. A bar access facilitator also warned me that maybe I have a gift instead of schizophrenia (actually, I'm now diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder).

    If I'm really an empath, now I can understand why I attracted many toxic people and emotional vampires (especially family) during some moments of my life. But, at the same time, I also understand why some people don't give up on me (I really think things like: "why the fuck there are people who like me if I'm a depressed weirdo who can barely stand up).

    I really appreciate feeling what other people feel and I would do everything to heal them. But sometimes there are people who just want to drain my energy and it's not healthy for me.

    By the way, I'm spending some days in nature and it's being amazing.

    Just wanted to share it with you.

    Peace and love, guys! ✌❤

  15. Posted

    @ivankiss I agree with you. No one should be ashamed of crying.

    @Psyche_92 sometimes I get afraid that my family will hospitalize again if I cry too much. I just cry alone though.

    @Inliytened1 I'm a man and, yeah, I see many men with difficulties of letting their tears go.

    @ajasatya thank you! I read some of this article yesterday. I love your posts and insights by the way.

    @BjarkeT yeah, I think the more I'm connected with myself, the more I find crying a wonderful thing.

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    I did a life purpose exercise and then I started to cry due to the message I was creating during the exercise.

    After cleaning my face, I decided to watch a video of a dance about domestic violence (very famous video) and then I cried again.

    Then I decided to watch a video of Tony Robbins and Dawn Watson and I didn't stop crying. This last video was pretty intense (what story!).

    Before having these crying, I was willing to binge and eat a lot of junk food. After crying, the binge just disappeared (I'm still hungry, but I'll take a healthy food to eat). I also had other cravings that I don't want to show here but, after crying, they disappeared.

    I can say I'm a bit depressed, but I didn't cry with no reason. Crying was really good for me, specially during the life purpose exercise (the message I crafted was really deep). The message I wrote touches my soul and I simply cry. I don't know if it's a cry of joy or sadness, but I'm sure it's a cry of happiness.

    I feel happier and relieved after crying.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    In practice it's hard to help the world when you are underdeveloped and struggling to meet your basic needs.

    The point of developing yourself is so that you can become a better tool for helping uplift the world.

    But also, don't wait to be perfect before you help the world. You can work on both simultaneously. Help out in whichever ways you're able. Don't bite off more than you can chew.

    The greatest thing you will ever do for the world is to awaken yourself.

    Thank you, @Leo Gura!

    I still can't meet my basic needs, but I have an inner desire of helping people. Actually, I'm a college student and I generally help people with my own college works (I study Graphic Design, a very Green course here in Brazil).

    I'm taking baby-steps towards my development. It's baby-steps, but at least I'm evolving.

    1 hour ago, VioletFlame said:

    If anyone ever tries to tell you that it is "selfish" or "self-absorbed" to practice self-love or self-acceptance or any other spiritual practice this is used to help strengthen your relationship with yourself but also, just as importantly, your relationship with the entire world around you, they are usually the selfish ones who are not well educated enough to even understand why we pursue these practices in the first place.

    How can one ever truly give happiness to the world if they are not truly happy within? 

    Of course you don't want to be so focused on yourself that you ignore or neglect the world around you. But every moment is a waking beautiful opportunity for us to be as spiritual and as helpful as possible, whether it's for ourselves or for the ones included in our lives. 

    See every moment as a spiritual blessing you can use to your greatest advantage. 

    During a healing session I had with some people, a guy told us that, when we heal ourselves, we're healing the entire world.

    I'm not happy within, but I'm working on this happiness. I don't think it means I can't help people at all, but, as Leo said, I shouldn't bite off more than I can chew.

  19. Posted

    All this content about self-development is amazing, but I have the impression we focus too much on ourselves. I don't know if I'm being too much Green, but isn't life purpose more about helping others than just working on ourselves?

    I just watched a documentary about children slavery and it made me question it. I spend too much time reading about self-development and how to heal my emotions but, suddenly, I burst with tears while watching a documentary with children being used as machines for the capitalist system.

    Maybe a better way of finding our life purpose is by paying attention to what makes us cry. I heard I should have tears of joy and excitement, but I have tears of compassion and willingness of helping those children. I have the will of having them near to me just for them to hear that they deserve an awesome life and not those brutal stuff they were doing.

    It's not tears of joy and excitement, but tears of compassion. Isn't it also important for our life purpose? Or is it all about excitement, joy and self-development?

    I read somewhere that the best way to overcome depression is by getting out of the bubble and starting helping others. I also heard from a therapist that I need to help myself before helping others (I heard it from the whole psychiatric system). I'm a bit confused now because I do have emotional stuff and depression to heal, but at the same time I want to help the world.

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    6 minutes ago, Dan Arnautu said:

    Glad to hear that, man! Yeah, the game is a wonderful thing. I've met so many amazing people because of it. It even helped me land my first job, haha.

    That's funny because when I was going out many times, it helped me to land a job. I would interact easily, so I would get well during the interviews. I don't know how many times I went out alone by myself without alcohol. I don't have consistency, but I have the guts to do that.

  22. Posted

    10 minutes ago, MM1988 said:

    I noticed in your videos about law of attraction you tried to strip away all the supposed "paranormal" forces that are at work.

    The videos are quite old, did you change your mind on that?

    After all if all is mind, wouldnt it be plausible that thoughts can manifest external cricumstances?

    I heard people saying LOA works, but it still doesn't convince me. I believe more on working happily than LOA.

  23. Posted

    On 20/12/2018 at 3:10 PM, kieranperez said:

    Did you ever notice the reaction from that movie? How patriotic everyone felt? Man... I was shocked in myself just how much that movie triggered a deep blue in me and in the way they did it. It’s pretty crazy. Good movie and very very blue and very good at bringing out blue in someone.

    Yes, I felt it a lot too. The discourse of the sheeps, wolves and sheepdogs also brought out a lot of family values in me.

  24. Posted

    I haven't read all of your post, but I took a grasp of it, @AceTrainerGreen. If you work more than 40 hours a day and are happy, it's okay to do that. The problem happens when the job makes you miserable. Working more than 40 hours a week at a miserable job isn't worthy (unless you really need it).

    I read somewhere that you're not made to work more than 2 years at a miserable job because your body starts to get sick and illnesses start to appear.