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Paul Chek seemed to be doing alright with it last I checked(no pun intended)

I was tripping a few months ago & it made me remember an old friend I hadn’t seen in years. After the trip I texted her to hang out that week & she told me that she had been thinking of me randomly that day. We didn’t talk for a looong ass time it’s like the psych put my mind into her mind before even calling by imagining her.

I am at a point in terms of skill where I can charge up to 70$ an hour for one on one teaching & I work on stuff I love at least everyday. It’s becoming easier & easier to get clients too. I think I’ll be officially financially afloat from it exclusively in the coming year or two & it feels fantastic. I don’t want to be bragging, I just felt grateful. I took the course almost a decade ago. I’ve been on the forum since 2018 & I bought the course before that for god’s sake! Plow through the doubt & resistance fam, this work really does work. And you, Leo, my good sir, are absolutely insane. I am only scratching the surface of your work.

What do you mean by active mindfulness? Specific patterns or just intuitive walking & doing other movements?

What do you guys think of moving practices like tai chi & such? How different is from sitting? Is it not boring enough?

I’ll get my strength up & jump it, mate. Thanks @Razard86! I am grazing it with the tips of my fingers

I’ll add it to the list next to harmonica. I have a pipeline. Probably won’t ever get to the end of it.😜

@Natasha Tori Maru Thank you for your valuable perspective. I will mull it over for a little while now. I can definitely validate the exposure therapy part for other aspects of my life. It only makes sense but sometimes the human is stubborn lol. I’ll get to sending emails! Oh what a joy unraveling all that shit is!

Hey sure I can talk a bit more. I have thought guitar & am teaching people of all ages from 5 to 73 years old. I also thought piano to mostly kids & some of my students, even though I market myself as a guitar teacher first, like for me to do voice training & ear training with them. Here’s a few things I learned about teaching so far: Every students’ needs are different so I don’t have a set curriculum. I treat teaching like I treat jazz. It’s improvised using context & a few guidelines. The song is at the centre of it all because that’s what most people want to learn: Playing songs they like. The theory is tastefully sprinkled throughout for the sake of naming things for the most part. It’s to communicate instructions more effectively first. Unless the student really digs it. I always introduce new warm ups to have fun & loosen up. I call it tuning. The instrument & the mind. Breathing exercises specific to singing work great there but I also make them break out their shell by doing a bunch of silly noises. Humour is always a bonus. You are trying to make them have a good time before trying to turn them into Mozart. I always learn the song they are trying to learn. It might sound obvious but when you are leagues above them in skills you can get away with taking it one measure at a time & transcribing live in front of them or reading it. I don’t like that. I like to memorize the music front & back, the form, lyrics, everything. I might even play it in a few different keys for fun if it’s a simple song. I learn it way faster than them of course so some hours of learning for me is weeks of not having to prepare material cause you now have an ocean in your pocket & they can only handle a small glass of water at a time. I could think of more stuff and maybe will later, cheers!

Do you want to eat those cheat foods? What kind of cravings are you battling? The more I clean up my diet the more I realize I don’t even want those trash foods. Some of them are way worse than others too so it’s not that simple.

Negative thought loops are crazy interesting to me but I understand how that’s an acquired taste. They are unpleasant but still interesting. If you can keep yourself from doing dumb shit with your physical body you should be fine. Don’t take massive doses as well is pretty obvious advice. As I see it, you gotta accept that if bad trip happens, bad trip happens & that’s that. Resistance just makes it more likely to happen & harder to deal with.

I was amazed to realize how non obvious good running mechanics are out of the gate. Folks out there would benefit from studying gate & the architecture of the feet, knees & hips before just going out & doing it out of pain for the sake of cardio. Running feels fantastic when the mechanics are coherent. I Went out for a run this morning & I definitely felt better & sharper the whole day. I gain energy from short runs of 15ish minutes it’s amazing. Sneak in a few sprints here & there. Fantastic. I had a little nag in my shoulder upon waking. Gone. It’s greasing the whole system. Moving the blood & lymph. God I love running.

You guys keep amazing me when I get moments of clarity. I can only see your insights when I can see your insights even if you tell it to my face I won’t get it until I do.

Here’s a few things I am struggling with if anyone has an input go ahead I will read & enjoy it. I am bottle necked by the amount of students. There’s no doubt that I can teach & satisfy students enough for them to give me vast amounts of money(compared to my other jobs lol) but it’s only one hour a week per student & I don’t have enough to make it fully from teaching yet. Getting them is getting easier though. I am bottle necked by my mind always still. I am at a point with my playing where I will listen back to it & really like it. It sounds weird to say but I think I sound awesome. And still, I struggle to bring myself on stage. I have done it in the past but now it feels more serious. Which I know for a fact is incompatible with good playing. Good playing & serious don’t exist at the same time. I can feel my dirty mind getting in the way when I play a “serious performance “ like a live stream or actual show as opposed to singing to your mom(my mom) for example. No problem letting go & sounding great there. It’s fear. That’s really all it is but it so damn sticky! God had to make it a challenge or what?

Thanks mate! I can foresee the second stage of this where I am not so crippled by money that I can think of the spiritual impact of my art & that kind of fluffy goodness. Not that I don’t already do but not earning money really do be crippling, mate.

I am working on diversifying my operation at the moment. I would love to get more students as it has proven fun & lucrative but I can clearly see that gigging is where the most growth will happen. Therefore that’s where I need to go.

Oh you saw! I teach music. You should’ve seen my face when I charged 50$ to one of my students & she pulled out 20$ on top to tip me the other day lol. The formulation of my purpose has changed a lot throughout the years. So much so that I sort of gave up trying to formulate it. In one word I’d say inspiration but I’ve always felt dissatisfied with it. What I got from your course that really did it for me was the value assessment part. And it’s more than just the course too, it’s all your work really. I don’t have the wits to explain myself like you do but it’s an understatement to say that you had the biggest impact in my life so far shy of my parents lol. I love teaching & singing Elvis tunes with random folks & hearing “merci” with a glimmer in their eyes as I am leaving.😌 I hope my passion is seeping out of me & into them is the main thing I guess. I have more ambition than this but it feels great to earn my survival in a way that doesn’t suck like so many other jobs I had.

I don’t get how to tag you but thank you Leo!

You’re so funny Leo!😂

You missed what I said. Ask yourself what movement even is in the first place & notice that what you are saying is false.

You literally can’t help but move all the time. Try not moving for a few days & you die. It only makes sense that cardio would be beneficial to your cognitive function & it is. But it doesn’t need to make sense, it’s still true without all the rationalizations & reasoning for a mechanism.

That’s just what humans do. I haven’t met anyone yet who doesn’t believe in & try to convince people of their crap daily to some extent. I don’t believe you if you tell me you don’t do it. But I also think spiritual perspectives on health are on topic here. We die if we stop masturbating. This is very serious lol.

Standing meditation is underrated

Swiss ball meditation is clearly superior. /jk

I don’t see why both can’t exist at the same time.