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Went to a party yesterday with 2 friends from my university. Took MDMA. Was the best experience I had with MDMA. But also the worst. One of my friends is mentally unstable. And while on MDMA I felt this strong urge to lecture him and to feel more with his heart then with his head. I told about my mental issues in the past. The effect was the opposite of what I had anticipated. He was weirded out. And I felt horrible. I apologized and eventually he said "no it's ok, it comes from your heart" and then we hugged. But still took me a while to get over it. What followed was nothing short of magical. I just loved everyone in the room. I talked with at least 20 different people and hugged them intensely. Almost all of those people hugged me back with so much love. There was one guy in a wheelchair and we hugged for so long.. it was amazing... Had deep conversations with a lot of people spreading the love. Just showed me a glimpse of what unconditional love feels like I guess and it was just mind blowing.

I meditate on the train, or whenever I am alone really. I think you're overthinking it a little, who cares what other people think hha

That's cool but other people are working for you not to work also you have to proof that you're actively looking for a job and not just taking advantage of this tool that aims to keep people off the streets.

@Jkris but do you still feel pain?

@Highest what did it feel like?

is your third eye active?

@Aaron p I don't get it. You're implying that people who are gay are weak and have a lack of self love? Looks like you have a lot of internalised homophobia my friend. I have found that people who are gay in my surroundings are remarkably strong and certainly not weaker than straight people. They have a way of expressing themselves much more authentically and truthful. I'm bisexual myself and I really don't understand where you're coming from with that statement. Also, fyi it's not like you can choose which person you're attracted to, you're almost making it seem like being gay is a choice. I don't want to derail this thread so sorry at OP

@Aeris Ok... are you gay too? You got very off topic though.

@Aeris you posted with the assumption he was a guy.. otherwise you wouldn't have called him gay, based on the story. Lol

"of course I ruined", "I always ruined everything of course" I don't know the answer to your question but why are you talking down on yourself like that? Looks like you need to work a bit on your self-love!.. You didn't ruin anything. It probably went just like it should have. Nothing ended.. change happened

Amazing. Just shows how far a road I still have to take.. My goal is to meditate on average 20min a day this year. Let's take it from there haha. But keep it up. Love you!

@Aeris I had the same though. With this person. It was beautiful. We ended up being in a long distance relationship for more than 2 years (Long distance being 1000km+)

@Aeris Ah my bad! Thought it was a relationship, not a beautiful random encounter

@Aeris I mean, why aren't you seeing each other anymore? Was interested in the story to why it ended

@Aeris What happened then? You fell out?

Hey all, I am a graduated software and AI engineer, and I recently had this idea in mind. This morning during my meditation session I couldn't really focus and then suddenly something else came to mind. What if I make a user friendly app that monitors your progress in meditation? The only real good app is "Headspace" right now. But that is more of a meditation guide more so than an app tracking your progress. The idea I have of how the app can look like is as follows: 1- Set you daily meditation time. Will send you a push notification when the time is there to meditate 2- Before the meditation session starts: ask a few simple questions (skippable / non-skippable) (eg: How are you feeling from 1-5, Thoughts bugging them right now,...) 3- Start of meditation, depending on the journey of the user, will start with 20 min (user can of course change this manually) 4- Questions after meditation: Were there any re-occurring thoughts? How easy was it to meditate? Emotions that came up during meditation? The ability of the user to handle said emotions? Overall rating of the meditation? These questions should be easy to answer (preferrable just rating from 1-5, or if asked for real feedback, one sentence answers) This would in turn provide information needed to draw a graph for the user; and track improvements. If time passes, ease would preferrably increase, less intrusive thoughts,... App could also include different forms of meditation (breathe awareness, do-nothing, candle meditation, etc.) (still have to research on that) Or possibility for a section to add targeted meditation; say you are facing a difficult episode or some events you can't seem to get over, guide the user to face their fears / doubts, feel the emotion fully and allow them to let go. Basically more of a therapy kind of meditation session with progress. These are just some random ideas. Bottom line is, it should be a personal diary of the user and their meditation experience to offer them an objective measurements on the effects of meditation on their life and prefferably would lower the drop-out rate of meditation. What are your thoughts?

@Highest Don't be too straight-forward though haha, she might get scared of if you want to stress it that much I don't know But let us know about the developments! Excited for you!

Wow. Amazing!!

@peqkno Cool, but this doesn't really track a user's personal progress. Only the days-streak. But nice find! @Bluebird Awesome, thanks for the feedback!! I will make this app using Flutter (will be able to deploy to both Android and iOS devices). Ill hit you up when it gets too complicated, and possibly partner up! @Nahm Thanks Nahm, your feedback / excitement are greatly appreciated. Feel so much love from you always! For sure would love to share some ideas! @Girzo Thanks for the input. It's always a challenge between building a simple start forward app but also want it to be as accurate and helpful as possible.

@Nahm Thanks for the feedback! Ill start working on it, because I will use it myself anyways, might as well share it with others.

in this video Leo says he had been meditating for 250 days - 1 hour a day. This was approx. 5 years ago. Would like to see a follow-up on the benefits of meditation after 5 years of doing it consistently, and how the expectations he had about meditation were met or not. Maybe some wrong preconceptions? Or better than expected?

This is one of my favorite songs.. Could be interpreted as enlightenment And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed You felt as if you just woke up And you said "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met you But now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you And I'd probably be happy"

What made you continue your path to enlightenment? What made you start, what made you not give up and how did you know you reached it?

Animals have different personalities.. For example some dogs are more aggressive than others, some are more shy, some are loud, quiet, etc... Doesn't even have to depend on the breed. BUT... If personality is a product of identification with the ego, then how come animals have different personality traits?

I know it's ridiculous But this song Really, if you listen to the lyrics