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I am not familiar with Sedona Method but as for emotional release, it seems it happen on it's own without any kind of will or method. Of course any sort of resisting will perpetuate the state. So if there was a method, i would describe it as becoming completely attune and accepting of the state in its presence without judgement, rejection, or need for it's end. Through this process of allowing it to be, there may be a release and a shift in state (maybe this makes some sense, and carries benefit)

@Zigzag Idiot hmm ? I was asking about how Leo and gurd each resonate with you personally (see the edit) i will however gladly watch the video there. The speaker isn’t anything special in how the sharing of all his opinions haha but whatever. strange at the end talking about if you don’t eat your egg someone else will ?‍♂️ But I love the talk on negative imagination ?

@Zigzag Idiot this is my first listening of Gurd, but I love reflecting on my own experience with any and everything new I stumble upon. Just checked out the buffers video, another spot on familiarity based off my experiences for a good time I had completely dreamless sleep and absolutely loved it. Funny as I had been quite the night owl with an avoidance to sleep much of life how do their teachings resonate with you personally? (Leo and Gurd)

@Zigzag Idiot love the vid, resonate with it quite strongly also I’ve done a few of those developing will practices on my own, but I enjoy the breaking routine sort of ideas proposed haha

@Knock Appreciate you sharing this very clean and well put together outer focus approach to managing addiction in one's environment perceived as separate from us, because, in the sense of duality. it surely is. Without fully understanding the inner, there's going to be an infinite amount of ways to go about dealing with the outer, but ALL of which will be susceptible to falling victim to one's old addictions. For example if your life goes to shit in a specific area and you will need a way to cope, then again we may fall victim to our addictions

@Knock why don’t share some...? i suppose what you mean by friction is movement to draw attention back to the now, something as simple as breathing

Bingo. So this and meditation Addiction is behavior which simply becomes an unconscious conditioning pattern. It is the form of psychological escape, distraction, and continuation of the false sense of self in thinking also fear of addiction (being an addict) can and will only strengthen it. Bring conscious awareness to the patterns until you understand the underlying cause then stop feeding the patterns with your attention. Bring attention back to presence/allow love even use gratitude. Don’t bother with using mental effort to resist as the urges will persist

An interesting turn this discussion has taken As long as cravings arise, they do serve a purpose as being a message to you. Your lack of self esteem is the issue right? Does playing the game give you self esteem? I mean you express no fear, no worry or stress. Seems this is an escape. Maybe you played games as a kid, do you think you expressed/would have expressed yourself differently as a kid experiencing the game more emotions, being loud and excited, sad, expressive etc? These emotions DO NOT necessarily have to impact your playing abilities, as you seem to well know! Attention on breath is simply how to create that space of awareness, during times of breaks in the game you can simply notice your style of breathing, is it coming from the chest or stomach. Chest breathing is more susceptible to feeling anxious and stressed. We always have the space of awareness available without having to actually focus on it, Outward focus causes us to lose the inward awareness my challenge to you: Why don't you practice expressing your emotions purposefully/meaningfully during your gaming sessions, and i mean all your emotions, the happy, sad, angry, worry, pain etc BUT take the "backseat" in your awareness of all the thoughts/emotions/sensations during the entire experience. The point of this is to help you understand how you suppress emotions unknowingly and fear/avoid/shame yourself with the negative emotions, and also to realize you can feel both pain and suffering in a good way. edit: excited to hear how this little experiment may go for you, It really is a beautiful thing to experience yourself entirely

A few thoughts: self love can be simply creating opportunities to do things that make you feel good (maybe they will increase your self esteem, like exercise tends to do, or maybe it makes you feel good doing things with or for your family) recognize that everything you do is selfish, even those things you claim to do completely for others as you’ve self sacrificed, making their desire more important than your own. So there’s creating healthy habits. Things like giving yourself time to process emotions/stress, being honest with yourself and your intentions, not self shaming or recognizing when you do, fully committing to what you plan to do, using simple breathing techniques (stomach breathing) and emotional processing to lower stress, will greatly reduce food cravings and raise mindfulness btw these are all self love aspects im either doing, wanting to bring back or starting in my own life. I’m a stomach ill add this: recognizing your forms of escape/coping mechanisms, simply to bring awareness into the activities like gaming and watching shows, it’s not about eliminating these activities but recognizing when they are being used to avoid facing your own inner demons. Maybe next time you’re watchin a show you will also be doing stomach breathing and noticing emotions/state of mind. I’ve been bringing new levels of awareness into all my activities (so even work) and it’s creating a beautiful experience always full of unsuspected insight and love Edit: if you enjoy podcast, “spirit purpose and energy” has some awesome content for getting in touch with you feminine side

I like the awareness and reflection I read here in your latest update, gonna comment more after my nap. (2nd time writing this ?) didn’t get that nap but instead chose to go help out my uncle enjoyed the contemplation on your weight loss endeavor and it reminded me of helping a friend train to be stronger/more fit for soccer Here’s questions you can ask yourself: what does the health of your body mean to you? Do you see fitness/hard work and healthy eating to be an act of self love? What does self love mean to you and how do you practice it? What are the benefits of creating a healthy body? The quantity and quality of the food you consume affects health more than the amount of fitness/hard work done ime awesome realization about questioning the purpose of the emotions that arise. Teal said when we get triggered to feel “upset” we can see it as “set up” by the universe to look into and learn why we have them

@tsuki you saying i might as well delete what i wrote? (she probably knows exactly what she's doing)

Hey turn that finger around! maybe you want you to be a certain way. Maybe you can’t accept yourself. You feel like you need to be open hearted and love the world, well guess what, you don’t! You can work through this need to be other than how you are. It does not matter what you leave behind, it only matters how you continue to be you, are you resisting or integrating? (I realize some of this was already discussed but I’m simply making sure you know the ball is always in your court)

Maybe...but it don’t matter Yes ideas are fantastic. What happens when you drop all ideas, all knowledge/concepts, and beliefs? Do you and your life actually exist? Is there even an existence? There’s the I am’ness/being but what does it feel like when there’s no more ‘knowing’ about anything...

That’s kinda silly almost like saying if Truth was to physically die, then would you be willing to end your life? Which reminds me of the movie: the discovery

Quite interesting ?❤️

No mate! It simply just does not matter as some may indeed believe what is being spread are simply Leo’s ideas, so they will have to do their own work as no amount of convincing will help them on the path to understand what he’s describing. I’m not trying to support truth addict and his playful punches he’s throwing, im just saying Anyways seeing the metaphysics is a good place for people to begin the search for understanding, cheers ?

But from his view it seems you don’t make sense the ideas are irrelevant to Truth right?

@Inliytened1 I believe this is his question you didn’t address. Try not to jump to too many conclusions with Truth Addict, he’s a cool cat ? he doesn’t always reveal is “fully evolved state” ? anyways, cool looking video, might check it out ???

I wasn't supporting him, i am playing into the illusion. It doesn't matter what i do, stop acting like it does

but you can find emotion without Truth This shit is tricky as fuck man, who woulda guessed you'd have to throw trust out the window and face everything and everyone as yourself, completely butt naked

@Truth Addict Wise but youre still just a kid! (yes im joking ) Let me ask you this, who is the "i" that does not know? we all play our characters no matter what we claim to know, This doesn't mean we have to live as Illusion, rather, we know we Live with illusion, experiencing freedom no matter what arises

@Inliytened1 he’s okay though. People can battle themselves all they want and believe whatever they wish, for now ?

You said it yourself, your feelings are irrelevant for Truth. If you refuse to allow, you can never be hypnotized. Can you allow yourself to start from “not knowing”? It’s the only way to dive into the vortex of Love (seeing all that is YOU)

@Truth Addictwhat are you trying to do here Truth? Continue Being an addict? I mean sure I’m glad you’ve stopped pursuing it but now all you gotta do is allow it into your life and you can cease to be

Yes but many behaviors we aren’t conscious of doing or why we do them. Subconscious is simply descriptive and not actual I’ll check it out when I get a chance though