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@Shroomdoctor When I started out, I also basically did nothing but watching youtube, playing video games, and smoking weed. How I pulled myself out of that was to buy an agenda, and to note down a few very basic steps I wanted to accomplish that day. In the beginning it looked like: - Buy some fruit - Read for 15 minutes - Do 20 push ups That would literally be the type of goals I set for a day. Set these goals in the morning, or the night before. Than cross them off when you do them. Even these tiny goals you might fail in the beginning. Very key to have a long time horizon. Don’t start with more than 3-5 of these type of goals, judging from your story. Only after a few weeks of consistantly reaching them, think about expanding.

Willpower is also a very confusing topic to me. Will of who? Ego, Self? Let go and flow with life? Discipline? Confusing..

The 10 commandments you mean? ?

@Mo Grand To me it seems that this goes through stages. During some stages you change and grow a lot, and this will destabilize your relationships, and your life basicaly. Than you stabalize for a while on a new level. Until you enter the next stage. For me the solution so far has been to just bite the bullit and face the change and loneliness that comes with it. What has worked terribly for me is to internalize the change, and uphold relationships that were no longer truly there. Impermanence I guess.

I am curious. Who here are taking psychedelics? How often do you trip? What substances do you use? What doses do you trip? @Leo Gura In your last video you mention people abusing psychedelics, and using them different from how you use them. Would you mind disclosing the answers to these questions as well? Personally, I have done low to perhaps medium doses of psylocibin (I use psylocibin truffles, they are legal in The Netherlands. I have used up to 15 grams. Its supposedly not that much, but they hit me hard) over the last three years. Around 40 trips. Over the last year and a half quite consistently every 2-3 weeks.

Yes read the book like three times. Completed all the stem excercises twice. Very profound changes. Just feel a lot more solid, secure in my own being. A lot less fear and anxiety. And, as you will see when you read the book, it spreads out to all domains of your life.

Try going out in the day, somewhere in a city, with the specific intention of approaching woman. If you are too scared to immediately approach a girl, build it up. Get into the social flow. Start by asking hairy older man for direction or the time. Ask woman the same. Go up to a girl and tell her she looks pretty, wish her a nice day, and walk away. Building it up this way makes it easier IMO. To use liberatedmonkey’s analogy, you can slowly put the shower colder and colder. Its like a frog in boiling water, all of a sudden you are flirting with beautiful woman ? Not really though, stays scary AF lol.

I'm at the part of the values assessment now at the life purpose course. So, my reasoning is this; if your values represent your authentic self, the deeper you go into yourself the more your values will align with your authentic self. But then if you go deep enough, you will get into spirituality. You will find out there never was a self, you were god the whole time. Soo, isn't truth than the highest value for everybody, but most are just so disconnected they can't see it yet? They have to peel more surface layers before they even get to see that true value? Or could it be totally legitimate and accurate for someone to not have this as their highest value? Some people just don't want to find out Truth? There sure seem to be a lot of people who don't give a fuck Or is all this discussion nonsense because there is only one Self lol. Oeh, 222 posts at 22:22, my birthday is also the 22th. Guess I'm onto something here LOL.

As above so below. As within, so outside. Law of correspondence I belief its called. Reality has this funny way of catching up, perhaps with a slight timelag.

Shroom tea with a clear intention ?

I just want to hammer on this point Leo made a while back in a vlog, on there only being three generations alive at each given moment. It has made a big mindshift for me, hopefully this rant will do the same for someone else. So the basic idea is that there are only three generations of humans alive at each given moment. Think about it. It can sometimes seem like there is this huge world out there. But when you will be 50-80, you will be one person in the latest generation. Take a look at the people in that age group right now. Mystics, sages, CEO’s, leaders, politicians. It seems like they are somewhere out there, and there is this big world, with all these people that are in these positions. You will be one of those people! If you want. Also, most people really just don’t know shit! Its not like at some point you get ‘the memo’ of what life is all about. Most older people are simply older, and have become so adapted to the status quo and their beliefs, that now they truely believe they know whats going on. They don’t! Anyways, I guess this rant is about taking your authority back.

Crawl your way to abundance. Self- acceptance goes a long way as well.

@Flowerfaeiry Already do stretching every morning, and just bumped my yoga practice up to twice a week @TrynaBeTurquoise Yeah, the weightlifting might have been causing it in some way or another. Wreckless teen/early twenties throwing around heavy weights without proper instruction. Recipe for disaster. Also got the ball thingy, going to use that more! Thank you. @Michael569 Hmm yeah, I do sit a lot. I've been trying to be mindful of my posture, but it's hard and confusing. It's like I don't know what my natural posture is at this point. I've been changing it, my body has changed, and also I feel like there is just something inherently wrong in my back, I don't know. I've tried indeed stretching chest muscles and training back muscles more. However, not with the any professional help, just some youtube videos. I will talk to the expert I will go to next week, and bring it up. If I don't find any solutions soon, MRI might be a good option indeed. Thank you. @Johnny Thanks, but I'm good on the carnivore diet lol. @MAYA EL Woah, that is quite some adversity you have had to face there. Amazing how you have dealt with it and have come back. Puts my issue into perspective as well. Yeah, great point. I am unsure what exercises would fit, so will seek help on that before taking more action. Very interesting. One of the things I have become aware of is that the right side of my body is way more developed than the left side of my body. It's like I stand 70% on my right leg and only 30% on my left. Recently I noticed that the office chair I often sit in is actually is leaning right! I actually sit put so much more pressure on my right ass cheek that the chair is fucking bend (threw that thing out BTW). So if you are talking about inbalance, there is a huge on. Perhaps the posterior/anterior also plays a role, I'm not sure. Uhm, I think I have been doing a bit of that, but I will look into it more. Thank you very much for your post, it is really insightful. Any chance you are living somewhere close to the Netherlands? Would definitely come by for a session @Shiva I would say I sit around 5-8 hours a day. The exercise thing has changed a lot over the last year. First I went to the gym 3+ times a week, mostly lifting weights and did one yoga session. Now I hardly go to the gym, do two yoga sessions, and stretch every morning. Thank you all for your replies. It really means a lot that people are thinking along, gets me fired back up to solve this Already made an appointment with a new physiotherapist for next week to do an intake. Curious to see whether he/she has anything new to say. I will also take your ideas with me, and propose these things (after he/she comes with own analysis and suggestions).

Cool!

@TrynaBeTurquoise Thank you for your advice. Most of the things you mention I have tried though. Ive got a foam roller and use it regularly. I used to do a lot of strength excercises, I was quite a beast ?. However, it didnt feel like strenghtening was helping, rather the opposite. For the last half a year I stopped lifting weights, and lost 10kgs. Not sure whether picking it back up is the move here.. I think my next step will be to go to more experts.. find someone I feel can see the problem. ps. Just read your quote, thats hilarious ???

Just yesterday I saw this dude that was 50+ fistpumping behind the dj table with his blazer on having a good time ?

Yup I second this. “I've also heard that it's a manifestation of the playful nature or reality” Oehh, I like that. Thats how it feels to me somethimes as well. Usually when I am in the state when synchronisities occur, reality does not seem so serious. Neither does it seem that complicated. More like, ofcourse it works that way, duhh.

@The Don Yup, Ive doen around 40 psylocibin trips over the last three years. I attrivute a great deal to shrooms for improving my situation with girls. Besides the shrooms I also did a lot of pick-up though, it kinda build on each other.

Perhaps the TV-screen analogy works well here. If you are watching a movie, there is something displayed on the screen. That frame you see is in a sense all that exists on the screen in that moment. However, the screen can change, new frames can be displayed on the screen. However, in reality it’s more interactive, its more like a video game on a screen. Also, the present moment doesn’t exist either.

Hmm for me it doesn’t work like the catalog thing. To me it feels like you are leading followers to deeper and deeper levels of understanding and consciousness. Quite some of your effort and value is spend motivating and inspiring people. There is a bigger story, more depth, guidence, when you watch on a weekly basis. It would’t be the same if you mixed up the order of the video’s. The coaching aspect plays a big role, at least for me.

Get a bunch or shrooms, set a clear intention of facing your fears and obstacles around girls. Surrender completely to your intention. Be willing to die to overcome the obstacles.

I agree that usually its probably not the best move to go after girls with boyfriends. However, there are girls that are just hardly ever single. They only leave a relationship when they can move into another one. Could be worth it to wait on a girl that is clearly not satisfied in her relationship.

I like that the videos are weekly, gives structure and motivation IMO

Thats all nice, but the core would be to develop some kind of skill or product that offers tons of value. You need a financial plan to support your business plan, not the other way around.

Hee there! Im looking for a nice definition of spirituality in 1 or 2 sentences for a workshop I am creating. Figured there would be some spiritual foke here that could help me with that. All suggestions are welcome ?