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@Carl-Richard ahh, I see where you’re coming from. Completely agreed!

@Ulax I am super curious about this!

@Carl-Richard how would you reframe that thought then? Of course being aware without any thought would be ideal And yesss, love musical instruments. I need to start playing my guitar again

@Yimpa great idea on the cooking videos. I do enjoy cooking. Any favorite yt channels? That’s crazy about the AI knowing what that 😶 I have never used AI!

@Yimpa habits outside of phone use are fine for now, already working on that stuff. Just curious on something entertaining/ higher consciousness as far as phone stuff

@Davino thank you!! what is immersive reading? i do listen to a lot of audio books already

Sooo I went a tad off track these past couple of years in my personal development journey. And I am motivated to make some changes now! For one, I deactivated my social media. So that’s why I’m posting here.. on my spare time I consume a lot of educational content as far as YT videos and audio books, but looking for suggestions on a good place to just scroll (other than this forum or other forums really) lol that is more high consciousness and less of just a mindless distraction like social media can be. OR, any other suggestions on what I can do to replace social media time on my phone that is a higher consciousness activity? i have been building healthy habits outside of phone stuff already, so specifically I’m looking to see suggestions on that. TY!!!

@Davino @Thought Art I was watching this video of Bernardo Kastrup (my favorite philosopher). At one point in the video he was using a metaphor comparing physical death of the body, and ego death through high dose psychedelics. He mentioned there about the decrease in brain activity. (I just assume he was correct). I realized it kinda makes sense. Because during meditation wouldn’t your mind activity be decreased because of the stillness, and being present, etc… you would be more open to insight maybe insight Doesn’t require brain activity.

Is it because mind activity detracts from accessing truths. — maybe a better question for the other sub forums

If psychedelics decrease brain activity, why the increase in insights…(metaphysical insights mostly)?

I contemplated on if I do want kids or not, and if I had to boil it down it’d be ”having kids feels risky.” Is that a mindset of someone that should have kids? Side note, I did smoke some marijuana before I contemplated so I’m sure that affected my mindset, maybe slightly more paranoid. But just curious if anyone has thoughts on that because I’ve been undecided for forever! Mostly out of fear it seems!

@Moksha thank you ❤️☺️

For the past year, I’ve mainly been focusing on dating, and realized I’ve been in doing mode and thinking mode for most of this time. These past few weeks, I’ve been feeling more like getting into my body and feeling things through, slowing down, etc. Once I started doing this, some sadness and depression has come out. I assume it’s been in there this whole time and I’m just now in my body enough to be able to really feel it. once I get back into doing and thinking of course with the distraction, I feel better. What kind of balance do you all feel is healthiest for staying happy but also processing and allowing emotions to move through you? Is there any sort of practice you feel has worked best for you. I just kind of been doing mindfulness and body awareness practices. Thanks

@Emerald @flowboy UPDATE! Spiritually related and I know this is the dating section so just fyi if that type of stuff doesn’t interest no need to read! But figured maybe some people here would appreciate it Synchronicities/interesting timing, law of attraction, psychic predictions coming true, as well as going with the flow of what life is bringing me, I think has lead me to my ACTUAL future husband lol (hopefully maybe) I was referring to that guy as my future husband to my friends after the first date! I wanted to being that energy into the universe and I realized that it was more that he was just the exact type of guy I pictured myself with rather than any actual feelings yet. And now I’m thinking that scenario meant to happen as a learning experience for me to meet the right one? ?SO after I decided to move my focus elsewhere from that guy, I found a dating site that had the most type of men that are my type. And in my bio I described what I am a fan of personality wise. (Law of attraction) So THEN. I meet this guy, very much my type as well, ends up fitting the personality description great too. And now a little back story…. I saw a psychic that had a very good reputation back in my early 20s. She knew a lot of things but also predicted a lot of things and I do believe some psychics are legit. So check this out! she said she saw me marrying someone that his work had to do with houses or buildings. (This guy is a union plumber). Also having multiple properties, and she specifically mentioned Arizona and/or San Diego. (I had gone on a San Diego trip prior, and to this day it’s still one of my favorite places). I was JUST talking to someone about that like 3 days ago for the first time in ages. So he is from San Diego!!! (Synchronicity for sure.) I had no idea either until after I met him in person. He wants to move back there and has goals of flipping houses and having rental properties. I also am big into home renovations personally so that fits perfectly! There were other big things that fit what she said too but I don’t want to ramble on too long. All of this seems like too much to be a coincidence to me! So I will see how things progress but it’s feeling very positive! I have a little bit of butterflies and smile when I think about him, his love languages I very much like as well so we are off to a great start ?

@Average Investor So true. I never even thought about how it could come off that way. But in all honesty I was kinda trying to distract myself from the anxiousness of not hearing from him yet…and be able to have a fun night whether he canceled or not. He went out all night the night before and was still sleeping at 3:30pm. So yes I did think it was a little rude as well so there was a bit of what you described mixed in for sure lol and direct communication would have saved some frustration!