Mada_

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  1. Susam Blum really resonates with me; her approach is very thorough
  2. You can buy accounts with like 11k followers for a few hundred dollars. Someone offered me an account with this amount of followers for like 300AUD, I'm unsure what this would be US, but you can look it up.
  3. - Contemplation: to realise truth. Also just exploring my consciousness, everything about it, trying to understand my experience. - The work of Byron Katie: To manage my emotions, and work through old baggage. I would also use contemplation to just do shadow work. - Traditional hatha yoga: to maintain physical fitness, also to create ease and alignment. - Visualisation and sketching: to leave the room with a clear picture of what I want to create within the world.
  4. @cnfvm how are his practices dangerous.?
  5. I really resonate with his practices. I am dedicating the next few years to explore his practices seriously. What I love about them is the notion of preparing the body for higher energy through physical yoga, and balancing/calming the system to do enlightenment work. I would recommend that you have a really good sleep schedule/waking up early habit if you want to explore his practices. They can take a long time to complete when you are first learning them, and pretty much all of them require an empty stomach to practice.
  6. @LfcCharlie4 Thank you for this I also PM'ed you a few days ago
  7. Is it possible to completely eradicate unhealthy eating, like to just never do it ever again? Because I would love to do this lol, and if anybody has done so I would love to hear your perspective. What I understand from Leo's video on addiction is that there is an existential reason we behave in such ways: the fear of emptiness. I'm reading a book by a functional medical doctor called Susan Blum, who says that not giving your body the right nutrients to support the immune system, can create a specific circumstance within the body that results in craving sugar and salty food. So to connect the two perspectives: - Doing nothing/spiritual work - Giving your body adequate nutrients Is the solution to craving unhealthy food. Could the idea of "achieving perfect health" be detrimental. Because it assumes that there is one, specific circumstance that is perfect health, but health and fitness does vary depending on what one wants from their health e.g. A yogi eats lots of raw food (positive pranic), a bodybuilder will eat high calories with lots of protein, a starving African child will be given meal replacement powder to help them gain weight. I find it difficult to let go of this idea of being in "perfect health", because whenever I binge eat unhealthy food, I feel immense guilt and all that fills my mind is the longing to change back to when I felt good and being on top of my health. I would love for people to share their perspectives on their health journey, and share tips on how to overcome binge eating. Was there a specific moment when you decided "okay, that's it, I'm only eating healthy food from now on" and never went back on it?
  8. @BjarkeT I live with my parents at the moment, so when I move out i will definitely do this. Thankyou. @mandyjw Thank you Mandy <3, I think I will do some journaling tomorrow. I've also got some recipes for traditional Indian deserts from a cookbook by Sadghuru, so I might schedule one of those in as this is a healthier options.
  9. @Leo Gura I saw you were online so I thought I'd @ you
  10. Leo's video talks about making only one change at a time. But if I were to make the change of waking up early, then because that is the only change, does that mean I just be lazy everyday, and not do anything else until this is an ingrained habit?
  11. I love David Deida personally.
  12. @Kailash Bhattarai Yeah it's a scary move isn't it. The girl I approached was sitting on a bench in a park, and I was hesitating for maybe 15 seconds, then I just walked straight up to her and introduced myself. After the interaction was over I felt like I could do anything.
  13. @Username Oh fuck yeah, I've got one of those!
  14. Become fit and healthy, and be clear on your calling. And practice approaching women in person, I did my first cold approach the other day, it was really self-esteem boosting.
  15. Have you questioned whether you need that particular woman? -- When I feel needy towards a woman, I ask myself "Do I need this woman?", and I look into my current experience, close my eyes and wander my attention around my body. I have never found a "need" for a woman. Perhaps it may evoke some positive emotion having certain interactions with a woman, but the notion that I "need" her or that her being in my life is alarmingly important isn't true in my experience. -- There is this girl that I hang out with sometimes. And when I talk to her I literally feel like I'm contemplating reality, and when I look at her face I feel like I've discovered everything I could ever want in a woman. She is sexy, hard working and philosophical, I couldn't ask for any more. The day after we made out for the first time, she told me that she didn't want to pursue anything romantic with me, and didn't even say that she explicitly wanted to continue being friends. In the process of trying to process this information, I was singing about it on my guitar, and I came to the realisation that right now, in this moment, I don't really need her. As I kept singing about her I noticed that in this moment I am without her, and I'm fine. In saying this, I met this cute girl whilst walking my dog the other day, and I felt like I my mind was getting really needy towards her. And as I questioned it I was brought back to this insight: right now I don't need her, maybe I would feel good with her, but I can live without her. So I don't think I am liberated from these tendencies. But I have a feeling that this is because I am not clear on what my calling is yet, once I am more clear about what I want, and have a really inspiring vision that emotionally drives me, then this will probably override my desire to use women as a scapegoat of satisfaction.
  16. @Blacksmith Thankyou mate. I thought this was a really great strategy and implemented it the other day.
  17. This question is for people who have read David Deida's book "The Way of the Superior Man", and implemented the physical exercises he recommends, or people who practice sexual yoga: Deida describes an exercise where you contract the anus and the perineum, causing the testicles to contract whilst doing this. The purpose being to allow the ejaculation to shoot up the rather than spilling out of the penis, causing a full-body blissful experience. He says to practice such contractions 20 times, four times a day, holding each contraction as long as possible. Which made me wonder, that would be a lot of contracting such muscles. Because I think I could hold in my perineum and anus for a very very long time. The instruction of as long as you can confuses me a lot e.g. in a Hatha yoga practice I have been initiated into, I am apply the same principles to a dynamic exercise, and I have often thought to myself "gosh, what do they mean 'as long as possible', if I really pushed myself, I bet I could do this all day". So in summary my question is: Does "as long as you can" really mean to do something "until you're tired or uncomfortable"? And also, for those who have implemented Deida's practices, did you actually sit down and do such practices, or did you just contract the muscles whilst doing your daily tasks? Thanks
  18. Just to clarify, I have been in a very similar situation to what you are describing, and my suggestion is to just cut those people off immediately. You will probably relapse and go back to those people, but this is okay because you know why you don't want to see them and you will eventually cut them off. My friends during high school did not understand me, they all valued fun and excitement, when my values leaned towards health and consciousness. I used to talk shit with "the boys" for hours on end, the whole weekend. Smoking weed occasionally, drinking. I stopped drinking and smoking, because I felt that I valued being alert and energetic more than the temporary excitement I experienced, so eventually I stopped altogether. The people I was hanging around did not share such values, and this caused genuine tension is social situations. Do not listen to people who tell you to give such people "a chance", "time" because they could change. You are in no way obligated to hang around with anyone that you don't want to for literally any reason, this is your life not theirs, you do not owe them shit. I'm sure they have good qualities, but f they stand in the way of your mission, let them go. PS: sorry for the double post, I just really wanted to make sure I shared the lessons from my own experience because they were really significant in my life.
  19. I understand the feeling of not being fulfilled after hanging out with people, even know it was once fun or made sense. In my experience, cutting out bad relationships is like giving up any habit habit; there will be relapses because you want that escape, so the concept of Homeostasis is one to be aware of in this circumstance. Sometimes I feel like a narcissist for cutting out some friends, but then keeping others for their "good" qualities, it feels like I am using the people I keep in my life for their good qualities. But I don't think that this matters too much as if the people I do keep in my life are bothered by me wanting to hang out with them, it is their choice to stop doing so, and this is fine with me. In conclusion, people who are difficult to be around will not fulfil you, you will lose energy being around them and it will just continue to be a poor use of time. Surround yourself with people who you feel only grow you and people who will make the effort to understand you when you speak to them, people who you would trust to trip sit you, people who you can have dialogue with about your ambitions.
  20. Peter Ralston advises not to intellectualise teachings about consciousness work. Leo states that you cannot grasp the highest teaching through thought, it realised through mystical experience. If the mind is so deceptive, what is worth thinking about?
  21. I make my own gluten free roti bread with chicipea flour, rice flour and spices. My family and friends love it!
  22. Sounds True is the company that publishes the books of Brent Kessell, David Deida, Ken Wilber and many more. The website is a fantastic resource that I am sure many people on this forum have heard of, yet I have not contributed to this thread yet and wanted to. https://www.soundstrue.com/
  23. Some valid points on this thread e.g. Tiktok promoting toxic habits and stage orange valued. However, people can gain large followings in relatively short periods of time on this platform, and there is a prevalent and popular self-help niche on Tiktok. - If someone wants to escape wage slavery, I think utilising this platform would be an awesome way to attract eyeballs and market yourself in the world, even know the video format of Tiktok doesn't really allow for content that has impact (due to the maximum of one minute long maximum videos). The most inspiring stuff I have seen on the platform are the nature clips that people share, and the acoustic music. Some of this stuff is really gorgeous.
  24. RationalWiki also essentially accuses him of being paedophile. Which I found entertaining considering their justification was the old Actualized logo matched that of a paedophile collective insignia.