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When visioning what you want your life to look like, is it appropriate if you incorporate the feeling of unconditional love being prominent, or your experience of life being super vivid (high consciousness)? Or is this speculating the outcome of something that I do not have a consistent experience of?

"All images are distractions" - Lahiri Mahasaya Potentially not a good idea.

Mastery by George Leonard talks about relaxation when engaged in work. I have the same issue, I am always really tense because I am so focused on results. I've become really conscious of it lately, when I was gardening today I could feel the tension of "just wanting to get the task done", and the tension cause by the idea of the thing I was going to do after it. It seems as though it is as simple as surrender, just relax everything, and let go. It will probably come back again, whatever it is, keep relaxing. Relaxing clearly takes practice, or else we would all be as cool as cucumbers. What has helped me: - Watching a studio Ghibli animation, taking my mind completely off of my important (not as a means of procrastination, just chilling out). Media like this is the work of a master, captivating as much as it is entertaining, so it is not a "cheap fix" like watching some click-baiting Youtuber horse around. - Angamardhana yoga (this is one of Sadghuru's programs), has helped me with relieving tension in the body. Watch Leo's video on Body Awareness if you haven't already. Good luck homie

@Sambodhi Makes sens! Thankyou <3 @Osaid Thank you for your reply.

Would you come to Australia if we crowd funded your travel + accommodation. I know it is a long way, but there are a lot of Actualizers in Australia, so I think it is possible that Aussie's would support it. @Leo Gura

Great idea!

@Inliytened1 So Hitler wanted to influence the world, alter it to align with his beliefs. After "becoming god", is there still a desire to influence the world in some way?

Really interesting point.

I started waking up early today at 4:30am, I have a cutoff time for activity at 7:30, and read until I'm tired. This morning I was really tempted to do a yoga practise; this is something I have been trying to incorporate into my routine but have not been able to uphold discipline with. I feel motivated to make this change; I have been piecing together a dream board (as suggested by @Nahm), each time I look at what my life is about, I start to feel good emotionally in my body. I also do the occasional visualisation, in a rather informal way (maybe whilst laying down before I go to sleep, whilst working in the garden), but I think that they do help and it becomes really exciting experiencing what my mind is capable of creatively. I feel like I could handle implementing a yoga practice along with my morning routine, due to the added motivation of the dream board, visualisations and interestingly the material I consume. But I have attempted to implement many things at once into my life at a time and it has often ended up in me binge eating and becoming a lazy slob. But during these times I did have nothing to motivate me. How do I know that a routine has been cemented into my life?

@Nahm Thankyou very much. This makes a lot of sense.

I live really close to here.

Thank you so much for this post, I really resonated with how you mentioned loving the "childlike" parts of yourself that do unconscious things. Do you think delaying experience in your life was a good idea? I am 19 and am planning to do more serious psychedelics around 23 years of age, when I am more mature and on purpose.

When I was younger I used to hypothesize that Leo was some kind of Academic scientist, and his videos were some kind of experiment on the suggestibility of the human mind.

The work, in my experience, isn't about pushing and shoving to get somewhere. It is slow, and almost all internal. Yes if you go for a run today you may burn some calories, but you may want some chocolate tomorrow and have no reason not to binge. Remember what Leo says about vision, start to cultivate that vision. Your mind probably doesn't want to, and because you have a habit of pushing and shoving yourself to do "productive" things, it may even hurt your head trying to picture what you want. My advice is to just get the vision ball rolling, and allow the process to become slow, Ernest and introspective. You don't like reading, meditating etc. Okay, what do you like? Ffs there has to be something, think back time when you felt creatively inspired or felt like you were I evolved in something genuinely worthwhile. And then begin that exploration.

This is wicked - keep it up homie.

I think it is okay to resonate with Leo as a teacher, and be really enthusiastically interested in what he has to say, and the example that he portrays. But at the end of the day, and as Leo has said himself, we have no clue whether he is a con artist or a Sage or something in between. -- Eventually we all must flee the nest, we must do our own exploration and do it as intensely as Leo has.

"This work is not about belief... You will believe me for a few years and then realise you have made a terrible mistake." - Leo Gura How can a set of suggestions, one of which being "do not believe these suggestions, think for yourself" be the ideology behind a cult? This doesn't make sense to me at all. I am not saying that I am biased by Actualized.org, but I just see these biases that I pick up on as beliefs that I have not inspected yet.

The fact that this video is angers me is clearly an issue that I need to address

@Dutch guy Thankyou so much.

At Kapooka you will definitely not find time to meditate. I haven't been myself, but I too was considering joining; I watched a video made by someone who has completed the Kapooka bootcamp/enlisting process, and said that the only time you get to reflect is during the 10 minutes you have to eat. Maybe you could become like a military leader, and integrate your passion for self development with your passion for civil defence. Have a look at how Sadghuru has integrated yoga into the military (see attached video). How might the Aussie army, or military in general benefit from doing something similar to this? How might personal development process effect the way that military is conducted throughout the world? How might military endeavours look if we had conscious leaders who are passionate about self-improvement (like yourself)? Also, this was the series that I looked at when I entertained the idea of enlisting. But I don't know how old you are, so the process may be different if you are over 18 (which I am not). Good luck homie. Peace

Do you think that video games is the best thing for the world?

This is wicked - cheers. After I finish Leo's life purpose course, I am really motivated to move onto Ken Wilber's courses. Have you done Full-Spectrum Mindfulness? If so, can you share how it was for you?

@Waken Thankyou so much for this. This is a really awesome insight.

I would say lots of quinoa, fruit, and ditch the OJ for extra space for vegetables. Good luck <3

@TrynaBeTurquoise Thankyou friend