Arman

happy birthday brother wishing you the grandest cosmic adventure

this popped up in my youtube feed not sure if it's been posted here. Haven't watched it myself but it may be of interest to some https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZygr2Zm43U

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The book details a method by which to surrender emotions that arise. Hawkins main body of work was about detailing the various levels of consciousness and the pathway through various levels of enlightenment. In his final book Letting Go, he has packaged the technique for surrender/release in a way to be used for personal growth and transformation. @Solace pretty much nails the premise in his post above mine. The 'surrendered state' becomes somewhat akin to a mudra or receptive yin state rather than a doing of anything. Most of the book discusses the nature of emotions, thoughts, energies, the various barriers and what to expect as one goes up the 'scale', as well as various testimonials. It is far from a technical text, more inspirational than anything. For me it has definitely improved the different areas of my life. When I first encountered the technique, I had been practicing shadow work (taking time out specifically do dive into and release traumas) for maybe a few years. I found that to be a very enduring and obtuse process, but not without its gains. I've found the application of this technique to be much more effective at creating rapid changes. When I first read the book, despite having a background in meditation and spiritual practice, I was still emotionally a man-baby. I could say now that I have graduated to becoming a man-toddler. My general life experience is far more comfortable, with much of the background anxiety and discomfort dissolved. I am generally much more at ease, capable and confident, and several areas of longstanding stuckness have opened up. One example is going from feeling very apathetic on the subject of life purpose and money, to that area opening up in a very clear and satisfying way. What I want to do and how I want to achieve it is laid out and enjoyable to pursue. Relationships and socializing have also gotten much easier. These are some typical gains of anyone who is relinquishing the blockages to happiness through the letting go technique, or similar techniques. If you have a background in interest/research of consciousness, then I highly suggest first reading the book 'Power Vs. Force' which provides the foundation of consciousness research upon which most of Hawkins derived implications are based. The book and its premise, to put it lightly, is fucking insane.

This is your brain on spirituality.

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it's community spiritual practice, yoga, changing, meditation and a free meal just GO dude.

I would find answers to to the following questions: How am I going to generate income from this product/service? What kind of numbers would I need to hit in order to create sustainable passive income for my lifestyle? How am I going to generate traffic? Are there other products in my niche that are highly successful? If your app cost $5, how many sales would you need to make per day in order to make minimum wage?

As strange as it sounds, I think below a certain threshold of consciousness the individual doesn't have the capacity to make this leap. Almost like two different kinds of animals. There is a certain level of abstract meta awareness that the brain doesn't allow until a peculiar shift is made in the consciousness and allows for a whole different kind of processing. Before that it's like on a physiological level the brain and ego complex is focused so acutely on self preservation at the cost of the ability to process otherness.

they're sculptures.

Teal Swan is the classic recommendation there. 'The Presence Process's by Michael Brown is a really good book too. You can YouTube 'michael brown presence process' to hear him talk and see if he's a fit for you.

Sorry you had to experience that. That would inflict a lot of hurt I think. There is likely feelings of guilt and shame buried from those experiences. When we are young and we experience these things, we don't know how to contextualize them and feel we are to blame somehow. Maybe even feeling guilt about the beliefs and trauma that are now a result of it. If that is the case, I hope that you may re-contextualize the past through forgiveness of yourself and others. It's only because of the inherent innocence of the child that he believes what everyone around him tells him, and you were programmed to think that you are not good enough or that there is something wrong with you. Of course, there is nothing wrong with you and you are worthy and wonderful.

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@HotSauce123 You're quitting your job? also is the app currently published?

Yes. It could be the most intense experience of your life by a far stretch, and it is still only 1% of the potential of the human energetic system.

Opening a chakra is somewhat of a misnomer because they're never really fully closed... otherwise you'd probably just die. The pouring open of the crown would likely render you completely incapacitated. Does sound like some increased flow in your energy centers though. Good stuff.

A white texan muslim with full beard and southern accent... Now I've seen it all. He pronounced walikum salam/alhamdulillah flawlessly too.

You have to take the phrasing with a grain of salt because we're talking stories that were potentially written far after suppose events occurred (assuming they did), then rewritten many times and then translated to another language. Might not want to get hung up on the word hate. In this situation my assumption is that he's not talking about the emotional passion of hate, but more a kind of 'rejection'. It is the kind of "hate" that results in surrender and renunciation because you realize the impotence and harm that comes with attachment to the world. That's probably more the heart of it. You have to 'hate' the illusion that any of these relationships are truly substantial in comparison to the aspiration for God, or whatever Jesus was pointing to. Replace the word 'hate' with 'see through the attachment for' like a disdain for any fixation that is not directly upon the realization of God

for the record I was making a bad joke

now you're just showing off

The first step would be to drop labels Although certain people are diagnosed as neurotic, most commonly they're displaying the same symptoms that the rest of the population are experiencing but perhaps to a more acute (or sometimes just more apparent) degree. If even someone who is considered to be mentally healthy were to observe their mind with great humility, there would be the observation of a near constant neurosis - even if subtle, there is a constant wanting to escape the moment, to gain, to manipulate, to project meaning or labels. This is the function of the linear egoic mind. The demonization of these qualities of the mind lead to compounded neurosis, and the labelled 'neurotic' now enters another battle, resisting his thoughts, feelings and behaviors in an effort to solve the problem. Of course we all know what happens when we resist something. It's important to recognize that the mind or ego as we're describing it is the result of millions of years of development through the animal kingdom, and it is the vehicle by which we have reached our current stage of evolution. It's only by this mechanism that we now have the capacity to transcend it and raise our consciousness. It is not useful to dwell in guilt and anxiety about our minds as if something has gone terribly wrong. When a shift in attitude is made to respect and observe the phenomena as simply natural and perfect phenomena of life itself (or divinity), the attachment to what is occurring starts to soften. In and of itself these thoughts and impulses are not the cause of suffering. The mind can run rampant like the wildest monkey and if held within a certain inner context, the experience of it doesn't cause discomfort. It is in the importance we place upon the phenomena that creates inner fixation, inner attachment and heaviness. They are not just thoughts, they are my thoughts. They are my behaviors and they are my neurosis. If one can surrender the sense of 'me-ness' applied to the phenomena occurring, then a great deal of pressure is released and the thoughts and feelings are simply observed as interesting and peculiar occurrences within spaciousness, and it is revealed that even though all this apparent madness within the mind was always going on, there was always a great deal of peace and silence in which all this was arising. This was previously being ignored due to the hypnotic fixation of 'me'. Eventually one starts to shift their sense of identity to the spaciousness rather than the phenomena which arises within it. As fixation and sense of self starts to be removed from the phenomena, the pressures behind the neurosis start to relinquish and the unwanted behaviors disappear by themselves automatically and effortlessly. --- The source of the feelings, thoughts and behaviors themselves are the suppressed and unwanted feelings and energies that we have stuffed down throughout our lives because we don't know what to do with them. Through various practices like vipassana, letting go, mindfulness or many healing modalities, as these energies start to become relinquished then the behaviors that spawn from them also disappear. Many, including myself, can attest to this firsthand. So my twofold suggestion would be to 1. Make a decision to stop demonizing the ego and start to observe it with a detached loving coolness. It is just intrinsic phenomena which doesn't actually need your constant attention. It is like fish jumping out of the water. With practice, the experience of the light/spaciousness/peace in which all this occurring starts to shine through. 2. Allow the relinquishing of the energies behind the compulsive behaviors by dropping resistance to them as they arise. You can do this by ignoring the thoughts and instead placing your awareness gently on the energy feeling behind the thoughts and simply allowing it to be as it is. You will notice that as resistance is dropped, the energy starts to dissipate. This practice, done repeatedly and with consistency on any given subject or feeling will eventually integrate it completely and create the relevant transformation in behavior. Eg. if fear is relinquished, then natural spontaneous peace takes its place.

I think it's striking a very inspiring chord. great stuff. Reminds me a lot of yogananda. I particularly like the idea of 'outgrowing' problems instead of spending energy trying to solve them.

You think he's got it? he looks quite stumped if you ask me

No problem, btw I really liked the backstory you shared about the name - it made me like it even more. If it feels right for you in the end, go for it. Mashallah!

I love the word Sultan... and it does feel fitting for you. I really love the imagery of the desert, kingdoms, warriors, red sunsets and the majesty and beauty that comes with it all. I have a middle eastern background so maybe I am biased. Perhaps try picking a handful of words that you like the feeling/idea/power of and then put each of them into www.thesaurus.com to see what comes up you can then write down all the ones that stick out to you from what you see, and create a kind of brainstorm of ideas and feelings --- also, theres nothing wrong with branding it after yourself, but you could even possibly have the name inclusive in a kind of community/family way, for example, from Sultan of Smile (you) to Sultans of Smile (you and your followers) just an idea ps. I'd be remissed not to leave this here