Danioover9000

Also, any advice on creating a dating profile is welcome. I'm planning to start one soon.

Do you mean I should date Often? It's a bit inconvenient at the moment for me to do multiple dates.

Okey! Thanks for your advice!

Also, if I happen to come across a woman who has a similar personality to a past female bully I get triggered. Any advice on this too is welcome.

In terms of stages I would say orange is most dominant, some green and a tiny bit of blue. In terms in terms of cognitive development, I would say he's mostly rational with some pre-rational elements and is developing very slowly to post-rationality. I think that this progression and juxtaposition from rational to post-rationality is one factor in explaining the cognitive dissonance he's displaying lately in his videos. In terms of personality type I'm not sure because I only watched his videos in the past. He did mention he has a bit of a narcissistic self so I assume his narcissism and neurosis is higher than average. His bias and strong identification with his body suggests that he's mainly an extrovert than introvert. He has displayed open-mindedness towards ideas in his field of interest and is open to combine new exercise ideas as well as he's able to talk about both masculine and feminine ideas despite being close minded with feminine values and biased towards masculinity. I wouldn't say he's radically open-minded. Due to his narcissism I think his conscientiousness is higher than his lack of being disorganized. I think he's more agreeable than disagreeable. I would say his personality is mainly masculine. In terms of moral development he has strong values in family, hard work and traditional views of men. I don't think he's moral development has progressed much towards community because of his shadows. So far from what I know he's willing to be in in the role of father figure, leader and mentor of other men in a community of males than females because this narrative is supportive of his central identity as a narcissistic male. I would rate his wheel of life in the following, 1 being lowest 10 highest: Career development: 7. Finance development: 4. Familial relationship:5, intimate relationships:3( because, if I'm not mistaken, his wife was his first girlfriend, so because of his major lack of dating other women I ran him low.). Fun and leisure: 6(because I factor his career into being fun for him and I assume has family activities.) Home environment:7. Health:7 fitness:9. The possible shadows parts, from most to least dominance, are: femininity, vulnerability (because I factor in his multiple injuries to his body and his egoic backlash against them), following a leader, being submissive, hyper intellectual (because of body bias) and , of course, himself as an entity. Please be aware that these are just my rough educated guess about Elliott Hulse's overall development so take this with a groan of salt.

What do you mean about you reaching total confusion? Your still able to type, so that shows me your confusion is temporary and not that insane. You mentioned you're completely lost in life. What do you mean? You don't know what your past is like? You don't know where you are currently? You don't know where you want to be in the future? You don't know what you even like and dislike? Realize your situation is temporary and this is only a limiting belief you're telling yourself. What spirituality are you learning? Leo's? Mooji's? Gurus in YouTube? Where are you learning spirituality from? How often? Holy shit! You don't even have a social occupation? Maybe take more action and research where you want to go in the future. It seems like you're in your teens/20s. You have more time and energy you need to go forward. Okey! You like music and have some skills. What else do you like and maybe have skills in? Be as clear and list alot, because this information is useful for you deciding to go forward. Don't think so simplistically! You think being completely isolated from your parents is enough to deliver your new shiny life on your lap? No! Go contemplate your life purpose, research and take action. Your shooting yourself in the foot with this kind of thinking! My final advice is this: take a break from spirituality and go out in the real world! This bullshit you're telling yourself is going to bit you in the ass later in life that no amount of "emptiness" is gonna make it any less painful. Now stop getting lost in life and start re-integrating to life!

I've recently experienced spells of depression out of the blue. Anyone here with good advice on managing one's depression?

I've seen some posts about nofap having tons of benefits and a few that refute these to just placebo. What are your thoughts on what's really going on with nofap? Because some really have experienced tremendous results with nofap and others haven't.

Anybody who has good advice on how to get started?

Has anybody in this forum found their life purpose, but then found a higher life purpose later on in life, and so on until they reached the center of this onion?

Yes! I've experienced a similar situation to this.

I've just processed most of my confusion. Self actualization is more complicated than I thought. Must've been some type of ego backlash I'm going through or a swirl of nihilism. Thanks for the replies though. They've been most helpful.

I've been watching Leo's videos for several years and done about half the exercises. I can say that my results at first varied between progress and regress but I did grow a bit more lately. However I came across contradictory advice and met people who seem to be self-actualizing yet offered different experiences from my own that seemed to falsify my own experiences. I had to stop and ask myself these questions: What if I'm wrong about self-actualization? Am I deluding myself with a fantastical future I'm visualizing? Why am I actualizing when most of the process might be wrong? This is driving me insane. I'd appreciate some advice on this. Thanks.

Thanks!

For roughly a few years I've meditated daily for an hour on a comfy cusion. Her are some problems I'm facing with the practice: I'm experiencing discomfort/pain on my right side of my upper back I'm feeling pain in my right hip. I'm experiencing obsessive thoughts from sex to weird thoughts about space and time. Sometimes more stress in my daily life. I'm holding on to my vision of being a great meditator on a tropical beach. I'm not sure what to make of these problems. Any advice is appreciated regarding these problems. Thanks.

Why is self actualization structured this way though? I've been watching videos and reading books and doing the exercises for a couple of months because it's personal development. Does self actualization boil down to cherry picking? Like from now until death I'm just seperating the cherries from the Hemlocks metaphorically speaking? It feels like a episode of Takishima's castle were a part of the comedic competition involved the players jumping from stone to stone avoiding the water while not knowing which stones are fake and real.

How about any suggestions for accurate evaluation? For example: visualization, feedback and maybe safety strategies in case I invested wrongly in the first place?

Are you saying that self actualization is relative?

Well, the title is that way because of the strange experiences these people shared with me. They weren't criticising me: they just shared parts of their life story and their actualization journey that contradicted my own. Originally I thought self-actualization meant you realized yourself through taking action. I thought this applied to the people I talked to, but they disagree on some parts. Some of my friends thought the path had to do with earning lots of money and creating a business. Or being a celebrity. A close friend in particular shared her story, briefly, that her journey started when she had to overcome a paranormal experience in her childhood that scared her. Afterward, she sought help with modern Western methods. When that stopped working, she kept searching. Utimately through spiritual means she overcame her fear. She defined what self-actualization meant to her: that you suffer first, then start a journey to free that suffering and change for the better. She hadn't shared that part of her childhood and all of the sudden her somewhat strange behaviour in the past made more sense to me. This I think was what made me stop and contemplate my take on the path that my assumption of it was bullshit because I may have been taking action as an excuse for not being self reflective.

Good post! I agree about the points you made on sex addiction and I think it's great that someone is talking about it at least!? I think all users replying to you don't understand that their actually on the wrong because the real issue is not about your topic it's that it's not technically a theory: it's speculation that's unsupported. For example... 'A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. "Darwin's theory of evolution" synonyms:hypothesis, thesis, conjecture,supposition, speculation,postulation, postulate, proposition,premise, surmise, assumption,presumption, presupposition,notion, guess, hunch, feeling,suspicion; more a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based. "a theory of education" an idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action. "my theory would be that the place has been seriously mismanaged"'. Quote from Google. Notice that your post seems to be just a hunch rather than a strong theory about sex addiction. I'm not attacking you or your post: I'm helping you develop awareness of your ideas about addiction and sex addiction. Because of this, the other users who posted have posted on assumptions of your original posts and the following replies made. Also, I like that your post contains other issues that seem to correlate to your topic; scarcity of resources, increase in competition and social media addiction e.g a selfie. Feel free to add another issue or correct me if I'm wrong about my list. I can agree that those issues can effect sex addiction, but I believe that the points you made to support you're 'theory' are assumptions. Scarcity of resources? We're in the 21 century, in the age of information. Increase in competition? Actually this is good! You're improving as you're dating. Perfect men on social media? There's also perfect women that men see on the internet which gives a false sense of expectation when it comes to real interactions with women while dating! Now I'm going to give my advice to you based on my quick read of your posts. I can't avoid making assumptions about you and your specific problems with this topic so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong: You're a virgin and are interested in sex but you don't know how to date. You're a porn addict, regularly materbated to porn and is feeling insecure about dating women. You were bullied by girls and you feel a deep insecurity to women yet you need them. You were rejected by your crush and is now worried about reliving the pain of rejection You were bullied by 'cool boys' a grade or so above, hated/jealous of how they were idolized by girls and now you're older you're worried about being more aggressive to women because of how that makes you a bully. For point one: journal you're experiences with dating and sex and make a commitment to learning about your sexuality. For point two: introspect about this addiction and learn as much about it and it's causes. For point three and five: Shadow work, meditation and/or therapy. For point four: Feel into the rejection, let it go and continue dating! There you go! Hope this is really useful for you. Good luck on your journey to self actualize.