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@InterruptReQuest You're likely becoming aware of tense parts of your body that you never payed attention to before. It's a good sign, the more you meditate the more stuff will come up and the more stuff about yourself you will become aware of. What is your practice?

@EddieEddie1995 How did you achieve your mystical experiences? What were your practices? How long did it take to have your first experience? Any advice?

@Flowerfaeiry You could have a society where they murder every 3rd child to please the wind gods, and it's possible you could have a kid saying he feels empowered knowing he's going to serve the wind god with his sacrifice.

I have a question about learning to relax while gaming. I've noticed that i'm easily triggered, and I tense up, while playing online competitive games. It really affects my performance, and it's difficult for me to just relax and have fun playing. Any thoughts on how to overcome this resistance? I was thinking maybe I should meditate in my gaming chair to get used to relaxing while playing, but I wonder if there are other techniques or methods that have worked well for alleviating this kind of performance anxiety. Any insights are appreciated.

@WhatAWondefulWorld Your experience as it is right now contains everything you want with respect to enlightenment and ending your suffering. Become aware of the fact that right now you are aware as you read this. You can't miss the fact that you're aware because right now you're aware reading this. If that resonates then recognize that right now you (the you that is aware) has a feeling tone to it, or a substance, or you have a nature. Rest as what you are, the self aware feeling awareness. Rest in that space. The act of seeking happiness in anything other than your direct experience of yourself is what will cause you suffering and prevent you from realizing that your experience right now contains everything you want. I got a lot of value from Rupert Spira's videos on how the nature of ourselves is the happiness we are seeking on the spiritual path. I basically use his videos as my guided meditations and it's been life changing.

Rest after the inbreathe. Rest in the space after the inbreathe.

Chant- Wa-Ha-hamuma

Breakthrough. Incredible experience with music and resting as awareness. The key is the awareness. Being yourself. Being yourself and resting. The hardest part is to rest as pure awareness without the mind clinging to some object and getting distracted and caught up in experience. Fuck all my haters and fuck everyone who doubted me I fucking did it.

Rest as awareness. Just be aware. Don't make any effort beyond recognizing that you are aware. Then notice what arises. I think i'm making too much of an effort and the seeking is causing me to overlook the simplicity of being aware. There's definitely some trauma with the lower chakras with sexuality and bladder, but i wonder if these will be resolved with just being aware and abiding in that space.

Breathe deeply into the chest, stomach, and lower chakras. Engage the body with the breathe. Breathe into the mass of tension localized as the body/being. Don't make the breathing mechanical. The deeper the breathing, and the more parts of the body are engaged, the more relaxed the body will become. Breathe into the lower chakras.

Go to the experience of being aware. This is the beginning of deep practice. Once you are aware of being aware, then notice what happens from this place. I think i'm seeking from the space of being aware and that is blocking me from going deeper. Lose yourself in the experience of being aware. Get absorbed into that experience. Surrender to the experience. Breathe into the experience of being aware. You are awareness. There is nothing to seek. You are it. Breathe as yourself. Don't breathe to find yourself. Breathe and be yourself. Bring attention to the lower chakras and breathe and chant into them. The lower chakras contain a lot of energy and trauma for me so it's an important place to explore. Most important is to do multi hour floats more frequently. 2 days a week on my days off will be excellent.

His app is great, he has conversations with different spiritual teachers. I got introduced to jim newman and tony Parsons because of the app

Did you have permanent shifts that lasted after the trip? Like feeling more, love bliss etc?

Know thyself. Know the nature of knowing.

Tony Parson's is a G. I think I struck gold with his teaching. Knowing is everything.

@Gesundheit Dude are you even enlightened?

@Emerald Do you consider yourself enlightened after your ayahuasca trip?

The strength is in the spine. Put your attention to the spine and find strength. Put attention on the spine, and use that strength to keep attention on the breathe. Use the spine to go deeper into your feelings.

I call bs. You still have so much internal conflict to resolve no way she is the highest quality mate a man could attract. Maybe for you that's the pinnacle and she is great, but from my pov you still have work to do and so I think there are still higher quality people you don't have access to yet.

Does anyone posting about Male and female relationships in this thread actually have a relationship with a high quality partner of the opposite sex?

Watch the mind. Be still. Turn attention to the mind, and notice what happens. Watching the mind is very important. This may be a key insight. To watch the mind. Witness the activity of the mind. Don't get lost in the mind. Just rest and witness the mind.

@zeroISinfinity It's cool I don't mind being invoked. Yeah, I have no desire for true relationship until I learn how to be a developed and capable man. I have high standards for a partner and I know that how I am right now won't cut it. For now i'll settle for escorts and tinder. I'm pretty sure girls can tell in like 5 mins of meeting if you are worthy of them or not, everything else is kinda bs. If a man is judged worthy by a high value girl, 99% sure he will have emotional capacity and inner development to satisfy other needs. Is it too much to ask for smart, beautiful, rich, classy, and good/pure? I feel like when i'm done with inner work I will check all boxes myself that i want in a partner at least.

Focus on stimulating the dorsal vagal nerve. Breathe in, and breathe out longer than the in breathe. On the long out breathe feeling the pressure on the dorsal vagal nerve. Feel the outbreathe stimulate the spine

become aware of being aware. Be aware of the present, and then aware of that and so on. Feel the energy that builds up from that. Keep it up and you will feel a charge, and that will allow the breathe to go deeper as well. Deep breaths. Aware of being aware. Feel the tension dissolve in the head.