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@Derrida You have to do the practice. Right now you are just thinking and philosophizing. That will get you nowhere. You can discuss and argue about enlightenment for eternity and never get any closer to what the fuck people here are talking about. If the more out there claims make you uncomfortable and lead you to doubt the practice (which they should btw all this shit sounds like pseudo scientific from the perspective of a rational person who has never had these experiences) then I would just focus on the practical benefits of this work. Do you want to be happy? Do you want to live a life better than any dream you have ever had? These practices are the way to do it. Granted, there could be other ways to get the same thing, who knows. But thinking and philosophizing about it is only useful if it leads to actually try these practices. There is no higher truth or practical benefit to be had from talking shit all day.

@silene Haha i know, discipline is tough. Just keep trying your best, don't beat yourself up, and let it be. Highly recommend checking out @Nahm's thread about using a dream board. It could be very beneficial to you!

Sounds like a plan. Good luck (:

@Raphael Sounds like a good plan! (:

@Raphael If you ever feel like you're ready to try a new meditation. Try to a find a good guided self inquiry. I like Mooji's guided inquiry. Also, you should think about experimenting with 2+ hours of meditation for a few days or weeks to see how practice changes. I did 3 hours today, and I had the deepest meditation of my life.

Rapharl have you tried self inquiry?

Wow. So I meditated 2 hours this morning, and I just finished an hour of meditation while high. That was my deepest meditation to date. I felt like I connected with being for a few moments. I had moments where I felt like I understood that the self is an illusion, and everything is just me being. It felt like I literally was everything I was experiencing. I feel pretty good right now too. God dam I think the dream board is actually working. So crazy. I also noticed an interesting phenomena where if i erase something from the dream board, it comes to me. For example, I had on my dream board I wanted to go deeper in my meditation practice and evolve my practice. I erased it a few days ago. And today i feel like i've gone deeper in my meditation than I ever had before. Very interesting. The causal link here seems to be the duration of meditation, which was brought by the dream board.

What do you mean celebrate? Should i buy a cake?

Great post! I have recently started to find more and more happiness in my life from being present, and using a dream board. Happiness exists in the present, there is no time other than NOW where will you find it. That said, sometimes i bring my attention to the present moment and although I can recognize thought patterns that reduce my happiness. I'm not sure how to feel AMAZING in the present moment yet. Thoughts?

@Red-White-Light Use a guided meditation when you are first starting out. You will get lost in thought constantly, and it's nice to have someone's voice to reattach to when you're lost during your meditation. Just do your best to follow along the guided meditation, and eventually it will get easier and easier to follow along. MOST people suck at meditation when they first start so don't feel bad about not feeling good at it right now. Also, if you do 1 minute of concentration practice by focusing your attention on a metronome before you begin your practice, whatever duration you feel is right, it will help you a lot.

For the past few days I have been meditating for about 2 hours per day in the morning. I feel like I am connecting to the present moment much more recently, and I feel like i'm gaining momentum. Connection to the present moment is very important. I have had an important insight that there is neither past or future. All we have is this present moment. Right now. And everything I want and everything I ever will want exists in the present moment, so I need to turn all my attention to this moment. This is where it is. I am trying to love the moment as much as I can throughout the day. People say love is the way. I will find out. I am going to love everything In my life and see the effect.

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It does not sound like a very healthy situation. Maybe you could benefit from talking to a therapist? Sorry, I can't be of more help i'm not sure how to deal with difficult situations like. I just know it doesn't sound good ):

I like the way you track your meditation. It is very practical. I think I want to do something like this. Thank you for inspiring me!

@Cudin This forum is so valuable. I can't disagree with you more. Of course theres a lot of content here that's masturbatory, like this thread lol, but there's gems everywhere too. If you're an enlightened stud then maybe this forum is a waste. But many of us aren't there yet, so in the meantime this place is great.

I mean more about specific techniques. Like for example, in Leo's video about unconditional happiness, he mentions the need to uproot limiting beliefs about what it takes to live a happy life, but he doesn't go into detail on how to actually uproot those views. So, that missing link would be an example of a criticism i'm talking about. But. I think this thread is definitely a distraction, I can feel the hammer of the mods coming down very soon LOL.

@CreamCat So i just watched the video, and Leo doesn't really explain how to go through and dissect the beliefs that are preventing us from being happy. Can you explain what you did, and how you dealt with your self limiting beliefs?

@Stenne It's the first video above. You're not happy because you don't want to be. I'm going to try this too, i've been looking hard for happiness recently, Let's see if it works!

@Anna1 Wow that's powerful. I just put that on my dream board. Thanks for posting it!

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@Ry4n Yup, don't worry about the OCD. Do the work. MEDITATE. And I believe you will find what you're looking for.

@Nickyy Is that your stack for dealing with depression? Is it very effective at improving mood and happiness levels?

@zeroISinfinity I love your enthusiasm. Even if I have no idea what you're saying (:

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Meditate. Sometimes I feel like someone is prying my third eye open during my meditation, it is an interesting feeling.