Raptorsin7

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    Nothing can be done. You have to live your life the way you see fit, and your parents will likely resist this because they have their own ideas about what you should be doing. Maybe if you become ultra successful and live a virtuous life they will come around, but they will provide a ton of resistance to your growth. It's only natural, a lot of things that are necessary to do in order to become self actualized will seem crazy to ordinary people. Learn about spiral dynamics, and your parents attitudes will make more sense.

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    Can someone give me a comprehensive breakdown of the Third Eye. What is it, how do I open it, what effect will opening the third eye have on my life, and what techniques are good for opening it. I don't the origin of the term, but I think it's Hindu, and I was wondering if there was analogous concept in Buddhism? Is opening the third eye the same as awakening? Any insights would be appreciated.

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    Have you thought about starting a podcast where you bring on various meditation teachers or just generic successful people. Or have you thought about trying to get on other people's podcasts, like Sam Harris. I think you could really grow this platform if you got involved in the podcast scene, it's huge.

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    I feel like I am only a few days removed from waking and thinking to my self the follow thoughts: Wow I feel amazing, I am so happy, My life feels amazing i am so lucky to live this life, music sounds amazing right now, I enjoy activities more than i ever have, my life feels like an amazing dream. I don't feel like this now. But i recognize that there is nothing about my life that would prevent me from feeling incredibly happy about it, your actual life doesn't really have much to do with how you feel about it. My life could feel perfect, it could feel amazing. But it doesn't. How do i find that feeling of contentment and perfection of life.

    I don't mean literal perfection, as in i don't have anything to improve. I also don't believe that I need to get a thing to be happy, happiness comes from within, i just don't know how to access it.@Eph75

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    I just finished a 90 minute float, and I spent the time just going through my thoughts and trying to work out the issues with my inner dialogue. I hear so much about how you have to let go of thoughts and you have to learn just detach from thoughts. But i feel like my thoughts are incredibly important, and in order to improve my life i need to go into the thoughts to improve. I feel like i have heard so much spiritual dogma that it's clouding some of my decision making. I'm sure these cliches and spiritual truisms are genuinely true, but unless I experience them for myself they won't be useful to improve my life. Spiritual dogma is a real issue, but I don't want to go on about it at length.

    I feel like i'm over my rut, i'm very thankful (: I spent about 4-5 days masturbating multiple times per day, waking up late, not wanting to go to class, skipping yoga, etc. It was rough because I was aware of what was happening but i felt like i couldn't doing anything because of weak will. After dragging myself to one yoga class, it sparked something  in me and i felt great after it was over. Yoga has been a great habit, i'm very excited to see the impact it has on my life. I'm glad my ruts over, but i still have a lot of work to do. My day to day experience still isn't as magical as i know it could be, and i need to find a way to move my life in the right direction. The next major thing I need to improve is my diet, my diet right now is awful I eat take out for literally every meal. I've been procrastinating buying vegetables for my smoothies, even though the store is legit 2 minutes from my apartment ): 

    I need to be better, and i think the key is to act as if. I need to set the goal in my mind, and then tell myself to fake it until i make it. 

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    When I think about my life I realize i am not as happy as I feel I could be. I'm not unhappy per se, but i feel like my day to day experience could be better and also feel better. However, i also realize that my life IS perfect, my life right now is fully compatible with me fulling happy and satisfied. I feel like i'm close to feel content, and actually FEELING like i'm living a self-actualized life. But i don't know how to bridge the gap. I can say to myself, "my life is perfect", but it doesn't feel authentic because right NOW i feel like my life isn't perfect.

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    Good luck man. If you put forth the effort you will achieve what you want. Start going to the gym and start eating healthier. Learn how to change your mindset and learn how to act in a different then how you are acting now. In order for your life to change, YOU NEED TO CHANGE IT, if you stay committed you will see signs in your everyday life that will call you to be a better person. Act on those challenges and you will get there. I have faith, you sound like an awesome person. I love your attitude in this post.

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    @The Blind Sage I love the float tank! I've done it countless times, but i'm not able to get into a deep/blissful meditative state yet. I've been doing self-inquiry meditation recently, and i've noticed that self-inquiry produces similar results as 90 minute floats, at least for me. I'm hoping to get some breakthroughs in the tank, i'm going tonight, and i'll definitely do a post if i have some profound insights while in there. 

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    @Light Lover My diet is terrible, i eat a lot of fast food and don't eat a lot of vegetables. But i do a lot of yoga and meditation, so i'm curious how much progress i can make without cleaning up my diet. That said, i don't have great energy throughout the day, and my mood isn't always as good as i feel it could be. So it could be my diet is hurting me in ways i'm not fully conscious of haha.

     

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    I just did a 90 minute float in an isolation tank, and when i brought my attention to the present set of emotions/feelings and tried to let go, I found there  so much tension in the present moment and i just couldn't let it go. I tried to say to myself "let it go" and then see what happens, but i just felt like I was aware of the fact that i clearly have not let go fully, and yet i have no idea how to let go further.

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    Has anyone experienced a link between self-inquiry meditation and increased nausea and motion sickness. Recently i've had pretty bad motion sickness from riding the bus to school, and i'm thinking it might be related to doing self inquiry meditation where i try to turn attention basically to my eyes/behind my head and it usually gives me a weird headache. My diet also sucks so i'm thinking it's probably that but i'm curious if any other people have had this experience meditating.

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    @Nahm No, when i close my eyes and then start moving my head, "I" am aware of the movement of the head. It's like im watching it from the inside of my eyes. I was under the impression that awakening will occur spontaneously at some point during concentration on the self, or what ever my awareness goes to whenever i try to shine my attention on what 'I' think i am. It seems like you're trying to get me to some logical understanding that all the things i think of as me aren't actually me. Do you think if i truly understood your questions and @zeroISinfinity 's question that it would produce an awakening. I don't know how to interpret your advice tbh...