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@Empty What's stopping you?

@Waves Great work. The fact that you ever considered doing this says a lot. Now go take some massive action. It's romantic to think about coming up with your life purpose suddenly over a week alone, but that's not really how it works. You've got to test your ideas in the "real world" and flesh it out over time. Congrats on the start of your journey !

@sleeperstakes Of course your idea matters, I believe in being highly strategic like Leo talks about. But the reality is that most people don't fail because of the lack of good ideas out there. They fail because of their own self-imposed limitations. You ever see people that get an idea to start a business, but then don't want to tell anyone because they're afraid their idea might get "stolen"? What I've seen is that people with that default attitude won't ever create that business anyway. They haven't realized that you could give the world's best idea to everyone on the planet and 99% of them couldn't execute on it. They don't realize it because they still believe their programming that says "external circumstances dictate my life". Back when I was in graduate school, my business partner and I applied for something called YCombinator. It's a startup incubator out in Silicon Valley where you can get capital for your business as well as training / mentoring. What surprised me about that application process was how little they cared about our business idea. You would think if someone was going to hand you $120k, they'd want every detail about what you were doing. But they were foremost concerned about getting to know the founders, because they understood that success is largely about who you are. How about Steve Jobs? Was Steve Jobs able to create Pixar after he got fired from Apple because Pixar was the best idea? Maybe, but the reality is that Steve Jobs was an executor as proven by Apple. And people who are executors, execute. Plain and simple.

@Alien Sounds like the purging process. It's ultimately a good thing, but it can be a complete bitch when you're going through it. Important thing is just to keep coming back to center. This too shall pass and all that.

@Omni @Faceless You guys are pointlessly arguing in every thread. It needs to end.

@Brandon Nankivell Why do you associate being conscious as being some sort of monk? Why don’t you associate being conscious to being wealthy and prosperous? Somebody could be highly evolved and still choose to promote those products.

@blazed @LaucherJunge This conversation has devolved from constructive to attacking each other. End it or I'm applying warning points.

I do conscious priming every morning. Takes like 15 minutes but it's the best 15 minutes you could spend all day. Basically it goes like this: 1) Breath of fire (3 minutes). Basically it's just extremely rapid breathing, around 2-3 per second. 2) Visualizing experiences or things I'm grateful for (3 minutes) 3) Visualize white, healing light coming down from the sky and into my body (1.5 minutes) 4) Visualize sending love energy to everyone (1.5 minutes) 5) Incantations (3 minutes) 6) Throw on some inspiring music and write down all goals I can think of as fast as possible (5 minutes) What I love about this is that no matter what emotions I wake up to, I can guarantee I'll be in the right emotional state by the time I'm done. Then I'm off to do whatever I got to do.

@Joseph Maynor Because that passion doesn't come from ego. It comes from the soul / God. The ego gets terrified because it's being threatened. Life purpose means change, risking disapproval, evolving your identity and a whole host of other calamities that aren't on it's agenda. Much easier to just stay the same and play it small. Which is what 95% of people do.

@Brandon Nankivell I just feel way more passionate about promoting the conscious community. It has deeper personal meaning and connects more with my values. But hey, I buy watches and nice clothes. I stay in nice hotels. So somebody has to do it, it's just not going to be me.

It could be. You could also just be angry and depressed. If it's excessive and consistently outside the norm, than it's probably from the meditation. Careful here. The goal is not to suffer. Don't make it something you feel must happen. Rather, just prepare, allow and be open to the purging if it does happen. Yeah that's big lie. Don't fall for it.

@Melwyn There might be some internal blocks that are keeping you from being funny. Humor really is a natural thing, many people just can't let it out. If you don't meditate, I'd start that. Also, take an improv comedy class! Many of my good friends told me that was a game changer for them. They felt funny for the first time in their life.

@jjer94 In the book The Artist Way by Julia Cameron, she advocates for something called The Morning Pages. This is where every morning you just write non-stop for 3 pages whatever comes to mind. It's like a form of meditation. You're clearing out all that subconscious negative energy and allowing creative energy to come through. I've never done them, but I know people swear by that book and that exercise in particular. Other books you might want to check out are The War of Art / Do The Work by Steven Pressfield and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. I'd also look at your diet as well. Sometimes a lot of those negative thoughts are physical more than anything else.

@Enachescu Dragos You've got to make your intentions more clear from the start. It's good that you pushed through the fear and told her you liked her, but that's not a good strategy overall for how you want to approach your dating life. Honestly it sounds like you may have to sort some stuff out yourself before you really start attempting to get better with women. If you don't meditate already, I'd start for about 5 minutes a day.

@actualizing25 Check out a book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. Classic book that has been used by creatives to break their blocks. The more you tap Source, the more you tap creativity.

@spicy_pickles LOA is nuanced af and honestly is beyond the paradigm most people are at. When you say "Fuck I can't just wait around for someone to do this for me, I have to take action!", that's actually a step up in vibration from where you previously were (helplessness). So the LOA responds and you get better results. When you say "I can't just bury my head in the sand about this, I have to take an honest look at where I'm at", that's again a step up in vibration. Previously you were in avoidance (negative vibration), now you've moved up. The problem is people think LOA is going to respond through some sort of miracle. No, everything in your life is a result of the law of attraction! Even the most mundane day at work is something you manifested. A great book that might help you sort this out is Levels of Energy by Frederich Dodson.

@egoless False dichotomy. Your spirituality should fuel your vision and personal growth. You're probably just not seeing how the two work together in your own life at this point. Give it time.

No, no, no, no. If you think just having cash or career success is going to get you girls just by itself, you’re wrong. Those are surface level solutions. Those things are useful IF you have some degree of game. Because then you can leverage them to get better logsitics / access. But without game, you’ll just be a rich guy who tries to buy his way into sex. Yes, there are guys who never did pickup who are great with women. That’s because game is not pickup. Pickup is just a practice to improve your game. But you do have to do something. Something that will install those behavior changes.

I’d start incorporating marketing, sales and basic accounting into your studies as well then if you aren’t already. Also keep taking any leadership opportunites you can. Maybe even try setting up a simple little online business.

@egoless I was raised Catholic and did that whole thing for about 18 years. Then spent about a year studying different religions, accidently became an atheist. Now I’ve come back to looking at religion but from more of a non-dual perspective. There’s more good there than I previously realized, but so much of it is also misguided.

@Charlotte Fast. After only a few months at half hour everyday, I had experiences of deeper peace than I’d ever known in my life. That’s really just the start.

@Shanmugam Nothing to add, just wanted to say that was a great explanation.

Keep seekig and you’ll find out ?

@Eudaimonia You want to form as clear a mental image or movie as possible of your goal already obtained or being completed. For instance, if I was a boxer, I might visualize the entire fight. Then I'd visualize how I'd knock out my opponent in the end and having the crowd go wild. You also want to add as much positive emotion as possible. Feel love, gratitude and like you want to celebrate for what you've accomplished. That pushes it deeper into your subconscious. The way you train visualization is just by practicing daily and improving your concentration skills. The more you can concentrate and flow energy into your vision, the better. I've never heard that first person or third person matters. I find myself doing both.

@Peter Zemskov The truth is you're not going to get much on 5-10 mins a day. But if that's what it takes at the start, then you do that. Build it like a muscle. Keep pushing yourself, but don't try to lift 300 lbs when you know you can only do 100 either.