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@trenton I'd recommend considering giving gestalt therapy or IFS therapy a go, if finances allow

I’d perhaps just integrate what you brought up as part of your shadow. Maybe do something like ‘I feel resentment and because I feel resentment I choose to feel resentment’.

@ZenAlex Oh yes, also I'll add that i'd recommend looking into neurodiversity as a possibility, i.e. autism, adhd. Though I find that some in the neurodiversity community are quick to jump to the conclusion of neurodiversity over a conclusion of something else, i.e. trauma. So, i'd recommend being mindful of that and thinking for yourself.

When I was a teen I played a dude from my high school at fifa (football/ soccer video game). We agreed that if I won he would give me a certain online fifa item and if I won I would give him a certain online fifa item. The way to transfer the item was to list it on an online transfer market and then the other person would type in the items name then offer to buy it for a very relatively low fee. Then the first person would accept that offer. I ended up winning. The dude said he would list the item in the described way. However, upon searching for the item I could not find the item. He insisted it was listed and it was either my fault or a technical fault. For a while I continued searching, but it soon became clear he was cheating me. and hence your boi was swindled

In my opinion, I’d do two things. First, check various health areas, ie thyroid test, heavy metal tests etc. Secondly, I’d go deeper with the inner work. In that category I’d recommend looking into retreat level meditation work and also depth psychotherapies, that include a somatic focus, like gestalt and IFS therapy.

@Ima Freeman personally Leo’s start here videos. I find the ones which centre around the vision of a self actualised life to be the most profound for me

I like dodson’s levels of consciousness model for emotional vibration. He might be talking out of his arse but it gives a helpful sense of clarity at this point of my life.

https://youtu.be/3gv05sLZQBU I think Shinzen young’s Video here provides some great insight regarding the importance of taking an approach to meditation that suits where you’re at. I think it’s vital to figure out whether you have a weaker sense of self or a stronger sense of self. And can be an important way of avoiding the dangers of spiritual pursuits. For example, as I recall shinzen saying, someone with bpd will have a weaker sense of self so more work with meditating on inner experiences will likely be more fruitful at first. If that same person worked at first on focusing on outer experiences it could actually be counterproductive and further weaken their sense of self. Thought this could be a useful resource to share

I’ve had an internet addiction for years. However I wonder whether I meet it so much today

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@Yimpa I think they’re pretty hard to come by too. However I think you get much better odds if one goes to a high consciousness therapy modality like gestalt or ifs. Tho still important to vet imo

I’d say spirituality, ie meditation, and/or shadow work, ie deep psychotherapy.

@001 I disagree. Also chill out dude

Probably ' a vision for the self-actualized life' and ' and 'how to get started with self-actualization'

@Enigma777 yeah but you also need to be at some point in your life generally to actually be able to appreciate inner work. For example, before they can appreciate the merits of deep inner work, a lot of people are going to have to face the transformational dilemma at the end of their stage orange point of development in their life . If you try and get someone who's just entered stage Orange into doing deep inner work like Carl Jung's then it's probably not going to work. So counterintuitively the higher consciousness approach would be to give that person stage Orange techniques so they master that stage and then transcend it. Then later down the line, say when they're starting to integrate Green, you can advocate for deep inner work in a way that is likely to be accepted and helpful. It would actually be lower consciousness behaviour to advocate that they get involved in deep inner work at that earlier point in their lives.

@Mileyofpink I'd start doing some sort of inner work, such as meditation. If finances allow for then I recommend also getting started with a depth experiential therapy. That type of therapy, to my understanding, is about really processing the underlying feelings you have stored away in your subconscious. Examples of these, in my opinion, would be gestalt therapy, internal family systems therapy and somatic experiencing therapy.

@BlueOak I'd say stage yellow careers. So it wouldn't tell having a job where you are essentially in a position of responsibility with regard to some sort of system. For example if you were to become a well regarded and effective policy advisor within a government then you could have a very great impact. In my opinion, I'd say being in this position of say a policy advisor would actually enable you to do much greater good and say being a therapist. Forward with a therapist you are limited to say a number of clients in the hundreds during your career. However on a governmental level he would be making decisions which affect the lives of millions of people in that country alone, let alone if you were to influence something like foreign policy. I think the key difference with the stage yellow career is that you are thinking big picture. It's not just how can I help this suffering African Village but instead how can I affect the entire economy of this African country. The former helps dozen's, the latter helps millions

@RebornConsciousness I would agree if we're just talking about me right now. Or for 99.9999% of people. Even those with very high amounts of mindfulness skills with, I imagine, not be able to resist the pain and say torture. But I imagine there are some who have reached such to a high degree of consciousness that they could be tortured and not resist the Sensation . So the thing is I'm not just saying any dude can just decide in the moment that they're just not going to resist the pain or just apply some mindfulness technique to stop resisting in that moment, no. I imagine it requires immense cultivation of skill to acquire that level of mindfulness ability such as to not resist severe pain such as in a torture scenario. I think it is perhaps achievable.

@Rasheed you can still have pain, pain is an unavoidable part of life. No matter how spiritually developed someone is, in my opinion. However, in my opinion, it is our resistance to that pain which creates suffering. So where there is pain it does not necessarily mean that there is suffering. Because if we do not to resist pain, then it's only pain, not suffering. And, with Spiritual techniques, I believe you can train such that you do not resist pain and hence you do not suffer.

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@pablo_aka_god I'd do a deep dive on inner work. Ie something like pstec or ifs therapy. Plus start a meditation practice of some sort that clicks with you. Also, field report

The self is always coming through

@integral I would disagree. I think that's a very black and white statement to make.

@enzyme I wouldn't get dogmatic about avoiding medications . I'd just make sure you've taken into account the relevant considerations and weighed up the pros and cons for yourself.

@Spiritedness My understanding is it's very similar to vedic meditation