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@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

@Spiritedness I'm still relatively a newbie when it comes to shinzen Young's work and I'm still playing around with how to set up I practice overall. However my intention at the moment is to have a Letting Go style (non-directive) practice alongside these two shinzen practices. Shikantaza would fit in that category of letting go, for me at least. However, my mind struggles with Shikantaza at the moment. So I'm more pulled towards stuff like one giant mind comment if you're familiar with that.

* cries in ifs therapy*

@Spiritedness also I'd really strongly recommend giving PSTEC click tracks a real go. I'd start off with the basic package. It's a essentially uses, to my understanding, a mixture of NLP and hypnosis. And I've heard it's very useful for a lot of folks with regards to essentially stopping certain emotions from occurring ever again. You can get access to it online. I can't remember if the basic packages for your knot it may cause some money though. I don't think too much money though

@DefinitelyNotARobot game global is a useful site for that

@Spiritedness Hey dude, I'm still in the process of sorting my stuff out in this area as well. By still think I can contribute something of potential value. In terms of therapy, what comes to mind is you could try out ifs therapy and/or somatic experiencing therapy . With regards to meditation, perhaps shinzen Young's work could be quite good for you. Two aspects of his work strike me as particularly of value to you Firstly, his see-hear-feel technique. I think that could help you deal with the emotions and thoughts that come up and have an improved relationship with these sensory experiences. Secondly, his ' focus on rest' technique. I think that has the potential to induce tranquility in you. Here is a doc: https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SeeHearFeelIntroduction_ver1.8.pdf There is also a course called 'unified mindfulness' which explains it. The course is probably more accessible too He also has YouTube videos about these two things as well

Yes, thank you from me as well Leo. I am very grateful for your work

@Simple Success I think ifs parts work could have some answers you're looking for

@DefinitelyNotARobot find an online forum where people organize Wing meetups. Then arrange to meet up with various wings. Head out with them and then screen them for the qualities you want . If they don't have the qualities that you want then don't meet up with them again. If they do then meet up with them again.

Contains links to various non directive techniques https://www.reddit.com/r/nondirective/

@StarStruck what you could do instead of printing it out is save it as a PDF. Then upload it to say a Google Drive

@StarStruck I personally always think the more backups the better

@assx95 Id recommend starting to field report. That way you can ensure that your engaging in deliberate practice rather than aimless practice. In my opinion, the channel karisma king has some good videos regarding field reports. See YouTube for this content.

@Recursoinominado can confirm I've watched all 528 videos absolutely bricked up

@Squeekytoy "One man's soyboy is another man's gigachad" - Epictetus

@corvusx I really respect Gabor Mate's work too

@Leo Gura Do you personally recognise there to be a 'stage coral'?

https://go.unifiedmindfulness.com/core_main_lander Here is a free web course about Shinzen's approach too

I'm in agreement with Leo here. Its an arms race imo.