ZenAlex

I actually agree with this somewhat, and I am a vegan. People think it's as simple as meeting all your supposed nutritional requirements, but it's not actually that simple, everyone is different. I've been vegan 6.5 years, and I've sometimes been curious about trying some meat just to see if it makes me feel better. I don't feel bad being vegan, and the worst of my issues came way before I was vegan, but you never know unless you try. It's like the people who try these crazy diets, like frugivore or raw vegan and think that because they thrive on it, everyone will. My mindset was at one point that as long as your environment doesn't restrict your options, veganism should work, but then I contemplated more and realised that we live in multicultural societies now, and different people have different genetic and ancestral lineages, and therefore will be more likely to thrive on certain diets, and more likely to suffer from certain health issues. @Nilsi The only thing I can suggest is use a website like cronometer, and put your daily vegan diet in there, and it outlines all of the nutritional requirements being met or not being met by your daily diet, and maybe you missed something? Not insulting you just showing you what helped me avoid deficiencies.

Here's an idea that may work - Go out to the beach and don't hide your belly. Walk out with it showing. Do this regularly for a while. It's exposure. If you can walk around looking like that in front of people, not deliberately drawing attention, but just walking around, then It may send signals to your mind/brain that there's no issue. Your issue is with how it looks. I find when I spend less time looking in the mirror, I feel better. I was insecure, for some reason, about my hair at one point. So instead of styling it, I would often go outside doing nothing with it, and let it be messy. It may not make the insecurity go away completely, but it may make you care a lot less.

The fact that you're so offended by me saying your spirit friend is maybe a hallucination, tells me that you're not completely certain of it's existence either. Dismiss me as a rationalist or whatever if you want. All I'm saying is you may want to get yourself checked out. You claim you have been haunted which I assume may caused you great distress at one point. Your experience of having a "best friend" who is a spirit, may be the result of mental health issues. You tell me to be open minded, yet you're clearly not open minded to other explanations as to what you're experiencing. It may not be a spirit, and it may be a symptom of mental health problems. Don't tell me to be open minded to it being a spirit if you're so set on believing that it's a spirit 100% and there's no other possible explanation, and denying the possibility that it's a symptom of psychosis. You seem pretty determined to believe it's a friendly spirit who's your best friend. Like I said in my post before, maybe you are experiencing something that's not a hallucination, maybe it's something completely different that we have no word/name for yet? Maybe by calling it a spirit, you're blinding yourself from the reality of what it actually is. It could be anything! Maybe it's a time traveler? Maybe it's an Alien? How do you know that it's not? I am not the close minded one here, you are. Keep convincing yourself that I am the one with the problem here, and you are "enlightened" and I'm just a close minded rationalist lol.

How long we talking here brah?

You can clearly distinguish the person from the subject they're discussing though. I wasn't really that offended, it was just frustrating to have the comments derail from the subject and focused on the person. I'm frustrated at myself for not just ignoring what you were saying in the first place. In relation to how we find out - We go into it and find out. I'm open to seeing what evidence can be provided for the existence of spirits or the things that exist believed to be spirits, or what people believe I require to be able to perceive them.

I made a very good point in the post above that you've failed to take into consideration. Look at point number 3 in my post above. It's arguably the best part of my post and you completely ignored it. You're doing here what you did on the Teal swan thread. You cherry pick part of my posts to respond to, you don't keep the discussion on topic and you often ignore some of the better points I make. You divert attention away of the topic being discussed and start to try and focus on the individual making the posts, probably with this b.s. idea that you're enlightening everyone. Unless the poster is the subject of the post specifically, please stop doing this unless invited to do so, and focus on stating your opinion on the subject at hand. If you stray off topic and try focus on me as an individual going forward, I'll just ignore your posts as if I need help identifying my own mental flaws, you are definitely not the person I would look for for guidance. I can do this myself. No one on here needs you to psychoanalyze them, no one here needs you to enlighten them to their own bias. Stay on topic, or I'll just ignore you going forward. P.S. I know you'll just say that i'm focusing on the OP here, but this is because OP is the subject of discussion here.

I live in the UK. My point is USA is one of the worst developed countries there is in regards to quality of life. Europe seems to be the hotspot for happiness as it values it's inhabitants quality of life significantly.

I meant worst

You obviously took it personally lol. "Too afraid" - Not really. I'll take you as seriously as someone who says they talk to a vampire. It could be possible, I'm open to it, but it's most likely a lie or a hallucination. Like I said, I cannot disprove it. But what is proven is that humans are capable of being delusional or having hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality. I think you are most likely either 1) Lying for attention 2) Psychotic 3) You could be experiencing something mystical/magical/extraordinary - But what makes you think this thing is a spirit specifically? Like those who think they've found proof of ghosts through video/photography - Why jump to the conclusion it's a ghost? Beliefs in ghosts, spirits etc may be blinding us to the reality of what these things actually are. Maybe what it is has no name yet. The fact that you think you've seen a spirit specifically makes me 99.9% sure you are simply hallucinating. I'm not close minded, I'm simply not convinced.

Basically you should self actualized before you have kids unless you're already stuck with them.

What sort of carbs were you consuming? Complex carbs like fruit? Or crappy carbs like bread and cereal?

Well society requires you to be civilized. Imagine how retarded you'd be without others disciplining you. I think it's about noticing the programming and learning how authentic you can afford to be.

Sometimes yes, but then I remind myself I have it good compared to many. Keep going.

America is the worst developed country in regards to quality of life.

They should not be legalized, just decriminalized. Let people organise themselves through sites like Silk road that give them a greater chance of safety. No guarantee, but greater chance.

I don't think it's just about meeting behavioral expectations in general. It's also about being able to properly function and experiencing significant enough distress due to a set of symptoms.

Complex carbs give me long lasting energy. Fat and protein satiates.

@Razard86 The reality is something is considered a disorder if the symptoms impact functioning significantly. If a person is struggling to function and complete everyday normal tasks because their brain makes it so they literally cannot pay attention for long periods of time, causes forgetfulness, rapid moodswings etc, then it could be considered a disorder You could say disorders, mental or personality, don't exist, that is what we label them, and professionals label them disorders because of the disorder they cause in people's lives. ADHD is genuine disorder, as it has symptoms that impact functioning to a significant degree, and it requires medication/lifestyle habit changes/dietary changes, and still then it will not completely go away, and will require management. Some professionals may disagree it exists, but many do. I know I have it. No matter how much I try, the symptoms don't completely go away. Attention to most things for long periods of time is impossible. I cannot stay in the present with one thing for very long, no matter how much I've tried. The symptoms are manageable, but some forms of work are impossible for me, and I have had to find jobs that cater to my symptoms. You could just say "that's who you are, it's not a disorder".. But it's a disorder because it causes disorder and distress in your life. It's like personality disorders are what we choose to label certain people's personalities, you could say they don't exist, that is just who people are, but if people have symptoms, traits etc that cause significant distress, disorder and impact on functioning to a significant degree, then that's when they are labeled disorders by many professionals.

For me it's quite simple. A mind that produces symptoms that significantly impacts a persons ability to function properly or achieve wellbeing, and the symptoms are not produced primarily by circumstance. E.G. Anyone can have a mental breakdown due to stress caused by their job/relationship, but that's not mental illness. Mental illness would be having something like an anxiety disorder/clinical depression that will impact your functioning/causing you significant distress regardless of your circumstances. A mentally ill mind will cause significant distress and impact functioning regardless of circumstance, and will likely require life long management.

I spend a big portion of my day in internal dialogues. I can calm it down by limiting music, removing video games/tv/movies etc, and going on long walks where you awaken more and more from the daydreams. I cannot stop it from happening, it often overlaps any attempt to concentrate on other things, probably a result of ADHD really, as MDD is associated with OCD and ADHD. Only thing I can do is manage my lifestyle. I often stay away from high stimulation music. It's been hard as for many years I was in a state of constant technology stimulation, until my mental health got worse and I just got numb to it all. Now I go for hikes in the woods for 5-7 hours, and towards the end, my minds spends longer periods of time in the present in between day dreams, and when my mind is calmer, I can focus on lower stimulation music that doesn't make my mind hyper, such as ambient music, and also focus on listening to true crime podcasts and stories, which capture my imagination in a way I can remain present. It's just something you gotta learn to live with. I will never be a highly present individual unless I dedicate my entire lifestyle to it, and still will daydream and lose myself in internal dialogues for hours a day, I cannot stop it.

Are you really serious about seeing a spirit? Because if so, I'd consider seeing a mental health professional. You maybe suffering psychotic symptoms. I don't claim to be able to prove spirits don't exist, but this could well be a hallucination, and I don't like how people are reinforcing this idea. Maybe OP is seeing something that could be called a spirit.. but they may also be psychotic. You need to be open to that possibility.

Shinzen is a former monk, who is a meditation/mindfulness teacher. Sadhguru is a guru.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/14/ukraine-news-russia-war-live-equipment-losses-putin-nordstream/ Russia deporting Ukranian children to Russia... to brainwash them most likely. When does it get to the point we risk fighting them? When do we stop sitting back out of fear of WW3?

I Understand this completely. As I got more anxious/neurotic in my 20's, I notice the original feelings of beauty I got with music declined and these thoughts about people with my music got more frequent. So I try to listen more to songs that feel meaningful for other ways, rather than just me imagining myself on stage playing them and gaining pleasure only at the thought of playing it well for a crowd lol. Ambient music is good to avoid these thoughts I find. You may not be able to avoid those social thoughts completely, but ambient/ambience music often inspires peaceful/abstract thoughts in me. It's just a case of perfecting mindfulness to know exactly which songs inspire the preferred thoughts. This is why mindfulness is important.

Vegan over 6 years, feel fine. Never get sick. This video is stupid.