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Make your own salad dressings. It's very easy and simple. Oil and vinegar, shake, done. Now just add variants before shaking. This one is an Apple Cider Vinegarette. To Mason Jar, add one part Apple Cider Vinegar to 3 parts EVOO (extra virgin olive oil). S&P, dash garlic powder, Italian Seasoning (optional) and here's the trick - grate an apple and squeeze the juice in. Shake and pour over your favorite salad. This one is Romaine, chopped apples, chopped pineapple, sliced avocado and sliced white onions.

I guess you're specifically wanting Ulax's contribution, advice and suggestions so I won't bother wasting my time and energy with mine which are not being acknowledged and seem to not interest you. Good luck.

Do you drink soda. Do you eat a lot of sugar, drink coffee. Anxiety issues. Ever tried the 4-7-8 method. In bed breathe in for 4secs, hold for 7secs and breathe out for 8secs. Repeat maybe 10x till you fall asleep. Google it for details. I don't have sleeping problems but when I 1st heard of it years ago I tried it for fun and didn't make it pass the 3rd attempt, meaning I fell asleep after doing it 2x. Diet helps. Warm nut milk. Boiled ripe banana skin - drink as tea. Eat a ripe banana. Soak feet in Epsom salt before bed. Few drops lavender essential oil on pillow.

Your bullshit.

I don't know whether to laugh or report; but I'm laughing so that's my report.

Why is Consciousness so goddamn mischievous, so goddam sly and why is it so goddam spoilt and like to act like a child in heat. Goddammit, grow up already. I'm getting sick and tired of these games it plays.

Stop claiming your illnesses by calling them "my", as in my insomnia. Anyway I've been down that road with other forum members and I was challenged with my knowledge on how it influences your recovery and its influence on the subconscious mind and how doing that makes it harder to loose that identity frame. I won't use that against you as it's the first time I'm relating with you and don't know how open your mind is and how flexible you are in receiving information that may change your beliefs and perspectives. So if you care to understand how not using those terms influences your ability to change your body's responses to its environment let me know because I'm getting weary of people's closed-mindedness here and their stubbornness in atleast investigating my claims on their own and validating what I have to share. Also, saying "it's hard to maintain a vegan diet" is exactly what it will be for you and the mind will find excuses to show why it's hard and you will believe it because of the iteration of that belief

Why are people always asking @Schizophoniafor health advice. He's just a walking pharmacy about to turn into a Northropic pill.

Just focus on eating real food. Don't make it too complicated. Veer off a bit if you like, but jump right back on the bandwagon. Know your allergies, if any,.and stay away. Eat less processed foods and educate yourself about nutrition. Lots of greens for life's source energy and make your own meals when you can. Treat food as medicine and as a way to nourish the body and mind.

Wish you all the best. Just an added note that I did this before in a different circumstance without consciously knowing that I was doing it and the situation changed. It is when I reflected back and put the pieces together and after learning and understanding how energy works was when I realized how i did It.

Leo used to be cheap. Still is, but not as much. (According to him). He understands from the guys perspective and has probably seen how it didn't benefit him in the long run, so he will be more empathetic towards your bf's behavior and wouldn't advise dumping him because he knows there's potential for change. Women however, might see a bit of your situation in their past relationships and wishing they had dumped him sooner than later and doesn't wish to see you go through what they went through because of, maybe, their naivety or thinking that he will never change.

You don't need to change him. Start to relate to him as if he already changed. Don't resist how he is but respond to it differently. Don't make excuses for his cheapness and don't rationalize it. It's weird to you about the chocolate thing, but not to him. See it differently. See it as an act of love for his mother to not eat it and just replace it yourself. Don't put too much emphasis on what you don't like about him but what you do like. See him as a very loving and giving person even when he's being cheap. Look at it for what it is without interpreting his cheapness. Don't say, oh, he's being cheap by not so and so; just say so and so didn't happen but I can give that to myself. Make it about you but not in a selfish way. Give yourself the things he's not giving you. Focus on what makes you feel good and find ways to overcome the uncomfortabilities that you may feel from him being cheap. I promise you, you will see him transform right in front of your eyes in time because you have let go of your attachment to how he is making you feel and now you're generating those feelings from within on your own and you will create the atmosphere that matches those feelings.

Ok. Fine. Doesn't mean I'm not what thought and everything else is appearing from. This is all an appearance. Appearing within consciousness which is what I am. My true nature and it cannot be known, it can only be. It is what's present. Only here and now. Always was and always will be and so are you.

@ivankisswhy are you so intent in convincing God that it's not God. Why are you so intent in convincing us that we're not God. Either way, doesn't change what God is or isn't. Are you God trying to convince yourself you're not God. If we're not God then so be it, if we're God, so be it too. Reality isn't going around convincing itself what it's not. It just is.

Look into that annoyance deeper. No need to get annoyed if you know what you know.

You're welcome. We are here for each other.

Sorry to hear of your loss and I am deeply saddened to see that you are feeling guilt and regrets over his passing. I also recently, last year in July, had someone dear to me (my mom), passed over and her passing was extremely painful to bear. I could have also went down the path of regrets saying if and if and if and how I wish I was by her side or whatever. How I dealt with it was by starting a brief journal (here) and wrote to her as if she was still here receiving my letters and I kept her (kind of) alive in my thoughts and memories by posting pictures and poems and songs and videos about mons and reliving our times together. I kept that up for about 2weeks until her funeral and a few days after the funeral I decided to let the journal go and bid her farewell because I realized that nothing is going to bring her back and didn't want to live a life of pretence that she was still here in the physical. It helped me in times when I needed it and I let it go when I was ready. If I had lived through that experience with regrets and guilt I would not have been able to handle it as well as I did. I knew that that would have made me spiraled down the path of depression and, as she was my rock and a source of my strengths to keep this body alive, it was not in my best interest to view her passing with my selfish egoic regrets and instead to celebrate her life and to view it as what is. You are not seeing Reality as it is but what you wished it was. That will not do justice to your psyche and will bleed into other areas of your life. Try to understand that life is unfolding as it should. Have no regrets and feel no guilt because they are only coming from your need to control what you have no control over. Grieve however is best for you and personalize it to suit how you feel is in your best interest but so it doesn't make you feel regrets about anything as this is just a part of life's process. There's nothing you could have done to to change the outcome and nothing was your fault. Neither was it his. It's just what is unfolding and for you to use this as an opportunity to maybe see life from a different perspective and to open you up to other possibilities that may be allowing you to become more aware of what the Truth of existence is and how a loved one's passing may be just what you needed to see and become aware of your own divinity. I thought I would be a mess after my mom's passing but instead it made me realize more of what Love is not, and it's not holding on to life and attaching our own egoic desires and wants and regrets to it but to live freely in the knowing that what was, is not what is. Allow yourself this time for whatever comes up without judgement and to look at it as a part of the process that is unfolding within your unique sense of self and that it will pass and that there is nothing to be regretful for because your life is not a regret in Sources eyes.

Thank you and I do appreciate your thought-provoking posts. They open up the mind and allows for other perspectives one might not have seen through.

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@r0ckyreedI see you make some valid points but seem to be dismissive about the other sides. There are multiple ways of looking at things and i notice you are usually stuck in your own perspective. You tend to be very right-brained in your thinking and get stuck in your view points. 100 years ago maybe people would have argued against smart phones and point out all the ways it could be damaging to humans, yet it is the very thing that has brought you into my awareness. It's use has diminished some people's capacity to spell on their own but has also made tremendous advancements in other areas of life. Up down, up down, advance decline, advance decline, create destroy, create destroy, it's the cycle of life. Up to you to fuss about life's creation but it knows what it's doing.

The only part of my post that I was uncomfortable with and was debating on erasing or not, you quoted. Isn't that something. I will leave it there though because it still is valid to some degree.

A hammer is a tool and can be a weapon. We are doing word semantics here. A sharp pencil don't kill people but it can be used to. Stop the word games. We invented tool boxes for consumerism. Tools can be stored under the bed.