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@Judy2 I understand however maybe that’s the first emotion you need to keep an eye on. You feel pressure when thinking of taking a break or pausing something you feel is important or a priority over a break. That’s not healthy. It could be caused by a feeling of guilt, about the break itself. Or it could be more about what it is you feel you must accomplish instead of the break. Either way, a balance must be struck. Maybe ask yourself: Why do I feel like x y and z is so important I can not rest? Why do I ramp up activity to compensate for what could already be emotional exhaustion? etc. — Your reasons and answers are the difference between being comfortable and understanding and not. Unfortunately, the answers are personal and nobody will be able to point them out to you without great insight. Even then, you’ll have to realize it yourself too.

@Judy2 If you’re struggling with general emotional regulation, I’d suggest making sure your diet and health is undeniably good. It would also be helpful to set aside ‘don’t think about it time.’ Time where you don’t try to work with your emotions and you focus on something fun. That will free up some energy for the real work and you can start taking notice to how different scenarios affect your emotions, including good ones. You don’t want to just dive into the negative stuff. Try to become more aware of the good feelings too. — I am hyper emotional. I am constantly running possibilities through my head, seeing how I feel, trying to take responsibility, etc. It is overwhelming but it works. If you’re in a good state of mind you can take it one topic at a time. Ex: ‘Dad called’ *something shifts. I’m upset, sad, worried, etc.* Why? *because* Can I do something about the because? Yes or no? If yes, why haven’t I? See how you feel then. If no, why do I let it bother me? See how you feel then. — The issue most people run into is one of these scenarios leads to an endless stream of other explanations and separate scenarios. That’s not a bug it’s a feature. You could have an emotional issue with your father that connects to a discomfort in eating apples or going to the zoo/insert anything, for example. — People also get caught up because often times bad feelings get explained by other bad feelings and guilt is felt for it. This is really just a process of guilt release. It’s important to realize this and not beat yourself up because it’s going to all feel the same until you get some where. — It’s really that simple. You just have to be healthy and take it one step at a time. Proper emotional regulation, really just comes from a grounded sense of self. And the only way you’re gonna have a grounded sense of self is by sensing yourself more! It’s kind of cool really.

@OBEler The line is— you change a thing about Leo and he stops being what he is now. His health issues are apart of his totality and that is fine. There’s nothing about Leo’s health issues that suggest what he is saying about taking on this frame of emotional responsibility is not True. — We also must distinguish emotions from physical sensations or bodily issues. — But, yes— technically Leo’s health issues are ‘imaginary.’ Not to Leo, though, lmao. That’d be like Mario arguing Luigi isn’t real. — Leo isn’t Leo. — @Judy2 For the practical emotional responsibility stuff: the first trap is: if every emotion is your responsibility: everything is your fault. Be careful. Adopting a frame needs to happen gracefully. Most people should try to label and identify emotions and build some sort of routine around it first— to observe how they really happen, without judgement—rather than assuming anything or jumping into a completely new, extreme frame. Keep in mind the value of the frame, though. What it offers and how it is different from the tradeoff most make.

Meditation can have a variety of benefits all of which vary person to person. The type of meditation and how you even view it also changes the outcomes. Mediation can be calming, garner focus, reset bad self talk, be a form of contemplation, etc. It really, really depends on what you want, how it gets done, external factors, etc. — If you’ve been dancing around having the time to meditate for less than an hour than it would maybe be good for you to just try it already. If you’ve done it before and wonder if it just requires more effort or time maybe there’s something else on your mind you should be doing instead. — If it is enlightenment you want, mediation can help— but only if you really, really don’t want to do it. Nobody wakes themselves up from a dream they’re enjoying. Enlightenment will come when you decide the dream is enough.

1. I wouldn’t try salvia. — You can— but you have to die. It is consciousness rendering the human. A human is something. Consciousness can not render nothing. Consciousness renders everything at once, always. A human is only some of that (something). And if you want to be some-thing, like a human— you can not be other-things or every-thing. To be a human is just one of any possibilities and everything is unique. So to go from human to dinosaur, within consciousness— technically seamless. But what seamless actually feels like: death. You can’t be a human and a dinosaur at the same time. That’s something else. If you say so.

Yes. I remember Leo explaining all of this 10+ years ago. Leo has become quite the wordsmith since. Even more than he was. I find it almost beautiful the way he can use words now.

One of my platonic friends kept running his mouth and saying how words meant nothing. I asked him, randomly, one straight man to the other, ‘Do you want to fuck me?’ His face turned bright red. I said, ‘it’s just words, baby.’ He chooses his words more intelligently now.

@Nilsi You have a lot to say for someone who thinks words are arbitrary.

Frankly I may be more concerned about WWIII than you guys. Which is why I don’t waste my time talking about it.

@BlueOak Editing my quote was awfully shallow.

@BlueOak @Sincerity I didn’t dismiss or disagree or say either of you were wrong at all. You’ve completely missed the point. Doubt my knowledge. I didn’t share any of it. I said this speculation is rampant. Which it is. I said nothing about making predictions, speculations, pattern recognition or anything of the sort, in general. I predict the sun will rise tomorrow. Don’t project on me. Make better predictions about things that matter. Also, find better content providers.

@Sincerity I’m being humble by not engaging with your conspiracies and speculation. And that is a valid form of engagement here. This is a serious matter. Anyone can make guesses and predictions. But can you just sit with that without all your guess work? No.

The speculation in this thread is rampant. If WWIII does start it will be because a bunch of schmucks on the internet convinced you all it already did. Go clean your rooms.

You can tell the low quality of media when they specify who people like Trump or Zelensky are— because the bulk of their audience doesn’t know. The videos are not examples of high level analysis. High-level analysis requires immense work and most people can’t do that; it’s rare. These were far from rare. Much less enlightening. They monger fear, mainly.

You guys are confusing sincerity with clarity. These videos talk about global politics like it’s a football rivalry. Why would Leo waste his time debunking that?

The answer is quite simple. America: Power ✅ Authority ✅ Independence ✅ Community ✅ (Starting to/Smaller pockets) You can run the same list for other countries and compare how much of what they have. SD is not linear, but the stages can and often do build on each other to one extent or another.

Haha! Yes

Ontolila noun /ˈɒn.təʊˌliː.lə/ Origin: Coined from onto- (Greek ontos, “being”) + lila (Sanskrit, “play”) Definition: A post-awakening condition in which a person, having recognized the self-generated or illusory nature of reality, continues to exist and act within that illusion due to the structural continuity of consciousness. Distinct from awakening (the realization itself) and enlightenment (freedom or detachment), ontolila refers to the sustained, involuntary engagement with reality after its deconstruction. It denotes awareness without exit. Example: After realizing the dreamlike nature of reality, he remained within it, fully aware but unable to step outside. This was ontolila. Edit: Yes— I used AI to word this well and help determine the suffix. If that ‘disqualifies me,’ no matter, I like the word.

@PurpleTree U.S. military and tech alone have created more global prosperity than any other system or government ever. Every other country anyone here thinks is ‘better’ was built on the back of U.S. tech and military support. I’m not saying the U.S. doesn’t have unique risks— but at some point an overall judgment has to be made.

@oldhandle Name a better country, overall.

@PurpleTree Greatest overall.

Nobody has to be a ‘Patriot.’ It’s obvious America is the best country in the world overall. There isn’t even a close 2nd, unless you single out particular issues and isolate them. —America still continues to develop. It still makes mistakes. It actually has a greater capacity for mistakes due to its overwhelming power and greatness. — Hegemonic Responsibility.

America is the best country, with the most complex problems. Plain and simple. One can criticize the U.S. while maintaining there are no better options. It might seem ungrateful, but it’s really just system maintenance.

@Leo Gura Nobody mentioned your feelings but you.

You’re a master distorter. You brought up your feelings— not me. You do not have clarity on this topic and that bothers you. Emerald is an edge case— sure. But she’s also right.