mandyjw

A diet too low in carbs usually means too low in fiber. Add in more veggies slowly but progressively. Carbs help you sleep better, that's why too many make you tired. Carbs later in the day are better than earlier in the day. Carbs and cardio exercise will make you sleep amazingly well. If you're just doing weight lifting and eating protein, which is what I'm assuming from your post, it would make sense that that balance would be off and affect your sleep quality. Dairy may be the culprit for the skin issues. And the digestion issues.

Compassion can be a healing acceptance of suffering or it can be a projection of suffering on another. A doctor can't slice through human flesh to remove a tumor and save a life while feeling the pain of the action he is inflicting on another as if it were happening to himself. Separation and connection seem to be opposites but are not in conflict. Sometimes our own squeamishness and projections take the guise of compassion and pretend to be doing good when they are actually an avoidance of pain, and the tumor lives happily ever after but no one else gets to. We sometimes project our own pain onto others and call it compassion.

That sounds horrible. Kind of reminds me of when I was a teenager and CDs were expensive and I convinced myself that I had discovered ALL the good music ever made, had listened to it so long I was sick of it and would never find any new music I really loved ever again.

I love this so much. It is equally a HUGE relief, absolutely healing, forgiving, etc, and also... terrifying.

Connection with the body. Same thing yoga, meditation and running do. Your body is your subconcious. Not really, but that's a good pointer.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN2FPlvg9r-LnUyepH9IaQ@Preety_India This is my favorite yoga channel, often makes me cry in a good way for no reason.

Keep working on it. Less fiber, more cheese. I'm neo-advaitan now, so it's not.

Ah, continuing to morph into your profile pic. Good to see you posting here again!

Going for a walk or a run outside in daylight really helps your biorhythms and improves sleep. Also take vitamin D, in the "morning" or soon after you wake up only. Look up tips for jet lag to get back on schedule, you're essentially doing the same thing. Sorry about your friend, that's a really rough and jolting thing to have to go through.

The weeding isn't done objectively, it's done in consciousness through a kind of focus excluding nothing, law of attraction style. The ugly is illusory, the beauty is just what remains. Survival apparently echoes or follows that kind of selection in a heartless way, but those survival tactics are as non real as your belief in Mars or Antarctica. There's no subject or object.

The core of the problem here is that you believe your success, happiness and fulfillment can be prevented by others and circumstance. You could not have found the material sooner. Rather than thinking that your child prevents you from doing practices that help you to build the habit of letting go of thoughts that don't feel good to think, just let go of those thoughts about the child and the practice as they come up, no matter what you're doing. Those of us with kids value our alone time so very much, and we by necessity get really good at focusing our energies and not wasting it. Because our desire to be alone and go within gets so strong, we ironically can get there faster than someone who has all the time in the world to do it. What does your partner think about the second child? I think ultimately the reasons we decide to have a child are not logical. Kids are an amazing asset to spiritual growth. You're forced into a position of sacrifice and giving. Kids mirror you and brings your bullshit to the surface to be examined. If you understand what a gift they are and don't miss the lessons, you'll have a whole new view on life. If you can let go of thinking that they stand in the way of the life you want, you'll be better able to let of of the thoughts of ANYTHING else that stands in your way. It all starts with your thoughts, this is the reason you want to meditate. You want to master your thoughts. Kids have a way of forcing you to do this, sink or swim. You're living with a little zen master and you don't give him any credit just cause you still have to wipe his butt for him.

I personally really want to bring back the Victorian era tradition of having picnics in cemeteries so everyone can join in.

Make a list of things you love to do just for fun. Watch a favorite music video, read a web comic, etc. Make it a point to do three things from the list a day. Intensely deep spiritual work is NOT an excuse to neglect basic emotional self care, in fact it's an absolute must do if you want to go deep at all.

@Consept No offense but I suspect you're a bit stuck in some sort of intellectual elitism paradigm. Education, intellect and development is just as meaningless and shallow surface level as material success. Some people start with LOA and learn the renunciation, the value in the search for truth, or more scientific parts later. It doesn't matter what you start with. Your desire for material success can be your first foray into spirituality. Leo got into personal development through pick up. Neurological explanations are just as dangerous stories in the materialistic paradigm as The Secret. In a way there's more truth in fantasy stories than in scientific textbooks, because the fantasy stories are honest in their presentation of themselves as just a made up story. LOA is about not demonizing stories but realizing you're writing them. Which also means it's based on nothing. It has no past or future, and there's nothing behind it. None of the characters are real. Yet, this is unfolding. What to do with this? This is your creation. Take the reigns. You appear to be a character but you're really the author, the creator in the story and you've forgotten that you love yourself and others and everything equally. You love everything so fully, you're not. real.

That's not what they are saying, that's what you are saying for them. The entire point is that what you think of as material is not. There are no nonmaterial things to want over material things. LOA is the ultimate wanting what you've got. Which is actually nothing, nada, zip.

Yeah, you're missing that you're likeable.

Sometimes you just need someone to fuck your psyche. As if intimacy could be quantified, measured and defined.

Just a guess, there's some alignment with your intentions that needs to be worked out. In other words drop em'.

Eve ill.

Good "point". Bahahaha.

A way of safety from what? God? Or yourself?

Aww... I love him even MORE now.

Considering the guy who made this video is a professional sword swallower, I don't think he considers danger much of a problem.

Yeah, the miracle is that they aren't, but... love. Yes but my stories are long and involved and every time I tell a story it creates a new story.