mandyjw

Everything I've done has been a quest to feel good with the realization that feeling good is not what I think it will be. I continually trick myself into thinking about what feels good. "Watch your thoughts", Abraham Hick's "Pay attention to how you feel" are the same thing. I had a realization now how I go into stories to explain why I'm feeling good. A certain place or person, made me feel good, a memory, a story revolving around an "I". Inevitably there are consequences and backlash created in this. I can surrender, die to bliss not only when I feel bad and want out but also when I'm feeling amazing.

The thing this story requires is a you. The "you" needs circumstances to be a specific way in order to be content. When it gets those circumstances it will sabotage the contentment by finding something else that isn't right. It does not make any difference whatsoever what the circumstances are. Does the author have to kill the character in the end of the book in order to finish the last chapter and stop telling to story? Or can the author choose to have the story stop but the character continue to live on in peace?

@Mikael89 I found this lady's videos accidentally through the one you shared with me in another thread a few days ago. I thought this was perfect here.

Transmissions can happen in strange ways, they can come through as indirect communication as text on the internet, or through specific places and "leftover" energy from people who have passed. It's all about openness and intention, or most of all it's just the power of love and that's all there ever was.

Who or what imagined the body? You cannot imagine your own body because there's no you. "You are imaging your reality", is a pointer to try to get you to take so much personal responsibility that you realize that there's no you at all. You choose your body and you chose you life circumstances but you will not be able to align with this until you stop complaining or fighting against them.

If your computer messes up do you turn it off and on again or do you smash the entire thing to bits?

@7thLetter Check out the research on blue zones, it's very interesting! I think that many of us are trying to find connection and community in stage orange environments and that can take more effort and creativity than it did in the past. https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/ "7. Belong All but five of the 263 centenarians we interviewed belonged to some faith-based community. Denomination doesn’t seem to matter. Research shows that attending faith-based services four times per month will add 4-14 years of life expectancy. 8. Loved Ones First Successful centenarians in the blue zones put their families first. This means keeping aging parents and grandparents nearby or in the home (It lowers disease and mortality rates of children in the home too.). They commit to a life partner (which can add up to 3 years of life expectancy) and invest in their children with time and love (They’ll be more likely to care for you when the time comes). 9. Right Tribe The world’s longest lived people chose–or were born into–social circles that supported healthy behaviors, Okinawans created ”moais”–groups of five friends that committed to each other for life. Research from the Framingham Studies shows that smoking, obesity, happiness, and even loneliness are contagious. So the social networks of long-lived people have favorably shaped their health behaviors."

If you want to take it one step further, food has nutritional value beyond the nutrients we know are important to measure and the soil food is grown in is very important. Soil health itself should be one of our biggest focuses, depleted soil won't grow as nutritious food and healthy soil. We also eat a very limited number of species. If you want to have the ultimate healthy diet, you have to spend your days foraging for a huge variety of species grown in undisturbed soil. Having time to have a good balanced life is a luxury of modern times and we have to make some trade offs in health and nutrition to achieve this. Beliefs about food and how they vary in different people is an amazing thing to observe. We truly create our reality and that's why no one's perspectives and experiences are ever going to line up quite right unless they are closely following someone else's rules.

This particular teacher especially promotes the opening of the crown (purple) and heart(green) chakras.

@Serotoninluv I think that unrequited love is one of the deepest, most honest forms of courage there is. God is such a drama queen.

His description of LOC 800's really helped me understand my Jesus revival. You can't actually let go of something you really truly believed in your heart in the past or let go of the past because, there is no past. Awaken and it comes back like a boomerang. I guess because "letting go" was a concept to me when I thought I let go of my religion.

@Nak Khid Is delusion part of order or chaos?

Me too. You cannot judge a teacher based on what they speak about though. There's a reason why Eckhart reaches as many people as he does, why he is a super star of spirituality and made such a huge change in so many of us at the start of our journeys. He is a bridge. This is perfection. Should the bridge be judged as less important because it is not the land it connects? Whether he is conscious of more he doesn't speak about or not, we can't know. Whether Ramaji judged Eckhart using a filter of self bias, making the assumption that a teacher would only speak of the highest knowledge that he is aware of... or whether he used a metaphysical means of knowledge to judge this, we can't know.

Welcome to the forum! The most important beliefs to consider are our own. We have many beliefs without even knowing that we have them and they shape our reality. Some of them are so sneaky that the only way to see through them is to get really really in tune with how you feel. Ever had a thought that was sort of half thought/half feeling, and maybe at first it wasn't possible to articulate it? Try to catch one, then interrogate it. Kindly though, invite it in for tea, don't shut it in a jail cell.

The world is your mirror so if you see order and meaning you get and see more order and meaning. If you see chaos you get chaos.

Contrary to popular belief, pain is not gain. Great work to examine that belief itself.

Reading that book caused a huge war within my mind, I'm glad I read it but, Leo's advice here in this thread is really, really important. You gotta get really good with paradoxes! Also Eckhart Tolle I believe is a misunderstood anomaly, as we all are... and so it gets very very tricky when you start talking about specific enlightened people because that's all imagination. The book particularly indulges the imagination so study it, get lost in it, then go back to you own experience as if you'd just read a particularly engrossing novel.

It's never really closed. Pay attention to things you "see" that you don't really see. Colors and patterns when you close your eyes, especially when you are present, about to fall asleep, etc. The biggest obstacle to "seeing" is our beliefs about what we see, the filter of the ego itself. There is no real third eye though, "stuff" sometimes happens and the third eye and opening and closing is a good analogy for the actual experiences and sensations that occur.

It was satisfying, but the making of this video and watching it come together was a trip. I realize that I am pretty stuck in the duality of how I see and how others see me. The exercise of talking to imagined others while looking at my face and watching it back is a trip. The experience of making a video feels like this almost every time. I so deeply relate to and love the Grinch. It's fun though, seeing myself from a perspective outside myself and imagining how others might see me, and I feel less than whole if I don't find ways to get that experience. Feeling like an idiot and not loving the idiot is the flip side. Often we try to help others from the place of, "Oh, I really feel bad for your pathetic situation, here's a solution." How do we think of the Grinch in our minds. Do we think of the Grinch at the start of the story or the end? or do we think of him as a sort of amalgam? The Who's are already self-actualized, yet they are intolerable as characters with the contrast of the Grinch.

All your favorite childhood stories and dreams are real. You can be or do anything you want. You are never alone, angels, God, spirit guides, source, whatever you want to call it or form you imagine is takes is always there. You can tap into all the happy memories or future bliss anyone ever had or will have, now. Source/God/Oneness has infinitely different flavors and resonances as it comes through to us, it's not just like having one boring flavor of ice cream all the time. You imagine your reality so you have the power to guide and hold your focus toward the most beautiful visions and feelings you have, and in doing so guide the manifestations of reality towards that. A chipmunk in the woods eating a pine cone is as important an event as a meeting of the world's most powerful leaders. What do you have to add?

I didn't understand or appreciate the importance of theory for a long time. I didn't understand that by listening to teachers who talked about the importance of experience (like Eckhart Tolle) that I was learning theory. And for a long time I thought Leo was completely stuck on theory yet I continued to listen and learn. I started noticing old people around me, and I noticed that some had turned into absolutely miserable people and others like my grandmother embodied the complete acceptance and presence I was looking for, but they knew nothing about enlightenment whatsoever. It was obvious that presence was something that could be cultivated and at the same time just happen. I was happy with that. But intelligence is seductive and "happy" was a facade. I experienced the "download" that people sometimes talk about and the term infinite intelligence and open mindedness got entirely new depths of meaning.

@Mikael89 Sure I have a sense of self and experience negative emotions. I agree with what she says in the video. I never said anything to argue against anything like that in this thread, I only pointed out some realizations I've had that are wonderful. If you want, you can focus on things that make you feel amazing. That's all I'm doing. Sometimes I don't feel like doing the things that make me feel amazing, like going out for a run when the temperature is below freezing, but I've learned what my mind says feels good and what actually in my experience feels good can be very different. I can be the witness of how I feel, and in the witnessing I change my feelings. That's what emotional mastery is, I suspect anyway. I wouldn't want to feel bliss all the time, because it would no longer be bliss. I enjoy the drama. I'm not liberated, so to be honest sometimes I do NOT enjoy the drama. But what I have realized is that I have incredible power to create, and what I choose to focus on is one with what I create.

Actual mystical experience, experienced by a you or by a me, becomes a story that you can either believe or not believe just like in the first example. But yes, I have weird stories that actually happened to me that I sometimes remember or talk about. @peanutspathtotruth There's no me for you to be happy for, so we can just be happy, see how easy that was? @Nak Khid Oooo... that's one of my favorites. Oneness is an equal access opportunity, just not in appearances. @Surfingthewave Yes definitely, that's been my experience as well. I was the asshole kid that told all the other kids that Santa Claus was not real.

And on the seventh day God rested, and thought to herself "What have have I done? I'm not going to sleep for the next 18 billion years. "