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You're a runner right? Try go for a short running meditation first, stretch, a little bit of yoga, then sit to meditate. Practice on fully feeling the energy throughout the body flowing while you are still. It helps to think of the energy as aliveness, life force, or something positive or neutral rather than framing it in your mind as a challenge or a distraction.

Please tell me, does it work?

You don't get to choose between Truth or feeling good. Who is the you that chooses? The truth feels good. When someone asks what kind of food you want and they are equally healthy, would you pick the one you hate over the one that you love? If a part of you, the true, deeper part didn't inherently know that the truth feels good, you wouldn't seek it.

Just like in the story, there is no wise master and no student. Both are characters in the story. There is only you the reader, who is also the author at the same time as the you are the reader. So why communicate it? You tell me.

@playdoh Check out Vermont, parts of it are very green. Southern Maine too. There are lots of green pocket areas all over the country if you're willing to live in a smaller city.

Having a credit card will help build your credit history and will make it a lot easier to get a mortgage or another type of necessary loan if you need one. Having no credit history isn't much better if it's better at all, than having bad credit. Pay it off every single month in full, no excuses. If you can't/won't get rid of it or don't get one.

Tim Ferriss talks a lot about the topic of mentorship. I haven't watched this one myself but pulled it up in a quick search. https://www.entrepreneur.com/video/304995

Also, love is an eternal fire.

@Nahm Wow. Love is the only thing that ever feels like the truth. It is truth beyond mind.

That's not Christianity at all, that's a handful of people's perverted conclusions of it over the years.

DAMN IT. @zeroISinfinity How exactly are we supposed to use 26 characters to communicate nondualistically?

@Anna1 I started out my spiritual journey as a Christian as a child, understood God = love and then after learning about the Law of Attraction, I think there's no other word quite like Love as a pointer. Awareness and consciousness are also really important pointers, but what is the extra thing that love or what the word "love" understood as a pointer to, adds or takes away? That's the thing that makes existence itself, and all of this work worth it, in my opinion anyway.

I'll take "Is" for 500, Alex.

Well everything is love, but love can be turned inside out and bastardized through the filter of ego and selection. We can talk about the nature of everything being love which is true. Then we can talk about how love is embodied clearly and purely. Impatience only happens when you are caught in the illusion of time and ego, so that's why it could also be said that love is patient.

Love is patient. Ohhhhh so patient.

@Joseph Maynor Have you heard of Mr.Money Mustache? He's an intense green/orange hybrid, retired at age 30 by being super smart and a total cheapskate. He's really interesting.

She both is and isn't, there both is and isn't. They both are and aren't separate. The question can't be answered. She is a projection/creation of myself, I am a projection/creation of your self. @Aakash I love you. Go away.

Sometimes (ok, a lot of the time), we mix up self-realized with our idea of perfect. Yes, she is infinite, so is everyone else when they cease to appear separate.

You do misspell things occasionally. I think Esther Hicks is pretty brilliant, channeling higher wisdom while not taking credit and being open that the medium/herself is limited and human and even using it as an example to enhance her teachings. I also can't help but think that slapping a male's name on her work didn't help.

Yes, the act of creation itself creates the illusion of a creator and creation, duality, finite is inherent in separate. Maybe teachers exist as bridges that only appeal to certain people and only take them so far. The teacher/student duality, and the speaker/listener duality is assumed.

But do each leave certain things unsaid on purpose or is that truly how they see it? People who chose not to teach leave everything unsaid, it feels so wrong and yet so right. It doesn't really matter, does it?

I'm really interested to hear what you have to say in the next video, every episode I've watched so far has sparked ideas but also frustration that I don't know what to do to help people. I'm confident that I know who to vote for, it's my everyday relationships with people and my community that I feel like I'm really opting out of. I think of how Dollar Generals have moved into rural areas everywhere to cater to people who don't have the means to travel to a better place to get food and household items. If I had a magic fairy wand I would turn every Dollar General into a grocery store with healthy fresh food. But would it just sit there and rot? How do you go about doing something so simple as promoting healthier eating and lifestyles in a place that is a food desert? The corporations feed people's lower selves and people's lower selves feed the corporations. Obviously legislation that promotes healthy diet and lifestyle and limits the power of corporations to exploit and add things into food is called for. But how do you improve things on BOTH ends? How do you keep people from feeling like government is forcing them to change but instead empower them with the desire to do it themselves?

I've always had a lot more chronic pain problems on left side. I've always thought that was really odd! There is no duality between healing within or without, please get it checked out! Feminine energy is much more complicated than our understanding of it, in fact there is no power inherent in masculine or feminine energy itself. The better balanced the more effective they are, and the less you can tell the difference between the two. The more you dissolve the ego and identification with self or either one the more they will balance on their own. I think we have to have a strong masculine side to resonate with Leo's teaching style. I tried to explain how the universe is made of love to my friend using his words and it wasn't resonating at all so I re-framed it the way Abraham Hicks describes it with source energy and she got it immediately. I think that the whole forum/community is making a lot of progress integrating the feminine though.