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@Chris365 THANK YOU!!!

Have you ever had one of those weird experiences, like an accident or disaster, where everything went REALLY wrong, but it was like you were sort of disconnected from it all, but at the same time completely immersed and you acted just how the situation required you to? It's not like you were unaware of the disaster, but you were unaffected in a deep way, and that is exactly what gave you the ability to act quickly and do just what needed to be done. From observing teachers in their element I think that's exactly what's going on there. It's because of their deep knowing beyond knowing that everything is fundamentally OK that they even have the power to align another with his own Okayness.

I have so much respect for people who learn a second language and actually communicate with it. My high school made a mistake and accepted a student who knew NO English whatsoever, only Spanish. I ended up in gym class with her, and I was the only one who had taken Spanish at all. I tried my best to communicate with her, and very rarely did I get anything across, except after a few tries she burst into laughter and so did I. That was the only real communication that happened.

Some women dress to impress men, others dress to impress other women, others try to dress to impress everyone at once, others dress to piss off everyone, but really you should dress only for you.

The neck bone's kneckted to the... @Striving for more You might need to retrain yourself to lift weights without straining your neck and improperly engaging your neck muscles in the process. Also some ab exercises can be hard to do without improperly straining your neck. A lot of people have a hard time with this. Getting a good pillow for neck support can make a difference long term if it's a posture thing as well. A lot of the time we do intense workouts and sit on the computer with bad posture the rest of the day, not a good combination.

What the mind thinks will make it happy is never right. You can't remember actual happiness, only the things that seemed to be around when the feeling arose. So you equate happiness with the things, but if that were true, hedonic adaptation wouldn't be a thing.

@How to be wise Sometimes the people who challenge and help me grow the most are also the biggest pains in the asses.

Putting conditions on what can't have conditions is tricky. Anyone on earth can say that when they are happy it's impossible to be angry. It's at the same time way more subtle and way more radical than that. We filter what people say based on what we expect or desire to get from enlightenment, but there's no one to get anything from anything. I REALLY want to watch this but also really don't want to subscribe. So torn.

@blackchair Working on it. Just have to stop thinking I already know what people are thinking first.

I'm not, I was just being a pain in the ass.

@blackchair Oh! ok!

@Natasha

You still better friggin get her a Mother's day gift you ungrateful brat. What is your body to you right now? The concept, "I will be free when"... is bondage.

That's why I said Imma gonna show up at the best moment just to crash the party.

@Kamran Can you get canned foods? They aren't the best for you, but are good in a pinch. Canned sardines, canned wild caught salmon ( limit these, cause mercury), canned beans, canned lentils, canned soups, canned vegetables, etc.

So I can stop caring about politics now too?

Maybe you attach different connotations to the word "sensitivity". ?‍♀️ sensitive (adj.) late 14c., in reference to the body or its parts, "having the function of sensation;" also (early 15c.) "pertaining to the faculty of the soul that receives and analyzes sensory information;" from Old French sensitif "capable of feeling" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin sensitivus "capable of sensation," from Latin sensus, past participle of sentire "feel perceive" (see sense (n.)). https://www.etymonline.com/word/sensitive?ref=etymonline_crossreference

I found pigeon and fire log yin yoga poses really helpful for back pain all day and helping me feel better when I mediate. I do some other stretches but those are the ones I hold the longest and that help the most. I stretch lightly in the morning before meditation and more intensely after running. I tried to do a 30 split challenge a couple years ago and got really far, but it made my hips feel really unnaturally lose and weird while running so I stopped. I think my running habit might be incompatible with it or something.

Sensitivity, Consciousness and Awareness all go hand in hand.

She has a really awesome career, and many women often have a lot more hurdles to jump in that area, and already are very aware that they may not be taken seriously. You can't know exactly what the trigger was. Could have been a combination of things.

@Mason Riggle ? I guess it all depends on what you choose to focus on. Wisdom belongs to no one. The illusion of contrast is what makes it all so damn entertaining though.

I've intuitively done a lazy version of this my entire life by covering part of my nose. There's apparently a super intentional way to do it though.

You're really good at picking diamonds out of a pile of turds.

So someone in the comments is saying that Sam Harris talked with Jim Newman but you have to subscribe to Sam Harris' thingy to hear it. I bet it's a riot. Teachers use the terms differently. Some use consciousness as describing, subject/object, perceiver/perceived consciousness and others speak of Consciousness as Awareness. The Nature of Consciousness by Rupert Spira is an amazing book. Highly recommend it, will answer all your questions and more.

Thought says sensation is a distraction, thought says sensation is good or bad. Sensation never says that.