mandyjw

I bought this, hook line and sinker following the advice of Dave Asprey and Tim Ferris. I went a few years limiting fruit. I ended up with stomach issues and was finding staying at my goal weight even harder. Then I let myself have as much fruit as I wanted. I felt great and found it much easier to stay at my goal weight than before when I was putting all those restrictive efforts in. I mostly just eat a lot of apples and berries daily, other fruits occasionally. I will say, fruits are not a replacement for veggies. That's a common temptation for people I think.

There are more things than just food that one can be starved for. Maybe the well fed parts of the world is starving in ways they won't see. Maybe if we listen to our own hunger and fill our own "bellies" the solution of how to fill other's bellies with actual food will appear.

Sugar cravings can be a vicious cycle. If you are eating white rice, white breads or refined carbs of any kind you will get more sugar cravings. If you start with a really good breakfast with a vegetable, (or fruit) and a good amount of protein, you'll have won most of the battle right there. Carbs are great but make them complex carbs, such as wild rice, oatmeal, etc. You need to focus on eating healthy food and paying attention to how it makes you feel. Don't just demonize sugar. You will rebel and backlash like crazy anytime you demonize anything. You just need to realize that you like feeling good better than eating sugar, then there's just, feeling good.

You don't have to let go because there isn't anything there. The thought is ephemeral in nature. Give attention to what you want instead. Most cravings are born out of an imbalanced life. Here's the deceptively difficult thing to accept. It's not your fault. If people ate together with people they loved and had lively conversations with every meal, no one would over eat. If people loved their food, and prepared it together with presence and love and creativity, no one would want junk food. If communities were properly designed, and we lived lives in communion with nature, exercise would be integral to your day to day life. If sex wasn't both repressed and over glorified, it wouldn't be a compulsion. We live such individualized separated lives. For what? So we don't have to fight about what TV program we want to watch with anyone else? None of this is your fault. None of it is your responsibility. However, you have the ability to respond and to go in the direction of what feels better and in doing so move the society in one that feels better by making personal choices that feel better. Sometimes to forgive yourself and actually release the compulsions you have to forgive the fact that you were put in a position where you had to learn this shit on your own and basically pioneer a way to a more aligned with nature kind of life. Then once the guilt and blame is released the inspiration to choose something that feels better is all you're left with.

What does New Age even mean? "And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved."

Because I was a devout Christian as a kid I had pondered Jesus' words for most of my life, in the awakening a lot of the insights came back in forms of answers to those questions that I was never able to answer to my satisfaction. The religion I had thought was a silly misunderstanding and let go of suddenly became seen as pivotal and profound in my journey. I also recognized that the occult and witchcraft that I had demonized my whole life was equally valid, inseparable from human spirituality and I had a deep love, resonance and intuited a lot of stuff from it from the beginning. After the intense flow states of the awakening wore off I was looking for something to grab on to, because a lot of scary possibilities came to mind with the new revelations I was faced with integrating. Christianity felt familiar and safe, like running home to Mommy. I grabbed back onto Christianity for a while, but it was basically just an exploration and actually Ramaji's 1000 book served to help me to identify what I was doing, (and may have confused some other things). I realized I didn't really have to take it or leave it at all. I think resonance with religion is exploration, but when we use it to demonize other people or religions it comes from fear. I think that's an important distinction to make, because writing off exploring or learning about religions out of disgust because you believe religion is bad, comes out the same fear. Just setting yourself up for a reunion unlike anything else you've ever dreamed of someday. I have since come to understand that religion is language, and Christianity is the language my parents and others taught me to speak as a child. I'm very fluent in it. Learning other languages only helped me understand it even better. I have no qualms about speaking this language with other people. The words are besides the point though.

"Where is God?" Yes.

I also highly, highly recommend Abraham Hicks. I didn't intellectually make the "oh this impulse is not a personal flaw or tick but is playing some mysterious part in leading me to what I really want" connection until discovering her.

Enlightenment is no achievement, it's simply the correction of a grave yet common mistake that human minds have made. The mistake begins with the belief that there are individual minds. There are no separate minds. When you go in the direction of effortlessness, ease, love, gratitude and feeling good the entire universe pulls out all the stops to help you merge with the essence of that which it is. You create the universe and the universe creates you simultaneously. You must be willing to see it and yourself as it really is. You cannot hack or scheme your way to safety or invincibility in separation of anything else. There is a part of you that feels and has always felt this. It was never confused. Connect with that.

Trust, or not is judgement. Judgment was not invited to this party. It can take a lot of experience because mind is constantly butting in. Intuition is not rational. Therefore, it does not consider a timeline like logic does. You may not see results or the reason why until much later. Or not at all. Don't do anything rash, but get curious about it. Curiosity doesn't concern itself with trust, it's just open.

It can literally feel like a pull to go in a certain direction. Or a resonance with something. To begin with it can feel like an intrusive thought or distraction, that's just the mind automatically judging and dismissing feeling without hearing (feeling) it out.

@Preety_India Look up the symptoms of anemia. Very common in young women. Do you eat iron rich foods? https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/anemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20351360

I've had some crazy stuff including some of my deepest, longest standing fears bubble up for me to "see" but it seemed more like an amazing reunion, understanding and embrace, rather than a horrific sort of thing. Hilarious that I never saw it before when it was right under my nose, blissful, moving to tears, healing. It's only when I try to explain it to others that it sounds scary or crazy. There can be times before the understanding or release happens when it comes in your awareness stronger and stronger and starts to bother you. It's a little like removing a splinter... you irritate it to remove it, but once it's out it's instant relief. You wouldn't regret the decision to go about removing a splinter would you?

I wanted to have my kids my whole life, and I have two kids now, but I had two miscarriages before I had them and no way of knowing that I'd ever have a baby. I remember what hearing pregnancy announcements or seeing babies would feel like during that time. It was joy for someone else, but I was NOT seeing it. I know this probably seems like it has nothing to do with your situation, but it has everything to do with it, because it's just the tendency of the mind to notice what is missing. Don't look at what is missing, look for what is there. A sunset is stunningly beautiful, but you don't get tempted to try to claim it, own it or get worried that you won't be able to have it or hold on to it. If you can train that sort of impersonal appreciation of little things, you can apply them to the things you really, really want. Then you can take intelligent or inspired action to experience those things too.

Nonduality, no exclusion. You are even more wonderful and imperturbable than that state. Because there is no exclusion in actuality, you can only imagine such a thing as exclusion, and because there is no such thing as exclusion, it feels AWFUL to do so. So stop doing it. When you were a kid, a new pack of bubble gum made you blissful. Direct your mind again and again to go back to that state of complete sensitivity and full blown appreciation. It's everywhere, in everything.

I have to get outside in the cold everyday for a walk, run, ski, skate, etc. Also I drink tea or coffee, but still, I feel the same way a lot of the time. Are you taking vitamin D? Another thing that can help is focus on self care or a creative project. Or a good book can be the best of both worlds, it gets your focus on something else but also gives your body rest if that's what it's asking for.

Writing. Is. Magic.

You boys playing big balls with enlightenment picked the wrong game. There are no balls.

You mean it put you in the present-ing?

Eh, I'm just making it up as I go. The big bang. Obviously. Or that time your dad your looked at your mom. Or the day you got your driver's license. Or the fact that you decided to take the car out in the first place. I mean, obviously we can discern cause and effect, and should take responsibility when appropriate but there's no real reason to deep down believe that we are a piece of trash for making a mistake and hitting something with the car. Coincidently, that makes telling the truth and fessing up to the neighbor 100x easier than if we actually feel responsible on an inner level. It's a subtle distinction but worlds apart.

You aren't a noun, you're a verb, an activity, or not even that. The line from the song "are we human or are we dancer" finally makes sense to me now. Whenever anyone tells you you're something just turn it into a verb. "Me crazy? No. I'm just crazying right now." On second thought, yeah, maybe the monks are right and it's better to just shut up all the time.

You are no fun whatsoever. 0% fun. This is how we really feel about you though.

You know how when you want to learn a new skill or create a piece of art how you have to just jump in and do it knowing that you'll learn from your mistakes? And sometimes those mistakes and the willingness to make the best of them actually make you aware of some new technique that you wouldn't have discovered otherwise? I'm a glass artist and that's exactly my experience, I've discovered some really shocking things that way. Lets ponder three quotes and then consider your statements "You are God." "Man is made in the image of God." "Know thyself" I'm not infinitely intelligent, yet I also am. I absent mindedly put things in my refrigerator that should go there, but I also get brilliant insights out of no where sometimes. I know that my capability to learn is beyond what I can understand right now. I also know that I cannot excel if I don't allow myself to make mistakes. And I know that my mistakes often make the end product better, even if the end product is not actually ever the end product and creation never ends. I am a very silly fiction. I mean your intuition is right, but your attitude, will all due respect and love. Sucks. Signed, Godamndy (that's my name and God's mixed together. I quite like it, do you like it?

There is no responsible. Responsible implies preceding, coming before. There's no before. You can only be response able. God can only be response able. There's no preceding God. What you are is beyond primordial.

No, it makes them also God.