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I think the direct answer to this question is that you as a human will die and cease to exist. That part of you is finite for sure. What we don't know is whether if our consciousness will awaken after it "leaves" our body. We don't know if there is this other part of us which is not a part of our physical form.

Hey, everyone belongs here. No one is a fraud in the realm of God. I think for most people, there is always an external reason that drives people to pursue self-actualization. For example, it's because you want something that you can never get in your current state, or you are in some ditch that you desperately want to get out of. For me, I was always obsessed with this sort of "be a good Christian" notion, because I wanted the type of lifestyle that some of the more "successful" Christians had in my previous church. I wanted to be successful in my career, relationships, and a beautiful loving girlfriend. However my standards were way too high relative to where I was. The harder I pursued, there seemed to be a negative backfire within my mentality, because I was pushing myself too hard using strategies that did not work. I was eventually depressed and judgemental about myself. Then by chance, I was introduced to post modern philosophy from a Christian friend at the church interestingly. I hated the stuff initially, but eventually I was fascinated by how some of the ideas really opened my mind up. I eventually started to question everything the Church taught. Then I got into therapy, as I began to suffer more from the backlash I got from my church. I saw a few therapists along the way, and one of them told me that there was no standard cure for my problems. The only way I could get out from being depressed most of the time was to find my own way, and that everyone else could only hint at how I could formulate my own method. I started searching for ideas online. Initially I found guys like awaken with JP, Tony Robbins, which were great but didn't really work for me. But then I found Leo and Teal Swan, and things started to change...

Hi Everyone, Ted here from Taiwan.

I actually have other questions: 1. How do we differ our ego conscious from our God conscious? Is our God conscious even active right now? 2. Also, if our ego conscious depends on our brain, wouldn't our ego just die after our brain ceases to function? How would we "transfer" into our God conscious then like Leo describes in his videos?

Yes, you really need to see a therapist and get your inner issues resolved. Totally agree with @Bojan V on that. This is a lot of work, you will even need to find the suitable therapist for yourself first. But I hope you go see a therapist soon, because the longer you leave these internal issues hanging, the harder it will be to resolve them later on. Life to us is very personal, and I think it should be. The problem though is that sometimes we take it way too personally. The world and everyone else is basically totally fine with what kind of person you are. I mean, really! It is only you who cannot accept how the world and other people react to you. You have a very strong desire for something. The desire is so strong, that when the world is not able to give you what you really want, you suffer inside. And yeah, life is brutal in this way. You have to strategically engineer and create the life you want. All that takes a huge amount of effort, but is absolutely doable no matter what position you're in. People look down upon themselves too easily. They prop up others very easily too, when the truth is that everyone is very very ordinary. If you search really hard for the objective truth, there is nothing special about anyone. No one is better than you, everyone would be exactly the same as you are if they were in your shoes. Life is ultimately......... a game. It is just a fucking game. And if you didn't know, it is your game. We are all just the characters that you've projected outwards. On this stage, you've branded yourself the coward. But since this is just a game, doesn't really matter what kind of character you're playing. I mean, if you think you're a coward, then that's great. Just be the coward. Try to accept yourself for just what you are. There is a lot fun being the coward. Embrace the coward! How do you become the hero if you don't know what the coward is like? How do you become the hero when you can't even love and accept the coward? After you've learned to accept from a wider perspective, go whichever way you wish. What you really want in the end, is not anything external. It is not this shiny heroic image that you imagine you should be. It is just love. A deep love and connection with everyone including yourself. True love. I hope you have the courage to find it.

It really depends on who, because there are all kinds of people in the church. The stage you're on actually depends more on the people who actually brought you up, like your parents and family, or maybe your teachers at school. Your pastor or the people who you attend service together may have some influence, but not too much. So there are people on all stages, but of course most people are on stage blue or even red in my experience.

Hitler was a German hero in his time. People who hate Hitler just aren't able to the get into the context of that time from Germany's point of view.

If you embrace the "darkness", you would be free. You wouldn't be doomed as you think in the long run. After that, change would become more likely if you pursue small goals at a time. What you don't know is that although it takes time to evolve, you are not actually that far off from where you want to be. Another thing is that if you maintain the same survival mentality that you have now, you will still be depressed even if you got the partner or the type of lifestyle that you wanted. Rebirth, that is the way!

I am quite curious on why you think you are not worthy and what type of partner you would like to have.

Do you think your low self esteem has to do with your performance in the classroom, meaning studying and passing exams? Maybe if you could add a perspective to how you observe and measure yourself, you would understand and feel better about yourself?

It would seem like you are not happy with the current situation that you're in. However in your mind, you think that it is way too hard to change the circumstances in your current state. So there are two forces at play here, one is you have a strong urge to change and transform yourself based on I would guess a very negative motivation. The other is a strong resistance of pain, because you've already worked so hard to get this far. Maybe you realized you went in the wrong direction at some place in your life and now you're so tired you want to rest, you just don't have any energy left to work on the transformation you want at the moment. These two forces create a big conflict and it is very normal to have conflicting emotions as well. On the surface, you desperately wish you could change something about your life, but in the inside you actually want to avoid the pain of "loss" or behaving in a way you deem "unworthy". This is probably why you are avoiding positive emotions, because once you express your positive emotions, there would be more room for you to feel more negative emotions, the emotions you want to escape right now. Your deep consciousness seems to know that there is a huge amount of work you need to do in order to get where you want to be. However you want to avoid thinking about that, because the Truth is sometimes unbearable. You need to know the greatest transformations in life always starts with realizing how "low" or "bad" your current state is. Sometimes external accidents even, to force people to realize the Truth. If you are able to find peace with yourself right now, you will embark on a new journey towards a higher level in your life. What you need to do now is to very slowly identify where the huge pain is in your emotions. Clarify the points that are causing these painful emotions and gradually feel in the pain very consciously. Normal people would just keep on evading the pain by distracting themselves non-stop. This would only bury the pain deeper and deeper until they've lost touch with the source of their problems. Then I would suggest talking with a very close friend, someone you could say anything to and is willing to listen. Express the kind of negative emotions your are experiencing right now, and what are causing them. Do this until you get very conscious about what you don't accept about yourself. What you need right now is rest, the conscious type of rest. You need to stop trying to change and just simply be and observe yourself. Feel in the pain and let the source of the pain be your future motivation to achieve greatness.

Good to know that I was able to help a bit. Most of my response were only guesses, I was afraid my description wasn't really your case. You'll have to find a way to untie the knot to go forward, not easy though. Other than that, I don't have anything more to add at the moment. I don't think there is a sure path to understanding psychology. I had serious depression before and I spent a lot of money on different therapists. Then luckily there were Youtubers like Teal Swan and Leo Gura to aid me more. Then it took over 7 years to implement the stuff, this is where I really understood what I learned previously. It really depends on what topics you're really interested in and whose content would be able to allow you to understand more. Google is your best tool. Basically you only need find methods to fix one problem at a time and you will naturally understand more when you resolve those issues one by one.

Okay, so this is sort of a knot that has formed in your psychology. You don't like it when you don't act naturally in front of others, and then when you judge yourself for this, you then think judging yourself for not being able to act naturally is also "wrong", so you judge yourself again for judging yourself. I've had one of these before. The issue here is that your natural behavior doesn't seem natural to you, but you don't really have the chance to even change your natural behavior because of the multi-layer judgements. What you want on the surface, according to my limited understanding, is that you want to act like someone who is very authentic. But what you really want inside is to not have to endure the very bad feelings of being judged. One side of you desperately wants to find a way to act naturally while the other side wants to prevent yourself from being judged. It's really a situation where you're stuck. What you need to realize is that even if you are disfunctional in some way, that is still authentic. It's okay to be relatively not confident, not smart, not outstanding. You don't have to act at the level you imagine you need to be at in order to be authentic. But then again even before allowing yourself to be your current self, there is the issue of these multiple layer judgements... Two directions you can do at the same time. @Waken's suggestion is very good, try to drop the need to be outstanding. Your true thoughts and natural self are being held back because deep down you think they're not good enough to bring up. But if you're able to let yourself go and allow yourself to express the "low" thoughts that you are feeling, the result can be better than you expected. If you express what you truly feel, people will relate to that. Then again, like what @Nahm said, you need to be conscious of why you are judging yourself. Where are the judgements coming from exactly, why are you judging yourself in this way. I think you understand that perfectionism is toxic, so trying to be perfect never works and so that shouldn't be the goal. You'll need to find time when you're by yourself to contemplate on this part. And don't think of this question logically, think of it emotionally. Dig into your emotions and feel the origin of the judgements/thoughts. Once you're able to find where these thoughts came from, you might be able to see how dumb these thoughts of judgement are and be able to drop them.

Although you may not be so different from your peers, it is the feeling that you're not on the same level as them that is limiting you. And we should respect your feelings. So if you think you're not on the same level as them, okay, then let us assume you're not on the same level as your peers for the moment. Even though that doesn't really matter In the present moment when you are with your peers, it seems that you quickly try analyze the situation, things like "let's see if I'm good enough as my peers", "how am I not good enough as they are", "in what ways are they doing better than I am", "how am I going to fit in", etc. When you are in this mode of thinking, you create an atmosphere of doubt, fear, and judgement which would be sensed by your peers and friends. Although it is basically just you judging yourself, this atmosphere would likely push people away from you, because no one likes the kind of judgement you're putting on yourself. Normally, most people are not as sensitive as you are in this kind of way, and no one likes to over analyze things. If everyone had to analyze and see if they were good enough among their peers, then no one would be good enough and everyone would be just like you. And even if the people with you didn't sense your analyzing emotion, they would still have difficulty interacting with you when you're doing this, and thus they might just get bored with you and leave. So it's mostly not that you have a problem, but that you think you have "many problems" that is causing this. If you are able to be okay with yourself, then everyone would be totally okay with you and want to hang out with you. The problem is, it is hard to be the real you. And this is everyone's problem. Life is not about being good enough. I believe happiness is way more important than being "great", whatever that means. And to be happy, you need to be your normal self in front of others. So when you are with your peers and friends, kick all the judgement to the side and just simply be with them. Let your natural emotions flow through. Be your very ordinary self. If you want to analyze the situation you can do all that afterwards. Simply feel and observe who you are, and also who your peers are. Don't judge anything. Once you are able to just be yourself without needing to achieve anything, you can see that you're as light as a feather and happiness is just at your finger tips.

Everything done consciously can be fruitful and produce desirable results.

Ahhh, but whether or not we really know the actual reality of the conservatives could use some more study, observation, insight, and understanding, right? It is easy to just demonize them, but they're just ordinary people like you and me. Only the background and environment where they grew up is different.

This questions seems to be a bit off from the previous question being discussed. But are you talking about the politicians or the American people? I think the US would seem to be more and more politically divided due to the kind of topics that is being thrown about whether in the media or on the Internet. However, are Americans more divided than ever now? I don't think so, the division was always there and hasn't changed much. Only the talking points the politicians are using have become more and more extreme. This doesn't mean the politicians' view has changed either, they're only doing this to grab more attention.

No they do not. Mainstream media is cherry-picking the "racism" in conservatives for political gain. I think that is very obvious if you look at CNN or MSNBC. I wouldn't say they don't care about the real issues, but they are definitely doing this in a way for build a narrative that overall supports the democratic party.

I don't think this is a good idea. Racist acts and tendencies cannot be fixed by enforcing some sort of rule or law on people. Putting it simply, you can't force a person to be non-racist. Fixing racist tendencies in a person requires him to go deep into his own psychology to find root causes of those thoughts/beliefs/actions. Putting cameras and surveillance everywhere would catch a few serious racist assaults, but would catch a ton of unconscious small racist acts. These small racist acts on camera could bring about a bunch of unnecessary court filings and more friction between different groups. These minority groups might also take advantage of these opportunities to lash out in some way. Racism can only be resolved through love and understanding. Using the enforcement of law method would eventually stir more hatred and misunderstanding.

Great, another example of how unconsciousness causes destruction in lives. How to get out? Find the most simplest way for the victim to understand his/her situation, shed light and allow them to see. Not easy though.

Great post! Should have read your post first before posting.

Basically, I agree with you. The OCD thought is not only hard to process, but the imagination of the thought is sometimes really horrific. People very easily project these deep emotions onto external things and start pursuing directions that don't really work. However, if you really want to fix OCD. You will need be able to clarify and process the root cause of your OCD issue. Starting with finding the suitable therapist for yourself might be a good idea. The issue itself is sometimes not as a big of a monster as it seems to be. It might be simply something that you don't realize about yourself. Your OCD related emotions are protecting yourself from this thing about yourself, and therefore it is being your friend and trying to help you. After you've clarified the root cause, which is not easy, I believe a method can be found on resolving the issue and not needing your emotions to react in that way anymore.

Hey guys, I really liked the Seaspiracy film, but I don't think the narrator Ali in the film is suggesting us to go vegan. He is only trying to think of alternative ways to combat the current sea situations. I think the real issue is how the current industrial fishing methods are destroying the habitat in the ocean. If the big corps don't evolve their fishing methods, there's no real solution to the main problem then. Going vegan wouldn't necessarily resolve the problem. If everyone on Earth just went vegan without thinking now, I bet there would be potential for a new film Veganspiracy 5 ~ 10 years from now.

I don't think anyone other than Leo himself can know for sure. But you shouldn't really care about whether Leo is blissful or not. After all, Leo is just an ordinary person like you and me. The way more important thing is that you can become more enlightened and actualize you life. You have the potential to be way more better than Leo's current state.

If a person is really conscious, I don't think he would mind whether being rich or poor. However, teaching someone from the slums to live consciously is extremely hard! The reason that person probably lives in the slums in itself might be a result of the various limitations in his beliefs, habits and mindset. You would have to talk with that person for long periods of time to see what his self-limiting beliefs are and then think of a way to help train him to get out of that situation. It's already hard enough to improve ourselves sometimes. Changing someone else's life? Near impossible. Why are you interested in this question though?