Steven

In one of your videos you mentioned that you wanted to help your mum buy a house. Just wondering if you are on the track?

I just wrote about a technique that uses visualization as part of the exercise

I've just copied this and created a label in my phone alarm? I was looking for something like this but only came up with "What is the best use of your time right NOW? Hint: Awareness "

...everything else is basically like layers of sediment covering the essence ... I am not enlightened but sometimes I feel like a baloon that is about to explode and leave all these perceptions and learned way of looking

@Vlad Ropotica '' i am doing meditation properly'' Thoughts are NOT reality. You can easily check this. Even from conventional point of view. Wherever you are right now, if you look around, you don’t get a screen in your mind with a stream of thoughts with name of all the objects present, like some kind of robot. If you focus on a object a thought may arise with the name of the object, purely out of habit, but after seeing the object... ie experience. You only have thoughts about PAST and FUTURE... Try thinking of now. You can’t. You can not scan your presence with thoughts. Thoughts only appear in your consciousness, and consciousness does not need thoughts in order to exist. You can not experience past and the future... your experience can only take place in the NOW. Consciousness and mind are not the same thing – and in some languages it is not clearly separated. A lot of people think about the concepts of being aware and consciousness as presence of thinking process. Wrong. It is just a state. In fact thinking can be compared to dreaming. One way of think of meditation sessions is the time you allocate in order to immerse yourself into reality fully (or at least to give it a chance to happen). Making it a habbit helps to tear down all this conditioning we acquired over our lives plus all the beliefs we tend to develop with our thinking. Check out this section of Shinzen Young explaining what to do if you start thinking '' i am doing meditation properly'': https://youtu.be/cZ6cdIaUZCA?t=245

I was like wow ... the whole thing dedicated to narcissism must have had a big impact on her life... and now she fights back!

@Natasha nice video! yours?

@Emerald Wilkins Hey Emerald, what camera do you use to record the videos? have you experimented with neutral backgrounds? ... cool videos

This is a good point. The sooner realized the better, because it does make it harder to let go and they keep reinforcing themselfs.

Exploration Geophysics (lots of Physics) and Computer Science Then Geology as I found it irresistable to combine

Notice the emphasis on STRONG and DETERMINATION.

Highschool prepares you for university

I really doubt this if done with appropriate attitude and without imposing it. For example if Canadian gets a question in conversation like "...and how many girlfriends did you go out with?" or anything that leads to conversations about relationships/sex world, then I would certainly let the truth flow: Of course if he just walks up to her and says that out of blue, well that would be concerning. Now, it is probably wise to look back at the goal of "20-30 girls" and ask the questions - why and pros/cons of that goal when achieved? Frankly, I think it is a pointless goal and has more downside than upside.

...then be homest and tell her that ...maybe she is after the same thing.

Try talking to older women... tell them you are 10 years older or something... I did this when I was 13 and my aunty was really worried though when I started getting home late or in the morning after a night with this 25 year old chick I was dating - I told her I was 17 and took me time to convince her but it was worth it...Now looking back my aunty was worried for no reason at all.. hey I was practicing. The chick by the way had a kid...but was super hot - she found out later my real age when she saw my school books... well the rest is obvious ...