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About alternative healing, both lifestyle (ayurveda and yoga) we lack systemic infrastructure and knowledge to just eat in a certain way to make diseases go away, because we are not interested in our own health therefore our Healthcare also is the same way. Only when something terrible happens we consider going to doctor, but all these other signs the body gives every day we indeed ignore. About reiki, other kinds of healing, siddhis, all kinds of sevas and pujas, self healing tantric techniques, we also do not have infrastructure for that in society. Nobody does it. Good luck finding somebody who can do something like that to you at all. Good luck that he does something good to you without side effects and good luck that it lasts. I can't say it's impossible, that works but I don't know how your lifestyle has to be or how much time or awareness have to go into it or to meet somebody who does it. A lot of our chronic aliments are psychosomatic, which could be potentially healed by change of beliefs about life, but you we live in a world where pornography and coca cola dominates the world.

Congrats. But do you even care about your bday, do you even celebrate it.

I feel it's the ear version of eye floaters.

First, he should consult a doctor if he has an issue. Then if he tries refined sugar and he sees that it makes him feel bad (tired, inflamed, agitated, lethargic etc.) then yes, he might be taking too much of it, yes as opposed if he tried to not take refined carbs in his diet for a month and see how he feels, how much sleep he needs and maybe some data from blood work prior to that can cancel out if it's something else that is causing it other than sugar. His family doctor will tell him what to test if needed. I think ideal weight is not so universal. There are many skinny people who are considered below the mass/height ratio and they are fine. And besides, people in general eat too much for their activity in the world.

Yes, only nothing will make me happy in the end.

Yes, it does. In moderation which means more than 0 or irregular exercise. Long story short - the body is supposed to be used and will perform better if maintained and lubricated by the exercise. You can also do exercise severely incorrectly, which is what you should avoid like not doing it after a meal, doing proper stretching, breathing correctly, having correct posture in whatever you are doing, not laying down or sitting right after exercise, not taking steroids, that kind of thing.

Agree and I suggest go to your family's doctor with your concerns gets some data of your pancreas, liver, stomach or just blood work to have a reference point. Now, to get where you want to go with dietary goals, it's not gonna be easy and not gonna be fast. I found some substitutes for sugar, which is other intense flavors like licorice, diluted apple cider vinegar or home fermented kombucha, lemon water. Additioanlly some home cooked foods with spices, salads, smoothies etc. reduce the cravings. Now about the nutritional spectrum, frequency of eating, fasting and other stuff you will have to find test and implement those practices on your own. Some superfoods like neem, haritaki, turmeric and soaked nuts and honey have effect also. It is not simple thing to solve, but if you do, you are in a good place in the contemporary life we live in. You will save so much money and problems in the future. I aspire to get there, but I need to do more research. Maybe in 5 years, but it's still so fucking worth it.

I suggest talking to @Emerald

I fundamentally disagree. All of you took birth for the desire of oneness and truth in the first place. Depression is for the material desires you can't even exhaust for the most part. Even kings can't. There is some truth to what you are saying, yes, if you are constantly repressed, abused, jailed for life, crippled for life, watched your family get killed or sexually abused on a regular basis or living on the street for long periods of time or are stuck in a village for life, then it is quite challenging. But still from the other side... what does knowing and experiencing freedom will give you? How much exactly? Maybe it makes all the difference? Problem is that society offers no tools and sometimes you have to go trough literal hell to experience some insight which changes your life.

No. Same goes for any such person. I don't care what they are achieved and what state they are. Maybe it's my problem, however I do not find any worth meeting people as fucked up as it sounds somehow. I think it would be very mundane and besides, what is there really to talk about if you are sielence itself. If you will do something to me by looking to me like darshana or shaktipat, then it's worth seeing you, but trough the screen you can do that also. The most interesting people (people who do the wildest and weirdest things and commit to them for decades usually never meet, they sit in their caves and basements, but they really have something to say, these people rarely meet). And even if they do, they don't open up to each other and just pass by, Maybe because they are self sufficient enough and not social enough or both.

When it becomes an industry, it is worse. The problem is very big. Society offers little to no solution to the suicide problem, but here no "hollistic suicide (they are going to kill themselves anyway) therapy" solution works, because it's your life you are taking. Normalizing suicide is something I feel is deeply wrong existentially. What you can discover in life even if you are in a bad situation if you choose to consciously rejuvenate. Who knows how many births you took before to be in the place you are now, to be on this planet with somebody who could guide you, let alone find something that gives you liberation from birth and death. All just for this... Unacceptable. Those who found why to live can guide you for those who are suicidal. Those who found something internally will most likely will never commit it. There is an obvious reason why. But such apathy has happened in that person so that you can't reach her. To support killing people is just... horrible. If you want to die. It's your problem, learn to live. This is brutal, incomplete and fucked up, but there is no alternative. But the effort is worth it when you discover something meaningful. It is there. The magic of life is there. Just, please, don't give up on yourself. If you feel suicidal and have nothing to live for, wish for freedom, wish for enlightenment. Wish for God, wish for becoming a sage. Start accepting that maybe what is responsible for your depression is the ignorance of truth and what you have known has only survival utility value but is not what will make you happy. The paradigm we are living from (what the masses think) is bound to make you angry, suicidal, jelous, envious, fearful, powerless and hurt. These ideas usually are empty. But if there are such empty ideas the opposite has to be true for some other ideas and concepts. The journey is brutal, the Dark night of the soul is there. You will sit there with dread, loneliness, numbness and blisslessness, to then start feeling what you really are.

I make happy accidents in a pharma chem lab., buti could be a kick ass musician. My demos now sound like what Josh Travis wrote back in the day.

This thread reminds me of people like Alex Jones and Hasan Piker. They are garbage grifters.

If you want some extraordinary qualities of the body, why not learn some advanced form of Isha Hatha yoga? You will also get the internal qualities which are even more important.

Interesting take. Well, what does feminism mean and why can't it be labeled as movement for human rights, or some kind of egalitarian movement. I would accept it more. Now, like any other social movement (official or not) like BLM, manosphere, men's rights activists etc. Tend to care only about their agenda which in some point is inherently unhealthy and damaging for the society as a whole. Some radicals will agitate something, gather momentum and then create a stigmatized movement which you are supposed to agree with by default, but we all as individuals have subtle agendas, but we have many similar social problems. And "just" hating is also not constructive or specific criticism with no root cause analysis at the end of it.

Thank you for this content of emotional masturbarion.

It is pretty lonely in a sense that you are in a sea of virtue signaling people passive aggressively attacking you. That is what I keep experiencing the most and is the biggest downside. People do not accept you for who you are, but the paradox is that this is the most of what I authentically am that I have ever been in my life. It's sad. People having problems. Not solving them and then projecting them to all other people. It's like an MLM.

I think underestanding the depth of your meta-problems are good, however you can create more problems with identifying with these problems too much while doing the work (any kind of self-reflection or inquiry). It will also not hurt for practical improvements and maybe you can solve these problems yourself. Go to the doctors you are supposed to go to, I think, in the meantime.

Isn't this thread kinda pointless. If you didn't just log in it would have been fine, no?

Incredible investment, recognition of the problem and advancement of technology and waste management is the solution.

Looks like Leo is not the only one on the race for AI spirituality. Literally ask it anything and check what answers you get. I got some interesting ones trying to poke it for various topics and I know what he is about for the large part. https://ecitizen.info/ngpt Small disclaimer, we both know what you are getting in to, browse at your own responsibility regarding the life advice given. Have fun! Looks like this is not yet an alpha version also.

I acctually have a deeper criticism ot the narrative of being with a lot of women or even one which is related to your burning of the karma video. In all of human history there were men who couldn't get laid even once. This is also the case now, however yes, this is the best time in human history to change that individually, but it is as valid as the perspective of me deciding, ok if I will not find a woman, I will stay celibate or find a way to stay celibate and work on other things. Now this you will consider as being out of balance. And here is my criticism. This balance is informed by society and it's marketing to exploit your desires to participate. Now we also have the tools like shadow work to intensly do and burn it out from your system faster or to discover something else in life trough self-equiry, tantra or even occult that you forget about your sexual desire. I do not deny this possibility. The problem is that this is almost never told in society therefore you socially feel out of balance. Yes, I do have an incompletion on deciding to never approach, but my point is that everyone's lifestyle can be as valid if they evolve consciously and feel blissfull. But even if you taste this pleasure, your problems do not disappear like you mentioned with the pickup guys. But there always is a meta-alternative.

Well, the point even of a healthy man is to impregnate a woman once to have children. Sexual acts are our artificial problem which we are managing now. No need to destroy your body with that. Time to heal the problem.

My pet peeve is when people say one and do another and are unaware of it, including myself.

I am sorry for the mischaracterisation, but I think you are since shadow work is not part of our education today, I don't know why I think you are, but I still do. But whatever. I know that what you offer can personally really help him. I know other people who could offer that kind of help for free (shadow work being derived from ancient hindu teachings) but seeing them you will probably not do the practice.