Magnanimous

As per Leo's recommendation for Emotional Mastery I'm thinking of starting my Satisfaction Meditation practice again, putting my Do Nothing practice aside. But whenever I try to do the meditation, feeling the satisfaction to the fullest, I don't breathe properly because I'm so focused on trying to be satisfied. That's the main reason (might be the only if my memory is correct) of why I stopped doing the practice. But obviously I would be much happier if I continued doing it, in contrast to just sitting through Do Nothing, and the happiness payoff in 10-20 years would be far superior to Do Nothing or any other meditation technique I know. So how do I do the Satisfaction Meditation Technique (feeling satisfied), while not disrupting my breathing?

Assuming I have average talent in Kriya Yoga and/or spirituality and I do this 1 hour everyday for the rest of my life how long would it take?

I'm just wondering for example if I got sick, or if life happened, does that eliminate my chances to get the best benefits from both practices? Obviously I don't think it will especially after a few years, but how come it is insisteed you have to do meditation/yoga EVERY DAY for years on end to get the best results? I'm really struggling with the motivation to meditate that long and I want to start Kriya Yoga in a few weeks. I don't understand the logic behind you HAVE to do them everyday for years, and I don't know enough about the long term benefits of doing them everyday for years.

17yo here. This part of my life is very far away but I'd like to know in advance obviously. So I want to pursue enlightenment before psychedelics/god-realization. I remember Leo talking about how true/unconditional happiness (smth along those lines) can only be achieved through enlightenment. I'd rather achieve that first, then go onto psychedelics and god-realization. Any objections? Eg why would I pursue psychedelics and god-realization first? Especially when according to Leo enlightenment can be reasonably expected in 2/3 years. Not a lot of time before I do psychedelics.

Lots of spiritual teachers say everything happens in perfect order; for me the most convincing is God in Conversations with God, who agrees. If so many exceptionally conscious individuals are saying that, what's the reasoning behind it? In my mind, if everything for me happened in perfect order I would've gotten into personal development at 6 and worked, instead of getting into it at 13 and procrastinating 99% of it, getting started 4 years later in 2025 when I turn 18. It brings tremendous relief that people far wiser than me say everything happens perfectly, but I honestly I need solid logic for that, because the way my life is going and how much time I wasted, I don't have the inner weight to truly believe it.

@something_else How naturally attractive and/or charismatic are you? I'm both How much pickup experience do you have?

@something_else Can I have an exact count? Or a rough one if you don't know

If I've picked up a girl I've met on the same night before sleeping with her, should I ask? I'm scared she'll lie or my question will ruin the mood.

Nah but you're fine @Flint. I'm an extreme extrovert so seriously pursuing pickup and dating doesn't scare me. I'm extremely terrified about STD's because of the extreme impact incurable ones can have for the rest of your life. 1. Yea true. I'm moreso worried about getting and STD in the 5 years I'll be spending having sex to have my fun before I get married. Because my personality and drive I'll be having a lot (when the skill gets built of course) 2. Yea I'll practice safe sex of course. It's just I'm also worried about getting an incurable STD through kissing.

I haven't start pickup yet as I'm still in high school and won't until I move to London, which will be in 2027. Still even with safe sex in place and the low risk rate of most incurable STD's I'm still fearful I'll get one. And since I'll be sleeping with so many women, surely a few will have herpes 2, which is a 1 in 5 chance. I really want to do pickup so I can develop my social skills and get my dream girl, but paranoia scares me.

It's very distracting. It builds up discomfort, makes me involuntarily move when I'm meant to sit still, annoys me, etc. How to deal with it?

Leo was talking about how most people - including those with massive material success - don't wake up because they're unserious about existence and busy doing tangential stuff, even if they're doing it at a world class level. https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-182 I want to be world class at something too (or at least 10,000 hours) but I also want to be serious about existence as well. Currently for the duration of a year I'm trying to apply the Power of Now in my life, then steadily the Conversations with God trilogy. However I don't think Leo would call that serious spirituality because that is not taking psychedelics. (I don't think he'd deny the value of integrating those books but again they're not proper spirituality.) I'm 18; What's the perfect time to start proper spirituality? I was thinking of doing it concurrently while doing LP, or maybe after I hit 10,000 hours (and burned enough karma)

If I do 20 approaches everyday, I'll hit 10,000 in 500 days, under two years. My intuition says my Life Purpose will be about people and I'll need to develop a world class social skill of some kind (eg leadership, charisma, charm). I'd like to finish pickup ASAP so I don't have to do it along with major LP work which I wanted to begin no later than 21. Turning 18 this year. If anyone had to game everyday it would be me. So is nightgame everyday sustainable/doable?

Decided to move to Europe instead of America the year I turn 20 to practice game, because in America you have to wait until 21 to go clubbing. What are the best gaming spots in EU?

Ok so 17.33333 hours a year. Do you want me to spread out my learning over many years because I was following your blog post recommendation of learning over 1-2 years?