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In my case I kinda find that if a eat healthy and a variety of food, my body feels extra “strong” so it’s actually pretty good at handling the little junk I eat once in a while. So if I eat for example normal portion on McDonald’s I won’t feel negative effect. It’s when I overeat that I feel it

That’s good you eat clean! I aspire to eat even more clean than I do. Age probably plays a factor yes, can increase sensitivity.

I’m not saying it’s 100% true in all cases, but I still think there is some truth to what I said. As I said in another reply, it can be hard to tell wether someone noticing a negative effect from eating a little bit of junk is because they have extra high interoceptive awareness, or they are just more sensitive to junk.

I used to notice a kind of “high” if I ate A LOT of sugary stuff, but not a little bit.

Yea ofc some food are genuinely trash and can maybe have direct effects and are better to be avoided. But it’s still hard to tell if someone eating a little bit of trash and “feeling it” is them having extra interoceptive awareness (which means awareness of the internal) or if it’s a sensitivity/weakness of their system. I would probably feel something if I ate junk food as the dominant part of my diet, but if I eat one meal at mcdonalds , I don’t notice anything off (except if I OVEREAT, but here as I mentioned I said “a little bit” so I’m talking about when you eat normal portions)

If you don’t realize you’re suffering then it’s not really suffering. To me people around me seem kinda content, but maybe that’s just how it seems to me

Tension in face can be a result from tension in upper body. Which can be a result of bad posture, or something wrong in the curvature of the spine (like I have). Tension in jaw specifically can be due to stress and tensing the jaw, or clenching teeth. My best tips are to fix posture, and hang upside down. I promised you if you hang upside down you will feel a release like you’ve never felt before in your entire upper body. You could also strengthen muscles that are weaker, like upper back. Also doing cardio and getting warm and sweaty can help “soften” the muscles

Yea..

It seems to me that the self is this dense structure. It has depth and layers to it. It is made up of mind, it’s a mental self, a mental self image being a part of it. Seems like the brain is imagining it. I did an extreme amount of this kind of self inquiry, more specifically having my attention on myself, observing my self and my thoughts. And contemplating naturally about it as a result. My self started to dissolve. One layer at a time. The layers dissolving felt like a release of tension in my entire system, from top to bottom. Very expansive. My self kept dissolving. April 2023, it was like the ~last~ layer of my mental self dissolved. It was the most profound release of tension in my system. Fast forward, and my self kept dissolving. November 2023, only a tiny speck of ego was left, like a core self that the brain imagines. No more layers. It was like I was at the edge of reality. It was like I was 99% dissolved. I had almost no sense of time, continuity, space/distance, or other. Basically almost no sense of REALITY. Imagine walking around and it’s almost like there’s nothing existing. The little ego left thought to itself, “its almost like there’s no reality” “it’s almost like death”. It was like I was approaching a kind of nothingness. A void. Unconsciousness. Why can’t I dissolve the last speck of self? I realized it’s because I’m not the one maintaining it, my brain is, my brain is imagining a self. I’m not the creator of it. So here I am, in this middle ground, stuck in “semi headlessness”. It’s almost like I’m in a void, I’m familiar with it by now. It has never scared me.

How’s that method going for ya? Didn’t you say your life was hell, full of unbearable suffering ?

@Hojo If you’re scared of death it’s because your life isn’t bad enough for you to find death as a relief Just a thought. I know you could be scared of death and suicidal simultaneously tho

Yea but then the term becomes of no use.

@Jannes ok . Is an alternative to just mark and remove?

Id agree. I just thought if it was some mystical state you reached

What is paragraph key? I am on phone most of the time. I just quote the entire quote, then erase parts by marking it and removing

Yea sometimes it’s the oddest guys that can get girls I don’t know how much the average person suffers. But for me I think I have suffered to some degree every day Maybe.

I suffer too mentally (pretty much every day to some degree) and physically . It hasn’t gotten absolutely unbearable yet. I get suicidal thoughts sometimes. I wonder if I’ll take action on them if my suffering gets absolutely unbearable. Am I weak for that? I don’t know if “suffer all the time” applies to average person but for me I have suffered every day of my life to some degree so it applies to me. How was that state of not knowing?

@Someone here Who is twice his age?

Interesting viewpoint that you say you think it’s impossible. People would probably argue about that

Have you ever been in a state where survival didn’t matter to you?

For real.

I thought you meant like a yogi who looses sense of self and doesn’t care bout living but okay 😹

No I don’t know about you. But the average person in the west doesn’t live in hell comparable to medieval torture chamber lol. They would’ve probably killed themselves already if that was the case. But ofc there’s exceptions like extreme pain conditions and some severe mental issues causing extreme mental distress . What is jihanum?

Medieval torture chamber was just example. Of course there’s equal in existence today. Like some pain conditions like trigeminal neuralgia

You mean , that particular incarnation stuck in the forever hell realm could never evolve and experience being infinite? Because the rest of infinity could still do that Some spiritual people talk about how change is constant, and how no form is forever. What if that’s some kind of tendency of infinity.