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What's your diet like? I think that could be a good place to start.

Amelie(2001)

My best friend had this problem a couple of years ago. I would be willing to guess you're the social glue that connects these two people together. They don't like playing as 2 because they both connect better with you than they do with eachother and you're a big reason why they're even friends in the first place. Just a guess though

An autist that smoked DMT once together with Joe Rogan. jk It's the author of 'Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book' He seems a bit obsessed with telling people they're not at the highest stage while also telling everyone he's an Arhat. He has made a map that explains how he has reached the highest stages and others haven't. It might be true, I haven't read his book yet so I shouldn't be too hard on him. But he is quite annoying, in my opinion. But that might just be me projecting . Some people who has read his book seem to have had deep insights at the cost of becoming a bit crazy(Frank Yang, Connor Murphy).

Sadghurus food advice is strange to me. I think that a person who eats a lot of processed and fried foods and cheeseburgers and drinks soda every meal would benefit from eating only fruit. But do I think someone who eats chicken salad with a rich variety of veggies and wild rice or potatoes would benefit from eating only fruit? No.. maybe eating only fruit for a month would make you feel different, lighter, and could help with spiritual work. But there's not much protein in fruit, you would drop a lot of weight if you did it for a long time. Not only in fat but you would lose a lot of muscle as well. Also, Sadghuru had another video recently where he talks about how fruit is ruined because of poor quality soil which makes fruit nutrient deficient. Which one is it? Fruit as a part of your diet is another matter, not comparable at all to eating candy. As mentioned by others here fruits have fiber and will not spike blood sugar like candy. And some fruit like strawberries don't have that much sugar anyways. And it's a good source of vitamin C and fiber. Fruit juice is a different matter, might spike blood sugar more than sugar water.

I think you have a point in that if you believe something will be difficult it might become more difficult than it actually is. For example, a kid who learns a tricky piano piece by ear might learn it quicker compared to an adult who knows it as a 'tricky piece'. Because the kid doesn't know which piece is difficult and which is not. When the adult starts struggling with the piece it will confirm the thought "this is difficult" as true. This is a negative thought and will feed into negative emotions and result in a lot of negative emotion. Increasing the suffering endured during the time it takes to learn the piece. When you really get into the flow state of work you don't believe work is difficult, that thought is not present when you're really into doing something. Maybe there is a point of learning to cope with that negative emotion but it's unnecessary for learning that particular piece. Likewise I think believing healing will be difficult will make it more likely to be so. It will make it harder for you and the more it is confirmed by your experience, the firmer you will hold that belief and use it unconsciously to focus on the negative aspects of what you're doing. That might build a stronger person though rather than someone who goes through life believing it is easy and then one day gets struck by some true hardship and haven't dealt with much difficulty yet in life, so that person will be less prepared to hande that once it happens. But I still think you have a good point, if you want to heal, believing it is difficult will make it more likely to be so.

Sounds like an awesome plan man. Even 10k will probably get you very far in Asia, but saving as much as you can before the trip is probably a good idea anyways. I haven't been to Asia myself but I want to go there too at some point. Just the high quality fruit available there makes going there worth in my opinion .. Swedish fruit can kiss my ass! I'm also looking into vipassana retreats, I was planning to go on a 10 day retreat here now in June but it was full booked for months so I'm waiting to end of summer/beginning of autumn to make it happen now. I think it's an important next step for me as well. Safe future travels!

I agree. It's like trying to create music while always thinking about music theory instead of letting it happen naturally. The most beautiful things in life were not planned out in detail. They fell into place naturally.

When and how did you get into spirituality? What inspires you in life?

I would say, don't invest it all into stocks/crypto. It will be very difficult to make a passive income you can live off of with a 100k investment. Only way to make a quick buck pretty much is trading, but it is more or less gambling. You are playing vs super skilled traders and trading bots. It's literally like trying to win as a noob vs challenger players on League of Legends. If you go into that sort of investing, only do it with small money first or it's likely you'll regret it. It is tempting to invest a lot of money because it seems like a quick way to financial freedom and a solution to a lot of problems. But it is not so easy, actually it's very fucking hard.. I think traveling is a really good idea, it won't cost you 100k and it will give you experiences that take you outside of your comfort zone and teaches you a lot about yourself. If you ever visit Europe I would recommend passing by The Budapest Bubble hostel in Budapest. It's a great hostel, best one I lived in during my travels through Europe(Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris). The owner is a super friendly girl named Anna. It has a very welcoming vibe and feels more like living at a friends place rather than a hostel. You can meet other travelers there, most people are pretty open and friendly. And you can get a lot of good tips on things to do in the city from the staff. One day I came home to the hostel in the middle of the night and was so drunk that I passed out vomiting on the toilet. I woke up on a bench with a pillow and a blanket covering me. Someone in the staff had picked me up and put me down in a comfortable sleeping position with a pillow under my head and a blanket over me. That's the vibe of that hostel . Budapest is also a ridiculously beautiful city with a lot of things to see and do. My favorite city I've ever visited together with Amsterdam. If you live in hostels in Europe and travel by train between the countries you could probably get away with 3k or so for 3 weeks of travel. Those 3k will be a well worth investment. After I came home from my 3 week Europe trip I took the big step and moved away from my parents home. A year later I had a career. I don't want to credit it all to the travels but the travels definitely helped me get out of my comfort zone and open myself up to life, I became a bit more yolo after that and just went for it. That energy didn't last forever but it lasted long enough to have a positive impact on my life. If you don't want to travel maybe you could buy a tent and some hiking gear and go on an occasional hike alone in nature. I haven't done that but I could imagine that would be a worthwhile investment too, and even cheaper than traveling.

If listening to her makes you feel at peace, keep doing it. Maybe she's a good match for you but not for everyone else.

If you don't practice for 10 000s of hours that will not make you special, even if you're born with more intelligence or what you call talent. And if you practice 10 000s of hours half assedly you will not get there either. You have to have a passion for music, live for it. Put in serious effort every time you practice and do it from a young age when your brain is the most malleable. A kid being exposed to music and encouraged to pursue it since a young age is the key for developing what you seem to think is born talent. A toddler can't tell A flat minor from A flat major, the difference is taught. The younger the child is when the difference is taught the more second nature it becomes. The more complex stuff the child is taught at an early age the easier learning music will become, because what others have to put down 1000s of hours to learn it can skip and go directly to more advanced stuff. But if the child doesn't keep practicing for 10s of thousands of hours deliberately even things like perfect pitch which some think is genetically gifted, is completely useless. But even perfect pitch is not something genetic but it's something that can be taught at a young age. Lookup Rick Beatos kid Dylan Beato for example. Rick teaches music theory and taught Dylan perfect pitch to an insane level when Dylan was very young. But he also taught his other children perfect pitch and they all managed to learn it to a very impressive degree. When I was in music school I was told perfect pitch was purely genetic, basically saying it's talent. But it turned out to not be true. When you look into it deeper there are many parents who have taught their kids perfect pitch from a young age by playing the piano for them and teaching them the notes. And everyone I met irl who has perfect pitch started learning their instruments at a very young age(around 5-6 years old, sometimes even younger). Talent is just an excuse to not put in the work you need to put in to get what you think you want. Because we don't want to admit to ourselves when we really don't want something. I don't really want to become Mozart but I might have thought that I did before I realized what that really meant. They have done studies on kids who tried to enter a famous music school(don't recall which one right now) where they found that deliberate practice was the most important factor for whether the kids got in or not. Even kids that learned music at a faster pace than others didn't get in if they didn't practice 1000s of hours.

Did you put down 25 000 hours of practice while being mentored by a super skilled composer since childhood on a daily basis? Edit: I'm not coming from a political correctness angle. For example, in sports like bodybuilding or running genetics play a huge role in whether you can be successful or not. But there's no reason for evolution to make someone talented in writing fugues, which is a completely useless skill when you're living in a cave. The only talent that could be spoken of there is being genetically gifted with higher intelligence or higher work ethic or something like this. But you're not born with a talent for composing music, Stephen Hawking is very intelligent but he can't compose music for shit. It all comes down to deliberate practice(there's a difference between 10 000 hours and 10 000 hours, the effort and passion you put into it).

What makes Mozart: Hours of daily practice at playing piano and composing & arrangement as well as being counseled from a very young age from his father who also was a composer. Talent is overrated is a good book if you want to dive deep in this topic.

Usually their spin on it is that they focus on how bad trans fats are and then they suggest you to eat canola oil, sunflower oil etc. instead as the "healthier" option. They also recommend diary with reduced fat which most vegan doctors would agree is just toxic. Products like fat reduced yoghurt, only filled with sugar for example. They don't like animal fats because they look at saturated fats as something purely bad. They don't acknowledge it has pros and cons.

I frankly don't know enough about MBTI to be able to tell whether it's accurate or not myself. But just like with spirituality there could be many reasons for why it's difficult to prove it's validity with the modern scientific model. Maybe MBTI relies more on skillful subjective interpretation to be useful, where as it's easier to objectively observe the traits of big 5. But it wasn't long ago meditation was frowned upon as woo woo in western countries. Yet it had been around for a very long time, it was nothing new. So from a certain perspective it could be regarded as an outdated method, the spiritual ideas surrounding it as outdated models? Outdated is only outdated because you don't believe it works. The fact that it's older than big 5 really is irrelevant isn't it?

Keep in mind they also recommend canola oil and soy bean oil. Not saying everything they say is false but I don't find them to be a credible source, personally.

300 years ago we had Mozart, today we have Cardi B My point is just that there would be no science without pseudo science so clearly pseudo science has more potential than it is given credit for?

While not really disagreeing with you, what do you think about the fact that most of the science that's ever been done would be classed as pseudo science today. The literal "founder" of science, Aristotle is a pseudo scientist by todays standards, yet still referred to as the founder of science (atleast in Swedish universities).

Maybe instead of taking notes try highlighting/underlining/circling in the parts you find extra interesting and write the page number at the inside of the book cover. This way you can easily return to the parts you found the most interesting whenever you want and draw new conclusions every time. Other than that, did the books you read seem relevant to you? If the book you read is really relevant to where you're at in life it will spark ideas for which action you should be taking or give you an increased understanding of something you're going through/went through. Some books are not so relevant to us where we're at in life and then it will just give you more shallow knowledge that is not as useful right now. But nevertheless reading will still train your mind and expand your vocabulary and reading skills. Keep reading different stuff and you will stumble upon some book that gives you more value than all the others you've read combined sooner or later. For me The Power of Now gave me greater value than 10 other books combined. When a book is really valuable to you you will naturally start to reflect deeper on it and realize ways to positively change your life with the insights or techniques you got from the book that suited who you are as a person and your life situation well.

Did you get in trouble with police or did they just seize it and say nothing?

Looks like some sort of synchronicity to me. The 33 posts... That's wild . I'm not sure of the meaning, but you might want to look into manifestation deeply. Could it be that you noticed this pattern as a synchronicity at first, then thought about it and therefore started manifesting more of this pattern into your reality, becoming conscious of a pattern that is always there but that you're usually not conscious of?

So I've been fooling around with manifestation myself lately. It started a month ago when I had a synchronicity that opened my mind to the possibility of manifestation being real, thread below: Since then I had a few cool manifestations/synchronicities. 1. I was out in the countryside with a few friends and I thought it would be really cool to see a snake during our visit(I don't even know why I was thinking this, so random ). Later the same day my friend who's walking ahead of us through the forest shouts back at us "look, a snake!". Lo and behold, a black snake was crawling through the forest, we all got a good look at it before it vanished into the bushes. 2. A friend of mine told me he had opened his window and gotten jump scared by a wasp that was sleeping inside the window which woke up and got mad when he opened the window, luckily the wasp was stuck in the window so it didn't attack him, but it scared him. I imagined the scenario in my head and how my friend got scared and chuckled to myself. A week and a half later I wake up to head to the countryside with my friends and I heard a buzzing sound, sounds like a wasp. I immediately jump out of bed because it sounds like it's inside of my apartment. Guess what? A wasp is stuck inside of my window. It has never happened to me before and now it happens all of a sudden. 3. I was waiting on a package that was going to be delivered to my house. The postman pretty much always comes by within a 1 hour window here. He didn't arrive on this day. I said to myself "Please God make the postman still come today, show me a sign" and repeated this in my head a few times and entered a meditative state. I was imagining the postman just being late. It has happened once before that the postman was late with a delivery here but of course, now it happened again. 4. I was talking to my friends at the countryside about manifestation and synchronicities. When I get home a few days later one of the friends sends me a screenshot with the text "synchronicity?!". The screenshot was of a guy we both know who had sent a message in a bigger discord server we're all members of. The message was about how he had been using manifestation to improve his gaming skills(the guy is a really really good gamer). I had never spoken to this guy before about manifestation and had no idea he had used it to improve his gaming skills. This got me inspired to see if I could use manifestation to improve my piano playing skills. So now I've been trying to use manifestation to help with my piano skills. But this has not been successful as of yet. Instead I think I might have even gotten a bit worse for some reason. I am still playing and practicing as per usual. I have also been trying to use manifestation to meet a girlfriend material girl. This has not been successful as of yet either. I realize I'm not going to be able to just sit in my room and have a hot goth gf come knocking at my door or be able to play a difficult Chopin piece without practice. But I will keep trying to manifest these things and give it more time and pursue these things with my actions as well. But WHY is it this way? Why are the things I listed above(the snake, the wasp etc.) so seemingly easy for me to manifest for some reason while something like better piano skills or a girlfriend is not so easy to manifest? Why is it not possible to manifest the ability to be able to play a Chopin piece into existence without months or years of practice? Why can I make a snake appear in the forest when I'm there but not change my brain to be able to play better piano? Why does changing my brain take so much time while making a snake appear does not? Is it because the latter two manifestation attempts are coming from the ego and hence not working while the other ones are coming from my deeper self simply because they're so innocent and useless? Hmm..

Be careful with veganism is all I have to say. It seems to work for some people but not so well for others. I was vegan for 4 1/2 years and it worked well until the last 1-2 years or so where my health started declining(worsened vision, floaters, eczema on my arm getting worse, fatigue, horrible workout recovery to the point of getting ill after working out). You can be relatively well educated in nutrition and still miss out on nutrients with a vegan diet. I supplemented with B12, D3 and algae oil but was still not getting enough of some vital nutrients that didn't cross my mind at the time(vitamin A and creatine to name a couple). You don't see many vegans talking about these nutrients yet not much vegan foods contain these nutrients and missing them will impact mental function, immune function, workout recovery, eye health, skin health, and more. Sv3rige is correct in this even though he is a crazy person(he was a famous Runescape player and tried stabbing people at his school when he was younger if you want some crazy Sv3rige trivia). Many vegans will tell you B12 and D3 supplements is all you need but it's an oversimplification of nutrition. The OG Vegan researchers like T. Colin Campbell recognized this, he even wrote a book on the subject called "Whole" that's about how you can't simplify nutrition to single nutrients like vitamin A, D3 and so forth. That's why he promotes a whole foods plant based diet, because it's more likely to keep you safe from deficiencies. But, not only is it still easy to miss vital nutrients that are more commonly found in animal products if you eat a vegan diet(whole food plant based) but it is also difficult to get in enough calories in for an active lifestyle, which I suspect is one of the reasons for my inability to recover from exercise. Eating too low calories will impact energy and testosterone levels. I dropped heavily in weight over the years from 75 kg at 185 cm tall to 59 kg. I looked a bit anorexic and I did not even eat whole food plant based all the time. It's not a coincidence some MMA fighters use whole food plant based diet to cut weight. And I suspect it can be very useful to help diabetes type 2 patients because it will help them drastically with their overweight, which is the main cause of diabetes type 2. But if I can't exercise without getting ill, what's the point of eating 'healthy' if I'm not overweight? If being vegan was really optimal for your health you would see a lot more vegan athletes out there. In my opinion it's difficult to be optimally healthy without regular exercise because your body will become weaker and weaker and it will start to affect your mind. Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of vegan doctors, nutritionists and influencers you will find online are doing it for ethical reasons. And they will use all of their knowledge in a biased way because they are not mainly thinking about your health, but about the animals.

Would be so fun, but sadly I can't go this year. Maybe next year! And I think an actualized camp would be epic . Hope you have a fun time!