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I'm grateful for: AI that helps me a lot with many things Having a great gf Eating healthy Being able to practice properly

🟢 About the last post of: GATEWAY EXPERIMENT - WAVE 2, Intro to Focus 12 I decided to give myself more time in the middle of the tape. I don't want to pause the track to give myself time to go deeper cause that will only distract me. I will then modify the track and make the audio longer, so there's no rush, and I can fully relax, and then be able to move on.

🟢 GATEWAY EXPERIMENT - Intro to Focus 12 03/10/2024 16:30 DAY 17 So I'm writing about my experience with the first track of the second wave; I am writing about today and yesterday. Yesterday I didn't have a lot of time actually and I did it in the evening right before sleep, but I was not getting great results. So I think by the three-quarters of the tape I decided to stop it and sleep. But today I did it in the afternoon so it was way more effective than yesterday. Unfortunately, when the guide tells me to go to Focus 12 I cannot do it. He says it two times. The first time you have to go to Focus 12 and then go back to Focus 10. Second time you have to go to Focus 12 and stay there and explore. Only at the moment that he says to go back to Focus 10 the second time I managed to go deeper. The problem is that I don't think I felt anything that goes beyond my body. My question is, should I go back to the first wave, deepen my levels of Focus 10 or should I just keep doing this track until I get good results? The first time I did this track I got good results. But maybe because it was new and I was excited about it. I want to have the best results possible but I am scared that if I don't manage to arrive to Focus 10 deeply before he tells me to arrive to Focus 12 I will not be able to continue properly in the future.

I wouldn't call that mysticism... The use of psychedelics isn't necessarily mystic

I'm grateful for: Keeping up with my meditation practice Stopping to smoke weed Being strong enough not to smoke again, despite all the occasions I get

I'm grateful for: Feeling better Having a good open communication with my gf Starting to practice guitar again properly Meeting new people

🟣 Guitar practice Since I came back to the Netherlands I haven't had so much energy to practice properly nor enough. A good amount of (professional) guitar practice should be around 4 hours a day, there are some people who do 8 hours, and who does less. I manage to learn things slowly, and that's because of my technical skills which are not the best. Every day I do at least 30 minutes of technique exercises, and then I practice what needed. Finally today I started practicing more. Until now (11.40 am) I practiced 1.5 hours, and I'm pretty satisfied with the quality. I won't go for the 4 hours because I'm not used to practice so long anymore, but I'm building it up. I would like to have at least one more hour of good practice today. I'm happy I got back in track!

I'm grateful for: Finding a new neurologist for my dad Having my first guitar lesson of the academic year talking to my parents and girlfriend

Binaural beats are like "illusions" created when you play 2 slightly different frequencies in each ear, and the brain perceives a vibration or third frequency. They can help to relax, focus, pain, deepen meditation, etc. Based on which 2 frequencies you listen to, you get different effects.

I decided to get started with a YouTube account, where I will share guided meditations and Binaural Beats. I am getting great effects from both, and I want to share new frequencies and sounds to get great levels of rest, relaxation, and meditative states. https://www.youtube.com/@BinauralBeatsMeditations I already uploaded the first video if you want to check it out. Pls let me know if you've listened to it and what you think about it!

🟢 Meditation Practice Today as I woke up I meditated. It was 20 good minutes of meditation. I'm glad to share that I'm back on track with my practice and that I want to meditate even before sleep; that is not going to be always possible, since many times I sleep with my girlfriend, and she doesn't want to meditate. I can still meditate even if she doesn't want to, but I can't promise I will. Anyway, I am happy that I am back on track, and I want to go deeper into meditative states.

🟢 GATEWAY EXPERIMENT - WAVE 2, Intro to Focus 12 01/10/2024 20:15 DAY 16 So my first experience with the first track of the second wave, which is about Focus 12, was really interesting. Initially, I entered the Focus 10 state, and it was not the deepest I have ever been in. And then, when the voice was guiding me towards Focus 12, I felt that, yes, I was going deeper, but it was not a new state of consciousness. It was nothing new. As the exercise continued, as I was listening to the sounds, I started feeling more and more and more relaxed, and I started feeling that I was bigger. But this I still felt already in the past in the Focus 10 state. And towards the end of the exercise, something changed. Towards the end of the exercise, when I was supposed to come back to the Focus 10 state, and eventually to the normal waking state, Focus 1, I started feeling something different. Something was happening to, probably, my state of consciousness. I don't really know how to describe it. I felt like I was huge. I was super big. To some extent, I was still in this room, but at the same time, not. I could still feel the body to some extent, but I was also more than that. I felt like there were two states happening at the same time, the relaxed body state, and the huge ball I also became. I wouldn't know how to explain this thing differently.

I'm grateful for: Starting guitar lessons again Feeling better Meeting a new person

I'm grateful for: Having enough food to eat Having good people around me Starting to meditate again

@aurum I see, thank you for your comment. I think that maybe the problem is learning to find the right sensitivity in the touch. I went to my father's craniosacral therapist, and I did a couple of sessions, and Evey time I felt something changing inside of me, apart from the fact that at the end of the session I had another kind/level of awareness, I don't know how to explain it. Could be placebo, but it affects the same way also my father who has a brain injury and doesn't know at all what's going on, so I'm his case can't be placebo.

I'm starting this course in November, but I am afraid. The book I need to read goes into detail about the body parts, and I'm no expert, I have no particular knowledge about that. But when I went to sign up for the course, the lady working there said that it's not a problem. I hope it's true, otherwise I wasted a lot of money. Has anyone done this course? If you have any advice, pls let me know.

🟢 GATEWAY EXPERIMENT - Exploration Sleep 30/09/2024 17:35 DAY 15 I just did the fifth track two times in a row. The first time I went pretty deep, and since I wanted to go even deeper I decided to restart it and do it again. Conclusion: I have reached a level of relaxation, so deep that I've never reached. Even if in a couple of moments I felt that my throat was itching a bit, I kind of felt like I was floating (as the man guided me to), but I still felt the gravity of course. I don't fully understand what needs to happen when he says to "float, and turn like a log in water". I visualize that and have interesting feelings in my body or even consciousness, and I felt like in my head was slightly spinning, and the head itself towards the end was moving a bit; but I am not sure if that is what I'm supposed to feel. Anyways I think I went deep enough to continue with the next track.

🟣 YT channel with Binaural Beats https://www.youtube.com/@BinauralBeatsMeditations If you want to check out my YT, I just started posting!

I'm grateful for: My dad not getting too much hurt (yesterday he fell and hit his head) Having the possibility to rest Having good friends

🟢 GATEWAY EXPERIMENT - Exploration Sleep 29/09/2024 13:30 DAY 14 I redid the fifth track, and it was a good experience. This time I was not scared, I kept telling myself that everything was fine, and even though in some moments I was about to get scared, I stayed calm. I didn't have a super deep experience, but I did relax a lot, and I will do it again. Also, at the end of the track the man guides you to sleep, but I didn't cause it's the middle of the afternoon, but tomorrow I will let myself sleep.

@jacknine119 youve got this man!

I didn't think of Leo when I wrote the advice. But based on my own research on how to sell courses and other businesses I want to do, people finding you on YT who are interested in what you do will give you a good push (and traffic to your website, etc.). Yes Leo did like this, and thousands of more people also did it. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't. That means that this way works!

you say this a lot but what does it mean to you? I don't understand what is too feminine

If you take Buddhism all the way you will most likely not have a relationship at all. Apart from the fact that it's still a religion Stage Blue of the SD (even if more open-minded), Buddhism won't teach you everything about life. If through Buddhism you learn to be so detached you won't be able to be in a relationship. When you learn about infinite existential love and from there you decide to go into a relationship, you go into a biased egoic kind of love. And if you don't, you feel the infinite love towards your partner, but then how to differentiate it from the love you feel for the whole existence? Your partner won't be special anymore, so why even be in a relationship? If you want to learn and grow in life you need experience, and that is also having a relationship. Being a great philosopher will not teach you what a relationship can teach you. Being in a relationship taught me that my happiness doesn't come from sex and the relationship, I didn't need to become a Buddhist or a philosopher to understand it.

what a nice report! glad that you could share this with your parents