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    7 hours ago, Yimpa said:

    Woah, you are in space in your video! B|

     

    Hehe yes it was the first time I have used a green screen. It arrived the same day I filmed and I figured out how to get it working. It went quite smoothly and it looks a lot better than what the background would have looked like filming there. My next video I will explain how to make the meditation technique 10x more powerful then the 3rd week 10x more powerful than that :D If you are interested, stay tuned haha.

     

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    Hello, I will be using this as a space for me to write about the meditation and video creating work I am doing. I just created my first YouTube video in a long time and I plan to start meditating consistently starting with 2 hours per day. Here is the video I made :D

    I think it is ok for not making many videos before. I know I still have a lot to learn. I would like to make it a lot more entertaining and engaging. I made it yesterday afternoon and started meditating this morning with 20 minutes. I still have 1 hour, 40 minutes to do today. I am feeling really good today. I think because I finally released this video which I have been wanting to do for a really long time. I went to bed 1 hour later than normal and woke up 45 minutes earlier than normal. I will give an update whenever I have anything of interest to bring up. Feel free to give any comments or tips! :D 

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  5. Posted

    I tried strong determination sitting just now. I didn’t watch the video you shared past the first couple minutes but what I did is just make sure I move as little as I can. I set a timer instead of an alarm because I wanted to be able to sit longer without being distracted if I want to. I stopped after 1.5 hours. For me I felt heightened emotional sensations in my heart then in my belly fairly early on. I started dosing off after a while then being jolted back awake when I realized that was happening. During 2 daydreams that I had there would be a phrase one character says to another like “have you woken up yet” and he is holding someone that is asleep but moving trying to wake up. Then that recontextualized to remind me that I am asleep and need to wake up now. I received a burst of energy and became much more focused. I could feel clear sensations in my ribs connecting to the spot just above my belly button. I imagined god saying the same phrase “have you woken up yet?” In a tone like he would not be surprised if I had. I focused on the present moment and responded. “Not yet, but I am ready” I didn’t get much more present from then on, the state eventually started to wain and I stretched and stopped the meditation session.

  6. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Judy2 said:

     

    Have any of you tried this, and if so, what was it like for you?

     

    i don't do a full hour, only about 20-30 minutes. it feels like my body is falling asleep while my mind is still awake... is that what a meditative state should be like? my thoughts are still wandering and random images appear, but it's nothing profound in content, only in terms of the unfamiliar structure of this state. sometimes i forget where i am. it's a bit like lucid dreaming or astral projection.

    there's some fearful energy and whenever i remember that i temporarily forgot where i am or travelled too far away in my mind, i am scared someone might appear in this weirdly non-localised, undefined space and startle me....even though i'm sat alone in my room. so i usuallly open my eyes every five minutes or so, until i close them again.

    I have done this several times but it has been probably a year or more since I did it. It was a much different experience for me than doing mindfulness meditation for an hour. There are times where I would feel waves of emotions feeling like they wanted to throw me off my seat. I found some coping mechanisms that helped like counting my breaths when I needed some relief. Usually at the end I felt refreshed like I was cleaned out from the inside. Maybe I will try it again today and see how it goes.

  7. Posted

    Thanks for everyone’s replies. After sleeping on it I can see how the advice makes some sense from a certain point of view and strategy for living a good life.

    It may be suited for someone with a certain set of values and survival strategy. It seems a certain amount of having survival figured out, wisdom, life experience and consciousness is needed to introspect and understand when this sort of advice works.

    I plan to enjoy live as a human figuring stuff out for himself for a while longer even though I am aware there is no self here and it is possible to be content without understanding how anything works. 

  8. Posted · Edited by Jordan

    This seems to work well for me. Breath in slowly focusing on your third eye chakra for 5 heartbeats, then move on to your throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and root chakra for 5 heartbeats each. Next exhale starting at your tail bone and moving up your spine stopping at each spot at the spine that is in line with a chakra. 5 heartbeats each until you reach the top of your spine. Continue repeating the process around 10 times until uou notice a state change. If you can’t do 5 heart beats, then start with 4 or 3. It should be a bit of a struggle and like you are out of air. I have a video saved somewhere with similar instructions I can add later when I am on my computer.

    edit: He explains it here at around 1:52:00

     

  9. Posted

    I joined a discord group of Buddhists to see their perspective on what makes a good life and satisfaction. If I ask about wanting anything such as wanting an increased baseline consciousness or to plan out a fulfilling life, I get the same sort of answer.

    The answer I receive is something like: Practice cultivating the feeling of fulfillment in each moment. Eventually those concepts of purpose and long term goals will appear as unnecessary clutter. 

    I am not sure if this philosophy is common for Buddhists or it is just this group but it seems like they are taking this lesson a bit too far. I see how it can be beneficial to reframe things to remove discomfort and be happy now but doing this as a one size fits all answer to everything seems a bit much. It appears they are desiring not to desire anything difficult so they will be comfortable and happy all the time. I don't see this working very well long term although there are many ways people live that are much worse. 

    Does anyone have any opinion on this?

  10. Posted

    I will probably mostly do mindfulness meditation with labeling as described in Leo’s video. I have a breathing technique I like to do to enter a meditative state before meditating. I also like to forget all concepts for a while like in the guided exercise for realizing you are god video then continuing with meditating. See concepts as oversimplified models of reality and not important. What type do you plan to do?

  11. Posted

    I am also considering a solo meditation retreat. I was thinking 30 days 10 hours+ per day with some stretching and walking. It might be a challenge being approved at work but I am ok with losing my job if I don't have enough freedom for something like this. I never tried one before so maybe I could do a 2 day trial run on the weekend sometime.

    I would:

    -Plan out the food

    -Make sure your house is spotlessly clean before starting

    -Make sure the place has fresh air

    -Define the exact meditation technique you will use and be determined to stick with it without changing it. Include any preparation or what to do if body/emotional pain comes up.

    -Have a journal to jot down insights that come up when taking a break.

    -Visualize your plan day by day and how you will deal with issues that could come up then confirm that is what you want to do.

  12. Posted

    I came up with an Idea this morning. I could make a video series of my growth to show others what is possible if they dedicate time to improving a certain skills. I could do a 10 hour a day for 30 day challenge doing things like:

    Meditate 10 hours a day for 30 days

    Learn video animation 10 hours a day for 30 days

    Move (walk, swim, yoga, tai chi, rock climbing) 10 hours a day for 30 days

    Public speaking 10 hours a day for 30 days

    Design websites 10 hours a day for 30 days

     

  13. Posted · Edited by Jordan

    Leo's mindfulness meditation video is great. I started out with focusing on the breath but just the concept of it seems so boring and unappealing. I stuck with mindfulness meditation with labeling for a long time because it is fairly simple and more interesting to me.  

    edit: I just saw you asked for tips and tricks and what your goals/expectations should be. 

    #1 When you are meditating you want to forget what your goals are whatever they are.  Get rid of any ideas of getting any benefit from meditation and just do it for no reason. This will give you better results because your mind will come up with many ideas on how to reach your goal which will distract your from actually meditating.

    #2 You can expect to get a higher sensory/emotional clarity, notice more things, lower stress, see things from different points of view more easily.

    #3 A good goal to have would be just to do 20 minutes every day at the same time for 30 days. See if you notice anything different. 

  14. Posted · Edited by Jordan

    @ExploringReality Thanks for sharing

    Kundalini Breathing - you just explained the inhale and stopped. I am guessing you don't just breath in once and you are done.

    I will see what applies to me. I want to take care of my knee pain before I spend too much time on martial arts. Right now I get pain on the outside of both knees when I walk downhill for 30-60 min or if I run for around 3 minutes. I went to a physiotherapist and he gave me some exercises and stretches to do. I will start out doing those and maybe add more stretches and self massage. I will also see what I can find out online about the causes of my pain and solutions.

    my training right now is bouldering 1x per week for 2-2.5 hours, 5 pullups 10 pushups alternating as many as I can do for 10 minutes 3x per week. I sometimes do the physio leg exercises but haven't been very consistent with those. I will start doing them every day from today.

    My diet is the same everyday. rice, broccoli, zucchini , carrots, yu choy(Chinese leafy green vegetable) lamb, butter, salt all chopped up and mixed together. I usually mix perogies in it for dinner which is probably not ideal for health. Making some smoothies might be a good idea to add to my diet.

     

     

    I just bought Leo's Life Purpose course. I will spend a lot of time seeing what advice is in there and follow whatever exercises are in that over the next couple weeks.

     

     

  16. Posted · Edited by Jordan

    This is a great video. I haven't watched it since it just came out. I will start some stretching and yoga and see if it helps.

    Notes:

    Pillars of falling in love with life are falling in love with consciousness, health, growth, learning, investing in yourself, execution, creativity.

    Consciousness- meditate, be inspired by / see / connect with the beauty in art, connect with your present experience, see potential in everything you experience. make your life a work of art. 

    Health - holism and wellness. Make a choice to avoid health traps. Respect your life. Food, exercise, relationships, work, self image, mindfulness, focus, attitude, integrity.

     Growth, investing in yourself - vision of reading many books and connecting the info is fulfillment, how are you going to grow today in social skills, 

    Learning, behavior change, making distinctions. put yourself face to face with an experiential problem.

    Execution - self esteem tied to this, feel strong, joy from execution, reading, meditating, working, going to the gym, 

    Creativity - life purpose 

    The reward is all the steps it takes to self actualize. Deliberate practice. Visualization. Doing something new. Facing your fears. Not giving up. Everything you do is something you want to do because it is part of your purpose. Saying no to things that doesn't align with your purpose. Integrity. Find your top values, connect with the joy of looking at beautiful things. Have a super sober life. Build momentum. Living like a sheep, following the path of least resistance is the biggest sin. Set a high standard, take action, just start. Stop doing actions that make you disillusioned with life. Appreciation for things that take hard work. Face/going to battle with your demons. Start now. Live life consciously. Deconstruct reality in a way that leaves you in a state in not knowing and radiant beauty. 

      

  17. Posted

    I feel like I am coming to the end of a 4.5 year phase in my life where I have been comfortable working 40 hours a week, meditating every now and then, enjoying playing video games, spending time with my girlfriend and rock climbing 1x per week.

    I would like to make big steps to increase the amount of learning and insights I have every day. I want to have work that is much more creative, help people enjoy their life more. I would like to increase my baseline level of consciousness and develop a much deeper understanding of my mind, emotions, relationships, selling products, psychology, insight, learning, life purpose, my own personality my strengths/weaknesses, my body, my health. I would like to take better care of my body eliminating aches and pains I have.

    I have enough money to last around 3 years of my regular expenses so if I put all my time into focusing on this, I could take 1.5 years off having a regular job without risking being broke.

    More specifically I would like to understand and heal my knee pain, back pain, strengthen my body, increase my energy levels, cultivate inspiration/fulfillment, learn how to sell a product, learn how to create my own product and continue learning and having new insights every day. I would also like to spend large portions of time meditating and contemplating. I would like to alternate between trying many new things and contemplating and making new connections about those experiences. 

    I plan to give my 3 weeks notice to my job in around a month after I use up my dental benefits and have a more well formed plan. Anyone have any opinions or suggestions of things I should consider as I start making these changes in my life?

  18. Posted

    On 3/28/2025 at 4:40 AM, CosmicExplorer said:

    @Leo Gura The key, which is not much talked about about mindfullness or Satipatthana is that it is not a continuous thing, you're not supossed to try to continiously focus on an object, it's always a punctuated event. Continuous half-assed effort is not the same as punctuated, commited effort. Each punctuated event of contacting an object at extreame level of detail and clarity may only last 200 to 1000 ms. It's more like doing reps in the gym. I highly recommend you listen to deconstructing yourself podcast, eposide "Am I mindful right now" with Michael Taft and Kenneth Folk in which they discuss exactly this misunderstanding of what mindfullness is.

    @CosmicExplorer  I listened to this episode and I do mindfulness meditation as described in Leo's video. They explain that mindfulness is a brief event and not a continuous thing but mindfulness meditation is not the same thing as mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation is done continuously and you ideally will have many moments of mindfulness. Leo is not saying to sit around being partially mindful. The idea is to be fully captivated and have 100000x higher sensory clarity and focus on the object you are savoring not just labeling it and having a light attention on it. 

    I don't really like the idea of constructing an auditor and a meditator to check if you are being mindful. You should be able to tell if you are doing it right if your sensory clarity and focus is increasing a lot. If it is not then maybe you need to look closer into why that is with a technique like they describe in the podcast.

  19. Posted

    Hi Leo, I am curious if you still use the technique from the guided exercise for realizing you are god video. It seems like a good preparatory exercise before doing something like the mindfulness with labeling technique. Do you do any breathing exercises or forced intense focusing or any other preparatory techniques before your mindfulness with labeling?

    I am interested in quitting my job soon to take 4-16 months to enjoy my life, learn some new things I am interested in, try out some business ideas for the experience and would like to meditate a lot more. I am very open to doing an intensive solo retreat if anyone has any good resources I should review to make the most out of my effort. I have just been doing the 20 min-1 hour at a time kind of meditation here and there for years.

  21. Posted

    20% is not so bad. I wouldn't recommend trying to be 100% efficient. Take the middle path, there is less diminishing returns for your effort. Do the most bang for your buck in terms of emotional effort. Exercise 20 minutes every day, not 2 hours. Work hard 1 hour per day, not 8. Spend time learning 20 minutes a day, not 2 hours. If there is an obvious improvement you can make then do the minimum effort you need to in that area to see a nice improvement compared to the effort put in.

  22. Posted · Edited by Jordan

    When I read probably 10+ years ago. I took something away from it but it seemed like the whole book could be summarized in a couple sentences. Something like mastery takes time whether you have talent or not. Most people can master any still given enough and proper training, coaching and practice. The stories in the book seemed mostly just a way to tell you this in different ways over and over until you understand.

  23. Posted · Edited by Jordan

    The condition to happiness is you have to be able to accept the way things are right now. Most people are unable to do that most of the time. If you want to be happier then practice accepting the present moment exactly as it is and lower resistance you have to it. You can be happy with feeling like shit although it takes practice. You don't have to feel unhappy to motivate yourself to improve your situation. You can feel happy and still make choices that make your situation more appealing. 

  24. Posted

    I have been meditating around 40 minutes before bed and not anything in the morning the last 2 days. I have been tired. I slept 9 hours last night and am feeling good now. I have been remembering my dreams. 2 nights ago I dreamt that I met a rock climbing youtuber Magnus and we made a video about shooting BBs at each other wearing safety glasses then I met a SC2 youtuber uThermal and for some reason I thought he know Magnus and I mentioned that I met him also. Last night I was playing a videogame in my dream. I remember picking a hero and breaking boxes to get items and weapons to start with in the game. I might need to go to bed even earlier if I am sleeping 9 hours and still want to meditate in the morning.