Whitney Edwards

Your every breath is an award but you don't respect it. The greatest award is survival. Be grateful. (we're because we live)

Synchronicities and coincidences are also closely associated with the law of attraction along with chakras, reikis and kundalini. It's basically mental and spiritual alchemy. Also look into witchcraft.

I think it's all about adjusting and curating your frequency and vibration to tune it up up up up, to the point where your vibration is free of negativities and your resistance is extremely high so you auto-pilot block out any toxic situation, like those wipers on a car that wipe away rain. That way. You've a clear road ahead that is, you will have more clarity towards your purpose, less obstruction and desired outcome. The desired outcome comes from the concentration of focus and energy. Your vibration automatically attracts your high conscious needs and your desired manifestation depending on your vibration. It's a form of reiki. It is also already operating subconsciously within you attracting all of your problems. That's because it's untamed and wild here. Now you use cognition and tame it, you have tamed it to work for you rather than work against you. It's the grounding principle of all self development. It is becoming basically, but not a vending machine by any means. It's a process attracting a process It can also be considered similar to prayer. I think in the subconscious realm, a lot of factors impact this energy, like past trauma, insecurities, fears which will need shadow work. So combine your practice with shadow work. Because these stuff like trauma etc are blockages and cause intense interference with this energy. Also if this energy is stirred properly, it might remove malefic effects of the trauma as well thus stopping the trauma cycle once and for all. So it can be useful in trauma healing. I think it's also closely associated with kundalini because I guess kundalini works in a similar way

@cjoseph90 thank you

I feel like a failure.. Like my career never panned out. I came from a family of uncooperative people. I got lazy on occasions and never worked too hard. Managed to get by in life but my relationships were weak and fragile and practically useless. I'm in my late 20s and I was mostly immature throughout and I never achieved anything. My friends have come far and done better than me. I feel like my life will never be the one I wanted and I wasted my early 20s doing nothing but wasting time. Is it OK to be a loser and compromise with the fact that it never panned out to be how I wanted?

@Thought Art I clicked on "make an exception for this site."

@Thought Art I'll try that

It's getting very frustrating. Constantly showing me this message and not letting me connect to the forum. Now I'm using a different browser to bypass the restrictions and connect again..

You're right. Sometimes emotions mean more than a scripture.

How are you able to read my mind word to word like that? You don't even know me in person yet you're perfectly mirroring my thoughts, like a psychic. Yes you're very close to the truth about my life. I've done stuff but failed multiple times. I have tried to get back on my feet and then gotten derailed. I am not sure if I'm tough on myself, people call me lazy and unmotivated and consider me worthless and unwilling. So I don't really know if I should believe them or be kind to myself. This is right too. I have had long term limiting beliefs around my ability, potential and autism had a huge impact on my poor choices and constant lack of proper management of my life. I engaged in addictions and substance abuse and threw away my life. Yes you are right again. I deal with a lot of pain that in turn causes me to engage in coping behaviors and it turns into a vicious cycle of hurt and coping but never liberation. I try to stay positive but the sense of being a total loser bugs me and haunts me. Then I look for comfort. I'll see once again what to do to turn my life around. It's too tough given a host of my underlying mental health conditions. But I'm not looking for sympathy, I understand that victim mindset is not good. Thank you.

That's quite a constructive feedback. Yes I understand you're talking from a social conditioning point of view and how the idea of success is drilled into us by stage orange culture and when we don't conform to it, we are tagged as failures and losers. It's hard to beat that veneer sometimes and to think through objectively and not let the devil mind win against such intrusive thoughts. I have never mostly taken pleasure in my life. I have always been a bit harder on myself despite my struggles. I have very high expectations and standards for myself, I don't know if it's a security or a detriment. Sometimes I wonder if punishing myself with negativity will probably make me work harder and achieve things. But then again the other conflicting thoughts are if it's even worth it in the end.

Thank you.

I hope you find the help you want.

Sometimes you say things egoically but want people to assume the garb of truth.

Well they aren't going to suffer seeing short posts. I didn't mean any meanness to the user @Water by the River. I myself follow buddhism. And I'm grateful he talks about it here. Because Leo scoffs at Buddhist content calling it Buddhist rat and all. So it's refreshing to see someone having the balls to share content I'm interested in. I would like to pm you some time @Water by the Riverif you don't mind.

Have consideration for others as well instead of scapegoating. Will serve you good. As well as others. By the way he himself took my advice for which I'm grateful.

I don't deny that. But he often makes very long posts. He could have divided it into two posts for the sake of convenience. Some people here have trouble reading extra long posts. Have consideration please. Didn't deny the content of the post. But it could have been a bit presentable to the reader. Thanks. Also sentiments of others are valuable if you are going to be ohh so spiritual!!!

@Water by the River you mocked me. It shows you don't care about people. Which means your spirituality is not worth it. It's bull.

@Water by the River dude try to control the length of what you write. It's so hard to scroll through that. That's very frustrating. Can't you ever make shorter less cumbersome posts?

@Leo Gura you shouldn't go around calling others (especially highly revered and appreciated ones) as unawakened. It creates a bad impression amongst folks. It's repelling sort of. Yea people get it you did a lot of work, but so did other teachers and gurus too. They aren't simply wallowing shit. It gets frustrating when you repeatedly do this.

I think it depends more or less on the quality of consciousness. I consider Sadhguru as a very awakened being because he is consistent with his content, I never saw him say something that was in direct contradiction to reality, he is quite sharp and to the point, I would expect something like that from a highly awakened being, his composure is always consistent too. He could be a genetic freak for all I know, but an outstanding fact about Sadhguru that I never notice with the plethora of spiritual leaders out there, is that he has never played victim to the masses, never been antithetical to criticism no matter how harsh, always volunteering to teach people in the most compassionate thoughtful ways, I see this quality of him as outstandingly brilliant and exceptional. It's like the energy or vibration you feel simply feel in his presence, even through a screen, you can feel his energy has all encompassing rejuvenating compassionate and almost liberating. This I will consider as the quality of consciousness and since he has been consistent for years now, I'll call it a stage rather than just a temporary state. I'll call that awakening versus development.

Problem would be if you're stuck with that lower paradigm of always attuning yourself to the church practices and never wanting to try higher consciousness at all. It's like a body builder who goes to the gym simply to flex his muscles and no longer focuses on its benefits for health. It stops being a growth curve. You're only focused on muscles to the point you don't try running or other forms of beneficial exercises. When you make religion your guide and stick to it for too long, it can make you a religious fanatic or zealot and do the opposite - it can hinder your growth versus advance it, as is seen with traditional religious folks in many countries, they are stuck to their books and phrases, and they kinda become neurotic over time, it's a recipe for distress, because there's no creativity there, it stifles the mind, can even make you miserable, stuck up and dogmatic, you'll see this a lot with pastors from all religions, they seriously get too stuck and dogmatic.

It's not because of fixation. I simply use it to increase my focus. It's the most benign image I can find. Also I have always been watching Leo's videos. And these are exceptionally long videos. I have gotten so used to his videos, his face and gestures that this is the most familiar thing I find when I'm doing my work. I mean just imagine watching someone's videos since 2015/2016. Now that's a long time and so it's the most familiar face I find. If I put a picture of Sadhguru or Spira or Adyashanti, it wouldn't have the same effect since I am not so used to them. Now if I read @Razard86 posts everyday for years and get used to him, I might even use his picture during my trips. It's simply a matter of familiarity. Next is your turn @Razard86. Just joking .

I just hope you don't spend too much time on Instagram. That's a distraction.

My goals are confidential sorry. I cannot say that on a public platform. Spirituality can be a serious thing. Anyway, I agree with the rest of what you wrote. Have a nice day