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Since newbie stages in self development can be pretty damn tough due to the confusion and the many traps one can fall into it would be awesome if we could have a subforum dedicated for only newbie stage discussions, so that people who are new to this work can benefit from massive value that relates to their own problems and situations away from all the advanced stuff that only confuses us more and makes us scartch our head

Thank you ?

Hello, I've been using a third eye meditation technique since three weeks now about 35min every day,I loved it but I didn't notice any awareness benefits, it mainly makes me feel much more energetic,light and feeling into my body, hell I even catch glimpses of subtle lights and shapes here and there through the day as if I'm hallucinating. I know I haven't been practicing it all that long but I wanted to ask some of you who may have more experience with this if it actually increases your awareness, and if not I was thinking of only using the second portion of the technique for 20min and the rest of the time (15min) just observing my thoughts, but then again 15min doesn't sound like it'll do much. Here's a link to the technique

Id like to know why too

No idea, I need to educate myself more on the subject, but from my experience I can feel energy flowing through my body and I can concentrate on various parts of my body, it's a really awesome feeling, it sort of makes you feel more alive, fresh and powerful.

Thank you for your reply, do you have any good sources about where I can look more into this balancing aspect? Maybe some practices or techniques ? And did it help you with increasing your awareness ? My bad if I makes this seem like an interview ?

There's a lot of people who follow you from morocco, besides it's so cheap and beautiful here, you'd love it!

I know I'm two years late but Ilike this topic and I thought about contributing a little bit, besides it'd be interesting how to see how the preferences evolve over here ?, my favorite until now is the video "comprehension has many degrees" I always felt like the information that I was taking in wasn't doing much for me, so when I saw this video it was sort of a big Ahaa! moment

INTP lol same personality type as leo, never thought my overwhelming trait would be thinking too much but I did resonate with a lot of what is said about the type

I think I'm going through the same experience here, born in Morocco our native tongue is obviously moroccan, then you learn formal arabic along with french in school, although being pretty decent at both in the beginning I started opening up to american culture and became very fluent in english at a young age, now after years and years of focusing on the language in basically everything I watch or read in the internet I feel like it's become my native language to the point where even my thoughts are in english now, and I can't even express myself like your average moroccan in my mother tongue,you know it's pretty weird having to translate your thoughts to your mother tongue everytime you try to speak to someone ??? My french suffered along the way big time too which sucks because that's our main language when it comes to academics and getting a job, so I'm in the process of re-learning it. I feel like things would be so much easier if I just live in an english speaking country. Anyways that was a long rant, I'd say you gotta balance yourself along the way so you won't fall into the situation of having to reprogram your subconscious into your native tongue

Recently I've been trying to instill a cotemplation habit, where I would sit for just 30 minutes and just contemplate, I don't use it for any spiritual purposes but mainly for the course of my life, what I've noticed though is that after only one week of doing so my mind became on racing mode throughout the whole day, neverending streams of thoughts come to my mind and I overthink everything to the point where I'm having trouble focusing or getting good quality sleep even though I meditate regulalrly. Is this just something normal that only happens in the beginning ? If you've been trying to instill the habbit share your experience with us

I’m 21 years old and I just hit my first life crisis, one day it just hit me out of nowhere, a surge of feelings of confusion and depression that made me rethink the whole course of my life. I had just finished college and wasn’t really doing anything at all, as if the moment I got unplugged from all distractions it just hit me as if this whole time I was just running away from it, a feeling that my life was completely lacking a direction, having no idea what my life purpose is. Currently I can only see my life taking either of these two paths, the first one being to pursue my monogamous very serious relationship, make it work and become a millionaire. Now let me elaborate, my gf and I are on an ldr, we both love each other and she owns multi-million dollar businesses which I will probably be the one taking care of assuming that we end up marrying. there’s a few problems though ; we won’t be meeting each other until at least a couple more years (we’ve been together for one year now) although we both do want to, and I know about game and the idea that you can hone your skills in meeting women, which means I have a desire to explore it since my past sexual experiences were very limited, I wanna get mad and become a better person through game, but it’s a serious honest relationship and as weird as it may sound to some of you betraying that trust comes at the expense of my own integrity. The second path would be searching for my own life purpose, something that I would love doing and end up making a living from it. Now I am very resistant to this one, first of all I got no freaking clue what do I wanna do with my life, besides I’m living in a third world non-English speaking country, not exactly the land of dreams you may say so I’m not confident with the amount of success, if any, that I would get from that. I am very freaking confused about all of this, being rich or chasing after sex is not my objective, I wanna find the path that’ll bring more happiness to my life, the one that wouldn’t kill me on the inside because I regret not doing this and that when I’m finally on my deathbed. To me the first path is just too appealing, considering that I come from a poor background having a shitton of money is something I’ve always dreamed about, however I keep hearing from all these self-development stuff that the tougher the road the tougher you’ll become and consequently the more worthwhile it is and the happier it’ll make you, but hey life's short lol. I know the situation might look pretty ridiculous to some of few but I would appreciate any response to this and it’ll be so much help, whether it be some insight or harsh comments please bring it on, and thank you :)

Then a dude comes around that misses the whole point and start labeling things to his heart's content

How about another mindset, Actually using that money and those businesses not to create more money but to actually bring value to the world ?

It's not she'll just come over and handle me everything, no of course it has to be done smartly after alot of training and experience. And that was the plan all along, that we both will help each other as it evolves and evolves. The problem is that i dont wanna leave any regrets behind before i delve into that lifestyle, when it comes to experiencing with different women, pushing my comfort zone, searching and pursuing a purpose and overall just coming out from all of that stronger and better, but at same time it might just turn out to be a complete bust and I end up missing an opportunity of a lifetime

I'm from morocco too, hard to find someone from this hellhole ?

Hey Leo if you're reading this I would really love to see you elaborating more on this subject, I saw your video about it in one of your inspiring quotes video and I found it very useful and interesting though there's still a lot more that I need to know about it. And thank you for everything

Leo talks about his pickup experiences in other videos, and he obviously stated that pickup was his first step towards self developpemenet and how much beneficial that was to him, besides some of you guys need to take that black and white picture you have about the subject, it's not all just about being a massive douchebag with a huge ego nowadays pickup mentors seems to have a much responsible attitude towards the subject