LateBloomer

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    @Leo Gura

    On 22.1.2017 at 8:11 AM, Leo Gura said:

    @SelfPeace I have imagined offering him 30mg of 5-meo. I would even help him take it and film his reaction.

    But I doubt he'd be open to it. And I certainly don't want to debate over it as a hypothetical.

    I'm not a fan of the academic style of philosophy. It lacks soul. But good luck convincing it of that on logical grounds.

    @Leo Gura Wow that would be something! You should definitely contact Sam and make an offer. Decent chance he'd take it I think. He's done some psychedelics before, practices meditation etc.

     

     

     

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    Paul Hedderman offers maybe the most simple path you could imagine. Makes me wonder whether its too simple to work. Basically he just delivers the message and sort of ridicules the idea of "I" through repetition. According to him, even meditating is unnecessary if you're not into it. Just "entertaining" the message should be enough.

    One of his essential teachings is, that every action from "I" to get rid of the "I" embraces the very idea of "I" and thus can be harmful. This is a fair point to make IMO and deserves some attention from a seeker.

     @jse  So what you think? Could this be that simple? I've watched a tons of his videos and I'm not doubting his sincerety. I read some review on spiritualteachers.org which said the same. But this is definitely The Lazy Mans Path.

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    My advice is to let them come. Actually, go to a places/situations during your free time and try to get them. Whatever places/situations. After you get a few you end up inflating them and actually it can be very difficult to get any if you actually try to do it. I think awareness prevents that since Panic Attacks are very very low-consciousness habit. (Without any blaming of course.)

    It's actually very similar to  "Paradoxal Intention" which is a method introduced by Viktor Frankl I believe. There you go to a situations and try to do whatever is your problem intentionally for instance different phobias. It can be very hard to "succeed" if you try to create fear intentionally. This method can be used in many different areas like in difficulty at falling asleep and maybe anxiety and even depression. Leo did a video titled "Awareness alone is curative" and I think the method introduced was this or close to it.

    So my advice is to let them come at first. Then bring some awareness/paradoxal intention into play and see what happens.

     

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    Isn't there an element of so called 'paradoxical intention' going on here? Atleast with the burger -case that Leo demonstrated in his video it seemed very similar. Theres always unawereness going on and when you actually take the control of any given action it shows up very differently. Similarly if ones depressed or anxious, then when heshe actually trys to 'do the anxiety' its very likely he/she fails to produce that deliberately. Obviously awareness and intention are different but with some cases , like anxiety, it can remove the sensation right away because the feeling is just so overwhelming and unwanted. 

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    @Henri Hey Henri one more question: Ive read something about the technique you suggested and some people say that you need to be careful while you do it. Do you know anything about that? To me that technique doesn't seem anything too complicated. But anyways are there some dangers related to this practice if I do/try alone?

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    @Falk

    Quick (common) question. I know someone asked couple posts ago something similar to this but I'll ask anyway:

    I have serious problems keeping my spine straight since I collapse almost immediately when I start to relax. Feels totally impossible to keep my spine straight and relax at the same time. I was just wondering that though it's not allowed to move, should I still let myself straighten my spine because in this case, I'm not doing that because I want comfort. It's actually opposite. It would cause more discomfort to be mindful of...

    So whats your advice guys? Am I "allowed" to do that? Is it still considered sds?

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    Quick (common) question: I have serious problems keeping my spine straight since I collapse almost immediately when I start to relax. Feels totally impossible to keep my spine straight and relax at the same time. I was just wondering that though it's not allowed to move, should I still let myself straighten my spine because in this case, I'm not doing that because I want comfort. It's actually opposite. It would cause more discomfort to be mindful of...:)

    So whats your advice guys? Am I "allowed" to do that?

  20. Posted · Edited by LateBloomer

    First time I did  sds last summer I sat something like 75 minutes. It wasn't that difficult until after 60 minutes. First 5-10 were anxious + couple hard moments here and there. After and hour I was like Stephen Hawking in his roller chair (I used a chair) because I had slowly relaxed more and more and couldn't keep the posture straight. I hope that's allowed though.

    Last minutes were very painful. These very strong requests to move popped up every say 20 seconds. Just before I gave up I reacted to one of these "requests" with spontaneous laugh. Such spontaneus that I didn't count that as a 'fail'. Then another one came, again spontaneus laugh and then I finally gave up. I found the situation with my posture and all so hilarious.

    I didn't experience any enlightenment thing though. Also there's just traditional willpower in play obviously. But I couldn't do 75 minutes just by willpower. I had to somehow handle this "requests" to move. I wasn't using any particular technique. I believe it was some kind of combination of Do Nothing, mindfulness and concentration on your breath. 

    But here comes the best part though...

    I went on to do my usual stuff, playing football (soccer) with friends and grab a beer afterwards. I was in a very good mood, but obviously in a traditional-not enlightened-way. After I came back home I got one of my strongest if not the strongest stress impulses (specific one, long story, planning to discuss that elsewhere here in the forum). Ive had that several times before and it wasn't any stronger this time, but my response to it was somewhat interesting.

    I started to laugh spontaneously. I ended up laying on my bed just laughing. The more stress came in, the more it 'tickled' me. I believe that's more healthier way to react to stress.