Raphael

Emotions Emotions are so little talked about, even on this forum which is surprising. The stage Green emotional component is often lacking in this place and lacking in Leo's videos. Very few of his videos talk about emotions, yet we live with them all the time. What is sadness? What is anger? What is embarrassment? What is compassion? What is joy? What is fear? What is anxiety? What is contentment? What is excitement? What is peace? What is bliss? What are all of these emotions? Why do they exist? What is their purpose? How do they work? Understanding all of this is very important for a fulfilling life.

12/07/2021 (Week 25) Sometimes when I am afraid I... hide shutdown isolate watch porn watch dumb youtube videos compulsively scroll through the actualized.org forum feel paralyzed Sometimes when I am hurt I... feel my heart rate increasing hide it and it gets transformed into sadness isolate don't share don't want to show it don't want to experience it Sometimes when I am angry I... become mean to people want to do things fast lack common sense don't want to listen to anyone make mistakes repress it An effective way to handle fear might be to... experience it fully scream in a pillow to breath deeply allow myself to be vulnerable feel it try to understand its source An effective way to handle hurt might be to... open about it to people feel it cry allow myself to be vulnerable forgive acknowledge it An effective way to handle anger might be to... shout it out scream in a pillow speak about it with people breath deeply do breathwork accept it

12 July 2021 Wake Up Time: 09:07 AM (objective 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:30 PM (objective 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM) ✅ Stretching after waking up ❌ Cold shower after waking up ❌ 1 hour of meditation in the morning ❌ No social media until 7 PM ✅ 30 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Deep Work Sessions: 10:37 AM - 11:05 AM I worked on a small web app. Duration: 38 minutes Focus: 3.5/5 Progress: 3.5/5 04:10 PM - 05:07 PM I worked on a small web app. Duration: 57 minutes Focus: 3.5/5 Progress: 3.5/5 Total Work Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes, including 1 hour 35 minutes of Deep Work Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5) Average Progress / Session: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3/5)

Relationships: Stupid Attracts Stupid/Average So... I stereotyped guys a lot previously, it's now time to stereotype girls. One thing that always baffled me especially when I was younger is that the stupidest guys always attracted the most girls. Often time, when looking at this, I was thinking "Tf is wrong with these girls? These guys are the stupidest guys that exist, they don't care about them, they don't care about anything. They just do dumb things all day, yet these girls like them.". However, I just want to make a distinction here: this only applies for average or below average women, not for conscious self-actualizing women. A conscious self-actualizing woman studies all this and understands when a man is not worth it. From what I saw around me, there's definitely a bit of truth in the saying that many women are attracted to bad boys. These guys are emotionally stimulating and girls crave emotional stimulation. Also, some of these guys show strong masculine characteristics like confidence, dominance, taking initiative, etc. which appeals to girls who think that they'll get containment... but end up getting the complete opposite. I witnessed multiple times in the past guys doing immoral things and seeing girls laughing or liking it. I currently have an episode in my head which goes back many years ago when I was in high school. I was in a class and was bored by it so I politely asked the teacher if I could go to the library to read, and he agreed. After the bell rungs, I got out of the library and met a girl that was in my class. This girl never cared about me and never even talked to me, but she was shocked when she saw me because I broke the rule in her mind (which wasn't really the case because the teacher gave me his approval). And then, after that, she started to like me. I was blown away by this. Yeah, many girls like dumb guys who break rules, but that's mostly average or below average girls or young girls who lack life experiences. It doesn't apply to conscious girls, the conscious girls in the school weren't attracted to these guys, but attracted to conscious guys.

"I'm not afraid of anything emotionally other than death. Even that I'm starting to finally get there in the last 2 or 3 years."

I currently feel quite down. I feel stress and overwhelmed, my sleep is becoming worst and worst everyday, I also have a big pimple in my ear which is painful and prevents me to hear properly. I just cried a bit.

I met dumb confident people and smart confident people. Confidence doesn't mean that someone will necessarily succeed. Confidence can be harmful when not properly calibrated, that's the case when someone isn't aligned with reality. Confidence is healthy when someone is aligned with reality and in touch with his abilities. Authenticity?

Many times, I feel like confidence is bullshit.

11/07/2021 (Week 24) If any of what I wrote this week is true, it might be helpful if I... give my younger selves the time that they need to learn to trust me support my younger selves have faith in the abilities of my younger selves to heal give compassion to my younger selves let my younger selves be let my younger selves express themselves choose to let myself be authentic through letting my younger selves and sub-personalities exists

Weekly Statistics (05 July 2021 - 11 July 2021) Total Working Time 23 hours 56 minutes Average Focus 3.57 / 5 Average Progress / Session 3.42 / 5

11 July 2021 Wake Up Time: 07:06 AM (objective 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM) In Bed Time: 11:05 PM (objective 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM) ✅ Stretching after waking up ✅ Cold shower after waking up ✅ 1 hour of meditation in the morning ~ No social media until 7 PM (Doesn't apply on Sunday) ✅ 30 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Work Sessions: No work for today Total Work Duration: 0 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work Average Focus: ~ / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5) Average Progress / Session: ~ / 5 (objective at least 3/5)

About Toxic Masculinity: Some Resentment Towards My Mom I noticed that I have a bit of resentment against my mom for marrying such a man like my dad. I always had difficulties understanding why she married him. She had a great life, she had friends, she had a healthy supporting family, she had a job, she was happy, she had freedom, everything in her life was perfect. She could have got a high-quality man because she is a quality woman... so why in the world marrying a racist sociopath? I asked my mom in the past why she married him, she responded that she was in love and that she didn't realize how he was. I also asked a few times why she didn't quit him, she responded because she got me and my sister or that she doesn't know. I always found her answers disturbing. She could have quit my dad and get back to her job, her parents would have helped her in raising me and my sister, she would have got some help and she would have made it out, but she chose to stay with my dad. I saw her being talked down, I saw her overstressed, I saw her crying, I saw her sad, I saw her depressed, I saw her afraid, I saw her getting some physical threats (without physical actions), I saw her being pressured, I saw her being used as a scapegoat, I saw her becoming emotionally numb. It broke me down as a kid and I couldn't do anything excepting absorbing the toxicity. I would have preferred to grow up without a dad than a dad like him. I wouldn't have to go through all the emotional suffering, and trying to fix myself if I had a healthy dad. The explanations that I came to so far after contemplating this issue many times are simply: She is a very feminine woman and very feminine women are highly attracted to very masculine men (strong, dominant, confident), but many times these hypermasculine men are total assholes. My dad probably showed off as a hypermasculine, hyper charismatic, strong, and fun guy and she liked it, but that was just a facade and she didn't expect him to be so toxic. Very feminine women have weak boundaries and will therefore care more about others than themselves. They often put more blame on themselves, feel like there's something wrong with them when it's not the case, and have a tendency to be people pleasers. Also, women are naturally more oriented towards others because nurturing is more in their biology where men are more oriented towards self-survival because men are naturally more wired towards raw survival. She didn't have any bad experience with guys before and never even got catcalled. This point may be surprising, but the fact is that she grow up in France and was a young woman in the 70s and 80s helps to make sense. At that time in France, stage Blue was healthily integrated so people were overall more polite and decent. This is different in our time because of stage Orange's obsession with freedom which leads to stage Red being able to show itself more and take advantage. Many times simple decency doesn't exist anymore because stage Orange is so prevalent. Fear. I wasn't born at that time, but my guess is that she was very afraid of this tall, muscular, and aggressive man. Because of that, she didn't want to take any action to quit and she got trapped by fear. She was probably afraid that something could happen to her physically if she decided to quit. The overall feeling that I get when it comes to toxic relationships with either a toxic man or a toxic woman is that when some people "fall in love", basic logic doesn't exist anymore. They want to be in the relationship because they think that their love will make it work but doesn't in practice, and therefore the result is just damaged people. Nah, this isn't a great idea to marry a racist sociopath or a great idea to be in a relationship with a dysfunctional, manipulative, woman just because of "love". Love will not magically cure the other person, but it is in this kind of situation that tough love needs to be applied to break the relationship. Basic common sense is important, yet so many times underrated.

10/07/2021 (Week 24) If any of what I wrote this week is true, it might be helpful if I... give time to my younger selves to learn to trust me trust my younger selves give compassion to my younger selves integrate my younger selves let my younger selves express themselves let my younger selves exists heal the relationship with my younger selves

New Changes I'm going to add 1 hour of meditation to my checklist. Meditating in the morning is like a superpower that makes my days better. I'm reducing the Doing Nothing Time Before Going to Bed to 30 minutes

10 July 2021 Wake Up Time: 07:16 AM (objective 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:48 PM (objective 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM) ✅ Stretching after waking up ✅ Cold shower after waking up ~ No social media until 7 PM (Doesn't apply on Saturday) ✅ 30 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Work Sessions: 09:01 PM - 09:42 PM I did a bit of planning and some research. Duration: 41 minutes Focus: 3.5/5 Progress: 3/5 Deep Work Sessions: 04:58 PM - 06:16 PM I created a route to handle single photo scheduling for Facebook pages. Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes Focus: 3.75/5 Progress: 4/5 07:34 PM - 08:54 PM I fixed some bugs related to Facebook scheduling. Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes Focus: 3.5/5 Progress: 3.5/5 Total Work Duration: 3 hours 19 minutes, including 2 hours 38 minutes of Deep Work Average Focus: 3.58 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5) Average Progress / Session: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3/5)

Yeah, looks like this is the case.

Hey everyone, I have been living with a feeling of being bad, being an impostor, being inadequately perceived by people for almost my entire life. This feeling intensified a bit recently when I got in touch with an old friend that I'm going to do business with. I have a lot of respect for this friend because he is a well-integrated stage Orange/Green person. I feel that I'm not at his level regarding technical skills, social skills, and life experiences. I feel like he got me right when he evaluated my competencies which means that I lack some knowledge in the field, but I also see that this friend perceives me as having all the capabilities to succeed and this is where I feel like an imposter. I have been labeled as smart or as having a high potential since I was young. Some people told me that I was smart just by looking at my face without even knowing me, some people told me that I was a good person just by hearing me talking. However, if there is something that I don't feel that I am is precisely being smart because I always doubt myself enormously. If I search in my memories and go back to high school, I remember a teacher telling me that I was very serious regarding work (and she wasn't the only one). This didn't make sense to me because I rarely took school very seriously. What I would do after school is just go on my computer and play video games, I wouldn't do my homework that much regularly, but this teacher would still perceive me as being serious. I didn't have bad grades most of the time, I was actually a bit above average without putting in that much effort. I had a few periods where I would have terrible grades, but also moments where I would get incredible results by just pushing myself a bit more. I think I could have easily been one of the top students if I would have put the effort in, but I was too lazy to do it. Regarding personal development, it's similar. Even if I have been following Leo's work and consuming other resources for a while now, I feel that I know nothing about personal development, less than 1%, and within this, I feel that I embody even less. I feel fake, I feel like I'm hiding who I am. I feel being much less than how people perceive me and being much less than how I present myself. Some people told me in the past things like "You are doing great", but I always feel the complete opposite. I don't feel special, I'm not really proud of anything, I never accomplished anything that I consider significant. Does anyone relate to this?

A thing is what we consider it to be, except if we understand that it is not what it is.

Feeling of Being Bad / Being an Impostor Hey everyone, I have been living with a feeling of being bad, being an impostor, being inadequately perceived by people for almost my entire life. This feeling intensified a bit recently when I got in touch with an old friend that I'm going to do business with. I have a lot of respect for this friend because he is a well-integrated stage Orange/Green person. I feel that I'm not at his level regarding technical skills, social skills, and life experiences. I feel like he got me right when he evaluated my competencies which means that I lack some knowledge in the field, but I also see that this friend perceives me as having all the capabilities to succeed and this is where I feel like an imposter. I have been labeled as smart or as having a high potential since I was young. Some people told me that I was smart just by looking at my face without even knowing me, some people told me that I was a good person just by hearing me talking. However, if there is something that I don't feel that I am is precisely being smart because I always doubt myself enormously. If I search in my memories and go back to high school, I remember a teacher telling me that I was very serious regarding work (and she wasn't the only one). This didn't make sense to me because I rarely took school very seriously. What I would do after school is just go on my computer and play video games, I wouldn't do my homework that much regularly, but this teacher would still perceive me as being serious. I didn't have bad grades most of the time, I was actually a bit above average without putting in that much effort. I had a few periods where I would have terrible grades, but also moments where I would get incredible results by just pushing myself a bit more. I think I could have easily been one of the top students if I would have put the effort in, but I was too lazy to do it. Regarding personal development, it's similar. Even if I have been following Leo's work and consuming other resources for a while now, I feel that I know nothing about personal development, less than 1%, and within this, I feel that I embody even less. I feel fake, I feel like I'm hiding who I am. I feel being much less than how people perceive me and being much less than how I present myself. Some people told me in the past things like "You are doing great", but I always feel the complete opposite. I don't feel special, I'm not really proud of anything, I never accomplished anything that I consider significant. Does anyone relate to this?

09/07/2021 (Week 24) If I accept that my child-self may need time to learn to trust me... I'll give time to my child-self I'll have patience with my child-self I'll support my child-self through his learning phase I'll give compassion to my child-self I'll accept the difficulties of my child-self I'll let my child-self be If I accept that my teenage-self may need time to learn to trust me... I'll let my teenage-self express his fear of me I'll give my teenage-self all the time that he needs I'll try to understand the difficulties of my teenage-self I'll have compassion for my teenage-self I'll let time to my teenage-self I'll let go of critics and judgments of my teenage-self As I come to understand that my child-self and my teenage-self are both part of me... I understand that I need to integrate them I understand that they want to express themselves I understand that by integrating them I'm becoming more authentic I understand that they need to live I'm giving them love because they need it I'm letting themselves be I am becoming aware... that I don't have to repress emotions that I'm deepening my connection with my younger selves that I need to be kind and supporting of myself that I am becoming more authentic that I need to be patient that I am healing

09 July 2021 Wake Up Time: 07:16 AM (objective 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:40 PM (objective 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM) ✅ Stretching after waking up ✅ Cold shower after waking up ❌ No social media until 7 PM ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Deep Work Sessions: 09:54 AM - 10:56 AM I responded to a client and trying to fix some bugs related to Instagram scheduling. Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes Focus: 3.5/5 Progress: 3/5 02:16 PM - 02:54 PM I work on correcting bugs regarding Instagram scheduling. Duration: 38 minutes Focus: 3.5/5 Progress: 3.5/5 06:57 PM - 08:43 PM Pushed some changes on Github, created a pull request and merged it, updated the API on the server, and started correcting new bugs on the interface. Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes Focus: 3.75/5 Progress: 3.5/5 08:57 PM - 09:43 PM More bug fixes Duration: 46 minutes Focus: 3.75/5 Progress: 3/5 I sense that working a bit every day for 4 - 5 hours may work better for me than trying to put in 6 or more hours 5 days per week. Total Work Duration: 4 hours 6 minutes, including 4 hours 6 minutes of Deep Work Average Focus: 3.62 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5) Average Progress / Session: 3.25 / 5 (objective at least 3/5)

@soos_mite_ah Ok. That's sad lol. So, I'm going to describe it. The video is a short clip from the TV Show "Mr. Robot", it shows Elliot (the main character) discovering after forgetting that he has been abused during his childhood which is the reason why he suffers from a lot of depression and have repressed anger and sadness. He doesn't know what to do with his emotions and decide to let them go by shouting everything out. The video title is "Elliot Rage and Vera "Amen" | Mr. Robot S4E7", but I also found a shorter version which I'm putting below in the hope that it works:

I'm wondering if I didn't catch Covid. I felt unusual fatigue yesterday and currently feel a bit tired with a dry throat.

@soos_mite_ah Do you have a restriction on the video? Maybe you can access it here through its link.

@Raptorsin7 Don't you feel relief when you let your rage out? @soos_mite_ah Whatever helps you get it out is great, but it needs to get out. Maybe doing more of this could help: