Gabriel Antonio

The smell of palo santo makes me feel very spiritual, as if I could remember "who I really am" I got a Burmese product which has a very potent purifying smell. It helps a lot to deepen my breath. I think that aromatherapy works the most when we're not overstimulated; that is, a palo santo would make me feel so connected if I had watched a 6-hour marathon of a TV show, then overate a bunch of greasy food, and then jerked off twice. But even in a case like this, it would help. After all, at some point we have to get back on track, right?

Sometimes I doubt that awareness is curative. But that happens when I'm not aware, when I haven't been meditating seriously. It's crazy how I am--with virtually no effort--dropping so many habits & gaining so many positive ones.

Yes! One time I was meditating at a mountain, and lots of flies start bitting me. I even started to hallucinate. When I surrendered to the experience, I clearly experienced how pain is merely a creation of my brain & how I can desidentify from it. That being said, the next weeks after this experience were wild. I kind of had an awakening freakout. I feel like I was seeing more than I could take. Now, I'm back to normal. And I am slowly working to get back to that state but in a more gentle way. After the ecstasy, the laundry. Years of work till I get there!

Enjoyment is relaxation

It's good to hear that someone else was as impacted as I was with the moralizing video. Booo for should statements

I see myself 5 or 6 months ago in you. I was trying to install a lot of good habits. For example, waking up at 6, meditation + affirmations + visualization, journaling, and so on. What I found is that if you're able to create one healthy habit, your life starts to shift into that same frequency. In other words, when you change one thing, the others start to change by themselves. The video that's helped me the most is Leo's "How To Stop Backsliding." But don't believe. Experimenting is wonderful!

I can feel peace through your words. It kind of reminds me of the feeling I get when I read Thich Nhat Hanh

Name: Gabriel Antonio Age: 20 Gender: Male Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Occupation: Student Marital Status: Single Kids: No Hobbies: meditation, yoga, jogging, watching self-development videos, and helping people learn Portuguese I have been interested in improving myself since I was 12 after going to a talk about Cabalistic Numerology. I had found something quite remarkable in the speaker's way of saying things, as if his third eye was opened. I started to go more and more to his lectures, and it was crazy how I was another person when I was there. Let me explain: I was a supposedly a shy person, but when I was talking with people about topics such as "What was your favorite lecture of him?" I was able to have a very natural conversation. I kind of concluded that I was an old soul because of the ease with which I talked with those older folks as opposed to people my age. After that, I experimented with NLP, hypnosis, and tapping. And finally in August of 2014 I discovered lucid dreaming and finally meditation. After a few weeks I saw how much I could get if I invested time and energy meditating. I had always wanted "the magic pill" for overcoming my fears, and meditation looked as the perfect tool, the tool that I had been searching for years. Personal challenges I've overcome: Insane guilt (I wouldn't allow myself to "fall off track;" everything had to be perfect, otherwise my "evil" side was taking control of myself) Insane perfectionism (I like the quote: "Everything that's beautiful is imperfect") Social Anxiety (I don't really have the need to interact a lot with people, but I used to think: "Gotta talk, gotta talk") What I'm working on now: My future Meditation Being OK with the imperfection of my actions