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@randomguy123 What if the blockage is the retelling of the story that you have a blockage?

@Einsteinonacid You don’t have to continue to believe what doesn’t feel good to you, nor do you have to let the past define or steer you in anyway. ♥️ In every case, you’re getting more of what you’re focusing on. If you want to make millions and have a beautiful wife, you certainly can. Focus on it, beautify it in your mind and heart. When a self defeating thought, which is not in alignment with what you want arises, let it go. Short of that, you’ll continue missing all the extraordinary ways what you are wanting is already coming.

Could you expand on that a bit?

@Dlavjr Very astute man.

@StarStruck Try conscious or unconscious, rather than in control or not in control. Might be clarity & relief found. Assuming you would not consciously choose to feel bad...if the desire for control feels bad, acknowledge you’ve gone unconscious, and listen to the feeling. “Come back” so to speak by choosing a better feeling thought. When you’re feeling better, write about that feeling, explore it. Extract the understanding & release you seek from it.

Have you explored / considered that the environment & people in it were in discord with their feelings, and you learned this, but haven’t unlearned it yet? By unlearn it, I mean by gaining the emotional intelligence, and understanding why they were that way...how they suppressed their feeling, and acted out of ignorance. We learn to understand the world and our emotions, sometimes, in inaccurate ways. The emotional / self misunderstandings go unnoticed, and get labeled as attention disorders. Focus, or, attention, in most fundamental, and like many things on the path, is a matter of uncovering rather than adding more to. Maybe it’s an intuitive emotional response. (Speculating.) I’d explore that feeling. Nothing is “wrong” with you. The feeling is communicating something. Some of us grew up in environments which left us considering if we are right or wrong, good or bad...but we can get behind these circular beliefs by considering why we even started to believe in judgment in the first place. Understanding emotional intelligence & paradox could be the key to transcending, and “uncovering” focus & attention. Different things work for different people, but imo nothing’s wrong to be fixed. Just a misunderstanding about self & world to be understood. Then you move up the emotional scale and naturally experience more of what you are wanting to in life, and far less ruminating of thought resulting in what would be experienced as much more focus. I see focus & attention, from a meta-perspective of consciousness folding within itself to create experience. Focus is as inherent and natural as gravity. If someone said to me “something’s wrong with gravity”, I’d say we might have an inaccurate belief we could uncover.

@Raptorsin7 @zeroISinfinity ???♥️. Sooooooooo sneaky!!! ?

I know right? It’s on it’s way.

Is the speed of light a ceiling, a limit...or how All Experience can be? What isn’t light? What isn’t energy? Why do you suppose, you’re loving all this contemplation & inquiry? Why’s it have that good, reconnective, wholeness feeling? Reiki. Ray-Key. Light-Love. Go try it. ”In the beginning, God said...... (Swap “firmament” for “forgetting”, and it’s makes a lot more sense)

Right...that’s why there aren’t any. @Aaron p ? I remember a trip where my buddy and I stumbled onto the question....”wait...wait a minute.........what’s a “trip” ???? “ which, if memory serves, was followed by the revelation...”hold on, hold on....this means only volcanos are volcanic!...but they are volcanic!” Couple a’ geniuses solving the mysteries of the universe.

* How I am creating emotions. Right under my nose! Have been since day one! Sneaky fucker. ???

When you’re laying down at night about to fall asleep, notice there’s a point where mind is still active, but body is going to sleep. Also notice in this phase, the mind sends a signal to the body, to check and see if it is asleep, prior to the mind going to sleep. Typically, this is experienced as an itch somewhere on the body. If you scratch the itch, the mind sort of says “oh, we’re still awake doin stuff”, and you stay awake longer. If you don’t scratch the itch, that is, if you don’t move...you will fall asleep. When you notice this, then also notice the opening & closing of the eyes, and the clearing of the throat, will not keep you awake like moving to scratch the itch will. In meditation, same thing. When the impulse to move around, or crack your fingers arises, relax, and don’t do it. Just as with going to sleep at night....in meditation, the mind’s signal of “move the body (crack fingers)“ is not answered with movement. So the mind allows the body to fall asleep. Keep attentive in meditation, through this “mind requesting the body move”....and not moving the body, phase. In meditation, the body will then basically, fall asleep. Then you’re into the much much deeper meditation, and have moved beyond reactionary thinking, becoming more conscious, more on purpose, into creating.

If you continue to believe there are “negative feelings”....then you are continuing to believe thoughts which do not feel good to you...and blaming it on the feelings. Feeling is fine, no problem at all. Inspect the thoughts instead, in accordance with feeling. Listen to feeling. Realize the thoughts which don’t feel good, are thoughts which don’t feel good. Write down the thought which doesn’t feel good. Look at the emotional scale. Identify where that thought falls on the scale, how it feels. Then move up one, two, maybe three on the scale, and reconsider that same thought, in the light of the ‘higher on the scale’ feeling. Using that thought as an example.... How does it feel, in reference to the scale? I’ll assume it feels like Pessimism. Then, consider Hopefulness. Can you feel some hope... ”I could learn, I could inspect...and I can see where more awareness, and understanding...could lead to feeling better.” Then, consider Positive Expectation. Can you feel some positive expectation... ”Other people have done this, and awareness & understanding have worked for them. Matter of fact, awareness & understanding have always worked for me. Always revealed insights, always led to understanding & feeling better”. Then, consider Enthusiasm / Eagerness / Happiness... ”This is going to be awesome. What I want most, is to feel good. It’s about time I gave this my full attention. I’ve noticed in the past that when I choose good feeling thoughts, and let go of thoughts that don’t feel good...great stuff happens....I know what enthusiasm feels like. I’m eager to continue feeling better and better” Then, consider passion.... “I know what I love. I recognize there’s some resistant thoughts that come up. I also know that doing what I love doing simply feels good to me. I can always let go of resistant thinking about what doesn’t feel good, and do something I enjoy. I can see how letting a thought go, and doing something I like, in and of itself, feels better. I know that when I do this, mind is cleared, without resistant thoughts and with a fresh approach, the passion in me always arises.” Then, consider Empowerment.... “I can do this. I can be patient, I can inspect each thought, and I can choose a better feeling thought, and I know feeling better is everything, and that everything I am wanting comes from feeling better. Thankfully, this up to me, and though it takes time, I can do this.“ Then, consider Love... “I know when I choose thoughts of appreciation, it just feels good. I know that at any time I want to, I can choose to appreciate, I can choose to do what I love, share love with others, and choose better feeling loving thoughts on my behalf as well. “

@Urgency Create a dream board.

@Alfonsoo It sounds like neither you nor your dad believe you’re under the weather. What gives?

“Methods to “remember” ones true nature when drawn back into the ego” If you inspected the thoughts instead of assuming they’re true, you would no longer believe in an illusory need to remember anything. That there is an ego, is a thought you’re believing. Believing that thought IS “the ego”. Inspect your belief which you’re referring to as “situations like this”. There’s no “situation like this”. All of the meaning, you’re creating. Then, trying to undo. If the thoughts are not believed in the first place, there’s nothing to undo...no need at all to remember any method.

@Chintan desai Ya. Love’s crazy.

@pangolin Of course, wish you the best. ??

@28 cm unbuffed Ime, once they’re being purified, gut wrenchingly barfed out of you...pretty sure that’s where the term ‘demons’ comes from. It’s like a damn exorcism. This might sound too easy, but, just set the intention. Something like “I’m done with the suffering. I want this crap to rise up, and get the fuck out”. And by God, it will. Takes time. Doing the inspection work, such as the Judge Your Neightbor Worksheet, can help a lot. Also, talking with someone who has already went through it can make it way easier (in a way) and way shorter. I’ve seen this stuff go on for decades believe or not, and be resolved in an hour. Sometimes honest, earned conviction just resonates in this way.

Perhaps not opposites, but related. Like an ocean...and it’s steam arising from itself. Infinite ocean...steam appearing to be finite. Or, waves...”particles”. If reactionary thinking is yet discovered, then yes. There’s no getting around that. If only everyone would acknowledge it. (Within) ??‍♂️ That is one to scuba all the way to the bottom on. Inspect the inner workings. Writing it down, and then writing the complete opposite, is most helpful. The mind makes sense more readily of what is visually seen, than what is ‘floating around’ in / with, potentiality. As Leo is known to point out, Radical open kindness is key. For example, it is worth considering, that you don’t create feeling, such as you could create an object out of legos. Also be sure to make darn sure there is such a thing as a “negative feeling” at all. It could be an assumption...until enough inspection is done. You gift find ‘heavy’ to be only subjective. When my son feels the sweetness of the air on the first days of spring, he inherently, without thought, is appreciating it. When I buy him an action figure, he feels gratitude towards me for having done so. What is the nature of this? These are one in the same. Two occurrences, of the same thought-feeling relationship. Human thought is the sneakiest phenomenon in the entire universe. You, are the sneakiest being in all existence. Not the proverbial you, not the linguistic you - I’m saying you Ethan, you are the sneakiest. ? To simply let them go, as they are not creating anything. You’re a creator, much more than “a human”, so to speak. Yes, a thousand times, yes. A single tear can change the world. Yes. Nice! Yes, and there’s a deeper dive available there too. It is not coincidental you have two lungs, two eyes, but one heart. Can’t take even the simplest thing for granted on the path. The path is itself the simplest thing. So painstakingly simple in fact, it can’t truly be said to exist at all.

@Ethan1 lol. Awesome. No, I see you are not being rhetorical. From my view, you’re so at the ceiling of knowing, and the cusp of Not Knowing...that honestly, it messes with my mind in very joyful way. Can’t really explain it, but I believe you’ll know what I mean soon. Love your scuba analogy. Also, if you don’t mind me saying, your clarity and humbleness is so refreshing. Comes right out the screen, so to speak. Imo, that is the mark of the seeker who seeks Truth, simply, only, and directly for a love of Truth. I see this as a divine calling, of a path which you need do nothing about, as you are already on it with ease. There’s an interesting paradox of paradigms at play here. There are of course exceptions to this, such as @Serotoninluv (edit: and now that I think about it, all of the mods here)..but generally speaking...the more one studies and works with areas like engineering & physics, the more they know about it, and the less they are seeing what is actual about it. I believe anyone who stares at a rock long enough, Sees the rock as it actually is, and therefore, awakens. Unless of course, this person is a geologist. Then, identity is involved, income, reputation, accolades, etc. Many potential, but not inherently existing, filters are invoked to be seen through. Likewise, using the rock analogy for reality itself, there is seeing reality more for what it actually is. As they say, “enlightenment is only the beginning”. From there, insights coagulate just as there is the ‘connecting of dots’ with thoughts forming ideas & concepts. But insights are different, as they are illuminations of Truth, rather than “reality”, or, the Truth in reality. There are “further enlightenments” beyond enlightenment, a seeming paradox of wether awakening is binary or infinite, and it is both, experientially & actuality wise / speaking. I believe what you’ll be finding, given your trajectory (which is a delight btw) is there are “orders” or “levels” or “magnitudes” of experiential consciousness, which can’t truly be labelled, but for communication sake, I refer to the coming revelations of the specific nature of your contemplations and inquires as, cosmic consciousness. That is, first the understanding of the most fundamental nature of reality, and then ‘everything changes, and nothing changes’, and these things you mention...energy, entropy, chaos, thought, emotion... all actually make a most joyful prefect sense. You’re no doubt employing a graceful delicate balance of analytic & feeling, thinking. To you, this might be so ‘just how I am’, that it’s tough to even notice. You might consider...where’s the sun’s energy coming from? Another contemplation might be...is chaos in reality, or the nature of the mind of the observer? And...maybe the double slit reveals another, third perspective.

The relative, ‘per person’ or ‘one off’ nuance of this topic is so sensitive that I couldn’t possibly give enough disclaimers to ease the potential triggering, upsetting and offending of people. It is very very much for a one on one conversation, vs the function & visibility of a public forum. Let me get that out of the way (hopefully) to anyone reading this by acknowledging I am crazy, I don’t know what I’m talking about, and I have zero accolades, certifications or accreditations to be talking about this,... and let me be upfront that I honestly don’t care about this type of “problem” either. If it’s useful, great. If it’s not, great. That said, there is a category of diagnoses when someone is clearly struggling with health & well being where doctors are, in the literal sense, unable to find and be able to visually see, as in point to, the issue. It’s symptomatic of the scientific / identification paradigm, and is slowly changing. Cancer, for example, you can see it using technology, and you can track it and deduce information. Some other “medical” issues, are not medical issues, but because we are where we are in history / evolution so to speak, there is a dramatically (imo) overly-broad-stroke of going to a doctor for everything...and because the average doctor is not enlightened, but instead completely identified... rather than continuing to probe in a ‘all my attention being given to this unique one of a kind individual’ style, until they do find what’s going on....instead, labels are created. It’s lazy, basically, but it’s consciousness, and it’s entirely innocent at the same time. The intention of these labels is to diagnose so we can move to treatment. But, it’s important to acknowledge the “diagnoses” is being created by the doctor, wether they’re aware of it or not. Again, with something like cancer, it is visually speaking, seen. Down the road, I believe what I’m suggesting here will also be seen with things like cancer...in the sense we currently have the technology & consciousness to see some of the momentum and relativity behind it, still, when the one diagnosing & treating is limited by identity, pressure, money, reputation, etc, the entirety of the patient care is extremely limited as if it was a second thought. There is not as deep of a dive into looking at the nuance of a big enough picture, such as the person’s childhood, psychological environment, internalizations, habits, relationships, identity, and most importantly the understanding & lens that they are the creator of reality. When these are taken into account & understood, the conversation is entirely different, and beliefs begin to surface, and truth begins to heal. That is, one begins to heal one’s self, by letting go of what they did not realize they were ‘carrying’. I might be over doing the disclaimer factor here, but in a nutshell...most often one begins to realize they have been believing facets of experience are reality, as in, “of the outside world”, when in fact they are just deep, deep, beliefs about reality. Also, in fairness to any medical professionals that might read this, not a one of us can or should ever be expected to do, what Love can do. But the “paradox” of course, is that we all can.

@Ethan1 I’ve never seen someone closer to a breakthrough. ??♥️ Or, your post is knowingly rhetorical, I can’t tell and it’s very funny.

@mindcentral Grow up in a household with a chronically stressed overbearing person, or stress filled situation for years on end? Have any major occurrences...car accident, unexpected death...?

@pangolin This sounds like why people are here, doing the work, etc. I’m not saying it’s not a disorder, but have you tried meditation, yoga, inspecting your thought & emotions, etc? @pangolin