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@Nak Khid Solid post. Nicely done.

@The Don Meditation, every morning. Don’t quit now. Let the silly thoughts go. They’re only thoughts.

@28 cm unbuffed ?? ”Thank you, and I have no complaints” - E Tolle

@LfcCharlie4 ??♥️

@Identity Well now I’m just jealous. ??? @moon777light Too kind, thanks ?? Got a board rockin yet?

Maybe look at them as indicators to what is actually challenging for you. (Meditation every morning) Death is not the ‘issue’ at hand, it’s overthinking. When someone actually passes, we naturally mourn. When we worry about the possibility of it, we are worrying & ruminating - overthinking. Overthinking is fueled by unsettled feelings. The mind goes into a “resolve this feeling by thinking” mode. But feeling isn’t resolved by thinking. Again, meditation is the way, as beliefs about ourselves are freed. Just let them go. This will likely involve some emotional releases, tears, relief, followed by a greater understanding. Also, as always, utilize every resource available to you. That’s a ‘two birds one stone’ for where you’re at. Get a large dry erase board, and start writing what you really want in life on it. This will reconnect you with feeling, and expedite the flushing out of false self beliefs. If you don’t want anything more, if you’re not dreaming up a dream life - then there is little inspiration to courageously let false beliefs go - and these are the root of fear. All fear is of ourself, not because there’s anything there to fear, but because you’re actually unbelievably, unthinkably, awesome. A belief held about yourself to the contrary will always feel “bad”...this is because it’s not true, and the true self actually is awesome. It’s like trying to put two magnets together with one backwards, it’ll never work no matter how hard you try - until you align them. Then they’re rather inseparable. Noooooooooo! Fill your body with feeling! Being is very very sensitive - and knowing your true self more deeply is where “courage” comes from. Everything you could ever fear - is actually you. If you “desensitize yourself from feeling” - you are separating yourself, fragmenting, and this causes more fear. Get as close as possible within, with feeling. Feeling is guidance, the variance between each arising thought, and your inner being. Let the thoughts go readily, willingly, and effortlessly - by listening to feeling. You’re already you. You’re you no matter what you do. If you think “it’s” a lifelong process, “becoming you” / letting thoughts which don’t feel good to you go - and you believe that thought - you will experience that it is a lifelong process. You could write self beliefs on your board right now, inspect them, and have revelations and relief. You could begin to understand why, when, where, and any who’s involved, as to the initial creating of the beliefs. Thinking is very sneaky, you’ll never “beat it”. The only “win”, is letting go, surrendering to feeling leading, not thinking. Put that sneakiness to work, toward the life you actually really want - the life vision of all that feels good to you. To be clear, I’m not at all suggesting you stop doing therapy, or anything else which is working for you. By working, I mean releasing, understanding, feeling better. There’s a write off at play here, and it’s deep. “Fear impacts the wounded inner kid”. When the mind attaches or credits love, to another, then the mind has to cover that falsity up with a story. The feeling of the “inner kid being wounded”, is actually the inner being saying “I am you, and I am Love! - these thoughts are not true!”. The dream board will serve you so well in addition to the therapy and nurturing. When you start really wanting for this life, the “taking the garbage out” so to speak, emptying of false beliefs - becomes worthwhile. The more worthwhile it feels, the braver you get - and the more you begin to realize there’s no need to begin with for the “fear & bravery” paradigm. Otherwise, one can end up spinning their gears in a directionless state for way too long. ”...the panic can be overwhelming and seemingly irrational.“ I’ve experienced panic attacks too. What I learned, is that the self, you, are indeed unconditional love. You can believe to the contrary once, and there’s a little bit of feeling discord. You can do it twice, three times...and still, the feeling is not too bad, not a lot of discord. However, if you do this chronically, repeat negative beliefs about yourself over and over - it is because you are awesome - because these negative self beliefs are not true - that eventually, your inner being, in totally looking out for you, in having your back like nobody else ever could...kind of says... “ok. This bullshit has been going on long enough. You’re going to stop everything you’re doing right now. Not later, not “when you have the time”, not somewhere in your “lifelong quest” - but right now. You’re going to realize right now that you are not going to fast forward and rush through this life unhappily, you’re not going to carry these beliefs one more second. I love you! I got you! This Present is for you! The whole damn thing is for you!” And then you do the only thing you can do when that “panic attack” is given - you stop everything, rendered rather helpless, and you tune into the present, the here now, the sight, the sound, the feeling, - the endless love of your inner being.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Rumi Meditation is nothing, therefore some things come up. That’s a good place to start. You’ll notice your ‘barriers’ through out your days. Triggers, patterns, frustrations, etc, all revolve around a self which is ‘other-than-being’. The variance between the peaceful meditation and the patterns becomes clearer, and the insight to our ‘story-ness’ (our stories of anger, guilt, shame, etc, etc) arises.

@LfcCharlie4 Sorry, I didn’t mean that specifically to you / your comments. I agree with ya. There’s a circle to it too. The ranking of others consciousness can be helpful, but ultimately can be a hindrance. That wasn’t my best communication, but I feel we’re both saying the same thing... that ’both’ works well.

@pluto I hear ya. Just follow the pattern. ?

“Get the cross boys!”

@EvilAngel ????♥️ Meditation daily, for the long term. ? and for the love of God, and all science of NLP....change the name already.

@Consilience ?? Togetherness, priceless.

@LfcCharlie4 Yes indeed. Also, I’m pointing to putting oneself in the position to be ‘the transmitter’, or ‘transmitted through’ to the benefit of another, in addition to ‘transmitted to’. There’s much to be said for experiencing the ‘receiving’ & the ‘giving’. While the LOC model is useful, and this is a linguistic necessity...these are beliefs which the ‘both’ strategy eradicates.

There’s something to be said for ‘both’. Modalities / transmissions might actually be the best case scenario for integrating and embodying trips. Likewise, these practices are well known to be effective in shedding veils & barriers, which can in turn take trips to another level. Of course there are countless ways to connect the bubbles. Something I’d keep in mind on the LOC perspective...it is wholly based on one step beyond direct awareness of thought, sensation, and perception. One step might not seem significant, but that ‘one step’ seems to lead to hell realms, demons, etc, etc, as well. Imo, the risks of buying into a thought based model foundation are far greater than the direct experience of psych’s.

@CMacD In general, if you don’t mind...what is that experience like? What is it like to ‘learn something you wish you hadn’t’?

That’s so true. For sure. That’s an interesting topic imo. I went full pendulum both ways on shaktipat / assertion. Also for anyone interested, taking Reiki classes stands to open up some deeply mystical experiences in the shaktipat vein. And yep, very much, when one is ready for the magic of that silence.

I hear ya. It is definitely a thing so to speak, ime.

@CMacD You’re stating you want to have it all.

@Bazooka Jesus Wether you are under any illusion you are two entities making judgement possible or one, judgement still feels undesirable relative to absolute. Be more critical of being critical. See that it doesn’t make sense. A thousand thoughts have yet to approach the feeling of a single smile, or laugh. The true self is too good to be true. Yet it is.

@Mu_ Another great one??

If one was trying to solve.. “is up or down the correct answer?”...the thinking could go on forever. Up is relative to down, down is relative to up. The realization that thinking will not get one anywhere is “The Wholistic Insight”. That the whole of thinking, all the thinking you could ever do, will not resolve anything, it will not change anything - so instead, it can be let go, surrendered. You can trade the thinking scene...“Is this perspective right, is this angle right, is this teacher right, does this make sense of it, why was my past that way, why is anything the way it is”, etc, etc, etc....you can trade the thinking scene, for feeling. You can keep your focus on breathing from your stomach. Every you notice focus is “sucked into thinking again”, simply, kindly, gently, return the focus to feeling the breathing from the stomach. Your body is infinite intelligence, and is literally designed to release all of the thinking, and all tension. There is nothing you need to do for this to occur, it is like the current of a river. The thinking thinking thinking is like paddling upstream, harder and harder and harder...until you finally start letting go, and the stream literally carries you to everything you are wanting. Is it like the laws of the Universe where the infinitely small and the infinitely big are ruled according to different standards ? Indeed it is not. The Unified Field is available, accessible, to all beings, at all times, in all locations. Reality does not have rules. Reality is a loving Being, and reality has a nature. The nature of reality is unconditional love. Loving you more than you could ever imagine, and allowing you to do, think, and feel, freely. God does not lord over you nor impose upon you. God just loves you, and loves everyone unconditionally. If you want, you can take time everyday to relax and let go, and let more of this unconditional love into your life & your living. Have tissue. A critical component with this... the understanding arises, after the thinking is let go. This is initially highly counter-logical, because culturally, generally, we believe we resolve feelings, with thinking. “There’s something I need to know, or understand, or get, or get to, or be - to feel better”. That’s just the tablet trying to compute the resolve. When it instead just relaxes and lets go of computing, the wifi inherently defrags the hard drive, clears the cache, empties the cookies, updates the operating system, etc...and the tablet is then like “oh wow, it all seems so clear now...it makes sense.” ” I don’t know how to integrate what I have experienced on the one hand, into all-encompassing Non-Duality on the other hand.” Let it go. How? Get yourself a large dry erase board, and start writing what you want in this life on it. See it everyday. Imagine having it now, and feel how that feels. Let the past go. Focus on what you want. When a resistant / not good feeling thought arises, choose a better feeling, aligned with what you ware wanting, thought. “What happens if you are a product of abnormal circumstances ? How do you make sense of life?” By living it. By no longer identifying as “a product of abnormal circumstances”. “How do I solve this and move on?” By letting go of the need to solve it in thinking. By letting the thinking go. By letting love, the absolute “core of you” wash the emotions of misunderstanding right out of the body. Understanding arises after.

You’re damn right.

@Alex bliss That’s the realization of the actuality of love / being.

@Bridge to Infinity Need is an inward projection, and will never resonate because the source of you needs nothing, it is unconditional happiness. Want, is an outward orientation. Let go of the need belief, and the judgments of your wanting.

@Matt8800 So true ??