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Be very careful with the marriage realm.

Wow, awesome share. Like MrD mentioned, a foundation is likely to prove to be quite important. Diet, psychology, theory, practices, a vision, etc, namely in continuing to go deeper within. Consider reinterpreting that as realizing the limits or barriers you’ve placed on Love. I hear you, but imo it’s not the pictures, mind or heart. It’s the “I’m in my ego” thought...usually followed by the mixing of thought & sensation & time, making a story that doesn’t feel good, because it isn’t true. It arises in a protective manor. A thought can’t think, and a sensation can’t feel. Thought is distinguishable from sensation. Dial into sensations, let the thoughts go. Label the sensation and point to the location of it in the body - understanding as a visceral connection / release will arise. Notice how thought story ‘trys’ to weave someone else into it, and or a past or future story, and notice how initially upon labeling the sensation, thought makes a hijack attempt, such as ‘resentment for something Bob did’. What is the sensation itself though, without the past + Bob? Not going to say it’ll be easy, but the emotional intelligence factor is cumulative. No problems in not knowing, just be amazed in the miracle. Wanting to know, thinking a thought is known, those can be problematic with regards to recreating ‘a knower’. Just an idea for you, but maybe record yourself describing all of this. That way you aren’t tempted to ‘leave the now’ memory wise, or feel so much like you need to figure things out. You might be less drawn to past / future / self thought stories knowing you can listen to your recording anytime. If you do that, please share down the road. (The experience, not the recording) Life is Beautiful indeed!

@Key Elements Ya but this stupid sandwich board cost like fifty bucks.

@Key Elements Matt was saying the statement about the uselessness of psychedelics was delusion, not that the people are delusional. He might see people as perfect love, and the delusion as the good news relative to the suffering. I don’t know but that’s my hunch.

@Key Elements The statement was deluded.

@Key Elements I just can’t find an issue with it. I appreciate the honest straightforwardness, an approach ironically similar to psychedelics. I see the love in his approach. Anyways, lunch break’s over. Time for me to grab the “Deluded!??” sandwich board & the bullhorn and get back to my post. Jk. ??♥️

@Key Elements I like the direct communication & I love realizing delusions. It’s freeing imo. I think I hear you though, he might offend people (with the word delusion?). That’s the nature of delusion though, the very thing he spends his time helping people with. I feel the love in it.

All day. No reason.

@Key Elements I don’t really see you or your statement as wrong or right. Far from it. I think you’re fascinating. Was just pointing out he was saying a statement, not a specific group of people, was delusional.

@Vitamine Water Awesome ??

@yellowschnee Therapy?

@Key Elements I believe he said the statement was delusional whereas you personified it.

@Psyche_92 In a word, what was the sensation?

This guy never fucks around.

@mandyjw Cool. I want him to be a slurpee.

Indeed. ♥️ That insight’s got kids written all over it.

It is funny how deep belief goes. The words, just pixels, nothingness, self. The past, illusory. Jesus?...oh miracles, an alien maybe, etc. Maybe-I-can-get-that-consciousness beliefs. Sneaky indeed.

Everything you do for this, do in the vein of putting your health and well being first. You are more important that any call or job. First, take the pressure off yourself, and laughingly accept the possible outcome of completely sucking and failing. And say, who cares, this will not matter one bit in ten years. You might be the world’s greatest psychologist, or botanist, or who knows what - and this work might just be something that helps you zero in on that. Zoom out as much as you can, to a bigger, and more general picture. Don’t let one day pretend to be a lifetime, it’s just one task, one day. There are billions of jobs and ways of making income, and not one of them is worth your health, not for a second. Right now wise, shake it out. This is the simplest most ridiculous and effective practice ever. Just kind of shake you body, shake your arms and hands, and ‘shake that energy out’. Do it. It works because you don’t want to do it, because it’s so silly. That’s why it works. A less serious Yannik, is a sillier, happier, healthier Yannik. Laugh at yourself, at your “grown up pressure”. Break that intensity. You’re a good person, and you’re sensitive. Lighten up on yourself. Everything is just practice. Literally. There’s no quiz at the funeral parlor. Doctor’s, lawyer’s offices, are practices, meditation is a practice, etc, all practice. Nobody expects you to know anything more than you know. If they do, it’s really their own issue to deal with. There’s no ultimate exam coming. More practically speaking...you need to practice to find some comfort. I remember doing my first sales calls and sweating through two shirts, and I rarely sweat at all. Just a few weeks later, I could make them with an earbud in while finishing other work. You will see this also. Practice is the difference. What seems stressful today will one day be boring. Listen to something uplifting, music, video, whatever helps up your state. Then practice in the mirror, or just in a room alone. Practice selling / pitching something you know and like, something more personal and hobby related. Then practice with the product. Just get used to talking about the product, features, asking the questions, etc. practice with a friend, or even more ideally, someone at the company with experience. Initially, it’s about comfort and knowledge, then develop skills. Ultimately, keep in mind it’s just another human you’ll be talking to. They feel like you feel, they fear and love just like you. You and them are in this thing together. Be honest, genuine, and human, actually care about them, not just the sale, and make that known, again, genuinely. Ask them about their family, their work, their life - their dream. Anybody ever ask you what your dream for this life is? I bet nobody EVER asked them either. That speaks louder and stronger that any “pitch”, and it’s real - so you’ll find a nature love / high every time. Listen to videos about making the best sales calls. This will help break the comfort zone issue, and consciously & subconsciously build confidence. Make sure you as good as can be on the basics of getting enough sleep, sleeping the same schedule daily as much as possible. Get some exercise every day, preferably in the morning. Lives change when someone goes from going to bed late and getting up with just enough time - to going to sleep early, and getting up early, and making that first part of the day about your well being. Be careful with your diet. It’s hard, if not impossible, to tell one state / quality of thoughts from another, because when you’re assessing, you’re in a state. Food = mood. Sugar, too much caffeine, too much carbs, imo, these make life, and specifically sale work, very difficult. Again, do this for your health and well being, because you are worthy and deserving of that, not just for this issue at work. Breathing - Be mindful of breathing from a relaxed stomach, all day. This changes the physiology of the body, and therefore the mind. This works instantly, and cumulatively as well. This alone can be really life changing. We’re in a world of sucked in stomach - lung breathers - and stress, in that world, the stomach breather wins easily, as creative problem solving is natural in relaxation, while others are freakin out. At the root of this issue, ultimately, is a “separate self”, but circle back to that another day. The secondary root, if you will, is overthinking. The amount of thinking for what you’re doing now, and planning anything for the future, given we have electronic calendars galore etc - is probably 1% of the amount of thinking the average person is doing. I’d just suggest considering this might be true, and that daily morning meditation is such a simple, free, and effective practice, that it’s almost impossible to believe the difference it makes. Hopefully you are already meditating daily. If not, definitely start. Every single cell in your body will thank you. You will reduce thinking and increase mental clarity, resulting in better health, a deeper feeling of well being, more energy, etc, etc. Too many benefits to list. Click my link for more of my sales pitch on that. I’d suggest the simple relaxation stomach breathing meditation. Twice a day is significantly more impactful than once a day. The ideal scenario with thinking, with respect to the high stress, is noticing when you are thinking of the past, or future, and putting yourself in that thought story. Just in reading this, your awareness of it will increase a little. Just notice it, and make a point to return to the now. Do this be purposefully leaving the thought story, and going to your senses. See what is in front of you, hear as many things and as far around you as there are to hear, feel really feel every breath going in, and going out, feel the soles of your feet on the floor, feel your body touching the chair - you get the idea - “come to your senses” - be present, here, now. For the longer term, maybe this is a ‘get by for now’ job, maybe you opened your own business, maybe it’s your dream job, I don’t know. I know this though, if it isn’t your dream - get that dream on a chalk paint wall, or dry erase board, or something BIG. Not a notebook, not a tablet. Put that dream on the ON THE WALL. This is your life and it goes by in a blink. See it every day, believe it, imagine it all happening perfectly, visualize the feeling that it has already happened, visualize & imagine getting a phone call from the right person, at the right time. Feel it. Ask the Universe to give it. Literally make a do to list for the Universe on paper. Probably don’t know this yet (maybe you do) but it’s alive, loving you more than you could ever imagine, and it is magic and spontaneous at that. @Truth Addict??

@Anton_Pierre ♥️

@Inder Don’t ignore your sensations, feelings, or emotions, and take anybody’s word for anything ever again. (Please.)

The waves are the dissolution of the identification as the body / mind, an over lapping deconstruction from one to another (so to speak) rather than a slamming open or closed of the psyche. The defensive barrier is the “my” thought / idea... “my body, my being, my mind, my body-mind reacts”. So there’s a fear of losing those things. If it’s only language / semantics / the nature of communicating, then sorry and disregard. Otherwise, there might be some beliefs you are separate from the body, separate from the mind, which a bigger dose might break through rather than flirt with, which can be rough and potentially backfire. I’d go the other route though, meditation (to not be swayed out of the silent space as readily), quantum mechanics (to break down the idea of reality more). There might also be a relationship or two which you could inject some love into, someone in the past you could forgive, perhaps yourself. Might be a situation of unfinished business with someone. Speculating here, not a lot to go on. Just feel for ya and hope this is helpful. Want ya to have that breakthrough!

@zeroISinfinity INDEED. ?

The pesky dots of yin & yang. I have a buddy who would physically die if he had even a 1 gram dose of shrooms, and yet another friend of mine did die from taking only 2 grams. Just out of curiosity...were you going to believe his answer, or not believe his answer. @Matt8800 Great thread. It’s like A Course In Miracles playing out in real life.

There are no dimensions, realms, or “hells” for “you” to be in. You can not point to these. One can only complain behind these. Care fully for yourself. Be attentive to the sensations accompanying such thoughts, feel their message, they are sent in loving you. These thoughts are empty, let them remain empty and fleeting. Fill your heart rather. You can lift what others can’t. You can see what others can’t. It’s not pleasant to squander. Breath for the joy of breathing. In love. Intellect: The power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will. One arising thought, and another. How wondrous and inexplicable?! Claim them, and the thought story begins. “You” with the intellect, “your” knowledge. “You” who can put down such an intellect. “Jesus spoke to me, and this is what I am to tell you”, can start a war longer than any life lasts. By all means, know thy self. But also, be thy self. Speak As thy self. This serves (hopefully) only as the other side of a duality, the yin to your stated yang, the intention, even of the hardballing, is wholeness.