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@Andreas The meditation serves to allow thoughts to subside, via relaxing the body, and attention on breathing from the stomach (attention is removed from thoughts). Meditation positions you to have clarity, to inquire. Then with a clear mind, you can inquire into the nature of the neurosis. Also though, meditation could in and of itself serve to surrender the self image, thus ending neurosis. But there is much to be said for understanding the nature of overthinking. This solidifies that if and when it begins to resurface, it is easily identified, understood and let go. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosis “In Horney's view, mild anxiety disorders and full-blown personality disorders all fall under her basic scheme of neurosis as variations in the degree of severity and in the individual dynamics.The opposite of neurosis is a condition Horney calls self-realization, a state of being in which the person responds to the world with the full depth of his or her spontaneous feelings, rather than with anxiety-driven compulsion. Thus the person grows to actualize his or her inborn potentialities. Horney compares this process to an acorn that grows and becomes a tree: the acorn has had the potential for a tree inside it all along.” I’m happy to try and help, but it’s all relative to what you want. This.... Is that all you want? Less of what sucks ass? You just want less of what you don’t want? Lame. What do you really want?

@Andreas If I had something, first thing I’d consider is what is it’s opposite. If you have neurosis, and it doesn’t feel good - great, you know what you don’t want. It served you. No need to focus on it Now that you know what you don’t want, you know what you do want, and it’s the opposite of neurosis. If you’re interested in changing from experiencing what you don’t want, to what you do want, it might behoove you to google what you want.

@Andreas What’s the opposite of neurosis?

The thought there is an obstacle.

What is the screen’s perspective on: random, and not governed by anything?

Care to elaborate on what is not anything, and what random actually is?

@Aaron p There’s no suffering in thoughts. The suffering is from not being present, now. Happiness is not experienced via a thought about the past or future. Happiness is now. The thoughts you’re avoiding are of the past. The “suffering” is just sensations, you’re afraid of feeling. The sensations come and go, you are the awareness, which does not come and go. Nothing that comes and goes can really hurt you. If you keep this idea of fearing the thoughts of the past, you keep yourself in the state of fear. Meditation should not be suffering. No longer try to meditate when it feels to you like suffering. Why does it seem like the suffering is of the thoughts?... Essentially, because you do not understand the emotions are just arising sensations. The unrest of emotion fuels the unrest in thinking. The unrest of overthinking is distraction & confusion regarding the emotions (sensations). So by not taking the time to write out what you’re feeling, you’re keeping yourself on the glass hamster wheel of confusion. You keep yourself in the dark. Write down how you’re feeling, freely, openly, honestly. Let it out on paper. Your mind becomes more at ease the more emotions are seen on paper, because they will be more and more understood. What is understood, is never a “problem”, and can not be “feared”. Pen & paper, express. Empty yourself to the paper. Then go back to meditation. You’ll love it.

@saffron “Thing”?

It’s an awesome revelation and at the same time another trick of the mind. Keep inquiring. Who is the devil?

@theking00 Yes. Diet is a huge factor for some people.

@theking00 Have you read The Celestine Prophecy? (Odd name I know) How long has it been since you’ve been in nature? Get some time in natural and read that. Give this a look too, try it...http://thework.com/en/do-work. Have you read The Six Pillars? How’s the sleep schedule , fitness, diet? And what is the content of the troublesome thoughts?

@zambize ?

What have you done so far? Practices, therapy, fitness, diet, socializing, journaling, etc. Of those and whatever else, what have you done so far? Also, what would you like to give up? Habits, addictions, thinking patterns, relationships, memories, etc? Have you done this yet? http://thework.com/en/do-work

@28 cm unbuffed First relax. Shake your body like a dog coming out the rain, shake all the tension and any negative energies out. Second, pen & paper, and start writing down how you feel about people who have effected you in your life so far. Write knowing it’s just for the experience of it, no one will read it. Third relax. Have fun. Do whatever you genuine want to. No self judgement. Last, later in the day, pen and paper, and write down how you feel about yourself. In the same fashion, no judgement, no filter, really write how you really feel about yourself. The eyes see what is written, the mind begins to more deeply understand the feelings, and this “process” is most efficient, and completely effortless. (Head’s up, you might have a great cry as the falsities of all the ‘efforting’ pours out. That’s ideal. Let that shit out)

@Dodo Care to do “the work”? If you do, all the ‘outside’ help you could need is right here on this page... Love the adventure (which is a conscious being not physical objects separate from you) and it (actually You) responds in kind. To love the adventure, you’d have to fall in love with where it starts. With you. When you, now, is enough - the real adventure begins. ”Proof”. What is that, really?

I can tell you first hand, you’re attracting this. You’re beliefs precede you here forumwise. Obviously they precede you in every “real life” encounter too - you just aren’t aware of it. LOA doesn’t give two shits about what you think, or what you pray. LOA is not a second entity which will give you anything, nor is it a separate entity, at all. (Notice you’re blaming LOA as if it were a thing, or person, or entity) You are not understanding of Ester’s message, nor Napoleon HIll’s (gathered from 500 of the most successful people on earth), nor Ra and The Law of One, nor of Jesus’s teachings, etc, etc, etc. Accomplished via refusal to inspect your own beliefs, and the resistant thinking which stems from the self beliefs. My God do I feel for you though, as you have misidentified belief for Truth.

https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/hip-abduction https://gethealthyu.com/best-exercises-hip-bursitis/ (illustrated specific exercises) https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/breaking-the-habit-of-being-yourself/278720 https://m.wikihow.com/Tell-if-One-Leg-Is-Shorter

@moon777light ♥️

@ryuzaki Beautiful.

Just gotta take the awareness of the thought story and surrender it, one more layer inward, that not only is the kundalini your thought story, but so are the “humans” which the mind utilizes to support it’s “credibility”, and maintain “separation”. Then awareness that “you yourself” are not “human” can be inquired into. Anything supported via “other people” is ‘thought story’ and is “preventing enlightenment”, but it’s not actually preventing anything, the thought story is itself the means of apparent veiling.

@Highest ....and, there’s no Truth, no value, no importance....and no “spirituality”. ♥️

What is anxiety?

I good inquiry might be why is the coming and going of anger easier to liberate (the triggers, etc), than the seemingly chronic or everpresence of, “anxiety”?

@Fountainbleu Try either, then you’ll know what you don’t know now, and you can switch if you want to try the other. It sounds like you’re doing better and better. It’ll work out either way. Also you can also try writing each option on separate pieces of paper, put them a few feet apart on the counter, and when you stand in front of each notice if you lean forward or backward. Also write down, only for you to see, your feelings about people that have been in your life. Just write in simple terms whatever is coming to mind, unbridled and without self judgement.