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@NoSelfSelf ?? If ‘we should do what we’re competent at’ were followed, we’d all still be rolling around on the floor pooping in diapers. Virtually anyone can develop the ability to sing well. Talent is usually a matter of watching the puppet show without being aware of the strings, or, having your mind blown by a talented singer, and not realizing that is the three thousandth song they’ve sang. If talent is illusion, practice is it’s reality. Singing is a perfect practice for enlightenment btw, as it requires mastery of concentration, posture, complete breath control, registering vibration in multiple parts of the body simultaneously, it builds confidence, vulnerability, appreciation, humility, etc. After enough practice singing, it’s not too hard to realize our vibrationary nature, relatively speaking.

@Recursoinominado ‘Be the change you wish to see in the word’ -Leo Gura

@MrDmitriiV Nice! The efficiency is mind blowing isn’t it?

@Recursoinominado What if you’re behind what you’re experiencing? What if it’s your perspective, your thoughts, behind your suffering? What if you realized this, and helped other people realize this? Ah, but there is uniqueness being an empath.

@Ingit Wise mom you got. Assumptions are the opposite of direct experience. Your friend probably isn’t even with you. Over-thinking is a sneaky mofo. Stomach breathing, all day, very powerful stuff that breath.

@Ingit Do it or don’t. He might be poopy pants to you about it, he might not. But the suffering, you’re doing to yourself, with the false assumption you could ever know what anyone is thinking. Let go of that absurdity, see the hilarity in it and enjoy the relief. For all you know, he is not thinking at all. There is never a conflict in your direct experience.

@MarkusR New T-shirt idea; “Cut it the fuck out @actualized.org”. (Maybe a hole cut in the shirt)

@SBB4746 You’d have to believe you are in the ‘maze of life’.

@Salvijus Thanks.

@Emerald Feelin the passion sister!❤️

@Revolutionary Think Feelin the passion my man. ❤️

@Faceless Truly, God works in mysterious ways. ??

@Mikael89 It’s worth it man. Learning this ‘second language’ is part of the discovery of unlearning the inner-language of conditioning, of anger, of fear. It’s sooo deep in there, cause the “I” “self” is soooo deep in there. Sooooo worthwhile. Absolutely a joy to witness. This is a great thread. ????????

@Salvijus I don’t know if I’d call it ‘tension’. If I can feel it, i can relax it more deeply, is kinda where I’m coming from. I can’t seem to sleep on my back, I’d like to. Any specific actionable you did that worked for this? Thanks!

@Salvijus Ya. I do wave relaxation head to toe, relaxing eye sockets, cheek muscles, etc. What do you do?

@XYZ Just another thought, maybe a pack or set, of those little aroma therapy bottles with a stress ball? Neat Christmas item imo. Also, maybe words imporinted on the stress balls. Opposite of stress words, like ease, harmony, etc etc.

@RabbitHole I took it as laws of physics.

“Who Chit” ??? @who chit ??

@Jack River No.

@Robert ?? Robert makes a hell of a case here, imo. If you have another perspective / understanding & intention relative to the meaning of life, just ask yourself, why? As in, whatever you think the point of life is - scrutinize that by asking, why do I want that? Why do I thin that? Try to prove that you are not the literal center of the universe. You can’t. The universe is your illusion. Seems crazy af, I know. If it’s unbelievable, go ahead and spend a decade or two reading what the guru’s have to say. But before you do that, ask yourself why you’re going to do it.

@Cortex Realize you are that infinite freedom, creating the laws, to allow for this experience - in appearance. There is nothing, in actuality, to fix.

@Jack River Creation? I mean, after all, you are the one.

@The Mystical Man You’re amazing dude. 19? Gtfo. @Leo Gura ??

@Rilles Thank you for the inspiration. ?

@Rilles The practices are not adding anything, or ‘increasing consciousness’, but relinquishing filters of cognitive dissonance. Practices are periods of time spent without all of the sensory content in typical day to day living, and with attention to the “contentless / emptiness”. If general misunderstandings of duality / nonduality have not been rooted out, then after ‘practice time’, upon returning to ‘the rest of the day’, misunderstanding is retriggered via mental reactions, the “separate I” is mentally reconstructed, and the giddy is gone. Stomach breathing can bridge the practice time into the rest of the day because attention is kept to the breath, allowing thought to come and freely go, revealing thought’s ‘just things’ (Maya / Illusionary) nature. Mental processes resolved, new ‘frequencies of observation’ (access of self) are revealed as being incomprehensible, which is why thinking was preventing access. An example would be the all too easily overlooked simplicity in the power of your attention, prior to focus, prior to thought, prior to verbalization, prior to reaction, etc. Just, attention. Easier to see with love first, and then literal creation of your own reality. So consider there is not a ‘withdrawal’ at play, but the opposite, the ‘adding of things’ (thoughts).