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@thehero You’re giving me too much credit here, thanks. I occasionally see a faint white light around people. Almost always when someone is speaking about something they are really into, and especially if it’s in front of a lot of people. There are people / places which (at least claim to) have devices that show your aura live on a screen. I haven’t directly experienced any of this but I’ve read about it. Might be something calling you. Just for fun though, if someone did read your aura, what would you want them to tell you it ‘said’?

@TheSomeBody You’re saying you can’t and it’s impossible, and you’re right. Someone else says they can and it is possible, and they’re right.

There’s a point where the nothing situation becomes obvious.

@Dodo You’re not alive right now.

@SteveRogers Nice. Sounds like you had a great time. My speculation is that you experienced nonduality, and there was not enough practices and or theory (foundation) for integration. Thanks for sharing your experience! There really is nothing serious going on here, meanings and whys are brain stuff. Might have some false views to realize, and maybe you take things a little too seriously in general too. To experience what you did, even considering things appear serious again, is still great.

I can make a human being using ordinary food.

@WindInTheLeaf I meant do that, and let us know how it goes. Direct experience is best.

??♥️♥️♥️ Just wait man. It’s quite unbelievable.

@WindInTheLeaf Do that. Let us know how it went.

@Sukhpaal Awesome. What a great thread.

@zoey101 Never any use strewing. You can be free of it while he’s awake, freaking out about the choices he has made. You can be calm. You can breath from your stomach deeply. Yeah, it does suck. But you know what Zoey, this will pass, and something else will suck, then that will pass, and something else will suck, and that will go on until you stop and decide to breath - and say wait a minute, I can choose to look at this differently. I will be ok. It doesn’t have to suck. I can relax and breath. This right here is my life and I’m going to live it. I’m going to grow, not freak out. This is why God gave us breathing, making it impossible to both be alive, and be without. Breath in that peace. This is not hypothetical.

@LiakosN Now that is unconditional! I love you too!

Reality is a myth.

@zoey101 First sit and focus on breathing from your stomach. Relax every little muscle from the very top of your head, slowly through your neck, down you back, through your hips, down your legs, and let any tension flow right out through your toes. Do this over and over. Commit to it. Take your understanding (very wise of you) that it is not about you, and turn it into a realization. Realize it - and you can start to see that it is you, your perspective, your motives, which create your “Furious and hurt”. You don’t have to. I acknowledge this is not trivial, or easy. You acknowledge this is an opportunity for you to grow at lightening speed. You might be able to help. You can’t fight with him, you can’t argue. He will be deeply confused and he will think this is a problem going on with YOU and HIM. You must return your focus to breathing from your stomach. You can’t get sucked into arguing with him. You shouldn’t even be mad at him. That would be selfish. Just love him genuinely. Tell him to get the help he needs. Ideally, he would check into a rehab / hospital - TODAY. That is not on you though. You take care of you, and that little miracle of yours.

@zoey101 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sRvLxc9AFvY https://www.rehabs.com/i-left-my-addicted-husbandand-it-saved-our-lives/ https://www.12keysrehab.com/dos-and-donts-for-helping-your-addicted-spouse/

@zoey101 Yeah. I know. Sit, breathe from your stomach. It is okay. It is. Ground yourself in your stomach breathing. It’s calm. You’re going to appreciate that calm when you talk to him. “What can I say?”. What do you want to say? How much is what you want to say about you? How much can you ACTUALLY center yourself with stomach breathing, and put yourself aside? He is doing the meth in an attempt to heal, to feel better. He is very lost. Disconnected from God. You can focus on yourself, and not give 2 shits about what he needs. Or you can put yourself aside, and help him. Calmness is the key. I know you got a lot on the line.I know. Calmness is the key. Be an example. Not a judge. This addiction is bigger than both of you. He’s going to need professional help, and you’re going to get a glimpse of how much love is in you, how deep it is. It’s going to blow your mind.

@zoey101 If you notice, when you first wake up, you have a clean mental slate. A brand new mind. Like a toddler. Not a care in the world! Notice upon awakening, that the ego remembers, reloads concerns, recreates worrys. Awareness of this alone is enough. The idea that you have ever been anything less than perfect, absolutely free, and loved - are just ideas. It’s wild, but, you created those ideas! You don’t need them anymore. You’re perfect, free, and loved.

@phoenix666 Freakin awesome man. Thanks for sharing!!!!!!❤️??

@DMM710 1g is a good amount to start. Make tea, don’t eat them. I’d write “Let go, surrender” on a piece of paper and have it around. You’re not going to feel any “stabbing in the neck” stuff. You might have an intense confusion feeling, and the piece of paper will remind you to breath, relax, and let go. Just sit back and let the medicine show you some truth. ❤️

Meditation, yoga, breath work, psych’s, etc.

@Widdle Puppy The world is suffering, some are in pain. Pain is accidentally getting your balls stuck in your zipper. Suffering is worry you’ll do it again, worrying others might do the same, reading books about this happening in history, starting a website so you can attract other people who worry about this too, eventually painting this color on your whole reality and worrying the rest of your life away. You just gotta grit your teeth unzip that shit, and move on.

@Slade There is a forum member who is just a bit ahead of you on that pursuit that would probably be a big help. I can’t remember his name. If you do some searches of words like comedy, stanp up, etc., you might find something he wrote on a post.

@Nathan Now you just have to realize you’re the actor. And have fun.

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/17747-nonduality-meditations/#comment-181291 Breathe Awareness Meditation Stress is an extremely unhealthy condition. It causes the body to release the chemical cortisol, which has been shown to reduce brain and organ function, among many other dangerous effects. Modern society inadvertently encourages a state of almost continuous stress in people. This is a meditation that encourages physical and mental relaxation, which can greatly reduce the effects of stress on the body and mind. Sit still and pay close attention to your breathing process. Take a reposed, seated posture. Your back should be straight and your body as relaxed as possible. Close your eyes, and bring your attention to your breathing process. Simply notice you are breathing. Do not attempt to change your breath in any way. Breath simply and normally. Try to notice both the in breath and the out breath; the inhale and the exhale. "Notice" means to actually feel the breathing in your body with your body. It is not necessary to visualize your breathing or to think about it in any way except to notice it with your somatic awareness. Each time your attention wanders from the act of breathing, return it to noticing the breath. Do this gently and without judgment. Remember to really feel into the act of breathing. If you want to go more deeply into this, concentrate on each area of breathing in turn. Here is an example sequence: 1. Notice how the air feels moving through your nostrils on both the in breath and the out breath. 2. Notice how the air feels moving through your mouth and throat. You may feel a sort of slightly raspy or ragged feeling as the air moves through your throat. This is normal and also something to feel into. 3. Notice how the air feels as it fills and empties your chest cavity. Feel how your rib cage rises slowly with each in breath, and gently deflates with each out breath. 4. Notice how your back expands and contracts with each breath. Actually feel it shifting and changing as you breath. 5. Notice how the belly expands outward with each in breath and pulls inward with each in breath. Allow your attention to fully enter the body sensation of the belly moving with each breath. 6. Now allow your attention to cover your entire body at once as you breath in and out. Closely notice all the sensations of the body as it breathes. Repeat this sequence over and over, giving each step your full attention as you do it. Suggested time is at least 10 minutes. Thirty minutes is better, if you are capable of it. If you find yourself distracted by a lot of mental chatter, you can use verbal labeling as an aid to concentration. For example, on the in breath, mentally say to yourself, "Breathing in." On the out breath, say, "Breathing out." Another possibility is to mentally count each breath That’s good for relaxation and letting go. Learning to let go of the concerns we carry reveals to us we added them. Practicing mindfulness is practicing not adding them again. Anxiety is a false understanding and view of one’s self. It is chronic “serious person & serious reality ness”. That would take more intense practices.