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@Ryan_047 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062507540/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ceosage08-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062507540&linkId=c8d974e072c87b6677e34a1363bae3c8

@Extreme Z7 so is it guaranteed to happen no matter how the small amount of meditation you do per day?

@Nahm I clicked on the video because I thought it was interesting to watch. The source of the information is reports from other people's experiences I have not experienced the "dark side of meditation" I do believe that you can have these experiences. I don't know if there is any distinction between the dark side of meditation and paranormal phenomena.

@Nahm The first few weeks I started to feel an increase in will-power and mental sharpness. After meditating for 6 months you really start to see some changes in your behaviour (at least for me). I'm no longer easily annoyed at minor things, my concentration has improved a lot, I'm more understanding, bit more virtuous, I get along with people better, now I can recognise when I'm actually having negative thoughts, calmer, and can think outside the box more. But as for the paranormal stuff have not encountered any. I don't know if it will happen by just 30 mins a day of staying present that's what I wanted to find out.

The first few weeks I started to feel an increase in will-power and mental sharpness. After meditating for 6 months you really start to see some changes in your behaviour (at least for me). I'm no longer easily annoyed at minor things, my concentration has improved a lot, I'm more understanding, bit more virtuous, I get along with people better, now I can recognise when I'm actually having negative thoughts, calmer, and can think outside the box more. But as for the paranormal stuff have not encountered any. I don't know if it will happen by just 30 mins a day of staying present that's what I wanted to find out.

Odd question but... Where did enlightenment first come from? What are the earliest dates of it being recorded or taught? Does anyone know? I'm just interested.

Leo Mentioned in his "How to get started with selt actualization over 40 techniques" video that western society didn't teach us to bresth properly? I'm deeply annoyed about this. Anyway, the question surfaces; How does one breath "properly". If anyone knows. Thanks.

@kieranperez if you keep doing personal developement, for 5 or 10 years you will overtake them in your results and progress. It's a matter of numbers in your case. If you keep doing all the inner work, you'll see that by the time you are your fathers age, you'll be much happier and fulfilled then he'll ever be. Feel sorry for those people who are "successful" by the worlds standards. They are likely very miserable.

@Maxx thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

@Nahm I'm looking for the history of it. That is all.

I found this product http://www.centerpointe.com/ it supposedly increases meditation results rapidly. It appears extremely over hyped and marketed, and a bit too good to be true. what do you guys think? baloney, or worth a try?

@Joel3102 ah thanks.

I found this product http://www.centerpointe.com/ it supposedly increases meditation results rapidly. It appears extremely over hyped and marketed, and a bit too good to be true. what do you guys think? baloney, or worth a try?

@ajasatya thank you. I've picked up bad these bad traits and they need to be unwired.

He and I have never gotten on. we are completely different. There is no communication except when he has some petty judgment to make. He has very low probably no awareness and has absolutely no idea how his behavior affects everyone in my family making him a complete hypocrite practicing nothing he preaches, acting self-righteous. his values vs mine are completely different. He cares about tradition, chases money, chases adventure, values tradition and heritage telling me "you to have to care about your heritage and background because it's who you are!" another obligation to fill. As if my heritage is actually a part of me located somewhere inside my genes, body, or my brain, I hate tradition and hate needless strings attached to me like it's my duty to honor and protect my cultural ethnicity. He does not value learning, has no clue about self-actualization, projects all his emotions, perfectionist, lies, and extremely conservative. Interested in nothing but watching free to air, boring, mindless, brain dulling, monkey reality/game shows. He has been doing this for decades at least 6 hours a night and more on weekends. If he didn't have to work he'd just watch TV all day. I'm the opposite, I'm in a dichotomy. I value completely different things like personal development, art, learning, seeing new perspectives, understanding others and the world, truth, etc. Very liberal. I want to get the most out of life. It's so frustrating. I want to get out of my home and get away from him and never have anything to do with him again. I already tried introducing him to self-help, or mindfulness, he throws it back at me and says "this is just more of your philosophical crap". Completely closed minded and living a caged life. I want a charged life. I'm 19 and he is 50. What should I do? when I rise up and have the readiness to leave home and get into the school/uni I want http://fzdschool.com/ should I just completely cut him off? I fear that if I get married I'll just recreate the same family situation I have now with my children or treat my wife terribly. And I have heard too often about escaping from dysfunctional family stories backfiring. I really need to work on shortening making my posts shorter

@aurum my post earlier was just after he'd done something stupid, so I was really pissed and ranted. I have been struggling with getting a job recently but that got resolved a few days ago. now I have a job as a dental assistant (part time) and another as a labourer for events (casual; they send shifts over text and I can accept them or decline, pretty cool I think). I have a 5K debt from University that I left because it was not my life purpose and I was not passionate about the subject anymore. I'm teaching myself art so I can make a portfolio to get into the school I want, which will probably be a few years from now because it costs 35K upfront divided between 2 semesters. So I'll be saving for a while.

I finished the life purpose course about 6 months ago and discovered that i want to create illustrative books and stories for all kinds of audiences. Think of some example such as: James Gurney's work: https://www.amazon.com/Dinotopia-Land-Apart-Time-Anniversary/dp/1606600222 (creator of Dinotopia) or Ralph Macquarrie's (The retelling of star wars with his concept art that he compiled into a book) illustrative stories: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Adventures-Skywalker-Knight/dp/1484706684. This i have much passion for, i love drawing and concept art/illustration and i also love the story telling process (the lanugaue is similar to that in Novels). Doing this to broaden peoples perspectives of the world and to give them new ideas and possibly lead them to try new things (hint in a direction or with a twist) such as personal development or some higher consciousness values. How they could make an impact on the world, etc. Great right? the only problem seems to be this guilt of saying to myself that what I'm doing is selfish and i should be doing something else that would create an impact on the world at its roots like: curing world hunger/poverty, or fixing the education system, or preventing abuse, etc. when i say that i know i can sort of do those things with my art (using the world "art" ambiguously) with meanings and morals behind the stories and journeys, and the way it's structured. But this guilt keeps getting to me. like I won't have any impact meaningful enough, and i'll just be another regular artist/author that's nobody special. I don't know why I'm feeling like this. In fact before i got into personal development and found actualized.org i was going for what you would call a typical philosophy towards life influenced by orthodox culture. Something along the lines of career success with 6 figures through some in demand field (for me IT) would make me fulfilled, along with a marriage kids and big house and a car, while playing an abundant amount of video games, etc (although we need people in IT, and these minor pursuits are not wrong to have). One thing that i did think of doing is creating a spin off series to my books in the field of education, or it could be termed "edutainment" (education + entertainment). Using tools like mnemonics and advanced leaning strategies to help kids learn more, faster, easier, more productive, along with other various learning techniques and strategies not just for kids who struggle but every kid who's learning. Implementing this into books as a story with characters while at the same time teaching kids early subjects and showing them how to use and implement these tools. These i found were really helpful for me especially in learning a new language. If you want you can find out more about it here from just one of many books and sources: https://www.amazon.com.au/Unlimited-Memory-Advanced-Strategies-Productive-ebook/dp/B00I3QS1XQ This would be awesome for me to do personally because i struggled in the early years of my schooling with a condition called "APD" (yes not ADD or ADHD it's APD: Auditory Processing Disorder) which made it really hard to learn (nothing to do with my intelligence) reading, writing, and comprehending early math. I overcame this because it can be cured/treated but I'm still suffering some of the damage it did to me this very day (like falling behind in school or childhood trauma which i don't think you can overcome easily?). I want to create these illustrative books because i loved this stuff when i was kid (and still do) like drawing and stories (movies, films, games, books despite reading difficulties when younger). but at the same time i feel i could be making a bigger impact elsewhere for some reason. Even though i might suck and hate the other field. And although making things easier for kids to learn sounds great i'm being pulled two ways now that i think about it, which might be causing this guilt? I don't know. maybe my ego is getting in the way. What the hell am i doing wrong? Sorry this was really long.

@TJ Reeves hey thanks so much man. I'm understanding how i'm limiting myself with these stories and feelings i've made. Now that a thrid part has pointed it to me, it's obvious how these feelings and thoughts are just silly, there is nothing selfiesh about what i'm doing. I did watch the Dune documentry btw.

Do you still get angry? Mad? Fustrated? Do you still judge and criticise people? Do you still want sex? Do all pleasures of the flesh become not good enough compared to reality or being? What about entertainment? Do you still indulge in video games, movies, television, reading, etc. Anything else that might be counter intuitve please mention it. I am very new to this thing so please understand where i'm coming from.

@Joseph Maynor well thank you for opening up to me.

Thanks for reply! When you mean "God speaks" do you mean god in heaven and/or another being in a different dimension or something governing us or something? I don't think thats what you meant. That sounds amazing what you described. If it is Taboo to say you're enlightened in western culture. But i thought that you would not care about what other people think of you?

Ah interesting. I guess i'll never really know unless i do it. That "sodimize" was a joke. But yeah thanks.

It may be a generic question maybe? I have a life purpose because i took the course. If i become enlightened will my career/life purpose become meaningless to me? What about my relationships with people? What will there be to do after i let reality sodomize me :\

Thanks for all your replies, it's helped. I am being judgemental of myself so i must not let me get in the way of me, if i know what i mean.

I give a fuck.