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Wow then that's a good thing. You get a one stop destination for all of your self-actualization needs. What more could you ask for. Why do you want to read a million books. Leo is giving everything in all of his videos all compressed and readily available. Great. Just irresistible right. I love his videos...

Another thing I wanted to add and that is when you are cold approaching people and if they find you struggling to come up with topics to talk about, you might come off as someone trying to hard to get their attention or as a needy/desperate person and that might push them away instead of attracting them to you. You need to appear independent and detached, not disinterested but detached as though you don't really need them. Plus there should be a common link between you and them. For example, let's say you bring up Alan Watts in your discussions but if they have hardly ever heard of Alan Watts, then there is really no use because there is no way to extend that discussion. You kinda come at a crossroads. So you should be able to talk about stuff that they can relate to. You will need to be selective in your approaches. For example, if you're not interested in music and you come across a group at a concert and they're all talking about music, its best to avoid the bunch because you don't share common interests with them so obviously they'd get bored after talking to you for a while because there is no connection. So search a group that has common interests. If you like to talk about meditation, search groups that are interested in it too.

@electroBeam To me this doesn't appear to be a problem,rather a natural consequence of what you are doing. I mean if I were in a group and if someone randomly approached my group, I would prefer to be silent or just give boring generic answers. There is always a lingering feeling of distrust and there would be questions running through my mind like what is this person doing here. We live in a very unstable world and the rising crime stats do not make it any easier to trust a stranger. Conversely, I'd be more open and intuitive with someone that I've known since a long time so there will be some sort of connection and flow in the conversation. You need to take into account another factor and that is the people you are interacting with are not very familiar with your history/background just as you're unfamiliar with their's. So they don't have much to go on with. They don't know what to ask you. And the fact that you're probably meeting them for the first time makes it difficult to bring up more stuff to talk about. You might have to hang around with the kind of folks that are not very apprehensive about unfamiliar people. The ones who are more open to cold approaches and who have the same mental needs as you. The ones who are free to engage in conversations and readily available to hang out with anywhere anytime.

You mean it has nothing to do with bioenergy of humans?

I so envy

Oh god !

@Annie I have never heard of this before. couldn't figure out how it works. But it's definitely worth studying. Very interesting. Love this. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Hope it would lead to some genuine conclusions about human energy.

Wow...that was one big mouse.

Whaddya mean ?

@Lai yup ..that one...beautiful

@Lai You are one brave girl. ...But I don't know why I get this strange feeling that this pic is very familiar. Like I saw it somewhere, maybe one of your profile pics was similar to this. If it is, then the similarity is striking.

hehe.....

I stole your pic okay. I am a thief, .....buzzzzzz

There is no real love in this world. Or is there

Haha Dodo

So when did you become "who am I ?"

Hahaha ... don't come back after attaining enlightenment... be there.

Well... a nice suggestion...adopt some stray dogs.

@Shane597 hehe (:

@Huz this post is awesome..Thanks for posting

I would like to add 1. Self-inquiry 2. Detachment from materialism 3. Detachment from outcome 4 Detachment from thoughts, emotions and paradigms conditioned by society. 5. Prayer.....(for religious folks) 6. Spending more time in nature and connecting to it. 7. Relaxation exercises to reduce stress 8. Journaling and communication with Self 9 connecting to the your inner reserve of intuition - your subconscious mind. 10. Exercise 11. Yoga 12. Metta meditation 13. Engaging in acts of kindness (depending on your capacity) 14. Spending time with animals and children to learn unconditional love. 15. Living a child-like existence in love and happiness. Connecting to our original roots of innocence that was wiped out by social conditioning. 16' setting specific achievable goals for everyday to develop good habits. 17' gaining information on spirituality practices by reading books....videos etc 18 Staying away unhealthy things like drugs, alcohol, smoking, porn, violence, 19. Less attention to politics 20 keeping away from toxic people/persons and negativity 21. Reducing people pleasing behaviour 22.. Developing a sense of humor and engaging in laughter therapy. And.. Not spending much time on And enjoying simple pleasures .... playing... just 2 mins okay

Self-actualization is important for everyone. In fact those who suffer need it more than others. If not then, it's like saying people need better health care but not the patients. That would be so ironic. Prisoners need self-development in addition to extensive therapy. Because they suffer from an entire spectrum of mental illnesses caused by the unpleasant jail conditions and lack of family support. Most folks in prison actually come from economically backward sections of society and have had been raised in dysfunctional family/social conditions. And therefore they need support, therapy and different ways of engaging their time productively. In fact they've lot of time on their hands that can be used for mental recuperation and rehabilitation. And self-actualization techniques would work wonders for rehab patients.

Isn't the Conscious mind the source of all misery. And the Subconscious mind is the source of intuition and knowledge. The subconscious mind helps in self actualization. Then drop the Conscious mind and start listening to the voice of the Subconscious mind. Although not that easy but give a try. Our conscious mind is fooling us and we're allowing it to fool us. Let your subconscious talk to you and you try to listen to it. How abt that.

You're right. Thank You so much. I always took meditation for granted. Now I need to take it seriously. Thank you so much. Your wisdom is so powerful. It helps a lot. Thank you.