Loreena

Beautiful men appreciation thread. Lot of beautiful men on this forum. Appreciate such beauty All men and women here are beautiful.

A few years back, I was on medication for my health issues that caused me to suffer from asthma and brain damage at that time. My concentration was very high in school when I was thirteen. It has significantly lowered since then. I would like to regain it back to the same previous level. Any tips (both dietary, exercises, mental) will be very helpful. Thanks in advance.

My name is Loreena Frankl and I'm Christian. Rural Texas.

@Dizzy Thank you.

@Dizzy I have a question. This felt like a basic non-dual experience to me. Did you feel good while having this trip. What was your emotional state ? You said you felt everything was, your hand was you, you were the water, and you said you had no emotions, wouldn't that feel very passive or robotic like dead. How is that feeling beautiful ? If you had no emotions, it means you neither felt good nor bad, just like a statue. Mundane and unaffected. How helpful was such an experience in real life as you were coming out of the trip ? It's like a " Zero Experience" or "No Experience," right? ...How is that a good experience. It's like you are temporarily cut off from life.

You have a tremendously high intellectual maturity as per your age when you started with PD. I would rate you 10 out of 10 on the scale of intellectual maturity, whereas most people cannot even make it to 5. Either you have to be a genius or it must be a lot of work you put in early on. So I was wondering maybe you started out with PD pretty early on, just speculating. Did you start reading PD books as early as 16 or 17. When did you actually start. And do you think it was reading PD books that boosted your intellectual growth/maturity to a very high level. If not that, then it must be an in-born skill which obviously others cannot acquire very easily.

This forum helped me to learn social dynamics and things that I was not very aware of before like shadow work, jhanaa meditation, enlightenment stuff. I had no idea about enlightenment before joining. After being here I am better at distinguishing high conscious from low conscious behavior. I was not even aware of a lot of the new age spiritual gurus and teachers. This forum introduced me to Adyashanti and now he is my favorite. Before joining the only ones I knew were Sadguru,Osho and Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh

Well now that we know that experience never ends, how about making the most out of the experiences we have . Like Nahm said, eat well, exercise, practice spirituality and enrich the experience you're already having. Btw imo everything is experience. Without experience there's nothing, nothing at all. Experience is king. We may say lot of words, but at the end, what really matters is what we're experiencing right now in this moment. We may try hard to collect all information in the world and attend all kinds of workshops to learn a lot, that learning will remain a learning until we really begin to experience the benefits of it. What matters is what and how you feel in the here and the now. If this experience isn't good, it's not really working out. Experience is the key.

Why not. You should try it. If that's what you are passionate about, then you should focus on it. But always have a plan B in place if things don't work out.

@Raphael I eat everything lol, bread, biscuits, ice cream, cake. Just yesterday I had 5 cupcakes lol. When I make something I add sugar, sauces, salt everything. I don't want to lose out on the fun just yet. I eat lot of macaroni, fries, chips and everything else. I like it. Maybe after a certain age, I might need to restrict but don't want too many restrictions. I am living this life once. Don't want to miss out the goodies for a while.

You have a job and you love to do it, considering there are so many jobless people on this planet. Anyway, it gets okay after the phase is over. Take a look. This video is good.

@Peace and Love Interesting indeed and thank you so much for sharing. Romantic energy is the most vibrant kind of energy. It's like fire. The flame of passion. If you allow the fire to consume you, you get destroyed but if use this passion to ignite a mission,you achieve great heights. I think this is the gist of the post. Good information.

@Key Elements Thank you for sharing. Wonderful review.

Everyone is free to have their own meaning of love.Btw, speaking of definitions, you have already created your own definition of unconditional love. Look below in your own words. Your definition of unconditional love is that it should even mean loving and hugging Hitler and rapists. Now that's already a definition.

If you want love to conform to your expectations of what unconditional love is/should be, it is nothing but setting conditions to it again, testing to see if it matches your criteria.

Why would such an expectation be that one should love everyone and everything without a single restriction. Wouldn't that expectation itself then become conditional. And where does such an all encompassing love fit into the paradigm of personal freedom. Why would a person be expected to love without freedom ? He/she should be free to love anyone in anyway they want. Now that itself is unconditional enough. Love is to be never tested. A love that has to conform in order for to be accounted as unconditional is analogous to an exam that needs to be passed to show merit. Where will you set the boundaries. How will you decide. Love that comes naturally is already unconditional. To test it in the fire pit of unconditionality is to put conditions on it.

Well unconditional love also includes tough love which means that when someone does something wrong, they need to be shown the right path. So when your mother loves you unconditionally she really wants the best for you and so when she gets angry at you, she is still reflecting her unconditional love for you, the only thing is she wants you to do the right thing. So unconditional love will teach the rapist to not rape and to not kill. Punishment is also a part of the same love.

@Preetom Because we always focus on our lower needs rather than our higher needs. This makes us primitive and dysfunctional. Also our education system is not equipped in turning us into healthy self actualized functional individuals. @pluto what kind of distortion.

Read my review of your book. I hope you'll like it.

Mindfulness Why Time Is An Illusion by MARC GEROUX this is a fantastic book and everyone should get it. So a big thumbs up. Its available at amazon and you can get it right away. I had to dowmload, read it, write review all within a short time. it talks about how time is an illusion and it may not really be the way we think it is. My favorite line from the book is “there exists only the present instant. There is no yesterday, nor any tomorrow, but only Now.” The other golden line from this book is each fleeting moment is just a fresh incarnation in awareness. There is a wonderful quote by Prof William James "..the thoughts themselves are the thinkers." The self is an identity created by us. it is gradually developed through our past moments. The thoughts we have become objects because we identify strongly with them and these thoughts then become the basis or foundation of who we are. We use time and mostly our past to create an identity for ourselves which is generally false. our materialistic lifestyle has resulted into excessive thinking and analysis. Much of this book may have been inspired by Tolle's work so Tolle fans like me would indeed love it, To consider thoughts as real brings immense suffering. This is where mindfulness meditation comes handy. chapter 2 talks about the origin of mindfulness meditation. Chapter 3 tells about the benefits of mindfulness meditation . It helps the brain like changes in size of amygdala, reduced levels of C-reactive protein and many other body-mind benefits, the benefits even extend to diseases like cancer. HIV, fibromyalgia, tinnitus, ADHD, anxiety, depression, IBS and a host of other problems including addictions. It also benefits communication in relationships and increases the level of closeness among partners. Chapter 4 deals with meditation basics and ways to achieve mindfulness. Chapter 5 gives a layout of techniques to gain access to the now. These access points are called portals. Different ways of accessing the portals to the now have been explained in depth I had to write this review in a jiffy( so you can all get it quick) so I know there are formatting(and grammar) errors. Apologize for that. Thank you for creatinng this wonderful gem of a book. Happy Reading.

In some ways its true because humans are continuously destroying the environment which is a great gift that we take for granted. So the gift is ruining the gift. I acknowledge that whatever I say is not a fact but my belief. (Your ex must have been just as crazy as me. :-D) We have ruined it not realizing that ultimately our own selfish acts will end up destroying us. What do you call this kind of destruction. It's self destruction. We as humans are unaware of what we do and that's why we do what we do.

No it's not bad. Its a bonus. But how do you develop a good ego and at the same time try to transcend it through non-duality. It's like a paradox, confusing and contradictory. So I wanted to know how you go about it in practice ??

It can't be proved whether God created this universe, time,space, humans. It is we who have created this concept. I do believe in God because I feel to do so however I don't believe that he created everything to satisfy himself just like a painter creates a masterpiece, not to complete himself but to create his art and express himself. This universe is God's gift, a masterpiece, a creation and in everything that you see around you God is manifested in some way, except we humans who are cunning enough to manipulate that manifestation in us. Yeah, we kinda ruined the gift. So the answer is, an artist is already complete and doesn't need his art to complete himself.

So basically how do you do it ?