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@Knock Perhaps you are being overworked. It is the employer's job to get the most work out of you for the least money after all. If it up to you whether it's true. I understand that's the issue, you don't know whether it's true or not. But it is generally a good idea to trust your feelings.

If Capitalism is Stage Orange, then Gary Vaynerchuk is absolutely pure Orange.

@Gligorije Experiment with different therapists. Psychologists etc are only trained in textbook practices and common trends in emotional damage. Very few have solved their own internal issues, 99% of the time it is the blind (with a textbook) leading the blind. Find a fantastic therapist.

What do you mean 'after'?

I like Jordan Peterson, but I have one annoyance with him. For someone who wrote a 564-page book on belief systems, he has done a terrible job of letting go of his own.

If every politician in the world became enlightened, we'd still have politics. It wouldn't disappear overnight.

@B_Naz Is sleep egoistic because you feel tired? Is eating egoistic because you feel hungry? That's it, you're right. In my pursuit of no-ego, I will no longer sleep, eat or meditate. That would be selfish.

Calm down.

@aurum Life purpose is nailed down. Diet is okay, it is not the focus right now though. But maybe it should be. The productive habits you mentioned aren't done as much as they should be, but they're still active. Love what you said about treating it like an isolated incident, that rings VERY true.

Hello! I've been thinking alot about my addictions recently. My big addictions are gaming and youtube. I know that I must limit my consumption of these, but I fail to create the outcome I desire from monitoring them. You see, either I don't limit them enough, or I purge them and dive head first into an ego backlash. I won't touch them for a week, and then for the next week I do nothing but be a slob. On the other hand, if I make small incremental changes, they don't stick either. I play games for 20 minutes less than I normally do, then I think to myself "Whats the worse thing that could happen if I keep playing for another 20 minutes?" So I keep going, and 20 minutes turns into an hour, then an hour turns into the rest of the day. Mind you, I don't want to completely stop these activites. I love exploring new worlds and learning through youtube, I just indulge in it. Is it possible comsume pleasures without overindulging?

I like the word 'yes'. It's a strange answer, but hear me out. Yes means affirmative, positive. It also is used as an agreement, an acceptance of a statement. It is an acknowledgement directed into the positive. You could ask god any question, and his answer would be yes. It would also be no, but I like yes more

@d0ornokey fixed

You have a few options; 1. Get out of the pool, 2. Swim to the bottom of the pool, look for pockets of air. Or my favourite: 3. Play with the shit, smear it on the walls and laugh. Don't take your bathing too seriously. These are not entirely 'joke answers'. From a symbolic perspective, those are some classic ways people have dealt with your issue (well, not so successfully with #2, Lol). You're clearly productive enough to be happy when things are going your way. But when you lose sight of that you fall back into indulgence. Classic ego backlash. I know exactly what you're talking about, I'm there more than I'd like to admit. Leo has a great technique for dealing with ego backlashes (at least that's what I use it for). You can find it here.

All at once, 10 sceptics get up and leave this forum thinking we're some kind of cult now. Lol.

No distinctions.

We're all just apes playing with keyboards. Not too worrying I presume?

If you stick to shorter sessions I think you will be fine. I have at least a family history of schizophrenia too and it hasn't been a problem for tripping or this exercise. Obviously that might not hold true for you, but the breathing is not as intense as psychedelics and you can stop practing whenever you like if you get worried. You will be okay, start at 10 minutes. Then do 20, then do 30. If you are comfortable with 30, then go longer and be extra careful around the hour + mark like Leo mentioned. The breathing is a controllable technique, unlike psychedelics, I think it will be good for you.

Yep. But if you feel yourself wanting to move your hands around either hold them still or finish the session. You almost certainly wont lose control and hurt yourself.

Yo this method is legit. Feel very concious after that. Pay attention, shit gets weird towards the end of this post. I'm like 5 minutes fresh out of my first session. Played some tribal drumming and practed for 30 minutes. For the first few minutes nothing happened, which is perfect for practicing the method so that you can keep the rhythm going. Then my conciousness began to focus, a little bit of tingling in the hands. Nothing out of the ordinary. This built up gradually over the course of 15 minutes, i was very focused, but struggled to maintain a steady rhythm breathing. At around the 20 minute mark, my torso and upper back started convulsing. I was moving around like I was possessed, it was concious, I was controlling the movement, but I was compelled to do it in a way i cant fully describe. It wasn't harsh movements, ver comfortable, but significant. It was like i had too much energy and needed to release it. That stopped after a few minutes, then i felt fibration in my right cheek. Intense. It spread to my nose and mouth. Then my whole head, i tried moving the vibration around my body, and i could conciously control it! What the fuck?! Eventually it settled on my chest, upper back and head and became more and more intense. I came to realise that it was real movement, not just a feeling. I was actually vibrating. If you were looking at me, it wouldnt have been noticable, it was very small vibrations, like on the atomic level, but very intense. It felt like every wave of vibration was like a frame of the universe, just like how tvs run at 25 frames per second, my body felt like it ran at 300 frames per second. I did this right before bed, might experience some weird dreams. Cant wait to find out!

@Star Net Disney's Tarzan. It is all about growing from being a boy into a man. His relationship with his gorilla mother and father and Jane is very symbolic.

He's technically right, in that Jihad is about a struggle with yourself and how Islam was founded as a pointer to the truth. The problem is that 99.99999% of Muslims do not see it that way. In the same way, 99.99999% of Christians do not see their faith properly either. They hold an ideology, not the truth, no matter how much they believe their ideology to be the truth. Recently, I've been noticing that Leo is trying to apply the absolute to the limited perspective of the human form, I don't think it will work as well as expected. Just as a hand cannot grasp itself, the grasping is not the hand either (even though the grasp contains the hand). The truth is the truth but it is not complete when bounded in a human form, is that not why Mahasamaddhi exists? So, what does the absolute really have to do with the current iteration of Islam? Very little.

Yep. Personality results change all the time. I've had a different result every time I took the Myers Briggs, and I've done it four times. The results that it gives you have only a little bit more value than your horoscope. After all, when was the last time anyone took a personality test and felt an immediate shift in the quality of their life? Probably never.

You may have heard about how Einstein discovered his theory of general relativity and his other discoveries through thought experiments. All of his greatest discoveries were pulled out of his thought experiments. Would you call this a kind of siddhi? Could it be practiced and developed like one? Does this phenomena already have a name?

@Nahm Oops, meant to post this link http://www.businessinsider.com/5-of-albert-einsteins-thought-experiments-that-revolutionized-science-2016-7//?r=AU&IR=T/#imagine-youre-chasing-a-beam-of-a-light-1

@NoSelfSelf Here's a good one.