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@The Don Be conscious about how you feel when you get anxious. I still get social anxiety a fair bit, but I used to be WAY WORSE. Most people I've talked to feel anxiety differently, some feel it in their throat. Sometimes they can't stop their hands from shaking. Personally, I fidget. I incessantly fidget. I scratch my nose, adjust my posture, it's horribly obvious. I also feel the need to shit, really bad. Especially in the lead-up to the event, but once I'm there it goes away. If you can identify exactly how you feel, that will help a lot. Next, don't shy away from situations where you would feel anxious. You need to confront them with awareness, and the intention to alleviate the symptoms. That's what works for me at least. Hope it helps.

@Hansu Try working at your local University. There's a good vibe for getting things done there.

I really liked the passage from Leo's latest blog posts. Does anyone know any other great examples of biblical texts referencing nonduality? Open to all sacred texts - not just the bible of course.

Infinitely.

@Ruby White That picture is great. I love the fact that Orange is making a parallax error, meaning he is observing his measurements from the wrong perspective ;). But the hard scientist would never accept that.

@Sea I've oversimplified, but the idea is still there. The green people he 'hates' are the particularly 'bad' greens, there are very many healthy greens out there. For example, you can care about political correctness by understanding the position they're coming from. You don't have to share it, but you must understand the underlying logic and that it is not 'evil'.

You can ascend to green without being for PC or Social Justice. Instead, an in-depth understanding of those causes and a mild 'sympathy' is needed instead. Green's problems are it's ideological possession, as Leo said in his orange video. So you actually hate the negatives of green, not it's positives. You don't hate the positives, you said yourself you didn't 'care' about them. So a caring for the causes is required, but not possession by the cause. You see?

@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.