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I might buy this book, looks really interesting. Have you guys read this book and do you consider it valuable?

Much love dude. Either way you show it, we all know you have the best intentions and just want to help. Thanks for participating on this forum.

Right now I’m contemplating something that has (I think) always been at the basis of experiencing myself. There is always a feeling of worthlessness, brokenness, weakness, and inferiorness present in my experience. It’s something that for long I’ve taken granted as the experience of ‘me’. Sometimes when this self feels threatened, it comes very strongly to the foreground. When it feels relatively safe it is still in my background experience. Uncovering the Truth about this will radically alter and change the person that I feel myself to be since this is one of the most intimate parts of my self-experience. So, I have been contemplating it’s origin for a long time and these last of couple weeks daily. I don’t know how to deal with it’s defense mechanisms. The two that I’ve noticed mostly is sudden sleepiness and losing the consciousness of this feeling in my experience. I suddenly cannot sense it anymore. It feels like my questions go nowhere and my focus cannot pinpoint what is the target of the contemplation. How do I deal with defense mechanisms?

@Rachityczny I'm almost similar with what you're going through. Also 19 and trying to find my way. Wish you the best on your journey. Be loving on yourself and work to understand your fears and barriers that keep you stuck. Very important, focus on understanding them instead of solving them.

Beautiful, Nahm, thank you for sharing this story and helping that woman. I bet you just opened up an entire new world for her.

Yesss dude, James is the man. Love the whole TNL team.

@Shin What do you mean? if this is what @Shroomdoctor feels like, why can't we discus it and possibly help him dispel some of the issues he has?

@Patrick Lynam People experience life through the set ways their body-minds view the world. It’s a bit like everyone is living in their own dimension. Ralph experiences the world a certain way. Leo experiences the world a certain way. You experience the world a certain way.

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Rupert Spira once talked about this when I was at one of his lectures. He has never, ever shared something about his work to his son unless he would ask him about it, and he hasn't yet. His take on it was that the search for Truth is something you should organically come to when everything else has failed you. Unless his son would ask him directly, it was not the right time. However, in his day to day life every interaction he has with his son and his behaviour around him is driven by Truth. In other words, decide for yourself if you want to tell them directly but in the meantime, convey this Truth indirectly by embodying it. Deep down your vibration will have effect on them. By embodying it yourself you free the world.

An insight I’ve gotten recently is that in order for life to exist, there has to be a movement of some sort. If there is complete stillness, something dies. Think of the heart for example. What interested me a lot is that this also is true for falsehood. In order for a lie or untruth to exist, it has to be on a constant run. Distraction, manipulation, avoidance. Does this mean that physical life is some sort of lie relative to the Absolute? I feel this insight is premature, but nonetheless significant

Thanks everyone for commenting your thoughts and opinions on this topic. I will continue to become more authentic and get aligned with my own personal style. One day I will get to the point where I know how to heal and free myself. I will then heal and free other people. Everyone good luck on their own journeys!

Lately, I feel a sort of stress and anxiety when I watch Actualized.org content. For me there is this sort of undertone that you need to become a certain type of person or acquire these spiritual trophies to become worthy as a human being. These past few months, I've been deeply questioning what worth and goodness exactly is. It's left me quite confused. Are you a better person when you become more conscious and live a 'self-actualized life?' It seem to me that self-actualization is an ideal and in the process of working towards that ideal you suffer every time you seem to go the other way. Maybe it's just that right now I am working through a lot of things that are making me project onto Leo's content, but this is the vibe I've been feeling recently. What do you guys think about this?

Yes this has been a very important process for me this year. Before I had been almost copying other people's styles because of an inner issue that stemmed from me thinking I'm worthless and thus my own style would be that too. Thank you for your message, Joseph

I mean if you were to compare someone who does nothing their vs someone who achieves all the bells and wistles and trophies. Is there inherently someone more worthy of love and worthy of existing at all? Are you okay right now?

I was born with empathic abilities and highly sensitive. What I realised on my journey is that to be able to handle people’s emotions means first being able to have an unconditional openness for your own emotions. When you feel this openness in yourself, naturally you hold an openness for other people’s emotions. By being able to do that you are not constantly getting triggered by their emotions. They have an openness that they can play out in. Remove resistance and you’ll naturally be able to experience other’s emotions in not such an overstimulating fashion.

One is tense because he thinks that is what will serve him the other is more loose because he thinks that will serve him. It's the same dynamic but only on different sides

@Aquarius Oh, I’m interested. What is your cultural background?

@Shin You need to watch out with talking the way you're talking. I know you mean well, I've known you for quite a while, but you need to watch out with telling people what to do. The only way you know about the situation is through the couple things she said over text and so you create the situation in your mind filtered through your own biases. Without having a full grasp of what is going on you are just going with whatever stereotypical scenario you associate with what's happening. When you say: "Do this.", "Don't contact this person again.", some people can't take your messages into context with what you know and just plainly act with whatever you tell them what to do. Be careful with that, it could end up hurting people in the process. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just found this important to express.

So, last night I heard from my father that it is now certain that his friend will die in less than a year from the spreading of cancer throughout his entire system. I'm a natural empath so this struck me very deep. I vaguely remember people talking about healing cancer a while back on the forum so I'm here to ask for your help. @Natasha Do you guys have any suggestions or information on alternative treatment to the general medical one? I might look arrogant to the people around me for coming with different methods and being the 'one who knows better' but I don't care. I met this man a couple times and he was very friendly and honest. He means a lot to my father so I want to help. It would mean the world to me of people here can list their ideas.

@Michael569 @ajasatya @Hellspeed @Natasha@non_nothing @pluto @kieranperez Thanks to everyone of you for your reply. Perhaps you are not conscious of it, but this information here could potentially save a life. I’m grateful for that. I will link this page to my father’s friend.

Hi guys, The last 3 years I have been meditating daily with about an average of 1 hour a day. My overal awareness over my emotions, thoughts, and other experiences has definitely elevated to a point where I can say it is really effecting my life in a hugely positive way. But, what I've noticed is that even with concentration practice on the side and trying out different styles of meditation, because of my ADD brain I don't feel like my concentration has increased significantly enough relative to the time I've spent every day. What this topic is about and what I want to ask you guys is if you have any idea or suggestions which form of meditation styles are effective specifically among people with ADD. If you have any alternative suggestions to what I could try concerning this, that is also fine. I'd say I'm pretty much on top of my game with nutrition. I eat mostly a whole food plant based diet which has definitely helped me with my overal energy levels and brain fog, but then again, did not effect my capacity to improve my concentration I feel like. Nootropics is also something I should look into but the thought of having to use a substance to increase my performance doesn't sit with me as well as doing it through a certain practice or method. But, if there is no other way, I will give it a shot. Thanks for your time.

@Michael569 Started with skincancer. then it spreaded to his lungs, lymphatic system and now possibly brain. It's stage 4.

@aurum I got tested for it when I was about 12 years old so that's all I can go on for now. That and my lack of concentration and the deep cognitive dissonance I feel with change, and planning. @Leo Gura Hopefully my insurance can cover it. If Neurofeedback can change the way my brain works and how I feel on a daily basis, I'm forever grateful for that suggestion. That and Surya Kriya I will be starting soon. Thank you.

@Hellspeed Very funny but it's not in my control even if I wanted it to be. I can sit and go meditate for 2 hours a day but that wouldn't change the fact that my genetical makeup is so that my concentration is inherently awful.