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Okay so I’ve been doing cold showers for the last 30 days straight every morning and plan on continuing to do so. Cold showers I find are one of the most powerful ways to enhance your direction and attitude. I find cold showers reset the nervous system and rebalance the minds state. Creating a collapse of all things that may have happened over night or the previous days. It’s like they completely clean eliminate all that was. However, cold showers should be a conscious process. Cold showers should be done while directing body awareness throughout your body so total awareness and tension loss can unfold. I find them very beneficial. Best time is in the morning too. Where mediation is a slower entering of the present moment. It can take some time with mediation where cold showers are more instant.

Hi everyone, Just a few questions. So I’ve been meditating fairly consistently for sometime now. Over the last several months I’ve bumped my meditation up to twice a day. However, at times quite often I find thoughts pervade my meditation. Restricting the depth that I feel I can go in my sessions. My sessions are quite pleasant. They just never seem deep and I feel it is to do with too much background noise within the mind. I was just curious if anyone has any tips for enhancing depth of mediation. Ps. main style of meditation is TM. And secondly, I’m new to the psychedelic game and feel I am willing to begin experimenting. I’ve done my pondering and research over the last few years and now feel confident enough for self experiment. My question is, where should one start being new to psychedelics? What type, quantity, precautions and where to find them etc? people who have maybe had some experience here would be great to hear from! Thanks in advance!

Does anyone find when they meditate or situate themself still they can enter a more profound, deeper and pleasant form of experience. I find I can still my mind and bodily functions more optimally with my eyes open. My favourite method is simply stare into object in the distance until it dissolves and you begin entering a state of pleasant blankness. I call this Concentration Stillness, so powerful. Anyone have similar experiences?

@Jack River exactly right. Closing your eyes feels like a less authentic and fluid way to become stilled. I actually find staring into nothingness with eyes open distracts me less than with eyes closed.

Yeah typically I use an object to focus one and let my perception dissolve into it until I become blank. Then allow my awareness to go through my entire experience. I feel it’s such an important thing to raise awareness through open eye exercises. We are so used to having our eyes open that we forget the dilusions in how we see things.

Interesting. I feel open eyed meditation is undermined. Considering 90% of waking life is open eyed you would think there would be huge focus here to build composure.

@Lynnel thank you! Enjoyable read. Some useful stuff too. @outlandish could not agree more. I feel it is the the normal process after a relationship. Which in some aspects shows that the person had significance. I’ll be moving interstate in 4 months. So I think that will provide some more abundance.

Hi everyone, just a quick back story. I’ve recently come out of a one year relationship (longest one for me) haha. I’m currently going through some slight discomforts such as fixations of my ex partner and some regrets. However, I have deeply evaluated this area and I’m in a very good place when it comes to my future. More time to work on myself. More time to focus on my career. More time for building new connections and expanding social network. So many benefits. But in the midst of all this I still find my self emotionally struck. As if there is a battle wound that requires time to heal. My dealings with break ups is much better than the how so in the past. Still I have my struggles though. In this particular situation I believe it’s my inner insercruities and not my ex partner causing the issues. As I don’t really miss her, I dislike the the created void. We broke it off very well and respectfully went our seperate ways. Although, I was not as fully committed to relationship as I could have been. So this contributed to our split. I feel it is time to really deeply dive into my past, as my childhood through being adopted was not the most pleasant. I have done a lot of work on my past but feel there is much to go. So my main question here is, what are some of the best transformational ways to moving through that hump period of a break up? I do daily meditation and reflection but feel I should incorporate other specific strategies for this scenario. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am not the most experienced relationshipee! Haha

I’ve been collecting and noting down a lot of personal material and writing pieces and fundamental areas of life for well being over the last few years on my journey of self development. I’m wanting to implement these utilitarian perspectives and material into a book, onto a website, blogs and useful products or through other avenues. My main issue is not to have it largely fabricated by a superficial brand approach that is heavily within modern consumerism, capitalism and commodification. I don’t want become a brand the collective can identify with for fulfilment but rather an assistive tool for guidance that can be sat aside once embodied. I’ve studied a bit of business, economics, capitalism and currently doing psychology. And hoping to provide something useful that can help others. My question, is there a practically beneficial way to begin a stable business and service of this type without over superfialising it? And what are some handy ways to begin?

@Prabhaker could not agree more. It is paramount the deconstructing processs through self realisation and transcendence.

A week ago I had reflective reminiscence of childhood that almost brought me to tears of joy. In reflection of childhood experience we may tend to undermine the symbolic features that entailed wonderless and joy. The inertia we have when maneuvering our way through the ambundancy of that which we refer to as reality. Sounds, images, sensations that are indescribable as children yet bring such ecstasy through experience. Something as simple as climbing a tree, searching for anonymate objects or chasing flying insects, successively brings fourth an ambiance that is far beyond comprehension. These experiences as children demonstrate how profound we would look at the external, though as we age things become categorised and limited, formulated in such a way they can lose potential. It's so misfortunate that as the human mechanism develops it moves from an abundant lens of wonder to logical machine dissecting the reality in which we experience. In use of intellectual pragmatism for for the sole of survival this is necessary, although this shouldn't need to be the same implementation for wellbeing. This movement is a must needed change, the wisdom of childhood is something adults must re-embellish to embody unorchestrated equanimity. The joys of being a child does not mean replicating that of a child, rather shifting into a place of wonder and innocent observation without perpetuating ideas and accumulated beliefs. This is one of my most sincere wishes for humanity.

I have been for quite some time evaluating, self reflecting and compiling ideas and concepts on the fundamentals to being a great communicator. In some conversations, I feel a sense of instability and unsurirty in speech. I would like to develop my communication to degrees that defuse debates or aggressive conversations, ensure comfortability, strong correlation to intention, empathy, passion, humbleness, respect, passiveness and most importantly as little ego as possible. In some of my interactions though there is a sense of manipulation involved, where I feel consumed to respond to ensure there isn't misinterpretation. And in others in some circumstances I feel the need to reclaim myself after receiving inaccurate assumptions. I do not personally consider debates generally useful. I prefer to have constructive and passive conversations. Unfortunately in some conversations I haven't fully equipped myself with all the characteristics I listed earlier. Although I have vastly improved over the years, I have so much more proggression to be made. My goal really is to be in any conversation possible with anyone and be as transparent and passive as possible without be completely undermined. fors any one have advice on communication? How to communicate better? Or defuse hostile and debating based conversations?

Thank you for your insight @Solace I believe I watched Leo's communication video quite some time ago. I'll have another look @onacloudynight

That is the plan in the coming months. Though I look at him as a good friend and would like to have healthy interactions without the concerns of bigoted agenda coming into conversation. Do you have recommend any conversation tactics for when this happens?

A friend Iv been living with for several years now has made a major shift in lifestyle over the last year which has seen things with the household and surrounding experiences change. Specifically my intereactuin with him. He has converted to Islam to my knowledge. I do not see a problem with this, though I am cautious in conversation as sime things are not taken as lightly as others. He use to produce music and be heavily into the hip-hop scene, drink, party etc. and now doesn't touch a drop of alcohol, listen to music or dance. Rather he now has very structured morale and ethics on society. I'm happy for him but also concerned as it can be hard to conduct conversations at times. I have had beautiful conversations with him and very dysfunctional ones. His nature can be so kind and caring one moment then so hateful and domineering not long after. I steer away from debates, though his heavy political ideologs that he brings to almost every conversation urge me me to respond and make unnecessary comments at times. I still feel heavily ego influenced in conversations and experience triggering in some conversations. The main issue here is that I've been finding quite a debilitation on my sense of self recently and how I perceive things and interact. Usually this would not be of so much concern but recently things have changed. I sometime notice his strong morals and views have rubbed off on to me when I initiate in conversation with others and do certain activities. I feel like my sense of self is being manipulated into questionsing my own processes too irrationally. I usually have clear trajectory on my views but of recent it's been a little unstable in interaction with my friend, which is harming many other areas. I would lastly like to note I am dealing with health issues on my immune system which is causing fatigue anxiety and chronic bowel issues. my question is how does one interact with individuals highly dogmatic and irratic? He is quite smart in conversation and can use manipulation in language well, I feel compelled to respond when I know I shouldn't. Sometimes I feel the urge to deconstruct his views but I know that is ego so I avoid this at all costs. Should I make grounds clear on no unnecessary conversation for now or is there a method of conversation with highly ethical, political and moralistic individuals?

I just was curious if anyone has experimented with Leo's Shamanic breathing exercise? I did it earlier tonight, only lasted around 10 minutes, but wow I was quite surprised of the physiological sensations. My mouth went tingly, the muscles in my lips kept tightening and relaxing,. Arms and legs went tingly, and my body sort of stiffened when moving. I didn't notice any psychological differences except for a short period of calmness 5-10 post breathing. Although the breathing was only 10 minutes I checked my timer at 6 and a half minutes due to the sudden sensations and anxiousness that rose. I'm considering doing tomorrow at 10 minutes and then breaking it up weekly like Leo suggested. I see large potential in this excercise, after having explicit experiences in a minimal time period. any tips or shared experiences would be great as I would like to improve time duriatiob and continue this practice.

@Truth Addict did you find anything significant experienced after it? Or reckon you will do it again?

@Leo Gura do you believe this could be used before meditation to help initiate a more extensive session? If so, could it be done daily before each meditation session? For example 5-10 minutes before a 20 minute meditation session.

I did it earlier tonight, only lasted around 10 minutes, but wow I was quite surprised of the physiological sensations. My mouth went tingly, the muscles in my lips kept tightening and relaxing,. Arms and legs went tingly, and my body sort of stiffened when moving. I didn't notice any psychological differences except for a short period of calmness 5-10 post breathing. Although the breathing was only 10 minutes I checked my timer at 6 and a half minutes due to the sudden sensations and anxiousness that rose. I'm considering doing tomorrow at 10 minutes and then breaking it up weekly like Leo suggested. I see large potential in this excercise, after having explicit experiences in a minimal time period. any tips or shared experiences would be great as I would like to improve time duriatiob and continue this practice.

@Prabhaker the problem is he didn't understand the inflection point of passing through the ego process. He thinks Identity from the outside world is necessity for the entirety of ones life. He doesn't believe in a journey from the ego because identity from the outside is all he thinks there is. There fore in a paradigm of never understanding the self but from outside stimulus.

Hi Everyone, This is my first post here. I've been in and out of personal development over the last few years but more recently the last few months I've been taking it on more regularly. As I am aware it is a long journey in this work. My question is how do we deconstruct the ego? So basically I keep coming back to this topic of the Ego being the soul deriver of all emotional issues. The reason it keeps surfacing for me is due to my continual awareness and consciousness growing and making it easier to see where the ego is at fault for day to day circumstances. I feel a lot of guilt and sometimes shame after preventing any of my ego affiliated issues. Even though deep down I have this clarity that it is doing my inner level benefit it doesn't remove the negativity immediately afterwards. I've been trying to install a meditation habit to help build consciousness towards my negative egotistical behaviours. But so far I haven't been able to tap into it as of yet. I feel more then just being aware and building consciousness I need other infrastructures to help reconstruct my ego. Im minimising social media and trying to give my self adequate time of an evening for reflection, reading, meditation and so on. It's just so distracting when working a full time job, having a relationship and being in an environment that doesn't coincide with my mental movement. It's not that I have certain individuals attempting to push me off course it's just the mundane societal issues that make it continually hard and distracting for progression. any suggestions or onsights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

@Prabhaker Due to your ambiguous insights previously on this thread. Just would like to ask a question on identity. I have recently spoke with a friend on identity, he can't see beyond conventional perspectives that the outside world like culture, religion, science, society define our identity. I was trying to explain to him that these things are visual descriptions and accumulations and can help us to operate in the world and maybe give insight to biography but do not constitute who we are. He seems to think, as many do, that if it were not for these things you would be lost and unable to operate. I was trying to explain identifying with the outside only causes limitation to well being potential consciousness, that many identify with their thoughts and learnt knowledge causing blindness to what is undescribable. could you please eluducate on identification and the issues within it? And how society should operate with identity?

@Prabhaker due to your ambiguous insights previously on this thread. Just would like to ask a question on identity. I have recently spoke with a friend on identity, he can't see beyond conventional perspectives that the outside world like culture, religion, science, society define our identity. I was trying to explain to him that these things are visual descriptions and accumulations and can help us to operate in the world and maybe give insight to biography but do not constitute who we are. He seems to think, as many do, that if it were not for these things you would be lost and unable to operate. I was trying to explain identifying with the outside only causes limitation to well being potential consciousness, that many identify with their thoughts and learnt knowledge causing blindness to what is undescribable. could you please eluducate on identification and the issues within it? And how society should operate with identity?

Does anyone doing personal development feel experiences of unsatisfaction within their environments and circumstances and ego battle? I've been for the last year largely cutting down on materialism and deceptive activities. Although I continue to come back to this place of inadequacy with humanity and ego battle. I feel Humanity is so over privileged, deceptive and over prioritised and fuels ego. I feel being amongst humans and the saturating interactions harbours the beauty in experiences. Being so conditioned from birth to over look other things and orientate around humanity I feel blinds the potential beauty that can be witnessed and felt every day. I don't think humanity is evil or not necessary, I just feel the immense euphoria cannot be embodied merely by orientations around humanity conventionally. My trajectory is towards holistic appreciation and gratification in the most simplest things possible and the ability to interact amongst humanity with as little deception as possible minimising the fuelling of ego. But the human saturation makes this so difficult. How does one prevail to hit this inflection point and go beyond when so induced by human involvement?

@Nahm I see where you are coming from. I do agree think having a good infrastructure while doing this work is fundamental. Just not getting lost in the outside world is the difficult part. Finding that balance that works is important for every individual. Thank you for your feedback ??