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@Preety_India I'm just about to go to bed just now, but I will do tomorrow

@Gianna So funny!! You crossed my mind as I was posting the thread, funnily enough, I wondered if you might find it useful I'll have to give Leo's video a watch too, I'm sure he has some illuminating things to say on the subject

The video below just came up in my Youtube recommendations and I found it very informative, so figured I'd share it here for anyone who's interested:

@ivankiss Yep, that about sums it up! ?????

@ivankissRecord this killer riff on your phone and link it up, I want to know what God sounds like!* Just kidding, bro, just kidding *Actually I already know, He sounds like David Gilmour playing a Strat.

Not being beautiful, I can only speculate - but I imagine you'd get lots of unwanted attention for a start, plus people are liable to have all sorts of preconceptions about you (like you're just a pretty face, for example) and will struggle to see past your physical beauty. I know it might seem like a great blessing to be beautiful, but it seems to me that it's very much a double-edged sword.

@Natasha And what's worse, now you're the designated pissing driver

Well this has all the makings of a quite monumental let-down, Ivan, but I'm all ears! Oh and don't go doing anything silly like making me wait a week to hear it, you've got 24 hours or I'm sending the Feds round for a quiet chat!

Yeah, that's how I've started to feel about it, too - it was initially hugely frustrating, but then I started to think it was actually a blessing in disguise. Coming on here can become an addiction like anything else.

Speaking for the majority of the forum there, I suspect ?

@Giulio Bevilacqua Good plan

As perverse as it might sound, the fact the pain got worse could actually be a sign that it's working - it often gets worse before it gets better.

I'm noticing more activity in the upper part of my chest at the moment, which is a new development as far as I can remember - it's the familiar dynamic of energy meeting resistance, which then stirs up feelings of upset, frustration, and anger. I've been feeling very irritable around people the past couple of days, I find myself wanting to snap at the smallest thing though thankfully I have just enough self-control and good sense to know that a) it isn't warranted, and b) it won't help matters (quite the opposite, it'll just create complications). I'd say I should invest in a punching bag to release some of the frustration, but that feels like too much effort at the moment quite frankly, I doubt I'd make a dent in it Boy, trust really is such a big word I've found. It feels sometimes like armies are massing on the northern and southern borders of my heart, and it's been pretty well established by now that fighting a war on two fronts is a fool's errand, so it feels like I'm - hmm, what's the technical term? Oh yes, that's right - fucked. I know there's no use grousing about it. Doesn't stop me, mind, but, y'know, I'm only human.

I think maybe the issue is that you're conceptualising reality as being something separate from you. When of course, the reality is that you are reality. If you truly knew your own nature, you would understand. But to truly know it is to consciously be it.

@Gianna Excellent advice

@ivankiss No worries mate, I completely understand about mental exhaustion Great pointers, much appreciated

Care to expand on this, Ivan? I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on the subject