Carl-Richard

WHY ARE YOU APOLOGIZING???

Contemplate all you want. Just don't go for half measures. This stuff is just fun mind games.

Dear forum nofappers, I'll pray for you and your misfortunes.

You see, this approach of constantly reminding yourself to act a certain meta-way, to discipline your expressions, is fundamentally a masculine left-brained thing. If you think this will help you to unlock your feminine side, think again

bahahah no why This is the spiritual ADHD I've been talking about. Neuroticism on a silver platter.

... or you can just read the rules .......

Authenticity happens between thoughts.

I don't think anybody is denying that microorganisms exist. It's more about what they're doing.

"You're blind sheep getting drunk on the collective viral kool-aid"

Try to find a world outside your own.

That is a great analogy LOL

Yes. The cases where you're actually inclined to break the law or hurt somebody if you just let your emotions go, that would be a valid case for emotional repression. Learning appropiate emotional repression is therefore a part of emotional mastery.

I actually do express it outwardly in a pretty violent fashion for how short it usually lasts, but that descripition is of course pretty relative. Anger usually only lasts for long periods of time if it's constantly re-ignited by repetitive thoughts. On average, the less thoughts you have, the less anger you have. That is why so-called angry people are often low consciousness. They are addicted to spinning self-serving narratives.

LOL

I don't often feel anger, only for a couple of seconds at most. However, I used to repress my emotions a lot in the past, but I've been consciously working on that problem for a while now. Right now as it stands, I don't see how I could be repressing my anger to any serious extent. I've learned to become aware of on a bodily level when I'm holding on to an emotion and how to release it. I did a lot of crying meditation back when I used to be a total mess in this respect and that helped me a lot. I really recommend it if you feel like a numbed out disembodied zombie (even that is often very hard to realize just out of the blue).

But is it a sign of emotional mastery?

I think it's mostly a personality thing, although I used to get angry more often before I started meditating. Then again, I was also a teenager, so who knows

According to my friends, I never get angry. I guess that's atleast something.

@Mason Riggle That's what I was trying to say, but I just couldn't find the words

But have you tried 5-MeO-DMT?

The word you're looking for is "potency" . LSD is far more potent than 5-MeO-DMT, but the effects from an effective dose are not at all comparable.

Not necessarily. It can also be applied to "theory vs. actuality" in materialistic science. You can technically still be a materialist and appreciate this distinction (an example I would assume is Daniel Dennett). A materialist wouldn't want to call actuality direct experience: he would call it the physical world. The problem there is that "the physical world" is still a loaded/biased theory-based term, but the distinction can be made nonetheless, because it's in a sense only a nickname for reality or the unknown. Then of course, most materialists don't see the distinction between theory and actuality in any shape or form. There are degrees of epistemological ignorance.

You said "it isn't as bad as you think", and I said it's much worse than you're ever able to think. I never said it isn't getting better.