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Really good advice!!

WHAT There truly is a market for lazy people hahaha. I've been really enthusiastic when it comes to nutrition research for a few years now. Soy is one of those things that you find a lot of differing opinions on. For myself, I found the extreme position of "it's super bad!!" to not be very valid, or - only if you eat tons of soy. It's a bit like salt, maybe it's better not to worry too much and just not go into extremes on both ends. But then again, if you have a sensitivity for soy, maybe it affects you more, listen to your body

Sorry, but is this really worth its own thread?... You're opening quite a lot of them lately. Not a mod, just saying. Feels like you're just sharing random thoughts, no offense

In the organic shops here (Berlin), there are tons of these bean/lentil pasta products, really amazing if you want to leave gluten out and get the protein in. They are made out of peas, chickpeas, different sorts of lentils etc. They are just incredibly expensive There are also so many great tofu products here, the more expensive ones come with amazing ingredients, this one has 30g of protein and amazing ingredients. It's still not 100% clean, but for vegan meat, it's insanely delicious, good for the gains and the cleanest for this kind of product.

I'm not good at this at the moment at all. But recently I had an amazing run - what helped me was visualizing my complete next day before I went to bed. Also, be okay with not having enough sleep for some nights because you're getting your body used to a new time to wake up. All this is advice to myself as well

Higher Consciousness Healing. It was recommended by someone here in the forum. It's a very simple exercise but it's one of the most powerful I've done regarding shadow work. (She recommends 4 minutes a day, I did about an hour a day, so maybe that's why it's been so powerful)

Of course, and it can be a helpful one for sure! It can become an obstacle though when it sprouts thoughts like you used in your first post: "shadow elimination" "getting out of a state" "reaching adulthood" That's what I was pointing at, the thought of trying to to get rid of something and reaching some new state. It's really good that you want to work on yourself, that is the fuel. Now maybe your strategy needs work. Let me give you an example: I had energetic knots in my head for a long time, kind of felt like a headache. Most of the times I wasn't sure which of these two things it really was, but it was painful. I always subconsciously wanted it to go away, and after years I found out that that is why it never went away and came back stronger. In a book I read recently, the author says to visualize knots in your body as flowers to blossom, to open up like a clenched fist. This is transformation. This is love. The other way would be rejection which is lack of love. Maybe you see what I mean. It sounds like a word game, but it is not. For me, it changed everything. You're on the right path, don't worry ??

52,5% yellow, 30,5% turquoise and the rest purple. My spiral dynamics overall score is 9843, my consciousness level is 754 and my high score in a peak experience is ?️. You want a spiral battle? We can also trade skills if you want. ?

I had a similar realization lately: that, although I really don't want to, I am quite arrogant and feel superior due to my insights and developmental steps. I feel a strong aversion because it speaks against who I think I should be and want to be. I'm also in the process of finding out how to deal with that, but as with everything, rejection is not the way. I found that a curiosity to understand the dynamic, the clarity to see why it's painful and part of the illusion, and, most importantly, an infusion with love are helping me see it slowly dissolve. I actively feel the love expanding from my heart into wherever this arrogance or superiority is felt, and at some point it just melts into the love itself. I don't think there are any further steps. Acceptance -> Understanding -> Love

@Shunyata You have to find out for yourself but my sincere recommendation to you is taking the other replies to heart. Don't think you have it all figured out. Yes, society and (most) art/media tells you slay the demon. In a sense that is true, but you don't slay with the force of violence but with the infinitely more powerful force of love. That's what many view as cheesy in art and they like the hero's journey more - but look at society itself. Does it look like most people have their shadow worked through? I hit my head against the wall with trying to kill dark parts of myself, even trying to shut down that ego itself. Futile. The moment I saw that this attitude is the problem and started truly loving all that is inside my psyche, without needing it to go away, everything changed. You asked a question, take inspiration from those who have found at least a hint of an answer. ♥️

@Judi Just started reading a book about this topic which specifically talks about using lucid dreaming for enlightenment work (see the book thread). He says that indeed the dream consciousness is by definition still the ego consciousness, and that it's very important to be clear about that. But, with stable lucidity, you are in a situation where you're not only conscious but you also have full access to your subconscious mind. Spiritual practices in this state of consciousness are supposed to be much more potent than in normal waking consciousness. There's also a lot of potential for shadow work by confronting your subconscious.

@Michal__ @fridjonk These are great suggestions, thank you! Quite honestly, I haven't been taking stretching too seriously, although I know how good it is for me, even mentally. No I didn't know static stretches only after the workout, I just thought I should warm up a bit. I usually stretched before bed, sometimes even for 30-60 minutes, I did a few sun salutations to warm up, and after the stretching I would use massaging balls and the black roll. Maybe I should try moving that whole routine into the post-workout time frame? I think I'll start doing so tomorrow! And yeah, I'm also taking creatine at the moment. My eating is not so good at the moment, I'm circling back to a very clean diet from a longer backlash. That might help. Also gonna drink more. Thank you both

That is SO green of you to say!

Yes, definitely! I also like his journey, how he chose sports over partying and made a bold decision. By the way, there is something I'm observing lately regarding calisthenics: Training really makes my body stiff and tense, although I relax my body at least 1-2 hours during meditation. With stretching and some massaging work it's better, but still I feel how this makes all the habitual tension even worse. I also take magnesium which is important for me to sleep when training, but doesn't help much. My little brother has the exact same problem. I did a break, not exercising for about 2-3 weeks until a few days ago, because it was too straining energetically. My body relaxed sooooo much!! It's sad to see the tension coming back, but I want the exercise, it's good for me. Do you have similar experiences? I honestly thought about getting into something less strength-related to not have that tension.

Been in the situation many times, and I took the hard way until I learned how to deal with it. Short answer: Fear is in the head and/or the belly. When fear of death is rushing in, feel your heart. Really feel into the area of your chest, let the mind talk all it wants. Trust the love in your heart. I know how "fluffy" this might sound, but it's the smoothest way I know, the love consumes everything else, even the terror. By the way, did you know Carl Jung wanted to see Ramana but pulled back in the last minute? He was afraid as well.

@Kalki Avatar Oooh nice, I've read his first three. Gonna check it out, thank you!

Amazing thread Here are some of my favorites, mostly piano and/or strings. Sadness and beauty are really close, sometimes indistinguishable, in my experience.

That it is the most beautiful thing that could ever exist, that's why it does exist, and that's us, right now. It's a gift of love, that's the only thing they want to show us, beyond all the talk and complexity and, and, and....

I have a morning flexibility routine (just short dynamic stretches and then 10 seconds holding for each stretch before doing yoga) that I do first thing in the morning since 2 or so years from him! I like his material, but I heard he pulled a greedy one when he opened his online courses

@Rayster I remember about 7-8 years ago or so, I made myself watch this movie. I could only stand 20 minutes, then I had to stop. So much pain, I felt extremely misanthropic at this time. Huge reason why I went vegan at some point.

I already mentioned my all time favorite "The Tree of Life". In the meantime I watched more movies of the same director "Terrence Malick", and finally, last year, I've seen his newest in the cinema. It induced a deeply purging experience of holiness, divinity, beauty. It's: A Hidden Life Other amazing movies from Malick, also about Truth and how it's lost and rediscovered:

@StateOfMind What traditional way? There are many. What you're asking for might be Jnana Yoga / Gnosticism. It's mostly what Leo offers through his videos. Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnana_yoga

@Andrewww You feel restless and an urge to get stimulated? -> Sit down, feel the urges completely, but don't act them out. Just sit with them, bathe in their energy. You can inquire into the feelings without thinking by just leaning into the question what these energies are, and where they come from. This sounds easy, of course it's mostly not. What I tend to think from my own experience is that it's the only way to deeply understand these urges and to let them settle down.

And you didn't read the long version? Maybe check it out This part from the end of the book was so intense. I think many here can relate that to some experiences...: Is this a hallucination? "Charlie, are you all right?" Or the things described by the mystics? I hear a voice but I don't want to answer him. It annoys me that he is there. I've got to ignore him. Be passive and let this - whatever it is - fill me with the light and absorb me into itself. "What do you see, Charlie? What's the matter?" * Upward, moving like a leaf in an upcurrent of warm air. Speeding, the atoms of my body hurtling away from each other. I grow lighter, less dense, and larger... larger... exploding outward into the sun. I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea. Small at first, encompassing with my body, the room, the building, the city, the country, until I know that if I look down I will see my shadow blotting out the earth. Light and unfeeling. Drifting and expanding through time and space. And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from below. It annoys me. I want to shake it off. On the verge of blending with the universe I hear the whispers around the ridges of consciousness. And that ever-so-slight tug holds me to the finite and mortal world below. Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions - not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself, but I am pulled from below, back to myself, into myself, so that for just one moment I am on the couch again, fitting the fingers of my awareness into the glove of my flesh. And I know I can move this finger or wink that eye - if I want to. But I don't want to move. I will not move! I wait, and leave myself open, passive, to whatever this experience means. Charlie doesn't want me to pierce the upper curtain of the mind. Charlie doesn't want to know what lies beyond. Does he fear seeing God? Or seeing nothing? As I lie here waiting, the moment passes during which I am myself in myself, and again I lose all feeling of body or sensation. Charlie is drawing me down into myself. I stare inward in the center of my unseeing eye at the red spot that transforms itself into a multipetaled flower - the shimmering, swirling, luminescent flower that lies deep in the core of my unconscious. I am shrinking. Not in the sense of the atoms of my body becoming closer and more dense, but a fusion - as the atoms of my-self merge into microcosm. There will be great heat and unbearable light - the hell within hell - but I don't look at the light, only at the flower, unmultiplying, undividing itself back from the many toward one. And for an instant the shimmering flower turns into the golden disk twirling on a string, and then to the bubble of swirling rainbows, and finally I am back in the cave where everything is quiet and dark and I swim the wet labyrinth searching for one to receive me... embrace me... absorb me... into itself. That I may begin. In the core I see the light again, an opening in the darkest of caves, now tiny and far away - through the wrong end of a telescope - brilliant, blinding, shimmering, and once again the multipetaled flower (swirling lotus - that floats near the entrance of the unconscious). At the entrance of that cave I will find the answer, if I dare go back and plunge through it into the grotto of light and beyond. Not yet! I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. And as I start through the opening, I feel the pressure around me, propelling me in violent wavelike motions toward the mouth of the cave. It's too small! I can't get through! And suddenly I am hurled against the walls, again and again, and forced through the opening where the light threatens to burst my eyes. Again, I know I will pierce the crust into that holy light. More than I can bear. Pain as I have never known, and coldness, and nausea, and the great buzzing over my head flapping like a thousand wings. I open my eyes, blinded by the intense light. And flail the air and tremble and scream. * I came out of it at the insistence of a hand shaking me roughly. Dr. Strauss.