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@Revenant Marketing is highly dependent on your targeted market. You must know exactly how the people you're aiming to help think about anxiety. I'm sure you did write your book from your own experience, and that's why I'm sure you know how people feel from there. So, you know exactly what are the words they're looking for, try not to oversell your book with the title though, overselling might give opposite results. You must also expect that people who actually suffer from anxiety are mostly desperate for a solution, so a simple confident-looking title I think will be great, like: "The Illusion Of Anxiety", or "The Other Side Of Fear", etc... Another important point, how are you planning to publish your book? You need good advertisement, and a lot of acquaintances and friends. The more the better. These in my opinion are the most important factors in marketing, especially when there are a lot of competitors. Other miscellaneous factors: good cover, high quality paper, well written language, clear communication, good structure, reliable references. But mainly it's about your acquaintances and advertisement. Good luck!

@NoSelfSelf You can't escape it, because the act of escape is also bullshit. You can be aware of it though, and that turns out to be very helpful in life.

Okay, I won't take your advice seriously, because it's part of the world and myself

A thought is an object, and I can't be an object, because I am aware of the thought, so that supposedly means that I am the subject. So I have to keep looking. I am not a master, nor a doctor. But I know that self-inquiry helps disidentifying with the false self (beliefs about the self), which is dear, so everytime one loses some part of their imaginary identity, it feels like dying. At the end of the inquiry, complete death of the false self will occur, which is terrifying, because the whole structure of the self becomes destructed. I'm not sure, but I think they need to believe in the outcome that will free them from the anxiety and all that, and keep trying. Or, if it's so much terrifying, it can wait for another time when they are ready. To me, it didn't terrify me at all, in fact, it feels more like freedom, and I haven't died yet. I wonder how death feels like. Exactly! It must be done through direct experience.

@UpperClassWhiteBoy You don't have a choice, you are growing every moment. Growing is independent of suffering, but rather it's dependent on time and experience. Experience (positive, or negative) = growth. Every second, you move forward, you can't move backwards. Don't trick yourself into thinking that you must suffer in order to grow. Examine your life and find out what you really need, if you find that you need to suffer, then by all means, go for it. But on the other hand, if you find that you need to do something else, then go do it, there'll always be another time for suffering. Be wise with your decisions.

I'm referring to feeling the being to its fullest. Because thinking hinders the ability to feel the present moment, thus in turn, blocks us from feeling the love. Love cannot be thought

@Dumb Enlightened Your capacity to feeling your emotions grows with your awareness. The more false layers of yourself you remove, the closer you get to your true self, and therefore, you become more sensitive to everything, including positive and negative emotions. Recognise that all of the negative emotions are derived from your thoughts, try remember that all the time. Every time you feel fear or depression for example, remember that you are creating them, and accept that. Your emotions are there to protect you. Welcome them

@Pouya Maybe you should consider switching to career and profession before it's too late. Are you more interested in hard work?

Everything is not what it seems.

Love = no-mind = insanity.

From what I understand, you reach the point where the answer is "I am a thought". How are your eyes aware of the thought? @Highest ?

Of course, I used to be an over-thinker in the past, and that caused to me a lot of suffering. I'm now leaning in the opposite direction, which is no-mind. I want to see what life is like on the other side of being. Maybe someday in the future I'll find a middle ground, where hell becomes heaven Thanks for your genuine concern

@dimitri Think of it this way, a child is a blank page (zero consciousness information). An adult is a page filled with words (a lot of consciousness information). The more you grow (in age), the more consciousness information you acquire. Thus, no, a child is certainly not more conscious than an adult. But, why do most adults suffer? (why are most adults so evil?) You might've wanted to ask. Because they've caught a lot of devil (selfish) consciousness information along their way growing up in life. The solution is to seek God, with happiness being the indicator.

@SQAAD It seems horrible from your pov. However, from the criminals' pov, it seems like the best thing in the world. Who's to say which one is true?

"I think it matters, but I should stop thinking so." -- Truth Addict.

@New We can always choose between happiness, success, or both. In my experience, complete happiness is more fundamental.

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Thank you for your contributions! @Zigzag Idiot @Zetxil @tsuki

I became aware of this a few weeks ago, and I wanted to share it with you to get more understanding, so if you like to add, criticise, or correct anything, I'd appreciate it. I will present my ideas in a theme of general speaking, so I hope they won't come out vague, but at the same time I don't want to tackle with technicalities. So, here goes.. Labour, or the hierarchy that allows one person to benefit from other people's efforts. How does this trick work exactly? In the optimal situation of any living creature, the creature pays for what it consumes in very fair ways. For example: there is a certain amount of energy in the body of a cat, this energy allows the cat to go look for food and sex, when the cat gets its food, it gets more energy, it's kind of like a video game. But, for human beings, it's not like that. The trick happens through illusion and belief, especially beliefs about the future. For you as a human being, if you're not on the top of the hierarchy, then you pay a lot more than you earn. Whereas people who are at the top, pay a lot less (in energy terms). We sell our present moment in the hopes of future pleasures. Consider this, I am an employer and I have 10 employees, they work for me 8 hours a day. I earn my money everyday, whereas they earn their money after 30 days (depends and varies of course). That means I get 80 hours of work a day, for working only 8 hours. But that's not exactly the trick. In a company, when you sign a contract, there's an underlying agreement that you will get paid after 30 days, or in other words, you lend your company your effort (energy that becomes money) for 30 days, and so do your colleagues, which makes the boss the biggest winner with the least effort. It's a fundamental flaw in the hierarchy of the human civilisation, or is it really a flaw? Oh, I don't think so. Really, all I imagine of when I think of this trick, is the Egyptian slaves who'd built the pyramids. So, in conclusion, everything I do that doesn't get me my earnings during the day is a trick, or you can say: the sooner the better, because what if I die tomorrow? You see? Generally speaking, the employers earn their money daily, whereas the labour (employees) earn it after a week/month. If an employee has worked 29 days, and died in the 30th day, the boss gets the money and the employee don't. It's literally the bosses borrowing their employees' present moment, and the employees lending their present moment to their bosses for the future. Notice this dynamic in government as well, I expect that every collective ego has such a dynamic. One good solution I think is career. I can't think of anything else right now. I know this is not necessarily the case all the time and I know of course we can't get rid of this slavery in one day, but it's good to be aware of it.

@Zetxil I'm sorry, I have contemplated what you said, but I kept ending up with the same conclusion: I don't have a free will. To me, it seems like I'm more of a third-party, as an insider, that is watching the decisions being made without my interference. "We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings." -- Alan Moore

@bejapuskas of course ? @Juan Cruz Giusto regarding the bank transaction point, that's exactly what I was criticising, why should the employees pay for their employers' debts? That's the trick, the employer who has the money to run their company can easily supply their work for one month in forward, and they should, because it's their company. Imagine I am starting a company with no money to pay my employees, I would let them work for a whole month, and then I would pay them. It certainly shouldn't be that way, but it actually is. A car can't run without fuel, but the fuel is paid by the employees. An ideal job wouldn't be that way. And sure, the employee dying is not the case, maybe I exaggerated a little bit.

@Wisebaxter Interesting thing about emotions, is that all of them are one emotion, Love. Only Love, and all the other emotions are derived from It. Try to feel it in your direct experience, it's really one emotion, colored and shaped by your ideas. In this case, hatred is love for some 'thing' or some 'one' , and not Everything "God". Or, in other words, hatred is a limited kind of love. Why does hatred feel different than love? Because it's limited to the self, while love at the very least, extends to the other(s). Growth is independent of suffering, you will also grow from bliss, only in different ways

Hmm.. Maybe try to make your ideas more lifelike by bringing more examples from real life to your presentation. That way, it will make you feel more comfortable, and it'll allow you to speak more authentically, plus it will make your presentation much enjoyable to the audience.

Do you have the ability to present your ideas in an a-rational sort of way? I mean don't force yourself to be rational, maybe you're an extrovert and you don't like technicalities.

@Zetxil Right there is the illusion of free will, illusion here means not being 100% sure, and that's fine, if you are convinced that this illusion is enough for you, then by all means, believe it, I don't have anything against that. The free will you're advocating seems on the surface more practical, but pragmatism is part of the illusion as well, and I believe sometimes it's necessary to believe the illusion, and sometimes it isn't, but rather crippling (like in this case, feeling guilty). After all, you don't choose whether you like to believe or not, it was never your choice, ta-da! And the same goes for me, I don't choose if I like to not believe the illusion, it was never my choice. We don't choose when to believe or what to believe, that's a fact. But still, we can believe, it's just not up to us what the choice might be. As for 'thinking', I use this word loosely, sometimes I mean 'believe', sometimes I mean 'convinced', sometimes I mean 'identity with thought', sometimes I mean 'believe the thoughts', sometimes I mean all of them. To me, the ego means identification with something, while Truth means literally everything.