Step by step process for "doing the work" - a complete guide to evolving your conscio

[Jarrad]

I always hear Leo talking about "doing the work". I believe it would be super helpful to a lot of us for him to highlight what sort of work we should be doing based on our level of development.

Please outline the definition of what it means to "do the work". Give examples of the different types of exercises or studying we can do to excel

Perhaps meditation is good for all levels? What type of meditation is better for stage blue people vs Achievers. 

What other exercises can we do besides meditation? Shamanic breathing, but when is that practical? Hallucinogens? Anything else we could be doing? Yoga? 

I know your book list is a big secret, but maybe let us in on what type of content is good to digest based on your level of psychological development. Please highlight some examples of specific authors or people we can watch on YouTube.  Be sure to include the traps, downfalls, and great things about these different types of content.

Break down how to study - you helped me a lot by showing me that certain types of material are so advanced that it is impractical for me to take it in.  But you also say that most people can stomach content one to two steps ahead of themselves.  Really elaborate on how this functions and give some examples of best practices for studying material.

 

 

[Eph75]

Meditation is good for all stages, just try different methods and do the ones that helps you to grow inner silence. With inner silence a lot of other things will follow automatically as it's a bit like the mind needs to do stuff, subconsciously but also consciously without us realizing that it is unhealthy to us. If you are stuck spending your energy on racing thoughts the negative/nonsense stuff will dominate that energy consumption. Silencing the mind chatter will redirect energy consumption towards more useful things, and thoughts will be more profound and with more clarity. 

Starting with becoming aware of ones crazy monkey mind and to learn this silencing of the mind through meditation makes the rest of the journey more directed and effective. 

Doing the work simply is doing and not just holding a random idea once in a while. It's like having a job but staying at home vs. going to work, doing that job. Obviously the former is problematic and won't produce results. 

People are stuck in mental masturbating and procrastination and spend a lot of energy on doing this but never move to action/practice. Results come through experience, through doing the work. E.g. Silencing of the mind comes from (e.g) meditation, by telling ourselves us not "having time" to meditate a sizeable amount every day, while at the same time wasting hours and hours on useless distraction won't do it. Prioritizing "doing the work" generates the results! 

Don't underestimate the power of procrastination. If we never procradtinate around the should and musts that we already are aware of, we'd get places, and fast. 

You know this yourself, but you find it overwhelmingly hard to make good choices in the moment to use that moment in a useful way. 

Turning to distraction becomes our comfort blanket while avoiding the cause of the anxiety we're feeling. 

What kind of work in terms of Personal Development you do matters less, it is more about the habit to work on yourself consistently and not falling for the tempatation of distraction. 

In order to grow developmentally, i.e. changing the how in the way we make sense of what we can take in, we need to stretch outside of our comfort zone, outside of what we already know and understand. Learning what we already know deeper will not catalyze developmental growth the same way, and certainly not deliberately so. Deeper knowledge will make us approach new challenges as the thresholds gets lowered the more we learn, but deliberately changing our strategy into consistently pursuing that which is slightly outside of our current understanding and stay with that uncertainty gives us that stretch and makes us figure out how to be able to comfortably hold that increased complexity. 

Not stretching too far is important as a too high a stretch will add too much complexity and too many layers of complexity for us to make sense of, even when stretched. Such challenges can be demotivating and conterintuitive and resulting in us shutting down into the comfort of that which we already are able to understand. 

The book list is less important, as development is flavorless and is about the structure in which you operate and not about specific content. If you are interested in a certain topic - e.g. consciousness Mastery - stretch yourself into learning ever more complex content and put yourself into practical situation that will challenge you to live in such stretched complexity.

An example could be to get that job that you think you might not be able to pull off, but which forces you to stretch.

Or, an education where the content seem more complex than that which you can currently grasp.

Or, learn to know your anxieties and put yourself into situation that challenges these anxieties. For example, a lot of us have social anxieties, not wanting to out ourselves in situations where we are uncomfortable.

Go to that meditation retreat that you think sounds interesting but some how seem offputting. 

It is within such situations that how we think changes. 

It doesn't have to be complicated. Just do it. Know when you are avoiding something and bring yourself to doing it. It will change "how" you think over time and the "what" in your thought will be different and more complex. 

In terms of reading, getting into a reading habit will crystalize the direction that is Yours and interesting parts of one book opens multiple doors into adjacent "rooms". Simply follow the trail that is being layed out in front of you.

There is always a spinoff. 

Finding your purpose helps with the direction, but purpose will also become a result of this process. 

The clarity that a solid meditation practice brings is tremendously helpful here as it will connect dots much more effectively when not actively doing the work, and also as a background process while doing that work. 

Just think about it, when removing a lot of noise, the brain will keep doing its thing, and it will be less noisy, negative, distractive and more leaning towards potentiality, creativity and clarity. In a sense it will become more effortless to do that work, flowing with instead of against the stream. 

This developmental growth perspective relate to cognitive developmental lines and not specifically the consciousness line, but affects everything we percieve. 

Specifically pursuing consciousness work just adds a content and a direction towards you want to move, the practice becomes the same. 

Meditate? Stretch! Longer, more, different types, find new paths. 

Books? Stretch! Find more complex topics, more complex depth, New authors. 

Key is practice, doing the work, and less thinking about. 

There is a feedback loop happening here, when going deeper into development, directly feeding back into whatever content we're developing around, accelerating both development and knowledge and understanding of that specific topic. 

The intertwined nature of cognitive and consciousness development is a beaut.

Edited December 28, 2020 by Eph75

[Human Mint]

On 12/28/2020 at 3:50 AM, Eph75 said:

Meditation is good for all stages, just try different methods and do the ones that helps you to grow inner silence. With inner silence a lot of other things will follow automatically as it's a bit like the mind needs to do stuff, subconsciously but also consciously without us realizing that it is unhealthy to us. If you are stuck spending your energy on racing thoughts the negative/nonsense stuff will dominate that energy consumption. Silencing the mind chatter will redirect energy consumption towards more useful things, and thoughts will be more profound and with more clarity. 

Starting with becoming aware of ones crazy monkey mind and to learn this silencing of the mind through meditation makes the rest of the journey more directed and effective. 

Doing the work simply is doing and not just holding a random idea once in a while. It's like having a job but staying at home vs. going to work, doing that job. Obviously the former is problematic and won't produce results. 

People are stuck in mental masturbating and procrastination and spend a lot of energy on doing this but never move to action/practice. Results come through experience, through doing the work. E.g. Silencing of the mind comes from (e.g) meditation, by telling ourselves us not "having time" to meditate a sizeable amount every day, while at the same time wasting hours and hours on useless distraction won't do it. Prioritizing "doing the work" generates the results! 

Don't underestimate the power of procrastination. If we never procradtinate around the should and musts that we already are aware of, we'd get places, and fast. 

You know this yourself, but you find it overwhelmingly hard to make good choices in the moment to use that moment in a useful way. 

Turning to distraction becomes our comfort blanket while avoiding the cause of the anxiety we're feeling. 

What kind of work in terms of Personal Development you do matters less, it is more about the habit to work on yourself consistently and not falling for the tempatation of distraction. 

In order to grow developmentally, i.e. changing the how in the way we make sense of what we can take in, we need to stretch outside of our comfort zone, outside of what we already know and understand. Learning what we already know deeper will not catalyze developmental growth the same way, and certainly not deliberately so. Deeper knowledge will make us approach new challenges as the thresholds gets lowered the more we learn, but deliberately changing our strategy into consistently pursuing that which is slightly outside of our current understanding and stay with that uncertainty gives us that stretch and makes us figure out how to be able to comfortably hold that increased complexity. 

Not stretching too far is important as a too high a stretch will add too much complexity and too many layers of complexity for us to make sense of, even when stretched. Such challenges can be demotivating and conterintuitive and resulting in us shutting down into the comfort of that which we already are able to understand. 

The book list is less important, as development is flavorless and is about the structure in which you operate and not about specific content. If you are interested in a certain topic - e.g. consciousness Mastery - stretch yourself into learning ever more complex content and put yourself into practical situation that will challenge you to live in such stretched complexity.

An example could be to get that job that you think you might not be able to pull off, but which forces you to stretch.

Or, an education where the content seem more complex than that which you can currently grasp.

Or, learn to know your anxieties and put yourself into situation that challenges these anxieties. For example, a lot of us have social anxieties, not wanting to out ourselves in situations where we are uncomfortable.

Go to that meditation retreat that you think sounds interesting but some how seem offputting. 

It is within such situations that how we think changes. 

It doesn't have to be complicated. Just do it. Know when you are avoiding something and bring yourself to doing it. It will change "how" you think over time and the "what" in your thought will be different and more complex. 

In terms of reading, getting into a reading habit will crystalize the direction that is Yours and interesting parts of one book opens multiple doors into adjacent "rooms". Simply follow the trail that is being layed out in front of you.

There is always a spinoff. 

Finding your purpose helps with the direction, but purpose will also become a result of this process. 

The clarity that a solid meditation practice brings is tremendously helpful here as it will connect dots much more effectively when not actively doing the work, and also as a background process while doing that work. 

Just think about it, when removing a lot of noise, the brain will keep doing its thing, and it will be less noisy, negative, distractive and more leaning towards potentiality, creativity and clarity. In a sense it will become more effortless to do that work, flowing with instead of against the stream. 

This developmental growth perspective relate to cognitive developmental lines and not specifically the consciousness line, but affects everything we percieve. 

Specifically pursuing consciousness work just adds a content and a direction towards you want to move, the practice becomes the same. 

Meditate? Stretch! Longer, more, different types, find new paths. 

Books? Stretch! Find more complex topics, more complex depth, New authors. 

Key is practice, doing the work, and less thinking about. 

There is a feedback loop happening here, when going deeper into development, directly feeding back into whatever content we're developing around, accelerating both development and knowledge and understanding of that specific topic. 

The intertwined nature of cognitive and consciousness development is a beaut.

Very inspiring wisdom, thx

[Eph75]

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