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@Rilles thats amazing man! but damn that potentially can be painful! but its the best and quickest way to overcome in completions(if doen properly) for sure. but yeah quick update. ive been doing the headstands with throat healing pretty consistently lately( like two or three weeks) and wow! things have changed alot. most recently i just started balling my eyes out in the middle of making dinner. not sure what the emotional release was exactly yet. but i am sure I coming to some major crossroads on my path. But also so much more. My jaw line has moved alot, and my voice deepened, beard is growing fuller. confidence up, singing seems more fluid and less shaky, and the biggest thing i noticed was a significantly decreased level of peturbance with speaking with my mom while driving. i realized i used to always have a tightness and irritation in these situations with her. but this most recent experience was almost like a blissful presentness. it was nuts. and i know for sure my in completions are with my mom. as i have found this out through my path with multiple healing and such. apparently its all rooted in comparing things and how i have always had to bow down to authority from her negligence and fears, despite me knowing it to be wrong i had no choice. so yeah if u cant already, try learning shoulder stands, than eventually work ur way up to headstands( it took me like 6 months. and i had very little yoga experience before that. and listen to tons of throat healing. if you can grow yourself inwards more and the outwards stuff will come together too. or your inwards stuff will start spilling out into the manifesting of your external in completions. anyways whatever u decide, i wish u luck and i hope it all works out for the best.

What Chakra blockage do you guys feel is the biggest obstacle, towards your enlightenment? for me, at least lately, it def seems to be my throat/vishuddha. i feel like as a collective it must be true for most, considering public speaking is the number one fear, interestingly, even greater than the fear of death. or at least this is what i have been told. Obviously I'm doing everything i can and working on every chakra as much as i can. But i have decided to tweak my strongest practice (Headtsands) towards clearing this chakra. Im listening to binauaral beats with throat healing for my headstands. and i gotta say. its only been a few days, so obviously lots of confirmation biased could be factoring in, and a longer time frame will give me more data/experiences. But it seems to be playing out well so far, internally and externally. Not to mention my headstands are way easier to hold now. i used to be struggling at the 10 minute mark, due to crazy pains in my neck, if i was doing say crown healing(which i thought was the best before, and maybe it is, for the whole system). but now its just like subtle sensations in my neck like the throat getting tight or that choking up type feeling. but honestly its insanely pleasant compared to before and i can hold my headstands for 13 minutes no problem now. its basically like im just floating there most of the time. I highly recommend it for anyone who is trying to get their headstands up there and working on their throat chakra.

@zeroISinfinity yeah i get that. as in your ego is making attachment to the bliss state. but at the same time arent we basically burning karmas at the highest rate when we r in that state of Bliss? so basically your talking about the masters layer? the nirvanic layer? ok so if nothing we perceive is real. do you just mean it isn't real in the sense that our egos try to make us believe it is real, so it can trick us into attaching meaning and reasons to chasing them? and therefore we shouldnt be making attachment to it. and through that conciosuness can expand infinitely throughout, and things aren't permanent or real in that sense?

@Nahm yeah it sounds ridiculous. I have blueberries in my smoothies which i have bascially every day, for like 2 years now. maybe its not always twice a day. but my throat still seems to be manifesting pain in my life. lol explain what you mean by open. When i say open i feel like it means, talking like you know what to say in every moment enriching others and yourself through the power of comunication, never getting lost in thoughts when listening to others, having an angelic singing voice, and having the feeling like speaking in front of others is a source of strength not weakness. this being said i will try eating blueberries twice a day.

@zeroISinfinity i guess i didn't really think it was eternal bliss. but i did kind of suggest it. i know your right. I guess its just easier and easier to reach those higher states of consciousness, the more enlightened we become. but overall isnt the state of an enlightened being generally quite blissful. or at least they can get themselves there alot quicker and overall live in a much more frequently blissed state? like the inner space is so vast and beautiful of an enlightened being, there is very little dwelling on the pain that does exist, cause its so tiny compared to the overall inner space of an enlightened being.

probs right, cause who would post "they got enlightened" if they truly were enlightened. they would just be in a state of bliss, they wouldn't wanna drop their frequency with such low energy gloating

lol yayyy! so what now?

Hey again, kind of crazy, and a little auspicious, this girl made a video after i said basically the same thing. but you should check it out cause she does an amazing job explaining it. plus her energies r pretty amazing too. look at the space between here brows. like the bridge of the nose. and how massive it is. that's basically the goal here for all of us, is expanding that space. is to open your body and ultimately get your third eye cranked to a level like that. which is basically going to take a ton of time in detoxing/ growth. but when it gets there. basically you will be able to raise ur vibrations, transcending your lower energy centres and actually be able to experience dmt or phsycadelic types of experiences at will, and fully and depper than you ever will by taking the drugs from an external source. all the stuff i mentioned in my original post will get you there, but obviously it takes a long time, and like calvin woolridge says, “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race(or cocnciosuness).” i feel like phsychadelics can get you there too. but basically ur going to have to dump the toxins associoated with what u release in the trip. and i feel like(and have expereicned in the past) if u do psychs it happens in nasty painful ways like getting super sick or getting bumps on your skin and or like shit getting crazy in your life, or random accidents leading you to injury( i have had this, the universe seems likes to make you learn things in a conscious space, hence the reason u forget alot of what happens in the trip, especially say like smoking dmt). like I've had experiences like that when i did them in the past. one time after my last mushroom trip i went into a competely unconcious state, and ripped a huge hole in my shoulder, on a nail in the wall, which for me was crazy and never happens. so maybe the phsychs can help you touch those deeper layers and you can actually deal with some deeply seeded traumas/in-completions in the emotional/etheric/nirvanic layers. but the toxins/blockages in your system in your system connected to those, will have to come out, and the growing pains are going to be way worse than say hitting the gym, massaging your soreness away, or rinsing the dirt out of your nasal cavity. and that might mean some pretty nasty stuff. but yeah i have no idea really whats good or bad with psychs, this is all my intuitive mind and experiences speaking here, but hopefully this information can help you make your own educated decisions on whether it is useful or not. I also just know enlightened beings, like Nithyandna, sadguru, eckhart tolle, ect ect. usually say its better to go au natural. and they live in those layers we are experiencing with phsychadelic drugs, so if you have done phsychs, think of all the crazy insights and experiences you have had, and think of all the ones u forgot, or never truly understood. these enlightened beings actually have lived them to the deepest levels, and are exploring stuff we may never actually ever experience( and will never share this with us cause, lets face it, most peoples egos will just reject it and turn it into painful experiences for them sharing it) in this life and are actually connected to them at will. they can literally just meditate, do shimbavi, for 10 minutes and they are there. or even better, and this is why the guru is the most valuable thing u can do(and if u go the route of phsychs they may tell you this as well). if your energy space( or blockages in your chakras) is clear enough they can transmit that energy to you, and kundalini can rise hard, burning your karmas and unblocking your ssyetm. and based on what your system can handle you can basically get there too(naturally release and produce your own dmt). i don't know how aware of energy fields you are. but its kind of like this. say u meditate solo, your energy on your own can say hit 10V of energy. now lets say you meditate with 10 other people around the same consciousness as yourself. each person contributes 10V. collectively, you actually individually accumulate energies and every one of you will host(if its within your threshold) the cumulative energies so like 100V(collective energy) vs 10V(solo energies). but there's going to be a max(based on your blockages) also based on your threshhold. but also meditating with higher energies can move this threshold up. basically what we r doing every time we r dumping toxins or working out or meditating or whatever we are doing to expand our consciousness. So basically the guru is at an insane energy level cause they r enlightened(all their karemas from this life have been burned, and they r into some insane high level states of consciousness and always expanding, it goes infinitely after-all). so lets say like 1,000,000 volts. basically they can transmit whatever u can handle cause they have crazy energies, beyond your threshold, and if ur lucky u release some dmt, in your pineal gland(third eye) and actually can have a crazy transformation, in the deepest layer(nirvanic).. kind of like taking the drugs too your basically raising ur energies to crazy level too. but than ur entering the real world after and u haven't fully processed everything, and ur not really in a space that will support that growth(the maya matrix of our low energy society, fueled by greed and fear). so that's when it gets dangerous and ego backlash and shit can hit the fan. especially if those experiences make you excited and or depressed taking you really out of the moment, creating unconsciousness in and around yourself. which also can make you re absorb more toxins and actually doing harm to your system. anyways just stuff to think about. if you have any more questions please ask. i enjoy trying to answer them, and of course im not god or enlightened, or even very conscious(still got lots of energy stuck in my root), and i may be wrong(or barely scratching the surface) with everything im saying. but that's how we learn after all.

so basically im just going to write a bunch of stuff i have learned to be the best things for myself and expanding my consciousness. i don't really care if u disagree, and i dont want to argue and shove stuff down anyone throat, but here is a really great post that can really help point people in the right direction, and maybe some things not everyone has tryed or considered. my main goal here is to share with you what has worked for me. so maybe you can consider these things for yourself and see if they work for you too. don't forget, open mindedness is probably one of the most powerful things to have. now i don't mean blindly accepting everything randomly. but being open enough to evaluate it, research it, and experiment with it, is the thing your supposed to be open about. or at the very least be aware of how something new, makes you think certain ways, ie out of fear, or out of greed, or whatever thought arises. So basically, your body has three categories, that im going tot try to address in this post, here for simplicity, obviously its way deeper, and a layer perspective is really whats going on, but thats super advanced and probably most people would have no clue what im talking about if i went that route. So hopefully this helps simplify things. basically your flexibility, strength, and cleanliness(toxins/dirt diseases) are the thing sin the physcial body effecting your conciosuenss. all of these factors kind of correlate to all your chakras(at least its obvious for your lower 4, and here is how i have found the best ways to maximizing everything for myself. Here's a cool analogy, basically your strength is the the amount of energy that can flow through the unit of mass, or desity of water of a river. the flexability effects the area or outer limits of where you energy flows so like the outer edges/depths of the river, and the toxins and disease are basically things in the way of the river. kind of like rocks and logs in a river where water is trying to flow. so what happens if the river is completely blocked somewhere? the water wont flow. when we workout and do you yoia or do phsychs(perfect example of temporary unblocking) or meditate we r kind of opening these three variables and opening up the flow of water or consciousness. but for example its kind of temporary if its a big disease or blockage, or if you are addicted to crappy food, to drugs, or jerking off or whatever leads to reblocking. so doing this everyday will effectively reduce the blocks(temporarily show you what the real potential is) and increase the amount of energy flowing and when we do these consciousness expanding things, the more we an get out of them. so basically here is what i try to get going every day cleansing the body is the important thing to start with, because basically working out and doing yoga is basically pushing toxins to these spots for excretion, also obviously increasing strength and opening up your muscle movements, so for the start of the day here is my routine Neti rinse with distilled water and salt(5ml salt/500ml water at body temp( cleanses your third eye, nasal situation ideally opening up sushuma right away. every week do sutra neti as well, its huge for your third eye. yeah u wont think is healthy or a good idea, and its an extremely crazy thing to do. but research it and try it, its huge. kum kum(red processed tumeric) or tumeric on your third eye/ especially benecial if u practice third eye/breathing meditation eye rinsing with de stilled water, just using a eye cup and destilled water, until the water comes clean. usually like 5 rinses, but my third eye is probably worse than most enema, yeah ur not going to think is healthy or right, but u will never know unless u try it, and the more u think its bad, guess what ur ego is going to die even more when u actually do it, and trust me i also thought the same until i became ferocious with it. this will be huge for cleansing your lower chakras big time! really help recovery and soreness to disapear not to mention all the ego attachment our lower chakras have/which are in general our biggest ones, wealth conciousness, name and fame/ eating. if ur balsy enough kunjal kriya, it will pull stuff/toxins up from your sacral all the way up into the third eye for easy flushing, make sure u drink some basic stuff after, like water with some baking soda so ur throat and esophagus doesn't get messed up. but again this one might not be the healthiest, so probably just forget this one unless u do alot of research. also if u do it, do it before neti. after all this have ur shower, and do hot/cold(10second/30seconds) at the end, ideally like 3-5 cycles ending on cold for like 2 minutes. next is the yoga situation. so its all extremely unique to your body, based on where you are, but basically do it mindfully and learn as much as u can, i highly recommend the book, asana Pranayama mudra bandha for learning this. Even super basic yoga(like pawanmuktasana 1) is extremely beneficial if u do it mindfully, and max every movement to a point of tension or minimal pain. also doing it with binaural beats will make it extra mindful/less painful, and extremely powerful. heres my current optimal yoga routine, (pawanmuktasana 1, up to hip rotations and butterflys), so for leg stuff listening to root healing while focusing on the movements and phsycical sensations. sacral for hip stuff than i move into static yoga poses(kind of like meditation really) so i do: toe grabs, with sacral healing(3 minutes each side), spinal twists(3 minutes each side), than some cat cows with solar healing, gomuktasana with heart healing for the upper, than i drop my arms and do the bottom with sacral(3.5 minutes/5minutes), than i do shouldstands/plow pose(throat healing)/(5/2.5 minutes), camel pose with heart healing(3 minutes) and than headstands, with whatever muscles r sore for chakra healing binaural beats, or crown healing if nothings super sore, which is basically never.... than i try to do 5 maha bandhas and than some, pranyama(wim hofs) followed by meditation. If you can inversions are extremely powerful! shoulderstands and headstands should be a major goal if u cant already do them. and again do these with different binaural beats, for instance if u have super sore legs from a run, rock the root till the soreness goes away. if not experiment. il ike headtands with crown. also always sit crossed legged whenever u can, to lock that prana in. ideally also listen to root and sacral healing the background, of whatevertr ur doig whenever crossing your legs, these are the hardest chakras to burn all our karmas/ rid all our toxins/ negative thought currents, from cause they r the foundations of our survival. so in tandom with yoga, especially if your male, goto the gym! male bodies and our consciousness will be effected hugely by our muscle capability. especially our biggest weakness, the sacral, so make sure u do those exercises as much as u can, and heavy heavy heavy/mindfully. sqauts, deadlifts, kettlebell swings, lunges, ect. but also make sure u do everything you can for all your body. and also using binaural beats will be huge in reducing the pain and helping u make bigger gains quicker and easier. focus on doing everything mindfully. like feeling the pain deeply, and after every set, sitting resting, closing your eyes and putting your mind in the pains. also run for the root. its hugely beneficial! running with root healing while trying to keep your mind in the physical sensations in your legs will be huge too. long walks with root healing is also pretty masively beneficial. meditation breath meditation ie make you focus on one thing for a long time, increasing that oneness. the whole goal of meditation is oneness. so this is actually achieved by focusing on one thing for a long time and unclutching from any thought that arises that isnt that. so basically the breath is the best, or even better before is a candle. stare at at a candle as long as u can, its called trataka. look it up, for further details. but it bring u into oneness extremely quickly. also binaural beats when u meditate in the background. postures for meditation they say this is how u should go, but u can do whatever u want, but make sure ur head neck and spine are as strait as u can. vajrasana is the beginner pose. until u can do half lotus. than go all the way to lotus. basically ur redirecting energy from your lower chakras up through ur sushumna nadi. japa meditation is also pretty powerful too but yeah. now lets talk energy fields, crystals and rudrahkshas are huge for amplifying this if you wear for meditation/working out/doing yoga and such, it will raise ur vibrations big time. a useful analogy is think of wearing them as increasing the voltage in your different chakra energy centres. and when u meditate/ increase your oneness, it pumps them up and makes them flow more and more. research the different muhki rudrakshas. they r supposed to be better than crystals. but crystals seem pretty great too. this is a whole world of research, but if u can, get moldavite, phenakite, black tourmaline, selenite. whatever u can, they are all going to be very beneficial. and as far as investments in your consciousnesses they will pay dividends regardless. doing yoga with groups is good too. also meditation in groups is huge too. they say each person who comes together is like a cumulative things. so like one person would be like 10volts, 10 people would be like 100 volts. so everyone energy combines and energy fields can amplify big time. ie increasing your consciousness and all that. consider getting a guru, if u can, enlightened beings will be the best. ideally setup your life to live with one, because the energy fields will be next level. anyways, ur ego will def hate this one, so just observe. they say if you dont goto a guru on your own your god connection within you will ultimately bring you to them, cause guess what? ur consciousness isnt always high(god consciousness) and getting to a high state isn't easy on your own. but a guru, and consciousness community is high all the time so it will keep you high all the time and max everything out. as long as u set your intention to expand your consciousness and detoxing your body and building your body bigger and better everyday the universe/conciousness will keep bringing g bigger and better things to you so keep that as a top priority. gratitude as much as u can especially when dark night hits, which if u r doing thing right will happen more and more, and worse and worse. cause guess what, ur ego doesn't like dieing, and it wants to trick you into not doing the things that kill it the most. also cut out meat and processed foods/ all the chemicals u can become aware of going into your body. go organic vegetarian, is the big goal here. onions and garlic r pretty bad too. fasting is huge for detoxing too. herbal supplements that are helpful are haritaki(third eye cleanser), neem(liver helper), tumeric(great way to reduce all inflammation and help your immune system) hardcore ancient yogis were just sticking this up there assholes, so yeah.. research these big time. also make sure u go non flouride with ur toothpaste. ie toms. working out supplements that are good are, leucine/BCAAs(activates protein synthesis), creatine(increases energy transport of your cells, effectively increasing your possibilities and maxes/recovery. glutamine(helps your digestion/gut health, and increases healthy absorption.) brazil nuts for selenium, which is basically the only source for this. its something we are all deficient in. and its metabolically involved in our testosterone production. hopefully this helps some people. i wish you all luck in achieving your greatest potential and expanding the consciousness. sorry if there are errors and it doesn't make sense sometimes. but for the most part i hope it opens things up and gets you thinking. leading you to things that help you expand your consciousness more and more.

hes right dont get attached, but the way you do this. is have graditude towards having experienced it. always strive to get there, or even beyond, if your lucky. but don't become upset if it becomes more difficult to get there. or the feelings r different. im sure u know all this anyways. but its always good to remind yourself. cause the mind can play so many tricks on us and make us forget these simple truths.

yah buddy! bliss layer is all the rage!

yeah i guess there is alot of contradiction. and its all like what you believe, of course experiecne will help you beleive too. for instance if u have experiences with past lives, and your dreams start getting crazy all of a sudden, it kind makes you think its believable. but based on my experience and knowledge of consciousness so far, karmas are legit. basically u came to this life with karmas to burn.and if u burn them, all ur enlightened. and basically karmas aren't this thing of doing good things gives you good karmas and bad things give you bad karmas. its kind of right but its not so black and white. and basically uve lived millions of lives as many differrent animals/insects ect. basically u evolved up the food chain. and every life has accumulated karmas. but basically a karma is an unfulfilled desire. we have also accumulated many from society, like for instance our constant need to feel liked based on reasons maybe that arent unique to us, but more based on our peers accepting us or whatever. and every one of your chakras has unfulfilled desires based on past unconciosuness., so bascially karmas are just moments in your life where something traumatic happened and it was due to an unfulfilled desires, creating moment so intense you rejected it when it happened. so basically if u live in the moment as much as u can in this life your karmas will manifest, and if your conscious enough, when they arrive, and you can be present enough to not let them run you into depression or whatever unconcious desire they try to run u into. thats basically how u burn them. but also its like meditating and all kinds of stuff thats kind of complicated. One key though is dont worry. thats actually ur unfulfilled desires in the solarplexus/manipura manifesting. unclutch from worries. do whatever you feel is right in the moment, treat every moment as one. dont connect things. the less things u connect the less things will give you reasons to worry. ur not going to do the wrong thing many times. trust me. if it makes u suffer. u will learn not to do it. as for eating meat its kind of like taking on desires from society. ur basically consuming the traumas of that animal and taking on their karmas/unfulfilled desires. they basically were murdered pretty brutally, and lived a shitty horrible life, full of intesne sufferring, so basically your taking on their biomemory when u consume them. this can manifest in ways like parasites, worms, even something simple as a headache. all its really doing when u eat meat is basically making your own karmas harder to see. so if ur doing conciseness expanding stuff ur still burning those karmas. it just makes no sense to add more karmas to burn if you already have a ton yourself. do more research to find out who's advice to follow. the more research you do. the more you will get similar ideas or the right ideas coming through. the more your consciousness will flow from you to do the right thing. but starting with breath meditation and being present isn't going to throw u into a spiral of whatever your afraid of. try reading some eckhrat tolle, a new earth. and just being present. people who say you need a guru to practice yoga are potentially trying to sell you a program. but yeah, just research and read and practice patience. you will know what to do in time.

@peanutspathtotruth thats amazing about the fasting! your going to get crazy benefits from that. major detox. man 72 hours every week! thats unreal! i only do ~24 hour one every week, but im trying to get some muscle now and eating seems to be important for that. allthough im barely putting an any weight on at all. as for psychedelics, i dont really do them anymore. not that im against them. and i even had a ton(dmt, acid, shrooms), when i decided they don't offer me anything, anymore, right now. all of my phsych experience has basically led me back to doing this stuff like i mentioned in the post. like for instance the Trataka meditation with the candle, was shown to me through an experience and one of my yoga class instructors ect. basically consciousness in those experiences was showing me the real valuable stuff in my everyday practices. and of course the guru was also shown to me countless times. in countless experiences, even without phsychadelics, like dreams and those crazy moments during meditation of deep insight. so yeah basically they can open doors for increasing your consciousnesses, temprarily, or like lifting the veil, which can give u benefits if ur looking fro motivation or some cool mystical experience. i guess in way it gives u that god consciousness experience which is pretty much impossible without insane deep practice or extreme energy fields like what an adheenam or ashram life can give you. but for me they kind of pointed me in the direction of, they only serve that temporary experience, and pointed out the real sober stuff that leads to the real full enlightenment. . phsychs are kind of like opening the door temporarily. and they real doors u want to open are supposed to be opened naturally, through lots of practice and lots of detoxing and extreme will persistence. at least that's my experience so far. it could change. u never know. @Harikrishnan yes i do, and i hope this doesn't lead to you pointing out all the negative attention he has. so far it seems like following him has been the most valuable thing i have done so far. @Truth Addict Thats amazing to hear! and thankyou so much for sharing your experiences. Its always good to stick to things that give u results. But also always make sure ur open to new things, im sure you are, but its always good to remind yourself to look at everything and ask yourself if it has any value. because it might not always in taht moment, and could plant a seed to something in the future.. i know when i expanded my practice beyond just meditation and western style yoga, and self inquiry and all that things really started to change and open up even more.

your root chakra is basically you feet your legs, to the base of ur butt. headquarters in your prostate(women in the opening of their cervix. its ur first chakra and where the base energy center starts. so basically anything you do to make it better ie running will increase that kundalini energy flowing and make more energy flow through your system more.

@peanutspathtotruth haha yeah kunjal its probably very healthy. its just the acid going in your esophagus isnt ideal, especially if u dont neutralize it right away. But i was reading in the hatha yoga pradapika(basically a best of from like 1400-1800 of yogic practices) and they say the best things to do everyday are the kunjal followed by the jula neti. i used to always get crazy soreness in my upper back and basically kunjal kriya seemed to be the best at getting rid of that fast. also enemas are huge too I do enemas everyday. and yeah ive heard of the coffee stuff, never tryed. but im sure it really gets you pumped. basically the whole point is to make sure ur having that deuce right away and flushing the toxins out right away in the morning. cause when u do yoga later on or work out, ur bascially putting your intestines/liver/lymphatic system back to work pulling out more toxins, but if u dont those toxins will just spread out again. also when u drop that morning deuce, ur opening up ur sacral big time cause basically ur sacral is heavily tied to to you large intestines. thus opening your hips faster and quicker and getting rid of the toxins there, also reducing your attachment to the thought currents, of not being good enough, which is our hugest weakness, as men. also women too, but they have a worse root they say. men are driven by lust(rooted in our root, weaker sacral), women by fear(rooted in sacral, hence they are usually more often likable, than men, but than their root is their weakness) here's a great link for the kriyas/morning cleansing routine. http://www.nithyananda.org/Nithyananda-eNcyclopedia/Pancha Kriya.html anyways best of luck! i hope you reach that eternal bliss!

@peanutspathtotruth every day i do it. thats my morning routine. lately when i have been going to town on my sacral i usually get that runny nose again in the evening too. so i actually have been doing it twice sometimes. probably its better to get destilled water, or spring water, just make sure it has no fluoride. i get mine at costco. $3-$4 for 15L u can get it cheaper and better in the states somewhere I'm sure too. the thing with tap water is it has fluoride, even here in canada they say it isn't there, but it is, in trace amounts, like ppt. and this basically what u want to avoid getting near your third eye,as its the biggest factor in calcifying it. so probably boiling and filtering isn't going to help with that. but if its all u got, its probably better than nothing. seems like a lot of work doing that every time though. also make sure the water is body temp, cause if its too cold that will irritate ur nasal cavity too. i do that by microwaving the water for 45 seconds, but that might be different for you based on wattage and starting temp and volume of water. probs its not the best, cause i bet the microwave radiation has a negative influence on that pranic level, but its pretty convenient.

yeah its a good place to play around, and probably more valuable than watching random tv shows on netflix. but obviously its not going to take u all the way. but its def a cool place to open your mind to new things. just try to be aware alot of stuff on their is very vague and barely explaining anything at all, so don't get discouraged by that. its mostly introductory stuff. but they got some good docs and yoga stuff on there. but if u do lots of research im sure youtube has basically the same thing to offer. one nice thing about gaia is that its sorted in categories, and all that. one interesting auspicious experience i had with gaia, was i was learning about a special characteristic of prana, and basically there is this special time of the day 4am-6am called brahma muhurta, and its basically the time of the day when the prana(life force energy) is at its peak, and basically ur ego will manifest itself very little, and higher states of consciousness will flwo more naturally through you. so they say doing consciousness work, like yoga and meditation at this time is at its most valuable. so i was learning that at the time. and rejecting it. and not valuing it. and around the same time i went on gaia and randomly came across this Egyptian documentary. and they basically were talking about how when they photograph at around those times little balls of energies always showed up in the photographs and they started talking about prana and all these theories on how the great pyramid was actually made to make these bursts of energy in consciousness for the world. definitely it was synchronicity. anyways check it out for sure. and if u have a friend who already subscribes borrow their account that's what i did. also check out yogic paths. pretty amazing documentary. that's actually the first thing i discovered which led me to gaia. and they have the first episode on youtube if im not mistaken.

@Truth Addict if you want to add your top tips, i would love to hear them too! it would be amazing if lots of people basically wrote a post like this. we are all on separate paths leading to the same thing and we all did our own unique research so why not fill in the blanks and open up all the roads we can to our ultimate potential.

wicked man! yeah lets try to keep it alive. maybe i will do some edits so it isnt so hard and draining to read, i tryed not to but i know i wrote it with alot of ego attachment, and that makes it tough.. probs some of the big things r the crystals headstands with binaural beats and working on the root and sacral as top priorities are some of my biggest tips. ive been really going gung ho on my sacral and root lately and the universe is definitely making things happen alot quicker, and less painfully than they were before. based on everything ive learned those two chakras are basically the ones holding us back the most. and limiting our growth on the higher ones. but obviously they r all important. but for example what good is it if you can sing really well if no one likes you, and ur addicted to heroin, or u cant afford/ dont see it as valuable, to keep yourself fed with healthy food right?

@Truth Addict your welcome dude. looks like it will just disappear into the depths of the forum. so hopefully it at least opened some doors for you. Nithyanandum!

So I finally think I've come to the realization, or at least, stronger understanding to what it means, when you increase your consciousness so much, or it becomes such a priority, you will want to leave your friends and family. The hardest thing I find right now, in my life is that I am always excited about these new things i am discovering and ultimately i feel compelled to share these things with the ones i feel close too, especially when a conversation thread makes an opening for it. But it has ended is so many unexpected pains where the person will react in such a negative way, and not even see it, leaving me suffering greatly. Thank god Leo posted the ego backlash, video so now I actually have a better perspective on this. But damn! does it really get any better, like will I be able to interact in the real world and be true enough to myself? like my plan going forward is to move out of my room mate situation, on my own, and really peruse this stuff hardcore again like I did in December(when i lived on my own). But does it really get any easier when I go back into the real world? will my consciousness grow, eventually, that I will be able to catch myself, or carry myself in a conversation where I can become more aware of how my consciousness, and what i say to others might have too much ego backlash? or will i maybe not take the pain so personal?

This is absolutely the truth! I actually had this exact same thought earlier today. and its probably one of my biggest weaknesses. I always run into this problem, over and over again..... or don't catch myself even doing it, until its too late. and at the end of the day i guess its my throat chakra being out of balance. It actually makes a ton of sense considering i was smoking the last week. fuck i know in theory that's how the universe works. but shit it is so clear now, how i have been not observing this log in my own eye.( Great Insight!)... now i think that will really help motivate me to quit smoking for good. I have for sure made progress at being a better listener. but still have a long way to go. Shoulder stands and being a better listener, and less of a verbal diarrhea projector.... I was thinking i should just go solo cause i can not accidentally do these things and get all negatively effected by them. And hopefully take my yoga and meditation practice to the next level, without that negative influence factoring into my momentum. but this is for sure the truth, if i can accept this as something i need to be more conscious of, i will def do that too.

@NoSelfSelf Nice! really, full on dead? So the two locks/knots in your root? mohksha? or full enlightenment? every chakra has been fully awakened(I thought this was infinitely expandable) and your like one with the infinite consciousness always? Well I would say I have fully awakened to the concept of consciousness for like 8 months, But I have been doing yoga, fasting and working out for a long time. I think my yoga practice has been going for like 5 years, specifically the recent year, much more hardcore. So I think that's helped a lot. The past 8 months I have been really opening the doors to what is possible with yoga, meditation and I have really started doing shatkarma's, especially the jula/sutra neti seems to be huge for me. Also I have learned alot about what consciousnesses really is, and the importance of living in the moment doing whatever it is I do. Before i moved in with my room mate i was doing meditation everyday for like 5 hours a day with yoga every second day or so. also doing fasting. i have been doing lot of intermittent fasting, and multiday, up to 5 days water fasting, over the last 16 months too(i was doing this before i discovered the concept of consciousnesses, I think it lead me to understanding consciousness) anyways i feel like I'm just listing off stuff that is my ego trying to attatch itself to things in the past. But I am just trying to tell u the stuff i have found most helpful. so hopefully u can give me my next best tips.

@NoSelfSelf hells ya! i cant wait for that day! I was thinking that's how it works. i guess ego will always exist now matter what unless Nirvikalpa samādhi is fully achieved and the ego is dissolved in the infinite void right? are you close to this, or have u experienced major ego death? or already there? i would love to hear your top tips if you have them.

Thanks for the replies guys! it def helps me think things through more clearly. @Mirror of Confusion def true and i try this as much as i can. Im fairly convinced its intuition. But at the same time 7 months ago i felt the same about moving here(i was mostly ego driven through excitement of change) but no, I def know its intuition, this time(i need a sanctuary where i can be free to be me, and not let anyone else effect me, Joseph Campbell style). no matter how much i try to observe the thoughts of getting out, and focus on my consciousness work the thoughts come back way more intensely and powerful than negative monkey mind could ever do. @Quanty Im pretty decent around common folk(probably my ego speaking partly). I know i have a long ways to go still, but my room mate has turned me into his enemy and its basically just his monkey mind, getting the worst of him seeing things as he is, heavily unconscious. he cant even be simply happy for me, he instantly becomes jealous and from there alot of negative energies come. which is crazy cause in actual truth he has much more than i do as far as wealth and assets and all that(which is a source of jealousy)..... I've done countless loving kindness meditations towards him and myself, and actually overcame so much, in the short terms, but of course, 2 steps forward, 1 step back, and i often trick myself into thinking hes changed and when i get that unexpected turn of, energy shit just kills me. tried helping him in countless selfless ways but it still keeps coming at me(although i have learned a lot about how when i try to do thing selflessly, i actually am not, actually doing them completely selflessly). But yeah my goals aren't being satisfied here. Maybe they would be better somewhere else, maybe that's just my ego, but honestly i need to get into monk mode here. I have done it before, and i loved it before, and ultimately i think all this decision stems from that. My only goals are learning about music, learning about important stuff in life through books, like leo's list, and increasing consciousness, mostly through yoga and meditation, and soon psychs. I don't feel myself and i am holding back too much trying to please my room mate, which makes that ego backlash from him that much more painful(clearly i need a better approach)... I know i need to stop letting it effect me, and try my best. but it blows my mind how strong these thoughts come sometimes. even if i have observed and quieted them with yoga and meditation they still have a strong effect. Im fairly convinced its intuition. But at the same time 7 months ago i felt the same about moving here but no i def know its intuition. no matter how much i try to observe the thoughts and focus on my consciousness work the thoughts come back way more intensely and powerful than negative monkey mind could ever do.