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this was a joke that RSD Julian posted on his twitter, which caused a huge media scandal. This is the chart for emotional abuse they teach you in sex ed in highschool, trust me, i learned it last year.

yea fuck psychiatry lol

@Soulbass I sit in a chair like that except my lower legs are vertical from feet to knees in meditation and kriya. Works for me. @-Rowan Are you doing any other techniques? Maybe if not you could benefit from something like self inquiry, to synergize with kriya I'm a month or two further in than you, and I've just started to get some cool experiences, so maybe it'll just take more time. Now that I think of it I've started to get cool experiences only after Kp3 and doing the Kriya Bow from gamana's book, have you tried that?

I've already read that article I will continue to research through @SgtPepper what exactly do you do?

I forgot to mention Sofia university and its trans personal psychology class looks amazing. that's the type of stuff I'm interested in. One thing I've got from the Life purpose course is: Connecting the fields of psychology and maps of awakening & meditation in order to help people awaken more effectively, since their psychology does play a role in it. e.g. someone might turn to spirituality because they have a need to feel superior to others and it could make them toxic in their efforts and waste time or maybe take for example the therevada buddhist stages of insight and dark night of the soul stages(knowledges of suffering), and study and use what's going on and how it effects people. Also good point that psychology as a general field probably isn't what I'm looking for.

The way of the shaman by Micheal Harner. Haven't read it yet, just paged through and it looks good. It's just on shamanism though. If you're looking for something broader idk

Eggs, 100% dark chocolate, macadamia and brazil nuts. cauliflower, tomatoes, grapefruit, pineapple, berries, coconut flakes, unpasteurized green veggie juice, huperzine a, L theanine, lions mane mushrooms, Alpha GPC.

Like Nahm said get up early no matter what, you will go to bed early then if you didn't sleep enough.

I went mountain biking once last summer, I loved it!

Is this an effective technique? I sit down daily for an hour, and do vippassana, just being mindful of my sensations and thoughts. Once I get in the zone I start self inquiry, focusing on the actuality of thoughts and the body, seeing that it is happening on its own. After a while of that, and only if I feel like it, about half of my sits, I am able to watch the process of watching, I notice that the self that is watching seems to be in the head, various spacious sensations make up the watching, and I sit there doing that. When I get to the final step I often get into a deep meditative state for a while after, and get cool things like it feeling like my brain is melting, my hands and body parts feeling very big or very small, reality feeling very weird, etc.. I also (try my darnest to) do this constantly outside of formal sitting, except when doing. This way of doing things feels intuitively best to me after trying many techniques. Strait to self inquiry I get stuck in thoughts and distracted, just mindfulness feels ineffective. Is this a good way of doing things, I'm worried that since I'm not doing strict self inquiry, and I'm kind of mixing it with noting/mindfulness it might be not.

@luckieluuke I do it earlier before my routine and it seems to work fine. That is how you should do it, eventually it wont hurt to stretch it all the way

@Garuda enlightenment is a great place to work from your shadow from. You'll never completely eradicate the shadow, it's a function of the mind that can't be stopped, and that's okay.

let us know if you figure this out Ill come with

This is what I've observed with me & with others. It seems very different from adults. is it true? and why?

good replies thanks guys

explain what you just explained to us to them. maybe get a book on it?

just start going down the legs until you can get to toes. It took my about two months of doing it daily to go from unable to touch toes to almost able to get my elbows to the toes, forearm past them. kriya secrets revealed mixed with gamana's kundali exposed and secret power of kriya yoga. @Pouya absolutely nothing wrong with mantras, it's just concentration meditation, speaking of concentration, the buddha talked about two types of meditation, concentration and insight. It's best to be good at both, although you could get completely enlightened without ever concentrating. Kriya is a more concentration type practice, it helps quiet the mind and get you focused. My self inquiry practice would be shit without kriya compared to what it is with kriya. @OmniYoga kriya bow is meant to build you up to two minutes, it'll take time to get there. I'm doing it right now and am a little under 1 minute. yes do the chakras and chanting, that's the exercise. If you don't like chakras then think of them as parts of your body, and think of chanting om as just a form of concentration. Also I reach for water like every 10 minutes during shamanic breathing, works fine for me. get some daily pranayama's going

do whatever it takes to cut that shit out, it's worth it so much

wow that reminds me of osho so much I hope they can sort the wheat (genuinely good teachings) from the chaff (what made rajneeshes go bad)

I'm in like 40 girls's friend zones. I have a ton of female friends that I get along great with, say hi to and hang out with in classes. I asked one girl on a date recently and got awkwardly turned down. (she said to snap chat her but never answered the question). I'm kind of having a mid life crisis because I haven't had sex in a year and I'm a horny teenager. What I notice happening is that I'll meet an attractive girl through my female friends, talk with them and get along and then I'm their friend, I always fail to make a move, which I don't do because I don't wanna develop a reputation as someone who does that all the time in a small place like high school.

I do know some that are, I tend to be pretty picky though. I don't think picking up hobbies is the solution.

Those are the names of standardized tests which determine getting into college, scholarships too. I was going to just take a basic nootropic stack, as I don't want to risk taking modafinil a lot because I'm worried it would be unhealthy. Should I order modafinil for those tests? they are very important. Would modafinil help with doing questions in a short ammount of time, creative problem solving, & short term memory? Would this be kinda fucked up if it gives me an advantage?

I've just been doing self inquiry constantly every free moment and I feel stuck too, the more I do it the less I know what to do

I did it for the first time today, and I agree, I love it. makes the routine longer but it's worth it. maha mudra felt way clearer and slower(breathing). @BuddhaTree absolutely, KSR is good for techs but not much beyond. @herghly half open, when I did it I could barely see because they were pointed up, so not much need to close them.