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Resting my leg for another day, so hopefully it can be fully healed. It might not be up to jogging three miles straight for a little bit though, but I will find out. I am thankful that I don't have a worse injury and have the ability to jog when I want to. I don't think I want to overdue working out as it could throw me off track from life purpose. At the same time I enjoy it and do think at a certain level I gain a ton of stamina and energy for it. I had some really good resting this weekend and a lot of mediation, so I think I will be doing well soon. I have been keeping track of my larger acts of kindness. I notice that I don't really gain a whole bunch of them that fast it seems like. I mean I do favors and stuff for my mom and what not, but I don't track those. I think mostly it is the fact that I don't really interact with a whole lot of other people too. So it would kind of keep me from doing stuff. I am going to help my sister partially detail her truck today just because. I thought about ignoring her request on it, but I will just do it and I told her I don't want any money for it. So that kind be something kind for me to do today. The life purpose course really requires a lot of work for sure. I am happy that I am going though with it and doing it. I notice I really don't speed much time trying to think about deeper questions about meaning and life. I do want to start a contemplation habit sooner or later. It would probably really help my growth. Next time I have some shrooms I am going to have a good list of stuff ready to contemplate and give that a go. I think I am definitely ready for another session, but I can keep waiting a bit. I am ready to go deeper than last time. I really thing the power of these could be so immense if I can continue to responsibly utilize them. Almost done with one small book I tossed in between, so once I finish that and A New Earth, then I will be at like 6 books finished for the year. That blows me away how much progress it feels like I have got with this work just reading some more books in a month. This year is going to be amazing for my growth I feel like. I just need to figure out how to wrap up this business really and start moving into life purpose more towards the end of it I think. I do enjoy this business and I could pursue both I suppose. But if I just focused on one thing I could really make something excellent. Reselling sucks up a lot of energy from me. I do enjoy it, but the process to list stuff and make money from it is not that great. I need to break out of my comfort zone more and keep expanding and exploring this purpose. Today I am thankful for Rest Life purpose course Life improvements My top 9 strengths are Personal Development Knowledge Creativity Connection Contribution Fun Adventure Creativity Honesty I am doing some more strength testing today to possibly discover more strengths and work on them. I am actually going to do that now.

This is the lesson I was able to learn in my NLP session today. I pulled this from a memory of testifying in court against my dad at a young age. I was in first grade at the time. When I was there to speak up about what had happened I had noticed that my grand parents were in the court room, which I would not typically see them. They lived over 5 hours away, but my dad must have got them to go there. I did not really know it at the time, but this had suppressed me from being able to tell what had happened to the best of my ability. I want to move forward in life and never back down from saying how I genuinely feel about something, or if I want to express something. I get too much overthinking and over analyzing on what people may want me to say, or how I should be saying or doing things. I want to be the best person that I possibly can, but never stop on the criticism of someone else.

@Pilgrimage of Self Excellent share. That channel looks really high quality. I subscribed to it. Have you read her book by chance? One of the big turning points for me was with mediation and healthy habits. That and just accepting thoughts was really a big click for me, but I know how difficult that might sound for someone really struggling. I still have a slight issue with hand washing, but I have been working on being conscious while hand washing and it has heavily reduced it. Nearly all of my symptoms have significantly decreased and some have disappeared all together. Although, I am not sure about Pure OCD or anything like that specifically. But I had issues with OCD as early as 3rd grade I had a teacher notice I had an obsession with washing my hands. I found good success with NLP so far too and that might be worth a shot for OP to work through trauma.

@ethanb121 It sounds ruff, but you will be okay. You know that those thoughts are just thoughts though. Not actions. It's not going to be something that is going to happen over night at all. But it really is a counter intuitive solution to the problem. You are going to have to work through various ways of healing. Try to do the mediation for 10 minutes a day. Even if it does not go well, just keep doing it. Know that in those 10 minutes you are working on freeing yourself of the pain that you are enduring. If you can try to go on a walk today for a little bit. Even if you want to do the 10 minutes that is fine. Maybe a bike ride? Of course if you are feeling suicidal at all I would recommend you to call a hotline, or to seek psychiatric help.

Try to just accept that the thoughts could be yours. Don't resist all of the thoughts. The more you resist them, the more you are going to strengthen them and hurt yourself with them. You know that they are not a real reflection of what you would really do. Stop telling people that you have OCD. If you are talking to a therapist, then sure let it out if needed. But really try to keep it brief. The more you say this, then the more you mind will actually feed into it and give you more of the OCD symptoms. What do your habits look like? Any exercise, good eating, mediation, etc?

@playdoh Leo is right though really if you are just wanting to make a quick buck you can pretty much forget it lol. You could get a job most likely that could pay better with less emotional effort. I like what I do and enjoy the amount of freedom it gives me. It has allowed me to enhance my life tremendously. I am working on building a higher purpose though. Eventually ebay will go back to a hobby and passively sell the rest of my inventory. If I ever end up needing money or in a pinch I can always bring it back up. If you need to pull some money together to start your business or help you with some bills, then by all means go around your house and list some stuff on ebay to sell it. You would be surprised how much money you have laying around. You could head to your local thrift store and find some stuff you can sell. It works well for that for anyone really.

Had a really awesome mediation session today. Really pleased that I have went the route of doing it with good posture. I am not able to go the full hour straight with it just yet in the morning, but I will be able to soon. If I did it after workout and shower I probably could, but really trying to make it the first thing that I go to do in the morning. I think my leg has fully healed up, so I am going to do a 6 mile walk today. Going to hold the jogging for another day and just see how it goes for now. I would like to get back to full speed in hopefully a week or so, but I will see how my leg does and if it gives me anymore issues. I am excited to go back to toast masters next week. I am going to give it my best shot and go up and do another impromptu speech every time I go to try to get good at it. I want to practice my speech skill as much as I can. I think I will do really good and it gives me something new to start mastering in my life. I do need to get out probably a little more and interact with other people a little more anyway. I am starting to try to integrate more of the stuff from the book A New Earth into my everyday life. I have managed to mostly stop someone who tries to annoy me and insult my, by simply just letting it be and having no reaction to it. I learned in the book that if I just let it be it will persist and if I fight it, then it just gets stronger, which seems to be very true. I am trying to raise my level of awareness a bit more. Trying to be more conscious when I can remind myself to do it while I am doing stuff. I am trying to do it right now, while I am washing my hands at the least. But I am finding it easier to do it other times during the day. I did it during mediation today and it felt amazing. That is the best I have felt from meditation in a month or so. I am going to put some more work into the life purpose course this weekend. I am excited to see how it goes for me. I have been enjoying dedicating the weekends to learning and alone time. It really gives me a good refresher from doing work during the week. Granted I have not been going too crazy doing work, but I have been doing pretty good for the most part. I feel like there is a lot of balance in my life right now and I am satisfied with how I am spending my time currently. Today I am thankful for Life purpose course Time to relax My leg healing (hopefully) My top 9 values are Personal development Knowledge Contribution Adventure Fun Connection Honesty Productivity Creativity

@playdoh I started several years ago just selling my personal stuff. Gradually learned the ropes over time for it. Really invested a lot of time into learning in the last year though. Depends what you sell and how much you want to sell. Also, depends on your knowledge on items. Your location is a big factor too. I can travel about an hour away Friday, Saturday, or Sunday on a weekend and fill my entire third row suv to the ceiling with stuff consistently from garage sales during garage sale season. I can go to the same city every weekend during winter and get a full suv of smaller product for $100. Plus I can get some good electronics for cheap there all while stocking up on some cheap groceries. I can make over $30 an hour on the small product, which I have calculated. But I am also working to speed up that process. I have some new equipment coming and I want to hire my sister to help me bust through that stuff too. I have bought out part of a business before to acquire inventory too. I also have a pretty passive way to make money with it stocking local stores with inventory that I literally get delivered to my house. I eat a couple hours of time moving it and loading it. But after that I make pure profit on thousands of small items. Granted I average .4 a piece give or take, but I sell them out in bulk. There is a ton of wholesale options I could get into as well if I had a warehouse. You can get stuff by the semi load if you can really move inventory. It is all in the system you build to move stuff. A big factor is going to be how much space you have to work with too. I am incredibly lucky to be able to use the amount of space I have to work on my business. I am going to work to pay for a program and set up the system to place my products on several platforms at once for each listing. Most likely Shopify, Amazon, Mercari, Etsy, and maybe some others. This would really give me a big boost in sales as well. But I have a good amount of mastery on ebay and my customers are very pleased there. I also sell a lot locally, which really helps my business. Most people I see that are into it are really struggling. I was surprised to see a guy with a local store that's been up for 10 years start to liquidate. I realize why the guy had a bad attitude towards me now though, he probably seen me as taking potential inventory from him. But in reality there is so much stuff out there it is unreal, you have to just know what to look for. Most eBay sellers are really stuck in one category. I have pretty extensive knowledge on items at this point and I can usually tell pretty quickly if I am holding a high quality item or not. I know a guy that is nearing a million dollars of profit in a year after taxes and overhead selling mostly postcards, records, and other paper collectibles. Granted he has 9 employees at this point. To make over $100k a year by yourself you need to be good for sure and work quite a bit. Much more over that you really need employees. You just have to know what you are doing and be different from the others really. I do really good because I can spot the things that all of the other resellers think are worthless, or don't want to invest the time or effort into. Just like the guy with the post cards and records, most won't want to have anything to do with that kind of stuff, but that right ones can bring in a ton of money. For most reaching 50k in a year is quite hard for them. It also takes quite a bit of money to get the ball rolling as well. I am looking to hit that mark at least this year. But it will take some time and work.

@Girzo Yeah, I get you there lol. Most of the people in reselling just hop in, when it seems hot or a fad. Or they had seen some guy making 6 figures doing it on youtube. It's not for the faint of heart and people looking for quick money. I am a nerd when it comes to obscure collectibles and items. I love looking for it and shifting though piles of junk to find the gold. If I dedicated my time to make the max amount of money doing this I would not like it anymore. Maybe on some levels of it would be fun, but really being at the core of it is what brings me the most joy from doing it. For survival sake yeah, I have to up the numbers sometimes. I have financial goals I want to meet doing it. But when it comes down to it I was doing it making nothing before. @Leo GuraI have been reading A New Earth and I am seeing more and more how that really does impact the world heavily. I need to continue to deepen my own consciousness and love, and work on spreading it more.

@Girzo It depends on how you go about it really. I really enjoy the amount of freedom that I have mostly selling stuff on ebay and locally. It's been an amazing amount of freedom and the amount of stress in my life is usually pretty minimal. Sure, working on more contribution might be better, but to help someone get into a position to get themselves free from a 9-5 I think it could really help. I spend a large majority of my time dong personal development, sourcing items, building good habits, and working on life purpose. For me it has made complete sense to go this route. It could suck a lot of time up though and especially will at the start. But to be fair I enjoy my days very well at the moment. I wake up ready to see what the next day is going to bring me. I can take any day off that I want to and do anything at really any time that I want to. I am just about ready to hire my sister to help me list items and I will continue to work towards my financial freedom while building skills and learning life purpose. I realize I have a bias here because I do this type of work. But just something for OP to consider. I do think if he can find life purpose first then go right into that and not get sucked into Amazon selling. Especially if he really does not enjoy to sell stuff. I enjoy selling myself and it started from it being a hobby. You can also sell higher conscious items and use your touch to influence the people you meet, buy, and sell stuff from as well. You get the opportunity to uplift the world through any facet that you decide to choose, but some things are going to be more impactful than others. You just have to decide where you want to be at with that.

I went to my first toast masters last night. I did an impromptu speech. It did not really do all that great, but that is okay. I am going to be back next week to do another one. I definitely fought one of my fears I have, so I am happy with myself for doing that. I have done a speech class before, but it has been years, so this is definitely a challenge. I think it will be a good skill worth mastering in life to be able to be a great speaker. I am excited to see how it goes. No one there is my age, but not really that big of a deal. Not really many people in my age group care about this kind of stuff it seems like. I think I am just going to allow my body to rest another day, but I did get in a good workout yesterday. I want to be fully recovered, so I get back to my regular workouts again. It does bother me slightly to not go out and do it, but I know that it won't be too big of a deal. I really enjoy running and I think it is one of the best habits I have created in my life so far. I want to be able to continue it for a long time. I am going to finish doing my taxes today. It is a bit frustrating to do them to be honest. I think next year I will probably just hire an accountant. At least I don't have a massive amount of variables and streams of income to deal with this year. I also don't have an employee yet, so I really don't think it will be all to bad to get it going well. I found my best goodwill find yesterday! I was out of town to help my mom with some appointments and I stopped into one of my favorite spots while I was waiting for her. A lot of people were there and most of the stuff was picked through pretty hard. But I was in the heavier item section that usually most people avoid because it has a lot of furniture and stuff like that. I found a home powered sub woofer for $5 and put it in my cart because I knew it would make some easy profit. I got a few good things and hung out there for a awhile and later found out the sub sells for nearly $400 shipped. I can ship a sub woofer like that for about $40-$60 depending on location some fees and what not. But I would be looking to clear about $300 in profit. So I am really pleased with that. I happy I have invested this time into getting good at doing this. I really enjoy looking for stuff like that. It is funny with so many people into reselling for their side gig or full time, but there really is enough to go around for everyone. I will likely still want to expand this business a bit more, but not sure how far I will take it before I really pursue life purpose fully. I think this will really help me get off the ground and help me reach my goals though. Plus I like doing it, so I can't complain. Today I am thankful for Toast masters Goodwill Unlimited opportunities My top 9 values are: Personal Development Knowledge Connection Adventure Creativity Contribution Honesty Productivity Fun

The leg is not fully healed, so I imagine at this rate it is going to take a week or so to get it back to full strength. Not too big of a deal, but I cannot work out as hard for awhile. Harder for me now that I was having a lot of really good sessions, but it is a good reminder to be more mindful of doing my stretches and not overworking it. Going to get myself to go into the toast masters tonight. Curious to see how that will turn out. I am just going to introduce myself really and just see how it goes there. Kind of doubtful that a lot of people would go in my town, but who knows. I will have to find out. I had some slight fear building up for it, but I know it won't be that big of a deal to go and do that. I am curious to see how it goes. It will be a challenge for me to do for sure, but will be totally worth it I think to start working more on my speech skill. I am going to spend more of the day running errands and stuff it seems like. I have been having a lot of time eaten up by this type of stuff lately it seems like, but it is not that big of a deal. I can work through it and really try to focus in on the time that I have into getting some more items listed. I am selling a set of car wheels for $400 this weekend, so that will put some money into savings. I think someone is going to buy my ps4 as well so maybe another $190 if that goes through. That will be nice to get a decent start into savings. I am slowly going to start parting out he car and selling the parts off it from the inside of it. There is a lot of really easy to pull parts that sell for good amounts of money and pretty fast. I would hope to get in the ball park of $900 in parts of the car and that would cover my expenses in it. We will see how that goes. It would be much more efficient than wasting money to fix it at this rate. Reading is going quite well it seems like. I am getting almost half way through my 4th book of the year! Blows me away how much I enjoy reading and learning now. I think before it was too hard for me to be able to focus, but not after working on all of these habits and practices it has become part of my life. Today I am thankful for Getting up early Things going smoothly Ebay sales My top 9 values are Personal Development Knowledge Adventure Fun Productivity Creativity Connection Contribution Honesty

@Elisabeth It's true. It's always easier to lower the price than to raise it. Most don't like it when a price goes up lol. Keep it in mind and see what you can do with it.

Really good thread with every thing you are looking for. I thought about maybe doing some coaching in the future myself. But not sure what route I will go with it.

You ever consider making the meeting free access, then having other things you charge for at the meeting? I would be much more inclined to attend something that is free. You could also find a coffee shop or library and go for free depending on what you are doing. Something like a park could work really well too just to start. Likely it is going to take like 6-12 months for a project to really start producing income. Most small business don't turn a profit first year. I am not saying that to discourage you, but just to make you aware of that. Another thing you can do later on once you are comfortable is film yourself during these meetings on what you are saying and use them for youtube and other social media to build more path ways to get new clients and generate revenue in other ways. Business partners could be tough later on if you form a successful business without proper paper work. You could also cause yourself to be liable for what they do unless you form a LLC together. So if someone sues them for an action of the business, then guess who is liable too. I get that maybe you don't want to spend extra funds on it now, but a lawyer is good for a reason. You can pay $100 for a consultation and actually get a lot of value alternatively too. I would not really recommend trying to form a corporation between you two without a lawyer. I would say when the business can afford to pay the lawyer for it, then go do it. I also recommend that you set up a separate bank account so you can see funds going in and out specifically for the business even if it is not officially formed yet. Keeping all receipts of purchases towards it and tracking things like miles you drive etc. An accountant would be a good investment later when it makes sense too. Judging by your profile join date, you have been in self-help for quite a bit. I mean initially you are just going to ask everyone about themselves. You can ask what people would envision for future, goals, hobbies, what they want to work on etc. Then give your experience and have people work together to help each other too. You don't need to be some hot shot to have a free meeting with other like minded people. If you decide to charge later, then no worries. You really need to learn about the clients that DO show up. Learn what kind of income bracket they are in and other things that will help you determine what you can charge and what type of products you could possibly offer. You would be surprised some of the people there might even tell you what they are looking to buy.

Which one would you do if you weren't being paid? Do you find yourself involved with any of those things outside of schooling? You could likely volunteer in most of those industries or things relating to really try them too. It sounds like you really have some time to explore your options. I would take the time to really figure out deep down what you want to do the rest of your life. If you have the extra capital I would consider investing in the life purpose course. This was pretty good too

I believe my leg is fully healed, so I am going to give a bit of run in a small storm I think today. I did just let it rest all day yesterday. It is a bit harder to just let go of something like that because I do it pretty much every day. I think it was best to let myself heal up though. I have also tried to be more conscious while running. Yes, I do enjoy just listening to a podcast and letting go of the body, but I think as I want to progress being conscious of it will be super beneficial. I think it would help me to even run in better forums and postures as well. Most likely would advance my skill in running tremendously. However, me remaining fully aware for an hour or so straight is not as easy of a task for me. It is something I am working on though. I think while mountain climbing I could do it easier, but in daily activities it does become harder. I do notice that I am becoming significantly more conscious than I had been previously though in all of my activities. I have been moving towards awakening without really much thought towards it. I did get a good start at listing the items for sale. Sales have dropped off pretty hared this month from end of holiday seasons plus from me not really keeping up with listing. I have a bunch of stuff ready to go up for sale all pictured though. It will probably take me quite a few hours to get it all done. I am really trying to work and get things ready for tax season. I did also almost finish my own tax stuff. I need to get working on it today though and finish it up completely. I did get up right at 6 today. It is really all in the power of the choice of what I will do once I turn off the alarm. I try to just sit right down and meditate after I get up if I can and that will keep me awake. It gives me a reason to really be up that early as well. Because most of my routine is not really fun to do at 6 am lol. I might try to be up earlier in the future, but for now that seems like a really ideal time to keep building my schedule around. Today I am thankful for Health Waking up early Getting tasks done My top 9 strengths are Personal development Knowledge Fun Adventure Creativity Connection Contribution Productivity Honesty

@Raptorsin7 Great, but to be fair it is not really comparable to how I use to eat. I ate pretty bad, which was just typical america diet really. It's something that you are going to want to slowly adjust, or your are not going to find yourself having much to eat. I removed a thing at a time for the most part.

I eat vegan and pretty much mostly organic fruits, veggies, nuts, and cooked quinoa and various beans. I always have a smoothie for my first meal of the day. I have watched some Life Regenerator and stuff. Just not really sure what other dinners I would want to add in aside from the quinoa. I love it, but I do know that I want to replace the Yumm sauce with something more organic and fresh soon. Just harder to make something as fresh/good that I enjoy I suppose. But I did see some of his recipes I was going to give a shot. I eat a ton of kimchi and sauerkraut with the quinoa now. I have one large avocado and a roma tomato with it. I am not really sure I enjoy salad all that much. I suppose I could make some good ones and try some new stuff with it though. Do you have anything else usually? I could give it a shot for awhile and see how it goes maybe. I am already pretty close to eating like that. Probably 50% there. I do need to research it some more though too. I have just kind of had the idea of it on the side lines.

Going to use the elliptical today and still take it easy on my leg. Got up a bit later today, which kind of sucks. I need to really motivate myself to be up right at 6am. I am trying to give myself room around having time to myself and to complete my morning routine easily. I did manage to get my orders shipped out and all of that. No exercise yet though sadly, so I am behind schedule a bit. Working on managing my emotions more. Realizing that I am the one who is creating the thoughts that are causing me to have those emotions attached to me. It is actually working really well for me. I think that came out of a book or something and it has clicked well with me sense. I can't say it is perfect, but going quite well. I noticed some anger just a bit ago awhile on a hold line and just reminded myself of that and the feeling has pretty much gone away. I get a bit frustrated doing tasks for others constantly. I am setting some more boundaries. This is mostly what is making me want to feel agitated or angry lately anyway. I have been reading a new earth, which is surprisingly awesome. This book seems to be really useful for me, so I am glad I decided to buy 3 of his books. I found one in a store I supply, so after checking it out made me want to buy. I am excited to see if this will improve my life. I found a chapter walk though of it on podcasts too, so that is nice. I am getting in a good solid hour of reading a day minimum and really enjoying it. I have not really put as much time into life purpose course though. But that is okay because it is actively on my mind and I am reading books about it. I need to work on getting this sleeping schedule 100% down and sticking to it will probably be my main thing right now. I think this is going to keep having the most benefits for me daily and give me the most out of my day. I do notice I spend way less time on the computer now with this schedule too. I do spend a bit of time on my phone still, but really not that bad. I feel like I am getting really good use out of each day. Working on grinding out as much of my inventory that I can right now and getting stuff really moving. I have a lot of tasks that are really going to keep me busy. I am going to try not to buy as much inventory because I already have a lot right now and just focus in on getting stuff moving at a good pace. I don't like to feel buried in so much stuff that it feels like I cannot complete the tasks. It makes it harder and harder to work through it. Although, it is exciting to find new stuff. I just need to be mindful about it. Getting some of my larger items sold and a lot of my personal items too actually. I really don't have a whole lot of stuff or need for a lot of stuff for myself anymore. Today I am thankful for A new earth book Peace Reselling My top 9 (lol) values are Personal Development Knowledge Fun Creativity Honesty Productivity Adventure Contribution Connection I will go back and see if I have one more. Not sure why I left one off originally.

Thanks so much for sharing this information. Just what I was looking for!

Had a small injury come up while running yesterday. I did run a PR for 5k that was 27 minutes and like 30 seconds or something. So that was quite a good time. I realize that I have not been stretching enough like I should be and that was likely the cause of the injury. It was only when I was walking back that it came up and I iced it last night. It already has healed like 80% it seems like, but I am going to give myself the day off from hard exercise again even though I feel like doing it. I think I might try a yoga session again as I have not really done that much and do some stretches today. Probably toss in some push ups and stuff like that and call it good. I need to be more conscious of my body and give it the healing it needs. I have read 3 out of my 20 books this year, so that is really exciting. I started reading a A new earth by Eckhard Tolle and I am already hooked from the first chapter. I can see why he has sold so many copies of his other work. I have not really explored much of his teachings, so I am excited to read this. I did do more life purpose course and I feel like I have already got my $250 worth from buying it. I am a bit over halfway done, so I am excited to see what else comes out of it. I think this has been an excellent use of my money and time so far. I think that I might have found my life purpose. I have not fully narrowed it down, but I am going to keep working at it. I need to start doing more work towards my purpose now. I actually already do daily work towards it, but I want to bring it to the next level. This week I am going to go to toast masters for the first time and start working on my speaking skills. I know I have a lot to work on to get good at speaking and it is a fear of mine that I want to tackle. This will be a big move for me and I am ready to move ahead in it. I feel like I have a lot of things I can be working on right now. It seems like there is a massive sea of tasks for me to do. I am going to try not to get lost in all of it and just tackle things one at a time and not lose sight for what I want to do in my life. I do need to buckle down and start making some more money soon too I feel like just to free up more time for myself. I am really easily getting up at 6am now it seems like. I actually feel really good and full of energy, when I get up. That is a first in my life really. I never really felt like getting up early before, but I do look forward to each day. I overall feel good. I am going to start focusing more in on actually selling my items then stock piling them for reselling. I want to get the ball rolling hard towards this $20,000 goal. Today I am thankful for A new earth book Always something to do No shipping today My top 10 values Personal development Knowledge Contribution Connection Fun Honesty Productivity Creativity Adventure

@Amandine Depersonalization not sure why, but it seems like the spell check on here is not all that great. I have been adding a lot of words to the dictionary for it on my computer. But I likely just click the one that looked close lol. That particular sister is older than me by about 2 years. She likely about 7 at the time. I don't recall even being in school at the point yet. So the age is probably about spot on. I do a audio guided session that was paid content. I am going to buy a few books to learn more NLP sessions. I am exploring more possibilities and techniques with it. It is extremely powerful. I could not even myself to cry on mushrooms, but this had tears down my face multiple times. The experience is extremely surreal. I typically would not have any hard emotion towards these events either and I had not cried in a long time. I realize that it is healthy to cry, but I am usually at a quite neutral point emotionally. I believe Leo is working on a course for subconscious mind stuff? I believe I recall him saying that. If that is the case I would definitely be buying.

It's been years since I have done lucid dreaming. But two tips I have that worked really well for me. First, if you flip a light switch in your dream it will not work. You can use this to easily identify that you are in a dream. The second one is to start spinning if you feel yourself about to leave the dream and you want to stay in. The spinning will really help you maintain the lucid dream even when it is seemingly going to end. I have used lucid dreaming to spend time with a a deceased family member and float in space. It is really an interesting thing that you can explore.

It's good that you are leaving them in the past. There is usually not much you can do with stuff like that. Most people are not really looking for help unfortunately. You are seen as bad if you don't allow people to live in destructive environments. Your mental health and happiness are the most important things that you have. You don't want to be expending them on people who are not going to make any serious changes in their life. Misery loves company, so naturally people who are suffering want to drag everyone else down with them. There is a lot of reasons all of those people chose to continue their behavior. It's probably easier for the sisters not having to take care of your mom and well. The brother even though destructive is there doing something. If your mom had that much damage from a stoke and given her age is not likely to be able to process it easily either. The thing that sucks is it might feel like you are the only one who can help and save them. When in reality you can't do anything for them. Some have to go through the most suffering before they are really ready to receive help. For others it is probably too late. Have you done any therapy?