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Sounds to me like you already know the answer to your question. Moving on from them sounds like the best option from what you say. Doesn’t mean it will be easy. For me it has been quite the journey to establish a new balance with my long-term friend group which I am now comfortable with. My advice would be to act with empathy and honesty to yourself and them. See if you can actually share the things that you feel and think. Expression will naturally start to create a balance with your friends that is more authentic to you.

@Nick_98 I can’t really make that call for you, I don’t know where you are at and what your life looks like. However, if you’re totally new to this, I would suggest building a consistent meditation practice of say 30 minutes a day (might need to build it up from 10 or so). Maybe do that consistently for a year, than see if you want to add things into the mix. Again, just an idea.

@Nick_98 Hmm, I feel a mix of things, kind of hard to describe. Unbalanced is the word I would choose. Well, most people would say your first serious relationship is challenging. Starting your first business is challenging. I think most young people have their hands quite full with ‘normal things’ in life, especially if you set high standards. Adding spirituality into that mix takes it to a whole other level. The video from Leo on ‘the dangers of spirituality’ or something like that gives more insight into that. Things like fear, loneliness, shifts in energy, pain, etc are likely to be encountered. I’m not saying I would advise someone to not do it. The opposite, I’m still glad I found this path. For myself, if I could do it over, I would probably choose my battles more wisely, focus on less domains at once, plan for a longer time-horizon.

@Nick_98 After a few years of walking the spiritual path, I would advise anyone new to this whole domain to thread carefully. Slow and steady wins the race I feel. This perspective might well be influenced by my relative low-point I’m in atm though. Going balls deep into spirituality whilst being young and not having mastered basic domains in life can be challenging from my experience. On the one hand building relationships, skills, business, whilst also dissolving your sense of self and reality simultaneously.. it’s pretty daym exhausting tbh lol.

@Member That moment when he jumps off the balcony and starts flying hahaha amazing stuff ???

@ivankiss Absolutely top 5!!! ?? Remember my mom and me banging this one on a burned CD in our Toyota Aygo LOl

You’ve got me going back to the JT classics ????

@ivankiss ???

Omg, I could so go for some dancing right now. Let me blast some of that Justin Timberlake and do some moves ?? ❤️

@Aquarius My girlfriend is from originally from Romania. We might visit in August if circumstances allow it ?

I’ve been experimenting with various crystals more. They definitely have an effect in my experience. One experience that was especially interesting, is when tripping on Psylocibin. I held different crystals during the trip, which guided my trip into different directions. It put a different flow to the trip, different themes related to the crystal I was holding would come up. as if it brought up different aspects of my being.

Was curious whether anyone here has experience using crystals for healing purposes. just went online and bought a bunch to experiment with. Want to heal my hearth and throat chakra mostly. Love to hear your experiences and/or tips!

+1 made me giggle. Maybe admitting that you know what the best choice is can be the first step. Then see if you can make the decision to follow your higher self. Then see if you can compassionately follow up on that decision. It can help to draw to paths, one where you play the video game and live that lifestyle, another where you pick up some other habits instead. Visualize both paths 1 month, 6 months, a year, 5 years, 10 years down the road. See if the contrast between those visions gets you some motivation.

It’s about balance and nuance in perspective here. A statement like “you need to have your shit together before 30” can be useful for those who need a kick in the butt. For others who are at the other side of the balance, towards already feeling pressure, it can become counter productive and a limiting belief. Creating is about having the right amount of tension. Just like shooting an arrow, you need tension in your bow, but thinking you need to pull that sucker until your fingers bleed is counter productive. Think about the flow in your life right now. Not about where you are, but about the momentum you are building daily. Is adding more tension beneficial or counter-productive?

In the past 3 years I’ve done around 50 trips with psylocibin truffles. For the past 6 months I haven’t tripped, which was good to integrate. For the last month or two I have planned multiple nights to do another trip, but have found excuses to bail every time. Tonight I have planned to trip, everything is in place. However, I feel major resistance against doing it. Any tips on how I can do it and go in feeling relatively good and able to surrender?

Yes, I took a low dose. I’m glad I did the trip, it showed me a lot. Crazy how these days even a little bit can take me to intens places. It felt more of a higher self vs lower self battle before taking it. Thanks man, listened to this on the comedown and couldn’t stop laughing and dancing ?? It was more like there was a clear blue sky, but the astronaut was pissing his pants ?

@outlandish Thank you, kick received. Turning off my phone now. ❤️??

Fuck, I was looking for someone to talk me into the trip, not out of it ? Now I’m confused ?

Maybe there is, maybe there isn’t. Should you not walk the path if there is no destination? Have you ever tried psychedelics?

Many blockages have been broken, but there are many more things to let go of. Also, I feel that some of the fluidity I established had reconguiled, so to speak.

Because to walk my highest path I choose to break open my blockages

@Meta-Man Thank you for your response. I resonate a lot with what you said about the half path not working. That is how I feel right now, in between asleep and awake. Overall I still lack the wisdom to choose for death. My motivation wavers. At some points I am able to surrender quite deeply. Then I crawl back to what feels safe. There are just so many distraction, excuses, fears, hesitations. The point of full surrender is coming, question is how long I’m going to keep beating around the bush..

Expressing my truth has been a major theme in my self-development process the last years. Around 2 years ago, I learned about the chakra system and found out I was Heavily blocking my throath chakra. Since then, I have worked on it a lot.. meditation, psychedelics, screaming, singing, writing letters, journaling, expressing feelings to people, dreams and more. I’ve come a long way, and my situation has changed a lot due to it. Relationships, place of living, business, self-image, awareness of it, all of these things have changed by opening my throath chakra more. Yet, the problem seems far from solved. As I am typing this, I can feel a heavy blocking feeling in me throath area. I’ve just done 20 min of meditation and chanting, which have released some of the pressure, but the feeling is still there. The problem is, is that my entire survival and identity are still largely build on falsehood. I feel that if I would speak in resonance with my truth, so many more things in my life would crumble. Even when I try to be conscious of it, I can’t seem to help falling back into old patterns and people’s expectations. As I am sitting here, I’m just sick and tired of the opening and closing process.. I open up and am in line with my truth, spend a few hours around people, and its closed back down. It’s just very frustrating.. just wanted to get that off my chest I guess ?

This puzzles me. Pursuing realizing the Self seems like such a journey from the human ego perspective. Most of humanity is totaly asleep. A small part of humanity is in some sort of persuit to understand what Self is. A tiny part has some degree of Self-realisation. Why the hide and seek? Why, once the intention is set, does is it still such a search for most humans to become awake?

Holistic health is not a business model, its a domain. A business model is a way you make money. Holistic health definitely is a domain with a lot of potential. There are already quite some people who are making good money from it. The question is, how are you going to position yourself in this domain so you attract customers and what business model do you use to gain money from those customers. I think it’s first about providing value to a specific group of people in a specific way. Once you have traction with that, you can think more about what type of business model you can use to gain money in return for the value you offer. Question right now is; are you already providing a lot of value, but people have not caught up to you yet? If yes, than it is about consistency and marketing. If no, than go back to the drawing table and think about who you are targeting, what their needs are, and how you are solving those needs.