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In my opinion self help is not helping. There are many problems that are not addressed and even get worse in self help, one of them is learned helplessness. We are in time that we google pretty much everything and even for big decisions in life and life purpose we go to youtube videos . That's makes it very hard to be self reliant and that by itself depletes self confidence (self confidence= i know and i can). There is a trend that started to go against self and Ego but They got it all wrong as there is no self and no ego to give away. Most of my generation act like kids even in the age of 30+ years old. I cut a lot of Self help and only kept a few. I will eliminating Leo as well because it has to come from within. Where ever you are if not comfortable think how can it be a little bit better and do anything you can to get there and repeat. Life meant to be lived .

@Serotoninluv it is still bunch of theories only for online forums and YouTube videos. It doesn’t effect the world as we know it. Unfortunately we have way too many existentialist and post existentialist or moralist that slow down our progress as species.

That's something only an existentialist will come up with, as functionalist i disagree with the view and find it absurd.

I don't think he is right here. I am schizoid and i can tell that i can go on living without any human interaction for years. I had that when i had night shift job, I also barely get bored and i can just go on meditative state for hours without any discomfort. That doesn't mean that i am enlightened, It just means that I have to create that pain for myself to push me towards goals. That gets me to the three traps of 1- religion 2- Love 3-To spirituality and using psychology and mysticism to become new religion with new age stuff.

@CreamCat tribe trīb/ noun 1. a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader. "indigenous Indian tribes" synonyms:ethnic group, people, band, nation; More

@CreamCat I am not really sure about the tribe as the old value system of Blood, land and God made a lot of troubles for our species. So many disasters under disguise of that. I would say focus on yourself and Family and Close friends and if you do that well only then you can be influential to bigger systems.

I don't really bother with Spiral dynamics. I don't see myself going anywhere after Green as long ago i came to realise that the best i can do is to make myself better and to do that i need mind my own business and let people do whatever they want. In my understanding stage yellow and above want to change earth and society and etc that i smirk and I say Good luck with that.

@Jack River I am interested in demystifying the mystical and not to add to it. I think you want to do more with mysticism witch is not the area i'm interested in.

@Jack River I have no idea where do you get this desire from.

@Jack River No one forces you to do any thing dude! that's the process of Concentration and awareness. You can do whatever you want to do.

@Jack River You aren't paying attention. we are Information mechanisms, we are able to receive and produce information. You are at any time receive some information that you pay attention to and ignore the rest because of brain ability to process limited information at the time. Your brain chooses the information for you in accordance to your usual state of mind. Most of it is trained by environment and all these practises is to reprogram your brain to be in your favour not against you.

@Jack River Your psychic energy is your attention and you are fully in control of that.

I wholeheartedly agree with this view. All Psychedelics do is to remove the filters in frontal cortex and help one to receive more information that the brain usually ignores. You can train yourself to reach that level at will, Its hard but it achievable

@bejapuskas I did, but i found this particular video very intriguing. In one hand self actulization is important but on the other hand a hungry organism only knows food. Most of the movement that tried to make euphoria failed because of that. If you don't differentiate it you might find yourself doing some rituals daily and call it growth

Leo encourages people to do their own inquiry and that means investigation that requires to question everything. How can you belittle someone who call himself talking head and ask the listener to do not depend on his teaching and go and discover themselves?

I think concentration can be the precursor to awareness .You train concentration to increase your attention span that can help you to be able to focus on your breath fully on every nook and crannies, the temperature, the sensation and the flow . the awareness that means the state in witch you control 100% of your psychic energy and in science call the Optimal experience.

I Discovered 5 types of meditation so far through self inquiry and sources like Leo. I think the first one is focusing, second one is repeating a mantra or affirmation, the third is to become the observer of the thought like clouds passing by , The forth one is the one i do by focusing on one subject or body part or any one thing and contemplate on that , the last one is guided meditation that is more like hypnotism. I do each one based on my mood what kind of meditation do you do and why?

You got to Figure out what made that particular movement attractive to you. I can only give you generalised opinion on them but in order to reverse their mentality you got to know they key aspect that made that point of view valuable to you to reverse the process.

I guess that's the best way to know yourself as expressing opinion will bring the blind spots or what you don't know that you don't know. The point is to always have the space for when you might be wrong. That's a all knowing trap that many fall into

@deci belle You sound too full of yourself so never mind

@deci belle That body part is my favourite. Just 5 minute of heart meditation outweigh hours of breath. Try that put your hand on your heart and say thank you while thinking and trying to feel it pumping and follow the blood to body parts and contemplate on how it works and say thank you

I think to be successful at anything including dating you need selfsteem , and confidence and self discipline The six pillars of self steem by Nathaniel Branden I think about confidence This dude's youtube is very good > https://www.youtube.com/user/GetMoreConfidence Self discipline > The power of Self discipline from Bryan Tracy or any other book from him

Is it a benefit to be easily influenced or its bad because you might be under bad ideas. It can be from using drugs or even murdering someone under influence of hypnotism . It can be range from the songs that you hear on radio to you tube, movies and advertisement. It is good to be easily influenced?

I would not try any drugs as the negative effect outweigh the positive in brain scans

@universe That's a wrong action, fear is giving you a sign that you need to prepare for it. You cant just ignore it and go improvise because if you are unprepared you are not good enough on the topic that you want to speak in comparison with someone who did take time and get ready for it. If you think otherwise you are just fooling yourself