jake473

Pain is meant to signal you're damaging the body. Be careful pushing yourself if your neck hurts or something.

Yep.

Thanks for answering.

People don't think about you very much. ... I would assume you're identifying yourself theoretically rather than according to the current results in your life. Most people secretly believe they're the most competent person of all. In a single sense they have the right idea, because untapped potential by definition is boundless and you can directly interact with your own to some capacity. Whereas you take everyone else at face value for what they've actualized. I've known people like you if that makes you feel less special. Then again, I don't know in what sense you were even feeling that - You definitely can go become as special as you want in a relative sense, although that doesn't mean people will be thinking about you. And not that this helps your social skills. In general, the mere decision to contemplate it and gain experience is what you should expect to change you.

Game over. Especially if you want this:

The ego deceives itself into believing it has no free will. You actually have it but you're completely corrupt. The main deception is that obviously if you had the choice, you'd do the most beneficial thing. That's not true.

I think I'm a total rookie at this. I've been trying to meditate for 2 years. Here's what happens when I start a meditation practice: I feel peaceful once I've settled into the session and for a while afterwards, but on a weekly basis it always makes me more neurotic. I start to feel an undercurrent of resistance that gets stronger until it feels untenable just for me to be. It gets so uncomfortable that I search for a new distraction and the practice ends, and that's the cycle. Is this not supposed to happen? Is it normal? It's so counter-intuitive, I don't understand.

Okay, it's normal. The video explains it greatly. So always persevere with meditation no matter what. The subconscious will bring up trauma until it gets over it.

Thanks for the advice. When it happens, I feel it almost all the time. I started meditating again only today. So today, my default state was fine and relatively content and I just had a normal day. What happens is once I've been meditating for a week, that default state falls into neurosis and instability until it's so discomforting I abandon the practice to return to a more bearable state. I think you said the correct reason, about trying to be in a meditative state constantly. But I thought that was the ideal. Why does that not work?

Usually 20 minutes.

I dont feel as much love for the people dying as I would want to. Humans have slaughtered so many lives, humans and animals. Maybe this is how it feels when something is trying to kill you. The economy stuff scares me because it threatens my survival, but from my point of view even if 1% of humans died and collective consciousness raised 20% that sounds like an absolute win. I say its about time humanity stopped destroying everything.

I would also like to know. But maybe this question is not specific enough. Have you seen this?

What's stopping you? What got you into action last time? You got caught in downward momentum. The first day might be hard, but you can get back on track.

What are reasons for feeling like you have no energy? For at least a year now I have felt like I have no energy, except when I was playing video games. I gave up video games a few weeks ago and the energylessness is hitting me. My passion is for life. For learning and for existing and for all of nature. I like Leo's videos and I know the highest pursuit of a human is to raise awareness, first my awareness and then the collective awareness. My main problem right now is feeling like I have no energy or willpower. I need the willpower because I don't have the energy. I want to feel like I did when I was a kid, so excited and full of energy that I couldn't stop bouncing around. I still am a kid (18) but every day I wake up feeling drained and it's hard to move around and take action. I am very ambitious so it does not compute. Could it be because I have not talked to anyone outside my family in 3 years? I don't have any friends or car or money so I am always at home, and I don't like being at home. I plan to start a business though currently I don't know anything about how to do it. It seems like even to be a wage slave I would need a car and I can't afford that without money. But that is a tangent so anyways, if anyone has struggled with energylessness I'd like to hear how you fixed it/what I am doing wrong.