nistake

Yeah, this is an issue for me as well. As far as I know, there's not really a workaround for it. Sitting for long periods of time is pretty bad for your health. Period. However, I try to mitigate this issue with regular stretching. Even when I'm at work which is a bit problematic because I have to do it 'secretly'. If I can't do that, I just stand up and walk around for a few minutes. Using foam rollers regularly is also a good solution. Just yesterday I found a local gym where there's a class specifically designed for spine health and other areas of the body which is inactive for people who work sedentary jobs. I think I'm gonna give it a shot. Maybe try to find similar classes where you live.

How about a middle way approach? I mean, if you're heavily addicted to video games and can't function, it's best to lay off them by any means necessary. But, if you do enjoy playing video games AND at the same time you can meditate, contemplate, study/work, why not do that? Maybe try to build a solid daily routine. After studying/working, allow yourself to play video games for 1-2 hours. Then sit down to meditate for a while. Then read something or do some journaling/contemplating. At first it can feel that you're doing chores when you're not playing, however, it'll definitely turn around. At one point you'll realize that you're actually wasting precious time when you're playing video games. But you don't really need to think about that right now. If you enjoy video games, allow yourself to enjoy them. Forcing consciousness work just because "that's what I should do" will definitely NOT work. By the way, I'm speaking from direct experience. I wasn't an addict or anything like that, but I did spend many hours on video games and I enjoyed them. Then, after I while I started to realize that I don't really enjoy them anymore. Still played a few matches here and there and then I completely stopped. Not because somebody told me or I felt guilty. It was a natural and organic process.

I'd say shadow work. When you have certain unresolved issues, traumas and other shadow material in your psyche, one tends to project these to 'external' people and situations. Practical ways would be reading books about shadow work and heavy contemplation/journaling.

Been listening to it for a while now. I'm really looking forward to reading the comments from Curt's audience, because this is like Leo's heaviest teachings compressed to a few hours

I actually wonder why this guy is obsessed with Leo.

Yup. Please make that happen.

Cool drawings you've got there. You might like this artist: https://www.instagram.com/rozzidreams/ Here's an awesome piece from her:

This talk is quite related to the video, it's worth a watch: Adyashanti - The Emptiness of Preferences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tLhJYIeX5o

@Blackhawk I wouldn't say he criticizes biases per se. I guess he's just trying to point out that the more conscious you are, the less bias you have, thus the happier you are. His delivery is just the usual though-love style.

Great stuff. I just watched Leo's episode about satisfaction meditation again and here's an insight from the video which is quite similar to yours: It's so easy to get lost in the metaphysics/philosophy side of spirituality and thus chasing experiences when the real deal is right here, right now.

@Barbara Exactly! --- Spirituality is the ability to to be satisfied with whatever is and to be conscious of it and to cultivate love for existence itself.

@peanutspathtotruth Sounds good man. Sometimes I take naps, but I've been looking for ways to replace it with other relaxation methods. Do you think yoga nidra would be an adequate solution?

@Someone here You're the number 1 expert of death in this forum

UFC is stage red, right? Well, think again 2:17

"Most people are already in one of the more wild altered states of consciousness. It's called egoic state of consciousness." 4:17

This whole thing depends on your definition of happiness. If you mean security, constant well-being and peace, not experiencing anxiety and a trauma-free life by happiness, well, yeah, that's quite a futile and foolish goal. It's obviously not gonna work. However, if you realize that Life has everything that can be imagined and more: good, bad, birth, death, peace, anxiety, etc and you are actually okay with it. By that I mean, you obviously suffer to a certain degree when a traumatic event happens in your life, but you're not fighting it. You're not wishing otherwise and you are not engaging in egoic clusterfuck thought processes either. You can accept suffering for what that is since you're Life and that includes everything.

Now that'd make a great book.

@EugeneTheSage Good stuff!

Been wanting to learn Jhanas and just started to read this book due to your recommendation. Thanks man, this looks like just exactly what I've been looking for!

Serious meditation/yoga, breathing exercises and the most potent one: cold showers. If you want to take it to the next level, then ice baths. I take cold showers everyday, but I've only done ice bath twice. It is definitely a huge commitment, but the after effects are insane. Like literal high.

This book elegantly combines spirituality and science. It's quite easy to read for beginners. https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Science-Needs-Spirituality-Sense/dp/1786781581

@Nos7algiK This is pretty awesome. Reminds me of this:

"And here's Tom with the weather"

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but this smells like a proper spiritual bypassing and/or self-deception.