Time Traveler
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* freelancing * making popular blog, youtube channel or website * selling on ebay * playing online poker All of them requires hard work and you should be very good at something. There are not easy money on web.
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In my opinion, idea this subforum is to give some notion / short description about subject so as to others can decide is it worth their time. To just say it's cool is not enough.
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Started to read yesterday. Seems like this book will give me the courage to try to tidy my space one more time. I was an advocate of "little by little" approach, but clearly that didn't work. I'll report about my results later ! Thanks for sharing !
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In order to remember you should try to recall and then look the right answer. There are good software for that, e.g. Anki that simulates so called flashcards. I take notes in form of questions and answers and put them into Anki and later use it to put these questions to me. For me it is best way to learn many subjects simultaneously.
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I am experimenting with random sleep routine. I put my need for sleep in first place not he schedule. When I feel like sleeping I go to sleep, but every time I wake up I got up. So I rarely are sleeping longer than 2 hours in one piece. I sleep 3-4 times daily and make no difference is it day or night. I'd say its a sort of polyphasic sleep routine without rigid schedule. Benefits are: 1) I never experience insomnia (just don't sleep if I need not) 2) I sleep less 3) I never struggle with sleepiness (just go and sleep hour or two when I feel like it)
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I read this book recently and it struck me so that I changed my attitude to life by 180 degrees. The book is mainly about attitude, how you look at life events, what meaning do you give them. Cause events themselves are without meaning. I could say that I knew this long before, theoretically. But reading this book I started to believe it deep in my guts. Earlier I knew it, now I believe it. I used to think that knowing is better than believing. I was wrong. Knowing is just an intellectual mind game. Believing is what moves mountains. Believing without knowing isn't always good too - you can believe in some shit and get nasty consequences. Chriss explains five principles that makes one happy: 1) Knowing that everything that happens to you will benefit you greatly. 2) There are no problems - just workout assignments. 3) You should review your past and see how past events was beneficial to you. 4) Meditate. 5) Talk with universe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is not a book about Zen. Perhaps Chriss was talking bit too much about his business: "Passages Addiction Cure Centers", I took one point off from rating for that.
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Hi everybody ! I was pondering upon two domains of self actualization tools: 1) ones that tend to achieve clear vision of " what is" ( meditation, raising awareness, mindfulness, unconditional love, etc ... ) 2) ones that tend to create an illusion of what would be "nice to have" (affirmations, visualization, self hypnosis) Do they contradict ? (E.g. there can be different approaches to deal with pain: immerse into it, detach from it) Which one is "better" for self growth ? Maybe they come in sequence, first second, then first ? Which one gives faster results ? Maybe these are two sides of one coin ? What do you think ?
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Funny thought just came to me. Real actors, especially those who play one role all the time, they should became their movie characters ?
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@Epiphany_Inspired thank you ! I'll definitely try this ! Obviously there are more techniques of visualization than I realized and some of them are not o hard to do.
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Visualization is much more difficult for me. To meditate one really need one thing - persistence. In Vipassana retreat I felt changes in third day. With visualization I haven't reached any success whatsoever. It is much harder to me. So I thought maybe I could do without it. But if you are sure it can give results that can't be acquired otherwise I'll give it another try.
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I'm not talking here about some ultimate reality or some exact definition. In ordinary everyday life for me "reality" = "what is" and that seems to be enough for practical use. Regarding to where it can be found I'd say every place where I am ready to search. Example: Some time ago I was thinking that I'm rather good person. But I was disappointed with life, mostly with the other people who seemed to do me wrong in every way. When I started to meditate I discovered that in "reality" I am full of shit. The more I delved into myself the more shit I discovered. I call it dissolving illusion and getting closer to reality.
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Time Traveler replied to Amin03's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
yea, my favorite story is how to meditate properly -
Time Traveler replied to strwbrycough's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
about what are these videos ? could you give some abstract ? I've listened 4 minutes of first video, but seems like some bullshit told in very exalted voice and accompanied with newagy music. maybe real stuff begins somewhere later ? -
Time Traveler replied to Amin03's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Usually I see them going, but if I ask myself: "what will be my next thought?", then I can feel it coming. But I don't think it is important, I just watch "what is" and don't try to force some special process on me. Different physical sensations can surface while meditating. If I encounter some nasty sensations I try to investigate them by zooming in on them. -
Time Traveler replied to SaynotoKlaus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
IMO this could be very intense purification. Here is short description of what it is: -
@FindingPeace Thanks man ! This is what I wanted to hear. Will go on with meditation and not wasting my time with visualization
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I am from Latvia. Offtopic: I am wandering why in american movies they almost always are knocking on the door. Seems that there are not doorbells anywhere. Is it so or is it another property of movie universe like "All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red digital displays so you know exactly when they are going to explode." ?
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On some forums there are so called "Golden Archives". Maybe we should consider creating something like: A hall of fame for the best actualization related threads ever found on actualized.org. The gems shall not get buried! Not every one has enough free time to grind through all low level stuff ;(
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I see your karma
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Time Traveler replied to Spider Jerusalem's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I understood it a little bit differently: there are no meaning or story in objective reality. When we perceive reality we create story. I think it is only an exercise that can give us some useful insights or maybe not. I don't see a lot of application of it in practical everyday life. Like observing characters in a book as specks of paint and not seeing a story behind them. I can't imagine living in a world of pure objective observation without any meaning. -
So, while waiting for some advice I experimented with spider solitaire I often play when I want to procrastinate Usually I was immersing into task of juggling cards, trying options, redoing hundreds of times. I used to be happy when good cards come. It seems unfair to me when bad ones come in massive amounts and I felt frustrated then. Best feeling was when it was hard and looked like almost impossible but I succeed in the end. Then I felt proud by myself for a moment. So I tried to be more aware in the process. I split my attention: one part to the task other part to observing myself. Immediately task started to seem a little stupid. Why I should try so hard shuffle stupid cards ? No one pays me for that. I observed my emotions when I felt happy about good cards and vice versa. I hardly make the game to the end feeling like I am doing the stupidest thing in the world and putting so much effort into it. OK, logically I know that long before: this is stupid. But now I felt that. Now I'm intrigued - if I apply this awareness thing to stuff I don't want to get rid off will it ruin them too ?
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OK, maybe someone can help me practicing awareness. It is easy for me to be aware on such activities as eating, drinking, smoking, etc. (btw, I quit smoking and drinking easy this way). I just concentrate my attention on the feel, taste, emotions, etc and try to not digress. But there are different category (games, movies, TV shows) that I cannot figure out how to apply awareness. If movie is good I immerse into it to the degree that I even forget about myself and live inside movie. Should I try to distance from movie and concentrate on myself, my feelings and reactions ? There are folks who like watching movie and notice goofs like something missing in the scene and then reappearing in the next scene again. Maybe they aren't sucked in this illusion and are seeing it more objectively ? Is this the way how to be aware ? But there is no point of watching movie like that. We purposely immerse ourselves into illusion. Next step would be reading a book by observing letters as ink spots and not recognizing meaning behind them. But in reality we doesn't see ink spots. They are just an illusion created by our brain interpreting signals form our retina. Then what should we observe ? Signals in brain ?
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Hi everyone ! As my experience with previous journal shows, journaling is a useful thing. It keeps me accountable, 'cause, as I've said, I keep promises made publicly better than these only given to myself. This time I'll try out Psycho Cybernetics. I was pretty sure long ago that willpower can't get us very far. Actually it is waging war with myself. Or with a part of me. I know, there are many people who live their lives with clenched fists and hate against life. Not for me. On the other hand there is nice methods of reprogramming subconscious to change self-image as desired. After one have done this, achieving success runs on autopilot like when we drive a car (so they say). For me though these methods was hard to learn cause I am terrible at visualization and visualization is a cornerstone of them. So I decided long ago that that's not for me. But recently watching Leos last video where he mentions Psycho Cybernetics I decided to give it a try. If bear can learn to drive a bike them I can learn visualize
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Today I am grateful for: - my neighbor who helps me with my car - Leo Guras last video - salesman who told me about dog tracking devices - good weather last days, so I could mend my car - I have enough money - I can buy anything I need in shop or internet - I bought tracking device for my dog and will be able to allow him to walk freely around my territory - I was able to start 5 Tibetans again - I can learn to do so many different things ranging from web design to car repair
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Today I am grateful for: - my neighbours - authors of PHPMyAdmin - Dieter Meier - my strength is getting back - good mood last hours - music - I regained my confidence that I am able to finish my project - I managed to drive through mud - my outdoor tasks are going well