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Hi ! I'm pondering about making money by playing poker. It's hard but doable. But there's another consideration: everything I earn, I directly take away from other people. Not the popular formula "win-win", but older style "win-loose". I could think that I give them some good emotions in return, but considering the comments they make when losing, it's not the case.

Once it happened…Four men were walking in the forest. The first was a gnana yogi, the second was a bhakti yogi, the third was a karma yogi, and the fourth was a kriya yogi. Usually, these four people can never be together. The gnana yogi has total disdain for every other type of yoga. His is the yoga of the intellect, and typically, an intellectual has complete disdain for everybody else, particularly these devotional types who look upward and chant God’s name all the time. They look like a bunch of idiots to him. But a bhakti yogi, a devotee, thinks all this gnana, karma, and kriya yoga is a waste of time. He pities the others who don’t see that all you need to do is know that God exists, hold his hand, and walk in trust. All this mind-splitting philosophy, this bone-bending yoga is absurd to him. Then there is the karma yogi, the man of action. He thinks all the other types are just plain lazy. Their lives are pure self-indulgence. But the kriya yogi is the most disdainful of all. He laughs at everyone. Don’t they know that existence is just energy? If you don’t transform your energy, whether you long for God or for anything else, nothing is going to happen! There can be no transformation. These four people customarily cannot get along. But today they happened to be walking together in the forest. Suddenly, a storm broke out. It grew fierce. The rain started pouring down relentlessly. Drenched to the skin, the four yogis started running, looking desperately for shelter. The bhakti yogi, the devotion man, said, “There’s an ancient temple in this direction. Let’s go there.” (As a devotee, he was particularly familiar with the geography of temples.) They ran in that direction. They came to an ancient temple; all the walls had crumbled long ago; just the roof and four columns remained. They rushed into the temple—not out of any love for God, but just to escape the rain. There was a deity in the center. They ran toward it. The rain started lashing from every direction. There was no other place to go, so they moved closer and closer. Finally, there was no alternative. They just sat down and embraced the idol. The moment these four people hugged the idol, suddenly God appeared. In all their minds the same question arose: why now? They wondered, “We expounded so many subtle and arcane philosophies, worshipped at every possible sacred shrine, great and small, selflessly served so many people, did so much body-breaking penance, but you never showed up. Now when we’re just escaping the rain, you turn up. Why?” God said, “At last you four idiots got together.” From: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Sadhguru

Hi ! Recently I read Tim Frekes "Deep awake" and start to practice. And very fast I reached a state of Happy Without a Reason state which is pleasant, but not so dramatic as I expected. It's like feeling when I was a child and sunshine was like pure gold, when everything was full of magic and first snow made me happy. Could it be awakening or just first sign ? Frankly, I am satisfied with this state and could do without anything more, but I was thinking that there will be something much more.

If it'll be 10000 times stronger I'll go nuts

Don’t get stuck into any one perspective or paradigm. The truth will get triangulated and cross referenced, the big picture will emerge. I completely agree with this. I also noticed that truth seekers agree with this mostly. But gurus doesn't agree. Why ? Competition ? Or do they think that we are to stupid to grasp the big picture ? Something else ?

Thanks, man ! You are giving big value for community.

Recently I'm doing very intensive mental training, like memory training, poker theory, ... I am training my brain really intense, may be first time in my life. I feel sleepy all the time. I can sleep 8 hours a night and then 4 at day. If I sit to meditate I fall asleep immediately. Is it normal ? May be I should use some supplements for brain-work junkies ?

Interestingly, I feel more capable on physical training. I do my mental exercises together with physical and my endurance increases many times. May be it is just that I turn my focus away from fatigue.

Isn't that true for every sport ? Tennis, football, ... you call it ? I've wondered about top level athletes how they can endure that boring training process ?

As I understand, in double slit experiment: a) if particles are observed then they form two spots on screen b) if not - they create interference pattern. Then, it is said that this interference pattern is graphical illustration of probability function, called wave function. Wave function shows us the probability with which particle would hit the screen if observed. But that is not the case ! When observed, particles hit the screen only in two places. In fact, if this would be true then observed particles would create exactly same interference pattern. Can someone clarify this ?

Thanks all ! I realized where my mistake was. Happens when you are not listening carefully

Leo, you said you've studied QM. Can you show me where I'm making mistake ? Why of all the probabilities showed by interference pattern only 2 realize itself ?

You made me laugh, thanks ! Maybe it is best answer to my concerns !

I've started holotropic breath-work practice recently and become interested in other breathing exercises too. Apart from yoga pranayamas I know some simple breathing patterns: 1) breath of relief (deeply breathe in and then freely let out all your stress) 2) four types of interval breathing with different lengths of each phase: a) breath in, breathe out, pause b) breath in, pause, breathe out, c) breath in, pause, breathe out, pause Most of breath-work gurus advocate only one of these types, but I cannot find a description of how they are different and what effects is from each of them. Maybe someone knows a resource where this is described ?

Bought "Affirmations and Visualizations: The Ultimate Secret" by Sakshi Chetana. Now reading and trying out.

Hi ! I am using affirmations for a while now (22d). In the process, sometimes negative believes surface, which are blocking the affirmation. For ex. main affirm. is: "It is safe for me to open to the world" and then BANG, one day believe: "People are dangerous" come out to surface. Then I try to find aff. for this, like "people are interesting" and do both affirmations - the main and additional. And then another day - BANG: "I am trying to manipulate people for my own good" surfaces. And then: "no one is good enough" And so on and on. So I am getting overwhelmed and need some advise on how to structure and organize all that stuff. Is there some good books on subject ? I mean detailed description of process, not the list of 100000 affirmations ?

Hi, all ! After some meditation practice I learned to sit with straight back. When I do this while driving I experience a Double Vision. When I tilt my head (as I used to all my life) I see normally (united picture). I suppose, it is that my brain is used to adjust convergence of my eyes in accordance with vertical vision line angle (low, straight, high) and I cannot easily change this habit. Because, while driving I cannot risk sitting straight (and double my picture). I've tried to sit straight and stare at distant objects (like in meditation) to cure this, but only get frustrated after a while. I can unite two pictures to one sometimes,, but it comes with great stress, but I think that vision should be without stress.

Exercise on proof that I exist: I think, so I exist I fuck, so I exist I eat, so I exist I weight 120 kg, so I exist I hate my life, so I exist I hate my wife, so I exist She hates me, so I exist I hate my parents, so I exist My parents punish me, so I exist I fear life, so I exist I am angry, so I exist I am stupid, so I exist I comment on actualized.org, so I definitely exist My head aches, so I exist or at least my head exist I drink beer, so beer exist (and and god loves me ) God loves me, so I exist I do not love Leo, so he doesn't exist Leo doesn't love me, do I exist ?

I do eye exercises from time to time, but never feel any good from them. Two things I found that works for me: 1) less PC, more walking in fresh air 2) HooPonopono I am sorry please, forgive me thank you so much I love you

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Some bunch of psychologists was working on a project called "Misery Olympics". The idea was to design competitions to detect most miserable, unhappy and unlucky person on earth - the champion of misery. But then they understood that project is impossible. Why ?

I am fat. I've tried different methods to get back to normal, but without much success. One of most efficient was was water fasting and I made it several times with good results, but it has several drawbacks: it is doleful you feel weak sometimes at the end of fasting, there is very seep curve of weight regaining after fasting more than 8 days coming off a water fast requires the utmost care So I tried to find some alternative and choose rather controversial beer fasting. My first try wasn't completely successful cause I used all my month supply of beer in two days. Otherwise all went well - I felt good (except in mornings), I didn't want to eat and weight loss was good. So about a month later I decided to take another try, this time trying to strictly disciplinezed myself - not more than 4-5 beers a day with intervals no less than 3 hours. ( one beer = 0.5 liters ) Yesterday and today is my pilot, real go will be sometimes later and I promise to publish my success every day. Yesterday I used 5 beers and lost 1.6 kg. Today at 15:40 I used one beer so far. Wish me good luck !

I think everyone has heard that. Every new age guru tells you: "The Subconscious Mind Cannot understand Negatives". I kept this hypothesis in mind until there will be proof that it is right or wrong. Today I've seen hypnosis session and hypnotist gave such commands all the time: - you don't feel pain ( and stick needles in woman's hand without a wink from her) - you don't know number 7 (and women counted 11 fingers in her hands, cause she omitted 7) Then what it is, new age bullshit travelling from one guru to other without even verifying ? Or something else I don't understand ?

@Godex Thanks again ! You are a life saver ! Today I bought both Jared Tendler's books. Looks that I will be able to eliminate my problems and more.

I don't know how to correct this. I am mastering online poker. There are several rules you have to obey if you want to succeed. One of them is: "Do not reraise on turn with only a top pair !" I know it. I even wrote it in big banner and stick it to the wall in front of me. I lost big pots some 20 times today cause I violated it. I swore to abide it hundred times. Nothing works. When I flop top pair, lizard brain takes control and I raise and reraise and cannot stop. After, I come back to normal and can only admit: Yes, I did it again. Is there something I can do to change this ?