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@Eren Eeager Could you explains what your thoughts are, like what about them is traumatizing you?

@Mosess The de-realization bit is numbing and brings feelings of apathy and loss, like it's too shocking. Awakening is intense happiness and lucidity like no other.

A more advanced way is to self talk, in meditation, and overtime build a virtual reality where you can talk to other people. This builds mental concentration. Yes, this can't apply in-field, but does it build a lot of mental staying power during conversations. And always have the time, before bed, to remember every aspect of the conversation and surroundings, and see what could be done differently. Like mentally review what happened.

@Michael569 I remember this. Did this come from 'How To Win Friends And Influence People'? One of the strategies is to encourage the other to talk about themselves and listen closely. I think Miyamoto Musashi, in his 'The Five Rings' mentions this too. This is a good approach to do, but also sometimes it's good to lead a conversation as well. A bit of both.

Hello all, been busy with new opportunities in life. I hope you've checked out and done some exercises in section 3: developing your mind's skin. I've benefitted enough that I could enhance my life vision and predict other people's movements in space. Let's move on to section 4: developing a mind's smell. We've done enough meditation, visualization work, and had past experiences that were fond enough to re-live those memories. Some of those memories could include pleasant smells to disgusting ones. Sometimes a smell can trigger deeper memories than other sensory experiences, because of how simple the nose is, due to how also the nose manipulates passing inhaled/exhaled air, it's temperature. Spiritual traditions and occult branches use forms of fragrances to alter the recipients' minds and leave an impression. 'smelling rain', smelling salt in the air, smelling odors not at the room, and psychic abilities that use the mind's nose are some paranormal abilities. If you're interested in Tulpamancy, or want to develop a tulpa, then a mind's nose adds another layer of realism to your experience. It also can help trigger memories and seal in an association to your tulpa, and if you happen to come across pleasent orcombination of smells that trigger altered states of consciousness or mystical states, your tulpa can help trigger these states by having some element of odor either on their own tulpa form, or clothes, or in their wonderlands/mental locations, either part of the imagined environment or spiritual objects your tulpa can use. The effort isn't a waste, as when you advance along your visualization powers, you could include smells of interest that lock in those experiences much longer in memory. If your struggling to develop mind's nose, I recommend to take up home cooking, shop for spices, and find opportunities in your day to smell stuff. Overtime, this translates over to imagining combinations of smells in visualizations. I've written instructions on the original post, so here are some changes: if you can do 5-10 minutes, increase by 5 minutes for each exercise (or 1 if you're really struggling), and please feel free to add another exercise appropriate to what you're working on, in this case, it's relevant to the nose. However, if you wish, go multi-sensory on some exercises, but beware that you won't progress slightly faster than another that uses deliberate practice on each element of visualization. Exercise 1. Smelling roses. Begin after a meditation session. Bring to mind a memory of roses, and imagine it beneath your nose. You may include it's shape, color, weight, and texture on your mental hand. Take a slow inhale, take in it's smell, then exhale slowly. Repeat for 12 times, each inhale and exhale roughly 5-8 seconds. You may use this as an object of concentration. Exercise 2. Charring food. Begin after a meditation session. Bring to mind a memory of eating a slightly charred food, or a memory of cooking a food slightly charred. Focus in on the smoke, and take in the aroma of the charring process. Exercise 3. Candle aromas. Begin after a meditation session, and a few hours of sampling candle fragrances. Begin to being to mind a room that contains some candles. For now, bring up 5, and later on increase one by one. Imagine the aroma of candle one as having vanilla, and spend 12 breathes on it. then move on to candle two, and imagine the smell as lavender. Continue to imagine flowery aromas for each candle, or other aromas not flowery. Exercise 4. Is this off? Begin after a meditation session. This exercise works more on precision. Bring to mind a food you're familiar with, and smell every detail of it. Imagine a day passes, and smell again, noting any differences. Imagine another day passes, and keep going until you can clearly tell the food is off. Exercise 5. Altered awareness. Begin after a meditation session. Bring to mind any aromas that excite or put you in a mystical state, and imagine a secured jar. Imagine being inside a very secure room, and a colored paper or some familiar object on the room, either hanging on the wall or on a table. This familiar object will act as a gauge for how altered you awareness will be inside this room, meaning if there's any sort of altered lighting or colors or warping of this real-life object, you'd notice immediately. Inside this secured room, take this jar that contains intoxicating, mind-altering, mystical aromas, and slowly unseal the jar. The aroma slowly flows out of the jar, so colorful and thick with a mirror mirage on the outlines of this foggy smoke. Each slow inhale you take, feel this aroma enter your nose, then down your throat and into your lungs. See it slowly spread this feeling of intoxication, slowly throughout your mind-body. Each inhale, check your familiar object for any signs of warping or lighting. This smell, from this jar, contains in it past experiences of mystical and intoxicating states that alter most of your mind and body, triggering any mystical states. To exit away and return to sober state, imagine each exhale contains the aroma, leaving the body, and breath it into the jar. Repeat until you feel normal, exactly like you were before you started. This training will build greater recall and stronger associations using smell. Oh, and you might salivate from food memories. Hope you all have a goof month, and remember: DESTINY IS ALL!

Hello all. Before I begin I'll offer some context about me and my visual skills so far: Most of my childhood, I'm fortunate enough to play playstation video games and because of the camera angles, sometimes fixed, sometimes following the characters I play, that those times it allows my mind's eye to better able to shift around 3d environments. I also was involved with some martial arts classes, which would later help me better establish myself, or my mind's body, in a visualization scene. In my adolescent years, I started getting involved with drawing and playing chess, both activities helped me see in greater detail and greater stability of a flat image/3d location, colours and shapes. I've also shared my paranormal experience in a thread in spiritual sub-forum, so I'll briefly summarise here(also because I'm still thick when it comes to technology using a phone lol...); I, as a toddler, was haunted by a female ghost in Indonesia, a land of many Islands home to many supernatural things, somehow through paranormal means the ghost fudged off, I had some lingering anger issues from that that lasted up to my 20's and through meditation it supsided, while holidaying with my parents, older sister and brother in law I met a friendly entity at Niagara Falls and for the past five years she's been with me as a close friend. Looking back now, because of these circumstances I was able to develop far more of my visualization skills than normal, mainly because through effort to see my close friend while going through my day, imposing some form of her beside me and in my mindscape, gradually seeing more details of her in a multi-sensory way. The main reason I'm starting this journal is to serve as a documentation digitally about my progress for me, and to share experiences and help you to develop your own visualization skills. It's also because so far have not met a person here or in real life that has this much visualization skills as I have, and thought that this skill would be very useful for most people to have in general. Also, lately I've been doing research on tulpas, which is probably the case with my situation, and experimenting around with this field, so I'll probably include a later stage with some sections on Tulpae and developing them. I've already planned two sections on dealing with thoughts on your own and meditation, but I forgoe them assuming that the majority of you here have developed some focus and meditation abilities. Instead, I'll briefly introduce seven sections, under the stage of developing visualization: Section one: mind's eye: like your real world eyes, but you mentally see objects, other people and places. Section two: mind's ear: like your ears, except it's mental and also where catchy songs and creative sounds of instruments or voices happen. Section three: mind's skin: like your skin, but mentally felt as remembered different pressures, temperatures, textures... Section four: mind's nose: like your nose, but here is where you remember smells of people, plants, foods... Section five: mind's tongue: like your tongue, but is mental and whatever you've tasted is remembered. Section six: mind's space: your mind's ability or memories of locations. Section seven: mental body development: like your current body you're having now, except it's mental and has many mental features to it that empowers visualization and slipping into mental spaces. So this is sort of my overview of this journal, so I hope this resonates or you're curious to try out with me and share your experiences with some of the exercises in each section. Speaking of exercises, here's a list to try out and approximately gauge your visualization skills. The goal with each is to last 5-10 minutes, each exercises, and see where you are at skill wise. Rate 1-10, 1 is really good, but feel free to use other rating systems ir percentages if you want. Exercise one: picture. Pick a picture, examine it, take in the colours, shapes, people, as much details in 1-2 minutes. Then leave it, forget it, and wait for an hour or the next day, don't view the physical picture. Then, in a meditative state, close your eyes and recreate as much of the picture as you can. The ideal goal is hyper-realism to realistic dipiction, this is a worthy goal, but is not required for the successful completion of exercises, as long as you can notice even a little improvement, it's passable. Exercise two: hand under object. Pick a hand size or smaller object most familiar to you. Take in the details, colours and shape of both the object and your hand, it's weight and texture. Leave it and wait for an hour or day. In a meditative state, close your eyes and recreate the object and your hand in as much details as you can. Ideally, hyper-realistic to realistic, but less than that is enough to pass. Exercise three: I'm hungry. In a meditative state, bring to mind your favourite meal, and recreate the scene in as much details as you can, include the aromas of the food and drinks, their flavours and textures in your mouth, and the spaciousness of the room your in. Ideally both hyper-realistic dipiction and a deep sense of 3d space in your memory, but anything less is a success. Exercise four: musical rooms. In a meditative state, bring to mind a memory of songs, singing voices and instruments most familiar to you. Start playing the songs in your head in as much details as you can bare, and either play the next few songs or albums, or switch to an entirely different genre of music. Ideal goals include realistic dipiction and echoe location. That's it for today. Do these exercises for about a week and share. Feel free to include different exercises here as well.

@KingCrimson Keep in mind, there are some cases of children killing or torturing other children.

@peachboy Think about it. Some spiritual practices are too dangerous to try while expecting something amazingly good at the end. You literally must damage yourself, layer by layer, before feeling heavenly feelings. You have to prepare, or face some serious psychoses.

@Adodd If I knew I would be deeply depressed, I would have prepared more and done more meditation/mindfulness work to handle the negatives of self inquiry. I've done the practice naively, so I payed dearly for that mistake. Had to reverse the several months of depression.

That self-inquiry was too dangerous to mess around with, and to develop my visualization and open mindedness even more than now. Vivid imagination is key to success and growth.

Wow, some users here definitely have shadows in their childhood. Getting triggered over some cleaning discipline for kids? Indoctrination will always occur, it's just whether it's harmful or not. They can question the indoctrinations later, but their selfishness has to be dealt with asap. Good parenting is complex, but when it comes to harm, installing some discipline into children does slightly lower the chances of them doing harm to other children in society, because we are SOCIAL CREATURES.

@anaj If anyone here hasn't studied and done practices with Tulpamancy, then there's already a high chance of getting .lost.

@Evil Raccoon Yes, I've experienced some of those effects in the video.

@--George-- @BlackMaze good to incorporate some yoga and tai chi. My recommendation is any form of cardio, high intensity interval training, any martial arts including Jeet Kune Do. Try to incorporate what Bruce Lee did, and other fitness coaches. Athlean X and Elliot Hulse, on just this topic of fitness, are great to try out. Any practice that improves nervous system function and mitochondria is fantastic for long term energy retention, as well as some basics like diet, nutrition and sleep/recovery quality.

Great. Now I just got to be diagnosed as depressed, or heavy anxiety, and I'm good to go.

3, because 1 I only exist, 2 there's life and 3 things die. Sorry, you don't exist, hence the holy trinity.

@Megan Alecia Free will fits into the paradigm because of how expansive reality is in the first place. Because the Godhead is doing most of the heavy lifting you don't bear as much godly responsibility to the universe, other than to peel off layers of your lies and the illusions of reality. To do this, there has to be at some point a trick played at yourself feeling a sense of free will, and a sense of things to discover. How much free will depends on your mind type, psyche, the environment you grew up in, what people you've encountered, and so on. The direct degree of free will is proportionate to the amount of limitations you have. Also, paranormal events, entities and abilities complicate this further, but actually those are also measures of your free will. The last question is tricky, depending on how much spiritual material you've consumed. When we are born, much of our youth tends to be subject to otherness and environmental forces. As we grow up, we develop more of a sense of self, and most of our lives we tend to roughly feel in control of half or less of the events we've experienced. The tricky part is when we start to go too far at either spectrum. God will throw a curb ball at you for thinking you're mostly in control of your fate, and life opens up possibilities to be an individual spirit when you're too deterministic. Even making evil choices is part of reality, that's how free it is, and all limitations and evil experienced so far is part of reality's perfection. God's mixing blood and flesh together to ultimately form sentient beings.

@BlessedLion How's your progress?

@Evil Raccoon How's your progress so far?

@Kshantivadin What do you do to relieve the insomnia?

@Call Me Whatever How are you doing? Any changes to your meditation?

@Parththakkar12 Ah ok. So a speculation is neither true nor false, until we do the investigation Is there a difference between old and fresh speculations? Is the conspiracy part like a speculation with fear attached to it?

Not the best time to date. Best time to be in solitude.

@Parththakkar12 Could you tell me the difference between conspiracy theories and speculating?

@FlowerNote As it is, it isn't imaginary, until the mind creates stories around non-duality love, which is most of the time. Yes, you're lost, I'm lost and everyone's lost in semantics.