Danioover9000

I'm going to do a practice of gratitude for 30 or more days to see if my happiness increases or I feel more positive. I might put my lists into categories or not. 1. I'm grateful for the home environment I'm in with my family, that our home is quiet. 2. I'm grateful that 20-30 years ago my parents decided to renovate this house by removing a wall and a small bedroom to increase more space. 3. I'm grateful for my bedroom, for having a double bed, having two shelves that hold my books, some clothes, and my boxes. 4. I'm grateful that I get to sleep in a bed mattress that's high quality, that used to belong to a hotel, that my parents decided to include in the shipping before we left Montreal. 5. I'm grateful for having a pillow for my head, another for hugging while sleeping, and a huge cover for my sleeping body. 6. I'm grateful that I still have a few big boxes for my older clothes that still fit me. 7. I'm grateful that the boiler still works to provide hot water for the shower, taps, and radiators in the house. 8. I'm grateful for the dinner table being the way it is, and the chairs are still good even though they're from another country. 9. I'm grateful that we still have plates to put our food in, that the kitchen has a working cooker and the pans allow me to cook my foods. 10. I'm grateful that we have a Christmas tree and some of the ornaments are from 20 + years ago. 11. I'm grateful for being alive. 12. I'm grateful for having a pet cat with me right now. 13. I'm grateful for having had a few pet goldfish and crickets decades ago. 14. I'm grateful for my parents who had a labrador that protected them and their old home in Indonesia when I was just a baby. 15. I'm grateful for having small plastic bags and litter which makes it easier to clean up after the cat. 16. I'm grateful for some pet stores I've been to and for the bunnies being super cute. 17. I'm grateful that birds visit the garden now and again. 18.I'm grateful for my garden being so big and spacious enough that I could walk around it. 19. I'm grateful that most of the garden has flags and a Japanese style stone mini garden in the middle, mostly done by my parents. 20. I'm grateful that I used to do martial arts like Tae Kwon Do and further developed discipline. I had taken the chance to buy a martial arts book on Shaolin kung fu, learned a little bit of it and came across how they meditated. The next couple of years of meditating here and there gave me enough experience to be able to handle some of Leo's other meditation techniques years later. 21. I'm grateful that meditation helped reduce my stress and anger issues I had when I was a teen. 22. I'm grateful that I'm able to focus a little bit more on a subject thanks to meditation. 23. I'm grateful that I could relax more from meditating. 24. I'm grateful for developing more patience thanks to meditating. 25. I'm grateful for the education I received so far, from maths, science, languages, art, history, and mechanics from my high school. 26. I'm grateful for learning about numbers, algebra, geometry, and probabilities. 27. I'm grateful for learning about science, physics, and chemistry even though it's at a basic level. 28. I'm grateful that I'm mainly speaking the English language, Indonesian, French and Portuguese languages when I was growing up. 29. I'm grateful for having taken part in a mechanics course and practicing my drawing abilities to the point of nearly drawing a realistic object. 30. I'm grateful for being able to go with my parents when they traveled to Indonesia, the USA, Brazil, Canada, Quebec and finally to the UK.

Here are the exact problems: INSOMNIA, HYPER AGGRESSION, TOO MUCH ATTENTION. I'm having trouble getting good quality sleep. I sometimes wake up late. I sometimes feel groggy, and more irritable than usual. I try my best not to get too riled up and am thankful I can channel this into a martial art and exercise. But this level of anger is worrying to me because it arose a few times in some social situations, and I managed to keep myself grounded. I was not expecting this much anger to happen during Nofap. I'm more worried that this much attention would strain our relationship and put unnecessary pressure on my girlfriend. Moreover, I became more aware of a feeling of disgust. To what? To have to face the possibility of cheating on her. And I'm starting to work through this feeling.

It would depend on what you really want from having a hot witch girlfriend. I'll give my take on how to start pursuing a relationship with a witch. The first thing I'll do is contemplate what I really want from having a relationship with a witch. For example, I'll ask myself questions, chunking up/down and clarify my values I want to fulfill in this relationship"what do I really want with a hot witch girlfriend?", and my answer " I want a hot witch girlfriend because I want to have sex with a hot woman and be with a cool witch.". "Is hot sex and belonging with a witch what I really value", "Well, I want to be able to have amazing orgasms with this woman and feel sexually satisfied, and I do empathize with how a witch is judged by normal folk, and because of having a similar experience of being negatively judged I feel for a witch.". " Is satisfying my sexual need, my need for company, and feeling empathy values I want out of this relationship?", "Well, an image and sound in mind of a hot witch girlfriend are what's attractive to me, and a woman who's brave enough to be what she wants to be is attractive to me.". "what state do I want from a witch?", And so on until you have your set of values you want out of a relationship. It's like winning a million dollars. You're not satisfied with just the money, or the freedom and opportunities it can give you externally, but the values and feelings that getting this amount of money would provide you, along with the state you want to satisfy in you. Once you have clarified your values and states, you move on to further clarify if those values are uniquely your own or from culture. It's not enough to be told by someone, like a family member or authority, a set of values towards relationships, and be like "well, my family is of an occult tradition, and they told me to marry a witch and to pass on 'power', 'tradition', and honor 'family', and raise the 'chosen one'.". Instead, be like "well, actually, I value in myself being cool, authenticity, freedom, and sexuality, so if a woman exhibits these values and similar, that's who I want to be in a relationship with.". After contemplating what you actually value in this relationship, you then start visualizing, using your senses, and construct multiple visualizations that are context-based. Without context, you won't be effective in finding a hot witch girlfriend. See, hear and feel each visualization, from dating a witch to having sex with a witch to living with one. See your relationship with a hot witch girlfriend morph over time, weekly, monthly and yearly. I would first disassociate with this timeline, see myself in 3rd person being successful and modify around every element of my senses around, then associate into that me, and re-experience this success movie from 1st person view. If I can change some elements here and there and find myself experiencing more powerful states, then that's good. If there's any resistance to these values or visualizations, I would alter how I frame the values and visualizations into a more positive one. If I catch my self-talk being negative, I would flip the frame by both changing the wording around and/or my mental tonality around into a more positive one. I would then challenge any limiting belief I might have in this relationship, and integrate any resisting part of me that has its own values with the newer part of me with its own values. Then I would start taking action and go find these witches. Meanwhile, during/after getting dates with witches, I would match my behavior and tonality to every future date with witches, so that my voice/facial expression/body language is congruent with both my intention and her own, which helps speed up trust between you to if the prior dates you picked up any social anxiety/awkwardness in your tonality/body language which could make the other insecure about you. Be mindful of your voice/face/body! Also, it might help if you could rehearse this and somehow seal this state into your body repeatedly so that the state is associated with a particular external part of your body or surrounding. Also, be flexible and willing to integrate and try out many pieces of advice your receiving here, and adjust your visualizations and approaches accordingly. Very important! What I just told you are a series of techniques found in NLP(neuro-linguistic programming), from eliciting values, reframing, visualization using all modalities, to changing sub-modalities, mapping across, using a timeline, future pasting, addressing limiting beliefs, parts-integration, calibration, and anchoring. If you are serious in actually finding a hot witch girlfriend, then NLP might help you. Or not. It all depends on you. Good luck with your witch hunt!

Lock this thread.

I'll be increasing my consumption of veggies, but I have this recent objection to doing this, and it goes like this: If I'm to eventually go vegan and just eat plant-based food every day, and more people are going vegan, am I actually contributing to deforestation and inequality? Because My new demand for veggies would, together with vegans, influence the supply. And those suppliers would have to, depending on what fruits and veggies I and people want, clear land (deforestation) to create agriculture for veggies. the more demand for veggies, the more deforestation, which encourages an increase in cheaper labor. I've also recently watched a documentary on plants possibly having sentience, and I'm feeling a bit uneasy about eating them now. Any insight into this?

Thanks for your advice. Thanks for your advice.

I think this thread has demonstrated enough limited thinking on this subject for me. I've made up my mind. Mods, thread lock this thread, please.

@Meetjoeblack Thanks.

Excuse me if I triggered you, I'm just in a bind in my real-life, where the universe is teaching me a severe lesson.

Or being framed. That one sucks a lot.

There's room for improvement, wherever you go, whoever you are. And I'm sure the same goes for that experienced moderator that allowed that thread to run it's course.

That's a useful attitude. I'll keep this in mind. Oh no, not you too! I think it's because you posted on the self-actualization sub-forum, not the spiritual sub-forum. If I was Leo, I would've just moved your thread to the spiritual sub-forum and directed you to the featured thread called "Ask an occultist"(he made that occult thread a featured), instead of locking the thread down and being negative. I'm sure if you still have this problem with demons and exorcism he might offer his help and maybe help clarify your problem for you. Good luck Thank you for taking the time to respond to me, and giving me a thought-provoking question. Sometimes I get too involved in topics in this forum. I'm actually now reminded of an NLP presupposition " there is no failure, only feedback.". I've treated these issues as failures on my part and their part and taken it all too seriously and failing to just reframe these issues as a learning process. I'm now just gonna makel my attitude like yours: be less involved. Thank you for grounding me in this case.

So has something rattled your cage that you felt the need to resurrect this thread? Pretty much. Ever since I received those warning points, I just accepted them and kept putting this issue off for a couple of months. It started when I spotted a user pretending to be enlightened. I decided to be humorous and point this out, not even being negative. The user disappears, deletes his replies to me, reports me, and I get 4 warning points, 2 temporary, 2 permanent, all because I ignored my intuition and decided against my intuition to help this person out by pointing this dynamic to him. Great. Then a coworker in my workplace was recently let off. I've known this person is a good person and the workplace long enough that the situation felt off, and then this issue resurfaced in my awareness when I couldn't focus on my hobby, that this issue kept cropping up in my mind. I couldn't keep ignoring this any longer. I already pm'd Leo about this, and I've taken his silence as a "no I'm not helping you". Fine. I just couldn't stay quiet about this. This thread's main issue is on unjustified thread-locks, and it's correlating issue is about moderators. That's why I post here. I wouldn't be so polite if I made a separate thread on moderators.

@kag101 Great to hear! I've gone through a similar ordeal, that was the opposite. I wasted too much of my time with the traditional methods until I start researching other alternatives until I found NLP. It took me some time to adjust to NLP, but once I found some combinations of techniques, I was able to reframe and recontextualize all the sadness and depression I had, and could trigger resourceful states through many techniques.

Yes, this forum is one of the very few that is of high quality. Just that some people get too triggered here when the intention behind some of the posts is positive, to trigger a moment when they're aware of some limits to their ideas. "Communication is meaningful when the other receives the output and internalizes it".

This is true. Some mods can't even be consistent in how they give out warning points.

Hello? Anybody there?

First off, my heart goes out to the 17-month-old baby that died, the other three children that survived, the two that are in state custody, the one that lives with his biological father, to the parents that are involved in their child's death. May the children feel love, joy, and be free of suffering and be able to move on from this incident one day. Hard for me to say this, but may the parents feel love and be free of suffering, for however their actions were taken, intentionally or ignorantly, that culminated in this baby's death. May the authorities be lenient in passing their sentence, and I hope that the death penalty is overturned, and if not, may their death be painless. For the OP, I don't know you or this entire situation fully, and this is but one article on one media site. There might be other factors besides this diet causing this baby's death, or other cases where this diet does work (because of ancestry, genetics, other bodily factors, environment...). Like most horrible situations, it all seems to always come from ignorance. "Forgive them father, for they do not know what they did.", Jesus Christ.

I would recommend Ayahuasca and psilocybin mushrooms, on low doses, for your case. But think realistically about psychedelics; can you maintain a readily accessible source of psychedelics, and how? Sometimes whoever you get psychedelics from won't be available all the time/might be shut down, or your finite energy and finance limit your access to these tools. I could only access these psychedelics from traveling, and that costs money and energy, at best once a month or longer. In my case, I had to research other ways that are faster and more accessible. Also, check out NLP and hypnosis. Not as powerful as psychedelics, but more readily available and you could significantly reduce some negatives states in the meantime, maybe long enough for you yo use psychedelics. Good luck.

@the-philogynist First, I want to say I understand and could relate to most of what you're posting. Second, I'm more than willing to help with your issue regarding either pornography or real sex, as long as you are willing and aware enough to learn and help yourself as much as possible. Third, I'm not gonna judge or demonize you, you know, the kind of judging you'd get from family, friends, mainstream media, school, or people pretending to be therapists. I want to start by asking you some questions, in number format, and if you respond then respond on the number: 1. What outcome are you after from pornography, dating, sexuality or relationships? 2. Have you developed a vision for blank(blank refers to either porn, dating, sexuality or relationships)? 3. Have you got an image on your vision board of this outcome? 4. Could you share what you see, hear and feel when you visualize this outcome? 5. Do you want help clarifying your intentions further?

Hi all! I've done about a month's worth of exercises that this website offered from some users experienced with the paranormal. Since this is December and Christmas and new years is just around the corner I'm going to release them one by one. I'll also give both my experience and Crysty"s experience with each one, maybe a week's worth or any other day. I've improved lots with this website, so hats off to the experienced users there. Today's exercise is called "mental blueprinting". The goal of the exercise is to strengthen a person"s ability to visualize a location with height, length, width, and depth to the location. It also aims the practitioner to use his/her visual sense more effectively, and later gradually include other senses. I"ve set aside 20 minutes, 2 to meditatively relax, with eyes closed and sitting on a cushion. Now bring to mind a place, some location that's familiar and easy to hold. I recommend a vacation place like your hotel room or any room in your home. You then see every corner, side, and note all the things you see in that location in detail. Keep at it until the room looks very real, the light source and shadows interact in the room as exactly to life as possible, with colours and textures. If you found the above difficult, I recommend a mini exercise were you begin with a blank room. Start, one at a time, seeing each plane of the room. That means to see the floor in detail, then each wall, then the ceiling. If it helps, you may include other senses. Ultimately, you want to increase your mind's ability to see a mental location and build from there other mental locations. So far, I've done a studio flat room that I added a bed, a tv screen hanging on the wall, a kitchen with an island, a black coffee table. wooden floor, and a balcony. I'm working on joining that room with another room that has things I like, my hobbies, maybe paintings about nature or other locations. I've had a habit of drawing in the past so I found the entire process easy. I also found this exercise has helped me add more layers to my visualization sessions, which thanks to Leo I learned visualization from. Crysty has also enjoyed doing this exercise, finding it easy to do and she ends up creating three locations: a bedroom, a gallery, and a garden. She personalized each location, has a pretty bedroom, a large gallery compared to my art room I'm making, and a garden with plants I recognize as Orchids, roses, sunflowers, Flowers with shades of green, and the other half of the garden containing plants that are very exotic and strangely beautiful. If you like the exercise I shared, please leave a post and share your experience. If you're having trouble and want tips, post/pm me. I hope this has helped you guys/gals in some way, like more realistic visualizations. Thanks for reading, and take care!

Hi all! I've just found a website a month ago and it deals with these experiences I'm having on spirits and thought forms and have some guides and lists of exercises I'm trying out. So far I have experienced some benefits between me and Cristy. I'll be sharing more later.

On youtube, type in "Big Think neuroscience of liberals and conservative brains" my computer is being a troll to me and won't let me create a link.

Leo's work is cut out for him then. Also, I've found a video by big think in the neuroscience of how a conservative's brain differs from liberals. It's all quite interesting.

The people at whatever stage of the spiral, at whatever level of cognitive development, deserve the leader that matches and is just slightly above the level of consciousness of the people, at whatever culture or country. In this case, we deserve Boris Johnson and the conservative to lead Brexit. Corbyn a stage green individual that failed to integrate stage orange and blue will also fail to appeal to parts of the population that are predominantly blue and orange in their values. I would even say that Tony Blair is much better than Corbyn because he has mastered aspects of stage orange and blue, more than Corbyn. Another problem involves Corbyn"s susceptibility to manipulation, funding, and policies, in particular, more open immigration and cuts on military and nuclear armament. Most of his funding is Bribery from terrorists and extreme communists from Russia/China, which allows two benefits: easier travel for terrorists coming from the middle east, through Europe and through the UK easier access to the USA, and easier long-term warfare against the USA. Because Corbyn is too on the left, who will side more with Russia/China"s ideology, in a future war scenario, the USA will shut us out because we would have lost our nuclear deterrent and about half our army, we would be at the mercy of Russia and China! And we would have to rely more on the hope that NATO would keep them in check, assuming they don't also suffer from similar military cuts! All this is what stage blue/orange fears most in our country. Don't forget about minority mistreatment, including muslims, in China. If it ever comes to the possibility that the UK would be divided up by China/Russia, it would be similar to what happened to Poland. If you have no problem with being mistreated, fine. Luckily, a nuclear war would wipe all os us out before we ever get to face what world stage red individuals see. Stage green individuals fail to understand how they could be easily corrupted. You need rationality, individual self-autonomy and a sense of tradition and culture, nation, all stage blue/orange values, mastered to a degree to be able to spot manipulation. You might even need to integrate stage red's values and tactics to more accurately pinpoint corruptionand be able to handle that. Unfortunately, Corbyn's a "champagne socialist", and depends on the money he's receiving. Again, at whatever stage of the spiral is the leader we deserve at the moment.