Raptorsin7

Build more confidence and self love. As you grow creativity will occur spontaneously on the path. Highly recommend affirmations. Before bed and when you wake up. Much better than strict meditation ime.

@Salvijus Lol why won't you answer the question my dude? Maybe this jaded attitude doesn't feel so good. I don't listen to anyone on here who isn't at least incredibly happy and feels love and joy in virtually all moments of their life. The only reason i'm here is to improve my direct experience and feel the highest joys that life has to offer. If you want something else then so be it. But miss me with that noise.

@Salvijus @Chintan desai It's a jaded perspective but i don't know if he's right or not. @Nahm recommended Reiki to me. So I wonder how Nahm would view the statement that no legit guru would recommend it. @Salvijus What is your existential experience? What do you feel and experience on a daily basis? Is it love, bliss joy,? Or are you experiencing fear, hatred, boredom, irritability?

Had my first reiki session today. Overall it was very fun. My reiki person was very intuitive and I think she has a very high level of consiousness. A lot of the things she said to me made a lot of sense and were consistent with how i view my current stage on the path. She said i'm doing enough and my destiny is coming to me, i just have to be patient and surrender. This is consistent with how i view my path right now. I'm doing all the right things. I just need to be patient and start surrendering to life more. Yoga class today was amazing. I did a new class and the teacher was pulsing good vibes. She's much older than me, but i was insanely attracted to her haha. When i find a long term partner, she will have similar vibes as my instructor. There was something divinely feminine about the way she taught. My main practice moving forward will be affirmations. I've realized no matter how much meditation I do i am still getting drawn back into thinking, and i was not doing anything to address the underlying negative beliefs that were causing me unhappiness. No more. Affirmations for multiple hours per day basically whenever i'm not doing anything will be the key moving forward. I am literally going to brain wash myself into thinking positive happy thoughts lmao. The re-programming of my mind has begun.

@Shroomdoctor Use positive affirmations to re-program your mind to think good feeling thoughts. Spend as much time as possible with the affirmations and get your thinking in line and see how your feelings change.

@Chintan desai I just had my first session. It was a great experience. My reiki practitioner was very intuitive and described my spiritual path pretty accurately without me giving much info. As for the session it felt very much like a spiritual massage. I had some tingling of energy in lower back, i think kundalini energy but not sure, and i felt very relaxed. I'm planning on going again in 2 weeks so maybe i'll do another post after. Would definitely recommend trying at least once. I really liked that i met someone who was as intuitive and spiritual as my reiki person.

@pluto The body you're in right now is 10 000 years old? Or you have memories and recollection of past lives spanning 10 000 years?

Past few days have been incredible. Making some major changes to my spiritual practice routine. Starting to do longer float taAnnk sessions. Yesterday and Today i'm doing 3 hour continuous floats. I'm also going to do less formal meditation and start doing more practices where I listen to affirmations. I'm going to limit my basic TMI meditation to only about 30 minutes at a time because i find it very boring. But the affirmations i'm planning on making my main focus. I'm going to be basically playing these affirmations all day when i'm not doing something that basically prohibits of the use of affirmations like yoga. I asked my yoga teacher if I could use wireless headphones and she shut it down lol. Stage green dogmatism. The yogi's forget why we even practice in the first place. She's like focus on the breathe. I'm like i can focus on the breathe and none of these people here are enlightened so clearly we gotta change it up. But it's all good I still like yoga and i enjoy the workout and stretching benefits. I'm going to do another LSD trip this Saturday. Very excited for that. It's either i break through and experience myself and true love. Or i have a bad trip like last time which will spark incredible growth like how i've changed my diet and changed my sleep habits since the last trip. I literally can't lose lol. Psycidelics are really incredible for growth. But I also understand the fear associated with them. You need a certain level of emotional and psycholigcal grounding to use them. On my last trip i had moments where I thought to myself that I could end up high for ever and this may never go away. But i was like no problem I will overcome. But if i didn't have all this conceptual knowledge about the path then maybe i'd go crazy thinking it will be permanent. Anyone who's reading my journal who is skeptical about using psycs for growth. I'm telling you they are incredible. Changed my diet and my sleeping pattern basically effortlessly. It was a bad trip, i felt a lot of pain and it wasn't a good time tbh. But so much growth since then it's almost breath taking.

@Aaron p I used LSD two weeks and i made more progress in those 2 weeks then 4 months of "spiritual practices" combined. Completely changed my diet from trash to overall very healthy, and I haven't woke up past like 7 in those weeks.

@Aaron p Did you use psychedelics as part of your path?

For those of you who have strong understanding/embodiment of advanced personal development and spirituality, what are some substantive criticisms of Leo's recent videos. Where do you think he is off, or what do you think he missed in his presentation. Leo's content is amazing, and he's the biggest reason i'm even on this spiritual path. But no body is perfect. There must be something he's missing with his content, and I assume people here can fill in some of the wholes. Please don't turn this into a thread where we critique Leo, and project all of our nonsense onto him lol (:

@Chintan desai I have my first Reiki session this thursday so i'll let you know how it goes. If i forget to post feel free to pm me i'll let you know how it was.

Feeling stagnant and bored. Need to change it up and start pushing harder and going deeper. 4 hour float coming up tmrw. More meditation throughout the day. More yoga. More socializing in yoga class. Time to make some friends. It's uncomfortable but I think it's important to make some connections. Going to plan a psycidelic trip coming up. I think Saturday. Working on moving myself up the emotional scale. Gratitude. Optimism. Positivitiy. Eagerness.

@Average Investor How are your energy levels since switching diets? I recently cut out junk like take out so i've improved my clarity and energy a lot. But now i want to take it to the next level lol

I'm trying to radically change my diet for health and well being. I'm basically at ground 0. I cut out most junk, but i'm eating a healthy western diet but not feeling amazing. If you were to advise someone on a diet for feeling amazing. What would you say.

@Bno Wow very cool. Good luck.

@Bno How happy are you with your current lifestyle of following and being involved in politics? Is it love, joy, bliss? What are your pre-dominant emotions and feelings?

@HP Lovecraft Psychedelics can be a valuable tool for personal development work. What's your gripe with them? Why would you steer people away from psycs?

I felt stagnant today. I think I want to do another LSD trip this upcoming weekend and see how that affects my growth. I plan on doing more research on how to best use LSD for personal growth, but I know my life has improved dramatically since my last trip so there's definitely incredible value here. I want to reduce the time i spend on the forum. I want to increase the amount of time i spend meditating each day from about an hour to between 1-3 hours. Here's what I accomplished today: Woke up at 730 am Went to yoga class and had a good work out I meditated for about an hour, and felt pretty good during and after the session. I'm getting better at feeling the breathe and the feelings in my experience. I want to meditate longer and with more diligence moving forward. I've been slacking a bit with my diligence. I ate very healthy today. I did not order any take out. I went to a healthy restaurant and bought a teriyaki chicken brown rice bowl with vegetables which I really liked. I think I can make even more improvements to my diet and this will be another area of focus. I think i'm going to start drinking two kale smoothies per day rather than my typical 1 per day. I think I need to consume more food then i've been consuming typically. I think more healthy food will equal more energy. I watched another video's of Leo's life purpose course. I really like the course so far. My plan is to watch 1 video of the course at least per day, but I think i'll watch more on some days too. I think life purpose will be the path forward for me. I want to finish the course, complete it with effort and diligence and then reassess what my next step should be in life. I had an insight that i've been using thinking to avoid feelings of discomfort in the present moment. I think this habit has existed for a large part of my life but it was cool to notice it during my meditation. My mind feels the discomfort and then goes right into thinking as a way of avoiding of what's coming up. It makes sense as a survival strategy as a kid because I could avoid the bad feelings caused by my parents and just go right into thinking rather than processing the hurtful emotions that are there.

There was this trashy woman in my elevator today. She was dressed up very sexually, and she clearly has some sort of addiction or mental health issues by thy way she was acting. I actually felt aroused in the elevator and then she tried making small talk with me. I felt pretty sick/disturbed when i got back into my apartment. This is the path to hell. I haven't jerked off or watched porn in a few weeks so it makes sense i'd be horny, but this was a dangerous situation. I'm fortunate i am doing well with my development so i can resist this stuff, but if i was at a weaker state and i thought "hey i can do a 1 night stand or something" this could devastate my progress. Allowing this kind of toxicity into your life could set you back years in development. I'm so fortunate that i overcame this obstacle and all i got was a sick feeling when i got back to my apartment. A focus of mine right now is to find a high consciousness partner/girlfriend. There are many benefits to a relationship as a young man. And this example I think is another benefit i hadn't considered. Having someone to satisfy sexual urges so you don't have to go to porn or some disturbed person who is willing to have anonymous sex. I don't want that kind of toxicity in my life, and thank god for that.

@Farnaby I'm not actively going about confronting this type of anxiety but I notice when it arises. But I have read a lot about exposure therapy and the logic behind it makes sense to me. I also know the more we resist and when there is aversion to something it creates more anxiety. If we just relax and just confront the anxiety the fear is almost always greater than what is actually there. Trauma therapy is a great idea. I just started seeing a therapist and I think i might transition to a therapist with a trauma focus and work through some exercises. Most of our problems in this space are related to trauma we suffered as children which disrupted our psychies. So any form of therapy that goes inside and tries to root those out should be effective.

@Bno That's a good point. Just be careful with watching videos and thinking you're engaging in activism. I've fallen in the same trap.

@Bno No. They can keep doing whatever they're doing. I'm talking about you. You are already more woke then 99.9% of the population. You resonate with Bernie, Progressivsm. You're good. You've been reached. At this point every progressive video you watch is just mental masturbation. It's preaching to the choir. Focus on personal growth. At every level. That will naturally lead you to influencing systems once you have taken care of your basic human needs first.

All is the self. The dirty bricks outside my apartment are also the self. If i ignore the bricks i am also ignoring the Self. If you want to save the world. Save yourself first.

@Bno Politics is a game of lesser evils. Corporate dems are better than corporate republicans. Both suck but one is better. Ignore politics besides educating yourself on who to vote for. It's toxic and divisive. Focus on growth.