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Learn to breath properly, relax your muscles, purge stagnant chi and regulate your emotions. Panic attacks have many reasons, one being you simply lack a skillset and awareness of the mind body connection and the nature of your thoughts. Also stop smoking. Sleep properly, get off social media, eat properly. Improve your posture and for god sakes breath ahah Consider the following: 1. Developing a Yoga, Qigong, meditation or breath-work practice. Pick one, I recommend Qigong. 2. Working on your normal breathing, and your posture 3. Start a daily journaling routine 4. Eat well, take a break from social media, spend time in nature, sleep regularly, stop smoking. 5. Take time to really FEEL what you feel. Just feel it. We don't know how to feel in our culture. Your lungs if you are smoking all the time... They will give you anxiety and panic attacks because Oxygen regulates all the bodies processes. Also consider seeking a professional therapist or councillor you can speak to. Betterhelp is a decent enough online service and there are many others. This should be a daily practice. That with maybe some LSD or mushrooms once every few months. If she is already tripping reguraly her problem isn't likely lack of psychedelics. 5meo might be nice actually if she already trips often. However, really it sounds like her problem is a lack of skill.

Tough Love

The most loving people are usually the most demonized

Okay Woke Bloke, stop all your thoughts RIGHT NOW Can't, because they also generate themselves.

Interesting, I don't think most people who fight culture wars actually self reflect on the distinctions people make. Just because you don't want to fuck your boss doesn't mean you hate him. 99% of the people I meet I can totally love and I generally do regardless of your background. Doesn't mean I am sexually or romantically interested in you. In fact, the problem is in some ways you demanding me to have to feel feelings for you which I don't. However, there is so much nuance out there in the world its really just dangerous to make overarching statements about things. However, racism is a problem. I grew up in an environment where I was made fun of for dating black girls, or black men for that matter. However, I had to go through a process of overcoming that cultural programming and I think a lot of people in my province are changing everyday. Future generations, at least where I live because the elementary schools are so diverse are going to be really amazing I think. The world is always moving toward greater unity in the long run. So be patient with tribes as they grow and merge. It's a long painful process but I have hope. This whole topic is so sensitive. Most important thing to do is just work on yourself, and to try to understand others. I think that everyone wants to be loved, and depending on your experience and up bringing you love differently. Your judging of peoples sexual preferences might even be akin to what you fear in these other people. Who knows..

Wow, strangeloopy topic

@omar30 nope. Think long term. You can make leaps and bounds with things like psychedelics but, this is a multi year process.

@Guardian Be mindful of over playing the passion card. Even your deepest passion can feel like a drag sometimes. Which is why you do it despite the drag. Also, on the pathway to mastery often the initial phase of developing a skill is a total drag. Passion can develop with mastery, skill, etc Passion can be developed. There are lots of books explaining is with different opinions, anecdotes, lenses etc

What is the non-dual nature of emotions? Can someone explain how this realization works? I like the paradox there

It reads like you are using circular reasoning here, as if the emotion is the result of the emotion. Or, you are using emotions to understand your emotions. Which ,is sort of true in my experience. Emotions are something prior to all intellectualizing. Even if you are enlightened in my opinion you will still feel emotions. If anything you will be more emotional. Enlightenment will not replace the need for experience and emotional mastery. Do you mean more-so a dualistic mindset about the stimulus of the emotion? "Imagine the emotional system as a sort of AI machine that primes the body with hormones that correspond to whatever one believes the emotion means. " You also do that there. I think there is truth in this, but emotions are also prior to the meaning making mechanism imo usually its emotions that actually lead most peoples meaning making. So, you are all tied up in knots here. "The core of anger is being unable to escape from something which has been labeled as unsafe for survival." This only seems like single facet of the core of anger imo. Anger is really complicated and nuanced. It's far more complicated and contextual. But, yeah I would say this is true for the most part I think. But, anger for example can be a driving force for change. It doesn't have to be the sense of being unable to escape. It can be a trigger, and injustice, someone with different values than you. "The way out is to recognize the emotions are a complete non-duality, that they are simply energy moving in its various flavors, and maintain mindfulness during the experience so that the original mindset can be overwritten." I agree with this mostly. Emotions are energy and mindfulness isn't enough to fully overwritten emotions because they are distributed throughout the nervous system, tissues, transference, cognitive imprints etc. If people have stagnant Qi, smoke, don't breath properly, tense their muscles for years, have a weak vagus nerve, seek pleasure in their victim milking.. its tough. You would need physical practices as well as mindfulness, books, talk therapy, psychedelics and cognitive behavioural techniques and more. Anger is not bad, anger is not even anger. Anger is a term we use to describe a type of energy which the egoic self has labeled as bad because it fears the death of the form (the death of self). In this it creates resistance and solidity in the body. It is just a sensation. Well, if you can feel something we generally call anger I think it's a good label. But, I agree anger isn't bad. It can be expressed in ways that are destructive or constructive. A big part of anger is fear of death, but that is also so grossly over simplified I don't even know if most people can use that. "This requires a deep understanding of the human experience and an unshakable understanding of Truth. If you maintain mindful presence at all times and are okay with every core belief you have being wrong, all your core beliefs will fall away and you’ll be left with peace." I like this idea. Not trying to pick on you btw, just treating this as a way of learning for myself Emotions are fundamental to pretty much all your actions, thoughts, behaviours, rationality etc. If enlightenment was being so above and beyond all emotions in your day to day life I think it would be a dysfunction. Now, there are high states that I have experienced where fear and anger is impossible. But, not day to day life which you will not escape in this life.

@Leo Gura That is true, would you say it is partially passive? You have multiple streams.

You get life time access, but you cannot download them.

@omar30 Escape wage slavery, build a passive income business and only do what you want 99% of the time

Okay, so I have the option of pay 800 dollars for the V2 of the course, or 8000 for the V3 version of the course. I cannot afford the V3 version, and he is trying to convince me to take out a financial loan to pay for it. He says I could start getting high ticket clients within 30-60 days. I don't know a lot about risk, that it seems like he is trying to push me into dangerous financial practice. I've already paid 1000usd for the V2 before... I am not sure what to do. I want the course. I will likely go with the V2 as I can actually afford it. I wont have the 1 on 1 support which would be nice. But I can figure it out myself. I don't want to be taken advantage of and paying someone 10k when I don't have my first client is just crazy. I am building an online business no matter what. Fuck working as a wage slave and all these people can use some relaxation etc I have value to create. Going to practice active inaction for the next few weeks. Gonna contemplate. I am looking for a payroll position atm anyway.

I am about to be certified in Qigong and breathwork to be able to teach. I am considering working with an online consultant who specializes in these niches getting teachers high paying clients for online courses. He seems legit, and if things go well 8000 isn't that much to pay in the long run. What are your thoughts? This is the website he runs: https://kevinwathey.com/

No way

I think this is an important thing to remember. I failed two exams throughout my my studying to be an accountant. It was for a Payroll Compliance Practitioner certification. Now, this was probably one of the most technical, dry, boring ass thing I've ever studied. But I was glad I was doing it because it really pushed my limits. The math wasn't that difficult, but remember all the nuances, regulations, fine points etc was challenging. I have noted that failure of exams, etc is a trigger for me. I start to think about the future, to beat myself up, to stop loving myself, to bully myself for the mistakes I made. But, I think I am now entering into a new way of looking at my life. I realize that perhaps from watching Leos' videos I built some kind of pseudo high expectation of myself. I now fear that failure on an exam means I can't live up to my expectations or dreams. But this doesn't add up. While reading a book by Russel Simmons he mentions that, even the best people in their fields today, failed many times where the first started out. Now, doing payroll is not necessarily my dream. But, I see it as an important part because the more I can understand money, understand what technical knowledge is like, use the structure of making finer distinctions in other areas of my life, and to use this skill to increase my earning potential while I set up my Qigong business. Failing is okay. In fact, if it happens it is what should happen. I am learning not to be in resistance too it. Also, I failed both of those exams largely to to fear and self doubt. I was doubting my ability to write an exam on something so technical without being able to research and remember all the nuances in the text book. I actually think administrative work is a skill and strength of mine, but exams are not. However, I can get better. I will be writing challenge exams for this certification in the coming months, and I will pass each exam. We do not fail when we fail. We fail when we quit. So keep going. Remember your self love and worthiness is not tainted by mistakes or failures, or even quitting. But, if you want to build this life you are dreaming up. Fail. It means you are learning. I used to get upset when my books would get torn or stained while reading them, on the bus, or library, or cafe and in general. But, now I celebrate it because that is a book that has been read. If it was perfect white, stiff spine etc... It's because you didn't read it. A damaged book is a good sign. Failure isn't a bad sign. But, a good one. Better than sitting around, smoking weed over thinking everything.

Yeah, I am not doing that. I don't REALLY have a preference when it comes to race. What I find beautiful physically is not something I really have control over. It really depends on the person, etc. I don't fetishize people. But, I do like what I like. I've grown up in a very multicultural area.

Looks like I might be able to get a reduced cost version of the program without the 1 on 1 support the other price gives. 1850$ for a marketing course, course creation and how to manage facebook groups. They have upgraded from Mindful Method 2.0 and Mindful Method 3.0 which is like 9k USD. These people are getting clients.. so they must be doing something right.

Do you.

I will like what I like and you will not tell me it's wrong or project your fears one me. What I find beautiful, or naturally attractive is what I find naturally attractive. Some women like tall men, are they fetishizing?

Isn't the entire show stage red nonsense ahha It is fun to watch I've seen clips

Recently I've been looking back at my spiritual journey. I realize that maybe 4 years ago after a mushroom trip my openness went through the roof. However, at this time I really didn't know how reality worked at all. So I went out searching, searching, searching. I am still searching. I think I have worked through a lot of my deeper self deceptions, and am still working through more self deceptions. I think I've learned that when opening the mind that we need to be able to give ourselves the room to make epistemological/ metaphysical errors and to be compassionate with ourselves when we make these errors. Chances are when we begin our foundation database of reality we are starting with is already so full of unquestioned errors that foundation of our world view is fragmented, largely developed unconsciously, etc. When we step out into the dark we are likely to occasionally pick up some crappy ideologies, ideas, habits, actions etc. Mistakes are bound to happen in this work. I think one of the biggest risks in open mindedness would be opening the mind only to cling on to something that is neurotic. A large part of my journey I would describe as turning over every stone, or stumbling around in the dark. Trying to light my lantern. Our ego wants reality to be a certain way. I think this has been one of my biggest challenges. My ego wanting to manipulate reality, that somehow awakening would be me REALLY awakening from the dream. As if, I was really imagining Leo, and everyone around me and somehow awakening would be a massive change internally and externally. I had to treat this as a possibility because I was being radically open minded. But, I was also 100% prepared to find whatever I found. My idea of awakening strangely is becoming more and more secular and practical. I think some important ideas or questions that I have learned when working through the open mindedness of exploring the spiritual landscape are: 1. What does it mean to have clarity? 2. How can I explore new possibilities in reality while remaining grounded in secular survival? 3. How do I weed out wishful thinking vs reality when exploring spiritual ideas like New age, manifesting, awakening, imagining others and reality etc.. 4. How do I listen to as many perspectives as possible without clinging to any particular one? 5. How do I allow myself the forgiveness and compassion to make mistakes with ideas, world views, perceptions, wishful thinking, self deception, ideology, stupid questions, false insights from psychedelics, false mystical experiences, etc 6. How do I find time to take inventory on the self deceptions I have had in the past? 7. How do I take the free spirit approach to reality. This means opening your mind to ideas, taking them in, putting them into your bag as possible but not clinging or becoming idealogical about them 8. How do I know when I have reached a point of maturity, clarity, sobriety, self honesty, and understanding of reality that I can trust my mind not to be deceiving me that I can operate in life and the world in a powerful, meaningful and healthy way? 9. How can I use the obvious self deception of others (Connor Murphy, Donald Trump, Maga Shaman, etc) to ground myself 10. Realize that mistakes, errors, wishful thinking etc will happen along your path. When you are studying accounting you will get some questions wrong. It's going to happen. Let yourself make error for sake of learning. Just keep going. Eventually you will reach the shore.

@SaltyMeatballs Snort softer, you can get technique down where it doesn't burn.. Try different head placements.