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That's good if you're okay with making your life temporarily worse (in that case it will first get better, then worse, then wayy better). I got most of my personal life stuff done when I was doing just concentration on the breath for 3 hours a day.

I'd advise you to stick to breath counting/breath observation. Do nothing will inevitably lead to you having to face negative states too. Also, literally all productivity is based on concentration. Strong determination sits is a good idea. Except with a different technique than do nothing if your main goal at this time is to have a better life. Especially in a high dose.

If your goal is to become a better person then stick to a concentration technique. That is amazing for that purpose. Don't do Vipassana until you build up your life, that will inevitably make you experience both spiritually pleasant states and spiritually unpleasant states (dark night of the soul) before being able to observe both with equanimity. Serious contemplation should be done after having some sort of a base too.

Btw if you guys want to use exercise to increase mindfulness / maybe even get into altered state you should try high rep squats (100 reps). Or you could use rest pause (a long set where you are allowed to pause for 5 - 10 seconds) and increase weight every time you hit 100 reps. That will basically force you to observe your emotions / thoughts and realize that they are different than the movement itself and can have the same effect as strong determination sits except faster. Combined with mindful stretching afterwads it should be at least as good as yoga.

It's all about concentration. High enough concentration/vizualization = Harry Potter level magick. You become whatever you concentrate on. Since your concentration won't be that high most of the time you're basically limited to manipulating chance. Concentration is the act of becoming one with X. So magick is actually about making your experience more and more direct. How manipulating chance works in practice: Eg. If I perform a working to get money and then buy a stratch off ticket, I will probably win a nice amount. If I perform a working to fly I will probably fly in a dream or fall off a building IRL if I didn't do any protection measure. Since there are no routes of manifestation where I could actually fly in real life with my current level of consciousness.

Just completed it.

Or just have relationships based on whatever the people in the relationship perceive as the best way and stop telling people how their relationships should work. Only people who should advise in these things are those with lots and lots of deep experience (one night stands or a long crappy marriage don't count as deep experience).

No. I just test how it feels. You would know if it was something else assuming you are sensitive enough and test multiple sources. And even if it was something else (unlikely) what matters is the effect and side effects.

https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iii-the-samatha-jhanas/29-kasina-practice/ I would probably take all the instructions from this very packed summary. If you really wanted to change something because you'd like it that way slightly different with trataka it probably wouldn't matter much because there's not much you can do wrong. Also microdosing and maybe some modafinil will definitely kickstart this practice. If you do the variation where you straight up visualize from the start there's nothing wrong with that either. It will lead to the same place but the process will be different.

I think he's like 40. He describes how to attain a permanent deep no self state. That's not shallow by any metric.

Skinny people should not fast. At least not for extended time. I only did a 4 day fast and it was amazing. Amazing mental clarity, a lot of energy (there were some low points too), deepened meditation, deepened siddhis, long term better habits etc. I did supplement himalayan pink salt though. I dont know exactly what you did but getting close to fainting sounds like not having enough electrolytes to me. I do 2 - 3 day fasts pretty frequently and it gets a bit better each time. I think that like 90% of the good effects are from autophagy. Skinny people dont have enough tissue that would be beneficial to get rid off, so they should not expect it to lead to anything good.

I'm not a fitness coach but I guess social media presence. Even a thousand real IG followers could make you more money than you might think. Especially if you're good and they really see something in you.

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Just dont tell them. What do you mean by seniors?

Whatever you're good at usually ends up being fun.

I think right now it can falsely flag those who either use mobile data in the same location as a different forum user or those who use some of the popular VPNs from time to time (which would be basically most people who are into IT). Which could theoretically be solved by checking what IP they use most often and what IP they have created the account with. But that has to be done manually, since developing an algorithm to do it accurately would require a good, paid programmer for 100 - 200 hours. There's a reason services like Netflix don't just run around banning people with the same IP.

Something like what were your friends doing? -> Yes. What would you guys consider to be the dangers of doing AP? If any, since you have quite a lot of experience with this. -> Maybe getting too addicted to it. Also it's important to be careful when coming to metaphysical conclusions based on astral projection. It's a nice tool. Not the peak of all experience or anything like that (some people seem to treat it like that).

The easiest method is in "The Phase" book by Michael Raduga. That alone is enough to AP 3 days a week, multiple times a session, pretty quickly. Just ignore his metaphysical understanding of the phenomenon. He doesn't think it's real. Getting real, verifiable input is definitely possible. It took me a few hundred astral projections to verify though. I've had close to a 1000 of them. Getting it to a level where you have lots of control, the APs are long enough (it's possible to have 1+h super stable experiences), where you can always get reliable info etc. is the real work. Getting your first AP is the easy part.

Create a banishing sigil and charge it. Or if you want a premade ritual, which could be more effective for your, the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram.

Yeah, that's definitely true a lot of the times. In my experience. Even though there are definitely some really solid people at the lower stages.

Can you do fewer work hours so you get some space for trying to make your passions your source of income?

Your control is in Gods control which you can get closer to if you give up your control. But that has nothing to do with the frequency of your LDs. Read "The Phase" and try again. You will succeed.

It is actually possible to stay in contemplation-state a large portion of the day. And it only gets deeper and deeper and leads to much better stuff than all-day-awareness. Gotta start with mundane questions though if your state is not high enough outside of retreat. But the states you get from contemplation can be then automatically accessed again and deepened.

When talking to "someone else" it should be like "Why the hell am I talking to myself?" "Why the hell are my thoughts so perfectly synchronized with what they'll say next?" It should feel and perform LITERALLY like a lucid dream (except your will while sober will only be able to affect chance, not completely reimagine stuff and fly for example - that would probably require a much higher state than this). Speaking from experience. I experienced what your original post is too but that's not the actual thing nonetheless it is still a good line of thought.

Unfortunately there's no shortcuts. Except maybe training your concentration. Anything, even highly technical texts, is easier to comprehend after a long concentration session. Speed reading is useless.