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Leo's talks about getting some tests done like checking vitamin levels. Can someone list all these tests to be done? My specific concerns are - Severe headaches every single morning after I wake up, poor digestion (lot of burping), slightly darkened spots on skin, overweight, poor immunity, intermittent urination, tinnitus, hairfall, nose block, nausea. PS - Please mention the specific test names if possible.

@Michael569 Like what do I tell the clinic? What kind of liver and kidney tests?

Every morning I wake up after sleep, I feel heavy headed and tired. I never feel fresh. I also get dreams every night. I faced this same issue a year ago. But when I moved to a different place and started living with friends, this problem disappeared. But now that I am back home, it has started again. I have tried everything. Nothing helped then. Nothing is helping now. Has anyone faced this problem? Please suggest ways to solve this issue.

25 July Woke up - 12 pm. But slept again till 3:30 pm. Did nothing productive today. Spent whole day youtubing, texting, listening to songs. I doubt if I'll ever make any progress. Feels like I'm gonna stay like this forever. There's no hope. Avoiding the forum - No

Here I'll be mentioning things I do during the day. This is a tracker of habits I want to inculcate. My aim is to spend my days in a way I find satisfactory. Sometimes I tend to ignore my successes and improvements. This will be a good reminder for that. Will help me see for real whether there is some real progress or not. I could have done this in my personal journal but I wouldn't be as regular with that. The possibility of people reading this kinda gives this exercise a kind of accountability. Strict rule: Don't get distracted by the forum. Don't forget this rule. You might get so sucked in (without being aware of it) reading the posts here and replying to them that you get lost in it the way you do in social media. Stop writing the journal if that happens. Stop writing if you don't follow this rule. Keep a daily track of whether you read or clicked on anything else in the forum. Even one post counts as yes.

For a real radical change in life, you need to change the way you think about it and everything else. The above steps help. But they are not gonna bring any fundamental changes. So radically new way of thinking and looking at life it is. Contemplate on what this new way of thinking could be. And seed it in using subconscious training.

I will be 25 this 18th November. I have lived a shit life so far. Starting this 18th november, I want to live a totally different life. Life with more life in it. None of this boring monotonous unhappiness. A life I'd be happy with. A life I'd be satisfied with. I need to make some radical changes for that to happen. So far I could come up with: 1) Absolutely no social media or texting. Call if you really want to talk to someone that bad. 2) Hatha Yoga, Meditation (1 hr) daily without miss - Basic (if nothing else - atleast this) 3) Workout daily 4) Kriya Yoga, Shamanic Breathing 5) Subconscious mind Training (includes Self-Hypnosis too) / Applying Law of Attraction 6) Concentration Practice 7) Social Interaction 8) Getting sunlight/ Being out in nature - Do this with one of the exercises above

24 July Woke up - 2 pm Did nothing productive today. Spent whole day youtubing, watching movies, texting.

Read a book on Leonardo Da Vinci. Realised how it is possible for a human to learn so many different things. Yes, your domain of mastery can be one thing. But you can also learn and be pretty good at other things too. The knowledge of all things is possible. - Leonardo Da Vinci Here are some things I want to learn apart from the domain of mastery of my Life Purpose: Piano Singing Dancing Some kind of Martial Arts Film-making Stand-up Develop some psychic ability

Place for only the very important insights. Things you should live by.

23 July Woke up - 2 pm Holosync meditation - Yes (15 mins) Study - Yes Walking - Yes Social interaction - On phone (bhaiya) Hatha Yoga - Yes Being aware of OCD - No Being aware of fears - No Breathing well - No Being relaxed throughout the day - No

The problem has gotten even worse now. The heavy-headed feeling is so intense now, it feels like a headache. And it happens every morning.

I am either on my phone or reading a book. The room is not as open and less fresh air comes in the room.

Can I do away with carbs completely if I replace them with healthy fats? Or are carbs essential? Can I give up grains? My aim is to lose weight. I have lost 33 pounds till now. And that was just from a very simple diet I followed. Eating only twice in a 8 hour window. I am now stuck on a plateau. I am at 176 pounds right now. I need to lose 30 pounds more according to my BMI. What changes should I make in my diet? I was planning on giving up grains completely. But since I am a vegan, I am not sure if I should do that.

167 cm height. Chubby. Sorghum (Jowar), White Rice (a bowl a day)

Yeah. There is a difference. I don't feel as free at home.

No, no noise issues at home.

Wow! Leo is an idiot! For a guy as open-minded as him, I didn't think he'd get stuck on his viewpoint as adamantly as he is. No one here (atleast not the sensible ones) has a problem with guys being hit on by females in the posted video as long as they didn't feel uncomfortable. What they do have a problem with is individual statements like this: "See, if a guy gets raped by a woman, he will most likely enjoy it." No, these statements don't even make sense in the "context" of contrasting the assymetrical threats faced by men and women. No one here is denying the fact that women face more threat when it comes to rape. But what you don't realise is how cruel you are being to the few men who have gone through a traumatic experience of rape from a female. Calling female on male rape "silly" does not help highlight the rape threat faced by women. I think by female on male rape, you are still picturing someone who you wouldn't mind having sex with. The forced sex part might even seem to be kind of a turn on for you (if you are into that kinda shit). Anyways what people are trying to tell you here is not gonna go through your head. What needs to happen for your view to change is you going through that experience personally. A woman you find ugly, dirty or nauseating in some way but physically stronger than you raping you. "If a man lets a 67 year old obese woman rape him, that's his fault." I think you are having a hard time picturing a woman physically overpowering a man ... long enough to rape him. Imagine the woman drugging you. So get your head out of your ass and really listen to what people are trying to say. See why your statements are highly problematic.

This kinda reminds me of what Leo said in one his videos. "Today's conservatives were yesterday's liberals. Today's liberals will be tomorrow's conservatives. A few decades from now you're gonna be a conservative old fart infront of all the new open-minded young generation." That's what Leo is - a conservative old fart (atleast in some aspects). It's the best he could do coming from a patriarchal generation.

OCD has been troubling me a lot recently. It's serving as a huge obstacle in anything I try to do. I'd really like a book that helps me understand OCD better at a deeper level and provides ways/techniques to deal with OCD.

Can you share the link of the recording?

I get very angry and agitated when I am debating with someone. For this reason, I try to avoid debates at all costs. But it's not always possible. Rarely when I get into a debate I get so angry and defensive. The reaction is so fucking strong. How do I deal with this? How do I maintain calm during and after the debate? I think the strong reaction is probably cuz I view debate as a fight between me and the other person. A verbal fight. I try to avoid making personal attacks but most of the time the other person is attacking me personally or being condescending and patronizing. This arrogance is what makes me angrier. I have had debates with peaceful people and that feels more like a discussion than an argument. And I love hearing contrary views from such people. Nonetheless, even peaceful stubborn people piss me off. Not just that, even watching debates makes me uneasy. Even online arguments between total strangers trigger me. The strong reaction also could be cause I feel like someone is insulting me or attacking me or my intelligence when they are challenging my ideas. What do I do?

This question has been bothering me for past few weeks. And I am not talking about mild hurtful things like someone breaking up with you or someone scamming you for money. I am talking about extreme forms of cruelty - torture, murders, rape etc. And this question came up in the first place because of some incidents that I have witnessed and listening to accounts of other people's lives. When I was a kid, a woman was burnt alive in my neighbouring house because her family wasn't able to pay the dowry. A girl I met in a support group lives with her family where her parents and her other relatives have been beating her regularly since she was a child. Another girl was sexually abused by everyone in her family. She was brutally beaten mutliple times till she passed out. I was planning on writing this question but I hoped I'd find the answer on my own. But today I was triggered to ask this question cuz I saw my kitten's dead body. I burst out crying. A stray male cat killed her. My brother ran out as soon as he heard the cry but it was too late. I know that the world is full of beauty and I have experienced that beauty myself. But at the same time, the world can be so fucking cruel. I am talking about those things that when you look at them happening you just can't help crying. I just finished the book "The Divide" by Jason Hickel. It showed how US and Western Europe is actively causing poverty, famine, malnutrition, AIDS crisis in southern countries with its economic policies. Non-vegetarians choose to kill animals and make ther lives of torture just to satisfy their taste buds. Even when basically all nutrients can be found in a plant based diet and even after knowing the fact that Livestock farming alone contributes more to global warming than all the cars, trains, planes and ships in the world. That was just me listing out examples. Cruelty far more worse than this exists in the world. How are you supposed to be at peace with this fact? And why does cruelty exist in the first place? Are there any Leo's videos which deal with this question? Whenever I ask this question to people, the answer is always without fail the same - Without evil, you can't experience good. Without cruelty, you won't know what kindness feels like. And honestly, that answer has never convinced me.

How? How is cruelty love?

You talked about the concept of forgetfulness in Islam and how they do the ritual of namaaz 5 times a day to deal with that. Can you elaborate more on how forgetfulness can hinder the process of self-actualization and how it can scratch years of self-actualization progress in ways we don't even realise? Also please suggest ways to deal with it.