Origins

@mandyjw That's literally all I did. It works. I mean, there's neat psychological tricks I've taught myself as well, for example visualising a mirror being in front of my own experience of reality reflected of what other people believe while simultaneously visualising darkness in the void of my own awareness as a symbolic reminder of my own ever present awareness. My approach is on the subject of perception and seeing through the illusion, which takes no energetic alliances with life, yours is to not perception but of an energetic frequency, both I think are suitable means, the latter reflective of "the flow of life" and not being caught in its vicissitudes, through this lens, the social kind. @Barbara You will continue to find your own resolve that is pertinent to your own personal self inquiry unless I'm otherwise prompted as I've learned that it is this sort of natural and direct investigation that has resulted in the most changes from myself, others presenting me their signs and signals and me finding my own personal answer in between. There are various personality styles and personality responses to this aspect of life of course. Yeah it would, but connection is not at all the absence of boundaries, connection of course is just simply where we can connect to. This is relative personal comfort levels of any one person involved. Stack em way up high or way down low, its your prerogative relative to where you've learned is your line of best fit for the person, situation, time, place. Sometimes we feel really shitty and that's okay, we don't have to experience the same level of connection we did the previous day with the world, we just need to move to the level of connection that we'll feel comfortable with and that in turn will leave us with no regrets and with higher esteem after it. How do you connect with a great white shark? All things equal, through a steel cage. I hope that analogy gets to the point of vulnerability. A further example pertains to orca whales, at the beginning you'll be frightened and at certain times you should have a certain level of fear and have certain precautionary boundaries that you connect through rather than beyond and once this space has been "sorted", vulnerabilities and boundaries can shift for higher connection relative to that changed felt space that's yours to determine and whoever else you wish to be a part of that process.

@Animo It doesn't. Simply because there are so many reasons for its existence that there exists more causes of laziness that it more of an effect than a cause. At the core, laziness is simply the failure to experience STIMULATION in the related area. This is such a huge topic as it touches on so many areas of human psychology that you can't easily "slice the falling dice" (many different combinations) here, for this though I will give an example relating to using piano as ones sole source of entertainment. The piano has 88 keys and most humans on planet earth have at least 9 fingers and two thumbs enabling them to workup to playing thousands of songs and their variation which could satisfy there need for stimulation for an entire lifetime. There is a distinction though that needs to be made and that involves the distinction between human psychology and mechanical possibility. At the beginning, even if people are aware of the mechanical possibilities here their subconscious awareness isn't as such, most people will follow a stereotypical and predictable false algorithm as it concerns their relationship to the piano in the context of their potential stimulation. Most people in all of their endeavours choose a "play until I am bored" algorithm rather than a "play until I've exhausted all of the created potentials for stimulation", the former is what creates the laziness. They allow themselves to hit their neuroexcitable peak at the cusp of their predetermined will rather than exhausting the space of awareness that allows them to explore the freedom of will they have to discover the heights of variability and variety they can uncover through devoted interactive play. Most people follow this same predictable formula for life, as such, most fail to reach their peak in conscientiousness (its opposite, laziness), hence why most people simply live mildly lived lives on the edge of a river during a peak gold rush that they won't stay long enough to find the gold they're looking for, they'll get up and leave the piano before they've even begun to discover their innate interest, and for many, talent for it. If laziness doesn't exist, this means innate interest also doesn't exist, for it too, is not a cause but an effect, an outcome of living just beyond the horizon of ones foreseeable intrigue into life's melodies as they're presented to their consciousness. So for whatever it is you want to get really good at, don't think in terms of "not being lazy", think in terms of how you can stay stimulated beyond the norm. In the case of piano, how can you input enough variability either through mind via creative play or through choice via songs you will try to learn? STIMULATION > (necessary) CONSCIENTIOUSNESS (as it applies), lastly, CREATIVITY as an input of (necessary) VARIABILITY > STIMULATION This last aspect is simply a dedication to awareness (i.e. self awareness). Consider one of the core aspects of the age old problem of "laziness" now solved.

@modmythhey mod nice to see u round these parts . Day 2: Insight for meditation: Transcendence equals Music The basis for this is cognitive and I've so far discovered the triad that I now focus my attention on accordingly: 1. Patterns over answers 2. Attention (inclusive of focus) over __haven't found its avoidant force yet__ 3. Timing (i.e. loops) over __ haven't found its avoidant force yet __ Combined with the lyrical, visual and relational (i.e. intelligence: logic) element I apply to my training with improvisation and coordinated improvisation (different to one another) as the foundation here I see it as a continual exploration of the intellectual heights of my abilities even in comparison to say performing and and generating high level abstraction. The ability to play, produce lyrics and creative relational visuals all on the fly while simultaneously vigilantly scanning (attention) for patterns across a certain spontaneously determined timing I'm following between all modalities, especially across varied and speeded timing intervals is by far the greatest I've determined I can extend my intelligence in any one sitting, and to this end, it complementarily a likely extension of my abilities and thus its fitting that its referred to here in this thread. In short, our thoughts and feelings follow a variable timed coordinated loop in their appearance to our conscious awareness, every thought and feeling then in the context of the concert produced by consciousness as a byproduct of one to however many loops present then can be measured against a bung note relative to the ultimate fluidity that I believe optimal awareness within consciousness should be functionally striving for. Music is not to just cognition nor cognitive enhancement as some people have inferred from a non-artistic sense, viewed from a nuanced lens in combination with certain boundaries one is attempting to follow (i.e. several metronomes; relational visual symbolisation), it is, truly, an accurate picture of all the boundaries of cognition and is thus, cognitive enhancing, when stretching to ones limits. As such, as one builds a song, they build their brain. This all must be done "together" though with little side-tracking, mind wandering and so on so as to exercise focused attention towards the growth and development of the brain in that moment. "Growth" (i.e. neuroplasticity et al.) here, indicative of all of its opposites that you would indeed wish to avoid in emotional and behavioural connotation. I will elaborate more on this triad at a later time.

I see @Preety_India but I disagree entirely with the connotation of the term selfishness you've inferred. The cry for help is the very definition of selfishness, what I recommend doing is rearranging your perception of selfishness. In culture its been misconstrued as "bad, evil, corrupt", but it entirely depends on the kind of selfishness as well as its presence overtime relative to someones capacities. Babies are some of the most selfish beings on the planet, they require attention and then they don't depending on said baby, in order to interact with said baby though, do we desire its attention as adults or do we try to connect with it? Many people are naive to the sentiments of innocence and how they can harbour deeper truths that we're meant to follow in all of our interactions, in this sense on the subject of connection. Connection is entirely selfish but its not selfish in its expression because you're creating the only possible space by which connection between two people and therefore a selfless interaction was possible. Selflessness is simply a created space, not a state of being. You can't be selfless, but you can create the space for the virtues that can be derived from it, with connection here being exemplary of that.

My new creative decision making process (see image link) I just invented, trialing as a solution to solve the dissonance I experience when making various creative decisions. I realise I just have to "let what will be" in terms of what comes out of flow, while at the same time without too much description devoting myself solely to connecting fully from a pure heart space. Inspired by my own song as a reminder above, Awaken the True War, I sometimes forget the lessons it was meant to teach me through intuition "overload". I guess you could apply this process to how to navigate all of life. In my Transcendence work I've realised how many facets of myself I still need to create adequate and connective (meaning all models originate from and geometrically synchronise with one sole model) models from, this is a reflection of designing out my creative process for as much flow as possible avoiding needless decision making. I don't want to give a fuck about singing low/high anymore, I just want to sing from the most truthful place possible relative to where the music is and everything else from there is spontaneous and inspired creativity. Here's the image link (moderators like to play games with my posting privileges = don't ask, and I'm not giving them any of my attention) - https://ibb.co/0jWLXmX

Here's older improvisations on another channel... I'd like to turn Awaken The True War into something great.

@Barbara You care if people like you (solve that). Combine that with connection over attention. Done. Seriously, if you're coming from that energetic resonance that's a whole lot more interesting than its opposite. Thought experiment that and you'll see it for yourself. If you're not connecting with solely you (no thoughts, this is all energetic) you're playing a character for the world to respond to in the way you want. That an't real. Life doesn't give us what we want per se, it gives us what we're authentically aligned to. Good luck

We are all... is this not a generalisation to use imaginary social support, aka attention, to validate ones own position? Here you’re using imaginary attention to justify attention seeking, or is an angle of viewing it. How well are you able to believe something that goes against the crowd? Or anyone? Self belief is correlated with less of a need for attention, the true kind, because you’re not looking for any approval. Maybe I’ll draw a venn diagram. Attention is either something that should have been satisfied when someone was a child or is something they heal in adulthood. It’s really that simple, we live in an age of extremely unhealthy attention seeking behaviours because of how poor people’s upbringings were and social conditioning is. It’s the simple byproduct of maturity, as an “adult” as we’ve framed it as we both are, the adult thing is to now only be seeking connection otherwise to the extent we are attention seeking we’re no longer considered truly adults as we’re regressing back into more infantile psychological states. This is true. It’s really this straight forward, you’re probably just used to seeing so many childish attention seeking adults that you see it as normal. Connection, not attention. Because who is really the other person when you’re getting that attention? They’re no body, you’re likely selfish, all you really care about in that moment is receiving the attention not the other person. They’re just the feel good chemical provider.

@tatsumaru focus on asking what and how questions more than why, why tends to have more defensive reactions. “Why did you begin this thread?” May feel more provoking than: ”What was it that made you start this thread?”.

@InterruptReQuest aggression has qualities of anger, analogously just practice it like you would sadness. You want to focus that kind of energy in the sense of moving towards self empowerment. It’s super duper simple, start giving it a whirl and you’ll get the hang of it before you know it. Regulate it with calm breathing and focusing the energy towards your goals and strengthening the focus of your ambition.

@Preety_India people who seek attention don’t value the other person really it’s a shallow interaction. People who seek connection get the attention implicitly and through genuine authentic means however the dice rolls they don’t have to regret anything.

@freejoy The question isn't about free will just awareness. Build awareness and you may have free will, don't build awareness and you won't have free will. Most people that don't believe in free will are as a byproduct saying they don't really believe in awareness. Kind of humorous. I don't know anyone that really knows what awareness is. I could build a model but not enough that the model is self aware. It's a case of "maybe later".

@Tim R yeah firstly let's go into what it is: Firstly you just gotta think abstractly about the mental angle, because that's all it is, its a mental angle on the phenomenon you're processing, the same goes to how, what. Why --> Representation of how (which then automatic intelligence detects the patterns of --- within that systems engineering, and within that great variability across the population) What --> Recall, identification and differentiation How --> Reverse engineering (systems engineering) Secondly we've just got curiosity. It's not complicated. Minus curiosity you minus any care for why. The next question is why people are curious. Here curiosity can be a byproduct of say dopamine and an extrinsic byproduct to say some survival or higher need (i.e. social connections). All this stuff is pretty straightforward.

HAHA on the font Quick note I'll write about later just noting it here to remind myself of improvements i'm making in awareness, placebo or not time will show: double mirror symbolisation (I'll happily share this process with others later - in short, a byproduct of the symbolisation of discoveries that make it easier to recall personal insight, analogous to method of loci as I've brought up in the past, my new method there involves starting from the ground up in terms of generating novel creative visual artefacts and building them into a novel "mental palace" piece by piece rather than using old memories which is what I believe the "light weights" do ) this was meant to symbolise having self awareness on what was happening and will continue to be an important way of not reflecting on cognition, psychological and or mental data of any kind, but to hold it, and through the holding of that data, and waiting until that auto-response that needs to be corrected is automatically corrected where your automatic intelligence comes into play waiting until it sees what’s going on, then you’ll be able to seamlessly move through it HAHA on the font

On attention: Another thing mate, you don't want to be looking for anything other than connection in any of your interactions, ANY of them. Attention is a kind of validation, so if you're JUST looking for attention or attention plus that's (1) the precise moment in which you're enabling unhealthy behaviours to continue (2) the precise moment in which you want to cut off that interaction at least from yourself until you're ready to genuinely connect with the situation. It's a very important rule of thumb to follow, you don't want anything to do with any kind of interaction that isn't to do with connection, the moment you sense you're just looking for attention that's when you need to jump straight into whatever techniques you learn to deal with that, that's how you learn to truly express the person that you are underneath and in doing so, connect wherever connection was ever going to be possible.

@Jacob Morres Don't need to watch video at all and I have no intention to. This is all the advice you need. Relationships of all kind are solely about connection. Remove everything that harms connection (i.e. seeking validation) and you'll be on the right path. You're just looking for the correct direction for a sense of safety, I've just given it to you which this person likely hasn't done. This path will simultaneously help you overcome insecurities like seeking validation while also moving at your own pace in healing from them because you won't be connecting beyond what you can do beyond your emotional wounds and you be under doing it by trying to "avoid seeking validation", no, the process of avoiding things happens automatically by going after what you should be doing, seeking connection. Connections can mean many things, I have a completely different connection with the people that serve me hot chocolate in the morning compared to anyone that I may have a romantic interest in to my parents, siblings including variation of connection therein as well (not all siblings were created equal of course). Why does this simple one step formula work so well? Because that's all you need to do with life to live it well. Learning to connect with it. Do you think at the end of your life if you learned to truly develop the best possible connection you could with it you'd be disappointed? Of course not. Now get to it and stop wasting your time watching cranks, gurus, wannabes and just people in general that pretend to know what they're talking about but don't. Start simple. Type/Write a list out, two columns, for anything about life including relationships, what increases connection and what decreases connection and then apply the former intelligently from there depending on the type and other qualities of the connection. Best.

@EternalForest Irony. Start creating movies in your mind, invent characters, plots, scenarios, apply to real life. Fuck. I mean... Wow. People will come up with whatever rationalisations they can to choose inferior options. I mean sure do what you want, but to advertise it as the schtick is just plain wrong.

6. I'm only going to create electronic music (inclusive of voice of course) from now on as well, or rather, with an electronic foundation and with an instrumental accompaniment for covers and play, etc outside of the electronic music so I've gotta spend much time than I do enhancing my skills there. My goal is pretty simple: Create music that is as creative as possible for where I am in my progression until I create my own genre basically I don't give a fuck what has come before me, my philosophy is to integrate, synthesise and think from the ground up, not to do what humanity has done before, to look in the same direction in the same way that other eyes have done in the past. To that I say fuck you.

1. So I've decided I'm only going to be really working with songs in my lower register until my higher register better connects with my lower register, I just don't want to sound like anybody else so I trust myself moving forward that I'm making the right decision here. I'm self aware about my choices and now that I've decided I'll be able to really focus down on singing style within that range, I'm confident I'll be where I want to be by April 1st relative to my progression to date. 2. April 1st I'll have 1 completed song that I've edited to the best of my ability. This is because I want to build a solid foundation in recording and editing before moving forward with a lot of songs or just any songs. So for now I've discarded the idea of doing all these albums, at least until I've achieved that solid foundation. 3. By April first I'll also have 1 completed cover, and from here on out week to week I'll work jointly with 1 original song and 1 cover song back to back each week to build in some solid experience. 4. I want to change my perception in relation to how I construct albums. I want my albums to have some kind of purpose, as well as my week to week songs. I've grown out of this idea of "improvising a song" or creating a song because it's easy or fun to do, I want it to have significant existential value to me even if I'm wrong about my direction I want it to be an existential sign post. I'm also self aware about the influence that my music and lyrics can have on my audience, so I want to be more mindful there moving forward as well. 5. I don't give a fuck about genres, cultures, or anything like this regarding music and I have no idea why artists give it so much weight, as if to be "acting within a style" (more profit?), I just want to create music that impacts me and if it impacts others in the process that's great too.

@Flowerfaeiry You have to realise that all of culture is ultimately redundant, and if it's not, this is purely an intimate experience for the individuals perception anyhow. You'll remove so much needless energy and psychological weight once you develop enough insights from that realisation. There's nothing here. It's a very sad and dismal landscape. You are where things are neither sad nor dismal. You make that, and it'll come from an ongoing expansion of your awareness. You got dragged in, we all did, our minds cornered enough that we couldn't comprehend anything different. It started young, now you get to start it for yourself; wiser.

@Someone here It purely depends on capacity. Some humans have more or less, thus more or less ability to comprehend the partial truth of therein.

@Someone here It purely depends on capacity, I know I was only capable of being exposed to the truth through a sudden expansive and deeply contracting fragmenting reality reshaping consciousness experience to the point where it becomes a visceral feeling, intuition, insight and more all simultaneously rather than something that can be encapsulated by or was experienced through simple thought. My thoughts tried to and still do (slowly better) try to encapsulate the experience and ground it in practical objectives, but they will never compare to the vastness of the experience just as much as my own exposure will likely never compare to the complete depth of the truth itself. You can have partial truths, not full truths, as they’re not yours to have. They’re yours through the lens of infinite mind, not a human mind, which is brilliant in and of itself relative to other species on this planet but is ultimately brilliantly undernourished and unsupported through the right expansive choices.

@Someone here you won’t find your answers on this forum. You won’t find your answers from me. You’ll just need to have your own experiences. We can go into it further if you like, but I’m sensing it’s best not to (not meaning to a pause offence). The analogy between zero dimensions and the question is pretty straight forward. Awareness has zero dimensions. We infer dimensions through a finite intelligence caught in what is comparably a trance to the finely tuned nature of reality while trying to make sense of it. This inference is trapped in a shell of loose deductive and inductive loops that take us no where. Take your best shot. You rely on science perhaps because someone built you a microwave and brought you experience lived via osmosis through a computer screen so you get to rewatch the moon landing while having conspiracy theories play in the back of your mind representative of a species that is no better than ants in the greater landscape of intelligence that likely lives out there in the universe. It’s nothing. Zero compared to what we can and will accomplish, and what we will accomplish is statistically likely to be far inferior to what other species in the universe can achieve no matter how far we go. You think in terms of dimensions, don’t you find it paradoxical to do so when you can’t even think a 5D thought? It’s a pointless exercise. All we have is our working memory space and ability to draw patterns and distinctions therein, we have no idea how many more levels of processing reality there are intellectually to truly fathom the vast ineptitude of our present accomplishments, but accomplish you should still try and do, this is your role as existence while alive continuing to pursue your personal greater good.

@Someone here How many dimensions does awareness have?

@Someone here This reminds me of a spiritual experience I had a couple of weeks ago now where I had the consciousness experience that reality doesn’t have any dimensions. Zero.