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Lol. You need to stop. Not my type, though, but his teachings are.

I understand this. We can't just go around telling people with severe mental issues that it's all in their head. They would need some serious CONSCIOUS counseling for this; but also, as a person on the Spiritual path, it can be very useful in our own lives to try to understand and embody some of these metaphysical teachings and to recognize that we sometimes don't have to go around advising or telling people about these teachings as such, because embodying the teachings has it's own effect Universally. Our internal change can affect the people around us and theirs the people around them and can cause a chain reaction, and then maybe resulting in the decline of mental instability or having other significant effects. All that is required, sometimes to impact many, is one person to make the switch. So I find it very important to me to try and understand the implications of what these teachings represent or the underlying message or the direction it is steering me towards to reduce the amount of self-deception the mind is so capable of.

I just love it when the greats debate.

You are separating the material/physical from the metaphysical/unseen, when one is dependent on the other. Matter comes from mind. Materialistically speaking, sure it APPEARS and seems as if we're in control and metaphysically speaking is where all the appearances are appearing from. Using the body to take action and for movement to occur also requires bodily organs which are cognitively used such as the hands and feet which are being controlled by the brain which demonstrates the interconnectedness between the manual and the mental. So there's no escaping the unity of it all. So in order to come to any analysis we would have to break it all down, and in this case realize the connection of it all, that one thing depends on another, and it can be broken down all the way where every distinction collapses.

I can tell you have a high level of EQ and a natural way of using your discerning skills. Knowledge isn't power. Discernment of knowledge is more powerful and that's what lacking here. Just an observation and I can also observe it within myself at times and realized it after the fact so this is not to say I'm immune. Some of these men don't understand what it means to lead, what is a healthy masculine trait versus insecurity and egotism and the differences between the genders when it comes to dating and that it's not about being aggressive as a man and submissive or docile as a woman for the masculine/feminine polarity to work.

Sadly, these teachings can be so misinterpreted, misused, convenient when needed to display sarcasm, used as a weapon and turn into a Religion where we just pick the pieces out that serves our agenda and discard the rest without trying to understand the bigger picture. By your statement about prison being imaginary, then this Forum is too, so who are you talking to and why are you here. These are rhetorical questions that doesn't need to be answered because I'm just trying to make a point.

?It's all connected.

If you take a body building woman and a man weighing 100lbs who is flimsy and weak, who do you think will overpower who. Always is not the case in this respect.

Words of affirmations are making you vibrate on a certain frequency which then attracts certain thoughts to you. You are not consciously thinking those thoughts, you don't know what your next thought will be, thoughts are just arising. You are attracting thoughts and depending on your awareness level and state of consciousness those thoughts will follow a pattern. The body is being led by the mind. I dare you do something without thought first and I dare you to know your next thought. Your organs are being controlled by the subconscious mind. You cannot beat your own heart nor are you making yourself pee. It's all just happening. Our true nature is Awareness anyway, so we're just aware of what's happening. The Ego mind likes to think it's in control but it's not and can never be because it's all stories and illusory.

Sometimes we disagree, but I can say, to me, you're making a lot of sense here on this thread.

The discernment of the information given in the latter part of this thread is so off. The context of how certain words are being interpreted, IMO, is what's causing a lot of this conflict. There's a difference between directly challenging someone and someone being perceived as a challenge. If a very feminine woman was being admired by a man and he was interested in getting to know her but it wasn't easy to either get her number, wasn't easy to get her in bed, wasn't easy for her to open up her intimate life details to him, I mean there are so many ways this "non bossy" feminine, non-confrontational woman could be a challenge. That's what the use of the word challenge meant in this context. Also, when it was noted that a strong masculine man attracting a strong feminine woman and "conflict" may arise, it wasn't being suggested that fights and arguments would occur. In this sense it meant for example, it could probably be a conflict of interest if both parties had different beliefs about how a family should be raised, maybe attachment styles, different love languages, conflicting ways in the dynamics of the relationship as opposed to maybe a less masculine nan with a less feminine woman and this is just an example being used for contextual purposes. I mean, I could keep going on about the ways in which the opposing sides were being misunderstood. @Sinceritywas giving some very valid points and was just being misunderstood because the words used were taken differently from how it was meant. And even in the cases where it wasn't, the answers weren't coming from a place of understanding but from a place of defense and barriers.

That's not necessarily the case. It depends on what YT sees you're interested in. The type of content. I get a lot of "long" video recommendations which are in the same category of my watched ones and these videos are from popular channels and known Influencers like Kurt Jaimungal from Theories of Everything, Lewis howes, Tom Bilyeu and Lisa Bilyeu, The Next Level Soul Podcast, Jay Shetty Podcast, amongst others. These have millions of views and subscribers. These kinds of content are not for "fly-by-the-night" kind of watchers and Leo's content isn't, even though his channel is of a different "breed" and more advanced when it comes to metaphysical stuff. Youtube will still recommend his channel to the right or suitable people. The algorithm isn't just picking out shorter content, it is suited to your individual preference and taste and lots of people are getting into this field more and more.

You're speaking about Oil Pulling (I believe, as I don't know), but Oil Pulling is when you put some kind of oil as in Coconut, Olive or Sesame can also be used, but Coconut is highly suggested, in your mouth and swoosh it around for 5-20minutes then spit out. I've done it with coconut oil, and I do see the difference. But I still brush my teeth afterwards as it's not a substitute for brushing. Please don't brush your teeth for 20 minutes at a time every day as this amount of time will surely erode your enamel quickly and is way too aggressive on the teeth. 2 minutes or so is enough. Coconut Oil can whiten teeth, yes, so does, turmeric, basil, strawberries and the use of baking soda sparingly, amongst other things found in nature, but you don't want to use baking soda everyday as it is very abrasive.

I see you're playing it safe like I am. Don't want to mislead anyone as I'm still learning as I go. Somethings I have direct experience in, some intuitive knowing, some intellectual, some from videos, some audio books, some I put the pieces together, some channeling, some automatic writing, some guessing, some from higher Self, some Ego, some from the ocean, some the sea, the birds, but one thing I do know for sure is that I'm breathing. Put all that together that's enough to know that I AM THAT I AM.

You're not controlling the body, the mind is, and you're not even controlling the mind. Thoughts are just happening. So, I guess that just means you have no control. You're a puppet. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Pretty much yes. You are looking at it from a male's perspective. Plus I never used the word emotional even though it's still mental, using the word emotional would not have had the same effect for what I'm trying to communicate to you. You're still trying to stimulate her sexually, but not explicitly or direct. When you use the word explicit, I'm taking it as if you mean raw, to the point and uninhibited. Like, hey would you like to come to my place and have sex. Or, Hi, (however you introduce yourself, that's irrelevant in this case) but do you like oral sex or I love your tits and ass or do you watch porn or id love to cum on you or whatever, to me that's explicitly speaking. If you approach, introduce yourself or use a pick up line or whatever, just have a normal conversation like where you from, what kind of food do you like, do you go to college and where or whatever. Then feel her out and gently work your way up to it. If she's the type and likes you after you've talked for a bit, then maybe it'll happen. But not in the first example, that's too explicit. Plus if a woman is looking for casual sex anyway, you won't need to try and convert her to that because that's already her intention. Your job is to make her want to do it with you and speaking to her explicitly won't turn a woman on outside the bedroom anymore than a normal, maybe flirty kind of conversation would.

You are looking at it from a male's perspective. Plus I never used the word emotional even though it's still mental, using the word emotional would not have had the same effect for what I'm trying to communicate to you. You're still trying to stimulate her sexually, but not explicitly or direct. When you use the word explicit, I'm taking it as if you mean raw, to the point and uninhibited. Like, hey would you like to come to my place and have sex. Or, Hi, (however you introduce yourself, that's irrelevant in this case) but do you like oral sex or I love your tits and ass or do you watch porn or id love to cum on you or whatever, to me that's explicitly speaking. If you approach, introduce yourself or use a pick up line or whatever, just have a normal conversation like where you from, what kind of food do you like, do you go to college and where or whatever. Then feel her out and gently work your way up to it. If she's the type and likes you after you've talked for a bit, then maybe it'll happen. But not in the first example, that's too explicit. Plus if a woman is looking for casual sex anyway, you won't need to try and convert her to that because that's already her intention. Your job is to make her want to do it with you and speaking to her explicitly won't turn a woman on outside the bedroom anymore than a normal, maybe flirty kind of conversation would.

That's not what I mean. Women's and men's psyche are different in this aspect. Even though she just wants casual sex and nothing more, coming at her like that explicitly isn't the right approach unless you too have already established a connection already. But just going up to a strange woman like that won't bring too much success, even if it's just casual sex she wants. She has to be mentally stimulated first before she would want to have casual sex with you and talking in an explicitly sexual manner to her at first upon approach doesn't turn women on. It's after they get to know you where it's more comfortable to talk that way. That's what I mean by psychological. Unless she approached you first and half the work is already done, then you don't even have to talk explicitly, just use a little flirting and charm, but if you are doing the approaching, then you want to make her even want to choose you to have casual sex with her and talking explicitly about sex won't do the trick. You still have to use normal conversation to get her interested.

The reason why she might just want to have sex with you casually is not about the sex. It's for other mental reasons. It's more psychological. So explicitly talking to her about sex will not be enough for her to get turned on because sex is a physical act and you have to meet her on a more psychological level, arouse her mentally, not sexually.

Lol..ok. Now I get it. It used to happen to me, and since I awakened (you know what I mean, got into this stuff), I used to ask myself I wonder if that was the nothingness, the void or our true nature. I asked myself that all the time but wasn't sure.

Yea but I wanted to know if that's what he meant. Ever had that happen when you space out for a few secs and come back. Like you went blank.

Is this the same thing as when we say, " I just stared into space and came back". You know, like when we got jolted back into Reality from spacing out which only lasts for a few seconds? Hope you know what I mean. Our eyes are open when this happens.

OMG! I will never get back that :36secs of my life. Lol

I agree.