Ima Freeman

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I meditate daily for ~2 years now. Before I meditated consistently for months, then had pauses of some months. Tried standard mindfulness meditation, krya yoga and currently noting using labels. I know that meditation is an skill which must be cultivated for a very long time, but I see only very, very little progress. My biggest hurdle is, that I seem to have too little wakefulness, like my awareness is underpowered. My "brain-power" really is a bottleneck. I am a very restless person, so fatigue is most often not a problem. But staying at a mindful state of consciousness for more than 20-30 seconds seems impossible, except by having some mystical breakthrough experience. Noting with labels definitely is helping, because it forces part of my mind to actively look at what is happening. What other things can I do to get more wakeful? What did work for you? Thanks in advance

Thx for the detailed explanation. I made a plan to put more thought into my life, so I will definitely contemplate on the why of my meditation effort.

I may start krya yoga again. I was initiated into Sadhguru's Shambhavi Mahamudra, so I already have a basis. I'm looking forward to doing vipassana, because I'm more aware in practices when others are around.

Is it best practiced in a formal way or while in everday's activities?

Thank you all for your recommendations

@Sugarcoat Interesting I already noticed that some of my thoughts showed me unmet desires. I have a lot of deficits and unmet needs, especially in the social domain.

What practices do you use now? I'm not against ditching meditation if I find better ways. It's just meditation practices are free and can be done almost everywhere, in the flat, while traveling, etc.

But I really love to get into states of higher consciousness. I spontaneously started meditating years ago before learning about actualized.org.

I had this deterministic, non-doership thoughts lately too. Seriously, it feels like creation is doing my actions and I am just able to watch them. They are very frustrating for me. I understand that they make you feel bad, but that might only be a necessary phase. I'm not saying that it is this way ultimately, but how to disprove them, if every doing is so unfathomably rich and complex, that they can not be created by a human?

It sure can be, but from what I heard from multiple sides, it is. And also it is in my experience, since I only made very little progress so far.

So, when I would achieve a non-dual god-consciousness state, do I get blissful?

Why is it there? Types of suffering How does it work? Can one overcome it? What are the benefits of suffering ...

Are you kidding?

Stuff that helped me with constipation: Decrease pathogenic bacteria in your gut with herbs like neem or golden seal root. Epsom salt or sauerkraut juice will soften the stool or even flush out the intestines if you take enough. I heard the herb senna and the herbal preparation triphala can help to counteract constipation, if you take them periodically. To be honest, nicotine is by far the best remedy for constipation for me, but, you know, nicotine is nicotine. Because of the pain you have i would suggest being gentle in your approach. I only wrote down remedies, but not the underlying issue.

What I want to discuss here is the role of wellbeing in the pursuit of personal growth. By personal growth I mean all aspects, spirituality included. Wellbeing is a fundamental somato-emotional quality-spectrum, I would say. Body and mind (if you want to split it) have a certain function and the degree of this function is correlated with somatic and emotional qualities. More wellbeing – better function. Everybody knows this: You feel good – that means your consciousness expands, you feel secure, you are creative, you are benevolent, you are tolerant, you are simply loving. Somatic unwellness are symptoms like aches, nausea, pain, itching, etc. or illnesses which are syndroms or injuries Emotional unwellness is anger, agitation, fear, sorrow, apathy, etc. I heard this from Sadhguru: With wellbeing consciousness expands. With unwellness consciousness contracts. Things like pain, nausea, anger and fear can lead to higher consciousness, to higher intensity, somehow, but the nature of life is, that it’s fleeing form unwellnes, while it is attracted to wellbeing. If something gives you wellbeing, like drugs, music, a vacation, there is no need to put in effort. The nature of life ensures that things go in that direction. In fact you have to put in effort not to take drugs, not to eat for emotions, etc. If I’am happy everything is more effortless. Even things, I’m not inclined to do can become effortless. Drudgery, effort, austerity, fear and pain are parts of growing. The process of growing can decrease wellbeing temporarily, but it is still very important to ensure a well milieu of being to expand. It is like the fuel for growing. Without wellbeing, it seems to me, one will stagnate. Regardless of personal growth, it is the nature of being to be attracted by wellbeing. Is it possible to ommit this? What to you say about my take on wellbeing? Anything to add? Broader perspectives?

You're right. All these countries are more developed, industrially and/or intellectually.

A lot of frustration must be in these people of migration-backround. Otherwise they would not be so extremely violent. This violence happens in Germany, Sweden, Netherlands to and clearly originates from african and middle eastern migrants/migration-backround people. I remember a very similar kind of violence in England in 2011. Or the BLM riots in the USA. In all of the cases someone of a ethnic minority is killed by police and then violence erupts.

What confuses me is the difference between his videos and his blog/forum posts. In his videos he is very open minded, fair and serene. But on the forum and blog, especially when it comes to politics, he can be very judgmental and antagonistic. I always picture him as being angry when he rants about politics, but I don't know

@Jacob Morres Electromagnetic fields are harmful. They damage human tissue. It is smart to avoid them.

That is a very bad comparison. Hitler was a Nazi because he entered and lead the so called Nazi-party RFK doesn't call himself a conspiracy theorist, others put the label on him.

Too good

As far as I know, the paradigm of dividing political worldviews in right (conservative) and left (progressive) stems from the French Revolution and how the proponents of the old system sat right in the parliament and the progressive thinkers sat left. People are not one-dimensional. There are many aspects constituting to a worldview. People have positions on multiple topics. Everyone has conservative and progressive positions. There is no person who is 100% conservative or progressive, though there are centers of gravity. People may be nationalists and support LGBT struggles, others may criticize capitalism and support gun ownership, there are authoritarian vegans and liberal christians etc. Many people do not even know what these labels mean exactly, because the words do not point to their meaning. They use it for some kinds of stereo types. I especially see the attribution of other meanings into left/right problematic. Often times the left is being defined as being liberal and the right with being authoritarian. That is not necessarily true. It depends on the zeitgeist. If either you are a “leftist” or a “right winger” you tend to attribute all your criticism to the other side. This lead to the inflammatory division in western politics we see today, where in every situation a split is created between the populace. But there are many potential ways of dealing with situations. There are third and fourth ones and so on. A balanced multidimensional way of thinking would help to soften the division up. In political media, almost every time, organizations, parties and people are characterized by how left/right they are, and then the above mentioned demonizing mostly follows.

@zurew I'm not talking about the corona vaccine btw. I personally have not investigated them that much, so I don't argue for or against them. Read what I wrote.