Gianna

What a beautiful experience! On so many levels. Thanks for sharing! I've had similar experiences with music. It sometimes makes me feel like all of these artists knew this higher truth this entire time. But of course, many singers sing deep truths without realizing the Truth itself. There is only one Truth, and everything points to it once you start to see It seems to me that the deep, genuinely, and so then, most popular songs all have a bit of Truth in them. You can really look at Truth through so many different lenses. Truth is the light and we are the mosaic.

@RickyFitts that would be a very True bumper sticker

Yes! Because it is True. And the Truth is all the Truth needs.

Has anyone here been on a complete music detox (not listening to music for a long period of time)? I recently noticed that the times where I don't listen to music at all I have a very still mind. Then, when I start to listen to music again, it's like my mind is a broken record player. Just repeating the lyrics to every song day and night. Maddening!!! I'll go to sleep singing a song and wake up singing a song (all in my mind). Does anyone else share this experience? My sister is really bad she just goes around singing in her head and out loud constantly. It. never. stops. But I don't even think she realizes it.

Me, personally. No. I am not in a state of confidence. My confidence is actually shrinking. It's scary and makes me feel like I am losing what I know. But another part of me is growing. This part of me is gaining enough understanding to feel comfortable with not knowing and instead receive. The more I grow and the more I know, the more I can count on not needing to know and creating space for listening and understanding. This actually gives me back a lot of the confidence I lost, but it is a different kind of confidence. It is more of a willingness, courage. Because I am willing to not know, not be confident, and instead receive. But feeling states are where I am directing my focus. (this is why I am getting so specific in the different types of emotions lol!) I am trying to learn emotions right now. But this is why I say to have courage, instead of confidence. Confidence is fake courage! Know that this is just what I have experienced. I am the type of person that needs to strengthen my ego instead of breaking it down– essentially the difference between an empath and a narcissist. A narcissist needs to break down the ego; an empath needs to strengthen it. So a lot depends on what type of ego you have. If you are a people pleaser, you need to strengthen your ego. You need to be confident. If you are a narcissist, you need to break it down, you need to let yourself be vulnerable. When you are being confident, are you being authentic? Are you being vulnerable? Most casual confidence is confident because it knows it is not being vulnerable, authentic, and so nothing can actually hurt it. Maybe those bad things are supposed to happen and you are supposed to work through the feelings of those circumstances in your body– release them from your body. And then you will stop attracting it in your life. Maybe you are meant to learn from this pattern by shifting your perception. When you think of this happening in the past, what do you think the lesson was? Was it to let yourself be vulnerable? To not have expectations? To detach from outcomes? what do you mean by this?

We want the very thing we are the most afraid of– Love, Union, Death. These words are synonymous and are the reason why we are so fucking confused in this life. We want to love but we won't let ourselves die– so how can we love? We want union but are afraid to lose our separation– so how can we unite? We are like moths who go toward the light because it is all we desire. But when reaching it we pull away because we sense death when we are close. Well, what we intuit is true. We will die when we let ourselves Love. When we reach the light it burns us to heaven. To love is to lose yourself. It is why people love watching t.v., love playing a sport, a game, or conversating. It's why people love going to sleep. All of your worries, stress, anxieties, fears, limitations– they are gone. They are out the window because you are out of the window. You are gone with the wind; one with the wind. Our self is dead. Suddenly we are everything. To love is to become something bigger. Have you heard of synergy? Synergy is what you are, not either of the two making it up. Are you brave enough to let yourself become this nothingness? Bravery is not a choice it's a commitment. You are either committed or not, there is no in-between. Have you noticed that the best players, athletes, fighters, snowboarders, business leaders, even porn stars, are the ones that fully commit? A person that shreds down a mountain at incredible speeds, a person that rides across a wave, walks across a tightrope, flys between a mountain range in a wingsuit. These people are free because they are brave. They are brave because they let themselves go and fully commit to the unknown. To death. To Love.

Can anyone who has experienced a shift in their point of attraction describe their experience? Specifically, how they knew they had changed their point of attraction, maybe in a relationship? Or in business? How did you know your point of attraction shifted? That you broke out of a negative behavioral pattern and shifted toward attracting something else?

@Hulia Not a movie but a Hulu series! Is that the one you are referring to? Yes. Regardless of the how, he still did not open his heart up to receive my love. He got trapped in his head, instead of feeling the love he could have received in his body.

The flipside of this is also true: someone unconscious could sputter Truth, unknowingly. Because in the end, there is no such duality of 'conscious' and 'unconscious' persons. Everyone is conscious even if they are unconscious. Everything spoken is Truth, even if it is distorted. It is just a matter of recognizing it.

Because although you are God, you do not understand yourself. How could you? You are everything. How could you understand everything? You can't. Because in order to truly understand something, you have to become that thing EXACTLY. This is why God's effort to understand itself is a continual process of being and becoming. Your being is infinity. How can you work with infinity? You reflect it back to yourself through finitude, through becoming, through limitation, through you.

So this happened to me too but you just have to push through. Because this is your ego deceiving you out of doing breathwork. My mind went absolutely insane after my first 5 minutes of breathwork. It tried to convince me that I was hungry; that I should stop the session eat and then continue back afterward because the hunger will distract and take away from the session. Stupid logic and reasoning like that. It tried to convince me that I was horny. It tried to convince me that I was tired. In fact, this was my ego's last tool of defense. 10-15 minutes in, my mind and body convinced me that I was soo tired that I actually fell asleep. I fell asleep for a few minutes during the session. I woke back up after the few minutes, realized what happened, and then continued the breathing. After I broke through this last act of defense the rest of the breathing session was effortless. But it took a constant countering of the ego's deceit. Also, just fyi, I knew I couldn't possibly be tired because it was in the morning after a full night of rest and a small breakfast! Here's a tip: Each time your mind tries to tell you that you need something other than breathing, tell yourself this: I will give myself whatever I want, after the session. I will reward myself with whatever I want, but I must achieve this first. For example: I told myself, "Okay. If I do 30 minutes of breathwork then after I am done, I am going to let myself eat whatever I want." (I used this to counter my cravings/hunger during the breathing). I usually am very strict about what and how much I eat, but I told myself I would let myself have anything to reward myself for doing the 30 minutes of breathwork. But I had to do the breathwork. It turned out, after breathing, I ended up eating something super healthy and nutritious for my body.

Not really a meditation, but a good way to guide yourself through life is to ask yourself this question before every decision: What would someone who loves themself do?

Yes, that makes perfect sense and that example of a relationship was very helpful. This quote above is also very helpful. This understanding of feeling states gives me a lot of clarity on myself and my experiences. Thank you!! I feel empowered– as if I can create any kind of experience I want by 'matching' it with my feelings. I never really understood how the law of attraction worked, but now I feel like I do

We can never know if any of our communication is actually, truly, and genuinely transmitted to another person in the way we intend; in the way that we feel. We are trying to communicate felt perception in a world where people are cut off from their deepest layers of feeling– the deepest experience of what they are. How can you be sure if anything you say is consistent with what other people understand? Leo is trying to connect with people who are operating at different levels of the universe, in parallel realities. Even if something seems easily understood/transmitted, you never know the parallel reality someone may potentially be living in. This is a very depressing and very 'lonely' realization– which is why most people deceive themselves out of it. Self-deception is the barrier between communication and solidarity. Which is why Leo is bent on waking people up to their own self-deception. Is he actually 'getting through' what he is intending to? Who knows. But is he helping millions of people in his attempt? Crazy Yes. Leo's understandings are so deep, so primal, that even distorting his message will help you. Everything Leo says will help grow you, wake you up– whether you like it or not, realize it or not.

@Nos7algiK Wow, incredible. Thank you so much for sharing. This helps me a ton with my research on the topic. @lambofgod182 ooo great strategy! I found this to work with chakra clearing sounds, bells, chimes, too. Didn't realize why I was doing it though. Now I do!! thanks for sharing!

haha I agree with this. But only after I go through a music detox will music have this effect on me. It's very impressive to me that you have this awareness while also being a music fien. please let us know your results/later thoughts on this! music definitely causes ripples. I love this metaphor. thank you for sharing your experience! And great advice, scheduling days for media is very proactive and responsible. I think this is a great idea. Also, what an interesting question to ponder over. Would you want to dream your life away? Life is a dream. Seems like no matter what we do, we are dreaming. this is how I approach most things in life– music, eating, friends, even family.

Also, what do you mean by this. Your dominant emotional state?

VERY interesting! I suspect the same thing in myself. Especially after listening to Leo's video on self-deception. I feel the classic earworm– as you call it hehe– is very deceptive.

oooo good one! Okay, this is a great indicator.

I don't depend on coffee by any means, but is drinking a cup or two bad a few times a week? I don't even drink it this much normally but I have been just so I can do some work in the Starbucks lobby. How bad is coffee for spiritual growth? Is the stimulation counterintuitive toward spiritual practice?

@Matthew85 I haven't but I need to! I think that's a great idea.

I do this too but with all music– not just with one song. This is the reason why I'll go so long without listening to anything. It's really just out of fear of becoming desensitized to it, and then feel scarcity towards "good songs that I like" haha

Same!! I won't listen to music for a whileee and then when I do it's like the most beautiful experience most people probably wouldn't even recognize. But if I get stuck in it.. oh man. My mind will repeat it over and over and over again– literally like a broken machine. It's what shows me how mechanical the mind can be.

Yes, at least a few weeks. Probably more. And then as soon as I drink coffee it's like I'm inspired towards life again. But I also feel like back then I had a probelm with sugar. So maybe it was the decline in sugar as well that was making me depressed. I literally had to go to therapy.

Sex Cleopatra: "Have as much sex as you want, as often as you can, and with whoever you feel is safe. Life is short. Sex is a beautiful experience. What's so wrong? Why limit yourself? There's so much to discover. You are here to live, not to fear living" Eva: I'm living in constant terror. It doesn't matter if I want to have sex or not, you're just going to do it anyway. You're not going to listen to me, consider me. I am so deep in the dark you don't even notice me. You only recently discovered that I exist. Don't pretend like you care about me. I have never been seen, heard, felt, or experienced. It's not even about sex and whether or not I am okay with it. It's about being ostracized for not aligning with dominant wants/needs.