Gianna

this is exactly where I am at right now. is this nihilism? how do I work through this, do I even need to?

@Mu_ thank you Mu. @mandyjw This is really helpful! I do think you're right about the break causing pain closer to where the source is. I'll try out these stretches. I also found an online website that seems to have helped so far if you are interested. Here it is: diyjointpainrelief.com At least you made it to 30 before these problems, I'm 24 haha. Swimming is a great idea and I just started yoga this week. thanks for your response!

Definitely do not suppress them. Be unconditionally present with your emotions in the way you would appreciate someone else's unconditional presence. Feel them as much as you can. Welcome them. Do nothing but be present with them. Accept them. Watch out for stories, narratives, beliefs that pull you away from feeling your emotions entirely. If you get distracted by thoughts, pull yourself back and regain your unconditional presence.

this website helps with joint pain idk if it will help you with your back pain but there is a whole section on the upper, middle, and lower back pain relief techniques. hope this helps! https://www.diyjointpainrelief.com/

Great idea!!!

@Mu_ For my knee, it is a dull pain under my knee cap. It has felt the same for the entire 2 months. It feels like a sharp pain at some points, other times it's just an ache but I feel it when I walk, sit cross-legged, etc. As far as my hips, it's also a dull pain and sharp at some positions. It's extremely painful when I do a child pose when stretching. I have pain in both of my hips. Whereas, the knee is just my left.

Can you elaborate?

@Zigzag Idiot I know exactly what you mean by pain body. Ooo okay this is a good point. Eye contact with someone ruled by their pain body wouldn’t allow for connection anyway. So it may be best to avoid it in this sense all together. Interesting take! Thanks for sharing. @NoSelfSelf How funny! Okay that’s good practice. I’m going to take this on. @Eternal Unity Sure! I’m glad you relate and are sharing your experience and input.

I noticed my sister avoids all eye contact. I then notice I too, have this tendency. Sometimes more than other times, I’m not sure the distinction. It’s not that I’m lying or anything. Maybe it’s a fear of intimacy issue? Idk what do you guys think?

I love this!! How beautiful is this statement. It motivates me to start speaking with my eyes and not to be afraid of it. It’s just like any other form of communication! Also, it really helps hearing your story. Thank you greatly for sharing.

Mine is usually around family so I think it’s probably a connection thing. Ugh. So sad. Going to work on it! Thanks!

Has anybody heard or have experience with human design? I just discovered mine yesterday and wondering what it’s all about.

Has anyone in this forum tried acupuncture for emotional release/healing? If so, is it as effective as Leo's shamanic breathing? Or other holotropic breathwork exercises?

What is the difference between the concept “Everything Goes Full Circle” and the Strange Loop concept? Or, is there no difference?

Think deeper about what your mind is trying to direct you towards. What do you daydream about? Do you need more of that in your life? If so, maybe providing that for yourself will open up space for focus later on. Or, maybe you are not actually interested in the things you are telling yourself you are interested in. Try reading different types of books, different areas to learn.

I think posting this is a great first step for someone who's reluctant to help. The forum, in general, is such a good place for those stuck in this middle ground area. For me, I think a good tell-tale sign that you need outside help is when you start to question your own capabilities. After all, how much help can you give yourself if you are unsure about your own judgment? This is something I am struggling with. I really do not feel like getting outside help at all. I'd rather do it myself. But you do not know what you do not know. What I think to myself is that you'll never truly know the progress you can achieve outside of just your own help unless you test the waters. If you have nothing to contrast your progress with (by using other techniques) you'll never know. Hopefully, others will give their experiences with getting outside help to see how productive it is in comparison to self-help and our beautiful online community.

What a great story! It's looking like we are getting a lot of popular YouTuber's here joining the forum. I think that is great and I am happy you found help. Thank you for sharing! I also have experience with someone having bipolar disorder. This channel sounds like it would be a great resource.

Sometimes being unproductive is the most productive thing you can do. Allow yourself a break from your own judgment– what you should or should not do. If you are having this mentality then it is likely you will not let yourself fall 'off track' for long. Trust yourself. It is a great builder of self-esteem and self-trust.

I look back on times when my ex tried helping me with my eating disorder and it makes me feel humiliated. I hate that he was subject to it and it makes me sick to think he saw something in me that I couldn't control. Yet, at the same time, I appreciate his care for me. I know it was coming from a place of love and not judgment but I can't help but feel embarrassed when attention was on it.

What does NLP have to do with anything here? I've tried to take a course on it but I was bored out of my mind. Can someone help me to understand the significance of NLP and how it relates to self-actualization, consciousness, or enlightenment?

I was tracking really well on my spiritual journey and when I started to listen to Teal Swan I feel like it completely fucked me up. For anyone who knows her work thoroughly, what is it really about? It is a place for spiritual newbies or does her emotional healing emphasis hold weight on becoming fully enlightened? I have realized no self and oneness, but her concepts distract me from them as they pull me back into my personal history, personality, etc. But at the same time, I may have unresolved 'trauma' idk. We all have trauma, but how do we know if they are still, "running the show"?

I agree. I think God-Realization is exactly what I need.

This has been another thought in my mind! That my mind was tricking me!!! LOL! Ugh, this work is so fucking hard and confusing. You are right, the mind's nature is to solve problems, real or invented. So I have thought that this is my 'backsliding' or 'ego backlash' of my no self and oneness realization. To do more shadow work, more healing of the emotional body. But I have not realized God. And so this new direction of 'Teal Swan' and 'Emotional healing' may be what is necessary for me to become ready for God's Love.

This is beautifully said and exactly the perspective I need. Life IS testing me. I have grown enough to accumulate self-love. And because of this I have realized no self and oneness. But have I grown enough to handle God's love? To REALIZE God? I don't think so!!! Not at all. My reaction to that statement is I am not ready. This is what I need to work on. Thank you for this!

Do your chakras open in order? Because lately, I have been feeling a ton of pressure and sensation around the third eye. Yet before this, I had a tingling sensation and migraines in the crown chakra which made me feel that my crown was activating before my eye. I agree!