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Are you sarcastic? Have you ever heard birds? Music does not make you submissive, neither takes away from your willpower. I am sorry but this is just BS. @jacknine119 if you want a genuine and nuanced answer, please ask the musicians about the value of music and what it does to you and how to navigate it. Idk how others would feel about such terrible advice.

And we arrive to the million dollar question, why people can't stay in a relationship as they would like to? Why don't they see the importance of commitment and communication, strange isn't it, while they are speedrunning to get married and procreate almost. A lot of them it seems, just to get divorced!

Why do you think it's a problem? If you do? Try listening to different types of music that don't have lyrics and appreciate the subtlety and vastness of sounds in it. The more you will listen, the more you will hear. I don't have any fantasies when I am listening to music anymore, for a long time. People listen to music for different reasons. Most primary is association with the past emotions and memories. Other could be that it really stimulates immagination. I have been told that my music made somebody very imaginative, maybe that is just your subsoncsiousness (which may or may not have a meaning) communicating and reacting to it. Just see it as it is and accept it. It will reduce it's impact. I experience bliss and piece of mind and I often try to focus on that space where music enters your cognition. I get bored sometimes and not want to listen to anything also.

This topic is very abused and commercialized. But I have two things to say: - Don't welcome, don't try to seek out people who died by suicide (they took their life because they wanted to) because these souls are fragmented and restless and are going to be for quite some time; - I also feel that you should probably avoid (living) people who do occult and cause harm to other people, just for some safety.

I feel like I have been replying too much to you Leo looking just for something to disagree with you from your replies. I am aware of this tendency and basically my criticisms is largely untenable and maybe some points do hold some water. But regardless, I feel it's pointless to argue about stuff directly with somebody about a thread where the point was just different like another guy asking some advice. Mostly I find people like you most valuable, not to put you on a pedestal, and not because that I think you are stupid.

But I would ask to you, do you know how far social and parental influence goes? I know that I and you can't catch yourself doing most of your behavior. Like the more ignorant a person is the less likely he will change and the harder for him to make efforts for change. I mean yes, good to reflect, but I don't believe you do this every time. Maybe 1% of your activity.

It's kinda ironic, but I agree with you, hahaha.

I am apologizing and reflecting on the tendency to look for something to just disagree with somebody. Leo is a figure that is just easier to spot and latch on. Who am I to disagree with somebodies approach on life and life advice, I don't know their background and at that point I am just a hater, which I don't want to be. I am not saying I agree with him also, but I have no problem with him. Just look at how horrible some of the comment sections, especially on the yellow press are. They just come there to spread hatred. I don't want to be that part of the group. Usually the advice Leo gives is pretty good, hence he has some background. Of course some peer to peer, colleague to colleague criticism is healthy, but I am not giving that to him, as I haven't and will not do the proper research on the subject. I kinda realized that I can't criticize anybody really unless I know and practice the subject.

I think he has a lot more experience than me in that realm as nobody has made an expose video on me.

There is nothing wrong with being alone. He will meet people trough music and things he is enjoying I am sure. He can seek a little bit more if he wants to but I think I get his problem. You, Leo, have different work life balance and potential of people you meet, because of what you have created. Me and Ivankiss don't have that. Work takes most of the time. But some good self development or spirituality usually happens alone and gradually.

I resonate with this and feel that solution is within hands reach, just have to keep looking.

About alternative healing, both lifestyle (ayurveda and yoga) we lack systemic infrastructure and knowledge to just eat in a certain way to make diseases go away, because we are not interested in our own health therefore our Healthcare also is the same way. Only when something terrible happens we consider going to doctor, but all these other signs the body gives every day we indeed ignore. About reiki, other kinds of healing, siddhis, all kinds of sevas and pujas, self healing tantric techniques, we also do not have infrastructure for that in society. Nobody does it. Good luck finding somebody who can do something like that to you at all. Good luck that he does something good to you without side effects and good luck that it lasts. I can't say it's impossible, that works but I don't know how your lifestyle has to be or how much time or awareness have to go into it or to meet somebody who does it. A lot of our chronic aliments are psychosomatic, which could be potentially healed by change of beliefs about life, but you we live in a world where pornography and coca cola dominates the world.

Congrats. But do you even care about your bday, do you even celebrate it.

I feel it's the ear version of eye floaters.

First, he should consult a doctor if he has an issue. Then if he tries refined sugar and he sees that it makes him feel bad (tired, inflamed, agitated, lethargic etc.) then yes, he might be taking too much of it, yes as opposed if he tried to not take refined carbs in his diet for a month and see how he feels, how much sleep he needs and maybe some data from blood work prior to that can cancel out if it's something else that is causing it other than sugar. His family doctor will tell him what to test if needed. I think ideal weight is not so universal. There are many skinny people who are considered below the mass/height ratio and they are fine. And besides, people in general eat too much for their activity in the world.

Yes, only nothing will make me happy in the end.

Yes, it does. In moderation which means more than 0 or irregular exercise. Long story short - the body is supposed to be used and will perform better if maintained and lubricated by the exercise. You can also do exercise severely incorrectly, which is what you should avoid like not doing it after a meal, doing proper stretching, breathing correctly, having correct posture in whatever you are doing, not laying down or sitting right after exercise, not taking steroids, that kind of thing.

Agree and I suggest go to your family's doctor with your concerns gets some data of your pancreas, liver, stomach or just blood work to have a reference point. Now, to get where you want to go with dietary goals, it's not gonna be easy and not gonna be fast. I found some substitutes for sugar, which is other intense flavors like licorice, diluted apple cider vinegar or home fermented kombucha, lemon water. Additioanlly some home cooked foods with spices, salads, smoothies etc. reduce the cravings. Now about the nutritional spectrum, frequency of eating, fasting and other stuff you will have to find test and implement those practices on your own. Some superfoods like neem, haritaki, turmeric and soaked nuts and honey have effect also. It is not simple thing to solve, but if you do, you are in a good place in the contemporary life we live in. You will save so much money and problems in the future. I aspire to get there, but I need to do more research. Maybe in 5 years, but it's still so fucking worth it.

I suggest talking to @Emerald

I fundamentally disagree. All of you took birth for the desire of oneness and truth in the first place. Depression is for the material desires you can't even exhaust for the most part. Even kings can't. There is some truth to what you are saying, yes, if you are constantly repressed, abused, jailed for life, crippled for life, watched your family get killed or sexually abused on a regular basis or living on the street for long periods of time or are stuck in a village for life, then it is quite challenging. But still from the other side... what does knowing and experiencing freedom will give you? How much exactly? Maybe it makes all the difference? Problem is that society offers no tools and sometimes you have to go trough literal hell to experience some insight which changes your life.

No. Same goes for any such person. I don't care what they are achieved and what state they are. Maybe it's my problem, however I do not find any worth meeting people as fucked up as it sounds somehow. I think it would be very mundane and besides, what is there really to talk about if you are sielence itself. If you will do something to me by looking to me like darshana or shaktipat, then it's worth seeing you, but trough the screen you can do that also. The most interesting people (people who do the wildest and weirdest things and commit to them for decades usually never meet, they sit in their caves and basements, but they really have something to say, these people rarely meet). And even if they do, they don't open up to each other and just pass by, Maybe because they are self sufficient enough and not social enough or both.

When it becomes an industry, it is worse. The problem is very big. Society offers little to no solution to the suicide problem, but here no "hollistic suicide (they are going to kill themselves anyway) therapy" solution works, because it's your life you are taking. Normalizing suicide is something I feel is deeply wrong existentially. What you can discover in life even if you are in a bad situation if you choose to consciously rejuvenate. Who knows how many births you took before to be in the place you are now, to be on this planet with somebody who could guide you, let alone find something that gives you liberation from birth and death. All just for this... Unacceptable. Those who found why to live can guide you for those who are suicidal. Those who found something internally will most likely will never commit it. There is an obvious reason why. But such apathy has happened in that person so that you can't reach her. To support killing people is just... horrible. If you want to die. It's your problem, learn to live. This is brutal, incomplete and fucked up, but there is no alternative. But the effort is worth it when you discover something meaningful. It is there. The magic of life is there. Just, please, don't give up on yourself. If you feel suicidal and have nothing to live for, wish for freedom, wish for enlightenment. Wish for God, wish for becoming a sage. Start accepting that maybe what is responsible for your depression is the ignorance of truth and what you have known has only survival utility value but is not what will make you happy. The paradigm we are living from (what the masses think) is bound to make you angry, suicidal, jelous, envious, fearful, powerless and hurt. These ideas usually are empty. But if there are such empty ideas the opposite has to be true for some other ideas and concepts. The journey is brutal, the Dark night of the soul is there. You will sit there with dread, loneliness, numbness and blisslessness, to then start feeling what you really are.

This thread reminds me of people like Alex Jones and Hasan Piker. They are garbage grifters.

If you want some extraordinary qualities of the body, why not learn some advanced form of Isha Hatha yoga? You will also get the internal qualities which are even more important.