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  1. Do Affirmations Really Work?

    ZenDog replied to ZenDog's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Jawor I know its powerful from all the books ive read. My mind just dosent believe it cus its so simple. Have you felt any effect from them in your perosnal experience?
  2. Im in quite the same situation. I used to have severe shyness. First 4 months of first grade I couldn't enter the classroom because I was terrified of all the new people. In middle school I was fat and ugly and got no validation. Around the age of 18 I lost alot of weight and got quite jacked and now I can deadlift 550 pounds. Girls and Guys tell me all the time how good looking I am, how buff I am, how smart I am etc.. After all this positive validation I feel almost exactly the same. I got into pickup and that helped alot with confidence with girls. It definetely helped with dealing with social rejection, because when you first start doing pickup mostly all you will get is hard rejections after rejections, and after a while you stop caring. But eventough I have become quite numb to social rejection, I still have a desperate need for social approval. Even when I get social approval, it's never enough I always need more. Im trying to find the route inner cause, I think the video I posted above might have some of the answers.
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  4. Experiencing kind of the same thing at the moment. Mindfulness meditation made all my senses crystal clear. Now the brain fog is coming back.
  5. Im confused now... First I realized that pursuing happiness in the ordinary consumer society way dosen't seem to work that well. Then I found out about spirituality. Now I do 1-2 hours of meditation a day. I see pursuing happiness trough spiritual work as a legit way to get happiness. But.. My spiritual work is still a pursuit. And every enlightened teacher says u cant pursue happiness, be happy now. Don't wait untill ur enlightened to be happy. Well.. I can say to myself: " ok. Delaying happiness untill I become more enlightened is not gonna work. So ok im gonna be happy now.". Well.. im not happy now. If I cant pursue it.. then what the fuck can I do!? Excuse me for my swearing
  6. @Cuzzo Yeah I watched that video too. I also had the problem of being "try hard spiritual". Everytime I had negative toughts I would feel guilt cus im a so called spititual person.
  7. So I guess u kinda go full circle? U start chasing only to realize it was there all along? But u still had to do the chasing to see it. Think Leo said that in a video called spiritual seeking.
  8. What do u mean by do nothing? The technique?
  9. @jjer94 Yes I know my happiness is based on circumstance. So right now im chasing happiness independent from circumstanse. I know its already happening and I just need to be aware of it. But how can I possibly become aware of it right now? Without any pursuit?
  10. So I am 20 years of age and I have finished the Life Purpose Course. In all the exrercises before the "zone of genius" exrercise there was a tendency towards a career that was somehow involved in personal development. like the 100 questions exrercise were mostly related to personal evolution and exetensial qouestions. And the speech exrercise was also related to personal development. The exrercise where you find your biggest struggle, in order to maybe get a hint of what you would like to help others with, was also related to perosnal devolpment (My greatest struggle has always been extreme shyness, and still is). But my zone of genius is not geared towards a career in personal development but a career in comedy. to the qouestion: I am at my best when im... i found the answer to be that I am at my best when im cracking jokes. I have always been "the funny guy", I even did 3 comedy short films for my school which 1500 people saw, and I got massive amounts of compliments from people at my school. At least 20-30 strangers have come up to me at random times and told me that my films were funny as hell and creative. So my confusion is.. It seems more meaningful to me to help people actualize rather than making them laugh. But I see my self as being better at making them laugh than self actualize. How can I combine a personal development impact with comedy?
  11. @Catanio Yeah i sometimes start with nothing too. Makes ur mind clearer before doing the technique
  12. I can't seem to find any good meditation retreats in Europe. I applied for the Vipassana retreat in Germany but I didnt get in. My dream is to do one with Shinzen Young but they are all located in the US. Which retreats does Leo go to? Would really appreciate any suggestions of retreats in Europe.
  13. @Toby Thank you! Gonna look into them. Have u been on those retreats?
  14. @Duco James Cool. Didnt know Jim Carrey was that spiritually developed. I have felt the same as him before, that I often help people with worry by making then laugh.
  15. So I finished the life purpose course. After the course u have 10 minutes of affirmations related to ur life purpose a day. Thing is I just watched the Stop caring what people think of you video. Leo tells u to do a 5 min affirmation a day saying "Im completely independent of the good or bad opinions of others". I am a severe people pleaser and i really need to fix it so i wanna add this affirmation. My quoestion is, is it too much to do two different kinds of affirmations a day? Will it still enter ur subconsious mind?
  16. @A way to Actualize Yeah as I progres in my meditation it might get better. Currently I do 1h of strong determination sitting a day.
  17. Thing is.. im kinda afraid of a career in comedy because there is no set path. I cant go to university for it. Im thinking of going to filmschool, since my ideal medium for comedy is film.
  18. Really appreciate all the advice guys :D!
  19. @Haris Pipinis Yeah. Ur probably right. I also know im too young and inexperienced for it. Think i will first try to master comedy while still doing my own personal development, and time will show what it turns in to.
  20. So I ive been doing 1h of mediation for around 4 months. Ive tried sometimes adding 30min extra to my session for self inquiry work. I used the "Who is aware?", "Whos precieving?" questions and tried looking. Now Leo made a new video, and as far as I understood, these qouestions arent really self inquiry. In his new video on being nothing, which questions do u ask ur self then? What am I?
  21. @Robert I did the Big Leap Process twice. Maybe I should try one more time. Thing is.. my unique talent is in the comedy domain of mastery. But I am more passionate about the domain of Perosnal Development, but I dont see myself having any unique talent in the domain. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed every second of creating the comedy material and showing it was awesome too. Im thinking maybe I am only passionate about personal development for myself, and I wouldn't enjoy "preaching" it. (sounds selfish i know).

  22. Eating Before Bed

    ZenDog replied to SaynotoKlaus's topic in Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements

    Meal timing is irrelivant all research suggests. What matters is your total caloric intake for that day. Takes hours for your body to digest food so its not like that food will immediatly enter your fat storage if you dont use it right after you eat the food. People keep making fitness and nutrition way more complicated than it actually is. The only thing that makes u fat is consuming more calories a day than you are burning a day. So if you prefer more of your calories later, it dosent matter, because those calories you ate in the evening you missed the same morning so it balances it self out. Unless! If you already eat alot during the day and you then add more food at night, then ofc u will get fatter you're adding more calories to your day.
  23. I sometimes do that too where I exhaust my mind with "do nothing" first before I do mindfullness mediation or self inquiry.
  24. @The Alchemist lol this is getting very coincidental x)!
  25. @The Alchemist Haha, I tought I was the only one in the universe considering it lol. Still have no idea how tough. I just feel bad when I see all those people around me being miserable and in low consciousness pissing their lives away. Especially when I see a hardcase shy guy and he dosen't even know his life can actually change. I would have remained like that if I didn't discover the personal development field.