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@Olaf Thank you for this great message. I think that as a response to the question: I'd say: share my own meditations with original music and soundscapes, and do meditation retreats around the country and the world. This is the thing that comes in my mind right now, but I wouldn't really know if that's what I want. I am attracted to the idea of being a life coach, in general I want to help people, but still do some kind of work that can help me grow spiritually and personally.

I’m a classical guitarist, I just ended my master’s degree and some years ago I also became a certified meditation teacher. A year ago or so I started with a project called “The Centered Musician”, which focuses on sharing awareness tools to musicians to deal with various fears, performance anxiety, stress, negative thoughts, difficult emotions, and so on. I thought that it can be very good to unite my two expertises and create something that doesn’t exist yet in the classical music world. I decided that I’d share my work on Instagram through reels, I built a website and a product, which is a 6-week journey where I call the clients 1h per week: each week has a specific topic regarding various musician’s difficulties, and how to work with them. They also get daily prerecorded exercises like meditations and other general awareness tools to apply in their music practices or daily life. It’s very structured and of good quality (in my opinion and also based on what clients said). Of course I didn’t start immediately creating the journey out of the blue, but it was a long process of research and free work I did with musicians. When the first version of the journey was complete I gave it for free to some people, and kept refining it, and now I’d say that it is of good value and quality. I did another round of giving it for free, while still trying to grow my follower count on Instagram. Now after a year of doing this, I can say that I’m not sure if I should continue with musicians… it’s been some time now that I’m kind of tired of the music world, it’s very close minded in so many aspects, and people truly believe that the solution to any problem is just to “practice more”. And ok top of that, musicians are broke. That’s just a fact. My objective is to make 1m € before I turn 30 (I’m 25); I know it’s ambitious, but even if it takes longer than that, it’ll be worth it. I feel that I won’t be able to make it through musicians, and also I don’t like Instagram as a platform. I thought that I could create a conscious space in it, but then I became like a zombie, looking for more and more views, followers, numbers… and for all that, I did low quality content, 3second reels, with explanations in the caption, with no original content, everything basically made with ai. I fell in the typical kind of thing I dislike. Now I’m considering starting from zero with something else, but I don’t know if it’s the right choice. I’ll explain the general idea and then I’ll also say why I doubt if I should change or not. First of all, I’ll continue growing personally and professionally: I’ll conclude the Craniosacral courses within the next 4-5 years, and I’ll also probably become a life coach. All this to learn more, and also to have more qualifications. But on the business side, I was thinking about starting a YouTube channel, (and document the process on Instagram, just to keep that going). In the YouTube channel I want to do 2 things: create meditations for a general audience, so non musicians, that feature binaural beats, noises and sounds, and music I create with guitar, handpan, and ocarina. This will make my work original, but also it will be a great way to continue and cultivate creativity. The second kind of videos will be simply my teachings, insights, and my point of view on life, spirituality, etc. I want to record myself in nature, but also in a closed space, when I’ll finally live alone and not with my family. I am not sure if I should do this change, because then I’ll be like many of those people who simply change business after some time because they’re not patient and it’s not working. I can see it as a transition, but I mean, it is an actually change imo. It’s not about “the kind of person I’ll look like by changing business”, but more about the behavioural implications: in a year I don’t want to find myself changing business again, cause it’s not working, or for any other reason… I want to change because musicians are broke and close minded, and a more general audience is easier to access, but it’s not a specific niche such as musicians who struggle with x,y,z… I know that everything I’ve done is not for nothing, I’ve learned and connected with my values and priorities, I created a good product that helped people, and that’s a good win. But still, I feel like I’m very behind, like I’ll give up or not achieve my goal of becoming a millionaire. All this because Italy, where I live, is a terrible place where to start a business, and I can’t move out because of a difficult family situation and I want to take care of my dad and mom. I do want to connect with the simple fact of helping people, I really don’t care about money, but I know that making million/s is the best way to give life back to my parents who’s lives are ruined because of an accident. Thank you for reading, I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how you would approach this situation❤️

@Joshe thank you that’s a nice advice!

@OBEler no I haven’t earned anything yet, I just ended my studies and also with family situation it was difficult to dedicate a lot of time in it. Why isn’t it realistic? Many people made it

@Human Mint quality things require more time right? I can spam ai slop every hour but it’s not possible to do excellent things at the same rate

@Human Mint for sure that’s true. At the same time, I see many business experts saying that at the beginning volume can be better than quality, so I don’t know what to think honestly. Maybe I could focus on producing less but better things.

@aurum I don’t think I listed many projects, in my mind I have two, and they are basically about the same thing, but focused on different audiences. Maybe I explained too much all the details of each thing.

@Leo Gura I get what you say. But what I mean is not about if the word itself is perfect or not, it’s about the meaning people assign to it. So even if you say that the word is perfect, somebody listening to your teachings can get triggered by the meaning that society gives to the word god

If I would be a god realised guru, I would probably not use the word god to talk about it. But I mean, I say all this but what do I know

@Leo Gura I think osho was pointing at the same thing that you do when speaking about god, but he negates its existence, he wants to eliminate that word, because it’s very easy to get confused with the typical gods people refer to. I had no god realisation, but I do resonate and somehow connect with what you Leo say about god. But at the same time when I hear that word I still get triggered, cause there’s a lot of social conditioning around it, so maybe osho’s attempt was to not label it like that.

Eventually it’s not going to be a Brocken, you have to feel more comfortable. But also keep in mind that in general penetration is not the most important thing for women, so don’t put too much pressure over yourself.

Hahaha also with the hyphens - 😱

I’ve seen two brands, and each sells different types of truffles. Now, there’s a brand that to me seemed less potent in general, independently of the type of the truffle. The other one that I think is called freshbox is the one that I prefer, there many types and I always had good trips

I can say with confidence that Leo has had the greatest impact in my life compared to any other teacher. Of course experience is the ultimate teacher, but the more I go through life, ther more I can see the truth in leo's words. Thank you for everything, really @Leo Gura

@Basman Hey! I live in the Netherlands and here you can buy then in any smartshop. I've tried almost every type from most brands, and I can tell you that each type has different effects especially dosage-wise. Some of them are more calm with 15g, other on 12g can be super strong. Obviously it also depends on how much or what you ate before. For instance my last deep trip was 10g of Orange Mystery Mix, the strongest trip ever. Probably cause that week I was fasting, but still. you can read it here. Honestly, even if I tried them many times, I still don't know how to actually work with psychedelics. I just lie down with some nice classical or instrumental music and see where it takes me, and in general I have good insights. Nothing mind-blowing, but still good stuff I'd say.

Interesting video about how tech companies scam you every day. I don't follow these two guys, but the video popped up and it seems very coherent with what Leo once said. The closer you look at what humans do, the more corruption you see. Everything is a scam!

Would definitely attend if you do it in Europe!

Hahahah

I don’t mean to brag or be disrespectful, just sharing. but the last insight about names and surnames you shared @Leo Gura, is something that I learned in elementary (primary?) school in Italy. it made me surprised that people don’t know about that. many people have surnames based also on a specific job that their ancestors had. I’m a guitarist and I’m now playing a piece from a composer named Craeywanger, in Dutch that name means crow hunter. There are thousands of names based on different jobs

@Someone here I would not tell this to someone who is grieving. You don’t know if they are into this concepts and it can really affect how they feel, they might feel attacked or insulted, even though it’s not such a bad thing. I’m a lot into spirituality and talk about these things all the time, but when my dad and brother nearly died, and was in a coma for a month, I didn’t talk that way. It’s a shock. What people need in these situations is just presence, in my opinion. @bazera I’m sorry to hear that you also had this experience. How did you feel back then? What did you need at that moment? When my father’s accident happened I needed silence, somebody’s presence and compassion, not words. I would advice you to act like that, listen to everything she says, not trying to over explain things, just be understanding and compassionate, give her affection. Just hug her, make her feel loved❤️

In what way would you say that you are less provocative? I don’t meant to criticise or judge, but in the interview with demostifiysci I saw that sometimes they asked a question and you laughed, or had some kind of superior/arrogant way of replying, and that seemed provocative. I’ve been following you for a long time, I really see you as my teacher, and I have to say that I love everything you’ve done, and how much you’ve helped me indirectly. But I didn't like that way of acting in the interview, I thought you would not communicate like that.

I see what you’re feeling. The more I go into spiritual practices the more I feel that way. It scares me, even though I am kind of attracted or drawn to it. I understood that maybe I’m not ready for all that, I still have to burn my karma before going deeper.

Lol

@Romer02 is it helping? Or would you like more guidance on other aspects?

You can look for a tiktok coach