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Yep, they also make great emotional support animals. My therapist has a really cute dog!

My sister has. It helped her when she was going through a mental breakdown during the beginning of the pandemic (she’s was a night shift nurse at the time and fairly new to the job).

Which one if you don’t mind sharing?

Avoidance or escape is a short-term solution to fear and suffering. (in other words, we learn that when we’re exposed to our fear it creates suffering; thus we must avoid or escape it. This works in the short-term. The suffering goes away… until the fear comes back. Then you must repeat the cycle over again, keeping you stuck.) Fear -> Suffering -> Avoid/escape -> Short-term relief Repeat By staying in this cycle, you never learn to fully face your fears. Instead: face your fear, suffer mindfully, cut out the safety behaviors (e.g. avoid/escape), and learn that you can handle it. (this is something you need to practice over and over again; doing it once ain’t gonna do it).

Being high 24/7 is not the way to go. Take it from Kevin Smirh:

Can’t speak for Leo on that, but I’m glad that I’m not the only one dealing with burnout here (albeit, in a different context). There’s a term called “autistic burnout” that I believe I struggle with, given that I have autism. https://psychcentral.com/autism/autistic-burnout#signs

Sounds to me like a vivid dream out of an infinite amount of dreams that GOD can dream. And I’ve had that dream several times before. Interestingly, it can be terrifying or beautiful, yet it’s the same experience. Strange, huh?

All spiritual teachers are in your Mind. Ziiiiing!

Mini Motorways is pretty fun

Thank you. The research on psychedelics and substances (like cannabis) for mental health conditions is criminally scarce. Despite that, I ain’t gonna wait for science to catch, but at the same time I’m not going to be reckless about how I use them

I can assure you that even if they could take them, they wouldn’t. I have many family members who are really dogmatic and think that drugs come from the devil. Besides alcohol. Apparently alcohol is ok for some reason, maybe because they also drink it at church.

This is valid. I have several mental health conditions and I only take substances legally. This is a limitation, yes, but I do have access to potent ass substances. I just choose to use them responsibly and not rush into anything impulsively. I respect the hell of out substances and treat them like loaded guns.

@r0ckyreed What would you do if you had these bois living on top of your dishwasher?

Yes, but not enough about Peter Pan

I am also somewhat confused Ta-ca!

Basically what he’s saying is to stop offloading Consciousness onto something outside of Yourself. Whatever method brings you closer to Truth, use it, but don’t claim that something outside of YOU is responsible for direct experience. Also, spoiler alert: He is You

I was about to order some Popeyes, but reading that apology unexpectedly really shifted something in me. I’ve been going through a similar path these past few months, but especially in the past few weeks. Reconnecting with my father has been one of the biggest highlights of my entire life as a human being. It’s crazy how everything going on here is interconnected. I hope @Moksha is able to read it as well. https://www.actualized.org/insights/my-apology-01

Same here. My parents picked me up after my 70mg IV ketamine bazooka experience, and I did exactly that. They were scared as shit, whereas I was loving every fiber of it all I love my parents for being open-minded enough to let me do ketamine, despite them coming from a conservative and dogmatic background. *done under a medical setting*

70 mg ketamine IV does it for me *done under a medical setting*

@Buck Edwards nice, I’ll do that guided meditation before going to sleep tonight and see what happens

Never been there. But I remember seeing a video of Linkin Park playing their newest song at the time “Heavy” in 2017. It’s clearly a pop tune, and they had the balls to play it anyway.

Understanding deeply why you bitch and moan is your golden opportunity to change your behavior.

What is lucid meditation? First time I’m hearing about it