Yimpa

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  1. If your friends are bullying you, then your best bet is to have an exit strategy and be open to making new friends. People that bully you are simply not worth your time, and giving them your attention will only make it worse. By doing this, they will eventually leave you alone and find someone else to abuse.
  2. Be careful about being too overly cautious on matters like this. Next thing you’ll know, you’ll find an article that mentions how heavy metals are found in your food. What are you going to do then, test everything you eat? https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/heavy-metals-in-food A quote from the article that should be considered:
  3. Yep. Here’s a great example of taking “food addiction” to the extreme.
  4. Leo actually made a blog post about this recently: https://www.actualized.org/insights/is-esp-scientifically-real
  5. Is a magician being pure in intention, or are they being deceptive?
  6. @StarStruck this documentary offers some insight
  7. Based on the example you gave, it sounds like the fighting is actually a cycle. The relationship is predicated on this cycle repeating itself. Wash, rinse, repeat. The dam is bound to burst any day now. That’ll lead to a serious reevaluation of the relationship - and it certainly won’t be easy to clean up.
  8. I wonder if there are any health benefits to eating that thing
  9. Yet depending on one’s upbringing, sexual cravings and desires can become distorted. For example, consider how a religious person relates to sex compared to an atheist who’s much more liberal about it. I was personally born into a Roman Catholic conservative upbringing which severely limited my ability to understand and express my LGBT/queer identity. I also have BDD (body dysmorphic disorder), which I’m also currently addressing. I believe the BDD also stems from bullying at a very young age about my body. I was frequently judged about being too skinny while simultaneously suppressing my curiosity of exploring a more feminine side of myself. Consequently, I’ve used PMO in a neurotic way, primarily as an escape. It was way to cope with not being able to express my authentic self and desires, because I was trained to believe that it was wrong. Decades of doing this will clearly have ramifications on one’s sexual identity and behaviors, their relationship with intimate partners, and how they view sex in the grand scheme of things. Now that I’m addressing these issues seriously and breaking down old ideas I had of myself, I’m only starting to learn how to relate to these aspects in a healthier and authentic way. So jerking off and sex is not a problem in and of itself. It can be a problem when unconsciously used as an escape from serious emotional and psychological traumas.
  10. Paradoxically, there is also Source outside of you. Oh yeah!!
  11. Humans are absolutely a reflection of Love from a higher point of view. Even without uttering a single word, the deepest human connections can form. In the name of Homo sapian, please be open to experiencing Human Love.
  12. Good idea. That’s also great advice for dealing with intuitive thoughts as well.
  13. You can probably PM a moderator to help you. In any case, thanks for stopping by! Wishing you the best on your journey, wherever it leads is yours to own.
  14. Love is allowing yourself to be fully YOU. Everything is also a self-reflection of YOU!
  15. Perhaps we should look into a method that is more… courageous. What a time to be alive.
  16. Work on addressing your own issues first. Just because you’re not homeless, have a debilitating disease, live in a repressive government, etc. doesn’t mean that you don’t have your own issues that need to be addressed. By addressing your own needs first and foremost, you may find that you’re better equipped to help others in the long-term, for example, by leveraging your own unique skills and wisdom that you’ve privately honed for years. Also, be careful of seeing suffering merely as wrong or bad. Actually, some degree of suffering is necessary and beneficial. You getting in the way from a place of ignorance can actually stall that process and make the suffering worse. Like thinking that putting out a grease fire with water is the answer.
  17. If you’re doing PMO excessively due to insecurities you have about yourself that you’ve been avoiding, then that’s something you need to start addressing honestly. Lol
  18. Haha, yep. I felt that way when I was taking strong amounts of cannabis before. Now that I’ve reduced it significantly, I’ve been facing many of the harsh truths of mundane reality. This may sound like a regression. However, you actually begin to appreciate humanity more and are more inspired to integrate the individual and collective experience. The difference is you now go about it in a more introspective and raw sort of way. By raw, I mean unpleasant. You start facing many of the fears you’ve been avoiding your whole life. Of course, you’ll want to downright deny or reject it, as was done countless times before. But eventually you surrender more to it - that’s when the healing can truly take shape. Those painful lessons make you stronger as you become more honest and holistic about your experience. Being human is not a mistake! GOD can be human! Who the Buddha would stop GOD? The mistake is a human thinking it’s not GOD.
  19. The concept of “me” and time is extremely useful if you want to get to work on time and/or start a business.