Joel3102

Hi guys. Anyobody here successfully stopped a porn and masturbation addiction? I first came across nofap 18 months ago and I've been trying to quit the whole time and I just keep failing. Willpower just doesn't seem to work. Anybody have any tips they would like to share?

This guy doesn't seem spiritually inclined or anything, but watch this if you want to hear an interesting anecdote of what 30 hits of LSD is like.

Hi all. I was just doing some meditation (SDS) and I began to enter in the highest state of concentration I've had. I then began to have what I believe was an enlightenment experience, it was fucking intense. Everything became extremely still, and my visual field started tripping out and it began to become like a flat surface, kinda how Leo describes it in his enlightenment experience video. It was kinda cool but I started to freak out and my hands started sweating, heart started beating fast and I had to stop. my question is, has anybody else freaked out from a samadhi state. I've been gunning for higher consciousness states like this but it's dissapointing that it seems my ego can't handle it. Is it possible to gradually adjust your comfort zone to accomodate these experiences?

I'm working on my phone addiction currently. Funnily enough you just gave me the simple idea of just turning it off.... I've also weaned off Facebook, holy fuck I used to waste a lot of time on that.

I've been working on similar issues. Just force yourself slowly to get back from as much artificial stimulation as possible. I am susceptible to addictions, social media, Youtube, porn ect have been big issues for me but I'm making huge progress through long meditations. When you abstain from these highly stimulating things for a while you can feel your brain rebalance out and your dopamine levels become more normal, which allows you to focus on more mundane shit like books. Don't give up, the brain is highly plastic.

This animation makes my visual field wavy and trippy when I look away

@cetus56 helpful response, thank you! I am anticipating more of these states as I've only been doing serious meditation pretty recently. Hopefully next time I surrender a bit easier. @Deep that's interesting, I wasn't aware of the different types of samahdis and their terms. @ajasatya Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out.

Same here, suburb?

That would be amazing. Being ADD makes it so much harder to pursue your goals and feel optimistic about yourself. I find meditation helps immensely, I've been doing an hour daily, broken up into two chunks.

The Power of Now is great, and it was a fundamental starting point for me in this journey. However, I didn't find it practical enough because specific practices make it 1000X easier to live in the now. You have to build it like a muscle. And yes it's true that you should enjoy the process rather than ONLY focussing on how present you'll be in the future. Leo's videos are like a manual for actually embodying the Power of Now.

Yeah I have the same problem, I'm prone to addictions and always bite my nails. Basically 30 minutes a day probably won't cut it. Try keep life as simple as possible, meditate more and implement mindfulness throughout the day as much as you can.

This is cool! Might use it myself. I'm currently doing 2X20-25 min sessions a day, ideally working my way up to one 60 minute session. Would anyone care to answer these questions: Meditating on a chair vs sitting crossed legged? What is better? One 60 minute session or two 30 minute sessions per day?

My whole life from a young age I've always been suspicious of the idea that dead matter arranged in a certain way can produce consciousness. It just doesn't seem possible.

See Leo's response on a thread which has a similar question to yours:

Sounds like purification to me! Detaching from the ego usually creates an unpleasant adjustment period after which comes a kind of revitalisation you mentioned.

Yeah I've had similar experiences, gone through existential terror, depression, nihilism, anxiety ect...It always passes leaving you with a higher state of consciousness. Did you find the knowing that you are immortal kind of scary??? I've spent my whole life being an atheist who took comfort in the notion that once you die that's it, I don't really want to be eternal...

Geez I didn't imagine you to be that young! I'm surprised by the level of youth in these forums Spose it's a good sign for humanity.

Do you still take a bunch of health supplements? Since your supplements video which have you stuck with, and which do you find most useful?

Keep raising your consciousness through contemplation and meditation. This should help your conversations become more authentic and less ego driven. I find its hard to instantly stamp out all low consciousness interaction such as gossiping and criticising, but just work on noticing and being aware every single time you do it.

Leo has a video on public speaking where he talks about joining a Toastmasters. Maybe that helped him out. I am joining a Toastmasters soon because I suuuuuck at talking in front of people!

Thanks for the responses! I think getting my life priorities in order will help as well as raising my awareness, as it alone is curative, will be most helpful.

The other day I had a bizzare experience in the car. I started feeling like I was awakening while I was driving after I'd been meditating a bit. I started quietly saying "oh my god....oh my god" and it just kept going and it got louder and louder until I was shouting it. It felt COMPLETELY involuntary and I started freaking myself out, but I think I got a glimpse into the abolute infinite nature of my Self. Can't really put into words or properly remember what it was I was experiencing tbh, but it felt mind blowing at the time. Experiences like you and I had are what keep us going. My deepest fear actually is ego death. It fucking terrifies me. Which is why I must seek it out.

Not very often I come across people going out their way to criticise the niche that is non-duality. Anyone care to rebut this guy?? Seems like a whole lot of straw mans to me.

I had a similar epiphany the other day. From this non-dual perspective, I am essentially everybody else. My consiousness is ultimatlty not independent of the life of Jesus, Hitler, you or the Dinasours. Everything is intamately connected and I felt this, not just intellectually grasped it.

Fearless with Jeff Bridges!! From Wikipedia: "As the plane descends, Max inexplicably becomes at peace when he accepts he is going to die. The revelation inspires him to comfort many of the fearful passengers, even moving to sit next to Byron Hummel (Daniel Cerny), a young boy flying alone. The psychological traumaof the experience transforms his personality and he enters an altered state of consciousness, rethinking his life and becoming preoccupied with the eternal meanings and the existential questions of life and death itself. Max's reaction to this awakening itself questions the reality of what is real and unreal and what his mind perceives as real through his interaction with others and the chance of living again in everyday life."