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@Lorcan Take a walk in the park with your ego and breathe. You're fucking 15. Changing the world is most often a grandiose fantasy. Something more concrete would be working on a given aspect e.g. revolutionizing a field of study by creating a perfect ISO standard, something which would be concrete, doable and still require great work. A new world system ? You may produce some great ideas towards that but it requires a very holistic point of view and a lot of experts. Get your own life purpose and other things down. Also, your life does not start at 15. You have not lived 15 years really. You've mostly only been doing nothing. Honestly, you're not old at all, maybe comapred to your 5 year old cousin, but still, before 20 years it's the tutorial sequence. Most of your time is taken/was taken by school, needless activities, etc. I mean seriously, what have you lived between 0 and 10 years old ? After 20 if you setup your life right you can in only one year, more "life" than in those 20 before. If you want a great piece of advice : start doing yoga daily and after 5 years you will have amazing results. It's also a great sport to keep you healthy. Starting some long term investement in a discipline like that is a great foundation in life. But twenty five 10 years of yoga will be so powerful you're gonna be amazed at how good your life is. This works with any long term investement activity.

I'm not facing the issue she's facing but that's a very deep clever way to put on confusion. I totaly second this.

Sorry but that's simply untrue. I've talked to countless yoga teacher and consulted a lot of ressources and you cannot damage your brain. You can fuck up your mind a bit if you're going too fast but you can't die nor damage your brain.

@Voyager Learn the asana's and practice a lot of yoga before starting bandhas. By itself they dont' do much, but if you do bandhas during asana's with the right pranayama it can get amazing. It takes a lot of training of course

Yeah Your mate Tom did this with psyched substance and Iboga sent him into a deep spiritual crisis. Something you most likely wanna avoid.

+ She will have to undo the conditionning which made her choose this partner in the first place. @spicy_pickles You have to read Toxic parents by Susan Forward and leaving home by David Celani. Those will change your life.

@Erlend K @Shiva I'm not trying to achieve some meaning I'm trying to deconstruct the expectations of an END GOAL and a higher meaning somewhere out there. And all those meanings society put into my brain and I'm heavily controlled by. @Meretagh Fair enough. I guess that's the only way to do it

I've watched Leo's video about meaning recently and also read about it in the Peter Ralston's books : the fact that everything is meaningless. I do realize it's a mechanism of self-survival and meaning/value is assigned according to that but on a practical level it doesn't stick. My mind is needing some sort of meaning, some sort of higher purpose, some sort of the ultimate goal of the universe to give me a direction, something amazing to be found out there, some big fantasy, like you know when you look at the stars and you're amazed by the whole universe and you really wanna do something very amazing with your life ? I have already constructed a briliant life purpose I'm following each day and that's going on great BUT the fact that my mind is still looking for that big thing to be found somewhere out there in the world is annoying. The best moments of my life were litteraly the moment where I had achieved something and I realized " this is all meaningless" and a lot of pressure and stress instantly went away and it was really blissfull. I wanna make it stick. But my mind is still overly wanting some sort of achieving the highest meaning. I've got brainwashed by the culture believing love can be the highest meaning and I spent some time pursuing that with some dissapointment and I still feel controlled by the different meanings/agendas my mind is sometimes making. Any advice appreciated.

@texter Way too much sugar ! Also as Moreira stated some vitamins are lost. Always eat fresh fruits.

I've recently watched a video of your dear @Emerald and I noticed that I do have myself misogynistic feelings and beliefs along the lines of : - women have all the sexual power - women tend to become feminazi who all want to enslave men - women do not care about your personality but only about your sexual reproductive value and nothing else Obviously there is a lot of projected hatred on my part and a lot of hurt and I'm wondering how do I deal with this in a healthy manner. So let's say I notice that I hate a certain type of people, that I have hate in my shadow, that I dislike people who are too lucky, bourgeois, or w/e. Once I notice this, how do I go about solving it ? Any advice appreciated.

@Mondsee I use a form of Trataka where I stare into a single given point and clear the mind of all images trying to be extremely focused and present. Also it's a Strong determination sitting as I do not move, and if I have some cleansing to do I do not even blink And when focusing becomes easy or too difficult I may just stare blindly and it's a form of do nothing. Honestly the SdS is the main compotent and Trataka is just so nice for concentration. I've been doing 30 minutes for more than a year every single day ( I've done one hour sits but those are not sustainable as I have quite a chaotic schedule). It's actually quite easy because you get used to it after a while and it can get very amazing if you have a yoga practice, then after 10 minutes or so you will plunge into a state of focused and relaxed attention/ inner peace. ( Focus being relaxed means that you drain less energy while focusing because it becomes effortless to some extent => you are wayyy more effective during your daily life).

I'd advise you stop switching techniques so much and also start with 20 minutes and once you can do it daily without fail, then up it till 30 minutes and then maybe an hour. Being consistent wins over length every time.

@Emerald Huge thank you. Like I love you so much for what you're giving out to the world ! I'll work slowly on the issue as everyone advised.

what ? I'm not improving the world at all I'm talking about my beliefs and my shadow which I wish to improve @youngshinzen any concrete example ?

How do you expect yourself to remain relatable after so much more growth ? I mean people cannot progress as fast as you do and there is becoming more and more of a gap between you and the "public". I can feel that especially after the "understand everything" video.

@TJ Reeves I can second that. Basicaly if you are publishing your work randomly on forums only means you're not taking it seriously enough. If you've ever been to a wannabe writters forum you'll know what I'm talking about. Find some trusted people to proof read you and give you feedback instead of posting anywhere on the internet. People stealing your ideas happens even faster than the plague.

@Joseph Maynor Nah. You're not gonna get excited about emotional labour. The vision is nice and all but it only serves you by not allowing you to quit. There is some satisfaction in progress and once you see you've made an impact it for sure will get exciting but before that well it's just investment, bleeding and suffering. For the right cause. You're not gonna be excited about hard honest work until you complete a full loop after which you get a deep satisfaction and meaningful reward. It's like making bread. You need to do a LOT, labour the freaking fields, wait for 9 months, etc. until you can finally put it in your mouth and feed yourself. Expect no excitement and treat it as a luxury.

Peter Ralston would disagree. I have no direct experience of this but he mentions a distinction between the two of them. Also that may just be superficial linguistic stuff.

I noticed that I feel like complete garbage at morning while I have enough sleep (arround 8 hours) and a very healthy diet. Later on in the day I start to get some motivation and inspiration back but then it's too close to the evening and it's time to sleep again. I usually feel quite shitty when I wake up in the morning and I can't quite grasp why. Any morning routine advice to really feel ON and ready to start the day ?

@SFRL Yeah we should totaly make a support group for ego backslash. I feel like a lot of pressure comes from all the amazing work Leo's doing and imagining he does like 14 hours of very efficient work per day And of course even if you're intermediate you fucking can't compare yourself to that.

@SFRL I do not stay in my bed after waking up. I drink yerba mate and it usually makes me feel way better. I had a very shitty morning recently because I was putting wayy too much pressure on myself with the whole self-actualization work and it felt very miserable. I became some sort of neurotic upgrade working robot.

I went trough it but it was honesly disappointing as there is so much stuff it's hardly usable.

@ajasatya Yeah. I'll try.

@alyra I have no problems getting up at all. The deal is I feel very shitty after. I get up, I eat, but I'm not inspired nor motivated. That comes back later, after 1 or 2 hours. Sometimes more. And then I'm very excited about my goals at the END of the day when I have to go back to bed. It's very annoying.

I'll try cold water but this... If I feel shitty I don't wanna willpower my way trough all the time I want it to come naturally.