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It will be only showing the agony that was already there, which is a relief unless you resist it, which is what we are learned to used to do often, but there need not be any.

Not every coming down has to be suffering. OP, understand this: "As a child you probably remember having been open emotionally, happy and free to be yourself to a high degree, this was because you were closer to the natural state which is peace/joy. You were hurt by brute people and were repeatedly taught not to express (some of) your emotions (anger, fear, sadness and passion or love). To hide these emotions from others and yourself you created masks (to appear tougher, smaller or a mixture of the two). You also created distracting (thinking) habits keep the emotions from surfacing. Your natural self had to be censored and pushed down, this created the suffering you now experience (i.e. depression, anxiety, frustration, confusion). The emotions are still trapped in the body/mind and can all be found starting at different points along the spine in chronically tight muscles that hurt when pressed upon (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uyvhPpk04s) You can heal yourself by simply being willing to be emotional again and you can specifically go into stillness, stopping the avoidance patterns and let the emotions come up naturally faster (meditation), cultivate awareness of your self through being mindful and use tools mindfully to get deeper into your body/life, like: ((de-armoring) massage, eye gazing, being with a master, talking honestly, exercise, love etc.). Eventually you open up to life/yourself completely, you let go into stillness completely and you learn to embody your true nature of pure unconditional love and then you live as a liberated authentic being."

He mentioned it. The first pose can be done also with legs more to the front and with a cushion under the but. Doing some easy 1/2min sun salutation-yoga poses before your meditations (which is really nice to do in any case) will probably have you be able to sit in that position like she does, or close to it, after a 3-12 months (?), which is more comfortable than legs to the front. And of course, sitting a chair is bilateral.

Ramana Maharshi: 'The intricate maze of philosophy of the various schools is said to clarify matters and to reveal the Truth, but in fact it creates confusion where none need exist. To understand anything there must be the Self. The Self is obvious, so why not remain as the Self? What need to explain the non-self? And of himself he adds: I was indeed fortunate that I never took to it (i.e. philosophy). Had I taken to it I would probably be nowhere; but my inherent tendencies led me directly to inquire ‘Who am I?’ How fortunate!'

If you belief it's impossible then you won't really try and then it will seem impossible. Ignorant + arrogant spiritual teachers are the worst. Enlightenment simply is admitting to and untying all the deep emotional knots so you can be fully let go, realize the Self and be in love. You can't be here now fully, be authentic self fully and be free as long as you have suppressed unconscious emotions (in the body). But most people don't want to admit to their deep pains and they get stuck in an idea of entrapment because they think they are beyond crying like a little boy/girl because the emotions were beat out of them and all their lives they have learned to feel fake/'strong' about themselves.

I don't see a difference, every time dissolving/expansion happens, fears/emotions come up. Edit: Well, before I did used to dismiss them and did not progress so much, so having an open attitude is important.

Thinking you'll find it outside your body, trying to skip over suppressed emotions. A common trap because the foundation of the negative ego structure was created at a young ego specifically to act as if one is beyond the sensitive emotional self.

Based on the fact Leo recently said this? I could only find this case: In December 2004, we received an unconfirmed report of a death related to the ingestion of 200 mg of 5-MeO-DMT with some amount of "yage"' So it's rather unbased it seems, again..

That's how an emotionally closed system feels like, the true self is suppressed and you have no real self to express. Learn to get in touch with your emotions (/your body).

God is ever present but it's easier visible through certain conduits. See what it does when you connect with the gaze of Ramana Maharshi, generally considered the most realized saint of our time who lived a truly extraordinarily life in every way and who made popular the self-inquiry technique. See what happens what you look into his eyes. Can you keep at it, can you see the love? Does it make you uncomfortable? I often have both and it's easy to bring me to tears this way, peace.

Everything's amazing dude. Just gotta learn to be in life again (meaning healing the contractions you took up as a child).

Masks because the forgetting of the true nature (looking for love outside) + emotional suppression causes authenticity, 'being crazy' can be authentic (being psychic/different) or inauthentic (paranoid/delusional ego)

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I am so excited I found this technique. As many of you probably know fears/suppressed emotions come from negative conditioning/experiences (that form the foundation for the negative ego), and they are all stored within your body. I knew muscle stretching and massage could help you face them and release them sometimes (which is almost never focused on in massages ), as can happen in healing sessions sometimes, and during darshan ((eye contact) transmission from an awakened human). But this technique completely nails getting deep emotions out properly consistently, it's quite simple and can be done with anyone that's somewhat open, sensitive and not stupid. The technique: -Scan the back for tense points, most people should have plenty, the muscles along the spine are usually targeted by this practitioner, but it can be done on any muscle (just be careful when pressing down hard on the front of the body in some areas or sensitive rotational areas,), but just using the back seems to be enough. -Push/massage the muscles over the bone rather harshly, obviously talk with the partner as to what is right/endurable. The one lying down does their best to stay with the sensation and the emotion related to it, by feeling it and by taking deep breathes. - Comfort the person by laying your loving hand on the used area.. Go with your feelings/institution. That's it. Optional is doing inner child therapy as described as shown in the videos. Try at your own risk (though there shouldn't be any).

See my website. Also I find more and more than it's indeed closer to the or in the heart and not in the head as some masters have claimed, perhaps it can be made clear by just putting your hands around your heart.

The savior has returned! In the form of a powder! And he ain't fking around. Really interesting stuff, only tried 11 mg vaped or so, a little overwhelming at first, didn't get rid of emotional issues, I was more in mental overdrive and trying to deal with the intensity and doing self-inquiry, and shifting back and forth between, fear, emotional investigation and self inq and trying to think what would be the 'best thing to do' (I know, not helpful). It puts you nice and deep together with yourself, leading to easy insight, but it will also shake you up quite roughly. Can't say much else about it, except that from a deeper consciousness POV this world is a pure magic gift, all of it. I have a lot more work to do. And 5-MeO still won't do it for me, you have to bring you a-game and your best amount of honesty (which you cultivate with your practice) to get the results (though probably it's a little 'easier' at higher levels to see emotional release). - I feel like this stuff is way way more relevant for humans than all the other stuff out there for self-inquiry/healing. It's really pointing you towards the beingness without the dancy fuss that I think only tends to confuse the (western) human minds more, very unpractical, but this leaves not too much room for mind speculation (though it doesn't turn that off either, at least not in my dose). - But huge potential, just huge. Also, does holding it in for longer than a few seconds absorb (a lot) more of the substance?

Wonderful dude, yeah, sounds like it triggered something. - Yesterday I had a session with my cousin and had it done with myself. I found it being interesting how despite it being painful, there's also something oddly pleasant about it, I think it's because it just feels good to get in touch with your body and the emotional feeling related to it (even if the emotional sense is baaarely there), and of course someone else seeing it without being judgmental about it. Also some other benefits: - I felt quite physically awake afterwards. - I really felt quite more grounded afterwards, like after having had a really good workout. - I felt more confident in the body (because of the grounding sense), but also I think because some fears were triggered in the body and the body-mind knows it's still fine. And I got some insight into my psyche/body as for some fears down in the body, and that they couldn't get out because I have a block on making sounds, (but I couldn't really make sounds there to release it), but insightful! - I notice talking to someone and acknowledging their pain is quite important to have it be effective emotionally when I do it. But of course that depends on the person giving it and receiving it. I'm pretty good at feeling what they have and then comforting and acknowledging it, but also being stern about it to them so they have to acknowledge it, so I could be saying something like: 'Holding it all that pain.. Having to constantly preform and prove yourself, as a little child even, for all those years.. And no one there who could look at it and help you with it..' And pressing it at the same time they hear it, ye, that's powerful.

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Remember that you are pure feeling/awareness, don't cling to anything else, just be. Given you are used to not being that, be sweet to yourself if your mind still doesn't act as you'd like to. Be ready to admit that despite your maturity, there's probably a little scared/sad kid within you, allow his feelings, allow that vulnerability. That's it, and try to be alone if you can. Oh yeah and go for 2 grams minimum.

That's just plain untrue, it's just you teaching yourself and plenty of people do have a good time with mushrooms on festivals. I wouldn't recommend it though, because for most people there's the potential you trigger deep fears/sadness/anger and these places, how developed the general consciousness might be, is still really superficial in general I think compared to deep emotional work. But you still can't properly ball your eyes out or scream at the top of lungs of pain at these places if you want to, and that's kind of a waste and might leave you in a more troubled ego state for some time.

It's also a really cool way to diagnose to someone that they have suppressed emotions and that they are stored in the body. I tried it on my bit of a macho, but nice, roommate that I don't know that well yet yesterday, he's very emotionally suppressed/in denial and not into spirituality but recently got interested into healing because of panic attacks/depression. Sometime ago he didn't belief emotions could be stuck in the body ('it's all in the head beliefs') but yesterday we got talking about this technique, and he was willing to try it, but he didn't think there would be anything. ^ ^ The session: Quickly we were able to many tight spots and spots that were relaxed. He initially didn't get emotional release after the first 15 min of pressing tight spots on the lower back, logical if you are not used to being emotional or acknowledging the mind/emotions/body at all, but some of the spots in the lower back did trigger some heat and nausea and fear (he gets nausea's during a panic attack). Which wasn't comfortable but he said it was a little bit freeing to feel it. (This confirms the lower back being (more of) a fear line). Then we went to the heart area, a gold mine of tightness, probably for many men (holding back love/sadness). I could press 1/6th of the pressure I used on the lower back (on which I used quite a lot of pressure), and it would get the same reaction. I asked what the first thing was that came to mind: ''..", he was probably surprised/confused, this imagination/emotion thing was related, I asked again, 'my ex'. I figured he hadn't worked out the loss, and that there was sadness there. We continued the pressing, I asked about how he was raised and how they taught him about crying, in combination with his memories, my compassionate talk of acknowledging the hurt and the frustration of not being allowed to cry; the wrongness of that; acknowledging the stupidity of the parents, we got some emotion out! - Summary: So, with people who are not used to being emotionally open, just pressing the muscles is often probably not enough. Talking to them by acknowledging the pain in the most emphatic engaging sweet way you can and acknowledging the wrongness of their upbringing/situations, engaging them into using their memories and feelings, while continuously massaging the hurt spots (in bursts), which forces them to acknowledge their pain that they know you can also see, is probably one of the best and most unknown therapy methods out there. Edit: The comforting relaxed loving hand on the hard massaged parts in appropriate moments is quite important too I think. And it's also a very tangible way to show people that ALL THEIR MISERY is not based in reality, but caused by their hurt inner child. That all their (existential) fears, their sadness, anger etc. Are not based in ultimate reality/true nature, but have their basis in negative imprints, showing individuals how accessible and real liberation is! And the fact that is shows people how much emotional suppression they have can be a good wake up call in and of itself as well.

I know Shinzen talks about it, but I really don't see how or why you want to label sensory experiences. Because they are always present? At least for me..perhaps if you have a more focused consciousness it could be useful, but it seems weird to me, I mean, you won't find unconscious baggage or delusion in sensory experiences.. - But I find labeling inner experiences very useful: 'talk', 'image', and 'concept' (for thoughts that don't present themselves as sound). As for 'feel', I try to have my awareness on that as much as possible, as therein lies the gateway to the Self, and the most direct access to suppressed emotions.

You already know you're not these things, it happens instantly, what's there to find? You continue to focus on the sense, the feeling, of I am.

It's suppressed emotions surfacing, feel it/the body. And the above is good advice.