Nahm

Take five minutes, five times a day just for you, to... - Relax. Breathe. Recognize the fact that you don’t know what anyone else is thinking. This is freedom from some overthinking, which equals more relaxation, clarity, concentration and focus. Embrace the truth that there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, just humans with preferences and opinions, none more or less valuable than yours. All parallel. All bs. Recognize any inner monologue of ‘rights & wrongs’, and judgment of yourself and or others, and recognize you want to feel better, and you want everyone else to feel great too. Just ‘in your inner world’, wish yourself well, and anyone & everyone else too. It’s powerful, and foundational to the change you desire. Understand that when you believe you do know what people think, it is a signal to you, that you are orienting away from feeling, and the mind is weaving a narrative to justify it. (“It’s because of what someone else is thinking”, “it’s because I might lose the erection”, etc). You can’t fall for the mind’s story. It will weave them forever. You might say, it believes it is protecting you, protecting you from getting hurt. It’s absolutely innocent, so no ‘beating up on yourself’. (That’d just be more narrative). If you’re thirsty, you go to the fridge. If you want to feel better, you go to feeling. Think in simple terms like that about feeling. Recognize that what you want is to feel better in such situations. ‘Go to’ feeling, rediscover feeling - without narratives. After reflecting on those perspectives, take a deep belly breath, let any tension go letting your entire body relax viscerally, deeply, feel the relaxation. Let. Go. Completely. Weightlessness. To the bones relaxation. As if there were ten bodies within each other within you, and they all just let go completely for the first time ever, and feeling abounds as a result. Keep relaxing, even more deeply, and remain aware of: breathing, feeling, seeing, hearing. Pick one or two of those the first couple of days, then work you’re way to maintaining a relaxed body and awareness of all four. Then all four as one whole. Then feeling, body, breathing, seeing, hearing, all as one inseparable seamless whole. Slowing the reaction down like this, you’ll see much more of what’s going on. After a while, there won’t be the reaction. It will be clearly seen at a point, that the fear was of fear (a ‘thought loop’). - “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”. JFK The misinterpretation of fear is that it is a feeling. It is not, it is of the mind. Of interpretation. When you take that time, that five minutes for yourself, be mindful that you are taking time for yourself. Feel good about caring about how you feel. I think after just a few days you’ll feel more relaxed, and your vantage point, or, self understanding will change and some insights and releases will arise. Writing about how you feel now, as in, while you’re writing, is powerful. It helps in remaining present, and aware of feeling... and understanding arises. I would set five reminders on your phone / calendar, and commit to the five minutes five times a day. If there is resistance, or reluctance, remind yourself it’s only five minutes. It will be worth it. Also be mindful it is a proactive approach, and that it is cumulative. Each five minutes adds up, a momentum builds. Believe in second chances for yourself. And third chances. And fourth chances even. Actually, just notice when you beat up on yourself, and do those steps (above). This way, if this happens again, even if you ‘blow it’...five minutes later, in the divine grace of inner peace and clarity, it will occur to you to just laugh at your silly self, and have some great sex. And make a dreamboard.

Closed mindedness, an un-emptied cup / no ‘space’ realized ‘between’ awareness & thoughts prior to the trips. Improper foundation, diet, and or mental & emotional relationship with the body, and where one is ‘at’ in their life, and or lack of self-understanding. Unresolved relationships and or trauma(s), and unrecognized personal desire (in the ego hijacking sense) for the experience & ‘benefits’, as compared to genuinely wanting to know the truth at any cost. Mind ‘always wins’, because reality is made of mind. (Truth is actual reality, ‘consciousness’, so to speak, as compared to the “reality” it’s appearing as.)

@Brivido Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

@Frenk Have you seen this movie? Recommendation wise, it’s a very mixed bag, but I think there could be benefit to watching it.

@WonderSeeker As in....convincing is kind of a lost cause, but pointing out foundational assumption (nicely) might be met with curiosity, inquiry & inspection.

Wishing you all the best. ??

That supports the backward paradigm you’ve got going. That of high states of awareness & the separate self who can reach it. That movement of mind is a story that there is an ‘it’ which is not already you. It keeps ‘you’ climbing a mountain so to speak. It perpetuates beliefs such as you’re lacking, have shortcomings, aren’t good enough already, via false comparison. It seems a comparison was made, in believing the thought that there was, but there wasn’t. It’s a seemingly repetitive veil. It keeps the suffering ‘alive’ until ‘you’ get so disgusted with it, that a new recognition arises, of letting go, surrendering, no longer playing the game of mountain climber, the “orderer”. “Judgement day” is not a day you’ll be judged, but the day you surrender such judgement, of yourSelf. There is already not a separate self. Just thought attachment to a narrative of ‘me’ (monkey mind). That is what is let go. ‘You’ didn’t experience ‘it’. That’s self-recontextualization. This is heaven.

*Prior to. Appearing as. Never born.

Meditation’s wonderful. Letting the story go is even better. Insight arises in the empty cup, reality becomes the story.

When the activity of mind is brought to rest, there is an eternal deafening silence heard by no one. Until, there is still the “me”, the activity of nothing, the game, the “illusion” of yourself. Consciousness veils itself being mind, but infinite can never know finite.

@SamueLSD Agreed. A most brilliant work of art. The nature of consciousness in deed.

Habitual reaction veils naturally inspired action. When the reaction is noticed, go straight to no-possible-reaction...consciously breathing. In with the good shit, out with the bullshit. If that doesn’t ‘work’, this will...apply three times daily, release any ‘side effects’, with the conscious breathing. Enough sleep. Clean diet. Daily morning meditation. Dreamboard. Let thoughts come & go. Feeling journal. Life you dream of, effortlessly. Nothing is hidden. The mind begs to differ. For the love of God stop naming the source of you anxiety.

You believe you know that other people are thinking. You’re holding bogus beliefs about yourself too, and using people to compensate for this, rather than letting the beliefs go. This is an inspirational drain on other people. Write about what you want to create & experience, let judging yourself & others go. Go to the tree of life. It’s all in you. Bring it out. Allow it.

There are words like mystical experience, synchronicity, homeostasis, etc which seem to

The feeling is about the thoughts / self image of you. The feeling is of you. The thoughts are not actually about a you. That’s why they feel off. Self referential narratives filter creativity experientially, but not actually (confusion). The confusion is being unconsciously created.

@Elham Congrats! ??

@Red-White-Light Try a dreamboard. Filling it with wanted can help snap us out of lulls of unwanted.

The confusion could be from the lens of separation (others, egos, people, souls, etc) or, that suffering is consciously chosen. Essentially the idea one must suffer to grow, or expand being carried over existentially. Think of ‘getting to’ the very peak of Maslow’s pyramid. Imagine literally standing on it & seeing for yourself there’s nothing above the pyramid. Infinite emptiness. No ‘you’, no ‘others’, no ‘success’, just the pyramid and not even. There wasn’t ‘a life’, or ‘suffering’, or anything, just a narrative that played along. From that vantage point it’d be clear the only perspective(s) is (are) toward the rest of the pyramid. Otherwise, you could help from ‘below’, and you might get a foot in the face every once & a while. You could help from above, but someone must reach up to take your hand. When nothing’s happening there are not feet & faces.

@CultivateLove ?? What dreams may come. ? Godspeed. One of the lifestyle changes to come from utilizing the board, is the clarity of ‘I’m engaged in x activity right now, or not’. The realization there is never a call for ‘thinking about it’, is delightful. In this sense, meditation pairs perfectly. Goodbye hamster wheels! Where’d they even go?! ...Meditation!!

@Red-White-Light Do you want a relationship?

@Jo96 ?? @Alet Ok. Hope you figure it out soon.

All of the above is God.

Let go.

@Value Both. They’re already one in the same. Subtract self referential thinking from the mix. Go on some excursions. Self discover. Write a song about it. Love to hear it.