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Experience the complaints, bitches, and moans as they arise - and witness them, without reacting. Give the emotional scale a try instead. What emotion is this I’m experiencing? Then express that emotion (instead of the gripes) and ‘reach for a better thought’ all the way up the scale. Make a dreamboard. It’s a big board of your ‘why’. It’s everything you desire for this life right there to see. The more you realize it all can be so, the less you’re inherently interested in complaining, bitching and moaning. If it’s challenging to come up with what you do want, write a list on paper of everything you know you don’t want, then take a break, and come back to the list and write the opposite next to each line. It’ll reveal all kinds of stuff and inspire. Then write all that stuff on the board, along with anything & everything that arises in thought, which you’d like to experience ‘in the physical’. Let go of control, trust absolutely in the universe. Make everyday Christmas. Actually, it already is, just allow it to be so. @Thought Art Thank you for putting this big smile on this face my man. SOOOO wonderful to hear how you’re doing! ??

For sure. Literally find out what you’re made of. Realize / actualize spirit. Might realize the best version of yourself, and the actuality of potential, are really This, or, now, not in some future or after you ‘fix’ anything. (Running in general, not sure about 30 days of marathons in a row, but Godspeed!)

@BenG Like, if it’s for creating a baby, and not a means of egoic pleasure, there’s no pro choice vs prolife conversation at all. Another way to say it is notice the animals we’re eating aren’t ‘having sex’ or ‘fucking’, they simply procreate.

One of the greatest challenges in the world is that the ego will never be able to grasp procreation.

All married men know of this feature son. We don’t talk about fight club.

@Matt23 I totally agree with @OneHandClap . Of course like everything it depends on how we look at it, but as I see it you’re in a no lose situation with two solid examples here. I tried three different prescriptions and had the opposite experience. Less clarity, more lethargy etc. But, it ‘worked’ because then I had explored options and the direct experience of that led to big changes in diet, fitness, practices, what I focused on, etc. Try anything and everything you feel drawn to in regard to well being. The more variety (direct experience) the better imo. With therapy, meditation, yoga, healing modalities of all kinds there really is thinking about it, and direct experience. And the change happens with the direct experience. All of it is just more and more and more sweet alignment. Can’t lose imo.

Through meditation it was realized The Truth was plain and couldn’t be more simple, and the conditioning was unthinkably & unbelievably radical. As in, more thoughts and beliefs (conditioning) couldn’t have helped in the same way one does not put out a fire with more fire, or get out of quicksand using quicksand. It was also realized that if each one did this, there could be neither crazy people nor fear.

@Javfly33 Does this often leave you experiencing emotions like disappointment and overwhelment?

@Sunmaster14 Why do you have nipples?

Like the term “self help” or “self improvement”, “emotional mastery” is a helpful billboard type term, to find what you’re looking for, but then let the term / concept go, as it’s precisely the opposite ‘direction’ to go. Just like true control is realized in the surrender of the thought facade of control, the surrender of ‘the separate self’ - the one who is separate from and desires to master emotion - results in emotional mastery. Perfect emotional experience, just, for no one. Start with understanding the emotional scale, and specifically notice… ‘emotional mastery, how I feel, highly focused never distracted, unproductive, positive, happy, sad, negative emotions & one’s emotions’…. are not emotions (reference the scale). Awareness of and letting go of self referential thoughts is paramount, as one can never understand and create emotion when one is believing one is two. Imagine something like attempting to repair an automotive engine, but with the majority of arising thoughts being about two engines. Imagine how confusing that would be. Imagine the clarity, effectiveness, and efficiency of the alignment of what is actual, and the thoughts. Then imagine that multiplied by everything in your life. Relationships, work, interests, plans, dreams, etc. Inevitably there aren’t “emotions” anymore per se, just communion.

Well that’s certainly one narrative.

Ever experience boredom too, even though you have the energy, the desire, the wants? Do you ever end up overwhelmed… frustrated, impatient?

Sorry bout that.

Everything is not an illusion, or at least ideally not for long. The “improvement” is the eradication of what is illusory, the “separate self”, which “lives’ only in thoughts. If there are any now worries, spot & drop the double you and you’ll see this. (Feel this) Well sure while we’re at it let’s all take a piss on the second rule too.

Non-fight club where everybody talks about fight club.

I hear that. ??

Ask. They’re like snowflakes. Bonus; asking is already foreplay.

Amen.

@OneHandClap Killing me softly. ?

? Got my tombstone verbiage now, thank you.

The value lies in that if there is a mind game it’s always yours. There are not, we are not, ‘part of the mind game’. The ‘mind game’ is that there are people, psychedelics, brains, causation and mind games, while really all there is is love.

A vision of realization isn’t a realization, it’s a vision. A finite thought. Realization is not yours. Realization is not based on fear. Love isn’t an emotion. If you’re experiencing life related emotions or concerns, it’s important to address them as such maturely & appropriately. Gotta work that stuff out. I mean, ‘give it to God’ yes, but don’t trick yourself so to speak by bypassing / projecting emotions you’re experiencing onto a vision as if it were realization. Don’t short change yourself like that or you’ll end up with a very discordant discouraging bigger picture perspective that you’ll only need to let go of. Sadness has a substrate of sorrow and sorrow’s substrate is unconditional love. But if ya let the ego hijack away with ‘sad & pointless’ it results in existential rumination and suppressing the love and keepin the sad. Must. Let. Go. ? Must see the audacity and absurdity of this notion, in this place of endless things to create, do and experience. There’s no moping bench in Disneyland. More fun, more love, more letting discordant thoughts go. Your usage of ‘illusion’ is a cover up of emotions you’re experiencing. Don’t look for others to join a pity party, let that party go, and be part of this actual celebration.

? All the trinkets of beliefs added to the death belief. For one to make it through this life so to speak, never having seen through all of it, death and our collective entourage of fairytales about it, is really to never have lived at all. Don’t make me resort to hieroglyphics.

3x4 double sided on wheels with color markers. But more importantly take note there isn’t one. Then when there is one, notice now there is one.

@Gregory1 Great writing, great report, great example. Thanks for sharing!