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we drop roles when we drop beliefs. all the role is, is a belief u added some where in your past about 'what you are'

i think you're rockin on the self awareness path. maybe start handing out a lot of compliments for a while. make it some research. notice peoples reactions and notice it reveals their beliefs. dig?

Do you create your reality?

Make up a symbol for you. Draw it on paper. Contemplate that it represents you - where you are, what you've been through, where you know you're going. Make it a symbol of the most important things to you. When you're done making it, really look at it and give it all the importance that you can. Say to yourself - this symbol represents me, it is me. If someone disses this symbol,they are dissing me. Then, walk outside and light the paper on fire, and let go.

@Nazar Thank you. Happy to share anything I can. I opened an insurance agency. Then reinvested the proceeds into rental houses. Did some small investments (mutual funds, etc) but the majority comes from the first 2. I had a lot of jobs before this, and one day I realized something and then changed my entire direction. While working in retail one day, a woman said to me (in reference to me going into management) - She said "It's all just people". Don't think about the products, the stores, the operations - only see the people. This made me realize everything was about my personal development. I could 'grow' myself in any business, with any products, with any service. So I picked the one that has residual income, insurance. I absolutely love it. I employ a manager (she's the best in the whole world ) My time with my business is all spent on my PD, and my teams PD. They find their PD with me, with each other, and in their interactions with our clients. Joy comes first at our agency. It's organic, infectious, and it trickles down customers. I don't know if this last comment will reach you or not, but, because we talk about PD, we rarely talk about insurance. There is a multitude of problems and hurdles that don't exist at our office, because they are symptomatic of a lack of people doing PD.

It is your perception that defines it. Choose your preference. There is no wrong or right.

Great video / post! All is perception. Mysticism becomes science, then becomes perception.

@OhHiMark thank you. The 'pressure' is cognitive dissonance in a way. The pressure you're feeling is the experience of new information (the compliment) meeting your belief, and your brain kind of saying "this shit don't fit together, here's a bad emotion to let you know something ain't right". So the path to liberation is, what is the belief you hold?

Thank you once more to everyone here. I love you. There is a speed and efficiency in gaining humility through talking in this forum that is a great gift I am enjoying. I learn so much from what everyone has to say, both about them and about myself. I learn the most when I look back on something I said and realize I was a duechebag in how I said it. So thanks for putting up with that. I wise woman I know uses a tag line.... getting better at it....getting better at it. She is very wise indeed.

I've read a lot about CEO's and what true leadership really is. What I find is, almost anyone can work hard. Lots of people can manage schedules, tasks and other people's schedules and tasks. Very few people can maintain their vision without slipping into thinking from someone else's perspective. Know that you know what you know, specifically when you see that someone you're talking to doesn't know what you know. They will sense they want to know what you know. They will follow you.

Drugs are the answer when someone is holding beliefs that they would be happier if they let go of. Drugs pause the 'itch' of the deeper knowing that they could be calm without drugs, if they pursued a little PD. Drugs pause the 'roles'. Psycadelic drugs, of course, can be used to dissolve these beliefs, but it sounds like what you're talking about ('normal people") is pot, beer, etc.

Your awareness to the 'pressure' and posting this topic to me are signs of huge progress! Many people are simply hung over today and not doing anything at all in the PD category, which is cyclical to the reason they drank so much last night. But you, you are not doing that. You are doing this. Next time someone pays you a compliment, think off that, and say "thank you". You deserve the compliments.

@Loreena 3 minutes ago, Loreena said: One - U2 imagine dragons - Radioactive River of Dreams – Billy Joel Where the Streets Have No Name – U2 disarray - lifehouse wind - cat stevens Great list! Thanks. Some of those have been right there in front of me my entire life and I didn't even notice! THANK YOU!

Awesome! Thank you!!!

Awesome post. I'm excited for you. IMO: Meditation will serve you best if you let go of everything that arises. When you notice these sensations, images behind the eye lids, etc, just keep returning your focus to your breathing, letting those things go. This is how you go deeper and deeper.

So, life does not follow death?

@Jakob Eiring Consider spending time letting go of your concerns and focusing on the vision you want. I am a CEO of a large corporation, and my experience is nothing like what you express you are concerned about happening. Try to see through the illusion that your worry is accurate in describing reality. It's not, unless you stay focused on what you worry about. Everything will be like you think it will be. The question that matters is how do you think it will be?

Stop thinking about what other people are thinking. Allow them their thoughts. You have your own thoughts. Focus on your thoughts.

I have suggestion, but it may sound like I'm not saying anything substantial because imo it's the one of the most elusive and powerful things there are in PD. Notice when your thoughts switch from your thoughts, to your thoughts from a perspective of someone else's thoughts. Practice staying in what you think, and you may open up a new world.

Have you already looked into cleansing your pineal gland? Also, try listening to feel good music (whatever music that is for you) first, and then vision.

I think I can relate. It is like the more beliefs somebody has, the easier they are to understand (their emotions etc) and they become a little predictable and repetitive? I would bet you don't hold many beliefs. That's why you can see more of the truth.

Intelligence is the fabric of the universe, and you. Seek connection.

@Orange sorry to hear of your current state. Sounds rough. Use a duster. I can't be forced to do something I don't want to do. So what is the difference between us?

We're all born into some conjecture but damn!

I had long hair, past my shoulders. I became a student of Buddhism. I did shave my head. That was 20 years ago. Never went back. There is a profound realization in it. Do it, that's the only way to realize it.