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@blacksapp yes, it's the strategy of loving yourself first - becoming comfortable with yourself. Observing the thoughts that are comparing you with others and letting them go. Giving yourself time to realise you are important and valuable just like other people. That's why you are here - to give yourself love. Religiously doing what you love and sharing it. Once you feel comfortable with yourself, and with sharing you with the world freely, you will start to feel comfortable with other people, and everything will unfold naturally.

@Claire Verlyn You need to change your focus dramatically. Get out of your comfort zone but try doing things that you really enjoy doing there religiously. Get lost in them. After getting lost, realise that you weren't aware of yourself while doing what you love. That's because you are not your body, but you are everything that you focus on. If you focus on acne or scars, you become them...

Dear all, have you experienced any changes with your hormone levels after some of your awakening experiences? Libido? Women, your periods? My hormone levels have dropped and my body is somehow in stagnation, although I feel great and I am physically healthy, my hormones are "sleeping". That's why I stopped meditating, because I've felt that I became a bit detached from my body. I am working on my grounding now, and using ashtanga yoga as a meditation tool. I know that's all very individual, but maybe somebody will have something to say Thanks!

Questioner: “How are we to treat others?” Ramana Maharshi: “There are no others.” "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God." - Sufi Proverb "Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth." - Pema Chordon "You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try accepting yourself and see what happens. " - Louise Hay "Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy." - Rumi " Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature. " - Adyashanti " Thinking is a barrier to experiencing, and there is no wisdom without experiencing. Knowledge, idea, belief, stand in the way of wisdom. " J. Krishnamurti " Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. " - Rabindranath Tagore " Let the water settle; you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being. " - Rumi " Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think and do, is for your self — and there isn’t one. " - Wei Wu Wei " A true warrior is never at war with the world. " - Trogyam Trungpa " The energies coming to Earth are so powerful now, that anything not of Love - is being pushed to the surface for healing. " - Unknown " You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is Yourself. " - Rumi " Unless you know yourself well, how can you know another? And when you know yourself, you are the other." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That BAM!

Haha, I laughed on this one, because I've been there (festival mood), and now it seems like I am another person. Sometimes you need to go to the extremes to find balance

@eskwire "The quality of our consciousness is reflected in everything we do" - so true!

@eskwire same happened with me for dandruff! I guess the scalp needs some time to adjust, but that can be a bit awkward right oh I need to try argan also! And perfumes! Everything! Well yeah, it's hard nowdays to stay 100% "clean" regarding cosmetics, or let's say aware - so that we don't go too much off topic since we are on actualized.org haha this feels like a cosmetics enlightenment topic now lol anyways, it takes a lot of time to make everything, and money too, if you want a good quality product. But I think it is really worth it. One day, I will just eat raw, do yoga, meditate and make my own products. And watch Leo's videos ofc and hopefully I won't have dandruff.

@eskwire yaaas, I suggest you try their powders and concealers, you can get testers first, they are amazing! Since I've been using flouride free toothpaste, my perioral dermatitis went away. Also, I've been using sulfate free shampoo and my hair looks great. As far as body losions, I am now using pure shea butter or almond oil. Jojoba oil is also great. Olive oil , lemon and carrots for sun tanning. Coconut oil as hair mask... Aaah But, I would like to switch to natural everything. There is one super cute and valuable handbook "make your place affordable,sustainable nesting skills" by raleigh brighs, about DIY non toxic cleaning products and body care.

@eskwire faerie organic for makeup! lifechanger!

"An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. " Erich Fromm " It is not happening to you. It is just happening. Understand this and find everlasting peace." From Conversations with Plato "Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red." Kait Rokowski "Remember: despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves. " Matt Kahn " What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain." Maya Angelou " A lot of people are afraid to say what they want … That’s why they don’t get what they want. " " The point is not to control your emotions, but instead, to not allow them to control you. " Nicholas Browne "You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." Louise L. Hay " We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. " Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

@egoeimai @Annie @pluto @Sevi Thank you all for sharing. It's so amazing how we can affect our body with the mind.

@Loreena In my experience, "fucking up each other" is really beautiful, because that's the moment when the ego can be dissolved, and only then you can experience true love. The way I see it: the relationship with the other person (boyfriend/friend/family) is our mirror. In this mirror, we can see all of our fears, that are the product of our ego. When we get "hurt by" other person and approach to that situation mindfully (not from a victim mentality), we can then realize the corelation between hurt and ego. The mirror (ego + fears) breaks and all you are left with is love. You realize that you are love. But the thing is, there are sooo many mirrors for you to break... and that's the beauty of it It's a beautiful and a lifechanging experience, so don't be afraid to get hurt because you will experience the true love that you are

@Loreena “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi In my experience, we're all love - but one can feel it only after stripping off the fear. Great example are little kids, they are so full of love, some call it "pure", because they still haven't developed the ego. As they start to get older, life happens and they block themselfes because the ego is scared AF of every next relationship.

Leo, thank you for making the decision of sharing your insights with the world for free. Thank you for your tremendous effort of creating tons of valuable content. Hopefully in this year, you will experience even more beautiful insights, keep on sharing and inspiring us. Happy birthday! "You" are love.

@Barna beautifully said. <3

@Kazman oh now I see in your last comment that you got better, great!

@Kazman it seems to me that you have perioral dermatitis, I had the same skin issue. Try washing your face with micellar or thermal water instead of regural water. (Bioderma, avene, vichy, byphase are great brands). Let the dead skin cells dry out (I know, it doesn't look so good, but your skin knows why it is doing it lol) so that the new healthy skin cells can grow. For that, I would avoid any mousturizers, thermal and micellar water will balance the ph of your skin. If you have naturally dry skin and you cannot live without a moisturizer, use a tiny drop of jojoba oil after the dead skin cells fall off. Also, switch to toothpaste without sulfate, and if you smoke, the smoke could be irritating for the dermatitis around the mouth. Regarding diet, let it be simple, vegeterian organic wholefoods, not smoothies with lots of superfoods and different spices but really just basic simple food that our bodies recognize as familiar food. Combining a lot of food in one take or eating processed, even "healthy" processed foods(especially if they are adaptogenic herbs or contain too much fruit/sugar) for peope with skin issues could lead to a problem because that can really spike our hormone levels that affect our sebaceous glants. I highly suggest that you check out macrobiotic diet. Hope this helps.

In my experience, the answer is in understanding feminine and masculine energy that both, man and women have. People with more feminine energy (mostly women), can find people who are more masculine (mostly man) hard to understand. I've found that this scenario happens because in most cultures girls and boys are raised a bit differently. Although they are different due to their hormone levels, and they could be naturally attracted to different things, I think that sometimes this typical "for girls/for boys" upbringing of kids can cause close-mindedness for grown man and women: a girl develops a mindset that is "too girly", or a boy becomes "too boyish", and that can really limit them into seeing the whole picture of themselves and the opposite sex. If the person is capable to realize that he/she has both polarities within himself/herself, and accepts that there could be lot of different combinations regarding proportions of female and male energy, then he/she can percieve every person as unique. So if everyone is unique, that means will are all the same

I've found it to be a very beautiful experience, when it happens, I feel like I can go without breath for ages, I don't feel any discomfort at all, but I start breathing again because I get confused (or maybe scared?). Has anyone experienced it before? Could it be dangerous for our health? Thank you for sharing

@Dan Arnautu This has helped me

@Morten Exactly. In my case, this type of situation often appears when I meditate after doing a yoga session (ashtanga). In case someone is not familiar with ashtanga, the most important thing in the whole practice is focusing on the breath itself ("ujjayi breath"). Especially on days when I feel really grounded and when I manage to be fully present in my body during the yoga practice, leaving my monkey mind behind. But I've experienced it also without doing yoga. @Arkandeus Love the way you put in corelation awareness and time. It's exactly how I feel when that happens, it's like my higher self feels it's in its natural habitat, but then my lower self kicks in mostly concerned about my health, but I guess that's just another concept in my head, another fear.

@ElenaO you're welcome, I am in a similar situation, just not taking pills but some herbs. It's not disgusting, it's only disgusting when you compare yourself to other women with flat bellies, but in most cases, that kind of comparison leads to this kind of health issues. It took a long time for me to REALLY accept that my body is unique, and what may work for others can actually hurt me. But our minds can get brainwashed so easily, it's so amazing, you may think you are feeling great, almost like a placebo effect, but the hormonal system is so sensitive to changes, especially in women, and can give us some unexpected results after a while. Learning more in depth about our hormonal system and woman's reproductive system has helped me a lot. Everything will be fine, just takes some time for our hormones to get back on track, they need some good loving

@ElenaO Nowadays many women (especially young girls) are confused regarding diet, because there is too much info all over the place, and people just don't know what and how to eat anymore. I've done the same thing, eating loads of fruit, raw food hype for a long period of time, feeling great (spiritually, physically, emotionally) - but on the long run, this kind of lifestyle has gotten me in some serious health issues, similar to yours. The thing is, are bodies are wired differently, we come from different lifestyles, and while one 40 year old women who is already a mother may have long term benefits from eating only bananas and apples for breakfast, a girl in her 20's who is active all of the time, wants to be a mother one day, with a lot of things going on in her life, all affecting her hormone levels - adding loads of fruit (=carbs, sugar) in her diet will only spike her insuline levels which will lead to a hormonal imbalance. We need to stop listening to others and re-program our minds to listen to our bodies insted. But of course, first we need to be aware how our bodies, or in this case - hormones are functioning in different periods of our lifes, and be aware of what nutrients they need to function properly. You cannot feel full because the fruit you eat is mostly water and sugar, that diagestes quickly, and you body horomones need calories from whole foods that won't spike your insuline to function properly. Mostly, they need vegetables, leafy greens, healthy fats and good quality protein so that you blood sugar levels don't go insane, because every time that happens, you'll start feeling hungry again. You don't have to cut off fruit from your diet, just try eating it in moderation and combining it with protein, nuts and seeds for example, because protein keeps your blood sugar normal. Also, if you are suffering from a hormonal imbalance, it is true that it would be good to eat LOW GI food in general. For example, if you want to eat fruit, eat it WHOLE, not in a smoothie, because with making a smoothie, you are processing the food and the GI of the food goes up. Also, with every meal you eat, don't forget adding some protein and healthy fats. But the most important thing is to really listen to your body, whenever you are hungry eat. You can try reversing your diet with a candida cleanse diet, it can help with getting back on track.

@username I think the most important thing after this type of experiences is finding balance, but of course, to find it you must first experience extremes. In my experience, cultivating self love and welcoming all of these feelings helps a lot. It's ok to feel hopeless, that will pass, and then you'll be great for some period of time but then some other uncomfortable emotions arise. It's never-ending, ever-changing, ever-flowing. That's the beauty of it. You are here to experience it fully. For me, balance means "surviving" and "living" every emotion while not getting stuck in them, being aware of the matrix, and being there for "yourself", giving "yourself" support with all of the things you know now.

@Whywolf yaaas! And more oranges and new Gambino songs on the way! @Loreena I agree. The first time I heard about it was through the Abraham teachings, the Law of attraction. At first, I was really into the Eckhart Tolle present moment type of thing. It was an amazing experience for sure, has led me to some major conclusions about myself, other people and life in general, but then I realized I have hard time developing any visions about myself in the future, the present moment was blocking my imagination (not literally, it was my mind/fears ofc) - so I started using the affirmations technique just to see how it feels. So I started writing affirmations in the form of visions but my game is still pretty weak, I realized I am being too modest (due to my fears probably), so I trying to get out of my own box, it's a process but since writing them, I feel SO MUCH MORE grounded and motivated in general, and I am grateful for that. Nowdays, the more books I read regarding spiritual work, the more I realize that different authors talk about the very same thing on a slightly different way, but always pointing out how beneficial affirmations can be. We'll see