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This quote struck me in lester levensons book happiness is free. About just how much happiness can be attained from enlightenment. "I would not stop until I could see the end of the line of this happiness I was getting. I would go higher and higher and higher and say "oh my gosh, there can be nothing higher than this!" But I would go higher than I would say "Oh but surely there can't be anything higher than this" and go higher still. I would than say "but surely this is the limit of happiness" and go higher still until I realised there was no limit to happiness!"

@Lorcan Im in high school too, I just do enough to get by in school and spend the majority my education effort into teaching myself from self help books at home. Just enjoy the time at school with little responsibilities as a young adult. Try set our focus to a life purpose rather than good grades.

There's no shortage of information on how meditation can impact you in the short term eg reduced anxiety better performance. But there seems to be no information on after three or more years how your life may change. Leo says meditation is the most important self improvement habit you can have, and that it radically changes your life. But in what way? Has anyone who has been sticking with it long enough to have amazing results able to share what meditation has done for them?

You can't always be immune to all negative emotions but you can achieve a state where as soon as a negative emotion comes up you let it go within around ten seconds of having it. So pretty much yeah you can, you'll just have to consciously release it.

@herghly one thing that helped me was not worrying about what I can do as a job but worrying about what the most enjoyable times of my life where. Eg I traced t back to a time I was in a school playground and was yelling, which meant I loved speaking with emotion which than gave me a clue to jobs eg speaking with passion like public speaking acting making YouTube videos where I speak passionately ect.

I've been using the Sedona method which has been just ridiculous. It's a simple method where all you do is sit and ask yourself questions about an issue to release the emotions. Here are the results I've gotten from it. 1: used to have severe anxiety at talking to girls, now I have literally none and I did this without having to actually talk to them, I overcame my fear just using the method. 2: I was procrastinating on my life purpose and now find myself effortlessly moving towards it. 3: Activities that I once used to hate can now be fun, eg I'm in high school so things like maths assignments or essays beig due used to be painful and something I'd procrastinate. I'm gonna state that again because it's huge. Activities that were once painful after using the method can now be effortless. Imagine what this could be for your life, maybe you want to start a business but hate drawing up a business plan, just release on drawing up the plan and it can be effortless. 4: I can overcome any addiction (although I've just started focusing on releasing on it) so far I've overcome my addiction to the internet and playing video games. 5: I am way less detached from needing approval. I used to be shy and now using this I found I talk louder, make jokes more and am embarrassed way less easily. Sometimes it surprises me how I act as I'll spontaneously do something confident. 6: Huge increase in self esteem. Although I did read Nathaniel Brandon's book so that may be contributing to this as well. 7: Huge increase in my general happiness. Whenever I am in a bad state I can release on the emotions and either feel happy or be detached from how I feel so that I feel peace as it no longer maters how I feel. A fun little benefit is now whenever I start laughing I have the option of whether or not to enter uncontrollable laughter, if something makes me laugh I feel as though I could keep laughing for as long as I want, it's like a ccoice of whether I'll stop or not depending on what's appropriate. It's ridiculous that more people haven't heard of this, if you just use the method and no other personal development your life could be amazing. All these benefits came just from focusing on releasing my fear of talking to girls, I haven't even stared releasing around things like money or success. A couple points though. 1; It takes a while to really start seeing results from it, the 80/15/5 tile still applies, 80% of people won't get results from this because they are too lazy to actually apply it. I did the audio course twice over four months and only really started seeing huge results after two months. 2: You may have to deal with traumas from your past coming up as you do the method. Eg I had an incident of being bullied come up which I had forgotten about, if it does come up though you can just use the Sedona method on it. 3: You won't be able to start releasing and see results today, if still takes a while to get benefit from it. The reason is because st first you'll want to suppress emotions because it's what we're trained to do as we grow up. You can get all you need to do the method from this book. https://www.amazon.com/Sedona-Method-Happiness-Emotional-Well-Being/dp/0971933413 You can find a free PDF of it online if you don't want to pay. They also have audio courses but they are not essential all though they are awesome. You can also get free coaching on the method by asking questions on their forum regardless of whether or not you paid money for any of their products. http://community.sedona.com/forum.php

@Loreena sure, when I was very young I had a prominent forehead. In class someone called me mega mind which obviously being a child made me feel bad. This caused a few self esteem issues, I released on wanting to feel safe and wanting approval and found the issue still persisted. It turned out there was a hidden reason it bothered me which was wanting to be one, I felt like since I looked different at least back then I wanted to fit in to merge, and I had convinced myself that having this facial feature made me distant from others. So I let go of my need to be one which took a few releases. You need to find the want behind bullying and release it. Normaly it will be wanting approval or security or wanting to change something, but in my case the reason it persisted after releasing these wants is because of the hidden want for oneness.

@Loreena I use something they teach called the goals process. So 1: Id we're down my goal. Eg one was "I allow myself to effortlessly find and embody my life purpose" 2: id think of the first thought that came up. Eg 'I'm too lazy to follow through. 3: I'd recognise the want which was in this case wanting to be controlled. 4: I'd ask the three releasing questions could I let this want go? Would I want to let it go? And when would I let it go? 5: I'd either keep going on that thought until the want is gone than I'd read the goal again and move onto the next thought. And repeat until I feel like ill be happy no matter what happens as all thoughts about the goal have been released. I do this process in the mornings and switch up the goal depending on what I want to create.

@Loreena what do you mean? How I applied it or what parts of the course I used?

I'm wondering how much personal development can create for you. In Leo's newest video he said its become ridiculous how good his life is and its snowballing. What does this mean? How much happiness can be possible after decades of this?

I recognise a little bit how enlightenment can end suffering. No matter what I achieve in life there's still always a desire for more. But when I think of meditating for thousands of hours it's like 'fuck me why would I do this?' What should I do if my motivation for enlightenment isn't strong enough to make me do all the practice. Should I just keep meditating and hope something hits me?

@Wilm the not implementing thing worked for me by simply noticing it firstly. Since you're already noticing it, it will probably autocorrect over time. Even if you just read self help books and still never applied anything directly the mindset shifts over one would still be life changing so that it was beneficial. But your changes can be huge if you commit to sapping all the info you can and actually applying it. Although I'm still not 100% applying everything the majority of products I get amazing results from. For me solving the issue of nlt applying came down to finding whatever issue I cared most about. Eg I used to read think and grow rich and never got around to applying the ideas because I was in high school and a bigger issue was my nervousness around girls. So I used books on emotions. The point being I read whatever was most relevant to me at the time, which made it easy to apply because j wanted the result more. Whereas with think and grow rich money wasn't a high priority at that point in my life. Also the Sedona method has great techniques on how to stop procrastination. so 1: Notice that you're doing it (which you already are!) as long as you keep noticing that you're nt applying eventually something will crack, every time you find yourself not applying results have the intention of fixing this. 2: Try applying stuff that's most relevant to your life right now. That you're most excited about. When you have information staring you in the face on how to solve your current greatest problem in your life it's so easy to apply it!

I had the same problem. The reason is (at least for me) i was stuck was. 1: I realised once you discover your life purpose you have to actually follow through. 2: I was scared of discovering my purpose because it came tied to images of what I must face on my way to it. 3: In general resistance to finding my purpose. the good news is you can completely solve this. You need to find the reason and let go of the emotion. Don't worry about letting go of the problem let go of the emotion, the problem eill solve itself. to let go of the emotion you have a couple of options. 1: the Sedona method. 2: the work by Byron Katie. bth have books for about ten bucks on them that can completely change your life:

@Venus it changed my relationship to myself. I just love myself more. I also did some work using the Sedona method to release blocks which I reccomend doing. I now believe I can achieve nearly anything I want to, and I've noticed I now think I'm way more awesome. Seeing this written down about someone else may sound underwhelming but when you actually feel this shift it's life changing. Feeling better about yourself literally changes your whole life. Probably the the most useful practice in the book is living consciously, when I first started doing it it scared me, because I realised that all the things I wanted to achieve weren't happening in my current path, and I was hiding things from myself. But very quickly it stops being scary and quickly you become used to applying the teachings in the book. The best thing about this book is it's like an upward spiral. Eg if you apply the teachings of being responsible you feel good about your life, which leads you to be more responsibls which leads you to feel good and so on. The problem is most people are caught in a similar loop but to the negative, hiding/avoiding things from themselves and feeling worse so hiding more things etc.

Hot shit yes! I literally feel like a different person after doing it. Just bear on mind it will be difficult so use the only changing in 5% eg 5% more authenticity is better than a giant leap and scaring yourself.

If you don't have a purpose just make your goal 'find my purpose'. Even if you just spend five minutes a day contemplating you'll defiantly find it after a year of that.

Buddhism teaches in reincarnation if you die before enlightenment, this scares the shit out of me, does this mean I can be reborn in a country with wars going on and be tortured endlessly or be born as an animal that is brutally killed by another. How do you reconcile these negative images.

There are specific books and courses on this I reccomend reading the book but this is a tldr of the method. 1: Write down your issue. 2: Write down the first thought that comes up. 3: Recognise which of the four wants it is. Approval (or dissaproval): wanting people to like you e.g wanting to be seen as cool or funny or good looking. Security: wanting to be safe e.g when doing something scary like public speaking feel an urge to protect yourself from embarrassment, Control: Wantjng to change how something's is or secure a certain outcome eg. Ferling uncertain about what you want to do for a job, want to be controlled have someone tell you what to do. Separation/oneness: Tricky to feel but it's either wanting to be really special and different (separation) eg wanting to be remembered like Shakespeare or Obama as significant. Or wanting to be one which is wanting to merge with others to not be seperate. 4: Ask the three releasing questions. Could I stop wanting this? Would I? When? IMPORTANT TO ANSWER HONESTLY IF YOU ANSWER HONESTLY EVEN IF YOU SAY NO THE PROBLEM WILL START TO DISSAPEAR AFTER FIVE MINUTES For example i show three lines of releasing around a problem u had which was Social anxiety. The problem. nervousness around people. First thought that comes up I get nervous around people I do t know well. Want behind it Want control Three questions answered HONESTLY. Could I let it go? No it feel like I want control to much. Would I? If I could yes because it would help me release the problem. When? I would let go now. Than the next thought. Scared I'll embarrass myself around people. Want approval. Could I let it go? Yes, I don't have to want approval I'm not gonna die if I don't get it. Would I? Well I'd rather not care what others think so yes. When? I'd want to let go now. And you just continue until you release. If ts not working just have your next thought be 'this isn't working' which normally means you want control. keep practicing this and you can release any negative emotion.

Hi, I have a situation that's causing me a lot of uncertainty I'd love some advice from anyone. Im in my final year of high school. Through the life purpose course what kept coming up is acting, the times in my life I've enjoyed the most I've been doing this. The problem is the advice from nearly everyone around me seems to be do not do this. I know everyone has fears, but it genuinely feels like if I follow my passion and pursue acting I could be in serious trouble. It's one of the hardest careers to finance takes a minimum of 9 years to be successful and that's working minimum wage jobs and long nights to finance it I've never had to be independent before so to have to go straight to hussling etc seems overwhelming. I'm scared I'll chase this than completely fuck up my chance at a solid job by chasing a passion and not being able to support myself financially, than wasting all this time while everyone around me gets university degrees for stable jobs. There seems to be no answer anywhere for this people just say 'follow your passion', how do I do this while not messing things up?

Hi, I started doing morning rituals. I still can't believe how powerful this can be, my happiness used to be a 6/10 daily, after doing this it's now around a 9.5 on average, because I literally have no choice but to feel amazing every morning. Something about emotions is that we don't have to wish they arrive we can make them come to us. Even if I wake up feeling tired and apathetic, after this hour long ritual I feel as good as I've ever felt. I use this morning ritual every day to make me feel amazing in the mornings which carries through my whole day. So far just doing this has had such a huge impact on my happiness, I've read over ten books from Leo's book list, if I had the choice between only learning this ritual or those books I would chose this ritual it's insanely powerful. I encourage everyone to try it just once. I wake up at 7:00 am and from than until 8:00 I do this ritual in 20 minute chunks. 20 mins grattitude. I put on a song and think of things I am grateful for, I don't just think it I feel it, feel the tremendous love and appreciation for what I have. Our brains are designed to always look for new things to want, this literally changes your perspective, I have no choice but to be happy doing this. 20 mins laughter. For this I use visualisation and imagine I'm in a room full of people laughing, eventually I start laughing in real life, I spend twenty minutes just laughing at nothing, which already elevates the state I felt from the grattitude. 20 mins comfidence. For this one I imagine a time I felt unstoppable, for me this is after doing a speech I was afraid to do in school, after this I start moving my body in real life how I am in my visualisations, which amplifies the feelings of confidence I feel. I may say things in real life like "I am fucking unstoppable" under my breath. At first for the first five minutes of grattitude it feels like it won't work or may feel cheesy, but than my mood drastically changes. You can do whatever emotions you want in the ritual, maybe you want to feel passionate or want to visualise something like the joy you felt waking up on Christmas morning when you were a child, instead of laughter. I highly reccomend doing this, I still can't believe how powerful this is, literally the happiest times of my life, states that I was in maybe once a month last year only around specific situations Like when I was with friends, or in a really good mood, are now what I feel every morning during this hour now because I can change my emotions whenever I want from doing this.

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@mathieu an entire book just on that https://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/dp/0061438294 Also these books are amazing I really enjoyed them. https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Command-Inspire-Energize-Everyone-ebook/dp/B00MX95J48 https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnetism/dp/1591845947 Alao so if you're working on helping empathising with people I recommend taking robins madanes training. It's expensive but they have some free videos if you enter your email that you won't have to pay for.

@Inglorious try this.

I've got some great books about maintaining relations like the way of the superior man but what about how to first spark attraction? Would love to hear some reccomendations if anyone's read any.