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@Elisabeth if you are very emotionally unstable and decide to do it, be ready to face the consequences. You may have tons of emotions and stuck energy pushing to come out even after the workshop. If it’s the first time doing it, I recommend not doing it alone. You can take a more progressive and gradual approach and do other techniques to begin working with the basic energy of your body such as yoga, bioenergetics , yin and yang energetics, dynamic meditations, trauma release exercise, etc. I think this is way better than trying to do short sessions on your own. Once you are able to feel the more subtle energy of your body and so you can experience directly how much blocked you are, then you can go do holotropic breathwork knowing what consequences it can bring for you. In my process of healing I realized how important it is to work also on the physical body while addressing deeper energetic blockages. Potentially holotropic breathwork can even lead to kundalini awakening or full awakening if you enter some particular state of consciousness, especially if you have a good meditation routine already established. I can tell you from my own personal experience that if by any chance you awaken kundalini and you have serious emotional problems , you will go through hell in the months after awakening and you will pray that you took a more gradual approach. I wish I knew these things I am telling you now before I began my spiritual journey.

Why has the path to the good life to be so counterintuitive and emotionally difficult ?

@lmfao you can meditate if you want to. If the sensations in your body are too painful for you to focus on, you can choose other healthy things to do. I have been addicted to internet and porn and video games, lately only to porn.i have meditated a lot in the last year and now what is working mostly for me now to deal with this addiction are physical exercises to release repressed emotions . You have the urge to watch porn and check the internet because being in reality is too painful because there is too much stuck emotional energy in your body. meditation is only one of the ways you can start facing the repressed emotional pain. Other techniques you can try are : bioenergetics yoga Trauma release exercise (TRE) osho dynamic meditation osho kundalini meditation And more powerful ones : ( don’t do them alone) Holotropic breathwork Rebirthing breathwork But don’t stop meditating ! Meditation is a great basis, what I posted here is for give you some greater help like I was given when I posted on this forum not many months ago.

@SFRL I condiser myself to be highly sensitive. I had this ability since I was a small kid and due to the highly disfunctional family I grew up in, I repressed a lot of emotions and developed serious neuroses and suffered a lot. I am 21 now and I’m in the process of healing myself . During my youth I always had a great sensibility but I used my ability to see inside others mostly against my own well being. I think that when I will be fully healed I will be able to use this ability for my own happiness and for the one of others. I also think that for highly sensitive people it is possible to find a deeper emotional connection in intimate relationships, if both people are conscious and healthy .

@TJ Reeves how old are you ?

For me reading the book was the start of a big journey. It made me rediscover the body. I think that if someone is new to spirituality and fully understands the first 50 pages of the book alone, he will grasp the essence of spirituality and the basics of psychology better than by watching a lot of Leo’ s videos. It is simple and clear and explains most that is necessary to know in order to begin deep self work . Together with radical honesty, it was the most important book I have ever read ( in terms of new knowledge acquired and change it produced in my life ) .

Would you orchestrate it in some way ?

if someone knows some other method or has any useful advice , please share

Hi. I am 20 years old. I am working on myself a lot. Right now I realize that for basically all my life I have suppressed a very big quantity of emotions. I have strong psychosomatic pain. The emotion I think I suppressed the most is anger . I would appreciate some advice on how to deal with the problem and how to get rid of the emotions and some info about them: Are expressing , experiencing and letting go of an emotion different things ? if so what is the difference? What happens in the mind when an emotion is not expressed (what is the relationship between the repression of emotions and the mind) ? How is the self image affected? How are thought patterns affected ? What changes in the self image if previously repressed emotions are expressed, experienced and let go ? What is the most effective way to get in touch with and be able to express, experience and let go of previously repressed emotions ? Emotions felt towards people must necessarily be expressed in front of them in order for the emotions to go away ? Thanks for your help.

@Dino D what worked for me for emotional release Is : holotropic breathwork rebirhting breathwork yoga Osho Dinamic meditation bioenergetics trauma release exercise (TRE) radical honesty meditation EMDR other body centered therapies / workshops i see you live in Bosnia from your profile. There are holotropic breathwork workshops in Croatia and Slovenia . The first time I did it, It was in Slovenia. You can see here : http://www.holotropic-association.eu/events/breathwork-workshops but if I went back I would probably choose a more gradual approach, breathwork is very powerful but potentially very destabilizing .

Hey, thank you for asking. I am in a very hard time. I have done a lot of progress in the last months but I have still a lot of work to do. I do every day some exercises for releasing emotions and have done breathwork other several times . I also practice yoga and other things. I can’t stop feeling the subtle energy moving in the body and painful sensations arising and pushing to come out. I also can’t go back to being identified with thought, except for brief periods. I am in the middle of huge change . It is always more clear to me how much I have been suffering and how much I have been denying it. I have cried a lot and I still cry daily. I also have some anger outbursts sometimes. On the positive side, I feel better in my body : there is always less tension and I am more flexible. I attend every month workshops to integrate what is happening. For brief moments I opened up to very strong new sensations in the heart and I see where all of this process is leading me to. I am sure my entire self concept is built over this repression, over the denial of love. in fact I lived 21 years completely without knowing that love exists. A lot of memories come up almost every day . I am reprocessing my entire life. I also have had a few other mystical experiences. My mind often goes crazy and , despite all the work , I still have self-sabotaging thoughts. My core beliefs about life are shifting too. I also find it very hard to share what is happening to me with others and find comprehensive people. The hardest thing is that I have nobody near me that understands me fully. I ground myself by doing some simple jobs. I now work in a restaurant and go for a walk often. I am also planning to go do some honest conversations with people I used to know before doing this work and tell the truth about my emotions and other facts about my life , but maybe I want to reach more stability before doing that. I masturbate to porn sometimes and I think I want to stop. When I reach more stability I am also planning to go live in some spiritual community.

@Ascend for me anxiety completely ended after I had been to a Vipassana retreat. i meditated for two months constantly and then went to the retreat . I was extremely anxious before . Yoga also helped .

I'm going though a time of deep change and I am feeling a lot of grief. I have no people close to me that can really understand what I'm going through and how important this period is for me. I think it would be very helpful for me now to have close some conscious people with whom I can open up about some deep topics and share my emotions . Any idea how and where I can find such people ?

@Leo Gura

@Leo Gura for some people , there is no other way than suffering. No kind of positive motivation is possible, all hope is put on getting to a deeper state of being, a deeper truth beyond the current existence. This is the case if you have your entire ego built over a huge childhood trauma. Such a person cannot use any kind of positive motivation. He must go on surrending to what is , having faith that there is something better on the other side, yet unknown. This person will definitely go through depression and so facing suffering will be the only way out and the way to truth.

I think Eckhart Tolle said that suffering in the west is the main road that brings people into spirituality . It was for me.

@Znib94 It's three hours long in workshops, the music lasts three hours. But if you have something coming out in the end , the session can even last longer. Nobody really breaths continuously all the three hours. Usually you go on breathing untill you notice that something particular happens . Either you have some sensations arising in your body, some emotion coming up or some other kind of experience. But you should never forget to breathe. When an experience passes, go back to the breath .

@Eonn I experienced holotropic breathwork three times in workshops. if you do it with trained facilitators it is extremely safe. You can search for gtt ( Grof transpersonal training ) facilitators that have been taught directly by who invented the technique to be 100 % sure. It can be risky to do it alone because if you reach some particular altered states these can potentionally lead you to strong experiences ( astral projection, full ego death , various mystical experiences, ... ) that can momentarily make you totally lose control for some time and potentially lead to extreme actions. Nevertheless, if you have a lot of repressed energy (if you are very neurotic ) , the breathwork can be very destabilizing after you have done it, leading to various symptoms . This is not bad : in fact it’s part of the healing process , but it can be hard to deal with. If you are overall healthy you have nothing to worry about anyway.

@Ether on vipassana retreat when I went we had big rooms. I slept with other 9 people in a large room. you meditate almost all day , in free time you can walk in nature, sit in the sun, feel the connection you have with nature, take a nap, ... You aren’t allowed to speak with anyone except the teacher or some assistant for important issues

@SamEuphoria93 go live in a Buddhist monastery or go on a meditation retreat, for example Vipassana 10 day retreat.

What does it mean to open your heart and live with an open heart ? I heard a few people saying this and I wonder what does it really mean deeply.

Maybe you don’t want others to like you because this would make you emotionally uncomfortable. You might have some unresolved trauma in which you weren’t seen, loved or appreciated as a child and you suppressed the emotions connected to the event . Now, every time you are seen in a positive way by someone your subconscious mind does anything possible to deny it and make the opposite true. The acceptance of the fact would mean the acceptance of the emotional pain. To cancel the belief you need to face the unresolved emotion. I resonate with you. For almost all my life I could not accept that other people put their attention on me and saw me for what I was. I completely lacked of self expression . Any kind of genuine self expression made me feel uncomfortable emotionally . Now I know that it was due to a massive lack of love when I was a small child.

@Random User it was the first self help book I read and made me understand that I had some big deep problems. But for me it didn’t bring change, my mind was too fucked up. There wasn’t much practical stuff that I could do with the knowledge from the book. I began turning inwards a little bit though. The change for me all began after reading Radical Honesty and The Power of Now. I would say that if you understand well the book and you are already quite healthy you can get some results applying some of the principles of the book. I was really messed up and had to use deeper techniques to address the root causes of my misery.

Tell the truth about what you feel in your body and be honest about your fears and insecurities with others. Begin practicing mediation, yoga and do bioenergetics.

I see two options : You find a holistic center or therapist where you live doing a lot of research You combine body centered psychotherapy with other physical and spiritual practices and maybe even some workshops. In this way you can take from every activity what serves you and build yourself a holistic approach. What helped me and still is helping is : Radical honesty ( they do good workshops) Mindfulness meditation Hatha yoga Holotropic breathwork Rebirthing breathwork Dynamic meditations ( Osho dynamic meditation and others ) Bioenergetics Vipassana retreat Diet Experiencially Therapy ( gestalt, transpersonal , humanistic , ... ) For me in the beginning it was really hard to get out of the rut alone. So, it might be helpful to begin creating a support system with a schedule in which you are helped by others to do the activities regularly. Good luck.