Oliver Saavedra

Its normal to feel that, I'm with you. You're choosing to head towards facing your fears and inner demons and its not gonna be easy, but its gonna be SO rewarding. I've been four years on this journey and that feeling its still there, but now it motivates me. Get ready to face fear and resistance to change over and over, to die and born anew many times. This is the path of the warrior. Trust me, its so worth the fight :')

If every system you try gets chaotic then its not about the system, its about how you're approaching to it. Two of the most important factors for idea-organization inside your brain (and thus on any external system) are how you compare and prioritize. The two are skills that go hand in hand. You can't just put an idea anywhere because it fits there, because of course any idea can fit anywhere. But the idea behaves differently depending on where you put it. Thus you need to compare the contexts (or categories) you have, to know the differences between them, and then prioritize on which one the idea works better for its purpose. Sometimes certain ideas need to change its content to fit the context (or category) they're in. It really depends on the intention of the idea. --- What's the purpose of my categories? What's my intention with this idea? In which context could this idea work better for its purpose? If my idea also fits somewhere else, do I need to adapt this idea for this context? --- I know it might be abstract, but one thing are the ideas themselves and another thing is the way you structure them, what I'm talking about its a basic mechanism of the way you structure ideas. If you need more help just ask

Yes totally, it works for all novelty-based platforms including social networks, netflix, the news, porn, fast food, sugar treats, etc. Whenever your brain recieves novelty it gets a small shot of dopamine (pleasure) as a reward so it wants to come back for more. After a few shots the brain learns that there's an infinite source of pleasure so it gets hooked on an instant gratification loop. novelty > pleasure > repeat That novelty can come in the form of scrolling down, watching next episode, eating another cookie, LATEST NEWS, next naked hot girl, etc. Pro tip: A fine way to get out of that addiction loop is doing dopamine detox, google it.

I would determine it by their capacity of self-awareness, responsability, vulnerability, empathy, knowing what they want, flexibility, and Love.

Cry cry cry cry a lot, and write about it, It's a huge learning oportunity. The grief process is your brain's mechanism of accepting bad stuff for its own learning and evolution. So don't try to repress it nor change it, allow it to happen.

I put my real name not knowing that I would't be able to change it, been embracing it since. I also say many personal things here, and i'm okay with it. I won't hide what's true for me.

Seriously why? Why do we resist feeling love? If its really all we truly want, why do we resist it? Is it really just resistance to change and fear of losing ourselves? Ego is a strong homoestatic force, change towards Love sounds great to the spirit, but to the mind, emotions and body its terryfing. On a mental level seems like a matter of open-mindedness and divergence, on an emotional level seems a matter of courage and resilience, on a physical level seems like a matter of adaptation, spiritually to me seems like a matter of alignment, learning and creation.

First make sure you know what you want, if right now you're ok with this they keep it up, just notice the consecuences. If you'd like to change it, I've found that clear intention and making it gradual is the key. If you'd like to sleep from, lets say, 11pm to 7am make it a clear goal and compromise to make it your sleep time. Then move half-hour or an hour a day, try to sleep a bit earlier and wake up a bit earlier. The practice is to be diligent with your going to bed and waking up time, doing both is very important. If you sleep earlier but wakeup late it wont stick. That's why making the shift gradually makes it easier. Its really important to make it a clear goal to you, because sometimes moving your sleep schedule a lot and keeping it steady takes a whole month. So keep the vision clear. Goodnight

Seems like ego wants the truth but it can't handle the Truth! That's why suffering is purification, the sufferer is the one your soul gets cleaned from. We live to create a reality we love and then to learn to enjoy the Love that kills us, what a beautiful paradox.

Everytime you get some novelty or something that gives you pleasure (social media scrolling, porn-masturbation, sugar, new information, tv, videogames, etc) your brain gets a shot of dopamine. Many constant shots of dopamine trains your brain that it can only be motivated by instant gratification activities, making the real work just unappealing. So take one day off instant-gratification or just consume it a lot less.

Use your heart not your mind. Drop the idea of having to get somewhere or solving the situation. Most times people having a hard time just want to be listened and acknowledged. So ask them questions and just listen and empathize with them. Hug them and cry with them if necessary. Be truly there, not on your head.

You can make lots of lists but can you commit to at least one? Make checklists and check-mark each activity after you accomplish it. Seeing your list fully marked at the end of the day is so pleasing. Dopamine-detox yourself from novelty and work on those long-term goals doing baby steps.

Do any 10 minute cardio workout you can find on youtube, Bullyjuice has nome nice ones. What you're doing is nice but might be too low, you really need to get that blood pumping.

Make a list of the things you want to accomplish in your day, then just fucking do them.

First build your strategy Define your audience: really understand how is the people you'd like to get your music to, be as specific as possible, age, gender, culture, likes/dislikes, socioeconomic level, trends they follow Define the platforms you'll be using: for music I think soundcloud and youtube are the most popular for music, but there are others you might need to check them out, also instagram and facebook which are the basics for content sharing, I'm not sure if twitter really works for musicians State your goals: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound, how many followers would you like to get for the next X months? how many listeners, sales, etc? Define the content you'll be posting: what will you be publishing on social? photographs, artwork, animations, your creative process, your lyrics, photos of you, journal, what will you be talking about? what is your message to your followers? what is the tone of the things you share? There's more but these are the basics, you could start defining those and start sharing on social networks with a clearer direction, try things out and see how it works, then go back to define it a little more, slowly you will find your own style. The most important thing is that everything you do is congruent with you and your art.

Nice! its so good you realized this mechanism in you Remember your body, emotions, and mind learn together, they are a connected system As you described it, seems like your body usually gets a painful sensation and your emotions over-react with fear, and then your mind starts tripping about the worse This is probably a unconsciously learnt mechanism that became automathic in you Your strategies seem just right, first becoming super aware of how this mechanism work in your body, emotioms, and mind Teach your body to relax, teach your emotions to embrace pain, cry through it if necessary, to surrender to pain instead of resisting/holding it, because that's what makes your mind try to rationalize pain. Really focus on the sensation while surrendering to it. Example: 1. Body: feels pain 2. Emotions: FEAR 3. Mind: Avoid fear! Overthink! maybe the pain is this or that or this or that 4. Body: Stop and feel the pain, focus on sensation and surrender to it 5. Emotions: embrace and feel the fear, focus on sensation and surrender to it 6. Mind: I'm not needed here, let go of thoughts 1, 2 and 3 is the automathic mechanism 4, 5 and 6 are the new mechanism you could install to relax the old one Much Love ❤️

I'm practicing visual storytelling and would like some cool and deep references. I've read Scott McClouds "Writting Comics" and its a jewel, looking forwards to read also "Understanding Comics". Also would like to get Alexander Marchand's comics Any other suggestions?

Every 5-star book on Leo's list has been life changing haha First ask yourself, what do I want to improve in myself? Then ask yourself all the questions you have about that, then go find answers on books or the web A book I didn't find in the book list that has been a game changer for me has been Tony Buzan's The Mind Map Book Also doesn't this belong to the High Consciousness Resources? https://www.actualized.org/forum/forum/32-high-consciousness-resources/

There's enough excercises to practice for years, enough cherries to pick, not only here but with other teachers as well What are you really looking for?

It's very common for many gurus and teachers to do this. The normal brain isn't evolved enough to recieve such praise and love from everyone all day, eventually it truly believes it is the "king of the world" and the shadow takes control of the guru. Then all sorts of repressed behaviour start to come out, then abuse starts to happen. I'm not really sure if its right or wrong, depends on how the people involved understand the experience. But for sure unlimited sex can corrupt anyone if its taken unconsciously. Check Leo's cult psychology series

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What about philosophy coaching for deaf people? I haven't heard of anyone (pun intended) innovating in that direction What are the activities that make you wonder and cry just by visualizing yourself doing? What are the results you want to see yourself creating?

I'd recommend dopamine detox. I've noticed my automatic limbic brain easily takes a small instant-gratificatiom activity and then slowly starts scaling it up until I end up unconsciously jerking off to porn for hours. For real we're highly driven by dopamine, so I really recommend doing a reset to our reward system. Then you start taking your dopamine slowly and consciously.

Porn is fake action It's like believing you are fit only by watching fitness videos It's like believing you are wise only by watching actualized.org

In my experience I've found part of the self-acceptance process is being able to hold two beliefs at once, and feed the one you prefer "I'm not good enough" is probably the old and most ingrained belief "I'm enough and getting better" is probably a new belief you'd like to install The thing is while you install the new one, the old one will resist, and you will feel like you're lying to yourself, so you'll have to hold both beliefs A belief is just a thought you've thought a lot and it became automatic, when you were younger you just accepted this thoughts as true Now you are aware of them and want to change them, now you can choose what you believe in Self-acceptance would be saying "yes, I am like this and I believe in this..." and accept it as it is but that doesn't mean you can't change it, you can always choose what feels better for you To change oneself definitely needs self-honesty, to say to yourself "Alright, yes I'm fat, but I want to change it and will push myself to it".