Tyler Robinson

Does traveling help you in any way in the spiritual sense?

How is this? But my mind is Going all blank on it.

Haha I was thinking the same.

Exactly.

I want to introduce you to the Zeigarnik Effect. The Zeigarnik Effect is the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete. The automatic system signals the conscious mind, which may be focused on new goals, that a previous activity was left incomplete. It seems to be human nature to finish what we start and, if it is not finished, we experience dissonance. you can read more about it here. http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Zeigarnik_Effect Currently what I am doing is i am making a list of things that I have left unfinished since i can remember, especially from childhood. As we all know, things get in the way of what want to pursue, especially when you are a child and you have homework and chores and maybe your parent's pressure to succeed and do well in school and extracurricular activities. It makes a huge difference to me and it feels like I am able to feel so much better about everything just by giving my inner child room to breathe and enjoy things that for one reason or another wasn't able to at that time. --- I am doing this as a therapeutic exercise. I am aware that this could be seen as just entertainment, or mind titillation as Leo would say, but I think it's the intention behind it that makes a huge difference. It's not just mindlessly play video games and watching tv, but doing it with a purpose and the intention to honor the child within. A sort of right of passage. Hope you find this helpful. "there is a tendency or “need” to complete a task once it has been initiated and the lack of closure that stems from an unfinished task promotes some continued task related cognitive effort. The cognitive effort that comes with these intrusive thoughts of the unfinished task is terminated only once the person returns to complete the task."

That's what basically any psychological diagnosis is. I wonder if most people recognize this and instead get lost believing there is actually some physical or "real" thing (or perhaps a common underlying thing) called bipolar, schizophrenia, depression, etc.. I think there's a lot of room for refining how we think of psychological diagnoses. Yet, I would say that how people are diagnosed and labeled by a psychologist/psychiatrist, etc., is a lot more nuanced and refined than, say, your friends or even oneself reading some books or watching some videos and then feeling like they know how to use the terms properly (which I think should include knowing how the terms were devised in the first place-- the method). Whether one can stop "being a sociopath" is the same as asking whether one is capable of dropping those behavior patterns. I wonder about this. Like, whether some psychological disorders can be altered simply by free will etc.. This goes into the whole "what is and isn't possible" debate, rather than the "what's really really really really really hard to do vs. what's pragmatically doable". Or even I consider maybe some things are just "baked" into the mind. Hardwired, and are unchangeable. I imagine that exists, especially in things like psychopathy where they say the actual brain and nervous systems are different than the average person. Seems like trying make a turtle turn into a bear, though, not as drastic since I have heard of tests where they deliberately train a psychopath to do empathy and they've seen parts of the brain light up associated with empathy. Though, apparently, permanently inducing that empathy in a psychopath hasn't happened.

@Kksd74628 totally.

I think he is being so reactive because he is depressed. He probably needs therapy. There's something unsettling about the post.

Aww sorry to hear about that! I hope that gets sorted out soon.

What do you think a relationship is for? What do you get out of it?

So far have you been able to make money?

Actually true. We have a survival instinct that sort of pushes us to do the best that we can all the time with regard to our circumstances..

Is it me or do you sound really depressed?

You don't have to deny yourself or your circumstances. You are who you are. You might want to look into ego development. You are always a body of constant growth.

Yet you are okay sharing yourself!

If you already have Leo, why do you need him?

If it's a healthy relationship, what more do you expect?

@integral are you okay with your woman sleeping with another man?

Relationships are always unhealthy because they arise from low consciousness. We have relationships for selfish needs. If you thought you wanted a relationship without expectations, then you would see that those relationships were truly the kind you wanted, yet that won't be a possibility because the other party is still selfish.

Mindseed

Do you think that the population is too huge? Why don't you see a problem with declining population?

So you mean to say that there's no universal scale for development? Then why do psychologists have personality tests if everything is relative?

At least I don't expect those people to be on this forum. Aren't people supposed to be peaceful here? I thought this forum was Stage green and above. What happened to it?

Watch this video.