Walter B

And perhaps where you are going!? People don't stay "where they are at" very long it seems!

The experience fades away for a time when the identity is gone. And remembering alone happens on it's own time. Trying to push the rope by seeking company brings new dilemmas. Maslow's work is a favorite to me. The majority of our world is designed to take more than it gives as all of us strive to climb out of the crab bucket. No magic pills or wands or endless flows of money or whatever. However, some people do seem to find "crutches" that they are comfortable with. As the crutch requires it's own devotion! There's more to it than realizing who we really are. That doesn't seem to pay my bills at least!

How hard it can be to control that push or pull is amazing. Sometimes we seem to get lots done in short periods of time while we have the drive or focus. I guess dissolving the identity is dissolving the personality at many levels. Consciousness gets mixed up in all kinds of interpretations when the boundaries or "box" of one's life is realized not to exist, all in the process of learning to bust it. Black and white don't seem to do it alone. Maybe shades of grey would be better. Those perceptions we can have of good and bad are so tied to the expectations that we can have of "things" based on thoughts we have that are usually only our own if we are very very conscious. I guess we are all slipping in and out of consciousness fairly regularly.

I chose the path with the most options that allowed me to do the most things important to me long term. It was a series of decisions while nudging the "flow" in a direction. But I wasn't fully conscious of that decision or lack of one as the "right one" until it became the only one. Just remember that money is your friend and your enemy. But all great passions are that way.

It all depends on their existing core. Some folks will just hurt themselves with that. Try 100 pull ups or chin ups per day as a goal over the next year. Start with one if that's all you can do. Once you've got a strong core and connective tissues then explore weight training. Developing the core and connective will heighten your proprioception and fine muscle control which heightens all your senses for more effective and safer weight work later. Also do lots of body weight leg exercises (100 body squats per day goal) one and two leg variations work great and abdomen work. Calf raises can be great if done regularly. Walking and jogging and machines or bench extensions work great for quad extensions and hamstring curls. Hamstrings are so important together with the flank muscles for stability. Add in your focus areas for size growth as extra work or focused work. Like curls for your biceps or bench press for front of torso. But remember, body weight stuff and resistance band work as well as walking and jogging can be done almost anywhere on diverse time frames. And for the protein amount mentioned by someone else at .65-.75g/lb body weight seems a bit high! I guess that is including all your meals throughout the day. You'll hurt your organs if you intake too much protein without balancing it with the other members of the "pyramid". Do you're research.

No more than 3-4 days per week otherwise it'll make you into beer and fries! Haha Even then you'll need serious dedication to your exercise routine. That diet is viscious!

Eat good protein like a shake or supplement once a day. Get plenty of vitamins (usually in that supplement mix) and water. Strength train, resistance or body weight work is fine to get started. Do cardio to keep extra intake from stacking too much weight and to keep generally healthy, of course, all depending on how much you exercise and where you're starting from. And again, drink more water and exercise more! And eat! Build the habits! Meat and veggies or just healthy food till you're full! Fruits, grains, peppers,... Just minimize preservatives and cheap sweeteners like the oh so economic HFCS. The exercise is key. Sweating is a good thing. Otherwise your pours may as well be clogged! And some sort of meditation will really help you focus on that mass gain and reflecting on what's working and what isn't before you follow a dead end path too long.

It is inevitable. Even the trap. Some of those traps are very enlightening especially when you see them coming and are simply overwhelmed! Some say history repeats but it never happens the same way. It can't.

Wow! Yep. I think I used the word paradox. Perhaps it's an issue of understanding that negative emotional energy to one person may be conditioning that is perceived by another person as belief or doctrine. Those emotions manifest as all kinds of painful things to the one on the negative end. So, effectively, people do kill other people when "the ties that bind" become based on what they may perceive as "blurry". I have had very similar experiences with my parents as well as others. People are commonly fearful of what they do not understand.

Nice summation! The shadow work seems perpetual to keep track of the spiritual being. A quick study of eastern spirituality revealed a lot. The model of behavior is why it may seem that martial arts or some operative practice such as healing, meditative or otherwise, is involved for one to find and maintain enough clarity to make long strides in the right directions.

Yes, very much so.