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I had some time with my girlfriend when we had sex 3 times a day. It was wonderful. But in the end of this period I wanted to almost vomit from sex. Thanks we do it in a more spiritual way than most people. From now on most of the cravings are gone. Having a stable girlfriend with which you have good connection and with whom you can consistently have sex will eliminate bad side of sex cravings for most of you

Your understanding of manipulation is very shallow. What you fail to see is that it is everywhere. You can't do anything without it. It is like breathing. When you stop manipulating you stop "living"and stop surviving. You can survive with very little manipulation if you decide to live a monk lifestyle. But at this point you literally stop living if living terms mean affecting the world. As a monk or full blown yogi in a cave you usually do very little to affect the world (unless you consciously do effort to manipulate more)

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This is a very legit guy. It's like epistemology applied to business world. Besides course, his free videos on youtube are great too, check them out

Read a book "Charisma Myth"

Creativity and promotion are 2 distinct things that should be learned separately, although they compliment and interconnect with each other. From information that you gave, I'd advice to educate yourself and raise your awareness on how business and marketing works. There are probably things that you're most unaware of as most people are. Especially pay attention to how successful people specifically do it in your industry and what promotion tactics do they use. Mimique the most successful, try to see the pattern. When the pattern is recognized and documented - make a commitment to go with it. In creative professions (such as yours) it is usually required to build your portfolio and then present it in a high-end way, positioning yourself as a valuable professional. Work on your creativity skills and habits to create all that. But don't half-ass marketing work and marketing research before you do that. You need to deliberately analyze your market and be very serious and dilligent about how you're going to brand yourself - What niche in your market are you targeting? How are you different from your competitors? How are you unique? What is your value proposition? Why would someone hire you\buy your coaching over someone else? Very important things. Yet many people half-ass or completely disregard this process and then wonder why they don't get any results in business and why life is so difficult. Be open to break your dogma about business and don't listen to anyone if they are not successful. Completely disregard all opinions and tactics from your family, poor friends and general society when it comes to marketing and business. They will corrupt your mind and make you stay stuck and poor. I hope that helped

Formal education is bullshit in 99% of cases. Autodidact and Responsibility are the things that will give you success. Outsourcing your education to mainstream culture is almost never a good thing.

Why don't you build a decent transitinal career\business that yo actually enjoy doing while building up to your purpose? You don't have to work in a factory for 10 years, of course that's soul sucking. I know money can be good in comparisson to the general population, but it is still uncomparable of how much you could make if you started your programming\design\advertisement\art\computer graphics agency\studio or simillar things like that and be serious about it

Imo, invest in stuff that will give you faster return of your investments - quality food, proper education, busyness, health, fitness, travelling, being social. Potentially it can yield much higher value in much faster rate. Not in terms of money only but also in terms of enjoying your life and self-actualizing. Index funds are not the kind of investments one should pursue at such a young age, especially when being on such a low cash (100-150$ extra after monthly expenses is very low)

Listen to your inner sage on how many videos you should watch and how often. Consider swapping some of them for contemplation sessions\deeper inquiry into life and actually living on a deep level

This forum is too green and lacks yellow. Also a lot of people here are not that much into action and they give it some spiritual rationale like "there is nothing to do", "I don't exist", " who is taking action?" which is, in my opinion, quite toxic to be around with. For some reason people here equate being spiritual to being passive while doing something in the world is considered an egoistical en devour. Excesses of green, I guess

Consulting.com is super great program for entrepeneurship, however it is pretty costy, costs 2k$ per month. The guy who runs it reminds me of Leo in terms of depth and holism of a material. You can watch his youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/samovenstv

You can get ripped by eating unhealthy foods, it is pretty common and documented everywhere. The most important thing here is to account macronutrients and manage calorie deficits combined with good exercise. Don't confuse being jacked with being healthy. Also don't confuse bodybuilding diet with diet that benefits creativity and spirituality. You don't need too sophisticated of a brain chemistry to lift big weights

Technical skills = skills that help you generate money = marketable skills Know-how = maps on how to get the shit done and create a tangible result or a "hidden insight\knowledge" not a lot of people know about. Examples of technical skills: Various programming skills, Singing, Speaking, Selling, Seo marketing, Social media marketing, Video-editing, Freelancing (knowing how to get clients), Video-course creation, Creating an e-commerce shop, Software skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, etc), Designing T-shirts, etc. Know-how example: I've been learning some graphyc design lately and learned about sites that would print and sell your design on t-shirts, mugs, phone cases,etc. Customer buys - you get a cut. These sites will basically take care of all production-shipping stuff for you, you just have to create designs and market them. I didn't even know such thing existed, it was eye-opening for me. Some of my experience: I think the most arcane stuff you can get is from expensive workshops and 1 on 1 mentorship by someone who knows what they are doing. But it usually demands great resources (money, connections, etc), so gotta look for something more affordable. Best thing I found so far is Udemy, high-rated courses here are pretty professional-made and they usually teach you how to apply skills in certain markets, which is great. Sometimes, though, they lack a certain depth and also if you buy a lot of courses it can be somewhat costy (most of them cost only 12$ but still). I also checked some sites with paid subscription but I feel like material on them is not very deep\highquality. That is probably because authors don't get as much $ for their courses, so they don't try very hard. But maybe I just didn't check the right sites (please tell if you know decent ones). Youtube has some great content, but also a ton of junk . It is usually hard and time-consuming to distinguish junk from something great. Also the most knowledgeable people usually don't tell shit in their videos but rather use it as a marketing platform to sell their products. Please, share what you have regarding these topics and where\how do you find valuable information\gather intel. More affordable - the better. More practical - the better. Less mainstream - the better. Share links!!! This thread is not oriented on gathering intel about consciousness work.

You have plenty of life ahead of you. You can commit the next 10-20 years of your life to become a world class runner (or whoever you want) and have a blast in society socially and career wise, doing it consciously and applying consciousness work to empower all that. And then, when you achieve it, you'd focus on transitioning to sage life. See how Peter Ralston has done it. He made it as a top notch martial artist and then transitioned into becoming a sage, teaching spiritual topics and martial arts for millions of dollars through his workshops See how Leo's done it. You're suffering from perfectionism and overthinking, it stops you from actually going and doing shit, my man

May I ask you, what type of job are you working on? And what online business are you planning to start, in what niche?

You can learn some graphic design\web design skills and find the work here, it should be easier. It is a very relatable solution as you'll be able to practice your illustrations here. What you'll actually be doing is just packaging your illustration work into UI and polygraphy grids . You'll actually have an edge over other people in that industry with your skills\desires, as illustrations are very trendy in graphic\web design right now. Later as your skills grow, you can transition into full illustrator job\freelance, doing comics\cartoons\storyboards\paintings\artwork or whatever you want to do with your skills

Finding a thing you're passionate about and doing it is a part of self-actualization process, they are not separate

In my current perspective it's not illusionary and I find in my direct experience that understanding this concept is very useful tool for survival. For example, I can eat a healthy meal and feel good afterwards or I can eat a unhealthy meal and feel very bad afterwards. I can exercise consistently and reap benefits from this or I can negate it and my health will suffer from it. I can meditate everyday and be more "woke" on day-to-day basis or I can negate it altogether and see how I splurge into unconsious patterns. I can go work hard on my money situation, do proper marketing and potentially get good results or I can do 0 marketing and negate business skills altogether and i'll have a good chance that nothing will happen and I'll find myself buying cheetos living in my mum's home just for the sake of symbolism and metaphorically giving credit to Leo. I've never been as conscious of these Cause and Effect dynamics as I am now. It seems that your Actions have Consequeces and it feels very real from the ego perspective. What you're doing today determines where you are and who you are in the day\week\year\5 years from now. I found contemplating it and being conscious of this very profound. But recently you said that this is an illusion without much elaboration and it got me confused. @Leo Gura

This youtuber also looks like a kid aswell in terms of consciousness. You can estimate the level of consciousness just by looking onto his face. HIs face is full of fear, delusion, dogma, hate and self-doubt. For me such things are a big red flag in terms of treating someone as an authoritative figure. Although, it seems that he meditates, his concentration\focusing ability is very good

@Leo Gura I also found that contemplating those questions (symbolism and language) gives an enormous boost to your effectiveness in practical matters. For example having more understanding and awareness on how symbolism works helped me to improve as a graphic designer a lot as this profession is all about communicating certain messages through symbolic elements. This work indeed improves your life on very practical earthly levels too.

Try to be in the flow and try to feel more into her just as you're one organism. Orgasm and sex are way more psychological rather than technical. It's mainly about creation of polarity between you and her. You want to be gentle and at the same time dominant. Sometimes you want to switch fully between being very dominant and being very gentle. Ideally, you want to be a man and show divine masculine qualities if you're familliar with that term (if not, watch Teal Swan on this and David Deida's material).You want to be very present and providing direction\acting first, leading her, yet at the same time being very caring and mindful of her state, being able to feel and fill her deeply within. The most important thing in sex and in a relationship with woman is cultivating her trust in you. When she trusts you deeply, it's way easier for her to orgasm and let go, surrendering to you, at the same time when the opposite happens, woman usually becomes closed and asexual. In fact, this is how connection is built and this is how women decide they want to be in a relationship with you\fuck you. When you're able to stay in this divine masculine state women want to fuck you nonstop, not just your women, but other women too. In order to cultivate trust you have to embody masculine qualities and be authentic. Also it is very important to understand that orgasm is about about reaching a peak state of arousal. Women orgasm when their arousal reach a certain level, you should build up to it and actually push to it. Just "platoe'ing" this stuff doesn't work, you need to escalate the sexual tencion Although the mechanical techniques aren't that important, the advice here can be useful too. When you're inside of her, try to aim your dick into her belly, this way you stimulate G spot and some other spot in the deeper area of a vagina. Besides that, watch how you penetrate, you don't have to always do it though the whole motion, women tend to enjoy both shallow and deep thrusts and get aroused from both of them equally, when men get more aroused more from deep thrusts and not as much from shallow. Use it for your advantage! Iterate between doing deep full range of motion movements and shallow thrusts, it will make you last longer. Shallow thrusts can be deep aswell, though, and this is actually one of the most intimate\arousal thing I found. By shallow I mean that your range of motion is very small, you barely move your dick but you still apply pressure, tension and I wanna fuck you attitude. Of course, sometimes you want to not apply pressure that much and actually "rest" for a while inside of her letting you "cool off". You need to do it from time to time to delay cumming. Also for delaying cumming watch what "PC" muscles are and train them everyday. These are kind of muscles that you use to stop taking a piss when you're pissing. Watch Leo's video on fingering technique ("How to make a girl squirt"), though, don't rely on it too much or it will look like more like mutual masturbation rather than sex. His serie on sex is very good too In general, don't try to be analytical or too conscious of yourself and try to conform to all your models and ideals about sex and how you should behave during it. Be in the flow more, be spontaneous, get out of your head. This is what, I think, will help you the most. Think less, Feel more. I hope that helped

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@Leo Gura Can you, please, elaborate then what do you mean by Yellow typically being a "lone wolf"? You said it in one of your Spiral Dynamics videos

You seem to getting it right!