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@Deep My goal of attending this workshop is to A) Bring a sense of familiarity to the yoga B) interact and communicate with like minded people and gain knowledge/insights C) attain a deeper state of consciousness and understanding of non duality/Kundalini energy D) Eventually hopefully attain enlightenment, not for happiness reasons or egoic reasons but simply for truths sake.

Thank you Leo!!! ? This is what I keep trying to tell my family! Its exhausting, they can keep it if it makes them feel better ?

Whilst I do appreciate your words of caution I approach any type of Spiritual practice with the up most respect and follow any guidance/advice/tips/instructions. @Sev Don't be paranoid just approach with caution and respect the teachings.

@Robert Understood, thanks for clearing that up ? ♥️

Starting using it now for like a month. Still a bit weary of the consequences it could possibly have. Has anybody else used it for a significant time and passed dental appointments? How do you keep your teeth white whilst using natural toothpaste? I floss and brush twice a day. Any help/advice is as always appreciated ?

@electroBeam thanks for that! I did think that the word noble had one definition only, I didn't know it differs from person to person ? I definitely will do, thanks for your input ♥️

@pluto cheers plutes (cheeky nickname there ?)

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@moon777light it's not so much the taste but the texture I think I'll struggle to handle I'll try regardless, thank you ❤️

Hard to explain... Like regurgitation?

I don't have any advice but I'm watching thread with interest

? Well spotted. I'm doing just fine with my natural toothpaste. Dentist appointment due soon and I'm not going to say a word about using flouride free untill the end of the appointment @moon777light I don't know if I'll be able to handle the consistent without gipping (boaking/being sick) How did you manage it? Thanks for tip ❤️

I can't thank you all enough for your replies and advice ❤️ This resonated with me massively! Absolutely 200% TRUE! Thank you. @MisterMan Thank you for sharing. I literally am going through the same thing so I understand your scenario. Please post that thread you've mentioned it would be interesting to read. I also have an operation upcoming so I'm gonna to remain as mindful as possible using the technique you mentioned. Awesome way of looking at it, I have been thinking of it this way but just going too much in my head with it all. Thank you. @Dragallur thank you @Girzo thank you @Max_V Thsnk you too! Thank you all, you've all (as usual) helped me gain a different perspective on these matters ❤️?

Fell off the path for what feels like forever, it's been 4 days, so much emotional shit going on right now in my life. I feel lost, like I'm wondering around in complete darkness. People close to me have been hurt, family medical issues, operation upcoming etc. Struggling to keep myself grounded and present. Any advice please? ❤️

Love (for me), is always about putting there welfare first (animal/human). Not looking upon the person/animal as something for myself but simply for who & what they are, as they are. If they are holding onto you for codependent reasons, you have to let them go because you know in the long term it will do them no good, cruel to be kind. You look onto this person/animal and the ego simply dissolves, all that's left is unconditional love.

Yep me again, with another question ? Intrigued to hear people's answers to my question. We try and decrease our suffering with regards to emotions, we unidentify, become the witness, observer etc. My question is what about crying? When we feel we want to cry should we? For me personally, crying has always been the go to response when I'm confused, upset, angry, hurt etc. Should we treat the need to cry like any other emotion on this journey? Nowadays if I cry (very rare occasions), I tend to beat myself up, I have thoughts such as "I identified with the emotion so I failed". Any input, as always is greatly appreciated ?

Actions speak louder than words. If this person's decision has affected you, you learn from it for you. Make sure you don't ever get yourself into place where there actions affect you again. Bring it back to you. I may be wrong/right but this is what I would do. Oh and also practice forgiveness, they are unaware.

@Krishna Siva because it literally 'feels' right. I've observed this in myself. Illusion at its finest

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Yesterday meditation experience was something rather beautiful. I'd like to gain some insight on what the F was going on. To me it felt like a HUGE emotional release. This is just to gain some knowledge and awareness as I'm intrigued. I notice during my meditation session's, during the 'No mind' gaps I still hold on to a mental image of the bridge of my nose, and my eyes closed. I felt this hindered my meditation progression so I wanted to experiment to let go of this image. I did just that yesterday, I surrendered to it and let go, the image crumbled into tiny pieces before me and just dissolved. Then some crazy shit went down. Something (I can't verbally explain) started to pull my consciousness towards what felt like darkness/reddish tinge of some sort but I could feel the force of the pull Eyes started to heavily twitch/hands Body suddenly felt a piercing warm feeling throughout/tingling Muscle's tightened Fast breathing Ego was trying to keep me put, throwing thoughts at me. My head/upper body started to involuntary sway. Palms/feet we're sweating. My upper body started to fall back I then involuntary lent forward Pause (extreme calm feeling) Sudden release of emotions No thoughts I cried very hard During this happening I felt I wasn't afraid or resisting. Just to add, I'm aware of the dark side of meditation but I welcome it. Any idea? ?

I have a young family member, 3 years old. I'm very close to her. I can see her slowly but surely developing her identity. Blaming external circumstances for her emotions. Today she was watching YouTube and became frightened when a cartoon character appeared on screen. She lent back into me in fear and I asked her why she was frightened? She pointed to the cartoon character. I said "how is that going to hurt you when it's on a screen? (I tapped the screen) It's pretend isn't it?" She nodded, "the only thing that can hurt you is yourself" (I know this a bit forward for a 3 year old but I was intrigued to hear her reply and she's quite mature). She looked at me in confusion and said "I can't hurt myself!" I said "if that's pretend and you know it's pretend then who's making you frightened?" She looked at me with the most flabbergasted face I'd ever seen in a 3 year old, she went quiet for 5 minutes. I could of swore I just helped that child have the smallest insight she's ever received for her tiny mind ? Question? How would you slowly but surely help self develop a child? In what way could you do it so they understand?

Also anti depressants I've heard (very oftentimes) make you numb and robotic like

Define your feeling of numb? Do you meditate enough? Eat the right foods? Exercise? Do you do things that GENUINELY make you happy!? Take care of yourself from the inside,out Something tells me this is more an internal problem than something that could be helped by anything external.

Your welcome ? @Nahm Glad you enjoyed it, it isn't work really is it ? it's absolutely beautiful! Bioshock is a work of art! ?