Hands off the keyboard. You are putting inputs in without realizing it.
You cant stop thinking.
You have to live life as a dream that means no planning. If you want to go to the store you arent going to go to the store soon you arent ever going to the store until you go to the store. Ignore all people, people make you interact with your mind way more. Ignore women stop checking women out.
If they talk to you they talk to you.
You are putting the mind down not stopping it.
Or you can start hyper thinking about everything in your field at all times but its way harder cause its too easy to drift off into past or future.
Your mind will think, what you are trying to do is let it think without touching it. Its very hard to do because we have been brainwashed into policing the mind.
If you stop policing the mind and let it think of whatever it wants without interacting (it will get raunchy and weird) you will disassociate from it. You want to notice when you(the thing reacting to mind) ,interrupts the mind.

Can you recognize in your experience "where" you're doing the stress, and so become responsible for its creation? Cause I can't.   Doing that would allow you not to do it in the first place, or help reduce it to a great extent.
In your specific case, focusing on a single subject for a time is necessary; otherwise you just get distracted and overwhelmed, jumping from one thing to another, without any real depth.

Nightclubs are basically kindergarten for adults. Brothers go to a night club like a business meeting and have bad night. These things are important 
• Emotional safety
• No logic
• Freedom to explore
• No pressure to perform
• being in your body, not your mind 
• Imaginative presence
• Loving, playful connection
• Gentle structure/leading
 

It's generally good advice when dealing with the feminine.
As a man you have to learn to emotionally manipulate women.
This sounds bad, but feminine women need and want their emotions managed. Children also need their emotions managed. The whole challenge of being a man is that you must deliver results with no one else to comfort you or manage your emotions. Women can operate that way too, but then they lose their feminine qualities and become masculine, which makes them unattractive.
The problem though is that this irresponsibility over one's own emotions in women cannot ultimately work. It must fail because life is far too serious to manage without being fully in control over your emotions. The feminine way of life is just not suitable for serious survival. It works when survival is relatively easy. Which is why feminine women often need men to take care of survival for them. The more she's able to handle very difficult survival, the less feminine she's gonna be. So there's a tradeoff between survival effectiveness and feminine innocence. If you want a very feminine girl then you gotta be ready to take care of her more, manipulate her emotions for her, etc. And in that sense it is like dealing with a child because the child cannot handle its own survival. That's the common thread.
Women are fully capable of taking care of themselves. The problem is that basically turns them into men. Which is unappealing to most men and women.
Learning to handle the feminine is a very tricky skill. It requires learning emotional manipulation. Men are never taught this tricky skill.

In a simplistic sense of manipulation yes.
But there is a deeper sense of manipulation where they cannot tell and they in fact need it and want it.
"Manipulation" should not be taken in the negative sense here.
In the end, the feminine does not care about truth, it cares about feelings. So as long as its feelings are right it does not care how it got there, which means it actually wants to be manipulated into right feelings and if you fail to do this in favor of truth, it will hold it against you. No matter what the feminine says, in the end it cares about feelings, not anything else. This trips guys up because guys listen to the logic of the words, assuming the feminine takes the logic of anything seriously. It does not. In this way the feminine confounds the masculine. The naive masculine is fooled by this, but the mature masculine is wise to it.

Additional Links
    ➼  Leo’s “20 Dream Killers” article.
    ➼  Leo’s "Personal Development Blueprint.”  It covers over 100 Self-Help concepts.  It was not completed, but still has good content.
    ➼  Actualized.org Video Summaries! (Leo’s favourite thread on the forum.  He said it himself!!)
    ➼  🍄 Actualized.org on Psychedelics 🍄 (has all resources on psychedelics)
    ➼  Big thanks to @Muaddib’s work!  
          •  He used ChatGPT to make summaries of all Leo’s episodes that you can find here.  
          •  He also has Blog Video summaries here.
    ➼  There’s an Actualized.org Textbook that was assembled by @Cepzeu and others.  You can download it at: Actualized.org Textbook.

🍄 Actualized.org on Psychedelics 🍄
• Blog post on How To Research Psychedelics.
• PsychonauntWiki is a good resource for research.
• VIDEO:  How To Plug Psychedelics - Nov 2018 - (Summary is here)
 
            Must Watch Episodes
Ep 268. How To Use Psychedelics For Personal Development. (Summary)
Ep 434. How Psychedelics Work - Making Sense Of Psychedelics.
Ep 483. The Top Dangers Of Using Psychedelics. (Summary)
 
            Substance Reports
Ep 267.  Magic Mushrooms:  The Amazing Power Of Psychedelics - Leo Does Magic Psilocybin Mushrooms!
Ep 275.  5-MeO-DMT:  5-MeO-DMT - The Magic Pill To Enlightenment & God.  (Summary)
Ep 298.  AL-LAD:  Trip Report - A Powerful Tool For Consciousness Work.  (Summary)
Ep 312.  2C-B:  Experiencing Physical Death.
Ep 492.  5-MeO-MALT:  Introducing The Other God Molecule.  (Summary)
Ep 507.  Ketamine:  Lessons From Ketamine - Is Ketamine Useful For Spirituality?
Blog Video. DPT:  The Other God Molecule.  (Summary)
Blog Video. Salvia:  What it’s Like to Smoke Salvia Divinorum.
            (Leo says Salvia is very dangerous and does not recommend doing it)
 
            Blog Posts: Safety and Psychedelics  ⛑️
• The Top Dangers Of Using Psychedelics - Oct 2017
• The Antidote For Pre-Trip Anxiety - Aug 2017
• 5-MeO-Always On An Empty Stomach - May 2017
• No Trip Sitters - May 2017
• Why You Should Never Do Salvia (6 mins) - Aug 2017
 
            Forum Threads
• The Ketamine and Dissociatives Mega-Thread
• The 5-MeO-DMT Mega-Thread
• The N,N-DMT Mega-Thread
• The 5-MeO-MALT Mega-Thread
• The DPT Mega-Thread
• The Trip Reports Mega-Thread
 
• Psychedelics Safety and Protocols Mega Thread
• Psychedelics Informational Resources
• Psychedelic Research Mega-Thread
• Best Psychedelic Trip Music Mega-Thread
• Psychedelic Memes Mega-Thread
 
            Enlightenment & Psychedelics Episodes 🤯
      • Almost every episode in the Enlightenment section of Leo’s Blog Videos.
Ep 283. Interview With Martin Ball - Using 5-MeO-DMT To Become Enlightened
Ep 347. Enlightenment Experience Explanation & Key Lessons.  (Summary) (a response to ep 346)
Ep 437. Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days.  (Summary)
Ep 495. Leo's Worst Bad Trips - Psychedelics Gone Wrong
Viewer Compilation 🥳: Incredible, Powerful Concepts on Life & 5-MeO-DMT
Blog Post and Video on Mapping Consciousness With High Dose LSD
 
            Tripping in Real Time Episodes
Ep 346. Enlightenment Experience Happening In Real Time - LIVE! 🛋️
Ep 431. Total Awakening Live In Real Time - Part 1. 📦
Ep 432. Total Awakening Live In Real Time - Part 2. 🛋️
 
            Misc Episodes
Ep 329. Correcting The Stigma Of Psychedelics - Part 1.
Ep 331. Correcting The Stigma Of Psychedelics - Part 2.
 
More Blog Posts on Psychedelics
            Trip Report 🧳
Jun 2017:    Psychedelic Visions
Jul 2017:    More Serious Than You Ever Imagined (note) 🤯
Sep 2018:  Salvia Trip Report
Jun 2019:   Dissecting The Psychedelic Experience 👽
Jun 2019:   Who Are The Machine Elves? 👽
 
            Research 🔬
Feb 2017:    Alexander Shulgin Documentary - Psychedelics Chemist (note)
Oct 2018:    Psychedelic Receptors 📄 🧷
Mar 2018:   Breaking Convention YT Channel 🤯
Mar 2018:   The Origins Of Mind—Thomas Ray 🤯
Aug 2019:   Psilocybin & Personality Change (note) ⁉️
Aug 2019:   Microdosing Research ⁉️
Jul 2020:     Legal MDMA Therapy Almost Here! (note)
Jan 2021:    Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences 🤯
Jul 2021:     Ketamine Klinic (note)
 
            Miscellaneous
Jan 2017:    Drunk On Mushrooms
Feb 2017:   The Despicable War On Drugs
Mar 2018:   Dark Room Retreats & 5-MeO-DMT
Mar 2018:   A Society Built On Psychedelics—Bwiti Tribe
Sep 2018:   Your Brain On LSD
May 2019:  Denver Decriminalizes Mushrooms
Apr 2020:   Timothy Leary (note)

Hi everyone,
Big fan of Leo here. I'd like to share my health problems I've been dragging for too long, maybe someone has an idea how to treat them...
Since I was around 13 I have some skin issues, and I'm 32 now. It started as tiny random red spots around fingers, back of hands, and sometimes. any part of the body. Years after, I also had urticaria problems. I do believe it's all based on emotional issues (I had some in my childhood and teenage years), but I can't fix it. 
Secondly, I also have some breathing problems. Seems my sinus get easily inflammated, so that makes me most of the time lethargic, tired, and really low energy.
Through doctors (many of them) and conventional medicine I came up with a "good" solution for both problems: Taking an antihistamine (once a week). Nevertheless, this is one of my main challenges in life and I'm pretty sure if I could heal this from the source I wouldn't need any chemicals and I'd feel better.
If anyone has any ideas about this, I'd appreciate so much. Thanks for reading!
 
 
 

I have suffered with eczema from birth and it has come back with the vengeance. It continues to spread all over my body. I am suffering deeply, it's greatly affecting the quality of life I live. I understand it can be exacerbated by stress , a poor diet etc, however, stress is minimal and any is managed,  my diet is ok, not perfect but it's ok (plant based) doctors are throwing steroid creams at me and I have had to take a course of antibiotics due to it becoming infected. Due to be patch tested at the dermatologist shortly. 
I am aware Eczema can return in cycle's so I am guessing maybe this is just doing it's rounds?
Any advice is massively appreciated. Thank you. 

I've always been pretty against the idea of taking medication for things like anxiety or depression. The idea of something changing something as foundational as the thoughts in my head seems pretty scary. (I'm guessing many people on the forum feel the same way.) It's also scary that you become dependent on many of them and need to wean off if you ever want to stop.
However recently my anxiety has been getting increasingly worse over the years, and now it's at a pretty debilitating point. I'm pretty much constantly feeling stressed, anxious, and wound up about just... pretty much everything. More things than not at this point.
In the past I've always rationalized that I'd rather just suffer and be my genuine self than change my brain chemistry. But now it's so bad that's not really true any more.
What's changing my mind and making me more open to the idea of medication -- My dog is super anxious and scared of fireworks and thunder, so we talked to the vet and decided to put him on anxiety meds for the summer. (He's on Fluoxetine aka Prozac, same thing people take just at a lower dose.) I've noticed a big improvement in his temperament and anxiety, it's really significantly changed him for the better and made him a calmer and happier dog.
So I wonder if I should give meds a try myself and take the edge off for a while so I can just relax for once.
Most likely my doctor is going to put me on an SSRI like Sertraline though. And with the recent study about serotonin and depression I don't know what to think about that.
If anybody's had experiences, either good or bad, on specific medications, let me know.
Or if you have any other ideas or suggestions, maybe something more natural like ashwaganda or something, let me know.
I don't know if therapy would help. I feel like my anxiety is so bad that it's able to rationalize pretty much anything. And of course I'm super anxious about the idea of getting a therapist and talking to someone new about something so personal. Plus I've heard from more people than not what a struggle it was to find a good therapist, it sounds like most people go through like 5 on average before they find one they like.
Also with the whole personal development thing, I feel like I know myself better than most people and can pretty much self-therapize myself better than an outside person, if I just had the right questions to ask myself and contemplate. So if you know any kind of online course or worksheets for anxiety that you'd recommend, I would be very interested in those. I've tried free CBT for anxiety offered online by the UK or AUS government but it was boring and too theoretical.

You need this:
https://www.walkinlab.com/products/view/dd-toxic-metals-urine-test-kit-doctor-s-data
And you must buy DMSA on your own for the test. The test kit will not include DMSA nor will it tell you how much to dose. You have to figure that out yourself.
DMSA is not sold in the USA. You have to order it from overseas.

Blood work will not reveal heavy metals. So that is pointless.
Heavy metals require a provoked urine test using DMSA.

Read 10 pages a day. Every day. No matter what.
 
 

Put how you feel, first. 

I'm going to college in a few months and I'm mortified. I have horrible social anxiety and can't even look into people's eyes when i talk
also the fact that I'm foreign I feel like I'm going to be judged and looked at wherever i go..
if you have any advice on how to deal with these thoughts please do write a comment because it has been keeping me up at night and education is so important to me I don't want my anxiety to stop me from doing it