Jamie Universe

I think when your a baby, a natural part of growing up is licking random stuff so you know what stuff tastes like.

@Truth Addict Cool thanks!

Background - Been meditating for about 3 months using do-nothing technique, about 10 days ago I went from 20 minutes to 25 minutes. Its happened to me 2-3 times where I'll be almost perfectly still and I'll feel in my body this really 'light feeling' or the opposite of any negative things, and its in all parts of my body, it also feels really good. Any ideas/thoughts/elaborations? I'm also curious if this signifies anything, or if its just a random meditative state.

I agree, I contemplated why I was resisting meditation. And I came to a realization that you procrastinate when something gives a bad impression on you, reasons may be, its physically exhausting, the math assignment is to hard and challenging, or meditation is to boring (or whatever reason you have.) Or you could make whatever excuse about it. But once you realize that something is really important you can contemplate your reasons for procrastination and forcefully make meditation have a good impression on you. And by having incentives or good reasons to meditate your mind will associate meditation as good, and 25 minutes to me is easy. But forget everything I said and contemplate your problem from ground zero (without using any knowledge I told you), or else it won't work. I was literally sitting on my bed contemplating why I hated meditation so much, and it just 'clicked' for me and from that moment on its been smooth sailing.

Don't forget the "Hey this is Leo" also I feel like a ton of Leo's comments that he gets on youtube are just "But Leo..."

Background - I've been dancing in my room for over 2-3 years now, I will play whatever music I am currently into and dance, I also have a bamboo staff which I 'wield' while imagining intense scenes from movies that I liked, or some utter amazing strike of creativity, and I get a really powerful emotional response. If you've ever watched a movie and had that 'artistic spiritual connection' (however you want to define that) then that's what I get occasionally. Its sort of weird and random, but it has some interesting affects. I used to be suicidal and depressed (I think it was some existential crisis I took wrong) and played video games every minute I could, and one day I said "fuck it" and got excersises which is something that I was highly resistant to at the time, so then I walked up this hill at night, and for whatever reason I had some strange deep connection with nature and to this day it is probably the most powerful experience I've had (probably nothing compared to enlightenment though). Which provided me with this baseline for my experience in life, that walk at night probably cured my 'suicidal-ness' though I was still in pain for the next year or two, and I don't know when I started dancing, but I also noticed after a while I had this paranoia and started believing all this weird shit, one thing in particular that scared me, is one day I looked this up and actually found some form of schizophrenic mental disorder that recorded people believing weird shit and being paranoid of the people around them, which was what I was doing a lot. But honestly I could have mistaken what I had for an overactive imagination. And maybe I'll get into it later but dancing had a weird role into counteracting this (sort of). But as far as my insanity goes, I was never irrational and didn't worry to much about 'snapping' and becoming insane. I do occasionally experience this craziness spontaneously, but I've counteracted it mostly with logic, I can go into more detail if people want. But that experience I had of nature gave me a sort of life purpose vision, which I can get into detail later, but for whatever reason I've disconnected with this vision, maybe its natural, or maybe I've changed with my opinions and so did the vision. But I danced for these sorts of experiences. I've also become really skilled with a bamboo staff lol, I've kind of incorporated it into my dance, and sort of developed new dance techniques with it, without getting into to much detail there a lot of interesting things I observed with how well I dance depending on energy levels, how 'magical' it is when I'm more emotionally 'balanced' or random affects and how I can sort of control my blood flow when imagining a scene where I move around a lot. In the past year or so is when I've been dancing mostly, my brother left for college and so now I'm dancing pretty much daily and am taking a shit ton of notes of stuff I observed and theories (unconfirmed stuff). I feel like this could somehow be related to Yoga but I can't really study that right now since I can't get booklist or the book because my families close-minded. I'm not 100% percent sure what this journal will become, I'm might update it a lot, I'm going to try to, but nothing is fore sure. I'll probably post my notes on dancing, interesting phenomena, maybe make a separate post about the deeper spiritual side of it, I'll also probably add techniques if I find one thing keeps working for me consistently. Maybe I'll talk about my life in correlation with this, I am still currently searching for my life purpose, sort of. Dancing/Music does sort of have a role with self-actualization, I dance to try and obtain an emotional state or experience for the most part, I also do it to release stress or any weird feelings. I wouldn't count on it for any serious changes (besides life purpose) but I may be surprised in the future.

Well I suppose most of his recent videos are more theory than practice, but videos on 'being a strategic motherfucker' or even some of his theory videos are meant to lead in the direction of either, theory to contemplate to reach enlightenment, or more physical/material goals, such as making your body healthier with better foods. All of which bring happiness (except for enlightenment I guess.) What I meant to say was, most of his videos have practical/helpful uses, he's (usually) not just talking for the sake of interest. P.S. He does have an old video on depression which you mentioned in your first comment

I totally get where your coming from, I've been in that group situation where they're talking about something I either know nothing about or I'm just not used to socializing in that way. However you can break this bridge by doing something in common with that group. For example they could be talking about love affairs, but you could all be doing a similar task or project and you can bring that up and talk about it. Though I do agree its important to find your herd.

I dance In my room to random music on YouTube almost daily now, and I'm usually a lot more creative. Also sometimes I imagine a intense scene from a movie, while dancing, and while listening, and its really powerful. If you've ever watched a really good movie and had that connection, its occasionally like that, probably the main reason I dance in the first place.

I feel like most of his videos are about healing... Unless your talking about a 'spiritual healer' in which case I would be interested to hear more about some of the 'crazy' ideas of how healing works.

lol that's hilarious

@PhilGR Whatever works

First I would like to say that I've literally had those exact same thoughts before, and now their gone. And this state of depression your in is the cause of these thoughts, and don't worry about this being your future, because these thoughts are like if you didn't eat for a 2 days and started to starve, that feeling of starving is utter shit, but its simply because you lack food, not because 'this is the only state of my being' If your looking to get rid of depression that's a whole other thing. But if I'm answering your question, these thoughts will pretty much be with you while you have depression, at least from my experience. And my theory (note that I said theory so its nothing for sure) is that these thoughts might cause your depression. I mean I definitely can't evaluate your situation and give good feedback, but when these thoughts arise, if they feel 'real' or truthful, know that there not. All that I know is that I used to think like that, and then I challenged my beliefs on this issue of 'what's the point' and realized philosophically speaking, that the 'point' is what I wanted it to be. If you believe that 'there's no point' then naturally you will start to view everything that way, and your emotions will reflect that belief. Because realize there is a cause and affect relationship between beliefs and emotions, if a bear starts running at you, you will feel strong fear, but for all you know, there's a person in a bear suit. <--- you believed it was a real bear. Don't take this advice to seriously, but if you want to apply this, just go into your head and argue with yourself. If you understand the subjectivity of value and that Nialism is so right its wrong, you will realize the deeper philosophy behind it. (and argument for "everything is pointless" is unsustainable.) (Also I do realize I said "depression causes these thoughts" and also "thoughts causes this depression" what I meant to say is "beliefs cause these thoughts" and also "thoughts/beliefs cause these bad feelings") - Also note that other things can cause your depression, not just beliefs, experiences or possibly just medical reasons, though I don't suggest taking medication unless you have to, I've heard bad things about it.

@PhilGR Also a teen here, I've been watching Leo's videos and applying stuff for around maybe 6-12 months now?... I've been doing do-nothing meditation for 83 days, 20 minutes a day until 3 days ago when I started 25 minutes daily. I'm guessing because of you being serious about being an athlete, starting up a meditation habit will be somewhat easy, but you should push yourself if you feel you practically could. As far as spending time for swimming vs. self-actualization, that totally depends up to you, but you should ask yourself... - what's the pay-off of each task. - Which do I want to do more vs. which makes logical sense to do - What will I sacrifice for what I I don't know if your pursuing enlightenment... But I would definitely say wait + plan for future free time when you finish school to do self-inquiry type stuff. I doubt you would do that anyway now, because of your already limited free time, and even though its not ideal, you should wait to do self-inquiry. But if you think your up to it, you could try it. That's just some random advice, don't take it to seriously. Also don't underestimate this forum, you can ask pretty much any question with lots of educated people, search lots of valuable posts related to self-actualization/enlightenment stuff, etc.

@Psyche_92 Yea I sort of have the same thing, I don't know what it really means. But if the impatience is becoming a problem, then you should challenge yourself more whenever you find yourself being impatient. My theory is that meditation is proving to be really relaxing every time I do it, and I associate it with positive connotations. Whereas other stuff I associate with more negative connotations.

Ok so long story short. I'm 16 and I'm gay, and I came out to my friend recently. a couple of weeks leading up to that I was feeling really scared/nervous/emotional whenever I heard even someone mention LGBTQ stuff, why? Still not hundred percent sure but my current conclusion is that I'm insecure, not exactly sure the full details yet though... But then I had a period where it was so bad I decided that coming out would be better than this. And so I did. And it honestly caught me by surprise, because I expected for all the pain to go away, but I came to school nervous, which I told myself was fine, that nervousness was also really bad. And the nervousness is slowly going down... But there's this other thing that happens to me, where I'll be in class or somewhere and out of know here this emotional surge attacks me and I feel it go to my eyes, I haven't had any incidents where I end up just crying in class. But it happens way to frequently and its taking up priority number 1 on my list of problems, which I really don't want. I've managed to do two things which sort of help. And maybe will give you more clues about what I should. 1. Whenever I practice Do-Nothing meditation my mind always has a big relief if I'm currently stressed about a significant problem, I'm pretty sure its because my mind is working and trying to control all the little things going on inside of me, so whenever I feel like I'm about to cry I tell myself "I am doing nothing (or something similar)" and I can feel the emotional surge back down like relief. However its almost always in social situations, and I'm usually involved and multi-tasking in other stuff, and so it doesn't always work. 2. Sometimes I can feel and direct the emotional surge to other parts of my body, but that's only worked a couple of times, and its kind of hard and doesn't work great when I'm multi-tasking Notes: - The person I told was really cool about it, and I did it over text. Which during I was just really nervous, but didn't have any emotional breakdown. I don't know if I needed to talk in person about it, and maybe I still haven't released all the emotional insecurity? - My eyes feel kind of dry a lot, which triggers the emotional response. It could honestly be an emotional reaction because of my eyes being dry, because it has happened before, where my eyes get dry and I can feel my face get hot, and an emotional reaction I will take any advice regarding long-term solution, but its really important that I can get a short-term solution. And if there isn't any short term solutions, then I'm fucked lol, there's a lot else going on and I honestly might break into tears in public, which I know will hurt me like hell. If you can't think of any short-term/long-term solutions. Any advice one what this is, or how to figure it out, will be greatly appreciated.

@CuteCornDog I feel your pain... In the exact situation right now, probably not as bad as yours though.

Its really beautiful and poetic But also true

Cool Thanks!

But not for Leo, I like Leo more in a idol way (I don't worship him though)

yes, bi actually

Hi @Privet Have you tried do-nothing? It seems like your journey so far has been very traumatic, I'm sort of just curious if you've done it and found it to work, or not work.

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