Which tool(s) did you experience the most benefit from?

[d0ornokey]

In your direct experience. 

For me, neurofeedback gave me the most benefit by far. Better mood, mental clarity, happiness

[Rinne]

Mindfulness and flatting out thoughts illusory nature. Big time. 

[Hansu]

I was pretty heavily alcoholic (2-3 heavy drinking nights a week) when I watched Leo's video on "awaraness alone is curative" and derived my own version of the method descriped in the video to get rid of alcohol and my method went like this:

1 when at home, take a bottle of whisky and pour yourself a shot

2 everytime you get a feeling that you need to take a shot, or if you think about alcohol, or even if you look at the shot you have to pick it up

3 pull it under your nose and smell it, think how it tastes, how it makes you feel, the hangover, how it affects your social situations, future and basically tap into every negative emotion that you have with alcohol and dvelve in it

4 you should notice your hand shaking as it becomes impossible to drink that shot

5 dispose of the shot when you go to sleep

 

During my first 2 weeks i did this excersise countless times. The first day i did it over 15 freaking times. After those first 2 weeks i just dropped the method and in the past 2 months, i have gotten only once heavily drunk, and few nights i have gone with max 6 drinks. Changed my life

 

Edit: funny thing, at one point i tried to force myself into drinking the shot, but everytime i tried i just couldnt. Then my mind literally began to distract me from focusing on the shot with all kind of imaginations and thoughts

 

Edit2: if someone here tries out this technique, please PM me for your results. I have noticed that it works much better with hard addictions such as alcohol, tobacco and drug addictions but with minor addictions with less noticable side effects its less effective

Edited July 24, 2018 by Hansu

[Zweistein]

Self-inquiry. I have been doing Byron Katie's "the work" for a few years and it's magical. I have reached a point where I feel like I can clearly see my issues (and I see them once I observe myself giving advice - then I "turn it around" and I can find out what I'm projecting). But it doesn't just help with that - one also learns to see other people's issues that way, simply by understanding why they tend to give you certain advice.

Oh yes, I know - it sounds like I have it all figured out. Don't worry, I still have some work left to do ?

[Brittany]

Non-duality

[pluto]

The tool that you believe will work best for you, generally will work best for you.

[ChimpBrain]

I would say basic meditation and mindfulness combined with Leo's help understanding the nature of ego. All of my triggers, motivations, fears, desires, biases, etc, are so much more clear to me now than they ever were before. This has improved my life tremendously, although I still have soooo much work to do lol

[Zweistein]

5 hours ago, pluto said:

The tool that you believe will work best for you, generally will work best for you.

? Amen! 

[Toby]

Many things but one "tool" I would be happy to have known earlier is TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises). It is surprisingly simple and powerful.

[waking_dreams]

Here's my toolbox:
commonplace book
life purpose
daily meditation practice
studying and learning theory
solo psychedelic trips
eat well, gym 4x/wk    (my life purpose is fitness related)
dream journal + reality checks, allows for lucid dream exploration.
The lucid dream exploration is itself an avenue for exploration and understanding of the subconscious mind which is useful for doing shadow work, among other things. The dream exploration practice also helped uproot my beliefs about the nature of reality to the point where I've had direct experience of being unable to tell the difference between waking physical reality and dreaming while I was awake. 

[PetarKa]

@Joseph Maynor Hard work is essential. I agree. But it is not enough.

Smart effort is what it's all about.

Banging your head against the wall is "hard work" as well.

Balance is required - hard work vs being smart

[SpyAquamarine]

Colon cleansing and then a detox and some herbs.

Everybody will benefit amazingly if doing a colon cleasing at least once a year. Twice or every season change if possible. I truly believe it could change the world.

We are literally full of shit to the brim.

Need to do it again soon.

[d0ornokey]

@SpyAquamarine do you have resources for this?

[ajasatya]

zazen, hatha yoga, kundalini yoga, ayahuasca and healthy food

[okulele]

• Meditation - I think I don't have to expand on that. It's a life changer. Literally.
• Solo travel - made me really self-reliable, couragous, helped me get unatached from my family and stuff.

[Leo-Tzu]

Minimalistic lifestyle

[ValiantSalvatore]

Meditation / Mindfulness meditation -> helps to build a daily structure, mental clarity, equanimity, perspective about ones goals and values, introspection, concentration, will power, changing habits or building new ones , helps with sports for instance noticing self-defeating thoughts or counting ones steps while jogging, other small things for instance not forgetting where I placed an object in my room, feeling better about studying and recognizing self-defeating thoughts, also my mental health is better way better

Journaling -> goal setting, planning, mental health, happiness, self-expression, writing abillity / skill, increases vocabulary, jotting down what one has learned through out the day or from books improves retention , good for some personal development excercises 

Shadow work -> incoperating disowned elements of myself, being too needy, too angry, too lethargic, arrogant, manipulative, negative, not arrogant / confident enough, self-doubt, courage  etc. expressing them in a healthy way and not feeling guilty about it or unconscious about these aspects of my personality

Solo travels -> courage, growing out of my comfort zone, exploring, expanding my horizion, exploring different cultures and perspectives , meeting different people and learning from them / making friends, dealing with uncertainty and chaos, managing my own budget,  dealing with people from different cultures and working with them. 

 

Looking forward to retreats and yoga and fking reading more books. 

[SpyAquamarine]

21 hours ago, d0ornokey said:

@SpyAquamarine do you have resources for this?

It is just my personal expeience and how I felt when I did it. Research if it calls you. There are many kits out there and now that I know the ins and outs I gathered all the stuff necessary and can home make a simple one whenever I want.

 

[InfinitePotential]

Cleaning up diet

Optimizing diet

Transcendental meditation 

Noting meditation

Self-inquiry

Other consciousness work (feeling gratitude, love, acceptance, etc, appreciating existence, aware of awareness, do nothing, body awareness etc) 

Buteyko breathing

Various healthy lifestyle habits

Reading

Watching the actualized videos, often multiple times, and other self improvement stuff 

Watching videos from spiritual teachers 

 

Need to do kriya yoga and journaling more. Kriya yoga feels incredibly effective, I often have crazy dreams after that feel like they may be astral projectiony. And journaling I know is extremely good for you, and it would be insanely valuable to have notes on all the important stuff I've read and watched over the years. And to get thoughts out of the head and onto paper / screen

[Sashaj]

Hi, I’m new here and this is my first post

for me it was developing an “I don’t give a f$ck!” additude

better than anything I’ve tried before hahaha

And it’s an awesome attitude to have while you are getting into stuff like meditation etc