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@Adeptus Psychonautica Good point. With "situations like famine, disease, atrocity", I didn't immediately think of Amazonian tribes who are suffering from unethical companies. I won't try to make the "LoA framework fit around this". Destruction is a form of creation. The globalized, tech-world is destroying the environment at the cost of a lot of suffering. And that's probably the next necessary step of evolution for this world. Just as it was necessary for empires to break down, in order to make something better and more peaceful out of it. I'm sure many innocent lives were lost in those processes, too. Whoever suffers is innocent. Life is bitter-sweet. Who am I to judge whether that's fair or not.

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There's something to be said about developmental psychology here. Poor physical conditions lead to poor/terrorized/traumatized psychological conditions and vice versa. Generally speaking, I don't think that most people who are in a situation like famine have the time and opportunity to learn about psychological wellbeing and spirituality - nor are they interested in it. Survival wise, it just makes sense to fill your stomach first. When 18h of your day are about filling your stomach, you don't have much time to contemplate the mind/LoA, no? What'd be an interesting experiment would be to take a "westerner who understands LoA", get him/her to a crisis zone, leave him/her with basically nothing, and see what he/she can make out of his/her developed mind and the given situation. If you take someone "who's developed all the way through" a model like Maslows hierarchy or spiral dynamics, I think that person would have far better chances to apply LoA in a crisis zone - but that's because that person probably didn't have to live through the gnarliest of conditions and had the opportunities to learn about the mind first, before going into the crisis zone. Though that very same person might not have the necessary survival skills that, say, someone, who's lived in a crisis area for 15 years, has. Idk. Just some thoughts on this. I think it's obvious that a (psychologically healthy) mother doesn't want to see their children die.

Not seeing is okay, the untangling of beliefs is step by step. You can certainly overdo it and disconnect from the present moment, but questioning & feeling within will give you all the answers. The confusion arises primarily from identification. Not believing + questioning thoughts is the first step. The 'seeing' occurs, when thoughts are no longer believed and the mind becomes relaxed. Within this quietude, clarity can arise.

Boldly assuming here, but judging from what I've read in this thread, you're experiencing blame in the above quote. Blame in the form of "c'mon man, you just don't want to answer". Again, judging and evaluating from what I've read in this thread, plenty of answers and pointers have been given already, so I don't think Phil avoids answering and giving 'his perspective'. It might be that you're experiencing blame and projecting it onto Phil. The Work by Byron Katie makes you turn around your beliefs. Soo.. in case you actually do experience blame, I'd turn it around and ask myself: Am I blaming Phil for poor explanation and not answering? Am I blaming Phil for not understanding leadership? Am I blaming myself for not understanding leadership? Am I projecting beliefs that I have about myself onto others? If so, how? I could be completely wrong about this, but if you happen to find any kind of resonance, I'd suggest contemplating the above. Contemplation, introspection & emptying - not chatting and dwelling on the given pointers. PS: With the questions, I'm not implying anything. I'm not implying that you don't understand leadership nor that Phil explains poorly (nor the opposite).

The universe already is in perfect synchronicity. I think what happens with synchronicities is that you line up with life, and "all of a sudden", you experience synchronicities everywhere. Not because they weren't already presently there, but because you synched up. I always used to think that synchronicities were somehow extraordinary or special, but they increasingly seem to be fundamental - and that is pure magic!

Already does. Look at a tree. That's source. Tree can also be a thought. (That's source-play, too.) What if a newborn looks at a tree? Does it know what a tree is? Or is the baby just marveled by the appearance of the tree, and everything around it? I find developing that sense of wonder, looking through the eyes of a newborn, is most essential for this 'work'.

Thanks for sharing! Makes me pretty excited to take a class for myself. 😁 I can confirm that it helps with sleeping/waking up/feeling refreshed. Maybe it was a coincidence, but I drew the Sei He Ki symbol for three consecutive days, woke up super refreshed every time. Now, I haven't done it for two days, and immediately I'm feeling rather drowsy in the morning.

@fopylo Yeah, it sure reminds me of something, it's somewhat of a recognition, but I can't really put my finger on it. Recognition? Yes. Time bound? Not sure.

@fopylo It struck me as pretty interesting, and I wanted to try it out. Up to this point, I'm really digging it, though I don't really 'get' it. The more often I draw/look at the Sei He Ki symbol, the more I can feel the energy behind it. Sounds super wonky, I know. Lol.

I'm 50/50 on the introverted/extroverted scale, that's why the program gave me both INFJ and ENFJ 😁

@Phil Yeah, I thought so too. Well damn, now you got me onto something. 😁

@Phil Sorry, already did/tried that "distance transmission" prior to asking. 😁 The question was more so aimed at the how. How would you go about it, technique-wise/approach-wise, if you wanted to try whether it works or not. I mean, I already tried by simply visualizing the symbol on her arm and shoulder, but I don't know if that's the proper way to do it. All I can tell is that my intention is sincere, but I don't know if my technique is equally "sincere"/proper. Way 1) Just do it (my go-to way of going about things) Way 2) Ask seemingly knowledgeable people (forum/reiki class/whatnot) Way 3) Let the universe surprise you Umm is that a saying or something like that? What mustard seed? 😂

@Phil My grandma has aches in her left shoulder and arm. Besides bringing her to the doc, can I help her from a distance by visualizing the Sei He Ki symbol on her left shoulder and her arm?

@Adeptus Psychonautica Amen. Classic case of "take what you like and leave the rest". 🙂

ENFJ-A/INFJ-A 🙂

If that's how you feel, have you ever considered riding a skateboard? Can you imagine giving it a shot?

My artsy heart is cheering. 🥳

Live in the gray world, no plants in your room, work a 9 to 5 you hate, not having any passions, get some fast food, slip out of your shoes and flick on the TV, rest real hard on the weekend and complain about Monday, complain about the weather, complain about the traffic and your co-workers, despise the forest, especially when it's raining, try to fit in, ridicule those who don't, seek the sleep, defy wakefulness, disregard art, don't try to understand your fellow human beings, judge them for who they are, judge yourself for who you are, gobble up your breakfast, jump from task to task ASAP, don't view life as precious but a boring grind, wither away instead of blossoming. Fitter Happier.

I love it! Ridin' the wave.

Update: The last four days, I always woke up 15 mins prior to my alarm. Been having trouble feeling refreshed in the morning since months. I'm also feeling much more aligned and comfortable in my skin. Whether drawing symbols has to do something with this?

There is suffering. Self-referential thinking. Unveiling identification through the emptying of self-referential thoughts, which results in a calm and peaceful mind. "There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path." - Buddha

It feels more true because it gives more credit to the creator that you are. You are your own authority. Classic psychotherapy 101: I'd question every thought which poses conditions upon yourself. Terms like "if/then, need, but, would, try" are signals to look out for. It can be a bit annoying to see how much of it is belief-based, but the bigger part of what is hindering is really beliefs. You yourself think that "someone like that doesn't get much respect" - what the people around you think doesn't matter. What's important to recognize is that you are projecting your own belief onto others, while it's really your own belief. If you think "someone like that doesn't get much respect", you project your belief onto others - as if the people around you are believing "someone like that doesn't get much respect". But you don't know that Check out Josh Kesselmann. Dude's a total goofball. He leads his company extraordinarily well, and I can imagine a lot of people thinking, "someone like that doesn't get much respect". So what. He doesn't believe that, and see there, he does great. "Being natural", on the other hand, makes life simple and sincere. What feels better, being natural or trying to be something? You become a leader when people are supporting your vision. Respect is a natural byproduct of that, but certainly not a necessary condition to start with your vision. You might wanna question who you are leading, when you're a leader. Yourself? Others? Both? You might even wanna be questioning if there's a leader at all, but that's a different topic. Speaking more practically, business literature (from my uni) differs between many forms of leaders. It'd be way too much to go into depth, but there's one pretty broad differentiation: the patriarchal leader vs. the "modern" leader. The patriarchal leader imposes respect externally, like a conservative father would, through penalties and giving loans. This form of leadership is slowly becoming outdated. The modern leader does not need to impose respect externally. The people working for him might resonate with his vision or with the working environment he offers. He doesn't need to give out penalties because his workers want to work for him.

@Phil Definitely. That's why the names for my music project files are titled something like "toast23". And then, when it's all sealed and done, I always have a hard time giving the track a name. No meaning behind the track, just feeling.

@Mandy @Phil Update: Drawing Reiki symbols felt very familiar. I've done Cho Ku Rei and Sei He Ki so far. Once I start, I kinda can't stop drawing. 😄 The reason it felt familiar was that I was already drawing similarly on my own. I'll attach a picture. What I drew was meaningless to me, but it just felt good to draw the lines in this way. I've read that the purpose of drawing the Reiki symbols is to tune in to the energies 'behind' the symbols. Perhaps I did some freestyle Reiki with my DIY symbols?! 🤣