Kevin

Just my two cents but back when I was in college I thought meditation was stupid. For some reason though I started doing it just ten minutes a day. I did that for maybe a month or 2 before I stopped and I didn’t pick it up again until the last year. Reason I started again was because the benefits the first time were so great. Perhaps just trying 5 minutes a day and doing it consistently you will appreciate the benefits enough that you actually enjoy doing it. At least that’s what happened with me.

The previous paragraph really struck me. Seems like what’s being suggested is that there could be a mutual attraction but neither party is acting on it. Some discordant thoughts that arise are that I need to man up and do something. Which is perhaps true but the framing of this feels off to me. Also ruminating on whether or not a girl likes me is most likely pointless however. It seems sort of habitual that those thoughts arise when I am attracted to a women. beautiful. One discordant thought that arises is that it is weak to show that you like someone unless they like you first. I’ve had this belief as long as I can remember. Not sure what it’s about but it kinda sucks to think that way. sounds like. When I feel bad and am unwilling to inspect and let go of beliefs, the discordant beliefs will be covered up by more discordant beliefs. Like I need to make more money or somehow be different to attract a women. Or pick up for example could be an attempt to fix how I feel while holding on to negative beliefs like I’m unworthy. I think what I’m doing is holding on to negative beliefs and thoughts and instead of letting them go I want to keep them and feel better at the same time so I have hope for a better future. Where if I do enough meditation things will be ok. This really resonates thank you. Yes thank you. I read what you wrote last night then decided to sleep on it and read it again before I responded. It all resonated beautifully and I appreciate the response.

Basically I’ve been struggling for a while. I’ll go through short periods where things get a lot better for me emotionally but It seems like I always end up starting to feel sad again because not a lot changes. Mainly I feel bad because I get lonely and I don’t have many friends. Also I haven’t had a girlfriend in a while which gets me down. I know it’s not the situation but my thoughts about it that get me down. For example it’s not being single that sucks, it is me thinking girls don’t like me and that’s why I’m single. I understand that staying in that negative mindset isn’t helping so I snap out of it after a couple days. I’ll start to work out and meditate and feel good. I’ll build lots of positive momentum too but my life just stays the same and eventually it just hits me that I’m putting forth all this effort and I’m still alone. basically I feel trapped in this up and down cycle. It’s exhausting and right now I’m just really not enjoying life. I usually don’t express this stuff to others so I’m hoping expressing here will be helpful.

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Thank you for sharing. I love David Hawkins. He’s one of my favorite authors.

Lmao god has come to this forum to teach the unenlightened a beginners class on solipsism.

Your energy is kinda off bro so not really tryna engage too much. I will say your logic is good but it’s built on a lot of unquestioned assumptions. I fully get where your coming from. I used to totally believe in solipsism too. But then I realized I don’t actually know and I’m assuming a lot of things.

If you believe in solipsism why are you telling us about it in somewhat of an aggressive manner?

Awesome I appreciate the response. I was probably reading too much into the short video you posted because I’m in agreement with what you posted here.

I agree that for Leo who paints himself as a guru and claims to be god realized the behavior he is exibiting is suspect. However, where you and others posting here have lost me is where you guys sound very anti nightlife. Also it seems that you are saying that having sex with girls who have had anything to drink is wrong. just want to reiterate, I’m fully on board with the criticism of Leo. However I think that being drunk does not stop anyone from consenting. I believe if someone is very drunk then yes it stops them from consenting. But if someone is aware of what’s going on they can still decide to have sex or not. I think a lot of people, both men and women, want to have sex. Earlier in the thread someone called these drunk women “bar hags” which I think is very harsh. I think people want to come together. They want to go out and meet people. And if they like a person they want to have sex. I think it’s very harsh to paint the men who do this as predators and the women who do this as bar hags and sluts. I’ve gone out to bars in my college days in California and I’ve been out in Vegas and the people that go out are normal people that just want to connect. For the most part they aren’t predators and sluts. Basically I agree with the criticism of Leo because he paints himself as an enlightened guru but i think a lot of people in this thread are being very critical of regular people wanting to go out and have fun and I don’t think being a little bit drunk stops you from consenting.

Hey just wanna say I’m not a Leo fan at all but I just want to add an alternate perspective and see what people think. He seems to be framing Leo going to a nightclub as predatory. I checked out another video of his as well where he talks about this. Also it sounds like he’s saying women aren’t totally able to consent when they are drinking. my perspective is that if Leo is specifically targeting girls that are absolutely wasted and barely aware of where they are that’s not ok. However I don’t think there’s anything wrong with sleeping with girls who have been drinking. Maybe I’m missing something here because while I think there is a lot to criticize about Leo going after him for hitting on girls in nightclubs seems like a stretch. It would be cool if the guy in the video had an account here. I’d love to hear from him in more detail.

Interesting. I wish I had some insight on what it’s all about. I haven’t had one of those dreams since I was a kid and usually I don’t think about them.

What you wrote sounds very familiar. Like the content of my dreams was different but the emotions and feeling of it are spot on.

This is super weird because as a kid I used to get this recurring nightmare that sounds very close to what your experiencing. It’s very hard for me to describe as well because when I would wake up from it I couldn’t remember it well and words failed me. Basically it just felt like the proportions of everything were way off in the dream which would be terrifying somehow. It would feel very overwhelming and scary. Reading through your post really reminded me of it.

Hey y’all, just wondering if anyone has experience with kundalini yoga? Is it helpful? Is it possible to do it too much? I just did a session today and it seemed to be very helpful but also a little intense and I don’t want to overdo it.

Beautiful thank you 🙏

I like this. It feels good to do it. I can barely say the alphabet once. Hopefully doing it more helps with the lung capacity.

I’ve noticed a lot of similar stuff with the throat chakra. It’s crazy how profound the change can to your voice when you go from being afraid speaking up to being able to project your voice and speak confidently. Have you noticed you can sing better? I used to think I’d never be able to sing. I thought I was terrible. But as my throat chakra has relaxed and opened I’ve gotten way better

Hey y’all just wanted to share something that’s helped me. Basically I’ve been very intentionally breathing from the stomach all day and it’s surprising how helpful it is. I normally experience a lot of anxiety throughout the day but breathing from the stomach has helped tremendously. Seems pretty obvious in retrospect but I just wanted to share.

So I’ve had an emotionally difficult couple of weeks. The common theme seems to be that I’m just tired of being me. I feel lonely and I think negative thoughts like I’m lonely because I’m not worthy of connecting with others. And sometimes I think it would be better if I wasn’t here which feels terrible. Just to be clear I would never kill myself, but sometimes the thought that it would be better if I was gone comes up. Lately I’ve been noticing how all my negative moods and my negative ideas about people and the world are literally me arguing with reality. I’m noticing how I have to put in an actual effort towards being negative. It seems that when I’m in a bad mood things aren’t actually bad but I’m insisting on things being shitty. I don’t know how to stop doing this and so I feel guilty for being so negative and sad.

I still struggle occasionally. Lots of things helped. Talking to Phil helped. Meditation helped. I’ve mostly stopped paying attention to the actualized forum which has helped. I noticed I’d get anxious reading posts there. one insight I had recently is that It’s the thoughts about solipsism that feel bad. I actually have no idea if solipsism is true or not but when I focus on it being true and how lonely it feels I feel terrible. I don’t know it is for others but I realized I was taking that bad feeling as confirmation that it’s true. So basically most helpful things for me were the emotional scale and meditation as well getting some space from the solipsism echo chambers. Once you get some space from focusing on it better perspectives will come

Also just thought of this but if you are socializing with people you enjoy being around are you still worried about solipsism? Just curious because for me when I am having a lot of fun with people I don’t really think about solipsism. It feels good to connect even if I don’t know what’s actually going on the experience is still beautiful.

Hey brother. Really glad you made this topic. This is something I’ve struggled with for a while so maybe I’ll have something good to say. One thing that really helped me is noticing that 99% of spiritual teachers say that truth is amazing and it seems as though peoples lives improve tremendously on the path. So I assume I must be misinterpreting something or missing the mark because getting deep into believing solipsism feels awful.