(01-02-2019, 11:41 PM)MasterEnki Wrote: [ -> ] (01-02-2019, 03:58 PM)Greenduck Wrote: [ -> ] (01-02-2019, 03:40 PM)MasterEnki Wrote: [ -> ]@SaltyMeatballs
Shannon makes a good suggestion. Read the journals to get a more rounded perspective on what a particular sub can do (different people get different kinds of results).
@Greenduck
I probably shouldn’t use stereotypical labels, but the typical person considers me to be a nerd, etc.
Nerd = my interests are video games, sci-fi, cartoons, anime, comic books, superheroes, role playing, anthropomorphic characters, the undead, reading.
The typical / average person considers people with those interests to be a huge nerd. And I’m okay with being labelled as such.
Socially awkward = I usually say something that creeps people out (even when I think everything is non-creepy). People will regularly suddenly cross their arms, or walk away, or make excuses to avoid talking to me, or tell me bluntly that I said something ‘inappropriate’, etc. And I never know what to say. Whenever I think something is appropriate and comforting, it generally isn’t. People often react in ways that confuse me, or that are completely different from the way I imagine them reacting in situations. Etc.
Weird = I am different from the average / typical person. Didn’t say my first word until 3.5 yo, started my education in ‘special school’ (before being moved to ‘mainstream’), no sexual experience at 31yo, non-drinker / avoid alcohol (this alone gets me plenty of ‘weird’ labels), prefers ‘alternative’ music, some interests that are considered ‘weird’ by others, etc.
When I’m enjoying my interests / hobbies I’m not really thinking that I’m a nerd. It’s only within social contexts that labels come up. People literally say that I’m nerdy, awkward, weird, etc. (so I just adopted the same labels that they use).
LTU 5G helped with ‘pride’ (nerd pride!) and self-acceptance. I really like who I am. Some people tell me that I need to become more ‘normal’, and I think ‘no f*cking way do I want to be ‘normal’. I just want to be me’.
I am working on developing a self-image as a powerful, unique, awesome individual person.
Ok I’m WIth you 
I like your attitude man, not many people who have the guts to follow their own interests/dreams. Most people just do what other people do. But maybe you could benefit on developing your “neutral” persona it sounds like that at least. So you can blend in when you want to and be yourself when you feel that is appropriate. I would look at doing some energy work and maybe go with E2, but you’ll know that best yourself n take care’
I should probably wait for E3, if it is going to be the same price as E2...
I do have plans to do another E run some time. I also plan to try some ASC 6G, once it is available.
Haven’t yet decided exactly what to run from Feb 2019 and onwards (after I wrap up AYPFWB, and have a quick sub-break).
The main point I was making, is that LTU 5G helped, noticeably, with self-acceptance and being cool with my ‘nerdy’ interests, etc.
I cop a bit of crap over my interests from some people, and these days I’m pretty comfortable having ‘nerdy’ interests.
As for energy work... That sounds like a good idea. I do have more ‘heart chakra’ energy than before.
Actually, that is something that I have noticed post-LTU 5G... more warmth in the ‘heart chakra’.
I do want more ‘Third Eye’ though, since that should help quite a bit with manifestation / law of attraction. (at least that is what I have read in the past about it).
Interesting. The heart chakra is about acceptence (and self acceptance and self love included in that).
I would spontaneously say that you would need lower chakra work. Why people cross their arms is to protect their energy center as you are in some way being needy (by for example have a weak self image and needing their validation of it, even if it’s a negative one like feeling like a “nerd”). By working on your third chakra this can be strengthened but I would recommend working “bottom-up” which is the general rule of thumb in working with your chakras, i.e. starting with root, then sacral and then solar plexus. I’m doing a meditation for the root chakra which are starting to have effects, and I feel that E2 is helping with both root and sacral chakra clearing. And I’m doing cold showers for solar plexus. //rant
I’ve been having hot baths regularly. Not so much for chakra work though. More for physical body. But if cold showers can affect chakras, then hot baths might too.
Do you know of any effective techniques? Like do you do visualisation, or mantra(s), or tapping, etc?
I think I remember an old member here talking about tapping on chakras to clear them or something???
In 2012, I read about a ‘meditation’ where you lie down in a prone position, and focus on each chakra while imagining energy flowing into each chakra 3 times (IIRC). And that this was one of those ‘the more you do it, the better the results’ type deals. You cycle through each chakra, and then repeat as many times as you like or need. I tried it for a few weeks, and got bored of it. I don’t recall any amazing results, but I probably didn’t give it enough time to really see results.
Maybe E3 or LTU 5.5G will have something aimed at chakras / energy clearing? (I will most likely be doing one of these in 2019, probably E3... unless I can save up for LTU 5.5G).
I’m currently taking a conscious approach to removing limiting beliefs (or balancing them, rather). So I’m consciously focusing on anything I enjoy doing by myself, and regularly reflecting on how I can have heaps of fun by myself, and I enjoy being by myself, and how I can live a happy life by myself (without anyone else), and I’m focusing on being independent. But I also identify the need to balance it out with ‘I love being alone, but I also enjoy spending some time with others’ type of mindset.
I have a list of limiting beliefs that MAY be holding me back. I don’t know what my subconscious believes exactly, compared to my conscious. This list has things like:
‘You need to be genetically superior if you want sex, since sex is only about passing superior genes on to offspring. Survival of the fittest. Natural selection, etc. Many people miss out, and never have sex, and are unworthy of sex since they have inferior genes, and so on’.
That example is quite a bad limiting belief to have, but many people have it, since it is what we were taught in highschool science, and scientists say it all the time. I have others I wrote down, and consider it a good idea to balance each one with an opposing belief. For example:
‘Everyone is sexually attractive to someone, regardless of genes. Sex is a way of having fun with someone, or sharing yourself with someone, etc. Everyone is worthy of sex. Everyone deserves to have sex. Everyone has rights to have sex, and so on’.
I have non-sex goals too. But one of my big goals is to get a really suited partner / sexual partner who is a good / highly compatiable match for me.
A ‘chakra tune-up’ sounds like an interesting idea. Having a non-sub toolbox seems quite smart, so that the conscious mind can work on something, while letting the subconscious execute the sub (without conscious interference).
(01-03-2019, 03:02 PM)MasterEnki Wrote: [ -> ]I’ve been having hot baths regularly. Not so much for chakra work though. More for physical body. But if cold showers can affect chakras, then hot baths might too.
Do you know of any effective techniques? Like do you do visualisation, or mantra(s), or tapping, etc?
I think I remember an old member here talking about tapping on chakras to clear them or something???
In 2012, I read about a ‘meditation’ where you lie down in a prone position, and focus on each chakra while imagining energy flowing into each chakra 3 times (IIRC). And that this was one of those ‘the more you do it, the better the results’ type deals. You cycle through each chakra, and then repeat as many times as you like or need. I tried it for a few weeks, and got bored of it. I don’t recall any amazing results, but I probably didn’t give it enough time to really see results.
Maybe E3 or LTU 5.5G will have something aimed at chakras / energy clearing? (I will most likely be doing one of these in 2019, probably E3... unless I can save up for LTU 5.5G).
I’m currently taking a conscious approach to removing limiting beliefs (or balancing them, rather). So I’m consciously focusing on anything I enjoy doing by myself, and regularly reflecting on how I can have heaps of fun by myself, and I enjoy being by myself, and how I can live a happy life by myself (without anyone else), and I’m focusing on being independent. But I also identify the need to balance it out with ‘I love being alone, but I also enjoy spending some time with others’ type of mindset.
I have a list of limiting beliefs that MAY be holding me back. I don’t know what my subconscious believes exactly, compared to my conscious. This list has things like:
‘You need to be genetically superior if you want sex, since sex is only about passing superior genes on to offspring. Survival of the fittest. Natural selection, etc. Many people miss out, and never have sex, and are unworthy of sex since they have inferior genes, and so on’.
That example is quite a bad limiting belief to have, but many people have it, since it is what we were taught in highschool science, and scientists say it all the time. I have others I wrote down, and consider it a good idea to balance each one with an opposing belief. For example:
‘Everyone is sexually attractive to someone, regardless of genes. Sex is a way of having fun with someone, or sharing yourself with someone, etc. Everyone is worthy of sex. Everyone deserves to have sex. Everyone has rights to have sex, and so on’.
I have non-sex goals too. But one of my big goals is to get a really suited partner / sexual partner who is a good / highly compatiable match for me.
A ‘chakra tune-up’ sounds like an interesting idea. Having a non-sub toolbox seems quite smart, so that the conscious mind can work on something, while letting the subconscious execute the sub (without conscious interference).
Hot baths are recommended for root chakra and bodily relaxation.
I do chanting meditation every morning and night for root chakra. (Google root chakra healing meditation and you'll find the meditation series). I haven't done any tapping.
Chakra meditation may take time to have effect. I would say that chanting is more effective than visualization, at least for lower chakras. They are more dense and need stronger vibrations to be stimulated, where chanting (your voice) is a stronger vibration than visualisation (your imagination and thoughts). Don't quote me on this, I have read some on chakras and this is my own deduction but someone more experienced could maybe chip in).
Shannon replied to me that subliminals already target something that in turn affect the chakras. He just said that, so a bit mysterious...
Regarding your beliefs on your own worth on being sexually worthy, I would say that this is a work of over-thinking. It's not really that your mind have deducted that you are of a lower sexual worth and therefore given your that belief, but rather that your mind have deducted from being thought that people who don't have sex is of a lower sexual worth (see the difference? One based on your physical reality and the other one based on what other people, may it be scientists or whatever, say about the thing). What I mean is that how you look at yourself isn't a direct by-product of your physical reality, but rather a construct of your mind, hence - beliefs and not realities. I would recommend you to meditate, as you will start to challenge this beliefs and understand them better.
I have seen people who are slobs, not earning a lot of money, but still having a lot of sex. Sexual opportunity is not
only on your value in the society, it's about how you
feel about yourself (couldn't put more emphasis on this). If you feel good about yourself (which has little to do with your income level) you will attract other people, you will be relaxed and be able to enjoy sex, and you will have sex. And most importantly, you will be able to enjoy the moment because you are happy with life as it is, with or without sex. Not only because you tell yourself this, but because you truly enjoy living life by knowing who you are, your goals, your ambitions, your needs, your interest and being proud of all that. That is a good goal to go after.
But earning good money, being successful, etc. is icing in the cake and sure can't be in the way of attracting a more long term partner. But if you don't feel good about yourself as you are, that will always be undermined by your lack of feeling of self worth.