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 WhiskeyClone
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JacquesCousteau said:
Hurt is inevitable. EVERYBODY hurts.
However, pain is not suffering. Suffering is the real culprit.
Suffering is what happens when we resist our pain. It is denial.
Instead, we should be accepting it--and being with it--so that our subconscious minds and spirits can move through the pain and into healing.
It is so very okay to feel pain. It is okay to hurt. Everybody hurts. It might seem unpleasant at first, but notice how that is actually your mind resisting the experience of the pain. If you give into the experience and just BE with your pain, the mind will no longer criticize and you will be free in your experience of hurt.
Great post JC
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Do you believe meditation may help me come to terms with myself? Perhaps, since I do not feel ready to talk to somebody meditation would either help me do that or help me in other ways. Would it be beneficial to find a nice quiet place and learn to meditate? If so, anything I could read online to help me out?
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JacquesCousteau
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 Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: Anonymous]
#8657890 - 07/20/08 07:08 AM (1 month, 1 day ago) |
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Absolutely. What I am describing in my posts above is meditation in action. It is the very process of meditative practice. Accept, and be, in the moment. That is all there is to meditation. Experience the feelings that are meant to come to you, instead of pushing them away. Allow them to flow through you, without concern. They are not YOU. They are just an experience that is passing through your lens.
I don't know of any specific aids on meditation that i would recommend. This board has had some really great posts in the past, though. I strongly encourage you to use the search feature, and to see what other users have offered each other on the subject of meditaiton aid. There is a wealth of information right here at the shroomery.
Beyond that, I can at least give you the names of some really strong spiritual teachers who have changed my reality. Here are wiki links to my two favorite spiritual teachers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle - I would STRONGLY recommend reading "The Power Of Now"... it is a wealth of wisdom that I can't even begin to describe. It's not just the content, but the way it's done... it's really quite a phenomenal tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass - Known for his book, "Be Here Now"... but I find that his lecture work is VASTLY more informative and brimming with wisdom.
With love,
-jC 
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So what is your dilly? Are you flim flam or wiggle wog?
What's the pickle pouch?
Edited by JacquesCousteau (07/20/08 09:44 AM)
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AlphaFalfa
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: JacquesCousteau]
#8665919 - 07/21/08 11:47 PM (30 days, 21 hours ago) |
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Hey
I cant really relate to you.
I have had a fucked up story myself.
One day when I was about ten years old, I came to the conclusion that I had HIV. The reason was that during a speech on AIDS, a grade 5 class mate said that AIDS is created, when two(2) males touch their penises together.
I did this exact thing and indeed I probally did it days before this happened.
I honestly cant remember that day, what a nightmare.
I went through 8 years of constant anxiety about death and at around the age of 13-17 the anxiety that I had infected all of my family members, the people that at the time were the most important experiences in my life.
Well thats my story, here I am now 21, 3 years since I found out and its still a hell, one that a challenge now though, which puts me through the chaos.
I have one question;
what does this mean to you?
"Thanks for the help. I'm trying not to let him win, but its fucking hard."
I ask this because for me to give you anything that may help, I want to understand this sentence and its meaning.
Call me a psychological thought investigator, thanks for giving me the chance by coming out with your problem, BTW.
Edited by AlphaFalfa (07/21/08 11:48 PM)
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Fler
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: JacquesCousteau]
#8674950 - 07/24/08 02:09 AM (28 days, 18 hours ago) |
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JacquesCousteau said:
Absolutely. What I am describing in my posts above is meditation in action. It is the very process of meditative practice. Accept, and be, in the moment. That is all there is to meditation. Experience the feelings that are meant to come to you, instead of pushing them away. Allow them to flow through you, without concern. They are not YOU. They are just an experience that is passing through your lens.
I don't know of any specific aids on meditation that i would recommend. This board has had some really great posts in the past, though. I strongly encourage you to use the search feature, and to see what other users have offered each other on the subject of meditaiton aid. There is a wealth of information right here at the shroomery.
Beyond that, I can at least give you the names of some really strong spiritual teachers who have changed my reality. Here are wiki links to my two favorite spiritual teachers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle - I would STRONGLY recommend reading "The Power Of Now"... it is a wealth of wisdom that I can't even begin to describe. It's not just the content, but the way it's done... it's really quite a phenomenal tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass - Known for his book, "Be Here Now"... but I find that his lecture work is VASTLY more informative and brimming with wisdom.
With love,
-jC
Great post!
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Anonymous
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: Anonymous]
#8677058 - 07/24/08 04:31 PM (28 days, 4 hours ago) |
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I've got it. This is the first part my REAL life. Thanks all.
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WhiskeyClone
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: Anonymous]
#8677709 - 07/24/08 08:17 PM (28 days, 39 minutes ago) |
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Keep us posted.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#8678160 - 07/24/08 10:02 PM (27 days, 22 hours ago) |
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http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Paths-Happiness/dp/1840720034/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216958331&sr=8-1
Its not bullshit. But it won't help 99% of people. Just reading one line puts a smile on my face.
"You may be powerful enough to control an army but have you the power to control yourself?"
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
Little quotes like that.
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JacquesCousteau
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: Anonymous]
#8679462 - 07/25/08 08:02 AM (27 days, 12 hours ago) |
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Anonymous said:
I've got it. This is the first part my REAL life. Thanks all.
:) 
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So what is your dilly? Are you flim flam or wiggle wog?
What's the pickle pouch?
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 hankydanky2k
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Re: A post from the heart. My Life Story. [Re: Anonymous]
#8682795 - 07/26/08 01:56 AM (26 days, 19 hours ago) |
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Wow, I thoroughly enjoyed the sincerity of this post. I have had other (multiple) male friends who were sexually assaulted by other males when they were younger, and I can never feel okay about this.
You are lucky in a way.
When I was a baby my dad, supposedly, slapped my mom twenty times across her face, while she was holding me. This was only the start of a world of nightmares which involved a massive DECADE long divorce battle and sibling separation as well as constant lies and manipulation from both parents sides. I still routinely see and think about mangled up bodies and dead babies even if I am actually walking around a field of flowers. I have woken up with sweat and fear on many nights, but I actually feel grateful now that I see my case could be worse.
I am sure you have heard this and will probably never believe it for a second, but it must be said, you did nothing wrong and nothing is wrong with you. You deserve more or you wouldn't have made that post in the first place.
EDITTED: I read all the posts in this thread and changed my reply accordingly.
My friend just saw a genuine traditional fruedian phsychotherapist and said they focused on his sexuality like no other therapist ever did, and they went over his whole history and analyzed the entire thing. Sigmund Freud is considered by many to be the father of all of psychology. You have been asking very intently on what kind of therapy and I don't think you have been given this answer yet.
As far as I know the older style psychotherapists are usually more expensive than, oh I don't know, say the kind that help a fat 40 year old retard get over the fact that "his" team lost the superbowl last year. It might even help if you read a bit about Frued first to get more comfortable so you can trust the psychologist more. Interperatations of Dreams was his first writing on psychology, and might help you interpret your own dreams so they eventually get better. Freud talked a lot about sexual stages of development in children and about the subconscious influences this has on us for the rest of our lives, and he seems to be right about most of it.
As for you new mind set of this being the start of you REAL life, I would revise it slightly. This life has always been real, it just hasn't always been yours. May this be the start of YOUR life, real or not. Get it?
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The above post is fictitous, and any coincedence between it and real people, places, or events is unintentional.
Edited by hankydanky2k (07/26/08 02:29 AM)
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