ShaktiMama

yes, for sure. but i am for one just too tired to do that right now...sometimes it really is easier to just take something. I just know that when my chi levels are higher I don't get bothered on stuff like that.

yes homeopathics can be. I notice when I walk into a health store and move past a display of them I can hear them all talking their signatures in these loud whispered voices. Kinda freaky. I just bought a blend called Outdoor Allergy by bioAllers at Whole Foods. I will let you know how it works. The nasal spray I use ends up being a neti pot with my awkward use of it. s

do it and see what happens...start just with sitting meditation If you want to jump ahead to the good stuff without a lot of the dogma and written for westerners. westerners=beginners http://www.amazon.com/Art-Sexual-Ecstasy-Sexuality-Western/dp/0874775817 s

I never had allergies until I moved from a wet climate (florida) to a dry climate (colorado) which is what people tell you to do if you have em. The ONLY thing that seems to give me the most relief is to move to non processed food with no sugar with minimal dairy, minimal grains (like one serving of bread a day if that). I try to get in a pound or two of veggies and a pound of berry type fruits a day. (I have a vitamix or otherwise I wouldn't eat so much good for you food.) I keep meat down to a couple of servings a week. Lotsa bean type stuff but I stay away from things like processed soy or whatever you get off the shelf that people say is good for you but is full of crappy ingredients. I make most of my own food. I am starting to grow my own food. using this system. I think that strengthens my constitution which keeps down the allergy susceptibility. Right now I am suffering because i veered off for awhile from eating that way. I can go thru a half a box of tissues in the AM and rub my eyes till they are raw and puffy from the itching. The whole food diet is the only thing that really helps me. Doesn't have to be raw. Too much raw is too much yin for me. I use a lot of nasal spray with aloe too to keep my nose from getting sore. I am miserable with it right now. I am going to check for some homeopathic remedies at the store today. I do not otherwise use any OTC or prescription treatments. s

I never thought of it as a way of controlling what happens to you. It is a way to control our perceptions and reactions to what happens to us. Nothing has meaning until we give it meaning or make it meaningful. You can choose to respond differently than the common herd. WHen people choose to live their lives in reaction to what is happening rather live pro-actively they lose their ability to make choices for themselves. They tend to feel like they are a puppet of the puppet master. Negative expectations will create negative experiences. Why not do what we can to change that? If anything, people will be happier.

I agree. I dont think of myself as a shaman although I have lots of shamanic abilities. The path chooses you...you have no choice is how I understand it from other shamans. You submit to the path or you die. s

Cancelled. I am losing my voice. Allergy season is particularly tough right now. s

Consider this is part of your initiation. s

My friend, Mr. Snowmonkey as I think he is known on this list, gave me this a few years back. It is a nice overview written by a real native shaman. So you wanna be a Shaman.pdf

we all do... s

You can call what I shared with you as Looking Within. Or you can call it what I did...your external reality is the projection of your fears and hope or your internal landscape. So while you describe to us your external world, your viewpoints, you are sharing with us a very accurate description of your internal, within beliefs. So don't look within. Look at how people treat you and respond to you. People will only treat you with the expectations you have of them. In fact you say this ALL the time if I am not mistaken. If you want to feel better about yourself, change those beliefs you have about others and yourself. Yes...that is looking within. Change your internal landscape and your external landscape will change. You think that people believe Everything is look within for the answer. That's what you believe. That doesn't make it so. What one believes and what is so is often not even close. did you do your Qigong practice today? That will change your internal landscape and heal your outer world projections quickly much quicker than mental inquiry. s

Thx but I want to say I was initially responding to BOL, or starhawk or one of the other guys but Non jumped in and made the thread more about himself and his problems. I think that Blasto or someone made a comment that these guys are like brothers of another mother. Or maybe I just wished he had. but, you are right, I can erase one name and substitute another...same old shyte, different day, different person. Totally unappetizing dating material let alone being a lover material. I would have to say advice is not always one size fits all but lately I am wondering. I hated my 20s. I was an a$$hole and a bitch of the first order. Why? Cause I hated myself inside but I didnt know it. I thought men were jerks who just wanted to get laid and be gross. In my 30s I started to see a glimmer of hope of getting my act together. Shakti was a big help in helping me see within and heal the hurt and darkness that was there. Qigong will do the same too if one focuses on healing the heart, the spleen, the lungs, the kidneys, and liver. Once the healing begins there, everything else starts to heal up in the outside life. My projections get healed. Now I only believe that to be an misogynistic a$$hole you have to be at least in your 20s. Ok..just a joke. yesterday I left to go to a meeting in down town Denver. Spring is fully awake and that energy has a positive effect on my attitude and my libido. yum... I love living in Denver. People are happy and healthy. Driving past washington park all the lacrosse and volley ball games were in full swing. Everyone was out jogging, or cycling or skateboarding... The lilac trees were in full bloom. The air was fragrant with scent of spring and life. Ecstasy swelled through my body into my heart as I zig zagged thru rush hour traffic to get to downtown. My heart was literally singing with happiness. I found a parking place at the hotel. went in inside to find the event was tomorrow night. I looked at the desk guy in this luxurious hotel. i said to him with a big smile..."well, it is obvious I don't make any mistakes so everyone else must be off by one day." He started laughing so hard and said "you have a great evening." I laughed and said "you too!" with a lot of love So i went sailing out into the evening laughing and smiling to myself, with the radio on high, I think "Bad to the bone" was playing when I rolled out of the parking garage. Went to some gardening centers and bought even more plants. Made even more people laugh and smile. That's the kind of shaktipat i really like giving. I came home and it started to rain. It was beautiful as I grilled my steak teryaki bobs. LIFE IS GOOD! I am so grateful to be alive. This does not come about by positive affirmations, psychology, or NLP or whatever. they are nice incidental tools but the real power comes from having transformed your (my) inner landscape, my inner eyes in my heart with my kundalini shakti practice and qigong. If you are doing your practice your problems shall be resolved in time. Mine are. I got newer ones to work on now. much love, s How about that it really works...having an internal cultivation practice. Embrace your Shadow Side and become whole and leave the A$$hole behind.

i made a mistake...it is to you...and my response stills stands. If i didn't understand what you meant, then I didn't understand what you meant. and sloppy made some excellent points please review and contemplate on the questions before you start asking new ones. or at least say, I don't want to answer those questions, or _______________________ fill in the blank. You can do what you wish. Continue not answering them. I do not care. But I wont answer new questions until you at least attempt to answer the old ones. Otherwise you waste my time.... s

I, for one, would have been more successful if the operating instructions came with the design plan. Obvious design flaw that makes me wonder about the premise of intelligent design. Why design something and give no or very bad instructions on how to run the thing? Certainly, someone who didn't care about the end product made this non user friendly. So that makes me wonder if it was just a vanity project.

I was speaking to sloppy not you.

nope, that is not what I am saying but your subconscious believes that is what I am saying but really has no understanding of what I am talking about. Your subconscious is vested in keeping these belief systems going because it is the only way to survive. Your subconscious beliefs are finally in place by the time you are three or four. Most and I mean a whole heck of a lot because I work with them all the time to shift this paradigm...most people let their minds and life be run by 3 year old who uses adult words to justify it's reasoning to exist to other adult 3 year olds.

I never said that I believe that about him. Only he is qualified to say what he believes. This is an internet forum. One can't get any closer to the fantasies of delusional, ego centric self indulgent fantasies than right here. why do you even care what others think, including him?

no it doesn't describe the majority of a populace. it describes your view of how you think other people think. That's an opinion, not a fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics Doesn't matter. It is your perception of your self and who you are that shapes your perception of the world you live in. Statistics are for groups not for individuals. when we say, "get a clue," we are just asking people to be real. Freud first talked about it but it is by no means a modern concept. We are talking about subjective reality vs objective reality. People get this kinda mixed up and talk in terms of "My truth" vs "your truth." Most of us would like to be liberated from our attachment to living in the subjective world. That's what all the sages tend to talk about. But it can be quite painful to do the process because we start stepping into the unknown. Subjective reality is created by group consensus even when it is not true or real. The important thing is people think it is real and often will fight to the death to protect this illusion their reality is real. Break the group consensus and you break reality and can create a new reality. The brain cannot tell the difference between what is real and imaginary. It will respond with the same chemicals whether the reality is manufactured or objective. We all experience this daily. Yes we really believe that woman on the monitor is sexually attracted to us. I truly am the son of Darth Vader. hehehe...get silly with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection This is our Shadow side which appears in different forms across major spiritual traditions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_%28psychology%29 If YOU want to know what the real YOU thinks and believes go back to everything or every opinion you wrote about and replace You with I or them or they with me or myself. Doesnt work totally across the board but helps to bring the conversation back to the essence of who you think you are and what you believe is true about yourself and other and not who others are. It's a nice tool of self reflection to use now and then.

yep, it seems that way because your world is a reflection of your subconscious hopes and fears.

not deliberately. More like an unconscious a$$hole who believes he is right and women's perception is wrong. That puts him up in the winning category of not a clue. That's why I pointed out three clues. He can't see what he is creating with women. A man who loves him self authentically, Charlie sheen is an example of bad self love, will not say those things to women or to men because he knows it is condescending and hurtful. Same goes for women.

I cant believe I am commenting on this but.... I should just learn to walk away. Or at least charge you $250. THESE ARE YOUR PERCEPTIONS! Just because you think or say it is true...DOES NOT MAKE IT TRUE. this is gonna sound cruel but I am going to rewrite what you just wrote and put in Your personal "I" "When it comes to comparing myself and women it seems women are always going to top me. I have superficial strengths but women have internal power. At least that's the way it seems. . . . It seems only I am judged. For myself, there will always be someone stronger, I will NEVER be strong enough and I will ALWAYS be judged by my external achievements and my successes. As a woman, you can never appear weak enough, but there is a limit to what I do. Still it is insisted that I be judged while women are exempt from any kind of judgement because it's never her fault as she "has no direct involvement" in anything. Do you see the tremendous disparity between myself and women, and why am I left out, and hidden from the picture? Alright, non. Own what you can own and leave the rest. Make this about you. Not about other men and not about other women. Once you know you and why you do what you do and are OK with that, then begin on your questions.

Open mouth, exchange foot. Quit while you are ahead. This is one of the most condescending things you can say to a woman. Clue#1 'My response if you said this to me on the street is probably to slap you for behaving like an insensitive a$$hole. Clue #2 Also...don't lecture us. Which makes you a condescending a$$hole to both men and women .Clue #3

you are never going to make progress when you have an excuse for why something won't work for you instead of looking at yourself inside Your outside world (what you perceive to be happening to you) is a mirror of your subconscious thoughts and feelings. i am done now... good luck, s