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Yeah, you're on to something - I think at a deeper level the idea of "excess" is an emotional condition which is causing the excessive behavior. A lot of healers say that cancer is just a pattern of negative energy. To truly heal the PERSON - that is, the bodymind, you have to look at what's happening in the mind/emotions, because that always has a corresponding condition in the body. The tragedy of our scientific tendency in the west to break everything down to little bullet points or quips about, protein does this, calcium does that, and totally ignoring the living totality of the person is completely missing the point.

"It's your ego that wants to drop the ego."

All due respect, I think this report is disinformation. I take supplements that are specifically intended to increase IGF-1 levels, ie, colostrum and deer antler - I have taken them in OBSCENE quantities (especially colostrum, as much as 10 tablespoons per day) ... for years. 2008-present. I'm doing just fine. IGF-1 is growth hormone. It's an anti-aging and very healing agent. As a bodybuilder, I experienced levels of health far in excess of anything I knew as a teenager from hitting this stuff hard. From my understanding, cancer needs 2 things to grow: 1. an acidic environment 2. lack of oxygen this is why Max Gerson was so successful in treating cancer patients with his juicing therapies. Introducing mass quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables dramatically increases the alkalinity of the body, and some green foods also increase oxygenation. I'll just say that dairy products are hideously dangerous because, in their pasteurized form they are HEAVILY acidic and mucous-forming, whereas raw dairy products have shown great healing properties. Ever wonder why it's illegal to sell raw dairy milk, and why little health food stores have literally been raided for selling this stuff, while the pasteurized stuff is mass-marketed with no consequences? Anyway, be careful about sharing articles like this. So much disinformation is out there. IGF-1 is a really amazing compound and if we ever get beyond the dark ages of our kali-yuga nutrition we'll see that it's a very healing agent.

The way I understand it, anything we're obsessed with or mentally attached to is karma that needs burning off, for instance I grew up listening to gangsta rap from 8 years old, so after enough years of hearing it, I got obsessed with having a fast car... so I finally bought myself one. It was really awesome for like, a month. Then it snowed. It's insane how much drama having that car attracts - positive and negative. I receive written threats that are left on my car from jealous people. Others see me on the road and literally freak out and start driving crazy, or trying to race me. I didn't get this car because I wanted the attention, I just wanted to experience what having an awesome car was like, and I see this as "that period where I had the crazy car" so I can let it go. To take this in a whole other direction, people are also karma... my childhood sweetheart had marriage fantasies of me for about 15 years, I finally reconnected with her a few years ago just so she could figure out we weren't going to be happy ever after... it sucked, but I consciously did it because she just wouldn't leave me alone, and I felt I needed to burn that karma off both of us. I think it's good to get involved with stuff you're obsessed with or addicted to, and just burn through it. Just let it go and see who you become on the other side of it.Having that perspective of "I'm burning off karma" also helps to alleviate the guilt factor for me. If I want to binge-watch all of Lost, I just do it, and then I'm sick of watching TV for the rest of the year. One of the biggest obstacles to spiritual evolution, in my experience, is people who have desires but try to repress them, or pussy-foot around them instead of just saying flat out, "I love playing video games, I'm gunna rock this video game hardcore and just do it!" That attitude will translate into everything - if you wanna hug someone, if you wanna compliment someone beautiful. if you wanna write a poem, or whatever, do it fully. Burn that karma!

What's the solar plexus exercise? I'm intrigued by all this stuff you're doing. Also I rarely drop links but if you're retaining I highly suggest the reddit nofap (reddit.com/r/nofap) group, for a different perspective. reading the reports of some of the guys doing 90, 120, 180, 300+ days is really inspiring. it's broscience, for sure, but I think it's important to cross-reference very different demographics of people who are into this stuff to keep your horizons broad. it reminds me that there's no one correct way to train... that every individual is a unique fusion and a unique culture unto themselves, so if something occurs to you, try it.... all this stuff was invented (spontaneously made up) by somebody at some point. people tend to forget that when it gets draped up in ceremony and tradition.

the alchemical body - david gordon white sinister yogis - david gordon white at zero - joe vitale sugar blues - william dufty soundworks magazine - for those who have ears (audio engineering / pirate radio zine) bitcoin: the future of money - jose pageliery songwriters on songwriting - paul zollo

2 sets today - yoga, tai chi, xingyi 30 mins each. inspired partly by gza to do more... feels awesome. i feel like my superpowers click on at a higher level when i do more than an hour at a time, i walk around sizzling. woke up with a ton of synchronicities happening after making music all yesterday... feel free to keep posting about creative stuff you do, i think there's definitely a connection... it's all energy / intent anyway!

20 minutes of yoga and chi gong this morning, another hour of tai chi this evening. My creativity spikes dramatically when I practice diligently, I wonder if this is true for other people? I have this feeling of momentum, where if I cultivate my chi, especially in the morning, I'm able to parlay that energy into the next tasks that I do, and it's possible to have that spiral into a huge vortex of creativity. This is the whole point of practice for me, to be as vital and alive as possible. Maybe it's not humble to share all this. Whatever. I wish I had this attitude when I was 13, when I first read the tao te ching, it would've helped me create so much more in my life, and maybe transmute a lot of the bullshit of being a teenager.

Innersound, I am celibate yeah but the purpose of this challenge is just an accountability thread to inspire people to train more consistently. I agree that 100 days is not enough - we live a lot longer than 100 days, 100 lifetimes may not be enough. What exactly do you mean by "the real training?" Maybe I'm being a bit defensive here, but I think anything done in the service of raising consciousness or vitality is "real training," even the decision to smile, or eat an organic orange instead of a pesticide-sprayed one. 2 sessions again today, chi gong and meditation and climbed up a cliff for some seated meditation. After being basically trapped in bombed-out downtown LA living like Oscar the Grouch, being up in Malibu is psychedelic and awesome. People are a lot happier up there. I consider being around high vibe people as another kind of chi gong, I was high all day after a couple hours up there. full moons: I've never had issues with this. I find full moons to be incredibly beneficial and useful. I never struggle with any kind of negativity or craziness, I just feel stronger and often don't need sleep on those days. I think I'm wired opposite most people.

Taomeow, I empathize tremendously about the relentless aggression/negativity/hostility on forums, and I'm coming to the end of my rope with it as well. I honestly think the medium is to blame. Biologically we just aren't designed to sit in front of screens, unmoving, and interact with each other in a way that renders us incapable of feeling each other's energy. In this medium, all we're left with is our intellect, so it is quite literally a heartless way of communicating. (As a quick sideline, online dating sites are miserable experiences for both genders, for this reason. Women are beseiged by creepers with almost no consequence for unbridled creeping/sexual harassment, and men are judged viciously due to the window-shopping nature of the medium. The internet is literally the most impossible way to forge a connection with another human being.) So, my own strategy for forums is humor and speed. Forums unfortunately have taken on a flavor of psychic warfare to me. I have to bring good spirit and humor to whatever I'm doing online, and I have to get in and get out fast, while my good spirit lasts. You're completely on point when you say it depletes shen, and most people on the internet are running at a deficit. TTB represents the BEST of us - try posting anything, anywhere on reddit and see how much hate you attract - and look how much animosity runs rampant here on TTB. I'm thinking hard about your idea for a truly safe place. But I don't really think it exists. I think the only way to create that is to change our idea of what safe entails. I'm thinking especially about the energetic hell of my experience driving on LA freeways every day. I "create safety" by making sure I always have good music, I'm always in a good frame of mind, and I relentlessly make the decision to think, "this person who just cut me off, they're doing the best they can. I can't know what they're dealing with. I can't know what their karma is. I'm going to smile and make eye contact with them and do whatever I can to help them, this person is my teacher." In other words, I'm safe because I just keep choosing to come back to that frame of mind, that I'm not being attacked by anything, I'm having my positivity and my spirit continuously reset and amplified. In truth, I think that's really the only point of being alive, is to keep doing that through everything. It's kind of a xingyi mindset and very male... no apologies... it's just the biological brain I'm working with. I hope it's helpful

2 sessions again, dawn and dusk. 30 minutes each. I added a trampoline clause, ladies and gentlemen. This is not a very serious contest. If you would like suggestions for music while training on your trampolines, I give you Big Freedia of New Orleans bounce. release your wiggle, y'all. chi gong obviously does nothing to chill me out

I actually just got a rebounder, and I report that my chi is definitely higher after quick sessions. TRAMPOLINES COUNT IN THE NEW DOGSON CHALLENGE <3 <3 <3

Okay! Day 1. I did two sets of chi gong and yoga, one at dawn, one at dusk. About 30 minutes each.

Hi Baada, from what you've written, I strongly suggest looking into the work of Dr. Hew Len. This is the healer famous for emptying out an entire psych ward using his intent alone, and his story moved me profoundly in terms of what is possible when we can just love enough, and take responsibility that things "out there" are actually affected by our own personal emotional state. Recently, a guy named Joe Vitale got together with Hew Len and started writing books, and doing seminars. Joe Vitale is one of the people featured in "The Secret," and he does have a bit of that marketing, 'manifest money' / abundance feel to him, which is slightly annoying. But the good thing about it is, he's exposing Hew Len's message to a lot of people. Together they've written two books - "Zero Limits" and "At Zero". You can get the gist of Dr. Hew Len's message in a couple of youtube videos. What I find captivating about these videos is Hew Len's attitude toward the participants in his seminars. He doesn't tolerate any pussyfooting around the central issue, which is simply, you have to clear your own emotional garbage, and that is what creates a clearing in the field around you. Most people are not willing to accept that if your cat dies, or if you get fired, or if your best friend gets cancer, then you created that. You create everything. This is an extremely radical perspective. And just as radical is the perspective that, simply by saying "I love you," it's possible to heal everything "out there" by healing yourself. The key is getting over this mental attitude of "I don't get it, I don't get it, I have to understand one more thing, I need to figure out this one more thing." No, that attitude itself is what needs to be cleared. That attitude of, "I don't get it yet, I'm not enough," etc is what causes the suffering. The mystic poet Hafiz said it very succinctly: "Put yourself in Heaven immediately. This very moment." My applications of Hew Len's technique, which is based on the Huna (Hawaiian) practice of Ho'o-pono-pono (forgiveness) may seem a bit juvenile, or "practical magic-y", but the results are quite astonishing. I have been able to apply this on a vast scale very easily. I use this stuff in los angeles traffic. It's unbelievable. I'm an extremely sensitive and empathic person, and going out into the city, I see these endless rivers of tension, anger, aggression, impatience, egoism in traffic jams... the technique in Huna is to look at what you see outside and ask forgiveness for your role in creating that. You say, "I'm sorry (for creating this), please forgive me, I love you, thank you." I did this verbatim for a while. Once I got used to the emotional cadence of that phrase, I simplified it into just saying the word "clear." Whenever I feel psychic tension, or anger, or whatever - walking into a restuarant, driving in traffic, catching a dirty look from someone, first of all I accept that it's something WITHIN MYSELF that is coming back at me - nothing is attacking me or coming at me from outside - it's something I am creating. And then I just say "clear". I am clearing myself in order to clear the field. It works. It's like bursting a bubble in the atmosphere. Again, I'm not "doing" this to anyone outside me - I am clearing *myself* of whatever is causing this stuff to come at me in my daily life. That is the technique. I think I was able to apply this so easily because I never accepted the typical programming in the west, that you have to suffer in order to achieve good things, or that work should be back-breaking or brutally stressful. I always had this intuition that there is a way to operate in life which makes things very easy and streamlined, so I incorporated this technique, the by-product of which is that I've become relentlessly positive and responsible for my life. Here are the videos. I copied the timecode to the parts where Hew Len is speaking. Feel free to PM me if you want to go deeper into the nuances, but again, that kind of thinking "I don't get it yet" is the only thing you need to get rid of, which I will be happy to remind you of again and again Enjoy, and welcome to TTB! Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=g7pXFv3Yrzc#t=1282 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RyPBtegcffk#t=653

Yeah, I think limiting the scope is useful, if only to keep the thread from spiraling into weird digressions which are best left to other spots in the forums

Tragically, I think the majority of people are drawn into relationships as a distraction for their own problems or insecurities. I've had passionate lovers, but the moment that cultivation is brought up, it's similar to dragging a poor person to a financial investment seminar... they will do anything to avoid looking at the possibility of a higher reality, because their vanity can't stand the contrast. I spent a lot of time hanging out in communities like TTB because I'm trying to figure out what the difference is in the psychology of someone who actually cares about cultivating, and evolving as a being, versus doing EVERYTHING in their power to avoid that stuff - which is most of the planet. At any rate, I'm a big fan of Leonard Orr's works, especially "Breaking the death habit." He talks a lot about the death urge, and the accumulated death urge in societies, which is most obviously observed by people getting massively shit-faced on friday nights, and literally just SCREAMING. I see this all over the world, and it's so surreal, that we have such infinite capacity for creativity and joy, and yet most of us are dumber than animals, insofar as actively seeking our own destruction. Now, the real issue with having an immortal couple situation is, if you're truly enlightened, then everything you see "out there" is just a reflection of your own psyche, it's holographic, and the dance of maya is exquisite in its beauty - even in its wrathful forms. You lose the desire for that emotional validation coming from outside yourself. There's no boundary between the universe and your smaller perceived self. As David Deida is fond of saying, "if you're truly doing yoga - if you're in samadhi, what do you need with this little limited body over there?" So, that's my take on why these couples are rare. The idea of it as an archetype (like Shiva and Kali) or metaphor of how energies flow out there, is more useful than actually wanting it to be a real thing... because at that level...it becomes irrelevant... it's like, if you can manifest anything out of thin air, you don't need to be a billionaire. The whole concept of money as an intermediary is pointless - you go directly to the source.

Congrats to everyone! And apologies for my extremely sleep-deprived post, which had nothing to do with anything. I'm primarily focusing on yoga for the next 100 days b/c I have a teacher training coming up in a few months, but I'm going to combine the sessions with nei gong. Should we start the new 100-day contest in this thread or begin a new one? And who's interested in my Bruce Frantzis Xing Yi and Wu Style tai chi DVDs as a grand prize?

Is the contest running through today? I did some sungazing and tai chi in the park... I've been up for almost 3 days straight, so I dunno if that counts as 1 day? Or 3 days? Anyway, I really like having 100 day blocks of training accountability. Can we start up another one? I have some Xing Yi and Tai Chi training DVDs I could offer up as a prize?

Yep, I'm a 1-star... and I never engage in flame wars or back and forth kinda stuff. I guess people are doing this because I bring in stuff to my posts outside the scope of TTB - like mentioning what I do for work, combining stuff from reddit with TTB, or the pickup community, or mentioning skrillex or tony robbins in the same breath as taoist masters or yogis. I kinda feel like a good part of my path in life is that my personality is given to moving between these worlds, but people really seem to HATE this. I do the same thing on reddit, I go into nofap and write about chi cultivation, or I go into forums about skrillex and talk about nutrition or yoga... in every case the "scene people" seem to really detest any information outside of the boundaries of their scene creeping in. It's a really weird ostrich syndrome. I used to think this would be taken as a breath of fresh air... somebody bringing in fresh energy that people might never otherwise be exposed to... but it's never taken this way. It's always seen as a kind of pompous affront to the purity of the scene or something.

xing-yi practice is getting paranormal now. really enjoying the one-pointed awareness vibes. is everyone still practicing? i want to hear about experiences! i think we should all be posting about what stops us from practicing, too. or what distracts us. that's kind of like training, too. maybe everyone is just tired of looking at my horribly drawn inkblot kitty?

Here's the most oversimplified version: -internal is about cultivating chi / prana / bioenergy in the body -external is about hitting things really hard.

i'm on an ormus mailing list and there's a huge running thread about seeing glowing orbs... like will'o the wisps... i kinda dismissed it but now you have my attention. when i stay up for a long time i definitely feel like i can see... sidereal kind of things...including small things whizzing by just out of the corner of my sight.

Started a new system of tracking my training based on /r/theXeffect. Basically it involves keeping 3x5" cards divided into 49 squares (7 weeks). You put a single goal or pattern at the top of the card, and each day you add an X notating compliance. You write the deepest and most honest reasons why you're implementing this habit on the back of the card. It's going awesome. I'm always looking to simplify my life down to its fundamentals. My chi gong card is a hybrid/experimental card. Instead of one X per day, I just wrote "5 minutes of chi gong" to get myself doing small training sessions constantly. I did 3 yesterday, definitely went beyond the 5 minute mark. The idea is, once I do 50 sessions of chi gong, I'll make a new card and double the time to 10 minutes, 50 sessions of that will become 20 minutes, etc. This is the post that started off this system - it's 10,000 people strong now. I don't usually like to link to other sites, especially reddit, which is kind of a viper pit. But this is really helping people. the post that started it all

I think it's mega-brave to think, "I have certain qualities / urges / desires, I want to go a different direction." That's the beautiful thing about having free will as humans, we CAN do whatever we want, change what we want, create what we want. It's a great experiment. Flo's case is fascinating to me - she has sexual desire, but she (like all of us here, to some extent) has the desire to Not desire. Strong biological or psychological desire is obscuring something deeper. Alchemical texts (at least for me) are a way of raising the bar - introducing a higher standard. Reminding myself there is a long lineage of people who viewed human existence as noble, majestic, glorious - something not to be found in strip malls, or on twitter, or even in the craziest anime (even full metal alchemist has very little alchemy happening). To take even the most miniscule effort towards a higher level of consciousness is a heroic feat in our society. Alchemy is also itself a mindset. I'm a hip hop producer in grimy downtown los angeles. LA is hyper-creative but about as anti-nature as it gets, short of a TSA checkpoint at the airport. But in between the grime and pollution are murals, and vague occult-inspired fashion boutiques, and one-off record stores, and posh coffee shops where architects and designers get together and dream very abstract dreams. And I just think to myself, this too is alchemy. I can gather up all of this and use it. I don't have a desire to be in any of the scenes here - my stay here is very temporary - but being here makes me try harder. I think that's true of all of us and whatever our struggles are. It makes us try harder to connect to what's really important, and all the stuff along the way is raw material - cultural capital - that we can use however we want.

Flofolil I'd love to see you weigh in here amidst this torrent of pro-sex / pro-naturalness encouragement. This is one of the most engaging threads I've seen on TTB ever... it's missing the star though