Unfortunatley, we weren't given a human users manual. We are rarely taught how to have a healthy relationship to thoughts... ... so they often drive us crazy because it feels like they are out of our control. At least, that's how it always felt with me. This year i've decided to build a new community to help those who struggle with the monkey mind find peace. If this resonates with you, we’d love to have you here 🙏 https://www.skool.com/monkey-mind-masters/about?ref=c8a8106c6f7148d99c2dc4330777ec2a

How to tell the difference between these two? I just watched a reel of guy saying intution is talking to you in statements wheter anxiety in questions. But I am not fully convinced somehow 😂

Hey guys, I’d like to ask you about your perspective of what depression is for you. I have dealt with it many years back but I was swallowing in it and could not go out myself. Now I am a totally different person with lots of resources and capabilities, but the feeling of depression caught me off guard. I just have not aticipated it to come as I haven’t been visited by it for a loong time. How do I expierience it? Pain in my chest like needles from inside. Frustration, lost interest in thinhgs that usually brings me joy. Melancholy, sadness, a feeling of loneliness. I do overcome it when it comes. It accompanies me for some time in the evening and I try to give it some space and let it go but every evening I silently hope yesterday’s was the last - yet it come again. It is related to hearing about my addiction therapist that I’ve finished working with a several months ago - relapsing. It hit me hard and at those evening I think of him a lot. He was such an important figure to me that helped me tremendously. I still talked with him and he was always an immense help when I was feeling troubled. It makes me feel disappointed, angry but mostly just sad of losing an important person, a friend. He doesn’t responds to my text or calls for a month now, and I just want to hear if he survives it.. Today it hit me a lil harder and I was really not sure what to do for a while. I had this urge to smoke a cig even tho I haven’t touched years (I vape occasionally tho). I decided to go for it, dressed myself cuz it’s -5 degress and a loooy of snow outside, got my headphones on and went for a walk. On the beginning I started listening to some music that makes me sad, to try to get it out of myself - cry and move on. But I wasn’t feeling it for some reason. I found an amazing spot to hang out and chilled there for some time feeling melancholic. Then tho I started dancing to the slightly electronic beat in the music on my headphones. Then I was like oh man, I know exactly what I need. I’ve put on some acid house set and I started rocking it in 30cm snow like nothing fucking matters and nobody is looking. I felt the depression fading away but more like “aight imma head out for now, will come back later tho” - but for that moment I was ok for that. I felt I can dance with it. Be with it, respect it and then let it go. I feel ready for it to come visit again cuz I know I won’t fall down with it.

Hey guys, my first post here. I was wondering what are your experiences and your knowledge about benefits of semen retention. Around a month ago I felt falling in love quite strong in a girl, something I haven’t felt in almost 10 years (which shows me my huge progress I’ve made in my healing journey). That feeling made me stop masturbating. I was used to watching porn and masturbating since I was a teenager but now for the first time in my life I felt disgusted by watching that and felt no real urge to masturbate. I went with the feeling and after around 3 weeks I noticed I feel more energized, motivated and confident - in a signifficant way, one that I’ve never before (as I remember at least) felt in my life. I quickly connected that to the fact I stopped watching porn and masturbating and started reading about that - but there are different things people say. One thing I fear is that this power I now hold can be overwhelming and has to be handled well to be used most optimally. I still feel benefits of it, the three I mentioned earlier but I’m curious for any recommendations, perhaps certain meditations I could do to channel that energy. Hope the weekend goes well for Y’all ❤️🙏🏽

Bots are making this place…not fun. I’m remembering why I don’t use social media. I’ll still consume the classroom content bc that’s what I came here for, but the bots are making the discussion boards difficult to want to even look at. Maybe that’s their goal? Discourage people from wanting to participate, which essentially slowly kills a board since the only way to “level up” and access additional classroom content is through likes on discussion posts or payment? There should be other ways to level up. I get why it is how it is, but it only works with integrity in an environment that’s not overrun with bots. Everyone…quit feeding the bots.