Message from @Darkness
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I can say, from experience, that breathing is fogotten skil
you learn to breath properly when you exert the body
squatting, is a great way, striking works too
It helped but didn't fix it.
I still had terrible episodes for years afterwards.
It wasnt till about a year or two ago that I finally solved it, mostly by researching and realizing that my goals in life (>_> Blue pill dreams of a happy family life) were impossible and were keeping my set up for continual failure.
After that I realized I didn't need external validation and then poof. A month later I stopped crying in a corner and ripping my hair out while debating if I should hang myself in my closet.
Well, meditation and buddhism helped. Learn to let go.
gdamn...
I was in the military as well, I've known two guys that offed themselves
they were in th emilitary as well
@Kragt I'm glad to hear you tackled that yourself, that's a frightfully uncommon end to that story.
forreal
@Wojak What's your take on the "commercialized" Buddhism getting sold as self-help now?
Yeah @Wojak my problem was I didn't learn that lesson for a while.
Learning psychology and where those feelings came from made them a lot less important.
@Kragt Jung saved my life, too. Not an exaggeration.
Like most things given to you fast and cheap, it's fattening and bad for you.
sometimes you just need to go squat though
@Five, Seven, and Two Depends, what are your thoughts on eat pray love.
getting too caught up in your feelings isn't healthy
@Kragt Seething hatred comes to mind.
go and exert your body
and you get lost in that skill development
@Darkness That is symptom management. I am talking about fixing the problem at its source. Symptom management buys you time only. The problem will return if you don't fix it.
^
it prepares you
at the very least
to make the transition more obtainable
at least in my exp
yea, the meditation for sure
I just recommend everyone to Ajahn Brahm. Decades of videos of his talks, very simple, somewhat repetitive, but strictly original buddhism.
I didn't know how to do it properly
we're so distracted it's difficult
Theravadan buddhism works, and with none of the highly religious ritualistic gobbledeegook other cultures added on to it.
Learn to let go, and to be mindful.
Simple is what works.
Tao
@Wojak Solid recommendation.
I heard he stepped down, recently?
It does have some ritualistic gobbledegook, but any sensible person can see the point isn't the ritual. In fact _the first listed stage of enlightenment is to accept that_.
@Five, Seven, and Two The self-help buddism is built to be as commercially accessable as possible. So it will lose what makes it useful in its quest to be more available.
If the average person is bad at introspection, and buddism requires it to work the average person will not be able to use buddism effectively.
Yes, over a disagreement. I forget about what.
Tao (/daʊ/, /taʊ/) or Dao (/daʊ/) DOW; from Chinese: 道; pinyin: Dào [tâu] ( listen)) is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path', 'route', 'road' or sometimes more loosely 'doctrine', 'principle' or 'holistic beliefs'.