Idealism vs practicality and the balance between the two

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#1

Just another brain dump from me. Genesis has me just questioning a lot lately. I need to just get my thoughts out.

The friction between strong idealism and current reality is always a difficult hurdle. Something about life not quite being right, but at the same time there’s no clear path. Its a discomfort without a clear resolution. Im still dissecting if this is my gender incongruence or something deeper in life itself.

On one side you’ve got strong idealism that goes unchecked. Thats how you get starseeds and the galactic federation of light. Individuals who need grander concepts to quell their frustrations at not having autonomy over their lives. Or conspiracy theorists, overarching themes that tie together the insanely random patterns of both humans and the universe.

On the other side. Those so rooted in practicality that there’s a limitation there. At first look they can seem to be more grounded, but its kinda just a more well organized galactic federation of light scenario. It just obeys the rules better and “works”. It still serves as structure to quell anxiety. Nothing wrong with structure but I think its important that its your structure and not someone elses creation you’ve been coerced into.

How do you walk the middle path? To me there’s a certain insanity to both sides. Seems like two sides of the same coin. I don’t even know if this is anything anyone else experiences. Is life itself polarizing? Or is that a manifestation of black and white thinking in my own head? Who here has escaped the influence of this?

Sometimes I think about life, like really think about it. Its like im in chronic denial that im mortal and I will reach an end one day. And this is it. What have I given myself? Not enough, not nearly enough. It scares me because time keeps passing me by faster and even though my life continues to improve im afraid ill never break away and escape this metaphorical matrix of influence.

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#2

Hello! you need to breathe, what do I mean?! find any intensive breathing practice (for example, holotropic or other), breathe and you will be surprised how your head will become clear, unnecessary thoughts will go away and you will find answers to your questions.

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#3

I will check that out! Out of curiosity what insights have you gotten when engaging in that practice if you have?

#4
  1. Working through body blocks 2. Working through emotional problems 3. Improving the functioning of the body as a whole 4. An altered state of consciousness, which means that any question you ask the unconscious will be resolved 5. you immediately understand what needs to be done 6. you enter into a state of yin yang 7.improving social life
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#5

This is a sign to go back down to 30s micro loops lol. Im like a child trying to learn high level calculus when I haven’t aced algebra. I didnt even push it, just a little over a minute.

More doing less thinking. And I can do more by sitting in less recon.

Ive done this so many times. You would think I would learn by now.

Add intense existentialist thought to the list of my special brand of recon I guess. Gonna go eat some food and reflect on why I overcomplicate the ever loving shit out of everything in my life.

#6

You gave an example for the strong idealism side (galactic federation of life, lol).

Do you happen to have an example for the “so rooted in practicality that there’s a limitation there” side?

#7

I guess the biggest example I could give is how often people can go off to college to get a degree to get a job they’re kinda meh about because it pays ok and gives security. I’ve encountered the sentiment way too often in my life that “not everyone is lucky enough to do what they love, so you just have to make due with a job you can tolerate and set aside time for what you care about”. The practicality there is that the money gives security and technically because the job isn’t too bad things could be worse. But it closes off a whole other world of exploration because now you’re in this structure of safety.

#10

Massive respect for doing that, wow. Yeah I’d say that’s a good example of the middle path I was talking about.

I’ve battled this my entire life. 100% agreement there.

I wasn’t a dropout but everyone encouraged me to go to college to get a 4 year degree. I didn’t see the benefit of landing myself in tons of debt for something I didn’t even care about. So I went for an associates instead, so my resumes don’t get immediately trashed. Eventually I worked my way up at my current job and live debt free. I had to fight a lot of pressure to not go that “smart” route. I’m not an entrepreneur or anything special, but just not owing money to an entity has helped me prioritize my own life.

But I’m looking for the next level where I fully follow my own path. Which recently I’ve been on more.

I think the difficult aspect of stuff like this is I totally respect someone’s decision to do a degree thing and job IF it feels right. It’s not the path itself. It’s when the path is shoved on you. But it doesn’t seem to go the other way around with a lot of people, they try to self correct you back onto what they deem right or safe. I think maybe I have to find more people who are willing to go against that. I really need to break out of this illusion I’ve been stuck in.

#11

I was in Creta this year 2 times.

The second time I came back with a goal and a vision.

Since then I can move mountains of shit.

Find what you like/want then the paht opens up and you gona enjoy the shit with a hidden smile and steady movement forwards

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