3 hours ago, CataclysmicSky said:

I am 20 years old now.

I have never really practiced any sort of qi gong/yoga. However, close to a few months  back, I suddenly realised the fact that I did not know who I really was when I woke up from sleep in the afternoon one day. The body was not me, and the mind was definitely not me.

 

This seemed to send off an explosion in my head. It felt as though a thick cover had been lifted off from the top of my head. I enjoyed and meditated on this feeling quite a bit.

Then, I started to do some research and figured that it might have something to do with the spiritual dimensions of life. Since I am in a university, and didn't exactly get enough time to learn, or even search for a teacher, I researched around for a bit and found this forum. After lurking around for a bit, I bought the 25 doors to meditation book from William Bodri and found some meditation practices.

 

So then, I started practicing the skeleton visualisation method I found on his website. I had some experiences, and quite a few times, I felt something go boom in the body.

 

However, I stopped the practices altogether since a few of my friends advised me to. Even I felt that there was probably something wrong with my head. A few weeks passed by just like that, and even if I didn't practice, I could feel something stirring up inside my back, moving towards my head. It's been close to two months since then.

 

Here comes the problem :

 

In these two months, all of my energy has seemingly gotten stuck in my head and presses down on my temple most of the time. Recently, it has even manifested in the form of phlegm in my nose which I can't seem to spit/blow out. This was probably one of the most frustrating periods of my life, since there was times when I felt that this energy was about to just explode out of my head with a 'poof'!

 

I could also "feel" the things in my very immediate surroundings. When I used this thingy on my LDT, the energies seemed to automatically recede downwards, clearing up my head. However, they always came back up, annoying me to no little extent.

 

Now my uni is placed in a remote area, with no tai-chi/yoga classes around, and I don't think there are practitioners here. However, thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, I am back home. Hence, I finally had some time around my hands and I did an Inner Engineering Online course from Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev since I had found his talks quite eye-opening. There, he talks about all your sufferings related to karma/action and accepting things as they are. (The 7 classes were quite transformational, and I still feel pretty good about betting my money on it.)

 

I found the energies calm down completely after I have accepted them. However, even if they don't make me suffer anymore, it would still feel better to get my head cleared up and have my senses senses heightened. Moreover, I still alternatively feel states of high energy and fatigued (it's mostly fatigue) and a loss of appetite after I lie down in the bed after practicing yoga and meditation for a while. And once this happens, it continues to hound me through the day. So that's my general situation.

 

Are there any solutions?

I agree with @RiverSnake , also:

Okay, when energy is stuck in your head, 95+% of the time, you are doing too much energy work, too early (pathways have not been toned and tuned enough to take that load) and invariably, you are not doing enough diversity in your daily grounding. I would recommend that you cut way down all energy work (except for some very slow stretching, think about how a cat would stretch if he/she's goal was to stretch every single muscle in the body.) Then do that very slowly and very gently and get into the pure pleasure, in the feeling of it ( and I mean from the tips of your toes to the top of your head and then back down again to the toes).This is a balanced energy/grounding/meditation activity that if done cosistently 6-7 days a week, for at least 15 minutes a day will help alot in getting to feel better.  DRINK lots of water, but not too much ( whenever you are thirsty + a couple of extra glasses of water for good health). Do activities that fill yourself with joy! Walk around barefoot when it is convenient. Get your hands deep into some black rich loose soil, plant something in it.  Pet an animal you love; recognize its' qualities that you admire. Have less opinions about most things, check and watch your irritations, then trace them back to their root.  Remember, the only thing that is under your power is how you act and react to anything.  Make sure that you are in the driver's seat.

As you start to feel better, add your various trainings back a little bit at a time, Be very aware, about how you feel right before and for a few days after each, indivual, small addition and act accordingly.

"Proof that we don't understand death is that we give dead people a pillow."----- Jerry Seinfeld

Since this is supposed to be a laugh thread and my last one was a downer:

One of the big stars of the 2020 COVIDIOT scene took a while to see his star rise, but police in Aurora, Ill., with the help of the public, made 19-year-old Tyler Wallace a celebrity.

Video emerged last month of a man walking through a Walmart and spraying Lysol on everything in sight while wearing a sign on his back that read “Caution I have the coronavirus.”

That man was soon after identified as Wallace, according to the Chicago Tribune. Cops estimate he did $10,000 worth of damage — in a Walmart!

Rush Limbaugh told followers that COVID-19 is so common that it got its name from being the 19th COVID virus. That is false. But as horror writer Stephen King tweeted: “Sage advice from a lifelong cigar smoker who has lung cancer.”

Stephen King

@StephenKing

Rush Limbaugh says coronavirus no worse than the common cold. Sage advice from a lifelong cigar smoker who has lung cancer.

9:27 AM · Mar 13, 2020

Louisiana evangelical pastor Tony Spell--- who bused in more than 1,800 followers for a hands-on mass two weeks ago, then gave an encore performance to an audience half that size Sunday. Those followers were then turned loose upon the streets of Louisiana, where COVID-19 has been particularly aggressive.

"I’m going to address that by laying hands on them and praying for them and depending on God to heal their body,” Spell explained during one of his sermons.

More than 3,500 Lousianians have tested positive for coronavirus, where over151 have died.

15 hours ago, Nungali said:

Oh come  on .... its   edited in .

 

A bit like this one , which is done a lit better

 

 

 

Bruce Lee had mad skills !  But, his Yang was, going seriously, out of balance toward the end.  When he died, he was taking a variety of pain killers and muscle relaxants because of pushing too hard (tremendous over-training). 

17 hours ago, virtue said:

@Nintendao It was user @natural who posted the sad response.

 

I liked the bear, he's got mad skills. This time I'm not sure if even Chuck Norris could defeat such a fearsome enemy.

This bear would kick Chuck's ass!

I have become simple-minded, and I am much the better for it. 

Cyd Charisse had childhood polio and was told that she would never walk again.  But, her dream was to become a dancer.  She did self-therapy, with an indomitable will and became one of the greatest dancers, in the world and those legs!

14 minutes ago, zerostao said:

Did you see the one with Michael Jackson, Laurel, and Hardy ?

Yes, they threw in some extra loops to make it sync up, it was fun! 

Ray Bradbury tended toward Buddhism, Though it ended up mostly a patchwork of many religions and philosophies.

"I sit there and cry because I haven’t done any of this. It’s a God-given thing, and I’m so grateful, so, so grateful. The best description of my career as a writer is, ‘At play in the fields of the Lord". ---- Ray Bradbury

I read Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 at nine years old, it was a particularly difficult time in my life,, and that book fundamentally altered, my view of the world. I will always be thankful to him for that!

The great Akio Minakami-- Traditionalist, zen priest, three times world and all-Japan kata champion  Currently 9th dan. Teaches personally in North Seattle.  He is proud of the fact, that he has never struck another human outside of competition. We once did a slow-motion video (about 42 years ago) of him walking up to a 4" X 4" post stuck in the ground (about six feet of it was above ground) and striking it at about shoulder level; The splinters exploding out the other side, looked like the post had been hit by a shotgun blast at very close range.

If you live near Seattle and want traditional karate instruction, equal to anywhere in the world, his school is the place to go.

I believe he is 72 years old in this video.

18 minutes ago, virtue said:

@moment, now is a time that we start building a safe space for all living beings. Someone's feelings could really get badly hurt because of that video you posted!

 

The above video titled "5 funny monkeys dancing" seems to feature apes of chimpanzee origin, so it has been titled in a bigoted, species discriminating manner. We want to have politically correct human and chimpanzee relations and thus we are obliged to give our chimpanzee cousins a proper dignifying designation "ape" instead of the inappropriate slur "monkey." In the current year we don't want to remain ignorant or claim that all simians can be categorically labeled with misidentifying terms without asking their explicit consent first, which is to recognize that some minority of chimpanzees could actually feel that they themselves are monkeys and not apes and should be identified as such by their proper designation.

 

Furthermore, the dancing sequence and the accompanying music seems inspired by traditional Irish dance and music. We will have to talk this through with the Cannabums department heads and make sure that human cultural activities are no longer improperly appropriated by playful simians of any species. We further demand that human diversity is increased among simian entertainers in order to prevent a simian monoculture agglomerating on this campus.

 

We want to have pre-emptive lead against all discriminating specist behavior. Therefore I am going to recommend that our human members have exchange periods among simians. Hopefully this will lead to new heights in mutual respect and understanding, and also sharing vital technological skills. Humans in particular could learn from simians how to settle fights and wars with flinging fecal matter against the opponent instead of waging prolonged campaigns of destruction and violence.

 

Yours truly,

virtue

The Self-Righteous and Self-Declared Dean of The Dao Bums Department of Political Correctness, Social Justice, and Reconciliation Between Species

Your words of inter-species wisdom will haunt me forever.

40 minutes ago, zerostao said:

Some threads are not meant to be continuing threads but rather as announcements. These type of locked threads are usually found in Forum Terms and Use or Rules section.

The thread you use as illustration authored by the welcomer is the welcomer's own guide on his vision welcoming new members to the forum. He even mentions he had approved 60 or so new members that day, quite of bit of effort and work on his part. And he even took the time to share his progress with the board.he did it all cheerfully.

I dont see a problem with him choosing to lock the thread. One of his jobs is welcoming, approving new members. He also has other responsibilities here on the forum. He took the time to relay to membership about his progress welcoming new members.

At the time, he was nominated by other members to serve as welcomer. The gates were unguarded and he accepted the role,  giving his time and energy towards that effort. 

There were no staff in place at the time. Expediency alone was good reason to lock the thread at the time. I applaud the welcomer for sacrificing his time and energy towards serving The Dao Bums.

Some things will fall into the category of "staff discretion"

 

Once more, I get to say in the same day-- There is nothing you have said that I disagree with!  But, TDB has a history of abusing "staff discretion" and even though I personally like @thelerner , I feel the need to make people a little more aware and concerned about locking threads.

1 hour ago, silent thunder said:

Judicious use of the closing function is of utmost importance in my opinion, as important as considerations for suspension and banning.

 

To close off hatefilled rants and abusive bullying it's a grand tool.

 

But to stifle conversation because, one, or a few persons feel the conversation has lost its worth, or it seems to have run its course, or for personal reasons is tantamount to sin in my world. (and I don't believe in sin).

"Judicious use of the closing function is of utmost importance in my opinion, as important as considerations for suspension and banning."---- exactly!

9 minutes ago, thelerner said:

Sometimes a lock is temporary. 

 

Othertimes, its a not a bad idea to restart a thread, letting members know you want to keep it on track and flame free.   (assuming the re-starter is not the 'flamer/antagonist')  Sometimes rephrasing the topic in a more neutral or universal way helps. 

I believe that much of creativity comes from heat.  As long as it is done within the rules.  If the rules are being broken, then other avenues open up automatically.

35 minutes ago, zerostao said:

I've had threads locked by staff here over the years. I can relate to some frustration felt from the idea that a voice is being silenced.

If I understand the philosophy of my moderating team mates, the current idea behind locking threads is;

To be used as a cooling off mechanism for a particularly heated topic when insults are starting to escalate.

Over the years we've lost members to bans and suspensions due to actions of a couple or three heated threads.

This is what we're trying to avoid. Moderators take no joy in handing out bans or suspensions. However, once certain lines have been crossed, there is little choice to avoid handing out bans or suspensions.

Does this make sense?

 

If mod warnings are being ignored on a thread it could result in the thread being locked, at least temporarily.

 

Admittedly, this is seven weeks old.  I somehow failed to realise this when I first posted about it.

This topic is now closed to further replies.  

When is it necessary and when is it not?

@Welcomer,

There is not a single word, that you said there, that I disagree with.  But,  all of sudden I am seeing all of these closed threads.  It is like--I have said all that needs to be said -- so there!  I agree that it makes things simpler but it is limiting to all of us, when it is not necessary.  I can see it when things are getting negative but,  to assume that any response is unnecessary in any new thread seems a little arrogant me.