Innoいの

Your dream life unfolds when you decide to live it.

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

Is this truly important?
Does this help me?
Is this right?

Question yourself when you're unsure.

You have to dig through the surface before you can reach the depths.

Come up with your own set of principles to elucidate your mind when you're influenced by emotions.

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

@Aster_woo Twitter anniversary lol

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

It's been 6 years huh
Time flies

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

Your dream life begins when you decide to live it.

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

INNER ALCHEMY 101 - THE 2 PILLARS OF LASTING JOY

🗝️ key point:

[[ You can spend your life chasing results in the material world. You can pursue a better physique, a larger bank account, healthier relationships, more degrees, more status, more knowledge. But if you lack the direct awareness that you are an immortal Soul, then all of it remains useless ]]

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Over the years I've worked with dozens of clients with one primary goal: helping them find a permanent sense of inner peace, a center of gravity within themselves that would allow them to stop being tossed around by the winds of life, a place from which external circumstances no longer get to dictate their emotional state.

So how do you get there?

There are certain things that help, things that create the right conditions, but then there are practices that are absolutely central and unavoidable - practices that are a "sine qua non" for achieving lasting serenity. These essential practices fall under the umbrella of inner alchemy, which rests on two fundamental pillars:

The pillar of Will,

and the pillar of Love.

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1) The pillar of Will includes everything related to presence and self-remembering. It's the work we initially carry out through the mind in order to train ourselves to become more present in everyday life. What does that actually mean? It means becoming aware of yourself while you're engaged in the world. It means carrying on with whatever you're doing while simultaneously remaining aware of your own existence.

This is sometimes called divided attention. I become aware of my energetic body while remaining aware of what is happening around me and of how this body is interacting with the external world. This divided attention is the first step toward self-remembering, which is less an exercise and more a genuine state of consciousness that gradually emerges as a side effect of consistent alchemical practice.

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2) The second pillar is Love. If the first pillar is associated with masculine energy, the second is rooted in feminine energy. When we speak about Love, we're talking about an entire body of work centered around non-judgment and around the understanding that the reality we perceive outside ourselves is a mirror. In other words, only what already exists within us can show up in our external experience. Nothing that happens outside of us is truly separate from us.

Everything that appears in our lives - and especially the things we dislike - is something we are being asked to integrate through the practice of non-judgment, through gratitude, through prayer, and ultimately through praying for our enemy, which is perhaps the highest expression of this work, as Christ Himself taught.

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These two pillars are indispensable. Whatever practices you choose to engage in beyond them - whether meditation, martial arts, breathwork, walking on hot coals, artistic creation, or anything else you do in the material world - they need to be held together by these two foundations. It's the glue.

And the beautiful thing is that these pillars don't require extra time.

They don't demand additional hours in your schedule.

You can have an incredibly busy life and still practice them. You can skip meditation. You can skip the gym. You can skip breathwork. As I've said many times, I recommend these things because they can certainly help, but even if you don't do any of them, you can still carry on with the two pillars.

In a sense, alchemical work leaves you with nowhere to hide.

It takes every excuse off the table.

You can't say, "I had to take the kids to school, my wife wanted to go away for the weekend, then I had football with my friends, so I didn't have time to work on myself."

That excuse simply doesn't hold up.

The Work slips right into your daily life. It gets woven into the fabric of your day. And that's precisely its strength, because it allows you to integrate the lessons that life is constantly bringing you far more quickly.

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The danger with many practices - let's take meditation as an example - is that you can become very good at them in isolation.

You sit in a dark room for two hours every day, shut yourself away from the world, and over time you genuinely become skilled. Your energy starts building up. Meditation does energize your system. It charges your bodies with energy.

Then after those two hours you walk back out into the world, somebody cuts you off in traffic, and you jump out of your car ready to smash a baseball bat over his head because you never learned how to handle all that energy in real life.

But that's the whole point of the work.

Otherwise we fool ourselves into thinking we're more evolved because we meditate for two hours a day, when in reality we may be less developed than someone who has never meditated but who can remain centered when faced with a difficult situation at work or while driving.

So if you had to choose between all those auxiliary practices and the work itself, choose the work itself. That's where real transformation takes place. That's where lasting serenity is built - in direct confrontation with your shadows in everyday life, not while hiding away in a safe little room.

The reward for carrying out this work consistently over many years is the eventual identification with your immortal soul.

And that's what brings true peace.

You can spend your life chasing results in the material world. You can pursue a better physique, a larger bank account, healthier relationships, more therapy, more degrees, more status, more knowledge. But if you lack the direct awareness that you are an immortal soul, then all of it remains temporary.

The battle is lost before it even begins.

The only battle truly worth fighting before attaining that awareness is the battle to attain that awareness.

Everything else is secondary.

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Now of course there are different lives and different circumstances. You can't treat everyone exactly the same. You can't hand out generic advice and expect it to work for everybody.

Every person stands at a different point on the path and needs to be guided accordingly. I've never had two clients follow the exact same journey. Every person I've worked with has required a slightly different approach.

For someone younger, it may make sense to start with the body - to clean up their diet, take care of their physical health, and establish a stronger foundation in the material world. Someone who is seventy years old, on the other hand, probably shouldn't wait until they've built the perfect physique before beginning inner work. For them it may make more sense to focus on emotional or mental development.

Everyone's story is different.

But the glue that holds it all together is always the same.

Alchemical work is universal because it is the work of the soul. And at its deepest level, the soul is the same within all of us.

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So to sum it up: there is a central work that I encourage you to explore deeply - a work of Will and Love that you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

Then there are secondary practices that support it, practices that help keep you on the path. It is certainly easier to engage in inner work when your life includes yoga, meditation, and breathwork than when it revolves around alcohol, prostitution, gambling, and escapism.

So choose the supporting elements wisely.

But don't get distracted by them.

Don't lose sight of the core.

Because that's where the real transformation happens.

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

INNER ALCHEMY 101

🗝️key concept:

[ the seed reflects our own evolution: to produce one centimeter of growth above the surface, the plant may first need to grow fifteen centimeters of roots underground. Fifteen centimeters into darkness, mud, and invisibility - for one centimeter toward the light ]

The external world contains countless clues that can help a human being understand himself.

Hermeticism expresses this through two of its central principles:

[as within, so without]

[as above, so below]

These are not just poetic phrases but practical indications that can guide an authentic inner search.

They suggest that we can use external reality to understand how we function internally. And this is an immense privilege.

The human being is the link between two worlds:

between what is below and what is above,

between the lower realms and the higher, spiritual realms.

Man stands exactly in the middle. And because of this, we are in the unique position of being able to look both upward and downward, both inward and outward.

And in every direction there are answers capable of completely transforming the way we see reality -answers capable of helping us discover meaning itself. That is not a small privilege.

Take inner work as an example.

If we start from the assumption that the external world is a direct reflection of our inner life and our evolution, then we begin to understand the importance of patience. And the importance of working with humility and discernment.

One of the clearest examples is the seed.

How does a seed become a plant?

The seed is the perfect representation of human potential. It is the perfect symbol of how evolution works.

A seed has two fundamental tasks.

1) to move downward. To push itself into the earth. To force its way through darkness, through rocks, through soil. To go deep.And not only to go deep, but to grow roots there. To become stable inside those dark territories. What is this if not a representation of the subconscious? Of that psychic terrain where our deepest wounds are buried. The very places we hesitate to explore because we know there is pain there. Pain we fear touching again.

2) to rise upward. To open itself toward the light. To slowly climb toward the sun and toward higher dimensions where oxygen, light, and life exist.

But one movement is impossible without the other.

The seed cannot rise toward the light without first sending roots downward.

Growth upward requires strong foundations below.

And if you ever observe a seed opening in real time - for example an avocado seed suspended over water - the process becomes almost shocking to witness.

Because if that seed truly reflects our own evolution, then patience becomes non-negotiable.

To produce one centimeter of growth above the surface, the plant may first need to grow fifteen centimeters of roots underground.

Fifteen centimeters into darkness, mud, and invisibility - for one centimeter toward the light.

Not exactly easy. But certain. Because the more awareness we bring into our depths,the more light we bring into the basement of our being,the more life supports us in rising upward. And we are never pushed higher than we are able to sustain. This is beautiful.

But it must be remembered.

Because after digging for a long time, after revisiting old wounds and forgotten pain, it becomes easy to forget that ascension exists too. You begin expecting immediate compensation: I give ten, I receive ten. I give twenty, I receive twenty.

But that is not how this work functions. Inner work is exponential. At first it feels slow. Invisible. You dig. You work. You observe.

And slowly your consciousness expands.

But then, once the roots are finally strong enough -once the structure is ready - something above suddenly blossoms. And the tree gives fruit. The fruit appears suddenly, but only after a long and often tedious period of invisible preparation.

Tell me this is not an almost perfect representation of what we are being asked to do in this life.

And tell me this is not enough reason to have faith and continue walking the path.

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

It doesn’t matter how many psychotherapy sessions you attend in your life.

How many shamanic ceremonies you go through.

How many books you read.

It doesn’t matter how many times you go to church.

None of it truly matters until you train yourself to live in the present moment - more and more, day after day.

The present moment is the key.

When you become capable of remaining in the instant where neither past nor future exist, you unlock the doorway out of suffering.

Because in the present moment, suffering does not exist.

Right now - in this exact instant - suffering cannot exist.

Suffering is a distortion created by the mind.

It is born from projections into the future, manifesting as anxiety. Or it is born from rumination about the past, manifesting as depression.

Anxiety and depression are simply two sides of the same coin we call suffering.

And this suffering is annihilated by the power of the present moment.

Presence is the foundation. The base without which the entire structure collapses.

You can spend years mentally analyzing your past, trying to understand when certain wounds were created, when certain mechanisms formed, who hurt you, why they hurt you, how your inner child was wounded.

You can dig endlessly... there is no bottom to that well.

You can keep digging into your subconscious forever - into childhood, into previous relationships, into hypothetical past incarnations. There will always be another layer, another explanation, another Pandora’s box to open.

But where are these wounds actually healed?

Always and only in the present moment.

Because nothing else exists.

That’s why learning to remain in the now is infinitely more important than endlessly discussing your past at the mental level.

Personally, if I were you, I would dedicate 95% of my energy to developing the capacity to be - to remain in the present - rather than getting lost in endless mental noise.

And yes, sometimes even certain forms of psychotherapy become part of that mental noise: endlessly searching for the causes of causes of causes, without ever bringing you to the place where those wounds are actually dissolved.

Now, I’m not saying psychotherapy is useless.

I’m saying that identifying a problem is not the same thing as solving it.

The real solution begins with the attention you bring to that suffering in the present moment - specifically inside your body.

Where does it manifest?

In the throat? In the chest? In the solar plexus?
As tension? Tightness? Resistance?

Once you locate it, you bring attention there.

Who cares whether the apparent cause was your father, your mother, your ex-partner, your boss, or your shitty childhood as a whole?

The discomfort exists here, now.

External events are simply mechanisms through which life reveals that energy inside you. And when you observe that energy consciously in the present moment, something extraordinary happens:

The energy is transmuted.

The wound becomes power.

That deep pain you carry is actually a portal toward the highest manifestation of yourself.

But reaching this state requires training.

Living in the present moment is not something that magically happens overnight.

Maybe once in a while someone hits their head and suddenly awakens permanently - but relying on that would be foolish.

We need something more stable. More practical.

So presence must be trained like any other ability.

Every day, with small, intentional efforts.

Not efforts so small that they change nothing.

Not efforts so extreme that they exhaust you.

The right amount of effort.

Exactly like physical training.

At the gym, the first month often feels useless. Then the second month. Then the third. And suddenly, one day, you notice that something has changed.

Presence works the same way.

This is why practical exercises matter so much.

Many of them come from the teachings of George Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way.

One simple exercise is the “door exercise.”

For one week, every single time you walk through a door, you have to consciously remember yourself.

You pause internally and remind yourself:

“I am here.”
“I exist.”
“I am crossing this door.”

You stop crossing doors mechanically like an unconscious machine.

Try it. Seriously. Commit to it for one week and observe what happens. Because what you’ll discover may shock you: how little of your life you are actually present for.

Over time, through these repeated efforts, presence slowly stops being a mental exercise and becomes a new state of consciousness.

And when presence becomes your natural state, suffering loses its solidity.

It becomes lighter. Temporary. Transparent.

So practice.

Train yourself to be here.

(and if you have any questions on the subject, pls feel free to reach out in the DMs)

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

QUICK GUIDE FOR A LIFE OF UNCONDITIONAL JOY (and free of mental masturbation)

What are you really searching for when you tell yourself:

“I want to become richer.”
“I want more money in my life.”
“I want a bigger bank account.”

What are you REALLY searching for?

The moment you honestly answer this question, you are ready to put that area of your life back in order.

Because what you are looking for is definitely not the banknote itself.

I mean, sure - there are probably banknote fetishists somewhere on planet Earth. There are fetishists for everything, so there are probably people who enjoy collecting rectangular pieces of paper of different colors with numbers written on them, smelling them, touching them, holding them in their hands.

I doubt that’s your case. (If it is, let me know in the comments.🧐)

What you are really searching for when you feel the urge to become wealthy is a sensation.

Fundamentally, you are searching for the feeling of peace and serenity that you associate with money.

Maybe also security.

Maybe also power.

But in general, the root is serenity, the feeling of walking through life with a certain degree of inner peace.

When you are wealthy, you no longer have to worry about what will be on the table tonight. You no longer worry about vacations, about whether you can travel comfortably, about giving your children the best education possible.

You can go out with your friends and silently demonstrate that “you made it,” freeing yourself - in your mind - from their judgment.

And that gives you peace.

But it all revolves around that same thing:

SERENITY.

Now here’s the real question:

What if that feeling did not arrive together with money?

And above all: what is the exact amount that would finally make you feel at peace?

Do you have a precise number in mind?

A million? Ten million?

Have you secretly decided that only once you reach that number will you finally allow yourself to feel peaceful inside?

Probably not.

Because the nature of chasing money is that it becomes endless.

The more you reach, the more the bar moves.

You reach one goal, and immediately another appears. It becomes an infinite pursuit of a feeling that cannot actually be found there.

And yet, especially in the West, most of us were never shown an alternative while growing up.

We were taught that happiness exists somewhere outside ourselves - in career success, in status, in financial achievement, in a larger bank account.

Very few people are exposed to another perspective unless they actively search for it through uncommon books, teachers, or experiences.

The truth is this:

That feeling comes BEFORE the money.

That feeling is available for you NOW, in this very moment.

You must find it before becoming rich or successful, because money amplifies what you already are - it does not give you something you fundamentally lack.

That sense of inner peace can only ever be found now, in the present moment.

What you think is the goal is actually the prerequisite.

Once you unlock that inner state, everything else begins to unlock as a consequence. Reality is forced to reorganize itself around the transformation happening within you.

This does not necessarily mean you will become a billionaire.

But honestly - who cares?

Once you have already found that state internally, everything else becomes an addition. A pleasant accessory.

Of course it’s enjoyable to travel, to eat in beautiful restaurants, to give your children better opportunities.

But your happiness cannot depend on those things.

Otherwise, you become a slave to external circumstances.

Because no amount of money can permanently guarantee peace.

You might think: “When I reach one million, I’ll finally relax.”

But what happens if inflation changes the game and suddenly the lifestyle you wanted now costs ten million?

Then where did your happiness go? It was never in the number.

So you might as well bypass the game entirely and reach that peace first.

Now, the “how” may seem complicated.

But with the right strategy, the right mindset, and above all discipline, it’s not nearly as impossible as it looks.

And besides: what is the alternative?

There isn’t one.

Either you spend your life on this planet trapped in madness and endless chasing… or you find the one real key that unlocks lasting peace.

That key is inner Alchemical work.

That stable feeling of joy and serenity emerges through what many traditions call the opening of the Heart - a higher state of consciousness.

And no, this is not the temporary happiness of a Saturday night out drinking with friends, getting matches on dating apps, winning a trophy, or seeing your favorite team win the championship.

That kind of happiness comes and goes.

It follows the law of compensation: it lifts you up, then drops you back down.

Again and again.

What we are searching for instead is a permanent center of gravity within ourselves - something unshakable regardless of external circumstances.

So how do you reach this state?

It begins with ruthless 🔥SELF-OBSERVATION🔥.

And by ruthless, I mean objective and scientific.

You begin by observing yourself.

- Your habits.
- Your mechanical behaviors.
- Your reactions.
- Your recurring emotional patterns.

You start tracking them. Writing them down. Studying yourself honestly.

Self-observation is the first step.

But true self-observation only becomes possible when you can remain present for a decent amount of time.

Which means the beginning of inner work is fundamentally a work of 🔥FOCUS🔥.

You must first learn how to focus the mind on something - anything.

In more difficult cases, when someone feels completely lost in life, the solution is often very simple:
return to the body.

Exit the endless mental and emotional loops and reconnect with physical reality.

Train.
Run.
Lift weights.
Follow a disciplined diet.

If you cannot control your thoughts, then place your attention on physical effort until the mind becomes quiet through necessity.

This is the first step.

Inner work begins from the physical plane.

Then, gradually, that discipline is brought into self-observation.

You learn to observe yourself while acting in the world.

This is what is called 🔥DIVIDED ATTENTION🔥.

For example: right now I amwriting this post. I’m focused on what I’m saying - but at the same time, I am aware of my feet, aware of my body on the chair, aware of the movement of my fingers, aware of the temperature in the room.

I am conscious of myself while acting.

It’s like watching a movie in a cinema. Normally, people get completely absorbed in the film and forget themselves entirely. (And honestly, even that level of concentration is already rare today, considering how fragmented our attention has become because of modern technology)

But the next step is this: watching the movie while simultaneously remaining aware of yourself sitting in the chair.

That is divided attention.

Over time, divided attention and presence exercises - together with emotional work and the 🔥TRANSMUTATION🔥 of negative emotions - lead toward what the Fourth Way traditions call Self-Remembering.

A higher state of consciousness.

And that state is exactly the serenity we were talking about at the beginning.

A stable inner openness.

A kind of quiet happiness independent of circumstances.

And once you touch that state, you stop trying to improve yourself for yourself.

You improve yourself to 🔥SERVE OTHERS🔥.

And this removes an enormous weight from your shoulders.

You give your best, but not from ego, not from fear, not from self-judgment.

You stop living inside judgment.

And that… is freedom.

Real freedom.

And this freedom - this serenity - must come first.

No number in a bank account can give it to you.

That’s why there are countless millionaires on antidepressants… and also hermits living alone in caves with absolutely nothing, yet immersed in permanent joy.

Think about that.

If it was possible for them, then it is possible for you too.

And honestly, it’s tragic to go through an entire lifetime without unlocking that state, because it’s already here.

Closer than you think.

Every day lived without that deep feeling that life itself is beautiful and meaningful is not necessarily a wasted day… but certainly not a fully lived one.

Because that state is available.

🔥HERE AND NOW🔥

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

The path of inner alchemy is a rather slow one.

Many people, when they begin inner work expect mystical visions, sacred geometries appearing before their eyes during deep meditation. And yes, that can definitely happen. I’m not saying it’s impossible.

What I am saying is that real, practical work on yourself - carried out daily, with discipline, honesty, and humility - leads to a gradual transformation.

It’s like a block of ice melting under the sun.

At the core of inner alchemy lies self-observation: neutral, non-judgmental observation of your own mechanisms and resistances.

Self-observation is already transformation.

The moment you are able to observe a mechanism, that mechanism begins to lose its power. But the transformation is gradual. It cannot be sudden or extreme, because everything that is sudden requires compensation, while what is gradual has time to take root in matter.

Take again the example of the ice cube exposed to the sun — the sun of self-observation.

You can’t really tell the exact moment it starts melting, or the precise speed at which it dissolves. You can’t see each individual particle of ice turning into water. It’s impossible to perceive it directly.

And yet, you clearly see that it’s melting.

You see it slowly shrinking, until it disappears, until it becomes water.

That is self-observation.

A powerful practice - underestimated, often avoided, even by many who speak about inner work.

It’s much easier to sell rituals, amulets, horoscopes than to teach self-observation. Also because the transformation it produces is so gradual and ethereal that it’s hard to “sell.”

If I promise you a sculpted body, that’s easy to measure. Either your body changes, or it doesn’t. The result is visible.

But when I help you bring self-observation into your life, I’m working on something invisible, intangible - yet far more revolutionary than anything you can see.

There is no practice that can replace self-observation.

The only real way to notice how much you change over time, from the moment you begin inner alchemy, is to keep a journal - the so-called alchemical journal.

In it, you record your physical, mental, and emotional states day by day, without judgment. Just simple, almost scientific observations of how your biological machine behaved during the day.

Over time, this allows you to see a transformation that is truly impressive.

At a certain point, you go back and read entries from years before, and you ask yourself:

“Was that really me? Where did that person go?”

It was you.

But the mechanisms have been transmuted.

And transmutation, once again, requires time.

Be wary of anyone selling instant transformation.

This path requires effort. Discipline. Consistency. Day after day, you must remember to apply what you’ve learned, without stopping, without waiting for things to change.

And here’s one of the paradoxes of alchemical work:

The most effective work is done without expecting it to produce change.

You must enter the present moment so fully, accept it so completely, that you stop hoping the practice will lead somewhere else.

The moment you stop hoping for change, it means you are truly accepting reality.

And when you fully accept reality,

that’s when transformation happens.

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

Buddha and demon.

Fusion.
Synthesis.
Abundance.
Transcendence.

Both are you.
The choice is always yours.
Responsibility is always yours.
Presence.
Attention can be divided.
Choose your reality.
Your present.

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

The realm between light and dark.
The place between heaven and earth.

That is where my higher self stand.

Grounded.
While open to higher potential.

Effort.
While being open to life's miracles.

The fusion of light and dark

What makes you you.

Has always been right here.

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

Once again, prophecy has shown.

You have to integrate both versions of yourself.

Light with the Dark.

Purity with Scepticism.

Relaxed with Alert.

Grounded abundance.

Innorage of Light.

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

The most powerful presence exercise is the 5-minute exercise.

It consists of setting an alarm every day at the same time. This alarm must mark both the beginning and the end of the exercise. So, for example, you set the first alarm at 15:45 and the second at 15:50. The first marks the beginning, the second marks the end.

Every day, at that exact time, the first alarm goes off and signals the start of the exercise. When it rings, whatever you are doing, you must enter a state of presence.

What does “state of presence” mean?

It means that you do not change anything you are doing. You simply continue the action you were already performing. If you are watching TV, you keep watching TV. If you are walking the dog, you keep walking the dog. Whatever you are doing, you keep doing it.

The difference is that you begin to remind yourself: I am here. I am present. I am performing this action.

You become conscious, through divided attention, both of what you are doing and of your own being.

One thing that can help is to keep part of your attention on your physical body, or on a specific part of your body. For example, when I started, I used to maintain the sensation - or even just the memory - of having feet.

So maybe I was washing dishes. I was focused on the action: feeling the water flowing over my hands, the texture and shape of the plates, the temperature of the water, and so on. At the same time, I was aware of the sensation of my feet touching the ground, of the shoes or slippers around them.

In this way, attention is divided.

This is already a very good starting point for presence. It is the first step toward a deep inner transformation - a transformation that can only come through greater presence in your life.

There are many exercises, but this is one of those that makes sense to keep for a long period. Other exercises may last a week or ten days at most. This one can be practiced over time, precisely because those five minutes are unpredictable.

You never know what you’ll be doing during those five minutes. You might be driving, arguing with someone, or building a sandcastle with your child. You don’t know.

The only thing you know is that at that time, you must be present and continue whatever you are doing.

It’s an extremely powerful exercise. It looks simple, but it’s not easy at all. Try it and see for yourself.

It can actually be shocking to realize how little present we are during our days - and how little present we’ve been throughout our entire lives.

From that realization, infinite possibilities and infinite growth open up.

But first, you have to notice it.

You have to realize that you have been living mechanically up until now.

That is the first step toward change.

As in every area of life, the first step is to recognize and accept that there is a problem.

[Riccardo Carrà @RiccardoCarra44]

We usually think that freedom means being free to do whatever we want.

We believe that the more we are free to act in the external world, the more we possess some kind of privilege or free will.

This is a big misunderstanding.

True freedom is freedom from your own needs - not just physiological ones, but also the needs that have been imposed on you socially and within your family.

- Freedom is not being allowed to enter a restaurant during a lockdown. - Freedom is not walking half-naked in the street to stimulate other people’s sexual energy. - Freedom is not even being able to grow marijuana at home.
Freedom is something else entirely.
Freedom is liberation from the constraints within your own biological machine.

You are a Soul that has incarnated on this planet and built a psycho-physical system - what George Gurdjieff called a biological machine.

This biological machine has very specific needs and mechanisms, all rooted in survival - fight-or-flight responses, defensive patterns, instinctive reactions. In one word: survival mechanisms.

These mechanisms are extremely powerful. They drive 99% - probably more - of our behavior.

We think we are acting out of conscious will. In reality, we are simply complying with the reactive nature of this biological machine… and of the animal that hosts us.

So freedom is something that must be earned slowly, and it moves in the direction of greater discipline and greater control over this machine.

That’s why what looks like freedom is often not freedom at all… and what looks like prison or torture is actually where freedom is built.
Let me give you an example.

Many people think that someone going out at night and getting wasted is expressing freedom.

At the same time, when they see a monk sitting cross-legged for hours in the lotus position, they think:
“That person has built a self-imposed prison"

But that’s a fundamental mistake.

That person, simply by sitting still in the lotus position, is becoming more free - free from the impulses of the biological machine that push them to move, to get up, to seek something more stimulating.

To get there, you must pass through discomfort.

Try it yourself.

Sit cross-legged for one hour without moving a muscle.

Around the 30–40 minute mark, your legs will start cramping intensely. At that point, the impulses of your biological machine will push you strongly to escape the pain.

But that’s exactly where freedom is built.

That’s where free will is forged.

When you are able to take command over those impulses... when You are truly at the helm.
And being at the helm often means moving against the current.

Because what kind of freedom is it to simply be carried by the waves?

True freedom is saying: I want to go there - and I go there anyway, despite the storm.

Anyone can drift with the current.

But if that direction is not yours - if it is not aligned with your mission - then true freedom begins: the blood, the sweat, the suffering, the discipline to change the course.

At the end of the day, you become free from your personality - not with your personality.

Let me repeat that:

You become free FROM your personality, not WITH your personality.

[𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚍 @3m1ek]

今朝仙台で見た桃源郷のような風景

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

Zoom out and perceive the present

Yes, congratulations you found the present 🥳 🎉 🎁

It's IN THIS MOMENT, where any change, potential, or idea can be realized.

UNBOX the present 🥳

[Masaya "パパカメラマン" @88Masaya]

結婚記念日に同じ場所で家族写真を撮り続けています。
今年も家族みんなで撮影できました。

おじいちゃんおばあちゃんになっても撮り続けるのが夢です。

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

@yrrn_sub わかります！普段歩いてる時、目立つ自然の景色を見るとすぐ撮りたくなるｗ

[ひなち🍮🐣Hinachi @Hinachipiyo]

消えたくて生きた今日があるなら
どちらも嘘にはしなくていいから

■ Vocal. ひなちHinachi

■ Mix. えんどる
　https://t.co/YnthQQzjD6

■ Original. 遼遼

■ Video. ひなちHinachi

#歌ってみた #仮死化 #遼遼 #ボカロ #プロセカ #projectsekai #Anime #vocaloid

[Testosterone @badassceo]

圧倒的強気マインド

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

You know you've got to do something about it when the same idea pops into your head again and again.

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

What gets you out of the bed?

[Innoいの @Innorage2]

Kitto

[ひなち🍮🐣Hinachi @Hinachipiyo]

未来にいる理想の君を　今の君に押し付け過ぎないで

■ Vocal. Mix.ひなちHinachi

■ Original. DECO*27
   • DECO*27 - ハローセカイ feat....  

■ Video. OTOIRO & ひなちHinachi

#歌ってみた #ハローセカイ #deco27 #ボカロ #HelloSEKAI #Anime #vocaloid #hatsunemiku #初音ミク #vtuber