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Entry 588 - Living with Gender Incongruence

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7/5/21 - Gender Incongruence and the Journey to Authenticity Gender Incongruence is a medically recognized condition where someone doesn’t feel aligned with their body. There could be many reasons for this: whether someone is considered intersex at birth, having one of the other six potential sex chromosomal variations, or simply their own internal knowing that their body doesn’t align correctly with the gender they identify with in their brain. It’s very hard to express what it’s like to be transgender to someone who is not, but I’ll try my best. Outwardly, it may look like I’m “trying” to be a dude, but what you don’t see is that inwardly, I have always been that dude. Some people argue that there are masculine women and feminine men, but what they don’t understand is that for trans people, having Gender Incongruence is not about masculine or feminine energy. Ultimately, it is a diagnosable medical condition with genuine steps to alleviate chronic stress and restore alignment of gend
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Entry 456 - Poker Game Called Life

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4/9/21 Beliefs are like cards in a poker game, and the poker game is like Life, while you are the person playing the game. Beliefs are temporary; they could potentially help you get money, but they don’t guarantee any value. However, they can get you value if you believe they can. The true person who determines whether you experience life or death is the person behind the cards, who is manipulating the game in order to win (you). The cards are only objects you endow with meaning to make the game more interesting. People who are playing poker don’t want your cards (your beliefs); they want your chips (money, attention, time). Why would I tell you what my beliefs are when they’re relatively useless in the grand scheme for you? If I told you right away, it would be beneficial for you at the moment because then you could try to play a better hand than me, beliefs versus beliefs, and we would be playing a game. I want to get out of the game and show you from my vantage point of reality that
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Entry 451 - If you hate being alone...

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4/9/21 Many people think being alone is boring because they are only seeing themselves from their limitations. They may assume: "I can only laugh if I’m with someone." "I can only have fun if I’m with someone." However, these are all self-imposed limitations they place on themselves voluntarily until they choose not to. But if they connect to their multidimensional self—the past, present, and future selves existing all in this very present moment—and if they see themselves beyond the body, beyond the planet, beyond the galaxy, and also within it, they will not be bored. Because they are all those things and more, condensed in an illusory area of space and time that will one day fold over to reveal it was nothing more than The All. Oneness as their essence. Life as their reality.
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Entry 413 - Wholeness Became Sin... Really?

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Feb. 18th If God truly did die on the cross, then that would mean everything else died with God because without God, there is nothing. Without the Source, there is no substance. So, to say God died is to say everything ceased to exist, and that doesn't make any sense. However, if Jesus was some sort of incarnation or part of God but not the whole of God, it could work, but a part is different from the whole. My arm is a part of me, but it isn't fully me. When you talk to me, you look at my eyes and engage with my facial expressions. You don't stare at my arm and talk to it. So, to say that the arm is fully me is blasphemous because we know it isn't fully me. Just as the eyes are the window to the soul, the whole is more than the parts of a whole. But let's take this even further. To say even a part of God died is still strange. The arm analogy is in relation to still, physical form, so it is not a fully adequate example. God is beyond the limitations of form, so we
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Entry 331 - Christianity Failed Me

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9/30/20 I guess the reason why I don’t have much faith in religions such as Christianity anymore  (but still in God)  is because Christianity failed to prepare me and my family for the world. The Bible is a collection of other people’s stories with God, but it doesn’t go into depth about awareness and how to break free from unconscious behavior, bad habits, anxiety, and stress. It may tell us not to worry, but it doesn’t show us how. Or it may tell us we’re not our thoughts, but it doesn’t go into depth on any of that. It scratches the surface of a lot of important topics because it isn’t meant to be read as a manual on how to do life; it is primarily a collection of stories of how they did life, including their mistakes, victories, consolation, wisdom, symbols, allegories, and so on. Then, when I read books like A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, I was fascinated and learned and grew so much because it’s all meant to be applicable to my life in the present moment. It’s not a story of someo
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Entry 247 - The Reason Why I'm Not Religious

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5/19/20 Many people may wonder about my allegiance to religion, and I would say I have none. I'm completely allegiant and devoted to God, but not religion. I do believe one can learn a lot from different religions, traditions, and cultures, but I am not defined by any. There are many reasons why but I'll try to go in depth about my personal experience. Growing up, I went to church with my family. I would say I always loved God (even if I didn't understand God) when I was told about God, but I didn't make Christianity my own religion until around 6th grade. I then believed in order to be close to God, I had to be close to Christianity or else my relationship with God wasn't right, and I couldn't "be close to God." As the years go by, I still fell in love with God, but I expected Christianity to be the mediator between me and God and solve my problems. I wasn't taught how to solve them myself with God, but was expected to continue to go every thr
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Entry 232 - New Experiences

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5/11/20 I think the biggest thing that is keeping people from new experiences that are different from what they already know is their inherent fear of the unknown. If someone is afraid of the unknown, they are more likely to cling to the habits of life, to the automatic pilot of life. Their body craves feeling, touching, hearing and experiencing the same things because within that they feel a protection around the known.  However also within that known there is little to no growth, staleness, predictability, and an automatic response to life. When your body gets used to doing certain things, it strengthens the neurons and the connections around that thing until you no longer consciously do it, but your habits literally become an unconscious byproduct of your waking life. Instead of you ruling your mind, your mind rules you with what it already knows.  The known is led by the known, and that safety feels reassuring. However, when one makes peace with the unknown, and they are constantly
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