Which of the following have you done?

[Daughter of Time]

In our quest for betterment, we do many things for our bodies, minds and souls.

Some of these things work for some, but not so much for others.

Which of the following have you done?

1 - Consulted a therapist

2 - Consulted an astrologer

3 - Done EFT (tapping)

4 - Listened to subliminal recordings

5 - Did chakra balancing work

6 - Reflexology

7 - Acupuncture

8 - Homeopathy

9 - Naturopathy

10 - Herbology

11 - Light and color therapy

12 - Meditation

13 - Chanting of mantras

14 - Become a Buddhist

15 - Learned NLP

16 - Visualization

17 - Visited a psychic or medium

18 - Joined a Jungian group

19 - Rolfing

20 - Psychedelic drugs

21 - Psychedelic botanicals

22 - Eat only organics

23 - Kinesiology

24 - Swam in the dead sea

25 - Lived in a ashram

26 - Became vegetarian

27 - Became vegan

28 - Became fruitarian

29 - Eat macrobiotics

30 - Learned astral projection

31 - Spend time in saunas

32 - Consulted a shaman

33 - Maxicombustion

34 - Shiatsu

35 - Feng shuied your home

36 - Found a guru

37 - Past life therapy

38 - Hypnosis

39 - Recite affirmations

40 - Made vision maps

41 - Re-birthing

42 - Cast the I Ching

43 - Tarot Cards

44 - Yoga

45 - Sleep under a pyramid

46 - Fasted for more than one week

47 - Drank your own urine

48 - Used an ozonizer

49 - Joined a mystery school

50 - Studied magic

And have any of these endeavors truly helped you to better yourself?

There are more that come to mind but I feel that 50 is quite enough.

Thank you.

Daughter of Time

[Baby Steps]

Too many

The one that stuck was consulting a Shaman, see my thread 'Shamanic Reflections'
Started getting confirmations, and feeling benefits

[Aspen]

Hi Daughter of Time,

I would say I have done or dabbled in 25 of the things on your list. Some I tried out of curiousity in my youth
(had an astrology report done,
vegetarian - because my parents were for a few years,
yoga)
Many I have tried for short periods of time such as:
fasting,
feng shui,
EFT,
affirmations,
tarot cards (read 3 times only),
consult a psychic (3 times only),
acupuncture (for my daughte'rs migraines),
naturopath (once for skin cancer - and would use more often if it was affordable)),
meditation (just learning),
saunas (when they are available),
eat only organic ( I ate raw and organic for 6 weeks once as part of a cleanse I have greatly reduced my sugar and wheat intake and try to eat whole foods rather than processed when there is a choice, grow a garden).

Of the 50 things on your list, the ones that I have found of most value to me personally and have used over a longer period of time are:
ozonizer,
homeopathy,
foot reflexology,
herbology,
visualization,
consult a therapist.

(In addition to the 50 on your list, I have also used a chiropractor for many years, Bowen therapy, and Bach flower remedies. I am currently dabbling with pendulums and angel cards, but not in a really serious way, just out of curiousity and a sense of exploration)

[Michelle Marie]

In our quest for betterment, we do many things for our bodies, minds and souls.

Some of these things work for some, but not so much for others.

Which of the following have you done?

1 - Consulted a therapist

2 - Consulted an astrologer

3 - Done EFT (tapping)

4 - Listened to subliminal recordings

5 - Did chakra balancing work

6 - Reflexology

7 - Acupuncture

8 - Homeopathy

9 - Naturopathy

10 - Herbology

11 - Light and color therapy

12 - Meditation

13 - Chanting of mantras

14 - Become a Buddhist

15 - Learned NLP

16 - Visualization

17 - Visited a psychic or medium

18 - Joined a Jungian group

19 - Rolfing

20 - Psychedelic drugs

21 - Psychedelic botanicals

22 - Eat only organics

23 - Kinesiology

24 - Swam in the dead sea

25 - Lived in a ashram

26 - Became vegetarian

27 - Became vegan

28 - Became fruitarian

29 - Eat macrobiotics

30 - Learned astral projection

31 - Spend time in saunas

32 - Consulted a shaman

33 - Maxicombustion

34 - Shiatsu

35 - Feng shuied your home

36 - Found a guru

37 - Past life therapy

38 - Hypnosis

39 - Recite affirmations

40 - Made vision maps

41 - Re-birthing

42 - Cast the I Ching

43 - Tarot Cards

44 - Yoga

45 - Sleep under a pyramid

46 - Fasted for more than one week

47 - Drank your own urine

48 - Used an ozonizer

49 - Joined a mystery school

50 - Studied magic

And have any of these endeavors truly helped you to better yourself?

There are more that come to mind but I feel that 50 is quite enough.

Thank you.

Daughter of Time

Looks like a bucket list for spiritual transformation! LOL

I've done MOST of these...

What has helped the most is inner listening/contemplation/meditation/communion.
To keep my heart and mind pure and Divine continuously is my intent: VIGILANCE.
Vibration: set to unconditional love and appreciation.
Incoming energies and disturbances: transmutation, forgiveness/letting go.
Being Receptive, grounding, shielding, taking authority over my energy field.
Radiance: Healing Love

I sense the rapid changes. I've had spontaneous telepathy and transcommunication. (A soul whom I did not know when living came through-complete with name and identifiable information-for a person I was giving a reading to.)

Lots of love,
Michelle Marie

[Gaia]

I do concentrate on the strictly personal goals of self-improvement :) Our minds do have superpowers that we can utilize to our benefit if we believe in it.

For your question there ya go :)

Acupuncture, Meditation,Visualization, Became a Buddhist, Consulted a shaman Became vegan. Voilà essentially... :)

[Ernie Nemeth]

I counted 20 on your list that I've done.

I didn't give myself marks for peeing myself 'cause that wasn't what I was drinking when it happened...

[Mike]

for about a 10 year period (between 20-30) my motto was "why not?"....as in: why not drink your own piss? why not take several hits of acid while your life is in emotional turmoil? why not spend $500 on a psychic reading? why not spend an hour a day visualizing your hair regrowing itself from your receding hairline?

my second motto was: what do i have to lose? and the answer ,i later found out,was 1) my sanity...and 2) a sh!tload of money. and also time...lots of time.

i consulted many psychics. around this time id dropped out of college, and i began exploring unconventional concepts and ideas. i was the recipient of a generous trust fund, and it was the only time in my life i had $ to burn. and burn it i did. i was now majoring in beer and psychic readings...and my funds quickly dwindled. these psychics were supposedly the creme dela creme. they'd had clients like Sonny Bono and Cher, and John Lennon. and their rates were astronomical. after i paid for some of my readings they could have easily purchased a couple small, 3rd world countries. and none of them said anything even remotely f#cking accurate...so you'll all have to excuse me when i go on one of my psychics-are-full-of-sh!ts rants.

therapy: been there, done that. several times. the first guy worked from home. he had a finished off basement, and we had to navigate thru piles of his kids toys to reach his office. within a half hour he had me doing that ridiculous tapping technique, and after each round he had me ranking my depression numerically. id never had to quantify my feelings like this before, and i couldnt help but feel like i was a judge at a talent competition or something ( well done! i'll give that one a 10!) i feigned stomach sickness and left early. i cursed out loud when i stepped on a jagged piece of lego (f#ck!)

i had an email correspondence with a shaman. does that count?

meditation ive done. i mentioned this on another thread recently. i was the only one in the class who couldnt sit zazen style, so i worked from a chair. i quit due to embarrassment.

hypnosis...tried it. not sure why. i wasnt trying to quit anything. thing is, this woman did past life regressions..or so she said. i wanted to figure out why my life had gone so terribly awry, and i thought the answer might exist in some form of past life slip up. she had a 100% success rate, she said....but she couldnt put me under. i actually felt bad for her and made something up on the spot so i could leave. i pretended to be under...and told some horrifically embarrassing story about choosing between the dark and the light. it was awful..just awful...

one of the last things i did before i wisely returned to reality was put my name on a prayer chain. at the time i was dumb enough to be moved by some of the testimonies, so i jumped aboard. over the next 2 weeks i went 0-16 on my NFL bets and lost almost $5000. some guy that looked like joe pesci from goodfellas visited me every week for the next couple months till i could pay it off. so i called the number and left a msg, asking to have my name removed from the prayer chain. a man actually called me back, asking why. and me, being the fool i was, i actually tried to explain to this guy what happened. ("all i needed was a field goal to cover! there was 20 minutes left in the game! and then Barber fumbles...")..

ive done so many of the things on this list...and then some. i did drink my own piss. i probably would have eaten my own sh!t too at one point..if the right person was around to talk me into it. and i might have paid the guy for the advice while I was at it!:ROFL:("that'll be $350 please"...oh sure, no problem). i could write endlessly about this stuff but im too tired. good thread tho

[Ewan]

for about a 10 year period (between 20-30) my motto was "why not?"....

Thanks Mike, that whole post really made me smile. :)

[araucaria]

At the risk of shocking one or two people, I would answer, (practically) none of the above. OK, I do a little meditating, I have printed my birth chart and understand some of its basic properties, I once moved my bed, I have studied Jung a little, cast a couple of I Chings about six years ago (very interesting, but not so much as to do it again), and there you have it.

My conclusion is that, while they may be very useful, none of these things is remotely indispensable. The longer the list, the more obvious this would become. The one thing that is relevant to this forum is that I read posts, think about them, and sometimes respond. Reading-writing/communicating would be the name of the varied menu that we all choose from.

[delfine]

I´ve done 34 of the points. And I´m more or less still stuck in the same muck as I´ve always been :(

[Daughter of Time]

Thank you for your replies.

I appreciate them all: the sincere ones and the funny ones.

Mike, I laughed at yours. You went all out! And that's what some of us do when looking for answers.

I've tried 35 in my list. Some of them I still rely on, but most of them I've abandoned as they haven't brought a whole lot of improvement.

I do take homeopathics as they've helped with certain physical conditions and still do.

I still delve into astrology, but I don't pay for it anymore. I do my own.

Acupuncture has been nothing short of miraculous when it comes to muscular and related pain.

I've found saunas extremely helpful in releasing toxins from my body. I will probably do them again some day.

I do yoga, sporadically, as I consult the tarot, sporadically. I meditate, sporadically.

My ozonizer does keep the air clean and I like that.

As for the rest, I'm glad I tried them, even if they didn't work for me.

I welcome more replies. It's interesting for me to know what people do when looking for help.

With love,

Daughter of Time

[Mike]

Hi Daughter of Time....

In all fairness, many of these things have helped me over the years too. I stopped a little short in my previous post here...

Naturopatby is one.

I've used homeopathic remedies that were effective.

Nutritional supplements saved my life!

I take long, meandering walks most days and fall into a kind of meditation while I'm moving. It's very invigorating.

Herbs for sure. I make a hawthorn syrup that's given me great relief from arrythmia.

So...theres lots of good stuff too.

:)