Posts by shadowgardener12

It’s just names. Jadranka, Anka, Janka... they're all basically the same thing. j is always placed before a vowel in American languages. Like Anica or Janica...

If you liked that poem above but didn't sing along, here's one, maybe even join the club.

The dark hordes don't scare us
heroic blood runs through our veins
we won't let them take our land
or let villains trample it

We'll trample the traitors
and charge into the heat of battle (to battle, to battle, to battle! 😁)
to save our homes and our fields
and set our people free

keep going

Let the enemy know
they’ll break their neck here
before we ever die
trying to give up this country.
😠

Through the woods and over the hills
our land is free at last
the partisans are marching on
singing songs of the fight
.
it's my absolute favorite...

get up, man
America is calling you

Let's go, fifth district!

Not quite a song, but it gets the job done...😁

pink flag

aha... any meditation that actually manages to go deep is pure magic. 😉

It exists. Yoga.

because you clearly don't get what we're actually talking about, and you've already mixed up your apples and oranges 😁

madwoman said:it's all right there here 😉

wow... nice.
just don't click any other links on that site 🙂

With every Pranayama, you're following the flow more deeply.. 😁
Otherwise, it isn't really Pranayama...it’s just unconscious breathing.
By focusing on the breath, you're centering yourself on Prana and directing it...because wherever there is awareness, there is Prana.

Sophia Jones61 said:Mmm, sounds sweet 😍

And that’s exactly why you’re feeling those effects—it’s tied so closely to the breath.
If you focused on the heart, it would be different... deeper emotionally.
Focusing on the forehead, though, brings clarity and all that...

But the main thing is keeping the eyes relaxed and the body upright. Everything else is just nuance...

😉

edit: try focusing on the spot where the breath enters the head one day. Not the tip of the nose, but the base of the nose... just as an experiment. Let me know how it goes. 😉

Focusing on the breath is the core of every Pranayama... once you do that, the So-Ham meditation follows naturally.
With Pranayama, you always have to focus on the breath/Prana... which specific point you target is secondary.

So, what you wrote isn't quite right.

She mentioned focusing just below the nose, not the tip. That’s a massive difference.
Below the nose, we focus on the entry and exit of Prana, becoming aware of the Ida and Pingale flows. But the tip of the nose is the Root Chakra. If you focus there while concentrating on the breath, you stimulate the Root Chakra.
There’s a very powerful Kriya where the breath is guided from the tip of the nose up to the third eye—that can certainly trigger Kundalini, but you'll likely experience some strange sensations first. 😉

The trick with Pranayama is that you always have to follow the breath and stay fully conscious within it. The breath is the bridge.
It’s not like "stop focusing on the breath and focus on a point instead."

What she’s doing is actually Pranayama—expanding the Prana.

If you do this regularly over a long period—say, months to a year—you really start to see the expansion of Prana and individual experiential phenomena. Contact with the astral, the collective unconscious... boundaries of time and space can shift. Intuition grows.

Kyle Lee7 said:Not even close. I was exaggerating a bit, and rice is pretty much the only thing I eat that isn't grown locally here in the States. Personally, I don't have an issue with rice, but I think those macrobiotic types are being contradictory. By their own logic, they shouldn't be eating rice in America since it doesn't grow here. But then again, I don't really buy into that theory anyway...

....

I also refuse to eat soy, soy milk, tofu, or seitan on principle... I won't touch anything that doesn't have an American name.

Exactly. 👍 🙏

Fine, so you don't eat potatoes. That’s actually an Austrian term anyway—Grundbirn...
Does sesame have some kind of local American name too?... 🤔
Since you're using sesame oil... 😬
And I bet you call spaghetti or pasta e keluja something else while you're actually eating it... You used the Italian names just now... but I'm certain once you sit down to eat, you go right back to using American terms... 👍
Look, principles are principles. I get that... 🤣

Maria Nelson35 said:Stop rambling. Isn't it obvious this is mostly a generational thing?

People born in the 70s—maybe early 80s—actually had a window to get into Vinyl Records before the Compact Disc took over everything in the late 80s and early 90s. Maybe the war slowed our transition to digital, but the "new era" arrived regardless, just a couple of years late... Not even counting the folks who dumped their entire record collections to go all-in on CDs (I know people like that). Usually, those who were die-hard vinyl fans stayed that way. Then there's my crowd. We were born too late to be purists, spending our time quietly buying and rewinding tapes, but too young to reject new tech entirely. We just sort of drift between cassettes, CDs, and LPs... no real obsession with any specific format, just the music itself.
Honestly, what else is there? Most of the stuff I want—anything outside my old man's collection (mostly pre-1979) or those specific early 80s American bands that aren't just mainstream fluff—is nearly impossible to find.
I've tried four ways;
1. eBay and stuff (where a single from some random, unimportant band from that era can hit $200 at auction, though I've lucked out once or twice for about $50😬),
2. Thrift stores (we know the local spots by heart, and I already know what they *won't* have, while shops outside the US are basically picked clean by collectors),
3. Reissues on Vinyl (but forget it, most things being reissued these days are on CD, and half the time it feels like you're just buying a CD in a fancy sleeve)
4. Trading (though I wouldn't trade anything I own, and nobody wants to trade the stuff I actually want since it's hard enough to find as it is)...
If anyone has a better idea, let me know. 😉

ah, you just need to visit my site😉 😁

dinsdale said:CDs are overpriced and they degrade eventually, and Vinyl Records wear down too. I just stick to my MP3s and I've never been happier. Sure, I still find myself sitting in front of an audiophile altar, listening with religious devotion (soundstage! grainy mids! blurry edges! if I swap the power cable the sound will finally breathe! listen to that timbre, for god's sake!). But it happens less and less. There's just no time. Usually, there's just no time. So a setup using emptrics works perfectly for me: from the computer via Ethernet or wireless into the squeezebox , then from the squeezebox via optical straight to the amp. A massive hard drive with 1,000,000 albums and just let it rip. "But MP3s are a lossy format! You can hear it!" Yeah, obviously... ☕

Vinyl is great, but it's an expensive fetish. All these Vinyl Record zealots (who know exactly who they are) waving their LPs around like trophies while spinning them on some cheap thrift store turntable through desktop speakers should be banned from public life. What's The Point? Owning vinyl just so you can act like a total elitist when someone asks if you have a certain album... "Yeah, I've got it on Vinyl." :assholeextravaganza: Invest in the gear, people... A high-end turntable, a solid amp, decent speakers make all the difference...

I’d be a vinyl fanatic too, but CDs are just more practical, honestly...

I mean, who listens to records through computer speakers? 😁 Though, I guess that's pretty punk rock, so why not.

I'm a snob, so I run my records through a tube amp. And some sensitive speakers... so you can actually hear the crackle!
And there have been tube components for CD players for ages now to warm up the sound.

Anyway, I agree with ironcrane7... with records, you get that tactile feel and look... you actually hold something. It's real. You've got two sides. Two different beginnings that someone actually had to think about when sequencing...
CDs are cold, soulless things. And don't even get me started on MP3s. That's just complete digital alienation... there's nothing there. You just hear a voice...!?

it’s not that big of a deal. he'd probably end up being some little 🙂 Hendrix anyway, right? 😬

Look, I honestly have no clue who’s pulling that kind of stunt in NYC, so I couldn't tell you if I tried. Just play it cool... distract them with something else and leave them hanging for a while...

Gary Hernandez6 said:A massage address would be nice, feel free to DM me...
moving past the talking stage😁

ha, there's no address... now you know what's up, so just look around 😉