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Whats your Higher Power?

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BenzoEnthusiast

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So I have took part (and continue to do so) in many N.A and A.A meetings.
They say it has nothing to do with religion but it certainly feels like it does!
I'm an Agnostic I guess. I feel there is a higher power I just do not know what.
Anything from God to Simulation Theory lol.
I generally think of my child when they mention higher power as my child is pretty much the only reason I stick around this shitty planet.

What's yours?
 
I'm agnostic as well. My higher power is the mystery and unanswerable questions of the universe and simply knowing there is something out there greater than myself.

I also lean hard into Taoism principles. Trusting that the universe is just as it should be. Do not struggle swimming upstream, let go and the universe will take you in the right direction. Don't fight the universe, you'll always lose.
 
What Negentropic said.
Also, I guess I kinda see Life itself as a higher power. Everywhere you look Life strives to exist, even under the most inhospitable conditions. And it exists in a mind-boggling variety of forms. Nature is fucking amazing.
 
BenzoEnthusiast2 said:
So I have took part (and continue to do so) in many N.A and A.A meetings.
They say it has nothing to do with religion but it certainly feels like it does!
I'm an Agnostic I guess. I feel there is a higher power I just do not know what.
Anything from God to Simulation Theory lol.
I generally think of my child when they mention higher power as my child is pretty much the only reason I stick around this shitty planet.

What's yours?
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Yes -child.Wife too.Innability to cross the red line and jump off the cliff,guess is called self-surviving instinct.Curiousity to try and evolve new things.The dream and the Day after it,which in many cases is better.The morning is wiser than evening here we say.The hope.
 
My higher power originated when I was studying Tibetan Yoga. I came across an alleged "secret" to meditation. The secret was to imagine your point of focus, during meditation, as soft- almost featherlike - as you possibly can. The book I have went on further to explain that empowering yourself to recognize the difference between the "two types of focus" is key! From there I discovered, much later on, that I could apply this same "featherlike" focus to any chakra or dantien within my person. I mostly focus on the middle dantien (the heart center) but have found that balancing my "soft focus" between each dantien makes me feel better.

I believe some refer to this state of mind as allness and have heard of people living several centuries from practicing the technique liberally.
 
Thankyou for the replies peeps. I have attempted meditation a few times but not for long periods of time. I think my anxiety makes it very hard to do. I often find it very hard to relax and I don't just mean mentally but physically. I go through periods of my muscles being tense constantly, along with higher than normal heart rate, plus my blood pressure is always way too high :(
 
BenzoEnthusiast2 said:
Ah, I don't get it :/
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If this was for my post:
It is everything. What I sense (taste, feel, see, hear, smell etc) and what I do not sense (that which we know is there - like electricity, air, bugs/mites/ameoba etc).
If there be a god... surly it is everywhere and seemingly nowhere. It would encompass good and bad as division is confusion and the foundation of babylon. There is 1. Anything else is corrupt and misleading... an illusion.
So my higher power is what I am made of; everything: There is no separation. ;)

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i was about to go in to work so the time wouldnt allow a discourse. lol
 
BenzoEnthusiast2 said:
So I have took part (and continue to do so) in many N.A and A.A meetings.
They say it has nothing to do with religion but it certainly feels like it does!
I'm an Agnostic I guess. I feel there is a higher power I just do not know what.
Anything from God to Simulation Theory lol.
I generally think of my child when they mention higher power as my child is pretty much the only reason I stick around this shitty planet.

What's yours?
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My higher power is the magic of the universe and the fundamental force that creates and sustains all life and pushes everything to become the best version of itself. God is the energy that creates all life and is not a separate a separate entity that should be worship. That should be established by now in this generation. It’s the same force that makes your heart beat and your hair grow and makes plants and trees grow. It is the momentum from the Big Bang that scientists refer to and continues to enrich our lives. When we embrace the momentum, we are in harmony with the soul and we experience more pleasure and joy and enlightenment and we are at peace and that is what people call heaven. When we resist the momentum of the universe then we are not in harmony and descend into misery and suffering and confusion and eventually death. Both individually and collectively. So in a way you can say that we all have our own individual power that we value and allows us to become a better version of ourselves but at the same time we are a part of a collective higher power in which our individual power is fragments of. It all goes back to oneness and interconnectivity and the realization that everything is a part of everything else and is just one consciousness.
 
I like to wrap my head around the idea of being non-existent for eternity because that's where I'm headed.

I really wish I could literally believe in God or a Higher Power but I don't. I think what religion teaches me is that human life is precious and to do unto others as you would have done unto you. I believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit in the sense of practicing religion, and to me all religions are based on myth.
 
I've got another one - that comes in the form of a story!

Years ago I had my own trailer (I'm one of the few who can say he/she was fortunate enough to own their own house at the age of 19). It was fucking awesome to have that much freedom, and since I was a teenager when first starting out, that freedom was like a gateway drug. I remember having different roommates in that one-bedroom "suite" and the worst of them all was this 6'2" wastrel who was always going on and on about horrible ways to kill people! He was incessant I think.

It was the first time I started to experience anxiety, living with him. He didn't clean, he didn't vacuum, he didn't do dishes, he didn't even shower... at least not without being asked. So one day I came up with a coping mechanism for the way he treated me. In all honesty my coping mechanism was a defensive strategy/mechanism that developed as a result of the fucker always thinking about the macabre! It's hard to describe all the personal details that went into my coping skill, but the ultimate goal I developed was to literally shake my body and limbs every single time I even so much as thought of hurting another person. In a way it paid off.

I believe the epicenter of my spiritual anatomy comes from the development of that goal of being completely conscious of an arguably inhuman desire. They say with great power comes great responsibility. Carl Jung teaches of the shadow. Jordan Peterson teaches of the taming of the Beast (beauty and the beast). At the pit of our nature as beings, we are all disgusting and equally fragmented, bestial and most of all, all of us have the capacity to be limitlessly Good or unfathomably Evil. What came as a result of that coping skill was a simple but mindful technique to always be in control.
 
I have a problem with the word 'power' in the title and all it implies. All that all-knowing all-seeing stuff that only really comes from our own value systems - the need to know what cannot be known.

There is no 'higher power' in control or with it all worked out. Logically, like a human.

It's just random chemical shit.

We are indeed star stuff.
 
iridescentblack said:
I've got another one - that comes in the form of a story!

Years ago I had my own trailer (I'm one of the few who can say he/she was fortunate enough to own their own house at the age of 19). It was fucking awesome to have that much freedom, and since I was a teenager when first starting out, that freedom was like a gateway drug. I remember having different roommates in that one-bedroom "suite" and the worst of them all was this 6'2" wastrel who was always going on and on about horrible ways to kill people! He was incessant I think.

It was the first time I started to experience anxiety, living with him. He didn't clean, he didn't vacuum, he didn't do dishes, he didn't even shower... at least not without being asked. So one day I came up with a coping mechanism for the way he treated me. In all honesty my coping mechanism was a defensive strategy/mechanism that developed as a result of the fucker always thinking about the macabre! It's hard to describe all the personal details that went into my coping skill, but the ultimate goal I developed was to literally shake my body and limbs every single time I even so much as thought of hurting another person. In a way it paid off.

I believe the epicenter of my spiritual anatomy comes from the development of that goal of being completely conscious of an arguably inhuman desire. They say with great power comes great responsibility. Carl Jung teaches of the shadow. Jordan Peterson teaches of the taming of the Beast (beauty and the beast). At the pit of our nature as beings, we are all disgusting and equally fragmented, bestial and most of all, all of us have the capacity to be limitlessly Good or unfathomably Evil. What came as a result of that coping skill was a simple but mindful technique to always be in control.
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This is a classy and informative read. Thank you.
 
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