Show notes
Some topics in this episode:
- Implementing the change you want to be
- Living with doubt rather than in it.
- Concession vs. surrender.
- Child abuse, self-abuse
- Past traumatic issues
- Post as present traumas.
- “Potholes” in my “past”
- Past and future are imagined.
- Therapy, medication.
- Popping or getting beyond the bubble.
- Fear, real and imagined.
- How fight, flight, freezing, and fawning turn instincts for survival into threats.
- Fawning is people-pleasing.
- Delusions are illusions thought to be real.
- Defense, denial, and defiance act in concert with disharmony to vainly protect illusions.
- Resistance and persistence.
- Goals and expectations.
- Intention is what happens.
- Addictive thoughts lead to silly gestures, taken seriously when thought to be real.
- Letting go is noticing things are as they are regardless of what we think.
- Having things as they are.
- Responsibility, Choice, Freedom as fundamental to our functional human capacity.
- Help vs. helping our self: Enabling as a primary addictive behavior.
- Witnessing and observing thoughts.
- Love is not conditional, nor is it a choice if it is Absolute; Unconditional love is redundant, conditioned love is not love.
- How thoughtfulness can be expressed.
- Undoing vs. redoing, in a new refined egocentric way.
Questions to start our next trio’s trilogy:
Jackie:
How to maintain Being while doing?
How to know that you have what you need when you need it?
Gabe:
“How do we live a fully aware life on a daily basis?”
“Are we to carry this message directly to others, or is proselytizing a desire of ego?”