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Is Being Overwhelmed a Trick of the Mind?
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Is Being Overwhelmed a Trick of the Mind?

  • Posted: Monday, October 9, 2023
  • Meeting: Sunday, July 2, 2023

  • Duration: 4min

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In this video clip, Guy addresses the following question that was submitted by an online viewer: "I watched negative states telling me to react to this and that. I stood there. Then I was driving to work and I didn't stand there. They surrounded my mind. I felt consumed by I's. Is being overwhelmed a trick of the mind?"

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Doug: Jill asks: I watched negative states telling me to react to this and that. I stood there. Then I was driving to work and I didn't stand there. They surrounded my mind. I felt consumed by I's. Is being overwhelmed a trick of the mind?

GF: Yes! I don't know if you listened to the talks that I just gave over the last week or so, the Talks in the Pines. We actually talked about it. As seemingly impossible and contradictory as it is, what am I overcome by in any given moment? Resistance. My own resistance. "No, I'm overcome by these voices. I'm overcome by these fears." Well, what are these voices and these fears other than that consciousness in its resistance to anything that's threatening its position, trying to deal with or get rid of them accordingly? So in the end, I am overcome by my ignorance of this resistance that is always seeking to define something so that it can be apart from what it has defined. That's what it does. I separate things. "Familiar I" is separation -- "Real I" is unity. This thing lives so that it can talk and resist anything that doesn't match its idea, and the more it talks about what's attacking it, the more attacked it feels. The more attacked it feels, the more it resists what's attacking it. The more it resists what's attacking it, the more it comes up with plans to resolve the pain in being attacked. It's attacking itself. You just have to get to know well enough those moments so that you can bear, Jill, not just putting that in its proper place in the moment, whereas you said, "A negative state was telling me to react to this, and I was aware enough of it at all, but by the time I got to work, I was being bludgeoned by these thoughts and feelings." Well, do you think those thoughts and feelings go away because you catch them one time? Didn't Pharaoh promise to set the Jews free and then at the last moment changed his mind? There is a parting of a Red Sea, but you're not the one who parts it. However that story went down, it wasn't Moses who parted it either. It represents a parting of the right hand and the left hand, it represents a parting of the natures. Only when there is a parting of the natures through the commitment to understanding that I'm created to be free, to have my own land, as it would be -- the promised land. Only when that is abundantly clear do the seas part. By the way, they're just stories in one respect, they don't end -- like for instance you watch a movie and you go, "Oh, I love that movie. Look, they're walking off into the sunrise, holding each other's hand... and she's going to have a baby, and they made a million dollars, and they got away with everything. Oh, I love that!" You don't understand -- nothing ends, but everything can be completed.

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