Negative States

Student Talks: 7/15/2022 - Key Lesson: The problems and pains that plague a divided mind disappear in the same moment as they appear in a mind unified with itself.

Topics covered: Anytime you are negative you are not seeing the truth of the moment; Without understanding you are under the authority of something that you believe understands the moment; When you make a mountain out of a molehill, you are suffering from TMS: Tiny Mind Syndrome; No moment is ever about just one thing. But it is about one thing to the 'I' that has been stirred into action...

Topic: Learn to Say "Yes" to Life and Liberate Yourself (Classroom Talk 2/14/22)

Topic: Open Your Eyes and Welcome the Light of Self-Healing (Classroom Talk 1/26/22)

Topic: Wake Up and Welcome the Dawn of a Fearless New You (12/29/21 Classroom Talk)

Student Talks: 10/8/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Everything is temporary. Part 2: Resistance to any unwanted moment fixes, at once, an unwelcome sense of self that then feels stuck in the negativity it struggles to escape. Liberation from this sorrow begins as we awaken to realize a shocking truth: there is no psychological suffering that isn't rooted in some form of unconscious...

Topics Covered: We live in a world that is the size of our understanding; As we are now, unconscious reactions tell us what to understand and believe about the moment, as well as what to do about it; There can be no painful reaction without there being something that is fixed in our consciousness; The mind that analyzes and describes a reaction is not separate from the consciousness...

Student Talks: 9/17/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don't want to see in it! Part 2: Our willingness -- and the inner work it takes...

Topics Covered: Who we really are belongs to a greater story than anything the mind can imagine; The mind only knows thought, and thought is the past; The pain in our lives is because we are cut off. We are isolated with no understanding that our present consciousness only knows one thing to do with unwanted moments, which is to resist them; We live in a world where negative...

Student Talks: 4/2/2021 - Key Lesson: If it feels like the same unwanted moments keep coming around... think again: reality never repeats itself; creation is always new. To know why life seems to repeat itself -- and painfully so -- we need look no farther than to see how instantly identified we become with our (own) recurring negative reactions.

Topics Covered: There will never be peace until we each begin to understand the unconscious mechanism that is responsible for the conflict we experience; The consciousness having the negative reaction always blames something for the pain that it is actually responsible for; If we are having a negative reaction, then we must believe that we know the meaning of the moment...

Topic: Transform Old Negative Reactions into New Self-Understanding (3/17/21 Classroom Talk)