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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that it is not enough to simply say that you are no longer going to be deceived by negative states such as fear and anger. If you ever want to be free and in command of your own mind, then you must begin to taste the bitterness inherent in those poisonous negative states...
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about the imperative to observe the nature of negativity itself instead of complying with whatever the negativity is telling you to do.
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about owning your own attention for the purpose of observing the painful tendency to blame everything outside of yourself as the cause of whatever is disturbing you.
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In this excerpt from a recent classroom talk, Guy talks about how agreeing to live with fear, worry, anxiety, depression -- or any other negative state -- is the same as living in the "dread zone," a psychological state of useless suffering that prevents us from being alive and aware in the present moment.
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In this question and answer session, Guy explains that not wanting to see something about ourselves actually attaches us to the very thing that we say we don't want. So the task is not to change what we see. Instead, the task is to observe ourselves so that we can be changed by the very awareness that is observing.
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Guy Finley explains that each of us is a unique blend of energies, both positive and negative, all of which are meant to be used for the purpose of self-revelation.
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In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are always being acted upon, moment to moment, by certain kinds of energy, and the degree to which we possess command of ourselves is determined by whether or not we are aware of these same forces acting within us.
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In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the painful sense of self that becomes more and more certain about its false position of righteousness in exact proportion to the degree of negativity that is being expressed.
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Classroom Talk: 10/4/2023 - The consistency of any painful, negative reaction to some person or event doesn't prove -- as we imagine it does -- that the "guilty" party remains unchanged as "charged." Rather, what it does show -- at the very least -- is that it is we who are unchanged: an unwitting captive of being unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction.
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Classroom Talk: 3/17/2021 - Fearful, negative reactions see only what they need to see in order to run away with our life. But, we have another set of eyes that - once opened - can see right through these painful shadows of unwanted moments trapped in the past. Only sometimes, as when we first walk into a dark room, there are times...
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Classroom Talk: 8/19/2020 - All negative reactions are a pre-determined judgment of any moment found "guilty as charged" for our painful experience of it; they are a false conclusion reached in the dark of us by an unconscious nature that -- by judging the moment -- creates the illusion that it has nothing in common with what it has just judged.
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