How many of you are short fused? We'll say it in other words. How many of you have virtually no tolerance for anything outside of what you want?

On a scale of 1 to 100 degrees, what is your acceptable range relative to meeting moments? Is it something like 2 to 98? Or is more like 78 to 79? That's about it, isn't it? This tiny little bandwidth, and if anything even threatens to touch 76.9 or 79.6, or any variation on the theme outside of my narrow little band, I go ballistic, don't I? I fall into a depression. I take a drink. I get worried. I get all caught up in thinking about how to fix the temperature of the Universe so that it returns to that two degrees of bandwidth that I prefer to live within.

That's what human beings call "life," and it is increasingly narrowing in case you haven't noticed. Don't let it narrow. Don't let it narrow and you have the capacity, the undiscovered consciousness, that can understand what I'm telling you so thoroughly that you will be willing -- in the moments you are asked to move one tenth of one degree outside of your level of tolerance -- to begin to understand the beauty and the value in it and the authentic intelligence that's behind it.

Anyone have problems with the joy bandwidth? No, I'm there for the joy bandwidth. Give me that food, that trip. Give me everything that makes sure that when I get there, I'm enjoying nothing but the finest. But don't give me anything that's outside of the bandwidth. And what's outside of the bandwidth? Negative states.

And what's the main feature - meaning upon what is our attention riveted whenever we encounter anything outside of our "usual" narrow bandwidth? Ordinarily, we'd say it always involves the other person, meaning what someone else did or didn't do. What went wrong. What should have gone this way. What didn't go that way. That would be the first main feature: blaming it on a condition outside of ourselves.

The second main feature to our mind, apart from laying blame outside of ourselves, is turning to ourselves in that moment and feeling inadequate to deal with the mounting pressure that's threatening to crumble this narrow bandwidth we're in. And isn't that what we feel? Isn't that what we're going through in that moment?

So, the main feature of any unwanted moment is the rejection of it. The main feature in any moment in which I'm suddenly afraid, or anxious, or visited by a dark state is my resistance to it. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, "No! The main feature in a moment of fear is the omnipotence of the fear. The main feature in any moment I'm feeling stressed and angry is this terrible pain that I'm in!"

But I'm saying to you that's not the main feature, and I'm going to prove it to you. And if you let me prove it to you, I will put into your hands a completely new way in which you can begin to realize a life that doesn't live in a narrow bandwidth.