Stress / Anxiety

Topics covered: What you suffer from and don't know that you suffer from are all of your solutions to your suffering; What is the one thing you always do in a moment you fear or dread? You look for a way to rescue yourself; Your rescuing actions are inseparable from the moments that you feel are wrecking your life; What is it that gives me the solution to my reactions? The consciousness that has that reaction...

Topics covered: A sleeping human being is anyone who has made peace with the pain that promises to leave them alone in a future time to come when conditions finally change in their favor; When you have pain in your life, you turn to yourself because you do not know what else to turn to, and your solution provides a temporary consolation at best; The part of you that tells you what to do about the conditions or people that are bullying you around...

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2024 - Either we have command over our negative reactions or -- without ever knowing so -- our reactions take command of us, making us little more than unwitting servants of whatever painful thought or feeling we've empowered to push us around.

Topics covered: The mind that is blind is first and foremost blind to the fact that it doesn't see; Your whole life is meant to be spent aware of being endlessly given something new to see, to see everything that is passing through you; What if the whole of your life is about what you have yet to see about yourself? You must sincerely wish to see what you are being given to see...

Classroom Talk: 1/17/2024 - The endless -- and futile effort -- to complete yourself in a time to come is as hopeless as trying to free yourself from a pressing hunger pain by believing the more time you spend reading the menu of your favorite restaurant, the fuller you're going to feel.

Topics covered: We are bullied all the time by something within ourselves that we do not recognize as a bully. In fact, we often look to this inner bully for guidance; What makes us the favorite of any bully? The answer is that weakness always pounces on weakness. The bully does not exist without something to bully; We are bullied inwardly by fear, anxiety, anger, worry, depression, or any other negative state that we are not aware of...

Classroom Talk: 12/6/2023 - Go through some fear you're sure you can't... and come out on the other side stronger, wiser, and with more faith. Go around any anxious worry or doubt... and never come out.

Topics covered: The meaning of the passage "Sell all and follow me" pertains to selling the psychological possessions of your past and your future; The hope in a time to come in which you will be free is the very prison you are in now; If you complete the moment, then you complete yourself. If you don't complete the moment, then you are tied to an incomplete nature seeking to complete itself in a time to come...