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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The possibility of realizing our highest Good is hidden in every unwanted moment of life where --if we wish to realize the grace that awaits us there -- we are asked for what amounts to an act of Divine obedience: and that is to yield ourselves to whatever we're given to see as true (about us)... without resisting the nature of what we're being shown, let alone to ask the question "why?"

The only thing we "add" to life by our resistance to it is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of needless worry.

Topics covered: The only thing that troubles you about any other human being is what you want from them; We have become masters at justifying pain; Every negativity that you experience begins with resistance; You cannot get negative in any situation unless something in you has gone before you to make the straight places crooked; What you resist in life must persist; You are not here so that li...

Silencing the mind is the renunciation of created existence, is it not? (From student correspondence)...

Classroom Talk: 11/21/2021 - The more we dwell on something in our life that we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in... are the dark dreams of our own sleeping consciousness.

Do we resist or embrace events that we do not want? The answer is that we resist them. And how much time do we spend not wanting what the moment presents to us? If we're honest with ourselves, the majority of our time is spent not wanting the moment. So we must come to the conclusion that, in large part, our lives are spent resisting life. Can I get negative towards another person without fir...

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Student Talks: 8/9/2019 - Key Lesson: The power of any unwanted moment to "punish" us is directly proportionate to the extent of our unseen resistance to it.

Classroom Talk: 9/28/2022 - Any lingering form of painful psychological resistance to some unwanted experience of life is the unconscious rejection of spiritual atonement.

The suffering inherent in negative states is the dark creation of a level of self that believes its conflict with life can be reconciled through resistance.