Part I: We want to be free of unpleasant inner states but refuse to consciously bear the weight of them...which is a mandatory interim stage between living with the burden of self and being released from it. Part II: All forms of stress secretly serve the nature of those thoughts responsible for its creation.

The stress we feel over our possessions or in our relationships -- that sneaks in to steal our contentment -- is never because of the way in which these things (themselves) are made to turn, but it is the dark effect of how tightly we cling to the idea that our desires have the power to grant us peace.

Topics covered: As goes my attention, so comes my experience. As comes my experience, so comes my sense of self. If my sense of self has fallen into what I don't want, then I AM what I don't want; Negative reactions kill all other possibilities. Negative reactions collapse one's experience into a very limited field; "Divinity is our birthright. God nods to God from behind each of us. But let us remember, divinity is behind our failures and follies also"...

Topics covered: Real power begins to reveal itself when a person starts to realize that there is no need to seek for power as it is imagined; Life presents conditions that prove that the sand castles we have built for ourselves are not real due to how easily they can be washed away; The consciousness is set on ensuring that everything stays in place so that it can continue to look at itself through familiar conditions, and imagine itself as something real and permanent.

The solution to all stress and tension is a mind that is made aware of itself as being the producer of that stress and tension. Stress and tension are products of an unaware, unawake mind wrestling with its own contents to free itself from struggle. Relief from that tension is not to struggle with more things or to become stronger than what stresses you, but to recognize the relationship between how you are involved in your own mind because of that...

Guy answers how to stop being anxious with his quote, "As goes my attention so comes my experience." When anxiety has your attention stuck on worrying about a stressful situation that's your experience. A change in attention relieves us from the stressful connection to anxiety.

negative states, resistance, depressed, depression, resent, resentment, anger, angry, fear, fearful,afraid, anxious, anxiety, worry, worried, stress, stressed, hostility, grudge, judgemental,subconscious...

Topics covered: rushing, impatience, insight, waste, stress...

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