Topics covered: Our mind is always struggling with what is happening because it does not match up with what it believes should be happening. As a result, we see everything as being flawed; Presently our lives are predicated upon struggling to get others to see life the way we do; Being spiritually asleep, resistance becomes our chief advisor, telling us what we have to do in order to get rid of the pain of unwanted moments.
Topics covered: The moment that you start thinking about being in the flow, you are cast out of the flow; Resistance to the disturbance seems to prove that we would be content if it were not for the disturbance; When a dream is interrupted, the dreamer comes up with a plan to get rid of whatever is obstructing the dream; Identification with anything always places a person outside of where the real flow exists.
Topics Covered: You can't separate an imagined fear from the self that believes what it has imagined; "I was born when all I once feared, I loved"; Attention establishes relationship through becoming conscious of an existing link; Resistance is the first form of all complaint; There's no such thing as a time to come when everything comes up roses; The "no frame" moment; All I see is what I don...
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Bestselling self-discovery author Guy Finley will speak on Your Passport to a New World Beyond Stress, Struggle, and Useless Pain over a Zoom call sponsored by Portland’s New Renaissance Bookshop on Thursday, June 6, at 6:00pm PT.
Whatever we try to go around in ourselves guarantees it will come around again, which is why the things we fear in life and about ourselves always tend to reappear...
Topics covered: Along with resistance to an unwanted moment comes the explanation about what the moment is all about; The first reaction to an unwanted moment does not have a name. It is a natural instant of something active acting upon something that is passive. The second reaction comes when the mind gives a name to the moment; There cannot be a perceived threat without something from the past naming and explaining what the moment means.
Topics covered: We never have a plan, a desire, or an expectation that does not have a momentum that comes along with it; You can learn from everything that you encounter in life, instead of becoming the captive of resistance to what you meet. Instead of being used by fear, you can use fear to free you; You don't know that you walk around with a desire to be left alone until someone or something bothers you...