#24: My Father Has COVID

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Werner is devastated at seeing his father in so much pain, and he is having nightmares about putting his life on hold, so that he can care for his father. Do waking nightmares keep you from caring? Join me as Werner questions the thoughts that are preventing him from loving and serving his father. Get still, listen carefully, and together let’s walk through Werner’s nightmarish state of mind.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast. My guest today is Warner. His father is in
0:09.8	I see you with COVID and helpless in pain and his father is an ex-military,
0:20.4	strong commanding and here he is vulnerable helpless and in pain and
0:27.8	Warner feels the same way in so many respects and welcome to the pod kick back free your mind
0:39.8	follow as closely as you're able to. Let's do the work.
0:47.0	What's going on, Werner? What's going on,
0:49.0	on, Precious?
0:51.0	Hello, Katie, can you hear me?
0:52.8	I can, I can, honey.
0:55.2	I'm so glad to see you.
0:58.8	I'm so glad to see you as well.
1:01.1	Thank you so much. Mm I read the other day it said everything is preparation and thank you for the work. My mom died a week and a half ago.
1:13.0	Oh my.
1:15.0	I could be there with her all the time and I've got so much peace in some way.
1:21.0	And I have a work sheet I would really like to do with you because it's about my father.
1:27.0	My dad is such a great teacher to me. He is so negative.'s such a victim sometimes and it feels to me that the moment I feel
1:40.0	empathy for him I get drawn into this this negative pit that doesn't have an end because life
1:48.4	everything is for him proof that life is terrible in some way. I see him really suffering and I feel sorrow in some way but I notice in that I create a story that I'm more enlightened or that I've got to work and therefore I'm free than he is.
2:06.0	Yeah, well, he certainly is in your life to test that for you, isn't he?
2:12.0	Yeah, those people. They are our test tubes. They come at us until we we catch up with what everyone and everything is here for and that is to wake up in our school.
2:25.0	So Warner, read number one on the Judge Your Neighbour Work Sheet and those of you new to the work today,
2:32.0	there are six questions on that
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