#39: Bipolar and No Way Out!

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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My guest this week is Shirah, and she is–by her own definition and her doctor’s–bipolar. She is frightened and angry with herself because of it. She wants to enjoy life without fear and never be depressed again. She feels like a failure, weak, and cannot help herself. Oh my goodness, this Work is so close to my heart and I hope it rings something beautiful within you. Let’s do The Work.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast and my guest this week is
0:08.1	Shera and she is bipolar and she is frightened and angry with herself because of it,
0:19.5	deeply depressed and can't stop the depression and wants to be able to control it.
0:26.0	She wants to enjoy life without the fear of bipolar and she doesn't ever want to be
0:31.9	depressed again.
0:33.6	She considers herself stupid, and she's so smart.
0:39.0	We all got to see that.
0:40.6	She considers herself lazy and weak and self-absorbed. She considers herself a failure,
0:48.3	unable to help herself. And oh my goodness, I love you, sit in this work.
0:54.8	It is so close to my heart and I hope it means something beautiful within you.
1:01.8	I really can't say more than that when the evidence and the
1:05.3	experience is is coming up now. Welcome to the work.
1:20.0	You always know the truth inside your heart. That's immovable. immovable.
1:24.0	You always know the truth within your heart because anything, any thought, you think against it.
1:32.0	The heart being a symbol for your true nature, which is, we have so many definitions for the word love, but just pure love.
1:51.1	So we all know what's true for us because anything we think they do that
2:01.9	would oppose that feels like stress, feels like guilt, comes out like
2:10.3	everything for mild irritation to violence.
2:16.8	Now it's okay with me if people do war in the world,
2:21.0	where do I do war in this world?
2:29.0	And the first place I look is the war with the self, the war with the heart, with this heart that is undeniably there. I can't fake it away. I can't get rid of it. It's everything.
2:54.3	everything.
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