Hello and welcome to a solo episode of the podcast. For those of you who don't know me, my

name is Mark Groves and I'm obsessed with understanding ourselves, really, understanding

human behavior, the human condition, and really the information that gets revealed to us

through the frictions that we have in our lives. I just think that those

frictions are most often relational, and that might be the area that offers us the most motivation,

love. And I really believe that it is our purpose in this lifetime to become the most realized version of ourselves that we are meant

to step into our highest potential. And there's this idea that if you don't eat everything

on the table in this lifetime, you're going to have to come back. And so I think about this as a form of responsibility to step into the highest level of

alignment or integrity with what I know to be true.

And listen, this is how I decide to live.

You don't have to live like that.

And it would be beautiful if we could all attain some sort of experience

where we're all just floating through life and nothing impacts us emotionally.

But as that saying goes to be in the world, but not of the world,

we're still in this 3D experience.

And although there's lots of suggestion that this might be a simulation,

in this simulation, my character, my archetype, my meat suit has defensiveness sometimes

and righteousness and all the things that we do. So I want you to humanize that your reactivity

is a normal response to the circumstances of life. And the purpose of life is not to go through

it being regulated all the time because you actually need to be dysregulated. You need

to fight, flight, freeze, fall. They serve you. You need to step into action when you need to step into action. You don't have time to be disregulated. You need to fight, flight, freeze, fall. They serve you. You need to step

into action when you need to step into action. You don't have time to be talking about feelings

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