Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 1 (2017-11-29)

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🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 1 (2017-11-29) - While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a trance of fear that contracts our body, heart and mind. Our resistance to the direct experience of fear sustains the trance and leads to decisions and behaviors that harm ourselves and others. Only by facing fear with mindfulness and compassion can we awaken from trance and reconnect with our capacity for creativity and full aliveness, wisdom and love.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.0	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.2	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.3	Namaste and welcome.
0:29.9	There's a fable of a wise man who lived in their remote area and to get to him,
0:37.1	you had to travel through really dense forests and climb craggy peaks and cross rushing rivers
0:46.6	and so on.
0:47.6	But people wanted to see him because his reputation was that he had a wisdom so deep
0:52.6	he could really heal all suffering.
0:55.2	So those that could made their way to him and they'd be exhausted and dirty and they'd
1:01.5	send them to the stream and they'd rinse off and they'd sit in silence and have two
1:05.6	with him.
1:07.3	And then finally he'd start speaking and he would swear them to silence and to agree
1:15.4	not to repeat anything.
1:17.6	And then he would say, there's only one question that I want to ask you and that is, what
1:23.7	are you unwilling to feel?
1:27.7	What are you unwilling to feel?
1:32.6	That inquiry is an amazingly powerful one in any moment that we pose it and you might
1:40.2	just take a moment yourself and sense, okay, so right in this moment, what am I unwilling
1:48.0	to feel?
1:52.0	Just to sense that.
2:00.5	So some might respond to that question, well, there's really nothing strong going on
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