Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 2 (2017-12-06)

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🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Awakening from the Trance of Fear-Part 2 (2017-12-06) - 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.
0:05.6	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:26.2	I'm going to stay and welcome.
0:31.4	I begin with a story about a monk who lived in Australia and he lived in a monastery
0:38.6	that was pretty far away from any town and a doctor.
0:43.2	So what he would do when he had to, if he had to have a tooth out, was he would go to a
0:49.0	little hut and he'd get some pliers and he'd just pull it out.
0:53.1	And so a lot of people asked him how unearthed he could possibly do that.
0:56.5	So his response was, when I decided to pull out my own tooth, it was such a hassle going
1:02.7	all the way to a dentist, that didn't hurt.
1:05.9	When I walked to the workshop, that didn't hurt.
1:09.4	When I picked up the pair of pliers, that didn't hurt.
1:13.4	When I held the tooth in the grip of the pliers, that didn't hurt either.
1:18.0	When I wiggled the pliers and pulled, it did hurt then, but only for a couple of seconds.
1:23.1	Once the tooth was out, it didn't hurt much at all.
1:26.0	There was only five seconds of pain.
1:29.3	That's all.
1:32.2	So you might have grimaced when you heard or imagined the story because if we tried the
1:38.6	same feet, we'd be hurting all the way to the whole place of pulling.
1:45.0	And afterwards we'd still be reverberating from it because anticipation is the main
1:50.1	ingredient of fear.
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