Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental role, they are not a recipe for happiness, intimacy and freedom. An essential part of our evolution is to recognize when we are over-managing our lives, and learn to let go of the controls. These talks explore how we can release the grip of the over-controller, and the profound awakening of our hearts and minds that is possible in the shift from doing to being.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.8	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:30.7	Namaste friends.
0:32.0	Welcome.
0:34.0	I'm imagining that myself you have that feeling of the world speeding up, that there's just
0:41.0	more and more information, more globally impactful events, one climate catastrophe after
0:49.4	another.
0:50.9	In our personal lives, our nervous system can feel the stress of it.
0:56.2	The primary reaction when we're stressed is to try to control and manage things, to
1:02.1	try to control what's really an uncontrollable environment.
1:07.0	Of course it's natural.
1:08.8	We're trying to ward off danger that feels right around the corner.
1:15.2	Yet when we become what I call the overcontroller, we really don't like ourselves and it creates
1:22.7	distance from others.
1:24.3	It really blocks us in a deep way from living from our hearts, from a sense of wonder or
1:30.8	curiosity or really the fullness of who we are.
1:35.4	So I'd like to share with you a two-part series I did in 2019 and it feels really appropriate
1:44.3	for these times.
1:45.3	It's called Beyond the Controlling Self.
1:50.0	And I'll share personally that putting these talks together was really powerful.
1:56.2	It helped me wake up in a quite a helpful way.
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