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Even if you feel like your mind has been wandering all over the place,

being in this kind of space where there's a intention to be noticing what's going on,

we become more intimate with what's actually happening. We notice more.

And I know from the groups that there's so much of the increasing capacity to

sense something and saying, yeah, under that I can feel their sadness or feeling one thing going,

yeah, and I feel shame about that. There's this growing capacity to notice what's happening.

And one of the things that we start discovering as we begin to be more here with,

you know, underneath the thoughts when we stop leaving for most of us is that

whatever is occurring, there's often a kind of laced in with some fear.

That if we're not feeling directly fearful, if there's another strong energy, usually there's

some sense of, oh, this is a problem and some fear about it, that's the second arrow.

There's something's wrong.

Often though, it's quite in the foreground. I know for myself that many moments, if I just randomly

check in through the day and sense, okay, so what's going on inside me, I'll find a kind of,

it's not agitation, but a kind of edgy sense of a sort of a static-y feeling of just,

it kind of feels like existential anxiety. It just lets something around the corner could go wrong.

And I find when I check in with others, it's there for most people.

And if we really investigate, there's an apprehension of loss that we all live with,

a feeling of both knowing the pain of separation and fear in separation, fear in disconnection.

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