Fear of Aging - Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 1 (2021-03-17)

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Fear of Aging - Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 1 (2021-03-17) - While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the midst. In a very direct way, our awareness of impermanence awakens unconditional loving. These two talks explore the ways we habitually deny or resist reality, and the three interrelated pathways—refuge in the present moment, love and awareness—that liberate us. NOTE: The quoted prayer "And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well" is from 14th century mystic, Julian of Norwich, in her work “Revelations of Divine Love.”

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.4	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:26.1	I'm a stay and welcome.
0:30.0	A young therapist who I'm mentoring wrote to me on her 30th birthday.
0:36.7	And she shared her fears of aging.
0:40.4	The inquiry for her was, how will I get my needs met if I'm no longer
0:46.7	young, cute, smart?
0:50.0	And really the inquiry of nobody will care about me as an adult the way they would as a child.
1:00.0	And there are many in their 20s who fear the fact that they're going to have to be taking on
1:06.8	all the responsibilities of an adult and more in the lost freedom of youth.
1:13.4	And then last week's had a question from a man in his late 70s.
1:20.0	How to deal with the fear of depending on others as he got older.
1:26.0	Losing independence.
1:28.6	Another woman in her 70s asked me about how to work with her fears of running out of money.
1:37.1	So many have that kind of fear fantasy of I'm going to be penniless and homeless on the streets.
1:44.4	Another woman in her 60s, the fear of being alone.
1:50.2	There's fear of aging throughout the spectrum.
1:54.3	And like all fear, it's about what's ahead, what's coming and what will lose.
2:00.7	And of course, we've got a lot to lose.
2:04.5	We're attached to a lot of life.
2:06.5	I'm going to name some things you might sense what yours.
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