From Head to Heart (2018-04-04)

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🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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From Head to Heart (2018-04-04) - If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.9	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:26.2	I'm Stan. Welcome.
0:30.6	There's a story I've always liked that is about Houdini very much at the beginning of his
0:36.6	career.
0:37.6	He would travel around and wow, groups of people he'd be putting a straight jacket and
0:43.9	putting to a cell and find his way out of the straight jacket and unlock the lock and
0:48.5	so on.
0:49.9	So he would do this when he went through his circuit of traveling, but there was one
0:54.6	little town in Ireland where things didn't work out so well.
1:00.0	He was able to get right out of a straight jacket, but he was just fiddling and fiddling
1:04.4	with the lock and finally, he got very frustrated and he gave up and he asked the guy that had
1:12.5	kind of locked it up.
1:14.2	Okay, so what's with the sophisticated new lock?
1:16.9	I mean, I've never encountered anything like that.
1:20.5	And the guy's response was, oh, this is a very ordinary kind of lock.
1:25.2	I just never locked it.
1:27.6	You've been trying to get yourself out of an unlocked lock.
1:32.7	Now, first of all, to say I don't know about the veracity of the story.
1:37.4	I've heard mixed reports, but I think it's got a great teaching to it, which is that
1:45.7	we're in a kind of prison in our mind and we're constantly trying to solve problems and
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