No Event Justifies A Negative Feeling

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Feeling overwhelmed by life's daily grind? You're not alone, and Anthony DeMello's "Stop Fixing Yourself" might just hold the key to a lighter, more joyful existence. As I delve into DeMello's work, I'm struck by his powerful assertion: life's challenges don't inherently lead to negative feelings—our own attachments and internal programming do. In this conversation, I unwrap the wisdom of detaching from these programmed responses and guide you through DeMello's practical three-step process to...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:07.0	I would like to read a passage from one of my favorite books to you today.
0:15.0	The book is called Stop Fixing Yourself by the late Anthony Demello.
0:21.0	The subtitle is, Wake up, all is well.
0:25.0	And I just, I love him, I love his work.
0:28.0	But I'll admit, you almost have to be ready for this kind of work. It's not for everybody. And as I was flicking through some
0:37.1	old books recently, I found this chapter in this passage and I thought, I got to read that to my pod listeners.
0:44.8	Because what he says again and again essentially is that whatever situation your heart is attached
0:51.5	to that's causing you some trouble.
0:54.0	Life and you are infinitely greater than that.
0:59.0	You're so much bigger than what's making you anxious or frustrated or scared.
1:05.0	Here's what he says under the chapter called Part 3, The Grace Called Awareness.
1:12.0	No event just a negative feeling. There is no situation in the world
1:20.6	but justifies a negative feeling.
1:24.0	Life is easy, life is delightful.
1:28.0	It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed and your cravings.
1:33.0	That's what our mystics have been crying themselves hoarse to tell us.
1:38.0	But nobody listens.
1:40.0	The negative feeling is not in you. It's not in reality. It comes from your programming.
1:48.0	The first thing you need to do is get in touch with negative feelings that you're not even aware of.
1:55.0	Almost every negative emotion you experience is the direct outcome of an attachment.
2:01.0	So there you are, loaded down by your attachments and striving desperately
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