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Tonight we're talking about inner conflict.

What causes the lack of self-acceptance? Why is it that so many of us struggle

with internal battles? And we're going to be looking at different theories

and we're going to be addressing inner conflicts

using some Buddhist and contemporary therapeutic modalities and hopefully

I can offer you something worthy of your consideration. So let's just jump in and I'm actually

going to take off my glasses because they're not helping at all. So we're all born

with an innate psycho biological system or drive that motivates us to do what?

To establish proximity with others. Why do we need proximity? Because we are a tribal species that connects with others for a sense of security and being seen makes us actually have certain core psychological changes and what are those?

Well, unconsciously we mimic the way other people breathe, their posture, their movements, their facial expressions.

We are a mimicking species.

And when we connect with other people,

are essentially our feelings, our limbic structures,

are everything from our core emotional states up to our thoughts, start to synchronize.

And this is such an important topic that there's different names from it across the entire realm of, from clinical psychology, neuropsychology,

even studies of groups and sociology,

some of the names of, or limbic resonance, or what is it, implicit learning

in the work of Bandura and affect stabilization and all the way down the line

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