Stories that Imprison our Heart - Part 2 (2017-06-21)

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🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Stories that Imprison our Heart - Part 2 (2017-06-21) - Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing failure or rejection. This is true collectively too. We have shared stories of bad “others” that fuel wars, shared stories of the value of continued growth in consumption and production that destroy our earth, shared stories of our human right to enslave and violate other animals. We have the capacity to bring the stories that separate and imprison us into the light of awareness, and with great compassion, loosen their grip. These two talks look at the ways fear-based stories create suffering, and how awakening from them reveals the freedom of our true, and universal, belonging.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.9	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:18.9	There's a story of a reporter interviewing a bank president and the interview went like
0:31.2	this.
0:32.2	The question was, sir, what's the secret of your success?
0:36.8	He says two words, and sir, what are they?
0:41.0	Right decisions.
0:43.5	But how do you make right decisions?
0:46.1	One word.
0:47.9	And sir, what's that?
0:50.2	Experience.
0:51.2	And how do you get experience two words?
0:55.4	And sir, what's that?
0:58.0	Wrong decisions.
1:05.4	Said briefly, that's the message of its feedback, not failure.
1:12.1	When stuff doesn't go our way.
1:14.9	And the reason I bring it in is because how we frame what's going on, the story we
1:21.9	create around what's going on, or the meaning we assign, totally shapes our experience.
1:31.1	There's been some very interesting research that Killian McGonigal reported about about
1:35.6	four years ago on stress.
1:38.2	And she described tracking 30,000 people over a period of eight years.
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