The Negative Impact of Introspection
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
Sadhguru Official
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, you know, introspection means, let me do various thoughts with enthusiasm. |
| 0:07.0 | But how would I know that where my introspection starts shifting towards over thinking? |
| 0:12.5 | And how do I protect myself from being in over thinking? |
| 0:16.0 | Because it leads to a lot of procrastination. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, it's a popular question. |
| 0:26.0 | See, suppose you're driving instead of looking through the windshield, |
| 0:31.5 | if you go on looking at the mirror, rear view mirror, |
| 0:36.8 | I think you should be under reverse gear, not on the top gear. Hello? |
| 0:43.5 | So, all this introspection nonsense has come to you from English people. |
| 0:49.0 | They brought this. In this country, we don't believe in introspection. |
| 0:54.5 | Because, see, you're trying to analyze your own mess. |
| 1:02.0 | It's not going to work like that. |
| 1:04.7 | If you hold it at a distance, you clear me and know what it is. |
| 1:08.5 | You don't have to think about it. It's like this. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's say tonight, you want to fly from Delhi airport. You're going. |
| 1:18.5 | Then, your flight time is coming, but there's a huge traffic jam. |
| 1:23.2 | How do you experience a traffic jam? |
| 1:27.7 | Deep suffering? Though you may be sitting in your dream car. |
| 1:31.7 | All right. |
| 1:34.9 | Now, somehow you've got to the airport, got into the airplane and it flew. |
| 1:39.4 | Then you went up, then you looked down, still the traffic jam was on. |
| 1:43.7 | It looks so beautiful. |
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