Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety (2020-09-02)

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety (2020-09-02) - Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and deepest experience of who we are. This talk explores how we get caught in this reactive trance, and ways of calming anxiety and radically shifting our way of relating to the experience of threat. The gift is discovering an inner freedom in the midst of life, and the capacity to respond to what arises with love-in-action.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.6	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:12.0	So Namaste and welcome my friends. It said that when Adam and Eve left Eden, he commented
0:35.1	to her, he said, my dear, we're living in a time of great transition. And have you noticed that it
0:43.7	always feels like that? That in some way that the times we're in are uniquely intense and fast-paced
0:53.8	and stressful. Even knowing that historians will probably look back at 2020 with raised eyebrows.
1:05.7	I just saw a cartoon a friend sent me of a woman. She's telling her partner, my desire to be
1:11.4	well informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane. And I think we understand, given
1:21.4	our off-the-charts combo of current stressors, it's easy to feel like we're waiting for the bad
1:28.7	stuff to go away. You know, we're kind of waiting to resume real life. But actually, and there's
1:35.6	a deep understanding in this that if we're waiting, if we're waiting for something different,
1:42.7	we won't bring a full honest presence to what's actually arising right here and now in our path.
1:51.3	And it's only by doing that that we really wake up. And for many of us, what's arising on our path,
1:59.4	what's really asking for attention is anxiety. So this evening, I'd like to reflect together on
2:08.6	how we can transform our relationship with anxiety, how we can arouse the presence that
2:17.3	brings inner freedom and its outer expression, what many people call love and action.
2:24.6	So as mentioned in the opening, for the first time in this weekly online class, we'll be
2:30.9	including some time for questions at the end. So I want to remind you that if you're on Zoom and
2:36.8	you have a question during the talk, please write it in via the chat box to everyone and submit your
2:44.6	question just once. Yeah, so feel free. Anxiety and fears have been spiking over the last six months.
2:54.6	It was already epidemic levels anyway around the world, but you know the converging streams.
3:01.8	And we do. We know that between the pandemic and unemployment, I'm aware that just this week,
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