Afleveringen
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This weekâs episode takes a look at the stories we have about stories. Sometimes, in its precious eagerness to âget it rightâ the mind jumps ahead and asks, âIsnât the turnaround just another story?â And sometimes we believe that and become obsessed with what Byron Katie calls pretending ourselves beyond our own evolution. We assume that we should be constantly living in the blissed-out, meditative, formless perfection that we so often get to experience in question four of The Work. But in this episode we explore that idea and its accompanying implication, âLife is a race.â
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This weekâs episode is an inquiry into the thought, âI need to keep myself alive.â Something thatâs easy to believe, and something we react to in small and large ways. From obsessively feeding the body to attempting to protect ourselves from emotions like disappointment or fear (ironically by living in constant pre-emptive fear), weâre unearthing what the life experience is like when we assume keeping ourselves alive is just part of the job description in this life. This entrenched belief can come from a fear of not existing, and cause us to hold on for dear life to a âwho I am,â but could it be that itâs enough to just notice ~that~ we are? And where might that experience lead?
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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This week weâre exploring the thought, âI could do or be Me wrong.â What happens when we believe this? Does it give rise to self-condemnation, worry, and defence? A sense of having to constantly prove that Iâm not doing âmeâ wrong? It could be that this belief is a major player in a lot of scary stories we tell about ourselves. And what is it like without this thought? What do you notice as you follow along?
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In this weekâs episode, we revisit a group inquiry into the thought, âI can wasteâŠ[fill in the blank].â Itâs a popular belief held by most of us in one way or another. We believe we can waste time, energy, money, food, resources and a litany of other things, but as Tom puts it: what if the nature of the Universe is limitless? Meaning âwastingâ could be a non-issue. Sound like a fantasy? Letâs find out.
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This week Tom leads a simple yet powerful exploration: What are some of the stressful stories you tell about yourself? âIâm not good enough.â âI donât fit in.â âIâm just an anxious person.â âIâm too much, too intense.â And why not open it up to life? âLife is too difficult.â âLife is out to get me.â âLife is short (and therefore I can get it wrong).â How can we believe these stories without experiencing ourselves as limited and defective, and life as cruel and punishing? As Tom puts it, âNotice how perfectly you live whatever youâre believing.â What kind of world might we experience if weâre open to new ways of seeing ourselves and life?
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Have you ever noticed living in a perpetual state of ânoâ? Pushing against what we donât want, declaring we never want this, that or the other to happen⊠Sometimes we hang onto this belief out of fear that if we let go, everything we arenât interested in experiencing will rush into our lives right away. This week, weâre having a good look at our To-Not-Do lists and seeing if we really need them to run our lives. And because open means open, we also look at the idea of certain desires or goals being âunspiritualâ and the idea that we must get to a place of perfect peace about all life circumstances in order to make a change. Could it be that there are no limitations whatsoever in reality?
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In an exploration of what Tom calls âfeeling the burnâ â the sensation of embarrassment at a memory that disrupts our self-importance â what comes up is a beautiful inquiry into the treasured story âI am a loser.â While there is so much pain and self-condemnation in believing that, there is also a significant payout of never having to compete. Join in from wherever you are on the popcorn-style inquiry that ensues as we free ourselves of the notion that life is a competition.
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How do you react when you believe that you have to hold onto somethingâanything? Does it bring peace or stress into your life? In this episode, weâre exploring the mindâs tendency to want to hold onto things. Weâre looking at what we think weâre holding onto (a happy life, health, harmony, joy) versus what we really hold onto (fear, scarcity, anxiousness) with this belief. We hold onto this holding on in relation to the future, but when does that future actually arrive? When do we stop forgoing peace now in favor of an imaginary peaceful âsomedayâ? Might it be that when we allow the letting go, we allow ourselves to open to the flow of a magical, limitless universe? Letâs find out.
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This week weâre looking at not just accepting reality exactly as it is, but welcoming it wholeheartedly. A common argument of the mind against this peaceful way of being is âBut if I love everything as it is, I wonât ever be motivated to make a change!â This is especially convincing when looking at the wider scope of the world and all its events. Dive into this meditation on the sense of dependence on anything external (the government, the body, success, relationships, food, approval, etc) for our sense of safety and wellbeing. We have lots of data from experimenting with resistance. Whatâs welcoming like?
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In the world of gaining and losing, one of the main things we hold tightly to is the health of the physical body. We believe itâs something we can lose if we have it, or something we can strive for if we donât. Either way, this belief creates an intense experience of fear and not-okayness. One of the sub-questions in The Work is âWhat physical sensations arise when you believe that thought?â In this weekâs exploration of what Tom calls âThe Myth of Death,â weâre exploring the possibility that health might have nothing to do with the physical body, and everything to do with what we think.
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Come with us into an exploration of the world of opposites. Tom guides an inquiry on what itâs like believing in the dualities that present themselves as real guiding stars (unacceptable-acceptable, success-failure, fair-unfair, competent-incompetent). These concepts hold hands and skip together through our experience, often without our realizing they are concepts. This week, weâre having a good look at various opposites and seeing who we might be without them.
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This week weâre looking into the taken-for-reality story of separation. Itâs a concept most of us have readily accepted as just the way it is, but what might it look like from the perspective of the Donât-Know Mind? Does the story of separation as we believe it create peace or stress in our experience? Are we even allowed to question something that seems so obviously true? It just might be that we are, and it just might be that without this story we get to experience the love and harmony weâre looking for.
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Last week we explored the illusory past and experimented with being free of identifying with it. In this part II, weâre questioning the fear response that, according to Tom, often shows up when we get close to the truth of who we are. In this episode, fear comes up around needing permission to live the way weâd like to live. Could it be that, in reality, we donât need anyoneâs permission? We notice that with this thought we experience varying shades of misery, limitation and resentment. We notice without it thereâs openness and peace. Tom asks, âCould that be enough information?â When weâre our own permission slip, we get to decide for ourselves.
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What is life like from the vantage point of the past? When we hold onto and identify with the past images we call memories, we unknowingly lose touch with reality here, now. This weekâs episode is an experiment with freeing ourselves from the illusion of a past, and itâs a profound one. We are fearlessly looking at the nature of memories, stories, thoughts, images and feelings and asking: Is that me?
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This week weâre exploring the desire for, and the fear of, allowing what is. On the one hand, we want to be peaceful, open human beings. On the other, we are afraid of what will happen if we truly relax and let go of the need to be disturbed as a path to creating change. We hold onto our unhappiness to prove our goodness. Many of us learned to hold the suspicion that we are secretly uncaring, insensitive beings, and we resist allowing ourselves to relax and be at peace out of fear that weâll find out for sure thatâs who we are. In this episode, we meet that resistance with Tomâs favorite response: âIâm open, letâs see if thatâs true.â
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We can all find within us where we believe something shouldnât have happened. Someone shouldnât have gotten sick, someone shouldnât have treated us the way they did, the list goes on⊠This weekâs inquiry takes a look at what happens to our life experience when we take for absolute fact the belief that something shouldnât have happened, and explores the peaceful empowerment that shows up without this story. It might be that itâs not only enough, but one of the most powerful acts of peace to end the inner war with reality, here and now. We wonder, can freedom be that simple? The invitation here is to follow along and find out.
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In this weekâs episode we are invited to give ourselves, every person, and the entire world the freedom to be as we and they are. We invite you to follow along and use examples from your own life as you hear the group participants share and explore their own stressful concepts related to this invitation. âThe Workâ as meditation is a living practice â all that is needed is an open mind and a willingness to discover what is true for yourself.
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In this weekâs episode we are invited to question the story: âI am separate from everyone and everything else.â We invite you to follow along and use examples from your own life as you hear the group participants share and explore their own stressful concepts related to this belief. âThe Workâ as meditation is a living practice â all that is needed is an open mind and a willingness to discover what is true for yourself.
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This weekâs episode focuses on the story: âIf I receive something, I have to give something back.â We invite you to follow along and use examples from your own life as you hear the group participants share and explore their own stressful concepts and stories. âThe Workâ as meditation is a living practice â all that is needed is an open mind and a willingness to discover for yourself what is true.
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When weâre living out a painful story it can look and feel so real that it doesnât even seem like a story anymore. Which is why âThe Workâ self-inquiry process is so practical and helpful. It stops us in our tracks and invites us to notice what self-imposed limitations weâve added to the mysterious, ever-present flow of life. Our nature is perfect and unlimited in its creativity â all we have to do is tell a story and the unlimited nature that we are fleshes it out so spectacularly. What story are you living?
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