Thought, emotion, and awakening: a deep dive. Links, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-emotion
Topics:
00:00 Intro
02:26 Consciousness as a movie screen vs. the story of our lives displayed on the screen
09:24 Why the sense of separation returning can make things feel worse after an experience of expansive presence
14:58 Awakening and repressed emotion, the shedding of inauthenticity
20:18 How and when to investigate the source of emotions
22:38 Untangling thought from emotion, dealing with habitual fixations, thought storms
27:55 Resistance to emotion vs. surrender and acceptance
33:00 The effect of meditation retreat on emotion
35:48 The standing wave of thought identification and the pandemic of emotional repression
42:03 Zubin’s post retreat experience of thought and emotion
44:40 The effect since our first shows on awakening, the way out of suffering
48:14 Wrapping up
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Axe throwing is SURPRISINGLY therapeutic for that recently discovered repressed anger.
10/10, would recommend.
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In the recent live someone mentioned the different sleep patterns we've had in the past. It was one of those strange coincidences to me as I'd recently learnt that visiting Little Moreton Hall in England. Built in 1504 and decorated in the great hall with this plaster work celebrating a book written by Robert Recorde (he invented the Equals sign). The book was about the split in human thinking, reasoning, belief...science and magical thinking. Nothing's really changed has it and I'm still wondering what they did when they got up in the middle of a dark, cold night with no electricity to do some chores.
