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BE THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR THOUGHTS – Control Your Mind, Control Your Destiny · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments.
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  Speaker 1: We can enjoy a thing, but we don't need it
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  Speaker 1: for our happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence on
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  Speaker 1: anything or anyone outside of ourselves. Sometimes we surrender a
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  Speaker 1: feeling and we notice that it returns or continues. This
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  Speaker 1: is because there is more of it yet to be surrendered.
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  Speaker 1: We have stuffed these feelings all of our lives, and
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  Speaker 1: there can be a lot of energy pushed down that
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  Speaker 1: needs to come up and be acknowledged. When surrender occurs,
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  Speaker 1: there is an immediate, lighter, happier feeling, almost like a high.
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  Speaker 1: By continuously letting go, it is possible to stay in
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  Speaker 1: that state of freedom. Feelings come and go, and eventually
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  Speaker 1: you realize that you are not your feelings, but that
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  Speaker 1: the real you is merely witnessing them. You stop identifying
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  Speaker 1: with them. The you that is observing and is aware
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  Speaker 1: of what is happening always stays the same. As you
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  Speaker 1: become more and more aware of the changeless witness within,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to identify with that level of consciousness. You
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  Speaker 1: become progressively primarily the witness rather than the experiencer of phenomena.
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  Speaker 1: You get closer and closer to the real self, and
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  Speaker 1: begin to see that you had been duped by feelings.
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  Speaker 1: All along. You thought that you were the victim of
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  Speaker 1: your feelings. Now you see that they are not the
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  Speaker 1: truth about yourself. They are merely created by the ego,
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  Speaker 1: that collector of programs which the mind has mistakenly believed
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  Speaker 1: are necessary for survival. Let's not forget that we are
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  Speaker 1: letting go of all the programs that have made us
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  Speaker 1: a slave for a long time. Letting go of negative
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  Speaker 1: feelings is the undoing of the ego, which will be
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  Speaker 1: resistant at every turn. This may result in skepticism, a
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  Speaker 1: sudden upsurge of escapism. Keep letting go of every fear
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  Speaker 1: as it arises, and the resistance will resolve. What are
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  Speaker 1: you afraid of regarding this process? Are you willing to
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  Speaker 1: let go of that? The level of shame is at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom, close to death, representing bare survival. The level
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  Speaker 1: of courage is the critical point that marks the shift
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  Speaker 1: from negative to positive energy. It is the energy of integrity,
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  Speaker 1: being truthful, empowerment, and having the capacity to cope. The
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  Speaker 1: levels of consciousness low courage are destructive, whereas the levels
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  Speaker 1: above it are life supporter. Above the level of courage,
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  Speaker 1: people seek us out because we give energy to them power,
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  Speaker 1: and we have good will towards them. Below the level
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  Speaker 1: of courage, people avoid us because we take energy from
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  Speaker 1: them force. As we let go of negative feelings, there
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  Speaker 1: is a progressive movement up the scale to courage and
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  Speaker 1: then beyond. At the level of courage, the negative feelings
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  Speaker 1: have not all disappeared, but now we have sufficient energy
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  Speaker 1: to handle them because we've re owned our power and
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  Speaker 1: self adequacy. When letting go, ignore all thoughts, focus on
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  Speaker 1: the feeling itself, not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless
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  Speaker 1: and self reinforcing, and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts
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  Speaker 1: are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and explain
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the
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  Speaker 1: feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling that is
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  Speaker 1: forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts
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  Speaker 1: or external events are only an excuse made up by
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  Speaker 1: the mind. These programs have blinded us to the truth
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  Speaker 1: of our real identity. Letting go is a natural ability.
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  Speaker 1: It is not something new or foreign. It is not
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  Speaker 1: an esoteric teaching or somebody else's idea or a belief system.
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  Speaker 1: We are merely utilizing our own inner nature. When we
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  Speaker 1: have been letting go for a while and have begun
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  Speaker 1: experiencing what is really going on, we will laugh at
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts. Thoughts are fakes, absurd make beliefs that obscure
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Pursuing thoughts can keep us occupied endlessly. We
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  Speaker 1: will discover one day that we are right where we started.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts are like bait to a fish. Bite at them,
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  Speaker 1: we get caught. The real self is the space between
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts, or more exactly, the field of silent awareness
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  Speaker 1: underneath all thoughts. It's best not to bite at the thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need them inside of us. But out of
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  Speaker 1: awareness is the truth that I already know everything I
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  Speaker 1: need to know. Thousands and even millions of thoughts can
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  Speaker 1: be replaced by a single emotion. Emotions are more basic
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  Speaker 1: and primitive than mental processes. Take advantage of the higher
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  Speaker 1: states in the momentum of letting go. Keep on going
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  Speaker 1: because it will get better and better all the time
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  Speaker 1: go gains a certain momentum, it is easy to keep
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  Speaker 1: it going once it is started. The higher we feel,
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  Speaker 1: the easier it is to let go. Often we have
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  Speaker 1: let go, but think that we haven't. We are not
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  Speaker 1: aware of all the coal that we have shoveled. We
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  Speaker 1: are always looking at the shovelful we are handling right now.
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  Speaker 1: We don't realize how much the pile has gone down.
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  Speaker 1: It is common for people who have made enormous gains
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  Speaker 1: to claim it just isn't working. We have to remind
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  Speaker 1: ourselves sometimes what we were like before we started this process.
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  Speaker 1: Resistance to let him go as perception is replaced with vision.
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  Speaker 1: It takes no position and sees the intrinsic value and
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  Speaker 1: lovability of all that exists. Everything emits energy, either positive
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  Speaker 1: or negative. Ego is losing ground and will try tricks
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  Speaker 1: and bluffs. Once we start letting go, its days are
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  Speaker 1: numbered and its power is diminishing. The ego is not
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  Speaker 1: our friend. Like master control, it wants to keep us
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  Speaker 1: enslaved by its programs. There are no other goals than
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  Speaker 1: to overcome fear and achieve happiness. Letting go is like
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  Speaker 1: the sudden cessation of an inner pressure or the dropping
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  Speaker 1: of a weight. It is accompanied by a sudden feeling
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  Speaker 1: of relief and lightness, with an increased happiness and freedom.
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  Speaker 1: You are then in charge of how you feel, and
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  Speaker 1: you are no longer at the mercy of the world
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  Speaker 1: and your reactions to it. You are no longer the victim.
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  Speaker 1: There is no need to blame others or blame what