Short excerpt from a YouTube podcast episode (hosted by Mihail Pautov) featuring a two-person interview with Dr. Luke Sniewski (Speaker A). The speakers discuss embracing fear, the distinction between mind and body (time as a mental construct vs. the body’s present focus), how emotional avoidance cuts off both negative and positive experiences, and how habitual, body-driven stress responses can lead to chronic pain and burnout when people take on responsibility outside their control.
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He who does not embrace fear on a daily basis has not discovered the secret of life. Forget the time, because time is for the mind. The mind is what creates time. Time doesn't exist for the body. For the body, everything is just now. And that's important.
You make such a beautiful separation about the pain and the suffering.
Why I behave a certain way. Why is my body being chronically stressed and moving into chronic pain in this way? When I'm sitting in a very safe environment of a cubicle, a desk, there's something happening in the body that's driving us towards that we think we're making decisions about. But in actuality they're just triggered, habitual reactions. I was taking my clients goals on my own shoulders. And when that happens, burnout happens. Because then I'm being responsible for something that is completely outside of my control.
Do you think that we are too much in our mind these days and we forgot about our body? And if yes, then why that happens.
When we don't allow ourselves to feel all the emotions, what we're actually doing, we're not just cutting ourselves off from the things we want to avoid. Because most people don't want to feel fear. They don't want to feel anxiety or sadness or anger. So they say no to these emotions. They're also saying no to the other side of the spectrum, the peace, the joy, the ecstasy, the happiness. They're saying no to that as a consequence of saying no to the other stuff.