A reflective talk on breaking free from habitual self-talk and the limited identity it creates. The speaker explores how mental noise keeps us stuck and what it takes to move beyond it toward genuine awakening.
I need my story. All the things that I've been telling myself in my mind about myself and other people and my parents and my relatives and my co workers and my ex wife and my ex husband and what people did to me and what I did and shouldn't have done, fail to do. Who am I without? I can't let go of that. I need to think about this more. So it becomes a habitual place. The habitual place of the mental noise where you feel, that's me. And so every therapist knows that you always reach a point with your clients, patients, whatever, depending on the school of therapy depends. Whatever you call your clients, your patients, whatever, there comes a point when you hit that resistance. They don't want to be free of their problems. And the big challenge is there is this person going to overcome that barrier. Because that barrier is not just becoming free of my problems, but also becoming free of a very limited and ultimately fictitious sense of identity. The me, so that is what I've described is the next step, one could say in the evolution of human consciousness is stepping out of self talk, which is the conditioned mind, and realizing there is much more to who I am than this condition, conditioned content of my mind. And that is the beginning of awakening. It's not those words, not that you need to believe that there is much more to who I am than the self talk in my head, because that is still self talk in the head. I believe there's more to who I am, and you better believe it too, Sam.
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