A YouTube monologue titled "The Peace Paradox" by Josh Trent (uploaded Sep 23, 2021) exploring inner healing through surrender and presence. The speaker invites listeners to deeply surrender to bodily, heart, and mental experience, framing psychological distress as attachment to perceived 'positive' states and resistance to 'negative' ones, producing a stress response via a polarity/dance of opposites.
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How deeply are you willing to surrender to your present experience? How deeply are you willing to surrender to what's rising up in you? How deeply are you willing to be present and feel what you're feeling inside of your body, inside of your heart? How deeply are you willing to surrender to what you're experiencing in your mind? And to me, the healing, the mind is about a surrender really. What's happening with the world? Is everything so polarized? What we're seeing, what's rising up is this dance of polarity, of the positive and the negative, the masculine and the feminine, the light and the dark, the should and the shouldn't. And what happens in the mind and in the psyche is we attach ourselves to everything that we call positive. We divorce ourselves and try and resist anything we call negative. So that's kind of like this push pull game. And all of a sudden we create a stress respons. Bottom.