I mean, yes?

You know what? Childbirth is painful, but people goes back for seconds, thirds, and fourths or more, okay? Why? Because the benefit of putting up with, dealing with, surrendering, relaxing in the face of the pain is worth what you gain.

You don't want that stuff down there.

You have to...

We- we'll talk about this more as we talk.

What, what do I do if I have it down there? You have to protect yourself from it.

How? By hanging out with certain people that you don't think will challenge you, by being only with people that, that are friendly and never dealing with people that hurt you before.

How is the mind witnessing the mind? Isn't that the mind?" And you were like, "Let's talk about the layers." So can you share a little more about that?

Take a breath

... "I can relax and breathe.

It's okay that this is happening." Mm.

And then what you're doing is allowing the energy to release.

The whole idea is you don't engage with it.

Yes.

You sit behind it, and you allow it to release.

Yes.

Mm.

Typical Freudian stuff.

Suppressing, repressing, denial, or basically resistance.

And resistance means that you're in there consciously pushing away the experience.

We do it all the time, whether we realize it or not.

Somebody says something to us that we don't like, we try not to, uh, you know, feel it.

We, we argue back, we get defensive.

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All right? Every single moment of every single day, when you brush your teeth, when you're eating breakfast, it's blowing you away.

You are so enthused, so excited about absolutely everything.

"I get to take the garbage out today.

Please, it's my turn.

It was yours yesterday.

No, I wanna do it again." Wash the dishes, go to work.

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