The Doubt Epidemic (Double Barrel # 6 with Chris Guimand)
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I tried TRE after listening to the interview with Chris. For 2 weeks I got almost nothing. But there after my body when crazy! The shaking comes on in like 10 seconds now. I don't even have to do the 6 previous poses. The shaking is so intense I feel like I'm possessed. Although I feel fully in control the whole time. I never expected it to work so well!
Awesome. Yes it’s a powerful process.
Ditto.😅
I am with Sam! I struggle with ADD, and my life has just been a series of fixations in effort to ease the chaotic angst of this mind. I thought “non-duality” videos and books were going to be my new fixation for a few months, but this process has somehow become a part of me. It is not something I will be “moving on” from. There have been a couple of times that I have seemingly lost interest because I felt frustrated and “decided” to give the seeking a break. Within hours or a day the seeking continued to seek apparently of its own volition. Lol
This is quite the rollercoaster ride❤
I feel you! I'm an ADHDer (diagnosed about seven years ago), and I can say seeking has become a hyper focused obsession of watching videos and trying to find the best method, jumping from one thing to the next. It seems that I've landed on transmission and Angelo's videos lately... It's a relief to hear that this is happening on its own and I'm in MUCH LESS control of this than the mind thinks it is❣️
@@carrieallmon yes!! You totally get it- my mind became so fixated to the point of obsession! I wrote the original comment a year ago, and it’s funny to read my comment again from where I am now. For about a year and a half I was 100% obsessed and continuously seeking. It took over my life. I’ve never had such a long lasting hyper focus. It was only about a month ago that I realized that I am not going to get anything. I have gone back to normal life and am not really watching videos or anything anymore. I haven’t had an identity shift, but I didn’t realize how learning and hearing about this stuff so consistently really fed the idea in my mind that I was going to get something. These adhd minds are a completely different animal when it comes to taking in information and the desire to get something out of it. Relentless. Dysphoric. The craziest part- I never decided to start seeking or to stop seeking or to fixate or to struggle. The activity of the mind doesn’t affect or actually DO anything. It’s absurd
Yessss i got sooooo depressed for over 10 years from listening to that radical message over and over because i heard phrases that once in the tiger mouth you have no choice . I was already not in a good place and felt at fault for everything more than anything after hearing that People with victim mentality take it the wrong way, i didnt know you could take it in different ways as i didnt exist 😳. Yes sure my ego is ofcourse the source for the suffering but i was sooo confused and sad for a long time. Im so glad i can listen to talks like this now 😊
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This explains my addiction and so much more. I’m at a loss for what to do or how to spend my time on the weekend when I’m not at work. At work I have the distraction of my responsibility to get my job done. During my “own time” I distract myself so much and I think I’m avoiding my feelings.😮
Sam and his binkie 😆 and then Angelo’s and Chris’s response helped express what I was feeling about Sam. Additionally speaking to Sam you are totally speaking to me too. Thank everyone for participating and sharing.
It was great to be part of this double barrel discussion! Thanks a lot for your honest advice, Angelo ❤ I know these murky waters will settle down, and everything will clear up for me ... The Universe functions with a perfect synchronicity 🙏❤️
Yes, will settle ❤️
To Sam ….really like your honesty…..another quality you have is your sense of humor ❣️
Really good discussion with everybody also❣️
I very much appreciate the kind words : - )
Lately, while doing enquiry I've been bumping myself into anything I have resistance about and seeing what comes up in terms of feelings. Yesterday, I encountered feelings of intense grief around my shame that I did not show my mother how much I appreciated her. What's the point of hanging on to these feelings and returning to them periodically? There is resistance to letting go of them and resistance to stopping judging myself for past behavior. I know this keeps me from just being present.
I have not been able to surrender. I was raised to never give up, to never quit.
I love these double barrels! ❤️ Chris was great! I think a double barrel with Lisa Cairns would be great too!
This is really great thanks
Even when Byron Katie had her awakening where everything dropped, she spent three years in the Barstow desert unraveling so many of the thoughts of her life and her mom
So I believe awakening can happen in a moment as it did for her, and then there is the seeing of the characters behavior patterns
For me it’s coming in stages
How interesting. All these ripples. Thanks, all.🦈
Chris is awesome. I was shouting attachment styles on the first one and she was all over it.
Personally I think there's very little evidence on the validity of attachment theory (very limited experiments), but the kind of behavioural patterns they call "avoidant" "disorganised" etc are "real" (as in, the behaviour is real, but "avoidant" etc are just labels we project onto that). Many people take it way too far in making an attachment style into an identity "he/she is just an avoidant!" "An avoidant" as if that's the totality of what this person is. Avoidance is a behaviour pattern that might occur in certain situations (or with certain people). Whether this behaviour is rooted in some particular behaviour of the parents when you were a child is really not possible to know for sure I think. It feels good to pretend we can know these kinds of things. But from what I read, the whole initial theory is based on observed behaviour of geese. Humans are not geese! :)
@@snakedogman I agree, it's an observed behaviour/characteristic but not an identity. And they're on a sliding scale, not binary.
I so resonate with Sam. I have experienced all of what he talked about. I have completely lost interest in anything spiritual more times than I can count over the last 20 years and it always come back with out any input from me 😂 and then after some time I am off seeking some distraction or relief again. But each time it comes back the clarity and understanding is deeper and there is less and less for the mind to wrap its self in.
This was so great!! I was starting to get pulled into the “uncompromising” message over the weekend.
‘It’s just this! The ego is the one that meditates. It’s only the ego that wants to improve itself.’
This is the first double barrel video I’ve watched. It really amazes me how this place works.
Thank you so much! Great topic!
Really enjoy discussion with sam. Thanks for your honesty sam...I can fe!ate
Went through the initial awakening process, and kept exploring, and just recently realized that my ego sabotaged that into a “I’m the awakened guy” persona, which was another awakening. Now as I go deeper into “no self”, I’ve been aware of two things. First, raw, negative emotions just arise, particularly anger. Which I have explored, normally rooted in fear of loneliness at its core. Secondly, has anyone just had regular streams of life memories arising? When I sit or lie quietly, I’ve been flooded with memories of my past. And not negative memories. Just memories and the subtle feelings that went along with them. The feelings I had in those moments. Most were as a kid or young teenager, usually when I was in different places other than home. Anyone else have those flashback experiences?
I find these talks extremely helpful. The title itself resonates deeply coming out of a retreat and going back into life, seeing the magnetic pull of thoughts gaining momentum again. This is always here, yes but these thoughts are just so.. lively and strong in daily life
After my first awakening 15 years ago I had no one to guide me no one to explain what was going on. I was not on a spiritual path and an atheist. At that point my seeking started and after several years led me to the advaita path and the it’s just an experience, there is no one here etcetera which took me in the the direction of depression, hopelessness, self doubt and rather being dead than alive. Angelo you are the first one that I have heard talking about experiences I had. You have given me confirmation, trust and the direction I needed. Thanks to your pointings things fall into place very rapidly now. I feel alive and I feel the magic coming back. It’s funny and quite a paradox that I now see that the me is just a thought. I don’t care anymore if there is a me or identity here in stead I am curious now and just surrendering to everything that presents itself and trust that what has to fall away will fall away when the time is ready. So so grateful that I found you. Of course also thanks for the questioners without the questions the answers would not be there.
"It's beyond you" this landed in a new way for me today. What a freakin relief!
Thanks guys ❤
Thanks so much for your sharing and questions Sam. I'm having a very parallel experience - my mind is also torturing me for no reason! The jumping back and forth from one thing to another - wondering will this be it.... until I die? I'm right there. Thank you for saying that so succinctly. Angelo's response was awesome. 🤣🥰
Daaaaaam after the resistance video it hit me haaaaard 😱😱😱 waterfall of emotional puke material 🤮 mixed up with some emotional gutter garbage juice filled up my being - 🧼 🪠🧹🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ serious work needed everything is super raw as if I wear my insides on the outside and everyone and their mother poking them with bare hands. 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽 total mess 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ and the best part is: total mess!!!!! Love it 😅 maybe I’ll clean it maybe or maybe I won’t 🙃 🙃 In the meantime coffee ☕️ just because 😏 coffee cheers 😁
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I'm feeling so grateful for all these sharings and questions. I especially relate to Sam. I'm so sick of all these things I've been trying to use to seek whatever the f*ck I'm searching for. I'm even sick of my lifelong aikido practice, which has given me so much joy, strength, and purpose. Just more identification. Good to hear that the process will carry on, no matter what my mind decides to do or believe.
I relate a lot to what Sam was saying. 👍
32:23 christ your gaze here is intense
ah..loved this combination of you two...thanks a lot for sharing
11.12- Anne. Really good stuff Angelo. Real struggles with this myself. Thks !
This was a great one... ty as always
Gratitude.
Thanks Chris and Angelo :)
Our pleasure!
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Great talk ! Thank you. I have ADHD does this condition make awakening less attainable ? thanks
Hi Guys, great to hear you :) you often say we are not out thoughts? How can I know that? Would you please explain what is the source of thoughts then? Thank you!
My thoughts:
Well logically (and experientially) we can see that "something" is aware of thought. That something is itself not a thought. It's the same "thing" that is aware of everything else (sensations). On one level, the source of thoughts is our mind/brain. Just like the "source of breathing" is our lungs/nose/mouth. But we don't really control that, it just happens. Breathing, your heart beating (You wouldn't say "I beat my heart", you heart just beats), thinking. Can you really control what you think? It feels like that but that would mean that there is something before thought that is considering which thought to think or not. Which is already starting to sounds kind of ridiculous. You would be thinking before you were thinking. But then how would the prior layer of thoughts come about? It would lead to an infinite regresssion. It makes more sense that thoughts just arise as a natural (by)product of our brain.
I think the other argument is that "whatever is not permanent, cannot be you". And since thoughts arise and fade constantly, they are not permanent, so they are not you. There is only one thing that is always there, never changes. That is the awareness. So I think that's why they say that the "real/True you", is just the awareness in which everything else arises.
Of course that (to me) raises some resistance, like "well isn't that boring? Kind of empty? Lonely? Even scary? I don't want to be an empty space of nothingness in which stuff just arises without my control! I want to be someone distinct! Special! I want to have control!"
I'm sure those are very common objections. Maybe Angelo can speak to that sometime (or I'm sure he already has at some point).
Oh this is nuts. My whole self feels like a giant tight ball of energetic bullshit and I felt the need to work on it. So just yesterday, I learned of somatic therapy and spent too much time looking for practitioners of that and TRE. 😆 Got it universe. This feels like a slap upside the head it, it's so obvious
Also, loved this video. I could listen to Chris all day
My sense is that doubting is more or less a low grade constant feeling and yes sort of a stuck piece of me, it seems somatic i my body though not that present in my thought process. Am I deluded?
What is the video with Frank at an hour in? Frank who what
I had to not eat for a long time and got soooo hangry. Can you say anything about rage and anger?
Where is relationship with God… is this not his desire .. like Jesus he did what the father was doing
Do you think it is possible to be so merged that the idea of relationship loses meaning?
If there is no one and nothing… WHY ARE THEY 16:22 TALKING… what’s talking… this sounds like insanity…. AND TOTALLY HOPELESS AND LOVELESS
beyond the fear of loss of love and loss of control is a goldmine :)
The chief doubt is that I am not, or no longer, the one mind. OMG!🥨
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