Some topics in this episode:

• Implementing the change you want to be
• Living with doubt rather than in it.
• Concession vs. surrender.
• Child abuse, self-abuse
• Past traumatic issues
• Post as present traumas.
• “Potholes” in my “past”
• Past and future are imagined.
• Therapy, medication.
• Popping or getting beyond the bubble.
• Fear, real and imagined.
• How fight, flight, freezing, and fawning turn instincts for survival into threats.
• Fawning is people-pleasing.
• Delusions are illusions thought to be real.
• Defense, denial, and defiance act in concert with disharmony to vainly protect illusions.
• Resistance and persistence.
• Goals and expectations.
• Intention is what happens.
• Addictive thoughts lead to silly gestures, taken seriously when thought to be real.
• Letting go is noticing things are as they are regardless of what we think.
• Having things as they are.
• Responsibility, Choice, Freedom as fundamental to our functional human capacity.
• Help vs. helping our self: Enabling as a primary addictive behavior.
• Witnessing and observing thoughts.
• Love is not conditional, nor is it a choice if it is Absolute; Unconditional love is redundant, conditioned love is not love.
• How thoughtfulness can be expressed.
• Undoing vs. redoing, in a new refined egocentric way.

Questions to start our next trio’s trilogy:

Jackie:
**How to maintain Being while doing?

How to know that you have what you need when you need it?Gabe:
“How do we live a fully aware life on a daily basis?”

“Are we to carry this message directly to others, or is proselytizing a desire of ego?”**