Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 (2019-04-03)
Tara Brach
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How to Protect Against Leopards in Your Life
Every one of us has a survival brain that is equipped to activate actions we need to protect us and to further our well being. A survival brain tells us something's wrong, something's missing, and then it puts our brain to good use to try to fix things. And if we spend all our time hooked by that survival brain and trying to control our environment and control other people and get what we want, we miss out on this great mystery we're a part of. That always strikes me, because when we start looking at our lives, we realize that we over manage things. We're over controlling, overdoing.
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